Buck Schirner
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English
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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From world-renowned Brazilian writer Chico Buarque comes a stylish, imaginative tale of love, loss, and longing, played out across multiple generations of one Brazilian family. At once jubilant and painfully nostalgic, playful and devastatingly urgent, Spilt Milk cements Chico Buarque's reputation as a masterful storyteller. As Eulálio Assumpção lies dying in a Brazilian public hospital, his daughter and the attending nurses are treated-whether...
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The unimagineable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are devastated, the townspeople are horrified. When public opinion swells to an enraged cry for justice, an ambitious deputy DA sees his opportunity for a case that will catapult him into the position of DA in the upcoming election. There is just one obstacle, struggling lawyer Lindy Field
4) Deadlock
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English
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Deadlock is a novel about the impact of the Supreme Court today . . . and about imminent, real-life choices that will shape both its future and that of our nation.She is a Supreme Court Justice. She is an atheist.And she is about to encounter the God of the truth and justice she has sworn to uphold.For years, Millicent Hollander has been the consistent swing vote on abortion and other hot-button issues. Now she's poised to make history as the first...
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Brilliance Audio
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[2007]
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English
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"Ben Brice lives alone in the New Mexico wilderness where he battles memories of Vietnam with oceans of Jim Bean. Miles away in Texas, his estranged son, John, an internet geek-turned-billionaire, half watches his daughter Gracie's soccer game while conducting business on his cell phone. When her mother Elizabeth arrives, the coach reports that her uncle has already collected Gracie. But Gracie has no uncle -- she was kidnapped." --from container....
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Bob Lee Swagger volume 08
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Brilliance Audio
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[2012]
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English
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A reimagining of the events surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy finds Bob Lee Swagger drawing on old records, intelligence archives, and observations at the infamous site to investigate a new clue about a third bullet that mysteriously exploded.
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