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We all know there are "bad seeds" - those who show signs early in life of being troublemakers, deviants, or career criminals. By all accounts, Dwaine Casmey was one of those kids. Sent to juvie by his parents when they felt they could not control him, graduated through the system for discipline problems, and shifted from one facility to another in an attempt to rein him in. Dwaine seemed incapable of making a right or good choice for his life. In...
42) Slow Hand
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Hot cowboy nights volume 1
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In rural Montana... Wade Knowlton is a hardworking lawyer who's torn between his small-town Montana law practice and a struggling family ranch. He's on the brink of exhaustion from trying to save everybody and everything, when gorgeous Nicole Powell walks into his office. She's a damsel in distress and the breath of fresh air he needs. Even the lawyers wear boots... Nicole Powell is a sassy Southern girl who has officially sworn off cowboys after...
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Nick Cave is back with his stunning new album, Push Away The Sky, and what better way to celebrate than with a 148 page special revisiting his incredible music and wild times with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. The Ultimate Music Guide features revealing interviews from the Melody Maker and NME archives alongside amazing photos and in-depth new reviews of all Cave’s albums to tell the complete story behind Cave’s remarkable
...44) Night Terror
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Sequel to Bad Seed. After tracking down a murderer, Dane wants life to get back to normal. But when an Order of Decrypters representative shows in Dane's coffee shop, he knows he's going to have to watch his step. Reeling from a reprimand for his conduct and annoyed at having nothing better to do than make coffee, Dane is relieved when he learns there's a problem monster on the loose. Hunting down whatever is killing and eating cows sounds like the...
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Johnny Greco threatens to spill his hometown's darkest secrets…then turns up dead. Can Bernie unravel the mystery and discover who murdered Johnny - before the killer buries the truth?
Less than 24 hours after Carmine's bad seed, Johnny Greco, resurfaces and threatens to reveal the community's darkest secrets, Bernie finds herself standing over his broken body in the town's abandoned quarry.
Despite paparazzi hounding her, and her love interest...
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In Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars, the enigmatic Barry Adamson shines a probing light into his own heart of darkness.
Born in the black and white world of post-industrial Manchester, Adamson saw music as a chance to turn his world technicolour. Propelled into punk via Magazine, he was the founding bass player in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, before stumbling too far down a dark, drug-induced path.
Adamson steers the reader through a mix...
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The principle of sowing and reaping underpins the way the world functions. Without this principle in operation, life will cease to exist. Everything that sustains man comes, from the ground after a seed has been, planted.
This book uses this analogy to show how life functions. If you plant good seeds, you will inevitably have a good harvest. Conversely, if you plant bad seeds, you will reap bad results. Whatever we do as human beings, whether good...
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On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania State Police and local citizens worked tirelessly to find her killer. David DeKok reveals the story behind what has been a mystery for generations of Penn State students...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Watch out on your next walk through the forest, because you just might encounter a real rapscallion in the form of a tiny bird! In this hilarious tale, Chickadee recounts how he went from a normal bird 'childhood' to a daring life of crime. One cold, snowy morning, shivering and hungry, he discovers a vault of gold -- and steals from it! His natural colouring resembling a mask helps him blend in as he makes his rounds of the forest. It's an exciting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"Our heroine and her sidekick pup have their eyes on the prize and are ready to find something to win. They compete in a spelling bee, a dancing contest, hide-and-seek, and more in search of a shiny medal. But what will happen if they ... don't walk away the winner?"--
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A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens. How were juvenile delinquents dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What dire circumstances led to their behavior? Were the efforts to curb their criminal tendencies successful? From 1820–1920, ideas about youth and transgression changed dramatically in the United Kingdom. Criminal Children delves...
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Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave's creative endeavours, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career. The contributors, who hail from an array of disciplines, consider Cave's work from many different...
53) The Silent Cabin
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On a warm summer day, Cami Novarro heads to her grandfather's cabin to help him clean up the last of the remaining miscellaneous items he needs to be removed prior to selling the place. Little did she know that several bad seeds were on their way to the property to use as an outpost for a terroristic plot they planned to carry out. The evildoers are unaware she's there as they murder her grandfather and proceed to lay out their plan. Cami is trapped...
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For fans of Peanut Butter & Cupcake, The Bad Seed, and Kindness is my SuperpowerBonnie Blue Button may be tiny, but that doesn't stop her from being a colossal bully. Having been sewn on a beautiful dress with two other dazzling buttons, she's become arrogant and cruel to other clothing fasteners. But that all changes when she's haphazardly torn off the dress and is suddenly faced with the difficult task of finding new friends.Bonnie Blue Button is...
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The C. Shephard chronicles the life of Chris Shephard as seen through drama, romance, page-turning action, poetic imagery, and the natural beauty of his Sullivan's Island home.
Guided by a keen sense of justice and a Louisville Slugger, Chris's life is upended when he defends his stepsister from the attempted assault by three privileged teens, one of them the son of a local judge. When one of the boys dies from his injuries, Chris quickly learns...
56) Shattered
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When you can't prove it's murder, how do you get justice? DI Kate Fletcher is called to a gory crime scene just outside Doncaster. Julia Sullivan — a prominent right-wing local politician — has been murdered in her bath, her wrists and throat slashed with a shard of mirror. Despite the presence of a note, the death is clearly not suicide. A second fake suicide is discovered near the village of Turton. At the scene, Kate is struck by the similarity...
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An electric thriller where spies go to battle, and the free world is at stake. In the final installment in William DeAndrea's Clifford Driscoll series, master spy Driscoll is "going tame" - that is, recovering from a near-death accident and enjoying domestic peace. Driscoll, now known as Allan Trotter, hasn't killed anyone in more than a year. He still works for the Agency - a super-secret intelligence unit of the US government known only to the president...
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The newest issue of the Horror Bulletin Monthly includes reviews of everything we reviewed last month-- a film each day! This month, we covered most of the November new releases, some excellent, some stinker. As always, we looked at our usual variety of old and new films. Each of the films contains a complete synopsis of the film, including spoilers (so beware!), as well as our commentary on the quality of the story and how well it holds up for viewers...
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Rage, envy, jealousy, and revenge has plagued the mafia family and has spilled into the lives of Cee-Cee and Juelz. Monique, Cee-Cee's sister, is missing. Not wanting to involve the police, Juelz makes it his mission to find out who is behind the kidnapping. It doesn't take long to find out that his street foe, Zoe, left behind a bad seed.
Zan is out to avenge his father's death. Riding off his father's street credibility and legacy, Zoe tramples...
60) Father and Son
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Father and Son tells the story of five days following Glen Davis's return to the small Mississippi town where he grew up. Five days. In this daring psychological thriller, these are five days you'll never forget.
Convicted and sentenced on a vehicular homicide charge, Glen is the bad seed--the haunted, angry, drunken, and dangerous son of Virgil and Emma Davis. Bobby Blanchard is the sheriff, as different from Glen as can be imagined, but in love...