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1) Hour game
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A series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside. The killer, replicating notorious murders of the past, seeks to improve them, while taunting the police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. When Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called to join the case, they are already investigating a crime involving an aristocratic and dysfunctional Southern family. But, as...
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Series
Production and farm management report volume PFMR 13-01
Publisher
Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The drought's impacts to the farm or ranch business are not contained within a single season. Much like reservoir levels that are drawn down and may take years to replenish, the impact of a drought can reduce a farm or ranch's equity position making it difficult to service debt or take advantage of future investment opportunities. Equity erosion may take years to rebuild.
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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"How did Ron Shaich, the visionary founder of Panera Bread, build a little bakery in St. Louis into 2,400 restaurants with 6 billion dollars in revenue and annual returns of 25 percent, outperforming Starbucks, Chipotle, and all others? By seeing the future and clearing a path to it, leading and innovating from the future back. Now, Shaich shares his story, starting with its humble entrepreneurial beginnings: the college-campus convenience store he...
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Abridged, updated second edition.
Description
The New York Times bestseller that changed the way millions communicate
Perhaps once a decade, a book comes along that transforms people's lives in a very real, measurable way. This is one of them.
Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene ten years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations...
5) The Guardian
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Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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An aging United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Just prior to this same mission his wife announces that she cannot take anymore. This leaves him an emotional wreck. His commender gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position and moves into the school. Once there he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
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Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
What is the guiding principle of the world's most powerful nation as it searches for enemies at home and abroad? Who is actually running U.S. foreign policy? The story begins on September 12, 2001, as America began to gather itself for a response to the unimaginable. Journalist Suskind tells us what actually occurred over the next three years, from the inside out, by tracing the steps of the key actors who oversee the "war on terror" and report progress...
8) The gunman
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Description
A sniper on an unscrupulous slaying team kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot requires him to go into hiding to safeguard himself and his team from revenge. Terrier goes back to the Congo years later, but soon discovers himself to be the target of a paid hit gang associated with the minister's assassination.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
... shows a rather different side of Moses, the Stone Age and the Roman Empire - in which Brooks is a stand-up philosopher playing Caesar's Palace. Next, the truth is finally told about the Spanish Inquisition in a splashy production number featuring song-and-dance monks and swimming nuns ... It's history as you've never known it - completely irreverent and positively hilarious. -- Container.
12) Look what I see
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Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Little Simon edition.
Description
"Look what I see is an inventive story that showcases the world as only Judi and Ron Barrett can see it. A study on perspective, each page asks readers what they might see in different situations--like with your eyes half shut, or upside down, or riding on a bumpy road, or looking through a magnifying glass--followed by a brilliantly illustrated answer. The up-close and personal point of view is sure to have readers giggling and trying out each position...
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Plants vs. zombie volume 11
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
October 2018.
Edition
First edition.
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The position of leader of the book club opens up, and the plants versus zombies rivalry heats up as Zomboss and Crazy Dave compete for the position while Nate, Patrice, and their plants join a scholarly scuffle.
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Publisher
Bridge Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Book Description: Science of Survival is the most useful book you will ever own. Built around the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation, Science of Survival provides the first accurate prediction of human behavior. Included on the chart are all the manifestations of an individual's survival potential graduated from highest to lowest, making this the complete book on the Tone Scale. Knowing only one or two characteristics of a person and using this chart,...
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University of California Press
Description
"In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the U.S., the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. In the face of intense...
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Publisher
Heinemann
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
The author gives us a vision of educational reform that transcends standards, curriculum, and instructional strategies. He argues for a paradigm shift-a schoolwide embrace of an "ethic of excellence" and with a passion for quality describes what's possible when teachers, students, and parents commit to nothing less than the best. The author tells exactly how this can be done, from the blackboard to the blacktop to the school boardroom.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
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Publisher
B&H Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Your Money After the Big 5-0 combines the strengths of the two most trusted names in Christian finance to offer a definitive book on how to build a solid financial future as retirement approaches. No matter how much you have or don't have in the bank right now, by following Larry Burkett and Ron Blue's wise counsel, you'll be better equipped to build a portfolio that provides for your family, honors God, and even puts you in a position to bless future...
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