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"A boy rapping on his car window summons Portland police detective Joe Burgess to a fire at a nearby mosque, where he finds a screaming woman and her baby locked in a closet. The baby dies. The very young mother survives, but suffers from traumatic muteness. She has no ID and no one has reported her missing. Autopsy shows the gravely ill baby would have needed surgery to survive. Burgess suspects someone was trying to keep mother and baby away from...
2) Faith & Joe
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Faith wants nothing more than be in love. But she spends her days matchmaking for her Amish friends, including the disinterested Joanna. She's been widowed for almost six months and is nursing a newborn. But Faith is undaunted and finds what she thinks is a perfect fit for Joanna...and soon finds herself pining for the new stranger that has come to live in their Amish town. Will Faith realize that maybe Joanna isn't ready for a new relationship and...
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Meet Groovy Joe, a fun-lovin', guitar-strummin', doggy-ice-cream-eatin' pup as he wrangles three hungry dinosaurs and soon has them singing, grooving, and sharing!
Groovy Joe was living the dream.
He had a spoon and tub of doggy ice cream.
And he started to sing: Love my doggy ice cream! Love my doggy ice cream!
Eric Litwin, author of the bestselling and beloved Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, and bestselling artist Tom Lichtenheld, illustrator...
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xix, 265 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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Chronicles the disillusionments that World War II soldiers faced, in a book that features the dozens of cartoons that were censored by the author's syndicate for their attacks on racial segregation and McCarthy-style "witch hunts."
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Book Preview: #1 The Tail O' the Cock was a prominent drinking establishment on La Cienega Boulevard, where Los Angeles and Beverly Hills come together. In 1965, Merritt Adamson, the president of Pronto Markets, a 16-store chain of convenience markets in Los Angeles, was having a business luncheon there. He was having problems with his largest customer, Adohr Milk Farms.
#2 In 1962,...
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"The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect...The Cates family had always been a bad lot. Game warden Joe Pickett had been able to strike a fierce blow against them when the life of his daughter April had been endangered, but he'd always wondered if there'd be a day of reckoning. He's not wondering any longer. Joe knows they're coming after him and his family now. He has his friend Nate by his side,...
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Joe the frog wants to be on the go, but even at a family reunion he is out of luck, as everyone says they are too busy, or he is too fast, too slow, too big, or too small to go with them, until Grandma invites him to go with her on a special outing.
"¡Joe quiere jugar, jugar y jugar! ¡Pero todos los parientes que están en el picnic le dicen que no, no y no! ¿Será posible que Joe tenga un buen día gracias a su abuela?" - Back cover.
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The sponsor of his baseball team tells Stosh about the bum rap Shoeless Joe Jackson got for his part in the scheme to fix the 1919 World Series. Now Stosh decides to use his special talent of traveling back in time to warn Jackson against becoming involved. The trouble is, some vicious gangsters stand to make a bunch of money if the fix is on-and they'll do anything to keep Stosh from interfering.
11) Beautiful Joe
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First published in 1893, Marshall Saunder's "Beautiful Joe" is a remarkable classic of Canadian literature that explores issues of animal cruelty. An instant success upon its release "Beautiful Joe" became the first book to sell over a million copies in Canada. Told from the point of view of the main character, the novel is loosely based on the true story of a horribly abused terrier-mix named Joe, who was rescued by a friend of the author. As Joe...
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Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and lying low while the FBI search for him. But they are not the only ones looking for him and Nate finds himself confronting an elite team of special forces soldiers. They're not there to take him in - they say -- but to make a deal. They need his help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert, and in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear....
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#1 The walls of refrigerators are typically insulated with polyurethane foam, which was originally blown with chlorofluorocarbons. The refrigerant was later replaced by hydrofluorocarbons, which contribute to the greenhouse effect.
#2 The snake that coiled around a staff is a symbol of healing, and it was originally found in Greece. It may be that snakes have some healing...
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Grew up in farm and ranching and later went into the Petro Chemical/Plastics manufacturing industry.
After a very successful career in that field, I retired and started fulfilling some of my other ambitions that includes writing stories. My love of history especially Texas history makes me want to write stories of the old west.
Throughout my life, I have done many things that rounded out my life. I have experience in many things including truck driving,...
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