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1) Crosshairs
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets. Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people. When his new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty, only Bennett can prove whether the decorated officer is a lonely hunter or a hardened assassin. --publisher's...
Author
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This book contains the previously published, updated, and new works of renowned scientist, scholar, and consultant Kakuro Amasaka. This book advances the Just-in-Time quality management strategy, bringing global readers into the cutting edge of a new management technology principle that surpasses what traditional JIT has accomplished. The new JIT principle contains hardware and software systems, and next generation technical principles for transforming...
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Publisher
Great Courses
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
People who are anonymous and whose lives are usually ignored in traditional historical accounts are no less important than more prominent individuals in influencing the flow of events. These ordinary, but often heroic, people are the focus of this course. Each of the 48 lectures looks at history from a nontraditional perspective, that of the weak and marginalized-- the poor, sick, disabled, and elderly, as well as the refugees, slaves, women, children,...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi’s #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That’s when Penney makes a bold decision. He...
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English
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A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives. As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory, the...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In an ultraconservative America of the not-too-distant future when America has become a police state, the annual marathon is the ultimate sports competition. One hundred boys are selected each year to enter a grueling 450-mile marathon walk. The game is simple: maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings and you're out--permanently. The winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life; but...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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To be a bookseller or librarian... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates book joy by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, You've got to read this. You're going to love it. Step inside The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover new voices, find whatever you want or require. This place...
10) Scary movie 4
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Cindy Campbell and her self-serving, sex-crazed pal Brenda are joined by Tom Ryan, a cute, but utterly clueless guy. Together, they battle to save the world from a ruthless alien invasion. Cindy moves in next to Tom because she's taking care of an elderly lady. She finds out the house is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest in the village to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien Tr-iPods are invading the world and Cindy has to uncover...
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling book by Stephen King, Under the Dome is the epic story of Chester's Mill - a town suddenly cut off from the rest of the world by a massive dome. The residents struggle to break free of their nightmare and maintain control, while facing every new obstacle that comes their way. As the truth about the dome begins to unravel, it becomes clear that some won't make it out alive. Relive the excitement and drama of all 3 seasons of...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Daphne Wilder is a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. She is the proud mom of three daughters. There is the stable psychologist Maggie, the sexy and irreverent Mae and the insecure, adorable Milly - who, when it comes to men, is like psychotic flypaper. In order to prevent her youngest child from making the same mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set Milly up with the perfect man. Milly does not know that her mom placed an ad in the...