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1) The jungle

Author

Series

Classics illustrated graphic novels (Papercutz) volume 9
Harper's modern classics
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Barnes and Noble classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22

Lexile measure

1170L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook Cassette, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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"1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page." --Amazon.com

2) The Rooster Bar

Author

Grisham, John

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...

3) Legislative calendar

Author

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services

Series

S. prt

Language

English

Formats

Microfilm, Serial

4) The associate

Author

Grisham, John

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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A dark episode from college haunts Kyle McAvoy's future after he graduates from Yale and takes a shady job at a large law firm where his new employer blackmails him into unethical work, which includes a scheme that could put Kyle in jail or even get him killed.

5) A girl's guide to moving on: a novel

Author

Macomber, Debbie

Series

New beginnings volume 02

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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In this powerful and uplifting novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber, a mother and her daughter-in-law bravely leave their troubled marriages and face the challenge of starting over. Leaning on each other, Nichole and Leanne discover that their inner strength and capacity for love are greater than they ever imagined. When Nichole discovers that her husband, Jake, has been unfaithful, the illusion of her perfect life is indelibly...

6) Social security, medicare & government pensions: get the most out of your retirement & medical benefits

Author

Matthews, J. L

Language

English

Description

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The rules for claiming Social Security benefits have changed. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions--completely updated for 2019. Figure out how to get retirement, disability, dependents and survivors benefits, or Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Decide whether it's best to claim benefits early, at full retirement age, or not until...

7) Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2008 and oversight of previously authorized programs before the Committee on Armed Services, House of...: Air and Land Forces Subcommittee meeting jointly with Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee on budget request on Department of Defense aircraft programs; hearing held...

Author

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities

Language

English

Formats

Book, Microfilm

8) Frankenstein 1818 edition

Author

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17

Lexile measure

1170L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio, Audiobook CD, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

Description

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking....

9) The litigators

Author

Grisham, John

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg see a chance for huge financial gain when they learn of a pending class action lawsuit against the makers of Krayoxx, a popular cholesterol-reducing drug suspected of causing heart attacks.

10) Nolo's essential guide to divorce

Author

Doskow, Emily

Language

English

Description

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"Divorce is never easy, but with the information in Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce, you can make the process as simple, inexpensive, and conflict-free as possible. With compassion and expertise, family law attorney Emily Doskow explains how to make divorce less painful by helping you: understand the divorce process; minimize day-to-day conflict with your spouse; work with lawyers or mediators without breaking the bank; avoid costly, exhausting...

11) Plan your estate

Author

Clifford, Denis

Language

English

Formats

Book, Serial

Description

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Setting your goals. Selecting your estate planning goals ; Personal concerns and estate planning -- Laying the groundwork. Special property ownership rules for married people ; Inventorying your property ; Your beneficiaries -- Children -- Wills -- Probate and how to avoid it. Probate and why you want to avoid it ; Living trusts ; Joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety ; Pay-on-death designations, registrations, and deeds ; Life insurance ; Retirement...

12) The firm

Author

Grisham, John

Series

G.K. Hall large print book

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20

Lexile measure

680L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook Cassette, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

Description

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At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDerre signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray, doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail, already...