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361) The Incredible Hulk
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. Warmongers dream of abusing his powers and won't leave Bruce alone. He suffers from his constant need to be with the only woman he has ever love, Betty Ross, and Bruce knows that he must return to civilization. The brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and aggression called The Abomination whose powers match that of...
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A captivating blend of history, women in science, and true crime, 18 Tiny Deaths tells the story of how one woman changed the face of forensics forever. Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes, and made it her life's work. Best known for creating...
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"The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the twentieth century's most important and original thinkers. Though long overshadowed by his intellectual rival John Maynard Keynes, Pigou was instrumental in focusing economics on the public welfare. And his reputation is experiencing a renaissance today, in part because his idea of "externalities"...
364) Harlequin Intrigue February 2015 - Box Set 2 of 2: Heart of a Hero ; The Cattleman ; Countermeasures
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new edge-of-your-seat romances for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Intrigue bundle includes Heart of a Hero by USA TODAY bestselling authors Debra Webb & Regan Black, The Cattleman by Angi Morgan and Countermeasures by Janie Crouch. Catch a thrill with 6 new edge-of-your-seat romances every month from Harlequin Intrigue!
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With about half of the U.S. population expected to be obese by 2030 and one out of six Americans getting sick every year, why is the Food and Drug Administration spending years trying to figure out if almond milk should be called "milk"? As a twenty-seven-year veteran of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, Dr. Richard A. Williams poses this question. He also questions the accuracy of food labeling, coupled with consumer education on diet/disease...
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English
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The fascinating origin story of Wilson Duff, the pioneering BC anthropologist and museologist remembered for his contributions to research on First Nations cultures of the Northwest Coast.
Wilson Duff was born in 1925 in the city of Vancouver and his turbulent early years were shaped by the Great Depression and the Second World War. An intelligent child, he quickly progressed in school. After one year at the University of British Columbia, he signed...
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In this, the first biography and personal memoir of WOLF MESSING to appear in the West, Tatiana Lungin limns a revealing portrait of one of the greatest psychic performers of the twentieth century. Born a Polish Jew near Warsaw, Messing ran away from home at the age of eleven and soon discovered his psychic gifts. Supporting himself by performing mind-reading acts in Berlin theaters, at fourteen Messing was sold by his unscrupulous manager to the...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
Description
Robert Hooke was one of the most gifted men of his age, but it was his great misfortune to work in the sphere of two remarkable men - Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren. While they gained the recognition of a monument in Westminster Abbey, Hooke died unloved, alone and in poverty. This title recognizes the great contribution that he made.
370) Last to die: a novel
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Boston Police Detective Jane Rizzoli must protect the life of Teddy Clock, a boy who survived the murders of his birth family and now his foster family, by sending him to the exclusive Evensong Boarding School.
371) The Bone Track
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A nature trek turns dangerous when the wilderness gives up its bones...New Zealand's remote Milford Track seems the perfect place for forensic investigator Alexa Glock to reconnect with her brother Charlie, with whom she hasn't spent much time since they were kids. Their backpacking trip seems ill-fated from the start, though, when she must stop on the way to examine nine skeletons -- most likely M?ori tribespeople -- whose graves have been unearthed...
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Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Scientist and author of The Only Woman in the Room explores her intelligence up against social inequality in this collection of personal essays. Eileen Pollack has always had a love-hate relationship with society's rules for women and girls -- especially as they were laid out for her while growing up in 1960s upstate New York. In Maybe It's Me , she recounts her many trials, triumphs, and misadventures as a smart woman navigating a world that is...
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Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Contains twelve episodes of the television program, "Dexter," representing the third season in which Dexter, a homicidal man with an adopted police officer father, finds his new outlook on life tested when he is forced to work with a new DA in Miami.
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English
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Today is a pretty good day to die.
Those were Marjorie Aunos's thoughts as her car hit black ice and spun out of control toward an oncoming truck. As she waited for paramedics to extricate her from the mangled wreck, unable to feel anything below her neck, she pictured her sixteen-month-old son. And decided to live.
So began the most challenging chapter in the life of this overachieving psychologist and single parent, whose life's work had been...
377) Stuck Outside: The Limits of Progressive Criminal Legal System Reform in an Inequitable Society
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How do identity and social circumstances affect experiences of the criminal legal system in the US?
It's no secret that factors such as race and socio-economic status will affect a person's experience of life, and contact with the criminal legal system is no different. Drawing on the author's own experience of jail and the criminal legal system, as well as academic literature in the field of carceral studies, this book explores how pre-existing...
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Actress and model Cynthia O'Neal was living her dream life-married to the famous stage and screen actor Patrick O'Neal, the mother of two young sons, resident of the Dakota downstairs from John Lennon, owner of the successful Ginger Man restaurant, and frequent guest at dinner parties with Leonard Bernstein and Rudolf Nureyev.
And then she changed course suddenly, surprisingly, and completely. The AIDS epidemic hit the arts community hard, and after...
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English
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Man's Search for Meaning tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Viktor E. Frankl's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl includes: • Historical context • Chapter-by-chapter summaries • Important...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"New York Times Bestselling Author Thrown together to solve a crime... Until she becomes the murderer's prey. Dedicated forensic scientist Yvette Colton is hell-bent on solving a cold case double murder. So is overbearing detective Reese Carpenter. When Yvette's brutally attacked, Reese springs to her aid... and she notices that the lawman is as intoxicating as he is infuriating. Sparks between them ignite just as they try to outwit a desperate killer...
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