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"Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...
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Middle schoolers and best friends Rasheeda Tate and Monique Jenkins are good girls. For Sheeda, that means keeping her friends close and following Auntie D's every rule--especially when it comes to church and boys. But when her secret relationship with Mo's older brother Lennie goes from texting to something more, the line between good and bad decisions gets blurry. For Mo, that means learning to go with the flow at the prestigious and mostly White...
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"With his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of why civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how some nations successfully recover from crises while adopting selective changes--a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals--ranging...
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Acclaimed filmmaker James Keach takes us inside the quest for the first medication that that could treat the underlying process of Alzheimer’s disease, more than a century after Dr. Alois Alzheimer first described the brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and cognitive skills.
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Anita is only a year away from completing her doctorate degree when Prince walks into her life. Will this ambitious street hustler derail her plans for success?
Leah and Dropp have been inseparable since they were teenagers, but when Dropp gets caught up and goes to prison, Brit steps in to take his place. Brit has left the game, and with him, Leah finds stability and comfort. Who will she choose once Dropp is back on the streets?
Precious' life...
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A broadranging look at the "history and mystery of the devil and the forms he takes. The origin, names, legends and proverbs are all dealt with, liberally illustrated with a large number of drawings clearly showing the devil as he has been visualised throughout the centuries."
James Charles Wall (AKA J. Charles Wall, J. C. Wall) (1860—1943) was a British ecclesiologist, historian, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the late 19th and...
10) Turning Point
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The hunt is on. The Elite Response Force won the Metacorporate War. Now ERF interim commander Captain Lonny Meyers leads the battered unit. Their first mission: apprehend former SunCorps CEO Chad Milton Waverley, the architect behind the war. The hunt takes Meyers and the ERF to Turning Point, a powder keg of a city on a frontier colony world far from Earth, run by a strongman armed with military-grade weapons systems. With limited resources and a...
11) Turning Point
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German Jewess Margarete doesn't want to die...
...but to survive she has to become the one person she hates most in this world.
Destined for deportation to a labor camp, she has nowhere to hide.
When a bomb hits her building, she emerges from the rubble unscathed.
But there's only one way to stay alive.
She needs to switch identities with a dead Nazi girl.
Will Margarete betray everything she ever believed in to survive?
Attention: this short...
12) Turning Point
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Take a glimpse to look into Samuel's life, he takes you through how he became the man he is today. Samuel fought the long-term battle of loneliness before he finally found himself. He explains as a kid, he was labeled dyslexic and he never fitted in, life only turned upside down when Samuel became homeless because of his career choice which destroyed him.
14) Turning Point
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Jeffery Hunter had just endured a tragic event in his life. He had caused the death of his love. In an attempt to help him recover and adjust, his parents sent him to visit his aunt in another state. In route to his destination he was drawn to the town of Smithton. Here he met Betty. His desire to know her and through her love for him Jeff experienced a rebirth. Through Bettys love and confidence in him he at last saw in himself what others had always...
15) Turning Point
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Kelly's emotional imprisonment prompts rebellious behavior taking her life in an unforeseen direction. She pays for her sins, but a Turning Point leads her down a path of redemption.
16) Turning Point
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The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils. Merrick's decision was even tougher: to save human beings at the expense of humanity, or vice versa?
17) Turning Point
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DEA Special Agent Keith Heiden is up on charges for brutality. He faces an investigation by Internal Affairs. He is ordered to have a psycho review, as he would call it.
With pressures at home from his cheating, abusive wife, disrespectful teenage children, and a vengeful drug lord lurking in the shadows, Agent Heiden is heading towards destruction!
But worst of all his unhappy childhood memories are crawling to the surface. So dealing...
18) Turning Point
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A return to Seagull's Perch is the last thing Angelique intended to do, but the request from her great-great-grandmother to be there to celebrate her one hundred and fifth birthday could not be ignored. Arriving home with her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, she's faced with her mother, who she hasn't spoken to in three years. Also, entering back into her life is her ex-fiancé seeking forgiveness and become a part of her and her daughter's life.
Angelique...
20) Turning Points
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This 5-story collection includes 4 short stories and a novelette. All are westerns. Four are historical and one is contemporary. The contemporary one also has a touch of magic realism. Enjoy!
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