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On November 22, 1963, science and aerospace reporter Hugh Aynesworth had the day off. He was not among the cadre of reporters and photographers assigned to cover the Dallas visit of President John F. Kennedy. Within forty-eight hours, however, Aynesworth had witnessed the assassination of the president, the arrest of the assassin, and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.
Now more than fifty years later, November 22, 1963: WITNESS TO HISTORY...
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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When her grandmother and guardian suffers a stroke, twelve-year-old Poppy Parker's life turns upside down--but when she witnesses a murder and has to go into witness protection with Detective Brannigan's mother it becomes hard to believe she will ever find a way home, let alone save Gunner, a beautiful German shepherd with an uncertain future.
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
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357 pages ; 22 cm
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Thirteen-year-old Nikki Demere is an orphan and a kleptomaniac, making her the perfect girl to portray the Trevors' daughter in witness protection, but she soon learns that the biggest threat to her new family's security comes from her own past.
7) Paradox
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2018.
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An escaped mental patient obsessed with revenge fails to kidnap five-year-old Sean Savich, and agents Sherlock and Savich know they're in his crosshairs and must find him before he continues with his 'kill' list. Chief Ty Christie of Willicott, Maryland, witnesses a murder at dawn from the deck of her cottage on Lake Massey. When dragging the lake, not only do the divers find the murder victim, they also discover dozens of bones. Even more shocking...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and failed Wheel of Fortune contestant Dave Barry has questions-lots of them-and sets out to find the answers. If you've ever wondered things such as, "Just how does Oprah have the power to turn a 1957 Hotpoint toaster manual into a #1 bestseller?" or "What makes people want to eat animals they would never consider petting?" then this book is for you.
Barry fans will appreciate this best-of collection...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
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260 p. ; 22 cm.
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Tired of the politics, publicity and endless nights that go with major homicides, Detective Mars Bahr and his partner Nettie Frisch have moved to the Cold Case Unit, which covers the Minneapolis Police Department's oldest unsolved cases. One of their first assignments is tackling the murders of rural convenience store employees, which leads them to a sixteen-year-old missing person’s case.
In 1986, seventeen-year-old Andrea Bergstad was working...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
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x, 226 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
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In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit's End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for...
11) The ideal man
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Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 9
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Dr. Ellie Sullivan is the primary witness in the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The Landrys have been captured, and she'll be called to testify. But they've been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-- or disappear before they can take the stand.
12) Wit's end
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
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324 p. ; 22 cm.
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What happens when readers steal your characters? Rima Lanisell is about to find out when she visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early, the successful mystery writer of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, and discovers the truth behind Addison's novels.
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
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279 pages ; 22 cm
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"A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message to China, where the preaching she did was illegal and could result in her expulsion or worse. Here, she had some distance from her community for the first time. Immersion in a foreign language and culture--and a whole new way of thinking--turned her world upside down, and eventually led her...
15) Ash Princess
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Ash princess novels volume 1
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Held captive by the brutal Kaiser since age six when she witnessed her mother's murder, Theodosia, called Ash Princess, is now sixteen and prepared to reclaim the throne by any means necessary.
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Front desk volume 3
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While visiting family in China, Mia Tang witnesses some of the big changes the country is going through, which makes her think about the changes in her own life that need to be dealt with.
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Shades of London volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2011
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372 p. ; 22 cm.
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Rory, of Bénouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
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