Jarvis
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Jarvis Jay Masters has taken an extraordinary journey of faith. Strangely enough, his moment of enlightenment came behind the bars of San Quentin's death row. Here, inmate author Masters takes us from the arms of his heroin-addicted mother to an abusive foster home, on his escape to the illusory freedom of the streets and through lonely nights spent in bus stations and juvenile homes, and finally to life inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison....
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What price justice?
Jack Kowalski is a young barrister who finds himself working on the biggest drugs trial in British history. He argues a savage 'cut-throat' defence – a risky tactic where the defendants blame each other.
As the son of Polish immigrants Kowalski has always found it hard to fit in, with a sense of inferiority denting his performances in Court. Now he must face his demons and fight not only for his clients, but also for his future.
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4) Unconvicted
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A Polish-British barrister takes on two trials that could jeopardize his career in this razor-sharp legal thriller by the author of Cut-throat Defence.
Junior barrister Jack Kowalski is crushed. His client Timothy Smart appears to have committed a monstrous crime while on bail – a bail application Jack fought hard to win.
When a high-profile Polish footballer is charged with rape and demands a fellow countryman represent him, Jack must overcome...
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As far back as the early days of colonization, the United States of America was built largely by immigrants who continue to be a contributing presence in the country today. For those fortunate enough to be born in the USA – which immediately grants them U.S. citizenship -- it may be difficult to fully grasp the realities of life immigrants face on a daily basis. Leaving family, friends, and their birthplace behind is a huge sacrifice for people...
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Bear and Bird (Jarvis) volume 2
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2023.
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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62 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Bear and Bird are best friends, and they spend a lot of time together. They don't always understand each other, but both agree that all they want is for their friend to be happy. So when Bear forgets the most important thing to pack for a picnic (but pretends that he didn't), Bird doesn't let on that she knew all along. And when Bird is upset to discover her friend has more of a certain talent than she does, Bear finds a touching way to make her feel...
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Newfoundland and Labrador is blessed with more fairies, devils, old hags, phantoms, Jacky Lanterns, sea monsters, and other fabulous and frightening creatures than any other spot in Canada. Author and researcher Dale Jarvis, creator of the award-winning St. John's Haunted Hike, has pulled together a compendium of strange tales about the even stranger spectres, sprites, and curious beasties that inhabit the province's shores. From Signal Hill's headless...
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As an actuarial analyst for some of the largest companies in the world and as a Certified Financial PlannerTM Professional, Chris Jarvis gained critical insights into the successful operations of hundreds, if not thousands, of businesses and professional practices. He has been solving complex business, investment, and insurance concerns for his clients for more than twenty years. In 6 Secrets to Leveraging Success, he shares how to:
Avoid being overcharged...
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“Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry” examines the question of how recent English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the diverse physical environments of Wales. The first volume to offer a sustained assessment of Welsh poetry in English within the context of recent developments in environmental literary criticism, this book also draws on aspects of human geography to explore the rich contemporary poetics of Welsh space and place....
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Bienvenido a Sky Valley, Georgia, una pintoresca ciudad situada en el corazón del Condado de Rabun, llena de frondosos árboles, vegetación, montañas y gente agradable. Es el paraíso terrenal, un lugar al que aspirarías a llamar hogar. Pero, vaya, hay gente que no es nada amable y este sitio que parece tan tranquilo contiene secretos. Tras pasar siete años en París, Emmy ha vuelto a Sky Valley para montar su propia tienda de vestidos de novia...
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Jean Jarvis was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, a market town in the East Midlands and part of the Portland estate within the Dukeries.
Her working life has been spent in schools in Worksop and Sheffield. She lived through the time when Britain was recovering from World War II. It was the time of Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets.
She met and married the curate and became his wife and mother of two children.
During this time, she...
12) War in Hagwood
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Hagwood trilogy volume 3
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Who will survive the war in Hagwood? The war in Hagwood has begun. Rhiannon Rigantonan, the ruthless High Queen of Faerie, fights not only for her own immortality and her iron rule over Hagwood, but also to serve her most far-reaching ambition: to conquer every corner of the known world. While the enchanted casket that holds the High Lady's mortal heart has been found, the golden key that can unlock it-and put an end to her reign of terror-has been...
13) The Broken Few
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The walls are white, the floor is black, when these guards leave, the man comes back. Nova made it through the City of Trials and gained access to the home of the star-people--her home, now that she's a trial winner. But this place is nothing like what she imagined. Or at least, the little bit she's seen has been little more than cold metal looking down on a world she fiercely misses. To top it off, she lost the one person who was most important to...
14) Cutter's Mission
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In "Cutter's Mission," the thrilling world of Odin and the Valhalla Universe takes center stage. Abbott McClain, a man haunted by his dark past is running for his life from a human trafficker and murderer. When his car breaks down in a small Texas town, he reluctantly enters a biker bar hoping to find help. But what he discovers there is beyond anything he could have imagined. In the dimly lit bar, Abbott's gaze meets the piercing blue eyes of James...
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Emmy llevaba una vida perfecta en París hasta que decidió regresar a Sky Valley en Georgia, debido a que su padre le pidió ayuda para llevar a cabo el negocio familiar. La pequeña ciudad de Sky Valley guardaba muchos secretos, secretos inesperados sobre asesinatos ocultos. Casi un año atrás, Annabeth Meyer murió en frente a Matthew, su esposo, y a Emmy. Nadie sabía lo que había ocurrido y todos creyeron que Emmy era una de las sospechosas...
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Life isn't about "finding" fulfillment and success – it's about creating it. Why then has creativity been given a back seat in our culture? No longer.
** A Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly Bestseller**
Creativity is a force inside every person that, when unleashed, transforms our lives and delivers vitality to everything we do. Establishing a creative practice is therefore our most valuable and urgent task - as important...
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This is a free bonus story that follows the events of Cutter's Mission, Valhalla Warriors One.Cutter and Abbott finally tied the knot! After the wedding these men celebrate and learn that communication is still important, even for fated mates.Contains sexual situations that are intended for mature readers
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Ghost stories are found in every corner of Newfoundland and Labrador, and no one knows them better than storyteller and folklorist Dale Jarvis. In this collection of ghostly tales, Jarvis introduces you to old legends, including spectral Viking longships, encounters with ghostly ferrymen, and strange voices on the trapline, while exploring classic elements of local folklore such as tokens and premonitions, bad weather lights, and the Old Hag herself....
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A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a streetwise youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases which invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world that, thanks to his dark secret, Quist is all too familiar with.
A new exhibition is on display in...
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Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true, and all brilliantly brought to life in his unputdownable book.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, featuring...