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First thrills : high-octane stories from the hottest thriller authors / by Child., Lee

Table of Contents: “…The thief / Gregg Hurwitz -- Scutwork / CJ Lyons -- The bodyguard / Lee Child -- Last supper / Rip Gerber -- After dark / Alex Kava and Deb Carlin -- Wednesday's child / Ken Bruen -- Eddy May / Theo Gangi -- The plot / Jeffrey Deaver -- Eye of the storm / John Lutz and Lise S. Baker -- The dead club / Michael Palmer and Daniel James Palmer -- Underbelly / Grant McKenzie -- The Gato conundrum / John Lescroart -- The princess of Felony Flats / Bill Cameron -- Savage planet / Stephen Coonts -- Suspended / Ryan Brown -- Invisible / Sean Michael Bailey -- When Johnny comes marching home / Heather Graham -- On the train / Rebecca Cantrell -- Children's day / Kelli Stanley -- My father's eyes / Wendy Corsi Staub -- Program with a happy ending / Cynthia Robinson -- Killing Carol Ann / J. …”
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Twenty observations on a world in turmoil / by Beck, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…-- A kind of Berlin Wall has again collapsed -- German euro-nationalism -- Beyond the aeroplane -- Global domestic politics from below : how global families are becoming normal -- The environmental storm on the Bastille -- Without Buddha I could not be a Christian -- The caterpillar's mistake : Fukushima and the end of nuclear power -- It's time to get angry, Europe : create the Europe of citizens now! …”

The death and life of Charlie St. Cloud /

Trust me, I'm lying : the tactics and confessions of a media manipulator / by Holiday, Ryan

Table of Contents: “…Blogs make the news -- How to turn nothing into something in three way-too easy steps -- Blogs as a business : a brief overview -- Tactic #1: bloggers are poor, help pay their bills -- Tactic #2: tell them what they want to hear -- Tactic #3: give them what spreads, not what's good -- Tactic # 4: help them trick their readers -- Tactic #5: sell them something they can sell (exploit the one off problem) -- Tactic #6: make it all about the headline -- Tactic #7: kill 'em with pageview kindness -- Tactic #8: use the technology against itself -- Tactic #9: just make stuff up (everyone else is doing it) -- The monster attacks : what blogs mean -- Irin carmon, the daily show, and me: the perfect storm of how toxic blogging can be -- There are others : the manipulator hall of fame -- Cute but evil : online entertainment tactics that drug you & i -- The link economy : the leveraged illusion of sourcing -- Extortion via the web : facing the online shakedown -- The iterative hustle : online journalism's bogus philosophy -- The myth of corrections -- Cheering on our own deception -- The dark side of snark : when internet humor attacks -- The 21st century degradation ceremony : blogs as machines of hatred and punishment -- Welcome to unreality -- How to read a blog : an update on account of all the lies -- Conclusion.…”

The curse / by Kenyon, Sherrilyn

The comforts of home / by Thomas, Jodi

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Tacos, tortas, and tamales : flavors from the griddles, pots, and streetside kitchens of Mexico / by Santibañez, Roberto

Dustbin baby by Jacqueline Wilson; Nick Sharratt

Shadow ops. by Cole, Myke