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1) Spray Em' Up
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After leading a successful mission to take out Iraqi warlord Samhal Hussein, Sgt John Williams is hailed as a Hero by the U.S Army. However, when he returns to the South Bronx he finds his neighborhood being oppressed by a neighborhood drug kingpin.With the NYPD scared, and residents feeling powerless, John realizes that he has to declare his own war on terror to save his neighborhood and protect his community.
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Sixteen-year-old Nikki Desmond is the product of Too many, Too Much and Too little. Too many boarding schools, too much money, and too little discipline. After being expelled from the fourth prestigious New York boarding school, her mother sends her to Los Angeles to live with her father. In the screenplays for the first three episodes of the Fabulous First Season of this teen sitcom, Nikki adjusts to life on the west coast as her father works towards...
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Sixteen-year-old Nikki Desmond is the product of too many, too much, and too little. Too many boarding schools, too much money, and too little discipline. After being expelled from a fourth prestigious New York boarding school, her mother sends her to Los Angeles to live with her father.In the screenplays for the fabulous first season of this teen sitcom, Nikki adjusts to life on the west coast while her father works towards correcting her surly,...
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"Carrots chronicles Dan Harary's simple but lifelong challenge: How to navigate his desire and pursuit of alluring women while attempting to overcome crippling shyness and self-doubt. Weave into that mix: a series of childhood traumas; a long battle with depression; a troubled marriage; a wacky theory he was cursed in a past life; a powerful sex addiction; and an endless series of 'really bad dates. 'As a Clinical Sexologist who's known him since...
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A New York Times Best seller!
Pat O'Brien was a skinny South Dakota kid with long hair, a rock and roll band, divorced parents and an alcoholic father. In all the familiar ways, he was on the road to nowhere until a professor, who envisioned his future as the household name he would soon become, dramatically changed his life.
From that day forward Pat's life took turns that were both spectacular and destructive: from the Huntley-Brinkley Report...
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Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial enterprise, as a leisure activity, and as modes of expression and communication. Their research charts new pathways in mapping the relationship between film production and local film practices, theatrical exhibition circuits and cinema going, creating new forms...
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This novel is about a psychiatrist, Jason Wallace, who becomes enraged upon discovering his wife Lisa's infidelity. Unable to cope with the affair, he develops a dreadful plan to get rid of her. He takes advantage of a patient, Josh Wit, who is diagnosed with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) to carry out his scheme. Jason becomes the prime suspect in the mysterious murder but ultimately pleads not guilty. All of the evidence, however, points at...
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James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is the first biography of the actor who died, in June 2013 at age 51, widely recognized as one of the best-and most defining-actors of his generation. The book is informed by fresh interviews with Sopranos actors, the star's acting teachers and coaches, his childhood friends, buddies from his days as a nightclub bouncer, and Hollywood figures including the directors of his posthumously...
9) "Unlock the secrets of self-discipline in 'Mind Mastery,' an empowering ebook that guides you tow
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"Discipline" by Raja Kumar is a compelling ebook that delves into the fundamental principles of self-control and structured living. Drawing upon years of experience and research, Kumar explores the multifaceted nature of discipline and its transformative impact on personal and professional aspects of life. The book serves as a practical guide, offering actionable insights and strategies to cultivate discipline in various domains. Kumar begins by dissecting...
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The high school or college English class offers a long list of technical terms: Symbolism, Irony, Metafiction, Allegory, Metaphor… With such a barrage, it can be tough to sort them all out. Yet here's the list, from Absurdity to Zeugma, all defined through the clever wordplay of Hamilton. In fact, musicals use all the rhythm and rhyme patterns of history's top poets, and the literary skill of crafting characters and straddling genre. Further, the...
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Harry Potter, A Fish Called Wanda, Inspector Morse, Downton Abbey and X Men are just a few of the films that have become synonymous with the world renowned University City of Oxford.
This new Pitkin souvenir guide highlights key sites that have become famously linked to these internationally successful and much loved films and TV specials. Not limited to Oxford city centre, this guide will also include the often-used film location Blenheim Palace,...
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Your Guide to College Writing is a practical handbook for academic writers. This book teaches you the rules for college research and writing and shows you how to follow them in real-world examples. By starting with the basics of paragraphs, sentences, punctuation, word choice, research, and guides to MLA, APA, and Chicago styles, you'll become comfortable with the building blocks of writing in college. When you have trouble with a specific error or...
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He escrito este poemario de un tirón, su contenido me ha aparecido en sueño.
Todo lo que puedo decir sobre este libro es que es mío, he escrito sobre lo que conozco, mis heridas y las heridas de las mujeres. He escrito sobre los abortos, sobre el desamor, sobre el conflicto con la maternidad y la familia, sobre la culpa y el olvido.
Amo las palabras y no puedo soportar que se olviden los instantes increíbles que todos vivimos y en los que conseguimos...
14) Sheep in a Shop
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The "lovable muttonheads" are off to the store in search of the perfect birthday gift in this latest in the sheep series of rhymed read-alouds.
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This antique text contains a fascinating and detailed treatise on the production a of play, written by Joseph Capek and originally published in 1928. A comprehensive exposition of Capek's ideas on the subject, this text will be of great value to anyone with an interest in theatre production and constitutes a great addition to collections of theatrical literature.
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Jason Priestley, star of the iconic hit television series Beverly Hills, 90210 and one of the biggest teen idols of the 1990s, chronicles the highs and lows of his life and career in this charming and honest memoir. The hit Fox show Beverly Hills, 90210 became a cultural touchstone of the 1990s and propelled its young cast to mega-stardom, including Jason Priestley, who played honorable Midwestern transplant Brandon Walsh. Yet despite more than twenty...
17) Simply Hitchcock
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From Dial M for Murder and Vertigo to North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock (1899—1980) made some of the most memorable thrillers in the history of cinema. Acclaimed for both his daring artistic innovations and his irrepressible show.
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Your 3-in-1 Self-Defense Training Manual! Discover an effective and easy to learn method of self-defense. Complete Vortex Control Self-Defense combines the best techniques from a wide range of martial arts to create the ultimate street-effective fighting method. This self-defense system will teach you hand-to-hand combat, knife defense, and stick fighting. Discover the skills you need to defend yourself, because traditional martial arts don't work...
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After a long day at work, do you ever find yourself unable to sleep; or do you ever wake up with your mind racing? Do you find yourself becoming more irritable than usual, beginning to feel less empathy for others, having less patience and/or thinking back to past traumatic events from your own life? Do you ever think, "why is this happening to me; why am I feeling this way"? If you are a first responder, teacher, counselor, social worker, nurse,...
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At the foundation of Sleight of Mouth is the realization that words can create worlds. Language is a pivotal part of how we humans create our maps and models of reality, for better or for worse. Changing the words we use can shift the reality that we perceive, especially when those words relate to core beliefs.
Sleight of Mouth patterns are "verbal reframes" which influence beliefs, and the mental maps from which beliefs have been formed. The...
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