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21) The witness
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"Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer,...
22) Edge
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When Washington D.C. police detective Ryan Kessler is targeted by 'lifter' Henry Loving, he and his family are immediately put under government protection. Assigned to the Kesslers is protection officer Corte: uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a brilliant game strategist. As the 'lifter' closes in on his prey, Corte must decide whether to protect his charges, or expose them to a killer in the name of personal...
23) How it went down
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Elizabeth Loftus, renowned expert on human memory and Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology, Law, and Society; Cognitive Science and Law at UC Irvine. This extensive conversation covers her ground-breaking work on the misinformation effect, false memories and her battles with "repressed memory" advocates, how getting expert memory testimony introduced...
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"Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home ... when a pickup truck begins tailgating them on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them...
27) Light it up
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
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A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: a police officer has shot and killed Shea Tatum, an unarmed thirteen-year-old black girl. The community is thrown into upheaval, leading to unrest, a growing movement to protest the senseless taking of black lives, and the arrival...
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Marshall Grade novels volume 1
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In Ben Sanders's American Blood, a former undercover cop now in witness protection finds himself pulled into the search for a missing woman; film rights sold to Warner Bros with Bradley Cooper attached to star and produce.
After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marshall's instructions are to keep a low profile: the mob wants him dead, and a contract killer known...
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"'Your dad's not a good person. Your dad killed people, son.' These are some of the last words Jack Givins's father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could. Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems of his own. He's a talented but struggling author, barely scraping by on the royalties from his moderately successful first book....
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Attacked in the mountains with no memory of why she's the only witness to see the face of a killer, but a deadly attack leaves Belinda Lewis unable to remember even her own name. She'll have to rely on her rescuer, FBI special agent Jonah Phillips, to survive repeated attempts on her life but she doesn't know he's in hiding because his description matches the killers. Can they unmask the true criminal to clear Jonah's name and save both of their lives?...
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Staying hidden has kept her alive... But now she's been found. A remote Colorado mountain town and a fake identity have been Ashley Willis's safe haven since fleeing after she witnessed a murder--but now the killer has found her trail. Desperate and terrified, she's prepared to run again...but Deputy Sheriff Chase Fredrick won't let her. With the lawman by her side, can she face danger head-on...and live long enough to bring a murderer to justice?...
32) Buried
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"Fleeing to Alaska is the only option for Leah Marks after witnessing a murder. Afraid for her life, the legal investigator hopes a remote cabin will be a safe shelter. But the killer has tracked her to Mountain Cove. As he chases her into snow-packed Dead Falls Canyon, an avalanche buries them both. Saved by daring search and rescue specialist Cade Warren, Leah longs to tell him the truth. But how can she, without bringing even more danger into Cade's...
33) False witness
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Clark Shealy is a bail bondsman with the ultimate bounty on the line: his wife's life. He has forty-eight hours to find an Indian professor in possession of the Abacus Algorithm-an equation so powerful it could crack all Internet encryption. Four years later, law student Jamie Brock is working in legal aid when a routine case takes a vicious twist: she and two colleagues learn that their clients, members of the witness protection program, are accused...
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¿Quiénes son los testigos de Jehová? ¿Son cristianas sus doctrinas? ¿Qué decirles a la luz de la Biblia? ¿Qué nos pueden enseñar los Padres de la Iglesia y la Antigüedad cristiana acerca de ellos?
El autor, preocupado por el proselitismo de esta secta fundada en los EE.UU. en el siglo XIX, ofrece un análisis detallado de sus creencias y prácticas, y las confronta con fe católica. Los testigos de Jehová no son cristianos, porque no creen...
36) True witness
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Brodie Farrell novels volume 2
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Witnessing the death of a young man at Dimmock pier, Daniel Hood believes that the police are looking for the wrong suspect and is assisted by investigator Brodie Farrell, who wants to save Daniel from his own dangerous impulses.
37) The breakdown
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Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside -- the woman who was killed. She's been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It's a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she'd broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably would...
40) Runaway witness
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On the run after her witness protection location is exposed, Iris James trusts nobody--until the return of an undercover detective she thought was dead. Mack Gray was once Iris's protector--and the man she was falling for--but he was forced to fake his death and go into hiding. Now with a killer's henchmen on their trail, can he keep her alive long enough to testify?
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