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Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions--a rabbi who craves goodness and surety while wrestling with her own desires and with the sorrow and pain she sees around her. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child, and all his life he's struggled with difficult questions. Deborah's encounter with Henry and his...
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2023.
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"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael...
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Devin Dexter volume 2
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Twelve-year-old cousins Devin and Tommy must survive the night after being invited to a school dance by the pretty new girl in the neighborhood, who happens to be a vampire.
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Ruth Simon is beautiful, smart, talented, and always hungry. As a teenager, she starved herself almost to death, and though outwardly healed, inwardly she remains dangerously obsessed with food. For Joseph Zimmerman, Ruth's tormented relationship with eating is a source of deep distress and erotic fascination. Driven by his love for Ruth, and haunted by his own secrets, Joseph sets out to unravel the mystery of hunger and denial. This gripping debut...
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Devin Dexter volume 1
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Twelve-year-old Devin Dexter has a problem. Well, actually, many of them. His cousin, Tommy, sees conspiracies behind every corner. And Tommy thinks Devin's new neighbor, Herb, is a warlock . . . but nobody believes him. Even Devin's skeptical. But soon strange things start happening. Things like the hot new Christmas toy, the Cuddle Bunny, coming to life. That would be great, because, after all, who doesn't love a cute bunny? But these aren't the...
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The Untold Tragedies of Ethan Morton" explores the shocking suicide of a college student at a protected national park in Maine. Four of Ethan's acquaintances: his college ecology professor, Patrick, his physician, Dr. Thad, the surgeon who cared for him in the emergency room, Dr. Mac, and Patrick's girlfriend, Leda assume the task of unraveling what could incite Ethan to commit such an inexplicable act. While sifting through the enigma of Ethan's...
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Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counter narcotics initiative.
Plan Colombia was an ambitious, multibillion-dollar program of American aid to the country of Colombia to fight that nation's recreational drug industry. First signed into law by President Clinton in 2000, the program would, over a twelve-year period, provide the Colombian government with more money than every other country in the region. But how successful...
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After cardiologist John Brown is incarcerated in a private prison in Miami, he and his cellmates learn firsthand how the private prison system works in Florida. Meanwhile, Nicole Rodriguez and her team at the Miami Post start digging into the prison industry, and the leadership of Homestead Correctional Facility. Soon, they discover a complex web of corruption that runs deeper than they could have ever expected. As John and Nicole's paths cross, the...
14) Active Adults
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After recent college grads Malcolm and Lily fail to make it in New York City, they move in with Malcolm's retired grandparents in their Active Adult community. The couples are surprised to discover parallels between their situations.
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