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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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What would happen if I accepted an invitation to Bible Study from Jehovah's Witnesses? What would attending a Kingdom Hall meeting involve? And if I invited door-knocking Witnesses into my home? This book introduces Jehovah's Witnesses without assuming prior knowledge of the Watch Tower organisation. After outlining the Society's origins and history, the book explains their key beliefs and practices by taking the reader through the process of the...
2) Delusion
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Language
English
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A woman's world is turned upside down when new evidence frees a man she put in prison with her testimony years ago.--From publisher description.
3) Blue heaven
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English
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A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder--four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. William and Annie's...
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English
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Taking readers further into The Gate Cycle, Kristin Jacques will thrill fans of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn and Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone.
Every magic has a flavor, from the cold, cloying sweetness of the Winnowrooks to the hinted rot and bitter earth of the Mire witches. To know the flavor of one's magic is, to know the poison that will control it.
Oswin Brixby is, a traveling Meister, accompanied by his dearest childhood friend and helpmate,...
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English
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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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Series
O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 4
Language
English
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Jack O'Malley is a fireman who is fearless when it comes to facing an inferno. But when an arsonist begins targeting his district, his shift, his friends, Jack faces the ultimate challenge: protecting the lady who saw the arsonist before she pays an even higher price. Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family. They have chosen their...
7) The witness
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English
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Police Chief Luke Granger's witness to a murder, Amy Griffin, has been on the run for years. Her family thinks she was murdered eight years ago, but Amy chose to accept a life in the shadows in order to protect her sisters' lives. Now unveiled secrets about their father have thrust the sisters into the public spotlight. The man who wants Amy dead now sees her sisters as the way to locate her. Luke and two of his homicide detectives are determined...
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Series
Defenders of justice volume 3
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English
Description
"Deputy U.S. Marshal Casey Sloane has worked at the St. Louis Marshals office for two years and is given a routine assignment to help transport a reporter to D.C. to testify before a grand jury. Valerie, the reporter, was writing a story about an up-and-coming environmentalist who suddenly disappeared and, she later discovered, whose backers purportedly have ties to a terrorist. When the seemingly ordinary assignment suddenly takes a shocking turn,...
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In The Wake Of A Tragedy She Can't Forget. . .
Twenty years ago, Jolie Royale witnessed a crime that stained her home, Belle Rose plantation, with her family's blood. A shooting left her mother, her aunt, and her aunt's suspected lover dead, and Jolie critically wounded. The case was ruled a double homicide and suicide and quickly closed, though rumors abounded as to the murderer's real identity. . .
The Face She Can't Remember. . .
Jolie would...
13) Fake ID
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead.
14) Open season
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English
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She's hunting for a mate... and there's no more playing it safe. Daisy Minor is bored. Worse than that, she's boring. A plain, small-town librarian, she's got a wardrobe as sexy as a dictionary and hasn't been on a date in years. She's never even had a lukewarm love affair, let alone a hot one. So when she wakes up on her thirty-fourth birthday and wonders how it is that she still lives with her widowed mom and spinster aunt while her friends have...
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Here is the dramatic story of two young girls, Megan and Jen, who meet in first grade and quickly become inseparable friends. Inseparable, that is, until one of them is snatched away by kidnappers as the other young girl watches helplessly. The remaining child grows up with the haunting memory of her friend's abduction...and absence from her life. Then, sixteen years later, the stunning truth of the disappearance is revealed. And once again,...
16) Edge
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English
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Behind the well-known U.S. security organizations- the FBI and CIA among them-lies a heavily guarded, anonymous government agency dedicated to intelligence surveillance and to a highly specialized brand of citizen protection. Shock waves of alarm ripple through the clandestine agency when Washington, D.C., police detective Ryan Kessler inexplicably becomes the target of Henry Loving, a seasoned, ruthless "lifter" hired to obtain information using...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Teresa Casali has the ability to read people's memories. But the gift seemed more like a curse when her mob boss father used her in his world of corruption and violence. She realizes that is she is to survive, she has to run. Then Andre Mandak appears. He kills her pursuers-but that's not enough to make Teresa trust him. It is his promise to get her into Witness Protection, along with his ability to help her control her gift before it consumes...
18) How it went down
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
19) Brink of death
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Series
Hidden faces series volume 1
Language
English
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Annie Kingston moves to Grove Landing for safety and quiet-and comes face to face with evil. When neighbor Lisa Willit is killed by in intruder in her home, sheriff's detectives are left with little evidence. Lisa's daughter, Erin, saw the killer, but she's to traumatized to give a description. The detectives grow desperate. Because of her background as a courtroom sketch artist, Annie is asked to question Erin and draw a composite. But Annie knows...
20) Snitch: a novel
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Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
On the streets of Jersey City there is a simple code. You don't talk to the cops. You don't snitch. Period. But when young bus driver Andre Bolden witnesses a crime on his route, he is compelled to make a choice. If he keeps silent, he might lose his job and be gnawed by his conscience. If he snitches, he could lose his family- even his life. This explosive story explores the clash between a working man and the code of the streets.--From back cover....
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