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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. "Once you can express yourself," she wrote, "you can tell the world what you want from it...All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words". Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in the power of literature.
The poems presented span centuries and include works by such renowned authors as...
63) Tick-tock
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Tommy Phan is a detective-novelist living in Southern California. On his doorstep one day he discovers a strange little doll. He brings the doll into his house. Later that night the doll turns into a bizarre creature. The creature is after Tommy.
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After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to introduce the blessings of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China. But it is his hidden purpose--to liberate his university sweetheart, now a political prisoner--that leads him to the sadistic local magistrate, Judge Di. The price of the Communist bureaucrat's clemency? A virgin maiden. And so our middle-aged hero Muo, a Westernized romantic and sexual innocent himself, sets off...
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Takes on sexual crimes of a more sinister and dynamic nature than ever before, including those involving runaway children, an American sex trade operation, and serial rapists. They also grapple with deeply personal matters, as Stabler helps his troubled son and Benson finds herself the prime suspect in a violent case.
67) White frog
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From talented gay director Quentin Lee, WHITE FROG is a universal story of the power of family, friendship and love. This deeply moving family drama tells the tale of Nick (Twilight’s Booboo Stewart), a young teen with Asperger’s syndrome. When his big brother Chaz (Glee’s Harry Shum Jr.) passes away in a tragic accident, Chaz’s friends comfort young Nick as he gradually discovers the truth — Chaz was gay, but afraid to come out to their...
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Stone Fox: Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
Top secret: Despite the disapproval of his parents and his formidable science teacher, nine-year-old Allen determines to do his science project on human photosynthesis.
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Sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars. He's always longed to see Earth to find the father he's never known and to meet a beautiful street-smart girl named Tulsa he's become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can't withstand the Earth's atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner and Tulsa escape on a cross-country race against time to unravel the...
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" ... contains all 24 gripping episodes from the eleventh season in which the officers track down the most deviant of criminals, including dangerous religious fanatics, serial rapists, and child predators. They also grapple with deeply personal matters, as Stabler helps his troubled son and Benson finds herself the prime suspect in a violent case."--Container.
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The Stinkers are a group of mischievous misfits. While at the Summer Program at upscale Dartmoor Academy, they went on a field trip to the Springville aquarium. They decided to kidnap Slappy the Sea Lion and return him to his ocean home. Unfortunately, there's another sea lion-napper on the premises, has a plan for Slappy in a Bulgarian circus. Once the Stinkers get Slappy back to Dartmoor, he wreaks havoc on Parents Day and get the kids expelled....
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In this compilation characters make choices that define their lives and suffer consequences often dire or disquieting. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft selection day; delve into the secret lives of people and discover what drives them to betrayal.
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Though sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars, he has always longed to see Earth, to find the father he has never known, and to meet Tulsa, a beautiful street-smart girl he has become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can't withstand the Earth's atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner and Tulsa escape on a cross-country race against time to unravel...
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Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.
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"[A] powerful, enlightening and moving chronicle of our time. 'And the band played on' follows the struggle of a handful of strong-willed men and women who took on the fight to save lives. Dr. Don Francis [is] a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control who seeks to uncover the cause of a number of mysterious deaths. With little funding for a subject few will even discuss, not only must he fight the disease, but a disinterested public, the government,...