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by J. D. Robb
- Mystery
- 2014
- Autor: J. D. Robb
Lieutenant Eve Dallas uncovers a conspiracy when she investigates the murders of some of New York City's troubled youth in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series. Leading the demolition of a long-empty New York building that once housed a makeshift shelter for troubled teenagers, Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband uncovers two skeletons wrapped in plastic. And by the time Eve’s done with the crime scene, there are twelve murders to be solved. The victims are all young girls. A tattooed tough girl who dealt in illegal drugs. The runaway daughter of a pair of...
Number of pages: ~ 419 pages
by Bob Goff
- Сlassic
- 2012
- Autor: Bob Goff
The runaway New York Time’s bestseller! Can a simple concept shift your entire world? Bob certainty thinks so. When it comes to loving your neighbors, instead of focusing on having the “right answers” or checking the “right boxes,” what if you decide to simply do love? To shamelessly show love and grace to those around you--what would that look like? Not the kind of love that stops at thoughts and feelings, Bob's love takes action. Bob believes Love Does. It might look like spending 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. It might look like taking your kids...
Number of pages: ~ 240 pages
by John Grisham
- Fiction
- 2013
- Autor: John Grisham
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension. “Welcome back, Jake. . . . [Brigance] is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham’s novels.”—USA Today Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and defense...
Number of pages: ~ 658 pages
by Gordon Korman
- Children's
- 2018
- Autor: Gordon Korman
Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He knows he's Chase. But who is Chase? When he gets back to school, he sees that different kids have very different reactions to his return. Some kids treat him like a hero. Some kids are clearly afraid of him. One girl in particular is so angry with him that she pours her frozen yogurt on his head the first...
by Frank Banta
- Fiction
- 1962
- Autor: Frank Banta
Droozle was probably the most gifted writer in the world - any world you could imagine!...
Number of pages: ~ 11 pages
by Edwin K. Sloat
- Fiction
- 1932
- Autor: Edwin K. Sloat
Young Winford leads desperate escape from Mercury prison mines...
Number of pages: ~ 20 pages
by T. D. Hamm
- Fiction
- 1952
- Autor: T. D. Hamm
Before you read this story, prepare for a jerk and chill in capsule form. Father Henry could be proud of it. This may well become a minor classic....
Number of pages: ~ 9 pages
by Randall Garrett
- Fiction
- 1957
- Autor: Randall Garrett
Even seasoned veterans of the Psychedelic Police do not expect the opportunity to take possession of their minds controlled by some external force. This never happened to Houston, but he knew that Artmore had once gone through this experience. This clearly did not like. By the time the mad baronet got out of the car and paid its driver, the whole territory was surrounded and filled with well-armed, silent and cautious agents of the Psychodevant Police. Poor fish, Houston thought. Another controller was detained by the psychedelic police. Another abnormal person, already convicted and...
Number of pages: ~ 35 pages
by Arthur Feldman
- Fiction
- 1953
- Autor: Arthur Feldman
We conveyed this story to a very competent and very good artist. We said, "Read this carefully, dream about it and come up with an illustration." A week later, she returned with a finished drawing. “Hero,” she said. We made a double take. "Hey! This is not a hero. ” She looked us straight in the eye. "Can you prove it?" She had us. We could not, and she hastily left to go home and prepare dinner for her family. And what did they have? Frog legs - what else?...
Number of pages: ~ 10 pages
by Jack Williamson
- Fiction
- 1932
- Autor: Jack Williamson
Larry goes down to the infinitely small on his mission on the planet of the pygmies....
Number of pages: ~ 22 pages
by Al Sevcik
- Fiction
- 1960
- Autor: Al Sevcik
When you command a spaceship a mile long and armed to the teeth, you certainly do not expect to be asked to get out of here ... The ship, for reasons related to the appropriation policy, was named Senator Joseph L. Holloway, but the press and the public called it Big Joe. Her captain, six-star Admiral Heselton, thought of her as Big Joe, and never ceased to wonder at the size of his command....
Number of pages: ~ 10 pages
by Barbara Constant
- Fiction
- 1962
- Autor: Barbara Constant
Most people, when asked to determine utter loneliness, say that they are alone in the crowd. And you need only one small difference in order to stay in the crowd forever ......
Number of pages: ~ 14 pages
by Sterling E. Lanier
- Fiction
- 1961
- Autor: Sterling E. Lanier
They certainly did not hold the gun in anyone's head; all they offered was help. Of course, they seemed to encourage people to seek help ......
Number of pages: ~ 12 pages
by Blaise Pascal
- Сlassic
- 1670
- Autor: Blaise Pascal
The Pensées ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascal's wager" stems from a portion of this work....
Number of pages: ~ 408 pages
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Сlassic
- 2005
- Autor: Ralph Waldo Emerson
During the 1800s in America, the rise of industrialization reduced the cost of goods allowing people to have more possessions than ever before. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions created vanity. Instead, they valued the individual’s relationship with divinity. One of the movement’s most famous members, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote prolifically about his beliefs and experiences. A representative selection of his writings is presented here in this volume of the “Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson.” In the first essay, “Nature,” Emerson publicly...
Number of pages: ~ 242 pages