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A deadly meth lab explosion in a run-down Philadelphia motel covers a brutal murder. A shooting in a popular tourist location has left two dead. The body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuylkill River. Everybody assumes the crimes are not related, but Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it. That hunch leads him to a connection to the Texas-Mexico border in the person of Jim Byrth of the Texas...
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Join the iconic Peanuts gang as they get ready for the Easter holiday by decorating eggs, shopping for springtime treats, and egg hunting. And if you stick around long enough, you might just get a glimpse of the Easter Beagle himself, delivering eggs to all the good little boys and girls. Based on the classic television special.
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"When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time--and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life but cannot save the to others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes." -- Cover.
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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
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Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
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2022.
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After she is injured in a gang shooting, seventeen-year-old Alexis Duncan's dreams of a college scholarship and pro basketball career vanish, but, encouraged by new student Aamani Chakrabarti, Alexis shifts her focus to the school's STEM quiz bowl team, a group of self-professed nerds seeking their own futures outside of West Philly.
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"Buck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachersoutlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper. It's a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem...
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Newspaper Club volume 1
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c2020.
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Shortly after Nellie Murrow, named for one of the fiercest journalists who ever lived and daughter of two (former) newspaper reporters, move to sleepy Bear Creek, Maine, rumors of vandalism and attacks at the only park in town are keeping Nellie saddled to the house. Some townspeople say the attacks are gang recruitments. Others blame a vagrant spotted on the hiking trails around town. But when Nellie thinks like a reporter, none of those explanations...