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"A son of the times, award-winning columnist John W. Fountain writes about everyday life, from the serious to the sublime. He writes about everything from life and homicide to poverty and hope. He writes about the church, faith and religion. About black women s hair, fatherhood and old-school mothering. Fountain writes about riding a Harley and getting a pedicure for the first time. He chronicles the conversations of the roundtable, a motley crew...
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In this historically authentic novel, the author speaks about a child, born into the tumult of World War II, who grows up in the harsh tyranny of the Soviet Union. In detail, it describes formation of the child's character under conditions of totalitarianism. The book presents many dramatic and didactic episodes of everyday life of young and mature ordinary people who live in the socialist system. The book tells how it is possible for a child to develop...
13063) Thiago and the beast
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Village elders have warned Thiago not to go to the land across the river where dwells a beast who they say will eat him.
13064) Blood for water
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In the seedy, sizzling Chicago summer, Jimmy Malchiovelli, a young up and coming mixed martial arts fighter and reluctant Mafioso heir apparent, holds onto his future by a thread. Everyone he knows wants to steal his destiny. The Muranos, Chicago's notorious mafia family, want him for their own greedy desires; his father, the man behind the mob's success, wants him to continue the family legacy; and his girlfriend, Rachel, sees a chance to rise to...
13066) Green sea of darkness
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Green Sea of Darkness takes place in the eighties of the previous century. It begins in Greenwich Village, then moves to Paris, England, and back to France. Interwoven in the action Irishness prevails. Gwenole is the son of a Hungarian refugee and an Irish mother. He wants to write but in the meantime becomes a member of the Irish Republican Army. The birth of a writer is accompanied by the gradual demolition of the budding writer.
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June, 2110. A serial killer strikes the populace of the City of Chicago. The first victim is a wanted man by Detective Frank Campanelli's Sentinel Division. His body had been mutilated and, from the evidence uncovered by forensic genius, H. Lincoln Rothgery, it has been partially consumed. The unknown invader leaves a trail of corpses behind in short order, including that of a homicide detective. To add to the mystery, the DNA evidence retrieved from...
13070) God loves you
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God's love for you is infinite. Share these kind words and truth with your little ones and may they forever know how much they are loved.
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When the reality-bending Quantum Bracelet arrives on 12-year-old Matt Palmer's doorstep, his bratty sister Kara is teleported across dimensions into the clutches of lizard warriors called the Komodo Knights. It's up to Matt and his new buddy Prince Quetzel - a wall-clinging chameleon boy who Matt calls Q for short - to cross treacherous desert terrain, battle alien creaters, and rescue Kara. But when the evil Commander Thork gets his claws on the...
13080) The Christmas tree ship
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Each winter the fishing schooner Rouse Simmons is filled with Christmas trees and sailed down Lake Michigan, then the trees are delivered to the residents of Chicago.
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