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Entrepreneur Michael Kuperman discovers the illegal actions of a powerful American corporation. What to do with that knowledge? Struggling with his Jewish heritage, he remembers moments from his ancestors' past that made survival possible. Can that legacy protect him and his family in his immediate danger?
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The must-read summary of Judge Andrew P. Napolitano's book: "Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws".
This complete summary of "Constitutional Chaos" by Andrew P. Napolitano outlines the judicial analyst's argument that American citizens rights are no longer guaranteed. He offers examples of instances where the government violated laws and rights to get what they wanted.
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A PRECIOUS ETHIOPIAN GIRL IN PERIL... AN AMERICAN ADOPTIVE FAMILY IN PURSUIT OF HER FREEDOM... INTERVENTION FROM AN UNSHAKEABLE GOD
With Hurricane Sandy slamming into the East Coast, an epic spiritual storm ensues for Mark and Missy Worton, who courageously board the last plane to Ethiopia to rescue a six-year-old girl. Although Favor has already been declared their daughter, she is about to be wrongly placed into a foster care system that looks more...
4) Death Broker
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Death Broker
The fabric of the American society is marbled by a constant slaughter of innocent men, women and children by fanatics using battle field weapons. It seems that not a day goes by without another report of a multiple shooting incident. And it seems that those who provide the weapons have no conscience about how they make the weapons available.
Brian O'Neill was on a quest to put billionaires who straddled the legal-illegal line...
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Pirates are a perennially popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirates-who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like-is seldom a part of the conversation. In this Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, A Pirate's Life for She tells the story of 16 women who through the ages sailed alongside-and sometimes in command of-their male counterparts. These...
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When Empires Crumble is an environmental based crime thriller. The story is told in two parts, one a fantasy world in ancient times. The second part happens in a modern day setting of big business and, its disregard for the protection of planet earth the home of humanity and every living thing. In the empire of The Great Lord, death and destruction are the order of the day. Nothing is sacred to this man. Everything, man, woman, child and the magnificent...
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The US 2016 Election is an absolute obstruct compared to other elections in the past years and probably for years to come. Politically, Morally, and even Socially. For politicians, this election was questionable. This event instigated doubts and admonished the political opponent to launch an investigation on the President to know if the President and his allies did not contribute to illegal activity to win this election.
Morally, The GOP brain is...
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White-collar crime is financial crime committed by the elite in society. Offenders abuse their positions for financial gain. While being like any other investigation concerned with the past, investigating white-collar crime has its specific aspects and challenges. For example, while street criminals typically hide themselves, white-collar criminals hide their crime. Burglars leave traces of the crime and disappear from the scene. White-collar criminals...
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The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair-and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren't we encouraging them to continue to act irresponsibly, setting the stage for future crises? And beyond the ethics of it was the question of whether the government even had the authority to bail out...
10) Illegal
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IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own "Siete Magn�ificos"--To repopulate her hometown and...
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Ana thinks that her new elementary school is very strange, and when she and her new friend Bryce discover a secret passage they know that something suspicious is going on, but it is up to the reader to decide whether the school is a secret training ground, an illegal experiment, or something else.
13) The set-up
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A financial mystery in which a former head of the American Federal Reserve Board is arrested in Switzerland for illegally using his position to amass a fortune. He is Charles Black, the victim of a frame-up engineered by his political enemies. A study in the manipulation of money by the author of Zero Coupon.
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"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
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"When "The Russian Pink" - a stunningly large rose-hued diamond - makes a surprise appearance around the neck of Honey Li, the wife of surging presidential candidate Harry Nash, Alex Turner, an investigator for the Treasury Department's diamond division and former C.I.A. agent, finds himself spiraling down a seemingly endless rabbit hole. A diamond like that always carries secrets, but the web of mystery behind "The Pink" is more complex than Alex...
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St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking, a largely illegal bounty hunting operation, tracks down the worst of the worst criminals for the presiding judge of the International Criminal Court. In this action-packed international thriller, will the hunters become the hunted?Michael Finnegan might be off the NYPD but he's still a by-the-book kind of guy. By contrast, Katalin Fiero Dahar--ex-soldier and assassin extraordinaire--makes her own rules. Yet their partnership...
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"In the third Jenny Willson Mystery, Parks Canada warden Willson joins an American colleague on a secondment to assist Namibian authorities trying to stem the loss of the country's rhinos to illegal hunting. But the plan takes a dramatic turn as Willson finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy involving wildlife poachers backed by a shadowy network of international buyers who are prepared to eliminate any obstacles in their way, including Willson...
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In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister...
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