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"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when tragedy struck. Now, five years after that terrible night, Cheryl is remarried. And David is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for the brutal murder of their son. Then Cheryl's sister, Rachel, arrives unexpectedly...
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2020.
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English
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"A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, his roaming love letter to literature. In this new book Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of...
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"What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails Judge Joe Scali, who gives speeches about getting tough...
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2019.
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English
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"The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful. Using minimal technical terms and sources ranging from the Bible and Shakespeare to George Orwell and Maggie Nelson, as well as scientific studies of what can best fire the reader's mind, author Joe Moran shows how we...
6) Tr
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This book includes the blend TR. It features and highlights consonant blends used in common words and children's names. Includes colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
7) St
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This book includes the blend ST. It features and highlights consonant blends used in common words and children's names. Includes colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
8) Sh
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This book includes the blend SH. It features and highlights consonant blends used in common words and children's names. Includes colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
9) Wh
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This book includes the blend WH. It features and highlights consonant blends used in common words and children's names. Includes colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
10) Ch
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This book includes the blend CH. It features and highlights consonant blends used in common words and children's names. Includes colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
11) Th
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This book includes the blend TH. It features and highlights consonant blends used in common words and children's names. Includes colorful photographs and simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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First edition.
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English
Description
"25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way is for word lovers, readers interested in encountering new authors or revisiting favorite works, and aspiring writers. The author, a master English teacher at Horace Mann for several decades, leads readers on a delightful tour of sentences by authors in the canon, using deft analysis and humor to "look under the hood" and allow us to see what makes a sentence great"--
18) Get hard
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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A millionaire is pegged for fraud and sentenced to time in prison. He turns to a criminal friend to help him prepare to go.
19) Kickback
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"P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts,...
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"A renowned investigative journalist exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis, and also offers a way out. The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. But in fact, it is prosecutors who have the upper hand, in a contest that is far from equal. More than anyone else, prosecutors...
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