Kim Johnson
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Random House Digital
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller about a wrongly accused teen desperate to recclaim both his innocence and his first love.Life can change in an instant. When you’re wrongfully accused of a crime. When a virus shuts everything down. When the girl you love moves on. Andre Jackson is determined to reclaim his identity. But returning from juvie doesn’t feel like coming home. His...
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In 1978, Kim "Howard" Johnson ran away to join the circus, Monty Python's Flying Circus, that is. The Pythons converged on Tunisia to film their timeless classic, Life of Brian, and Howard found himself in the thick of it, doubling for nearly all the Pythons, playing more roles in the film than John Cleese, and managing to ruin only one shot. He became the unit journalist, substitute still photographer, Roman soldier, peasant, Biggus Dickus's double,...
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No One's Heart Bleeds More than a Mom's Over a Child's Pain
We've all heard stories of molested children, but how many of us have given thought to the pain experienced by mothers who know their children have been molested, or the guilt they endure in feeling they have failed to pray mothers often fail to cope effectively with their children's sexual abuse by being:
The Protective Mother
The Un-Protective Mother
The Over-Protective Mother
The Co-Perpetrator...
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Checklists are efficient, and in today's busy world, parents are short on time and overloaded with information. Yet the process of filtering out the junk wastes precious time, and having too many choices paralyzes us. The Parent's Pocket Checklist book series is written just for modern parents, combining concise, research-based to-do lists with practical tips from hundreds of experienced moms and dads, getting straight to the point of what parents...
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Containing recollections from more than 80 of the comedic giant's closest friends and colleagues, this absorbing biography explores Del Close's old haunts, his sensational past, and the reality behind the tales he told so often. From traveling with a carnival and hanging out with a pre-Scientology L. Ron Hubbard to riding with the Merry Pranksters and using a coven of witches to help him kick a lifelong cocaine habit, Close led an incredibly rich...
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The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders a horrible 1928 national news story that inspired the 2008 movie The Changeling from director Clint Eastwood are only the most infamous despicable deeds that have bloodstained the rural countryside between Riverside City and the San Bernardino County line. Jurupa Valley has been a region of dark doings and scandalous misdeeds for generations. The city of Jurupa Valley was formed in 2011 from the area's smaller communities,...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Every week Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time: her dad has only 267 days left. Then the police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a thug on the run, accused of killing a white girl. As Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and...
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Nichols and May. John Belushi. Bill Murray. Chris Farley. Tina Fey. Mike Myers. Stephen Colbert. For nearly a half century, Del Close--cocreator of the Harold, director for the Second City, San Francisco's the Committee, and the ImprovOlympic, and “house metaphysician” for Saturday Night Live-- influenced improvisational theater's greatest comedic talents. His students went on to found the Groundlings in Los Angeles, the Upright Citizens Brigade...
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It's a hard knock life for Saucy Sarita Robinson, and the rules of the game are clear: get yours or get had. When her father gets popped in an armed robbery and her mother turns to drugs, Saucy is left to scratch out a life for herself on the streets of Harlem, and this city-slick vixen refuses to become a victim. Young, hot, and hungry for the spotlight, Saucy uses her assets to get whatever she wants: 128th Street has its own rules, and she knows...
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#1 Essence bestselling author K'wan presents three explosive stories in one collection.Love & GunplayAfter news of the attempted murder of his estranged fiancée, Gucci, Animal has two things on his mind: love and gunplay.With the help of his mistress, the deadly Red Sonja, Animal manages to elude his captors in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, and washes up on the shores of Miami. He's one step closer to home, but it may as well be a world away. Animal...
11) Always Unique
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I. With only two hundred dollars, Unique packed her suitcase and headed to New York City for a brand-new start. It's there that Unique meets big-time boxing promoter Kennard, and it is love at first sight. After nine months of living in the lap of luxury with Kennard, skeletons from Unique's past show up, and it will cost her a cool million dollars to keep not only her relationship but her life. Unique isn't about to lose it all. With the help of...
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No shade means no offense (as defined by the Urban Dictionary).Example: Don't tell her I told you, but your little cousin is a ho. No shade. Every little girl dreams of a happy ending to her story; a home, children, and a man who loves her enough to share his life and last name. When Billy's longtime boyfriend Marcus finally pops the question, it's one of the happiest moments of her life. Billy calls on her childhood friends Reese and Yoshi to stand...
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The vibrant and beloved community of Eastvale was once an agrarian paradise. Developed initially as ranchlands, this area tucked along the Santa Ana River was transformed by industrious farmers who produced alfalfa and other crops, raised poultry and eventually thrived as dairymen. Eastvale's latest agents of change, however, weren't cattlemen or farmers but real estate agents. Indeed, land developers saw the same potential in Eastvale as the initial...
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Sue Thomas F.B. Eye volume 5
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English
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Sue cultivates her first informant who just might lead her from a small time smuggling case to a big time highway robbery ring. Myles is determined to get the team moved to a new improved office space but finds himself up against his nemesis.
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Sue Thomas F.B. Eye volume 12
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English
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Sue and Dimitrius put an operative in the field to take down an illegal arms sale. But when the encounter gives them a chance to land an even bigger fish, Dimitrius goes undercover as the bait.
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Sue Thomas F.B. Eye volume 12
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English
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When an armored truck disappears into thin air, Jack and the other agents must track down the missing 2.4 million dollars and the missing security guards. Lucy feels her friendship with Sue threatened when Sue reconnects with a deaf friend from her past.
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Sue Thomas F.B. Eye volume 8
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English
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Sue and Lucy take in Lucy's grandmother after con men swindle the elderly woman out of her house – and set up a sting to bring the "contractors" to justice. Bobby and Dimitrius witness the get-away of a team of bank robbers.
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This volume includes the story of Superman's son in a world without Superman, a Superman raised in England, a Superman raised in the 30th century and an angel's attempt to help Linda Danvers (Supergirl) overcome the darkness within. Collects Son of Superman, Superboy's Legion #1-2, Supergirl: Wings and Superman: True Brit!
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Sue Thomas F.B. Eye volume 8
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English
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Sue's parents come to visit for the holidays and, while Sue and her mother both want the perfect Christmas, they have different ideas about what that is. Sue, Jack and the gang investigate a series of bank robberies that are committed by – Santa Claus?