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(0)Paul Butler
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"Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's supposed to. Black men are always under watch, and police violence is widespread--all with the support of judges and politicians. In his no-holds-barred style,...
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Product Description: Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who traded in his corporate law salary to fight the good fight. It was those years on the front lines that convinced him that the American criminal justice system is fundamentally broken-it's not making the streets safer, nor helping the people he'd hoped, as a prosecutor, to protect. In Let's Get Free, Butler, now an award-winning law professor, looks at several...
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Portland, Maine, 1910. An assembly gathers to listen to a fundraising lecture by the esteemed medical missionary Doctor Wilfred Grenfell. Grenfell has been working for eighteen years with trappers, fishermen, and their families on Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula and in coastal Labrador. Thanks in part to the wild adventures recorded in his recent bestseller, Adrift on an Ice Pan, Grenfell is becoming ever more famous in North America.
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The Widow's Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen's final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away for the last time and discretely gives an overview of the oncoming marriage between heroine Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth. This, it transpires in The Widow's Fire, is merely the beginning of a journey. Soon dark undercurrents disturb...
7) Business Financial Intelligence: A mindset and skillset few people have and all organizations need
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What your CFO absolutely needs you to know...
This clear and concise book will help you better understand the universal language of business and will demystify the financial terminology and concepts that are used to measure an organization's performance.
Do you want to go to the highest high of your organization? Would you like to enhance your business acumen so any employer in any industry in any part of the world can see your value? If...
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In 1925, in a London restaurant, J. Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line, has a quiet dinner with his daughter Evelyn. Through the extravagant foliage of the dining room, a young woman watches. Like Ismay, Miranda Grimsden was a passenger on board the ill-fated Titanic that terrible night in April 1912. Fuelled by simmering emotions, Ismay, Evelyn, and Miranda take a backwards journey through the thirteen intervening years to confront...
9) Mina's Child
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Mina's Child imagines a second generation springing from the "heroes"' in Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 1921, Mina and Jonathan Harker's daughter, Abree, a student at King's College, London, starts to question the extraordinary adventures her parents claim to have experienced in England and the Carpathians. Middle-aged Jonathan Harker is haunted by nightmares that Abree assumes to be about her brother, Quincey, killed in the Great War. As the Harkers...
10) 1892
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In 1892, critically acclaimed novelist Paul Butler plunges the reader into 19th century St. John's, its light and its shade... An obscure servant, Kathleen, yearns for her home in Ireland. A mysterious scientist, Dr. Glenwood, believes he can be the first to bring a new photographic discovery to the world. A stable hand, Tommy Fitzpatrick, battles inner demons as he tries to win Kathleen's heart. These collective struggles will soon erupt to change...
11) Hero
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In a St. John's hospital in 1945, Elsa Evans keeps a furtive vigil over the deathbed of Abram Kean, the renowned sealing captain. Remembering her first husband and her two brothers killed in the trenches thirty years before, and another young friend, Noah, frozen on the ice during the sealing disaster of 1914, Elsa contemplates a hideous revenge. The shock of her own bitterness forces her to retrace part of her life which is interwoven with those...
12) Eastons Gold
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The story of notorious pirate Peter Easton's final voyage.
13) Cupids
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A fascinating and unpredictable dramatic story of John Guy of Bristol.
14) NaGeira
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The legend of Sheila NaGeira looms large in the early history of the New World.
15) Think to Win
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The proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any organization's DNA to drive sustainable growth
In today's ultra-competitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist.
Think to Win helps business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of "the elite few" and into the company culture as whole. It offers a simple, proven approach...
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In this rough-and-tumble neo-noir, Gary Oldman stars as Sgt. Jack Grimaldi, a veteran cop who watches other people for a living. Once, in the faded past of his youth, it was an important job but now Jack sees that life on the other side of the binoculars has that little extra something-extra sex, extra money, extra excitement. Now, Jack gets in over his head when he falls for the ultimate femme fatale (Lena Olin). Also starring Annabella Sciorra and...
