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Series
Publisher
Titan
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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After her stormy marriage ends, Danny Cleary jumps down the rabbit hole into a world of crack cocaine – delivered to her door by a polite but slightly deranged dealer. But when Danny’s twin sister Ginger is murdered, Danny and her rock musician brother fly to California to find their nephews – and the people who killed their sister. Fighting her addiction, nosy cops and crazy drug dealers, she kicks ass and takes names, embracing...
Author
Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
As he faces a devastating personal loss, Detective Michael Bennett is about to take on the most sinister challenge of his career: a kidnapping crisis that could destroy the most powerful people in America.
The nation has fallen into mourning after the unexpected death of a beloved former First Lady, and the most powerful people in the world gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs: Billionaires, politicians, and...
The nation has fallen into mourning after the unexpected death of a beloved former First Lady, and the most powerful people in the world gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs: Billionaires, politicians, and...
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Susan Callisto is pushing thirty and taking stock. Trading financial security at a Boston law firm for sandals and jeans in Waltham, she's reinvented herself as a political consultant for people seeking low-level office. Her income may be dicey, but Susan loves her new life - until her boyfriend, Detective Lieutenant Michael Benedict, dumps her without a goodbye. Not one to mope, Susan uses humor and perpetual motion to keep away the pain. When biotech...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
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Publisher
Random House Information Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
If you need to know it, it's in this book! Cracking the SAT, 2013 Edition includes everything you need to know to master the Math, Critical Reading, and Writing sections of the SAT. With all questions and answers cross-linked for easy on-screen viewing, this ebook edition includes:
• Access to 5 full-length practice exams
• Our exclusive "Hit Parade" of vocabulary appearing most frequently on the SAT
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
If you think "bait and switch" is a fishing tip, you have a lot to learn about advertising! Viewers will learn how to make good buying decisions by spotting advertising ploys including: "¢ Celebrity endorsement "¢ Customer testimony "¢ Emotional appeal "¢ Unproven claims "¢ Urgency and more Appropriate for grades 7 - adult.
Publisher
Electric Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Why is the sky blue? Why do leaves turn yellow in autumn? And why does red play so powerful a role in so many cultures? Is colour real, or is it just a construct of our brains?. Taking the globe as its canvas, and drawing on science, history, art and other disciplines, Cracking the Colour Code is a series for people who are interested in the many mysteries posed by colour, and at the same time seek to enjoy the incredible diversity and sensation that...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Embark on the final section of the course, which covers the revolutionary theories that superseded classical physics. Why did classical physics need to be replaced? Discover that by the late 19th century, inexplicable cracks were beginning to appear in its explanatory power.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA--all three billion chemical letters of it--read, stored, and available for analysis? Cracking Your Genetic Code reveals that we stand on the verge of such a revolution.
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Publisher
William Morrow and Company
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
For centuries Thai cooking has been among the world's most highly regarded cuisines and also among the most mysterious. For the first time the tastes, techniques, and traditions of Thai home cooking have been gathered into one extraordinary book: Cracking the Coconut by renowned Thai chef, teacher, and writer Su-Mei Yu. More than a simple recipe book, this is a masterful work about the art and history of Thai cooking and the people who have shaped...
Publisher
Electric Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The central focus of this episode is the nature of colour. It draws on the latest science to find out how – and why – humans and other living things view the world in colour. For those of us who can see colour, it is fundamental to our existence. The question is where does this mysterious force originate and do we all see colour the same way?.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Language
English
Description
This documentary examines the complex race to decode the human genome. Examines the work of, and contains interviews with: Francis Collins, director of the National Center for Human Genome Research; J. Craig Venter, head of its rival, the private Celera Genomics; and the Whitehead Institute's Eric Lander, one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project.
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Publisher
Rootstock Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Jim Barry had it all: professional success, a great family, good health. Then, on a season-ending mountain bike excursion, he crashed, fracturing his skull and suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. After spending months in hospitals and rehab centers, he came home to more rehab on an outpatient basis. His lasting disabilities from his traumatic brain injury include limited vision, reduced hearing, lack of balance-necessitating a wheelchair-and weakness...
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Series
Amgash novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout
“This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett
Winner of The Story Prize • A Washington Post and New York Times Notable...
“This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett
Winner of The Story Prize • A Washington Post and New York Times Notable...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Visit the African Rift Valley, a mid-ocean ridge in the making. From the Red Sea to Mount Kilimanjaro, tectonic forces are splitting Africa apart, forming a new ocean in the process. This impressive valley is also the site of many fossil discoveries relating to early humans.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country's premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating secret: he was a crack addict. Even as he covered the drug-fueled violence that was destroying the city, he was prowling S Street, a 24/7 open-air...
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