David Ellis
1) Look closer
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"Simon and Vicky couldn't seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple with a stable, if unexciting, marriage. But with these two...absolutely nothing is what it seems. When a beautiful socialite is found hanging in a mansion in a nearby suburb, Simon and Vicky's complex web of secrets begins to unravel. A whirlwind affair. A twenty-million-dollar trust fund about to come due. A decades-long grudge and an obsession with revenge. These are just a few...
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This vintage book is a comprehensive catalogue of medical herbs and poisonous plants. A marvelously detailed and profusely illustrated volume, "Medicinal Herbs And Poisonous Plants" will be of considerable value to those with an interest in botany and collectors of vintage literature of this ilk.
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Long before there were books, there were spirits, demons, and djinns. Many were of no consequence, idle beings with no interest in humanity, some, kindly, eager to help, visiting anxious souls in their final sleep to provide reassurance. A few were different from any of these. A few were angry and full of hate.
At some point, one of these deadly fragments of consciousness passed into a book. This Book had been one of the very earliest books, and...
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Cooking with the Shack Restaurant is not only a recipe book, but it's also, a cookbook born from the love of cooking and the memories of the food I had as a child.
This book will take you on a trip through the history of the Temple Bar district of Dublin, Ireland. Now the Cultural quarter of the city. Temple Bar is one of the busiest areas in Dublin City and is, listed in every tourist book in the world.
Along our expedition, you will read about the...
5) Detour: My Journey from High-Powered Attorney to Auto Mechanic Trade School and the Hard Truths L
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Would You Quit Your Job to Pursue Your Dream? David W. Ellis was a successful lawyer, but he was not happy. He wanted something else. In particular, he wanted to learn to work on cars. So in one big leap of faith, he quit his job and enrolled in technical school. The other students, all of whom were decades younger than David, could tell he was different—he had money. This contrasted heavily with their own financial struggles as they studied to...
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The pure heart connects with the subconscious mind in the Heart Mind Connection.
We all live busy lives always having too much to do. We don't get enough time to connect to our inner self or to our source. We hold within us a reservoir of wisdom and knowledge with most of the answers we seek. This book is an easy and gentle way to reconnect us daily. Connecting our busy head with our pure heart through thought-provoking quotes, memes, aspirations...
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2011, ©2009
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Attorney Jason Kolarich is a Midwestern everyman with a lineman's build and an easy sarcastic remark. He's young, intelligent, and driven, but he's also saddled with an overwhelming emotional burden, one that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibly the lives of those around him.
8) Escape
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2022.
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"New York Times bestselling detective Billy Harney of The Black Book is chasing down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD's special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. He's also being held in jail. For now. Billy's unit is called in when an...
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Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with...
10) Mistress
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2013.
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"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
11) The red book
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For Detective Billy Harney is the newest member of Chicago PD's elite Special Operations Section (SOS). When a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts run deep. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only ones. Asking questions about who's to blame, Harney finds the easy answers prove to be the wrong...
12) Guilty wives
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2012
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"No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating...
13) Murder house
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"No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy used to consider herself a local, but she hasn't been...
14) Invisible
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Read the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller Invisible, then continue the series with Unsolved.
Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire.
Not even Emmy's...
Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire.
Not even Emmy's...
15) Unsolved
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Invisible volume 2
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English
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In this follow-up to the #1 bestselling thriller Invisible, every perfect murder looks like an accident, but as bodies start to pile up across the country, two FBI agents realize that something horrible is happening.
FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests.
But a shocking new case —...
FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests.
But a shocking new case —...
16) Cellular
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
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English
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A young man receives a call from a kidnapped woman on his cellular phone, and sets out to rescue her.
17) The wrong man
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2012
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English
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When Jason Kolarich accepts the case of a homeless Iraq War veteran accused of murdering a young paralegal, his course seems clear: to mount an insanity defense for a man suffering so badly from post-traumatic stress disorder that he has no real memory of the crime. But as Kolarich digs deeper, he realizes that, unlikely as it seems, his client is probably innocent. Only days before her death, the murdered paralegal had stumbled onto something she...
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Strong violent/gruesome accidents, language, and a scene of sexuality.
While at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends to leave....
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In issue 6: Nancy Christopherson, Melinda Coppola, Terry Cox-Joseph, Kaitlyn Davis, John Dorroh, Laura Hart Home, Linda Imbler, Laura Lee, Luisa Kay Reyes, Emily Martin (Children's Poetry Section), Eduard Schmidt-Zorner, Melanie Simms, Wesley Sims, Susanne Thomas, and Diane Vogel Ferri.
Plus: Social media tips, useful writing tools, and Haiku-Interview with Camilla Downs. Readers are also challenged to write some sixku, kindku and pareiku, the poetry...