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1) Hot shot
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Sisterhood is a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies have formed a top-secret organization with the same goals. When Lizzie Fox's husband, Cosmo Cricket, is critically injured in a shooting, the men of head straight to Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie and find the assailant. As the head of Nevada's Gaming Commission, Cosmo has powerful enemies, but the shooting may be related to a private project: Happy...
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English
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"One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which. 1. I have the scar of a gunshot wound on my forehead. 2. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military. 3. I'm the new mother of a seven-year-old girl. Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will cause that. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence and her very self. She finds herself in...
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English
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On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terribly wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him was fired (accidentally?) by his adolescent daughter Charlotte. It's a family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Five months ago, Liv's big brother, Jonah, shot himself in the head. It was an accident. He didn't know that the gun was loaded. But the damage was done. Now he won't ever be leaving their small mill town like he planned. Jonah can't speak, can't walk, can't take care of himself at all. Their house is full of machines and nurses working around the clock to keep Jonah alive. Liv's mom is struggling to cope with the aftermath, so Liv ends up being the...
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Series
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
235 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. In this page-turner, award-winning author Gail Jarrow delves into the fascinating story of the relationship between Garfield and Guiteau, and relates the gruesome details of Garfield's slow and agonizing death. She...
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Series
Max Tilt volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt stumbled across his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he thought he had the answer to all his problems, but nothing in life is ever that easy. With his mom's illness getting worse again, Max needs to figure out a way to save his family--now more than ever. So Max and his cousin Alex revisit The Lost Treasures, and they find a clue that just might be the...
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Series
Rose Island volume 2
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Army officer Keith Foster has everything a man could possibly want--a successful career, two adorable sons, and a strong marriage. All that changes when he finds himself in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound. His request to go home to his family is proving impossible. According to the doctor, the shooting not only shattered Keith's body, but it caused him to forget the past seven years of his life. He's divorced now, his little boys are...
8) The bodies keep coming: dispatches from a black trauma surgeon on racism, violence, and how we heal
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all, from gunshot wounds to traumatic brain injuries. In The Bodies Keep Coming, Williams ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. Black bodies will continue to be wracked by violence, racism, and healthcare inequities until we enact changes of policy and law"--
As a Harvard-trained physician, Williams learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned...