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1) Leeches
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The place is Serbia, the time is the late 1990s. Our protagonist, a single man, writes a regular op-ed column for a Belgrade newspaper and spends the rest of his time with his best friend, smoking pot and talking about sex, politics, and life in general. One day on the shore of the Danube he spots a man slapping a beautiful woman. Intrigued, he follows the woman into the tangled streets of the city until he loses sight of her. A few days later he...
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This is a look at many pursuits, travels, and activities I've undergone during my more than a few years in this world. It's a memoir with lots of fun details about my experiences in the U. S. and many other countries I've visited. Especially memorable were the people I got to know along the way, and the several I continue to stay in touch with decades later. Those who read this might find they - relate readily to many of their own adventures.
Tom...
3) Cold Meat
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While passing through the Colorado Rockies, David stops for a meal at a diner and ends up heroically saving a young waitress from her violent ex-husband. David hits the road again amid a dangerous blizzard, and one false move sends him into a ravine in the eye of the storm. Slowly running out of resources, it's hard to tell what will get him first: the cold or the beast that's prowling outside.
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The Prince Corin ... Decadent, seductive, master of the love affair.Corin is crown prince of Alfheim, the Elven lands. Considered the handsomest man in the land, he is well used to the females in his life indulging his every desire. But after losing the first woman who ever touched his heart to his best friend, he swears he'll never let anyone get that close again.Under pressure from his royal family to marry and produce an heir, he decides the only...
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The ultimate companion guide to A Series of Unfortunate Events--a must for fans of Lemony Snicket.
A Series of Unfortunate Events is one of the most popular children's series in the world and will be a major motion picture starring Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep coming this 2004 holiday season. Now comes The Truth Behind a Series of Unfortunate Events, the ultimate companion guide to Lemony Snicket's fun and wildly successful novels. Digging beneath...
8) Touch
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Touch is sensational suspense from the master of crime fiction, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. A Michigan woman was blind and now she can see, after being touched by a young man who calls himself Juvenal. Maybe it was just coincidence, but Bill Hill-who used to run the spectacular Uni-Faith Ministry in Dalton, Georgia, and now sells RVs-can see dollar signs when he looks at this kid with the magic 'touch.' The trouble is that others...
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Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day is a new standalone urban fantasy novella from New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire.
When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately, Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Zeke Meeks will be nine soon, but he is not looking forward to a party that his sisters want to take over and nobody but his closest friends want to attend--but the alternative is going to Grace Chang's party on the same day, and she is really scary.
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Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues like sovereignty,...
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PublicAffairs
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2023.
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English
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"A bizarre, rollicking trip through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies. It's no secret that American health care has become too costly and politicized to help everyone. So where do you turn if you can't afford doctors, or don't trust them? In this book, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the growing universe of non-traditional treatments -- including some that are really...
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Frank R. Baumgartner is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Conflict and Rhetoric in French Policymaking and coauthor (with Bryan Jones) of Agendas and Instability in American Politics. Beth L. Leech is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Texas A&M.
A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more...
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Creepshow volume 6
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English
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Doctor finds cure to weight loss with fat-sucking leech. Rose looks for monster of Lake Champlain.
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Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction--from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust...
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Sturmwolken des Krieges ziehen erneut am Horizont auf. In dieser Zeit des Umbruchs reist Captain Jonathan Clarke vom MAD auf die Frontwelt Starlight, um den untergetauchten Verbrecher Aaron Leech ausfindig zu machen. Was zunächst wie ein einfacher Routineauftrag aussieht, entpuppt sich schnell als gefährliches Wettrennen, denn plötzlich zeigen auch die Ruul reges Interesse an dem Flüchtigen. Und der Preis des Wettrennens ist das gesamte Starlight-System...
19) Matilda Bone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
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