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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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2024
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"I was completely captivated by Michael Callahan's The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard. It's a history mystery you won't be able to put down, with strong female characters and plenty of secrets. Plus, it takes you behind the scenes in vintage Hollywood and Martha's Vineyard. A perfect beach read!"—Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of Loyalty and The Truth About the Devlins
A tantalizing novel of two
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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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A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller!
An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically—up to the present day—worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response.
The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't know. Equal parts painful
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With time running out and the decks awash with the sea, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie was one of the last people to escape the sinking of the Titanic, clinging to an overturned collapsible boat before being rescued. Once safe on the Carpathia, Gracie immediately began writing what has become one of the definitive books on the tragedy. The Truth About the Titanic is Gracie's detailed account of not just his experience the night of April 15,...
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Enslow Publishing
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2023.
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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
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2023.
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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
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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
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2014.
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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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F. Lee Bailey shares his experiences from the 1994 O.J. Simpson murder trial.
June 12, 1994. O.J. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were brutally slaughtered in her front yard late at night. The media circus that consumed the news cycle for the next eighteen months altered the world's opinion of Simpson, but the jury, after nearly a year of sequestration, came to a verdict of not guilty. A member of the defense team,...
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"In 1888, five gruesome murders shocked the civilized public. A bloodthirsty killer was on the loose in the slums of London. The world was on the lookout for Jack the Ripper. The Escape of Jack the Ripper, the true story behind the Whitechapel murders, reveals how British elites manipulated the public to protect one of their own. Through meticulous research, including documents disclosed here for the first time, Jonathan Hainsworth and Christine...
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Drawing on the latest research on memory and traumatic experience, Susan Clancy, an expert in experimental psychopathology, demonstrates that children describe abuse and molestation encounters in ways that don't fit the conventional trauma model. In fact, the most common feeling reported is not fear but confusion.
Clancy calls for an honest look at sexual abuse and its aftermath, and argues that the reactions of society and the healing professions...
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The Truth Revealed
Freemasons have been connected to the all-seeing eye on the dollar bill, the French Revolution, the Knights Templar, and the pyramids of Egypt. They have been rumored to be everything from a cabal of elite power brokers ruling the world to a covert network of occultists and pagans intent on creating a new world order, to a millennia-old brotherhood perpetuating ancient wisdom through esoteric teachings. Their secret symbols, rituals,...
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