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"The one thing eleven-year-old Jake Lupo loves more than anything else is baseball. However, despite his father being a professional pitcher, Jake's fear of failing has kept him from competing against children his own age. When his father, who has recovered from a serious arm injury, is invited to pitch for an independent team, Jake and his parents move to Pine Barrows, a far-flung forested mountain outpost. Jake is excited about his father's chance...
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Solstice Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Sandi Diaz has a problem with his wife taking in a stray dog. The animal disrupts his life and when he seeks the help of a low-level underworld figure, he invites even more trouble than he bargained for. And when he learns the truth about a disturbing myth involving a race of dog-men seeking to continue their bloodline with a human female, his family will never be the same again." --
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[P. Lonardo/CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Is Assisted Reproduction Technology pushing modern biological science to the legal and ethical limit? This case examines the story of one man caught in the middle of a custody battle that became a landmark surrogacy case involving one child and five adults, including a divorced couple, a paid surrogate, an anonymous sperm donor and an anonymous egg donor. This book was written from the point of view of the father -- at least in the eyes of the court...
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[P. Lonardo/CreateSpace]
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[2015]
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English
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"Saddened by the recent loss of her mom and disheartened by a stalled career and unfulfilled personal life, Jodi feels that life is passing her by. But then she receives an invitation to her five-year high school reunion. Nick Ryan was always around in high school, but Jodi never thought of him in a romantic way. Lately though, she's found herself thinking about him more and more, and wondering if she should have paid him more attention in high school....
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There is a chill in the air. Something is coming.Change is coming.It's a time to celebrate. It's a time to hide.It's a time to get ready for the things we don't expect.It's time to open up the Autumn Breezeway. Edited by Sam Knight. Associate Editor Bailey FinnStories by:Steve Ruskin, Jude Deluca, James Rogers, CJ Mattison, Arlo Sharp, P. Francis Smythe, AE Stueve, Sheila Hartney, Eve Morton, Grayson Wilson, Jessica McLain, Tanya Hales and Jeffrey...
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The stock market crash October 19, 1987 becomes a pivotal life-changing event for identical twins Tom and Glenn Lonardo. The fallout from this calamitous market collapse triggers actions and events that inexorably engulf the brothers, sucking them into a vortex called disaster. It is a tale of cool assassins, a unique Las Vegas casino with its enforcers, Wall Street players and pundits and beautiful women. It is replete with a host of unforgettably...
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Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Newsday columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning social journalist Lauren Terrazzano championed the causes of abused children, the elderly, and the homeless, truly becoming a voice for the voiceless through her writing by taking global issues and personalizing them to dramatize how they affected individual families and people. Not infrequently, her stories would force change in people's thinking and in governmental policies. Lauren infused every journalistic...
10) From the ashes
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Infinity Publishing.com
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2010.
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English
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"On February 20, 2003, nearly 500 people filled a small rock club in West Warwick, RI. During the performance, a pyrotechnic display ignited a fire that quickly engulfed the interior. The incident became the fourth deadliest fire in the U.S. history." -- P. [4] of cover.
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Berkley Books
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[2011]
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English
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Describes how Jeannie and Kevin McDonough become heroes after saving their daughter from Adam Leroy Lane, a long-haul trucker and serial killer, and how they vowed to make sure that Lane's other victims were never forgotten.
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Becoming an Olympian was something I thought about as far back as I could remember. By the time I was twelve, I was well on my way to living my dream. Then, on August 9, 2008 I suffered a stroke during a hockey game. No one suspected that such a thing could happen to a twelve-year old, but as the reality of pediatric stroke turned my dream into a nightmare, the journey back to skating and playing hockey again showed me just how much I could accomplish...
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[Publisher not identified]
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[[2019?]
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English
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"In an instant, without warning, without reason, the life my children and I knew was ripped from us and we were left alone. My children were without their father, and I did not have my husband. My incredibly whole and happy family was gone. I didn't know who I was anymore. I went from being someone who was happily married, just beginning the middle of a life with three young daughters, to a single mother and a widow. I was becoming an empty shell...
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"This book is an autobiographical account of the lessons I learned about life and how I was able to apply them to inspire, motivate and empower others in my own work as a firefighter, as well in my daily life as a husband, a father and a man. When I was five years-old, my father abandoned my mother and three sisters, beginning a whole new life when he started another family. I never saw him again. This presented me with many challenges growing up,...
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