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201) Live Free, Spy Hard
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Super-spy Bridget Wilder goes from middle school to the White House on an undercover mission to rescue the president's daughter in the conclusion to this hilarious, action-packed series.
As a CIA super-spy, Bridget Wilder protects famous boy bands, rescues cooking contest contestants, and tackles evil villains at school assemblies. So when the President's daughter is kidnapped on the campaign trail, Bridget goes undercover to stop a malicious plot...
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Welcome to Wishful, California, where the air is mountain clean, the people are small-town friendly and the wide-open spaces are perfect for a woman wanting to reinvent herself.
THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART
There was a time when Dr. Emma Sinclair wanted to challenge herself, sharpen her medical skills by plunging into the relentless pace of a New York City ER. But she was younger then. Now she's not that much older, but at least she's wise enough...
203) Saving Cody
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Two brothers fight to save their grandmother's land from developers in the third adventure of the Wilder Boys series.
When a run-in with the local bully means the boys risk losing their beloved dog, Cody, they hatch a plan to keep him safe. They'll take him to live with their grandmother in the Sierra Nevada mountains. He'll be safe there, and Grandma-who lives off the grid-will benefit from the companionship. But first they've got to figure out...
204) Death Valley Summer
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The boys help out at a wilderness camp near Sequoia National Park, a day's drive south of the Sierras. The camp's main draw is a multi-day trek traversing woodlands, mountains, and desert during a team-based orientation competition that will take them to the edge of Death Valley. When Jake and Taylor's team counselor is badly hurt in a flash flood, they must galvanize the lost campers to find shelter, aid the injured counselor, and supplement their...
205) The Hoard
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A conspiracy of five mafia and organised crime syndicates are planning to set up the latest technology which will give them access to anything they wish to steal or hijack. Tom Wilder, maverick ex-Special Forces Afghanistan war hero and his elite team are all that stand in their way. But can he and such a small force hold off the might and dirty tricks of the worst of New York, Moscow and London's ruthless top crime bosses? An intriguing thriller...
206) Stealth
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Ruthless Russian Oligarch Victor Zorin has stolen a new potentially devastating US/UK high-tech weapon. He plans to use it to bring both to their knees. Its inventors call in Tom Wilder to stop this potential disaster from happening. But can even Wilder, maverick special ops war hero, stop Zorin as he gets to the brink of holding New York City itself to ransom? A fast, gripping thriller.
207) Hudson
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JillianWhen my best friend has the absolute worst day, I'm determined to turn things around.There's no better cure for a bad day than watching a hot cowboy ride a wild beast at the rodeo.But when I meet the hottest man in a pair of cowboy boots I've ever seen, I know he's trouble.He's way too outgoing-and much too popular with the female population.I don't need some ladies man vying for my attention.So despite the insane attraction between us, I ignore...
208) Whatever it takes
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Russia cripples the West" – An impossible newspaper headline? Think again! The USA and the UK have jointly developed a new high-tech weapon. But they won't use it themselves – too many innocent civilians would suffer if they did. But the Russian President has no such scruples – and he has plans to steal it.If he succeeds, he'll black-out electricity supplies, shut down banks, do whatever he likes in both the US and the UK. And bring them to...
209) Colt
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SonyaI've just had the worst day!Flat tire, spilled coffee on my new dress, and oh yeah, I got laid off.Since do-over's aren't really an option, I put my bestie in charge.I love her, but what was I thinking?The rodeo is in town the same weekend as a romance novel writing convention.Before I know what happens, she's dragging us into a private rodeo tour and giving us both pen names.We don't write romance novels.The non-rule breaker in me is itching...
210) The Fix
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The World's rogue states get bolder by the week. The West need a longterm solution to curb their growing threats. But the best solution needs ex-Special Ops war hero Tom Wilder and a small intrepid team to infiltrate one of the most dangerous of them all these states. Is there a guarantee it will work? Of course there isn't. And when the tyrant ruler is overthrown, he seeks revenge on Wilder and the West by using their own solution against them. With...
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When a CPA is forced to hire help for tax season, she resents the presence of her brash, young intern. The intern only wants to complete the internship so she can chase her dream job in D. C. Will the CPA's past and the intern's future add up to something greater than the sum of their escalating attraction?
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Thornton Wilder, author of such landmark works for the stage as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth as well as the classic novel The Bridges of San Luis Rey is considered one of America's greatest man of letters. This two volume publication collects the complete short works for the stage, including a never-before-published one act play.
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In Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life As a Pioneer Woman, Laura tells her readers what it was like to be a pioneer in the early 1900s. Her stories and insights show us how difficult even the simplest chores or tasks were for the early pioneers, yet through it all she continued to see each situation as an adventure--as if she was truly blazing the trail for future generations.
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The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s, the Bolshevik government, seeking to defuse nationalist sentiment, created tens of thousands of national territories. It trained new national leaders,...
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An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business-all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close...
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From helping others in times of need, to keeping and maintaining friendships, to having a positive attitude, Laura's words of wisdom in Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues are applicable even in today's world. As she shares stories and experiences from her own life, she encourages readers to live lives of integrity and to realize their dreams.
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How have different forms of colonialism shaped societies and their politics? William F. S. Miles focuses on the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa whose land is still split by an arbitrary boundary established by Great Britain and France at the turn of the century.
In 1983 Miles returned as a Fulbright scholar to the region where he had served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the late 1970s. Already fluent in the Hausa language, he established residence...
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In Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder: As Told by Her Family, Friends, and Neighbors, we see Laura through the eyes of those who knew her best. They tell of her insatiable love for reading and learning new things, her reactions to the fame from her best-selling children's series, and even which book she considered her favorite.
220) Mole Men
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Webb Wilder, Last of the Full Grown Men has its quizzical storylines set in a Neo Noir city. The characters have a sense of humor along with tons of insider Pop Culture references. As a series, WWLOTFGM is faithful to the hard-boiled detective / Film Noir visions of the 1940s and 1950s but set in the Pop Culture world of today. Webb Wilder, as a detective, is a semi-urban hero dealing with characters who are bigger than life and twice as preposterous....
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