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1) Kingpin
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Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 17
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"The latest pulse-pounding thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson starring his beloved Washington DC "troubleshooter" Joe DeMarco. Carson Newman doesn't wear tracksuits. He doesn't have a consigliere or operate out of the back room of arestaurant. And as evidenced by his ever-growing Boston empire, he doesn't get his hands dirty. Usually. Joe DeMarco, on the other hand, is paid to get his hands dirty. So, when John Mahoney, the former...
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"With the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth, a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices growing beneath the city's surface. As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the lives they've built. Abigail, a wealthy white woman, decides...
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Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates human traffickers and her current target is financier Andrew Schrader. Schrader has videos implicating powerful member of the US intelligence community, and those people hire a contractor to kill Diaz. But there are others who want Diaz protected and the videos released. Violence and strong language. 2021.
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This book, 1st published in 2016, consists of 158 poems. The general theme of the poems are romantic, but spreads over socio-political and socio-economic topics, providing a peek into the Indo-Pakistani, as well as North American culture. These poems will take you on a romantic journey of love, longing, hope, despair and forgiveness.
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This book, 1st published in 2010, consists of 183 poems. The general theme of the poems are romantic, but spreads over socio-political and socio-economic topics, providing a peek into the Indo-Pakistani, as well as North American culture. These poems will take you on a romantic journey of love, longing, hope, despair and forgiveness.
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Mehwar’ is a collection of various genres in Urdu poetry, comprising of Ghazal and numerous types of modern and conservative Nazam. First published in 2016, this book includes one hundred and forty-three poems, spread over 348 pages.
The dominant theme of these poems is maternal love but spills over to romance, and aspects of politics, and socio-economic issues. The style of poetry provides the reader with an in-depth glance into matters related...
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Recipient of the Pakistan Writers Guild Literary Award, ‘Dil Ki Dehliz Par Gulab’ is a collection of Urdu poetry, containing various genres of modern and conservative Nazam and Ghazal. First published in 2012, this book consists of eighty-five poems; fifty-five Ghazals and forty-seven Nazams, spread over 250 pages.
The dominant theme of these poems is romance but occasionally crosses over to politics and socio-economic topics, directly related...
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The dominant theme of these poems is romance but occasionally crosses over to other topics, such as politics and socio-economics; providing the reader with an in-depth introduction to the Pakistani-Indian cultural issues.
These poems will assist you in embarking upon an illustrious journey of love, longing, hope, despair, and forgiveness.
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"Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and--though she's strangely guarded--Nayan can't help but be drawn to her. He hasn't risked love since losing his young family in a terrible accident twenty years earlier. In the wake of the tragedy, Nayan's labor union, long a cornerstone of his community, became the center of his life: a way for him to channel...
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In 26 essays-one for each letter of the alphabet-Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on a hauntingly illustrated journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future. Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker, 'H Is for Hope' is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous-a unique examination of our changing world.
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"On Capitol Hill, they work you to death. Cameron Leann is new to Washington, D.C. An Iowa farm boy without a penny to his name, Cam has joined a group of affluent junior staffers working for a powerful cohort of U.S. Senators known as The Gang of Six. Liz Frost, the group's charismatic leader, teases and strings Cam along as he grows increasingly infatuated with her. Heir to a political dynasty, Randy Lancaster pushes Cam to his limits with his penchant...
12) American mother
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The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would...
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