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2021
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A Dangerous Freedom is an action-thriller, a heroic tale of love and courage.The story begins with sophomore Dylan Reilly watching the live coverage of 9/11 from his high school’s library, surrounded by his friends. All were shocked and angry! Whereas his good friend Joe Doyle vowed to join the U.S. Marines and “get those terrorists” responsible for the attacks, Dylan didn’t have the courage to join him. However, ten years later, after Dylan and his wife, Darlene, escape t...
Parish the Thought
An Inspirational Memoir of Growing Up Catholic in
2011
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In a warm and affectionate narrative that "transports readers back to a time before cable television, cell phones, and the Internet" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), John Bernard Ruane paints a marvelous portrait of his Irish-Catholic boyhood on the southwest side of Chicago in the 1960s. Capturing all the details that perfectly evoke those bygone days for Catholics and baby boomers everywhere, Ruane recounts his formative years donning the navy-and-plaid school un...
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- Rick Font
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6 hours 21 min
2022
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Russian Assault is an action-thriller for readers who love intense life-and-death dramatic scenes! Fast-paced, page-turning, spine-tingling action that won’t let you put the book down!In this sequel to the critically-acclaimed thriller, A Dangerous Freedom, a rogue group of former Russian KGB agents align themselves with radical groups in America to launch deadly attacks on Washington, D.C. and overthrow the U.S. government. In this fast-paced action-thriller, new American hero, Dylan Reil...
Taoism, Teaching, and Learning
A Nature-Based Approach to Education
2022
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The ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism contains profound wisdom about the cosmos, nature, human life, and education. Taoism seeks to be in harmony with nature, and using it as a guide can help us live in a way that is healing to both ourselves and the planet.Taoism, Teaching, and Learning identifies key aspects of Taoist thought and highlights how these principles can promote a holistic approach to teaching and learning. In particular, this book offers educators guidelin...
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- The Frank McCourt Memoirs
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Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape.And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's A...
Faith
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2011
EN
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"[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity." —NewYork Times"We have the intriguing possibility that the nextgreat American author is already in print." —Fort Worth Star-TelegramWhen Sheila McGann setsout to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburbanBoston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about herfractured Irish-American family, her beliefs, and, ultimately,...
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
(Alex Cross 19)
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- Alex Cross
2012
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2013
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**An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff“One cannot read Mr. LeDuff's amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold eye he casts on hard truths . . . A little gonzo, a little gumshoe, some gawker, some good-Samaritan—it is hard to ignore reporting like Mr. LeDuff's.” —The Wall Street Journal“Pultizer-Prize-winning journalist LeDuff . . . writes with honesty and compassion about a city tha...
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The 13th Spider Shepherd Thriller
- Book 13 -
- The Spider Shepherd Thrillers
2016
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When you're caught between two evils, only the most decisive will survive . . .A violent South London gang will be destroyed if Dan 'Spider' Shepherd can gather enough evidence against them while posing as a ruthless hitman. What he doesn't know is that his work as an undercover agent for MI5 is about to intersect with the biggest terrorist operation ever carried out on British soil.Only weeks before Shepherd witnessed a highly skilled IS sniper escape from...
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- The Spider Shepherd Thrillers
2018
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He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists, codenamed Saladin. He plans and executes devastating attacks and then, ghost-like, he disappears.Ten years ago he blew a plane out of the sky above New York - and now he's killed dozens in a London strike.But one of the latest victims is related to the acting head of MI5, who knows exactly who she wants on the case: Spider Shepherd.Dean Martin, a psychologically damaged former Navy SEAL, is the only...
The Clancys of Queens
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2016
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A witty memoir that weaves an authentic coming-of-age tale into a bold portrait of New York’s working-class women.Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited every other weekend. This childhood triptych comes to life in Th...











