Christa Lewis
122) A Noel Killing
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Christmastime in the south of France is as beautiful as ever, but when a shady local businessman drops dead in the middle of the festivities, Verlaque and Bonnet must solve the case while keeping the holiday spirit alive.
Antoine Verlaque, examining magistrate for the beautiful town of Aix-en-Provence, doesn't like Christmas. The decorations appear in the shops far too early, festive tourists swarm the streets, and his beloved Cours Mirabeau is lined...
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Hi, there! It's so nice meeting you. I'm very happy to see that you're interested in reading my adventures. Why don't I give you a sneak peek of my story? Heading to an unknown land to preach the good news to a northern Indian tribe living just above the Arctic Circle may not sound like a good life but I don't care. As long as I am with my husband, I can do everything. And with Christ on our side, we left everything behind to live in the remote wilderness...
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The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Donna Drucker traces the history of modern contraception,...
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The psychological thriller, The Door at the Top of the Stairs, tells of the trauma suffered by police detective Jesse Shaunessy, a strong, yet vulnerable woman who is kidnapped and tortured and then thrown away by her department as damaged goods. It's a heart-rending story of two women struggling to bring a broken Jesse out of the her lonely darkness and back into the light of love.
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The cosmopolitan political tradition in Western thought begins with the Greek Cynic Diogenes, who, when asked where he came from, responded that he was a citizen of the world. Rather than declaring his lineage, city, social class, or gender, he defined himself as a human being, implicitly asserting the equal worth of all human beings.
Nussbaum pursues this 'noble but flawed' vision of world citizenship as it finds expression in figures of Greco-Roman...
127) Credo's Hope
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Introducing Detective Alexandra Wolfe, a fresh, funny, tough cop who skates on the edge of the law in her quest for justice. A Mafia boss, a hunky bi-sexual nurse, and her exuberant best friend, MEGAN, help turn Alex's everyday life as a detective upside down.
It's been six years since a jury convicted Jacob McClelland of murdering his brother.
When Megan bullies Alex into reviewing the case, Alex discovers that her captain, the chief investigator,...
128) The Storm's Whisper
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The path to peace is never easy.
As the first Caller in living memory, Eva struggles to find her footing as the bridge between her chosen people and the mythological race known as the Kyren.
When unexpected arrivals threaten to test the newly formed alliance, Eva and her protector, Caden, fight to hold together the fast-fraying bonds before peace unravels and war once again returns. Should she fail, bloodshed the likes the Broken Lands haven't seen...
129) Fertility Technology
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In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman's uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward, doctors and scientists have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility Technology surveys this history in all its medical, practical, and ethical complexity, and offers a look at state-of-the-art...
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In the South Carolina Hills, along the Savannah River Watershed, in the fall of 1829, fourteen-year-old, three-quarter Cherokee, Sahani, whose Christian name is Charity, sets out on a journey with her eighty-three-year-old maternal, white grandfather to Fort Charlotte, for what she thinks is a trip to trade the pelts he has accumulated in order to replenish their supplies. However, Charity soon discovers that her grandfather's objective in making...
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Wine is a wonderful, lavish, and mysterious gift from God. Gisela Kreglinger, the daughter of a vintner and trained as theologian, invites us to discover wine as part of a more full-bodied Christian spirituality. She shows us how the soulful savoring of wine is God's way of wooing us back into a great love affair. Indeed, Jesus's first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Along with bread, wine is the gift we receive at the table of communion....
132) Wayfarer's Keep
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Branded a traitor by her people, Shea and her warlord-the fiercely dangerous Fallon-travel to the Pathfinders' seat of power at her father's request, hoping to form an alliance despite the distrust between them. It doesn't take long before Shea and Fallon realize something is dangerously wrong in the place she once called home. Ancient, deadly creatures-gone for hundreds of years, once again walk the lands, awakened from a deep sleep. Worse, it seems...
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In the summer of 1865, Emmaline Gulledge is eleven years old and stubborn as a mule. Determined to do exactly what she sets her mind to, she explores the mountains and valleys around her home with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a keen eye that misses nothing. When her mother dies, Emmaline, Emmy for short, is thrust into the mystical, spiritual world of her mother's native peoples, the Tsalagi, better known as the Cherokee. Given the power...
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An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert's complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius
Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific-Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked.
In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley...
135) A well-read woman
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The inspiring true story of an indomitable librarian's journey from Nazi Germany to Seattle to Vietnam, all for the love of books.
Growing up under Fascist censorship in Nazi Germany, Ruth Rappaport's life had one constant thread: her passion for the printed word and the haven it provided. This is her story.
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Young Sue Gurwell had always known that her father had been a paratrooper. An old camo parachute from Holland served as her backyard tent, and high on a shelf she mustn't touch, eight red devils in parachutes grinned from the front of mysterious drinking glasses Dad had sent Mom during the war. And then there was the special poem in his roll-top desk she sometimes snuck a peek at... This poem was a premonition of the sergeant's death... But it's not...
137) Tied Up In You
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Everyone says hotshot goalie Luke Jackson is God's gift to girls, but the only girl he wants is his best friend, Malina Hall. He's always known how brilliant she is, but now that he's “accidentally” kissed her, he can't stop thinking about her...or wanting to kiss her again.
Problem is, things have been a little...awkward since the kiss. Because she likes him, too? Hopefully, but even if she did, their futures-and the ridiculous schedules that...
138) Forever Ours
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From best friend to first love…
Then, his rock stardom tore them apart.
Now he's back, and her explosive secret threatens their second chance.
The day I meet Chris is like any other day. I've been kicked out of yet another foster home. The moment I see the piercing in his lip and the tattoos on his smooth skin, I know I won't last long here.
I've never been so happy to be so wrong.
With a patience I've never known in my short, tumultuous life, Chris...
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A concise, illustrated update on our earliest ancestors, the first sapiens-and on how (and when) we distinguished ourselves.
Prehistory is changing quickly: Thanks to progress in genetics and dating methods, we now know more than ever about our ancient relatives. A Pocket History of Human Evolution will bring us up to date on the exploits of Homo erectus and ergaster, the Neanderthals, Denisovans, and others. (Hint: There was a lot more crossbreeding...