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Most of us only half-listen to the public service announcements about safety in the home. We lock our doors at night, but do little else to change habits that may make us the next victims of the dangerous individuals who are always on the watch for their next opportunity. This updated edition takes readers through the mindset of predatory criminals-their motives, various plans of attack, and way of thinking-and then teaches simple lifestyle techniques...
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The winds of change are raging in 1960s California. For the Becker brothers, however, the past is always present-and it comes crashing back full force when the corpse of Janelle Vonn is discovered. The Becker and Vonn clans were high school enemies. Now one Becker is a cop, one is a minister and one is a reporter. All three are about to collide with the changing world of 1968 as each brother, in his own way, tries to find Janelle's killer.
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"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and...
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Dylan Truman, better known under her alias Lady Justice, is the bane of every grifter, cheater, and bully in the Bay Area. Alongside her best friend and hacktivist, Daniel Haas, she works as a revenge-for-hire vigilante, seeking retribution on behalf of her (predominantly female) clientele. When a prospective client brings up a fraud complaint against pharmaceutical CEO Brent Wilder, Dylan's business becomes personal: Years earlier, Wilder assaulted...
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In 1963, after Trish Weir was kidnapped and sexually assaulted, her assailant was caught and tried. But after he confesses without legal representation and is granted a retrial, it triggers a legal proceeding that forever changes the nation's justice system.
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"It's an open secret at Harvey Davis High School that Tia Dante can solve all your problems (for a fee, of course). As one of the few blessed with the genetic gift of transferable consciousness, she can slip inside your mind and do your dirty work--humiliate your cheating boyfriend, bring a bully to his knees, tell your boss where to stick it--and then return your body with no one the wiser. No task is too awkward, and unlike the competition, she...
8) Peril
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Sara Labriola, a married woman haunted by a terrible secret, decides to disappear and establish a new life, despite the six dangerous men who are on her trail, unaware that Sara in turn is drawing them down a path of revenge.
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Deputy Willie Colt feels at home in the wide-open spaces on Montana. Attorney Eleanor Shaffer has a corner office with a spectacular view of Seattle. He was brutally attacked while trying to extradite her client. And though Willie and Eleanor have every reason to district each other, they'll have to work together if they're going to mete out justice. Move over big-city tactics--and meet good old cowboy grit.
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"1979: Seventeen-year-old Alice Pearson can't wait to graduate from high school so she can escape the small town in upstate New York where she grew up. In the meantime, she and her friends avoid their dysfunctional families while getting high in the woods. There they meet the enigmatic Jack Wyck, who lives in the rambling old farmhouse across the reservoir. Enticed by his quasi-mystical philosophy and the promise of a constant party, Alice and her...
12) Helping victims
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"The Careers Making A Difference series provides information on nine important and interesting careers that make a difference in and improve the whole of society and each title describes the careers available in the field, plus valuable information on education, training, salaries, job outlook, and job satisfaction"--
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"As the snowstorm of the century rages toward Newfoundland, twenty-one-year-old Xavier is beaten and stabbed in a vicious attack. His mother, Jules, must fight her way through the shuttered streets of St. John's to reach the hospital where Xavier lies unconscious. When a video of the attack surfaces, Jules struggles to make sense of what she sees in the footage - and of what she can't quite make out. While Xavier's story unfolds, so, too, do the stories...
14) Running the risk
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IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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After being the victim of an armed robbery, Sean goes in search of more danger.
15) Requiem
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"On a flight from Mexico City, Wanda Stroud sees troubling content on the laptop of a passenger seated ahead of her. The next day, Wanda fails to show up for a coffee date she's made with her friend. Ray Wyatt investigates the story while clinging to his last thread of hope that his son, Danny, is not dead." -- www.amazon.com.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 32
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Investigating the death of a woman that has been ruled accidental by the police but that her sister insists was a murder by a known perpetrator, a reluctant Nameless begins to suspect that the victim's sister is telling the truth when he learns unsettling facts about her life.
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"Attacked and left with a partial heart-shaped symbol carved into her chest, forensic investigator Lena Love finds her latest hunt has become personal. But leaving LA to return to her hometown comes with its own danger--like detective David Hudson, the love she left behind. And soon sparks fly, even as Lena is targeted and stalked, and bodies--all marked with the killer's signature heart--are discovered in David's jurisdiction..."--Provided by publisher....
18) Till death
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Ten years after escaping the serial killer known as The Groom, Sasha Keaton, as women start disappearing, agrees to return home and help FBI agent Cole Landis catch this twisted madman once and for all.
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A stranger with amnesia is the only key to unlocking a search-and-rescue mystery...The injured man search-and-rescue volunteer Grace Wilcox discovers left for dead in a Colorado snowstorm can't remember why he's on Eagle Mountain or even who he is But bloody footprints discovered near a crime scene spark a memory of deception and the chase for a murderer. Now, as Grace works with the handsome stranger to find out who he's after and what really happened...
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Re-examines the 1996 case in which respected Delaware attorney Thomas Capano was convicted of shooting his former lover, young secretary Anne Marie Fahey, stuffing her body in an ice chest, and dumping her into the ocean; providing information about their affair, the murder investigation, and the trial.
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