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Every day in the United States, ordinary people are called to testify in court. Most of them have never been involved in a legal proceeding. But they have probably seen witnesses in high-profile trials on television, being harshly cross examined, looking nervous or anxious-perhaps even humiliated. The thought of testifying can be scary. Being subpoenaed can lead to weeks or months of anxiety until the day arrives when they raise their right hand and...
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"Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon...
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"The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Big Wheat is king as people gleefully embrace the gospels of progress and greed. But with Big Wheat comes a serial killer who calls himself the Windmill Man. He believes he has a holy calling to water the...
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Brenda Farley was born and raised in a devote family of Jehovah's Witnesses. In her childhood home nothing mattered except the Watchtower Society's rules, what was printed in their books, The Watchtower and Awake! magazine, attending five meetings at the Kingdom Hall every week, and going house to house telling about Jehovah's Kingdom on earth. Brenda thought she was in the "TRUTH" and all other religions worshipped the devil and were Babylon The...
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WARNING: This book contains material of a CONTROVERSIAL nature relating to what is taught in Christianity today. Now, if controversy scares you, stop reading here. Really. It means this book is NOT FOR YOU. "May people know that you, whose name is JEHOVAH, You alone are the Most High over all the earth."--PSALMS 83:18 Today, many still believe that the divine name of God should not be used, because it is not known exactly how to pronounce it. The...
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The mysterious death of an elder from the Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses plunges Mary and Father Raymond into a world of sinister plots and intrigue. They find themselves in a race to decode the clues of the most powerful secret of all time – the secret of the number 666. They discover that the seven heads of the beast spoken of in Revelation 13:01 are the seven leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses as of December 4, 2010. In order to stop them...
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Este libro utiliza la Traducción del Nuevo Mundo de las Sagradas Escrituras para demostrar que las enseñanzas de los Testigos de Jehová sobre los Últimos Días y las Buenas Nuevas de Salvación no son bíblicas. El autor, anciano de los Testigos de Jehová durante 40 años, comparte los resultados de los últimos diez años de su investigación sobre las enseñanzas de la Watch Tower como la presencia invisible de Cristo en 1914, la doctrina de...
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Virgin River volume 17
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Accepting a job at the Virgin River branch of Haggerty Construction, Leslie Petruso, using this opportunity to start over after a bitter divorce, tries to ignore the chemistry between her and Connor Danson, who has also been burned by love, but to no avail.
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Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, A Crime in the Neighborhood is the story of a young girl's coming of age during a turbulent time in American history. Living in a quiet suburb of Washington, D.C., Marsha is nine years old in the summer of 1973. While the nation's attention is focused on the breaking Watergate scandal, her quiet neighborhood is going through its own upheaval. Looking back as an adult, she remembers it as a time when her father's...
11) True witness
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A teenage boy is beaten to death on Dimmock's derelict pier. Detective Jack Deacon is convinced they have the murderer; he just needs a positive identification to lock him up for good. But the only witness is astronomer Daniel Hood, in his own way a man as determined as Jack.
Compelling as the circumstantial evidence is against the suspected killer, Daniel cannot be certain that this was the man he saw from his window. Nothing anybody says - or does...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Elizabeth Loftus, renowned expert on human memory and Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology, Law, and Society; Cognitive Science and Law at UC Irvine. This extensive conversation covers her ground-breaking work on the misinformation effect, false memories and her battles with "repressed memory" advocates, how getting expert memory testimony introduced...
13) The vanishing
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Fogg Lake trilogy volume 1
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"Decades ago in the small town of Fogg Lake, "The Incident" occurred: an explosion in the cave system that released unknown gases. The residents slept for two days. When they woke up they discovered that things had changed -- they had changed. Some started having visions. Others heard ominous voices. And then the scientists from a mysterious government agency arrived. Determined not to become research subjects of strange experiments, the residents...
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¿Quiénes son los testigos de Jehová? ¿Son cristianas sus doctrinas? ¿Qué decirles a la luz de la Biblia? ¿Qué nos pueden enseñar los Padres de la Iglesia y la Antigüedad cristiana acerca de ellos?
El autor, preocupado por el proselitismo de esta secta fundada en los EE.UU. en el siglo XIX, ofrece un análisis detallado de sus creencias y prácticas, y las confronta con fe católica. Los testigos de Jehová no son cristianos, porque no creen...
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"An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland stands on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her elderly husband, Fordish. It seems clear that the poison was delivered in a flask of Chianti with supper, but according to the couple's servant in the witness-box, the flask disappeared the night Fordish died, and all attempts to trace it have come to nothing. The jury delivers its verdict, but this is just the end of the beginning of Marie Belloc Lowndes's...
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When her grandmother and guardian suffers a stroke, twelve-year-old Poppy Parker's life turns upside down -- but when she witnesses a murder and has to go into witness protection with Detective Brannigan's mother it becomes hard to believe she will ever find a way home, let alone save Gunner, a beautiful German shepherd with an uncertain future.
19) Deep Harbor
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"In this stirring new novel, acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delves into the remarkable ways in which moments of crises can lead to our greatest acts of courage . . . When Carol Ann "CJ" Jansen lost her beloved older brother, Kick, in a boating accident, she came adrift. Kick had taken on the role of caring for his little sister after their parents were killed in a car crash. Inheriting half his fortune has left CJ financially...
20) Alone at night
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Tired of the politics, publicity and endless nights that go with major homicides, Detective Mars Bahr and his partner Nettie Frisch have moved to the Cold Case Unit, which covers the Minneapolis Police Department's oldest unsolved cases. One of their first assignments is tackling the murders of rural convenience store employees, which leads them to a sixteen-year-old missing person’s case.
In 1986, seventeen-year-old Andrea Bergstad was working...
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