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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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" The #1 internationally bestselling thriller, and ingenious book within a book, about the disappearance of a 15-year-old New Hampshire girl and, 30 years later, a young American writer's determination to clear his mentor's name-and find the inspiration for his next bestseller August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods before she disappears; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. Thirty-three...
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Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Paul Revere's legendary ride turns out to be full of legend-meaning, what readers think they know about it might not be true! Revere never yelled "the British are coming," nor was he the sole rider out that night. Even more myths are busted in this entertaining look at the American Revolution. Readers practice critical thinking when engaging with the main social studies content and learn fun facts they'll be repeating in class for years to come!"--...
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"Linden touches every emotion."
-Julia Quinn
With One Night in London, the sensational Caroline Linden kicks off a wonderful new historical romance series about three brothers trying to protect their good names and their fortunes while finding true love. Readers of Elizabeth Boyle and Liz Carlyle will not be able to resist this tantalizing tale that has the middle son of a recently deceased English duke hoping to avoid scandal and ruin as he searches...
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Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The Founding Fathers can seem like towering figures. But some legends about them are tall tales! Many believe George Washington had wooden teeth. Readers of this volume learn that's false-thought his teeth were made of bone, lead, and more! Even more interesting biographical information can be found in this book, written especially with elementary readers in mind. Myths of the Founding Fathers are presented and dispelled, encouraging critical thinking...
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Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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"John Adams was the second president, and Thomas Jefferson was the third-but neither of them signed the U.S. Constitution! In this entertaining volume, readers learn all about the crafting of and ratification of this seminal American document, as well as surprising facts about how it came about. A great supplement to classroom learning, the main text and fun fact boxes give readers a new perspective at which to look at history. Historical images support...
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Eatwell reveals the truth behind forty-five myths about the French, from the infamous horsemeat banquets of the nineteenth century that inspired an irrepressible rumor, to breaking down our long-held beliefs about French history and society (the French are a nation of cheese-eating surrender monkeys, right?)"--Dust jacket flap.
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In Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen, the nation's leading scientist on climate issues, speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: the planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return. Here, Hansen sounds the alarm, revealing for the first time that humanity's last chance to get off the path to a catastrophic global meltdown is coming ever closer.
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Penguin Press
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2015.
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English
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As women, we learn from an early age that our moods are a problem. To succeed in life, we are told, we must have it all under control: we have to tamp down our inherent shifts in favor of a more static way of being. But our bodies are wiser than we imagine. Moods are not an annoyance to be stuffed away, they are a finely-tuned feedback system that can tell us how best to manage our lives. Our changing moods let us know when our bodies are primed to...
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"The much-anticipated new entree in the Sebastian St. Cyr "simply elegant" historical mystery series, from the national bestselling author of Who Buries the Dead and Why Kings Confess. Ayleswick-on-Teme, 1813. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and on a quest to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of a lovely widow is found on the banks of the River Teme,...
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