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Al Lacy, Joanna Lacy

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Orphan Trains Trilogy

Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-nineteenth-century. Yet it is not just the orphans whose lives need mending -- follow the train alon...

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Al Pacino

**The Instant New York Times Bestseller • One of People Magazine's Top 10 Books of the Year"The rare celebrity memoir that's also a literary read. As funny as it is reflective, it shares stories behind Pacino's hardscrabble upbringing, classic films and journey to icon status." —People Magazine**From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in fullTo the w...

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Al Ries, Jack Trout

The first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public, Positioning describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind-one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors. Writing in their trademark witty, fast-paced style, advertising gurus Ries and Trout explain how to:• Make and position an industry leader so that its name and message wheedles its way into...

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Al

This book is a collection of poems meant to address the individual in doubt of his vision and dreams. It is a fight for survival in the midst of all rival elements coming in between a man and his true paththe pulse that must beat all impulses.

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Al Rennie

The mother of a veteran who committed suicide asks Joe to investigate her son's death; CHIPs is recruited by the CPD to help find a small terrorist cell; June Franklin has a missing foster father and his 17 year old foster daughter ... "heads are going to roll" unless Joe finds them right away; Doc receives a death threat a few days before his birthday party; It's just another romp in paradise!

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Kamal Al-Solaylee

In the 1960s, Kamal Al-Solaylee’s father was one of the wealthiest property owners in Aden, in the south of Yemen, but when the country shrugged off its colonial roots, his properties were confiscated, and the family was forced to leave. The family moved first to Beirut, which suddenly became one of the most dangerous places in the world, then Cairo. After a few peaceful years, even the safe haven of Cairo struggled under a new wave of Islamic extremism that culminated with the assassinati...

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Al Robertson

With the Robertson clan’s flair for down-home wisdom and wit, this 365-day devotional reveals the heart and faith of this much-loved family from A&E®’s hit show Duck Dynasty®.Loyal fans of the Duck Dynasty family will relish this collection of inspirational messages for each day of the year. From patriarch Phil and matriarch Kay to their four sons—Willie, Jase, Jep, and Alan—and their beautiful wives and children, the entire Robertson clan contrib...

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Al

Journal entries, poems, stories, and rants from the mind of an artist, who found out he was gay, and how the writing and creating helped him make it through, to today. How I learned to accept myself, as a gay male artist, in a world, I knew didn't fully accept me, and how I only wanted to be as everyone else. I later found out that I didn't need to be like everyone else, and it wasn't doing me, or the world any good, by trying to conform, and downplay the brilliance, of who I've become.

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Al Jourgensen

**Ministry is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Al Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises."No stone unturned and no vein left untapped, Jourgensen recites events of a life lived (and ended a few times) to its unconscionable excesses in a funny, wildly entertaining, and gleefully repulsive memoir.” —Examiner.com**He survived prolonged drug addiction—twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse, to be mor...

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Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney

The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design.Winning today isn’t about beating the competition at the old game. It’s about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You can’t build a legendary company without building a legendary category. If you think that having the best product is all it takes to win, y...

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Al Rennie

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Clearwater

Joe Holiday, an ex Metro cop, finds himself dragged into an investigation by Mia, an IHOP waitress. The probing they do into the murder of Mia's sister years earlier turns into a deadly manhunt with Joe and Mia suddenly becoming the targets of a vicious plot.

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Al Pittampalli

As a leader, changing your mind has always been perceived as a weakness. Not anymore. In a world that’s changing faster than ever, successful leaders realize that a genuine willingness to change their own minds is the ultimate competitive advantage for effective leadership.Drawing on evidence from social science, history, politics, and more, business consultant Al Pittampalli reveals why confidence, consistency, and conviction are increasingly becoming liabilities—while humility, i...