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Rendered a public hero when he is forced to kill a chief suspect in the murder of a high-profile judge, New Jersey police officer Luke Somers is targeted by the suspect's vengeful older brother, who kidnaps Luke's brother and insists that his own brother was innocent.
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Heroes of Quantico volume 2
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After he accidentally shoots a teenager at a tense standoff, FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Mark Sanders is sent to St. Louis to work as a field agent and get his bearings while the bad press starts to settle. Just weeks away from returning to Quantico to resume his work on the HRT, Mark has a chance encounter with an old flame, Emily Lawson. But their reunion is cut short by a sniper. Now Mark must find the shooter before he tries to strike again....
43) Abandon
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After an unexpected attack at the lakefront home of a friend, federal judge Bernadette Peacham, Deputy U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart joins forces with FBI Special Agent Andrew Rook to investigate.
44) Bombshell
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Recruited by Dillon Savich for his uncanny criminal-tracking instincts, FBI Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith investigates a perplexing attack involving his music-student sister while Savich and Sherlock examine the bizarre murder of a Federal Reserve Bank chairman's grandson.
45) The pursuit
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"Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again in their rollicking, New York Times bestselling Fox and O'Hare series! Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI's most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper doesn't know is that Nick Fox has been secretly working...
46) Long shadows
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"When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear signthat she'd made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count--from violent gang...
47) Prohibition
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Synopsis - A wealthy addict heads to a seedy part of town to for a fix and gets more than he bargained for.After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes,...
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When federal agents knock on his door, the life Clifford Ubani has built with his family in America changes forever.
He built this life with dreams but no illusions. When he came to Houston, Clifford's cousin greeted him with a warning: These white people don't like you; they hated you the moment you set foot into their country.
Born in Abia, Nigeria, Clifford worked from a young age to support his family and pursue his education before travelling...
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This is a Book that Chronicles the events that led up to the Trump Presidency and all the trusted men that have now fallen in his inner circle, to the point of others trying to bring down the Presidency itself at any cost. It also shows how one political party of power is willing to us the power of their Offices, to collude, disrupt and obstruct the Democratic processes that have governed our Country since its inception. It is a powerful look from...
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Most economies advance by simultaneously decreasing costs and increasing quality. Unfortunately, when it comes to higher education, this has been turned on its head. Costs keep rising while quality declines. How has this happened? What can be done?
This exceptional volume looks at the issues facing higher education from the perspective of both economics and history. Each chapter explores how the lessons learned from market competition in other sectors...
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In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions to one of the province's most united and powerful voices for educators.
Today's teacher is under constant pressure to raise students' test scores, while the rise of neoliberalism in Canada has systematically stripped our education system of funding and support. But,...
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In recent years, politicians led by President Obama and prominent senators and governors have teamed with extremists on campus to portray our nation's campuses as awash in a violent crime waveand to suggest (preposterously) that university leaders, professors, and students are indifferent to female sexual assault victims in their midst. Neither of these claims has any bearing in reality. But they have achieved widespread acceptance, thanks in part...
53) Children, Not Widgets: How to Fight and Fix the Willful Miseducation of Students and the Dismantlin
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Through the analysis of congressional debates and hearings, presidential speeches, public opinion polls, and eighty-three interviews with administrators and teachers, Children, Not Widgets shows how policymakers willfully unraveled many public services, like education. The framing of government as the problem, rather than the solution, and citizens as consumers, rather than community members, justified allotting public resources to an unregulated...
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“The Change Rose” is an emotional challenge for Christians from award-winning columnist Kim Rice Smith. If you read her popular daily blog, The Heart of Warrior, you know faith and commitment to public education drive her heart.
This powerful work of the heart will take you on a difficult but necessary walk through twenty years of service as a public school's board member. There are lessons learned, soul-searching questions that remain, and a...
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Musaicum Books presents to you a carefully created collection of the essential writings of President Woodrow Wilson.
Content:
Essays:
The New Freedom
When A Man Comes To Himself
The Study of Administration
Leaders of Men
The New Democracy
Inaugural Addresses:
First Inaugural Address
Second Inaugural Address
State of the Union Addresses:
First State of the Union address
Second State of the Union address
Third State of the Union address
Fourth State...
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When a serial killer claims his fourth victim, FBI Special Agent Brad Raines is contacted by the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a psychiatric hospital for gifted but troubled individuals. As he profiles the killer, who taunts authorities by leaving bridal veils at his crime scenes, Raines is assisted by Paradise, a young schizophrenic with the ability to experience the victims' final moments. However, when the killer sets his sights on Paradise,...
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It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active, Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many Americans...
59) The end game
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Brit in the FBI volume 3
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"FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, are deep into an investigation of COE-- Celebrants of the Earth-- a violent group known for widespread bombings of power grids and oil refineries across the country. While investigating a tip from a civilian who's overheard about a possible bombing plot, the Bayway Refinery in New Jersey explodes. Nicholas and Mike race to the scene and barely escape being killed by a secondary device. Returning...
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The daughter of notorious, high-profile thief Bobby Rose, journalist Sophie Rose leaves her job at a major Chicago newspaper for a small local paper, but when she stumbles into the middle of a bizarre story, she follows the trail of the mystery north to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, accompanied by her bodyguard, Jack Prescott, a sexy FBI agent.
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