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In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world's greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain's murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found. Today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his family's greatest secret: his long-lost father, who's been shot with a gun that traces back to Mitchell Siegel's 1932...
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John McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words of Newsweek, "makes the other presidential candidates look like pygmies." John McCain learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy....
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"Cindy Hensley was just out of college when she met and fell in love with the celebrated Navy hero John McCain. They embarked on a thrilling life together that put her at the center of American politics for over four decades. In this moving and inspiring memoir, Cindy McCain tells the story of her adventurous life with John for the first time."--
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Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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760L
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"Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer ..."--Back cover.
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As a child, Jonathan Cain survived a horrific school fire that killed nearly one hundred of his classmates. His experience formed a resilience that would carry him through both tragedy and success in the years to come. Moving from Chicago to Sunset Boulevard, Cain never let go of his musical dreams, eventually getting his big break with the band Journey--and writing the songs that would become the soundtrack of a generation.
9) Cain
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2011.
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"In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Job's ordeal, and finally Noah's ark and the Flood. And over and over again Cain encounters...
10) Until the end
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Skulduggery Pleasant volume 15
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To save what is left of the world, Skulduggery must make allies of enemies, but things go from bad to worse when Omen Dark suddenly has to step up after his brother, the Chosen One, falls.
11) Mortal coil
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Skulduggery Pleasant volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back - just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down. With Valkyrie struggling to protect her dark secret, Skulduggery and the gang are more vulnerable than ever, just as a plague of body-snatching Remnants are released upon the world...
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What is it in my DNA that years ago prompted me to forgo the ease of cruise control and take on the enormous challenge of doing my part toward making America a better place for my granddaughter and the generations to come? Why do I, a son of the segregated South, refuse to think of myself as a "victim" of racism? What is it that motivates me to insist on defining my identity in terms of "ABC" -- as being American first, Black second, and Conservative...
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"With the aptly titled Bad Republican, Meghan McCain expresses how it is to feel like you no longer fit in with your political party. This memoir explores growing up the daughter of an American icon who shaped her life and her views on cancel culture and internet trolls as well as life backstage as the sole Republican at America's most-watched daytime talk show"--
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"More so than almost anyone outside John McCain's immediate family, Mark Salter had unparalleled access to Senator McCain. Salter served to influence the senator's thoughts and actions, cowriting several books with him and acting as a valued confidant. Now, Salter draws on the storied facets of McCain's early biography as well as the later-in-life political philosophy for which the nation knew and loved him, delivering an intimate and comprehensive...
15) Rock of ages
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Georgia McCain starts seeing her long-dead father and on the verge of a breakdown she returns to the family farm and her moribund hometown.
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"In Amina Cain's first nonfiction book, a series of essayistic inquiries come together to form a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors-including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee...
18) Resurrection
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Skulduggery Pleasant volume 10
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2019.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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To fight an old enemy, Skulduggery Pleasant persuades Valkyrie to help him for just twenty-four hours.
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