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Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless...
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The accepted definition of animal cruelty may differ between cultures and even between individual people. Some people may not mind eating meat, no matter where it came from, but think keeping animals in zoos in cruel. Others may abstain from eating meat or using animal products altogether. In addition, many animal-focused businesses make people a lot of money. How should young people decide what they believe? This book presents ideas about animal...
3) Fair Cruelty
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A rogue. A gambler. A count. And not at all what he seems.Freddie Sayer, the rich and desirable Count of Aucony has a secret. The true count died in his cradle and was replaced by his twin sister. Freddie's carefully honed persona is put to the test when she attends a lavish party and attracts the attention of an intense man and his ambitious cousin.Aided by an entourage that includes her valet, a stubborn researcher, and a group of cranky ghosts...
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Patty Fielding, a USO entertainer, escapes after her camp in Vietnam is attacked during the Tet Offensive ceasefire in 1968. “You can lose who you are here,” her brother Christopher, stationed at Da Nang, wrote in a letter to her. Struggling to find the person he used to be, Chris got himself killed.
On the run from the North Vietnamese, Patty meets a group of American soldiers and relies on army regulations to save her. She soon realizes these...
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A story of three different characters that somehow find themselves together. Yuzuki, a vicious vampire with barely a care for anyone's life, even her own. Sole, an immortal that finds himself as Yuzuki's pet... and likes it. Miranda, a vampire hunter that is too broke to afford... well anything. Hunting vampires doesn't pay the bills.
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When an unconscious raven-haired beauty appears on King's doorstep, he's furious to find her on his territory. Who would leave her with a killer like him? He left the mercenary world. But it's rude to return a gift. Dark eyes watch her from the shadows when she awakes. Ember Bellamy wants answers King doesn't have, but she knows he's a dangerous man. Discovering the man she shouldn't trust is the one she does. King never should have retired, but now...
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A memoir of a young Englishman arriving in Nassau Bahamas in the 1970s to take up the post of chief inspector of the Bahamas Humane Society unaware of the frustrations, dangers and horrors he is to confront. Initially shocked by the scale of animal cruelty, and despite death threats and brushes with voodoo, he continues undaunted to help the suffering iconic surrey horses, the roaming dogs known locally as potcakes, and the shocking cruelty of the...
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Impending war and doubts of prophecy initiate a complex magical journey where some mean to destroy gods and magic, while others seek understanding.
Kyra is named in a prophecy calling her to the Stained Temple, where no one else has ever gone. The prophecy is met with resistance and doubt while a warlord surrounds the hidden city harboring Kyra and her people. The warlord means to end all magic by destroying the city with his army, made up of...
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273 pages ; 24 cm
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This is a love story. Mike's love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely life, before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy. He's found the perfect home, the perfect job, he's sculpted himself into the physical ideal V has always wanted. He knows they'll be blissfully happy together. It doesn't matter that she hasn't been returning...
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The issue of zoos is not about treatment, but use; not about reform, but abolition. Zoos often pay lip-service to "education," "enrichment," and "conservation," but the cruelty is systemic and follows from the idea of animals as commodities. As long as they are property, animals will continue to be treated as things, with no rights, who can be caged, bred, abused, or killed for a zoo's profit and the public's entertainment. In Zooicide, Sue Coe applies...
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Torture. According to Henry Shue, professor of politics and international relations at the University of Oxford in England, "No other practice except slavery is so universally condemned in law and human convention. Yet, unlike slavery…torture is widespread and growing." Why is torture so common? Is it an unavoidable component of human psychology? Exposing Torture tackles these complex questions, delving into the history of torture around the world,...
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336 pages ; 24 cm.
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America in 1968 is in turmoil and the leafy Holloman, Connecticut, suburb of Carew is being silently terrorized by a series of vicious and systematic rapes. When finally one victim finds the courage to speak out and go to the police, the rapist escalates to murder. For Captain Carmine Delmonico, it seems to be a case with no clues.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 In 2014, Sharnalle Mitchell was arrested and brought to court because she owed the city of Montgomery money for traffic tickets. The judge ordered her to pay or stay in jail. She decided to stay in jail to protect her children.
#2 There are 2. 2 million people confined in prison and jail cells in the United States today. About 500,000 of those people are presumptively...
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Get the Summary of Roseanne Montillo's Deliberate Cruelty in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Ann Woodward, a Kansas farm girl turned New York socialite, and her husband Billy, heir to a banking dynasty, return from a party to their luxurious Playhouse estate. Despite her intelligence, Ann feels out of place among the wealthy elite. The couple, known for their public arguments, had discussed recent burglaries in...
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Orjan Varega suffocates under a crisis of faith. Trapped in the form of a fearsome lizard man by an ancient Elven spell, the once-renowned knight sleeps rough, drinks hard, and struggles to survive as a bounty hunter. But after a boy who offers him food falls prey to ruthless thugs, the protective fighter comes to the child's aid and gains a formidable enemy.
As a brutal faction calling themselves the Wyverns terrorizes the land, Orjan agrees to bring...
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"Taking joy in suffering is more human than we'd like to admit. The cruelty of the Trump administration's policies and the ritual rhetorical flaying of his targets are intimately connected. Shared cruelty and the delight it brings are critical moments of connection for white supremacists, a fact that is not new. Adam Serwer has been chronicling our political landscape for the last decade. He is one of the most resonant voices of our time, relentless...
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A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world's iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart.
Mothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which becomes their task (unrealizable,...
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