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1) A Saturday
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"An uplifting tale of a little boy during a weekend with his family and
friends. Amazed by the wonders bestowed upon them by a fruit tree in its
full harvest season, the tale ends up with a very meaningful realization!
This book is appropriate for ages 6 to 12 years old."
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CTS Book of the Year. A serious effort to faithfully investigate the history and canonical viability of the female diaconate. Based on thorough research, as well as sound historical and theological analysis and reflection, this book makes a significant contribution to the discussion and development of women's roles in the modern church.
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Author William Hazlett Upson turned his work experience with the Holt Caterpillar Company into a second career when "The Saturday Evening Post" published his first story in 1927 in the saga of tractor salesman extraordinaire Alexander Botts and Earthworm crawlers. The series was so popular that it led to 112 Botts tales and a movie.
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After years of avoiding volunteer organizations, Chicago high school teacher Tom Mason is finally guilted into volunteering a few hours a week at a local gay services clinic. Since he finds the bitter in-fighting at the organization to be intolerable, and the head of the clinic to be downright poisonous, Tom does his hours on early Saturday morning before anyone else arrives and avoids most of the office politics.
But his quiet Saturday goes quickly...
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Michael Jackson Style is a dazzling style exploration of the King of Pop. Every visual aspect of Michael Jackson is shown. The result is a stunning photographic feast spanning nearly half a century. From his makeover as a little boy in the Jackson 5 at Motown, his early TV appearances and Saturday morning cartoon. His album images from Off the Wall to Thriller to Invincible and the outfits from all his record breaking World tours The origins of the...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any of Twain's works during his lifetime.
Tom...
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Carlotta Rathbone was awfully elegant, dreadfully chic and terribly dead -- as Mr. Pinkerton discovers when he stumbles over her body in a dimly lighted London street. Her friends were bought; her enemies were legion, and paramount among them was Archibald Biddle, a social-climbing novelist who had used Carlotta and then tried to drop her. Biddle is Scotland Yard's prime suspect -- until he panics and begins to tell too much about London's international...
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The Old Angel is everything an old English inn should be, with ancient beams, gleaming copper bedwarmers, pewter tankards, and platters heaped high with red roast beef. But then, as Mr. Pinkerton quickly discovers, the Old Angel also harbors some less homey items. Such as a frightened young girl, a series of secret passageways -- and a most unpleasant Knight who is suddenly killed in a most unsavory way.
The next thing he knows. Mr. Pinkerton is mixed...
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About the Book Poetry from the Other Side is the product of 50 years' worth of experiences–experiences Dr. Lynn Bruce McNeely believes we all have. May we all find ourselves within the pages of this poetry collection. About the Author Dr. Lynn Bruce McNeely was truly blessed by having a wonderful, perhaps extraordinary, set of parents. They urged him on through Wake Forest College, then the Medical College of Virginia. McNeely's father loved the...
14) Slam!
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Limericks, lies and puppy-dog eyesAmateur poet Jude is a carnivore working in a vegan cafe. His little dog, Bubbles, is the only man in the Anglo-Japanese graduate's life-but Jude yearns from afar for "Karate Crumpet", a man who runs past the cafe window every Saturday night leading a martial arts class. Jude's swept off his feet when he's rescued from muggers by the object of his affections-and when Jude finds out the calm, competent, hunk of muscle...
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Chronicles of the Unseen is a captivating collection of short stories and flash fiction exploring the depths of human experience. From the trials and tribulations of the overworked to the mysteries that lurk in the shadows, this anthology shows the lives of ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. In "I Have Too Much Work," a woman grapples with the consequences of an endless workload, while "Journey Without a Script" follows...
16) Purgatory, Inc
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What happens when your boss ends up dead and no one is sad about it?Unfortunately, a suspect pool that includes the whole damn city.CallieAs the human resources manager for Melko Medical Industries, Callie Callows knows firsthand how vicious their boss is. If Callie could, she'd set up an anti-depressant dispenser next to the coffee machine in the break rooms. The real shame of the situation is that Melko is a great company to work for, and everyone...
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Modern Man: Life's Like That is a comedy about the pressures and expectations on men as they try to find their way in the world. The main character is called Modern Man because he is a kind of generic interpretation of the 'Average Joe,' neither especially gifted nor a total moron.Everybody faces challenges and Modern Man has his fair share. The humour comes from how he deals with them. The reader will probably identify personally with some of his...
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With a Foreword by John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of its BBC debut, a revised and updated edition of the complete oral history of Monty Python-an insightful, in-depth portrait of the brilliant and hysterically funny show that transformed modern comedy.
Broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1974, Monty Python's Flying Circus introduced something completely different: a new brand of surrealistic, stream-of-consciousness...
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