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Centuries of foul play in the Department of Justice (DOJ) in this country, fortified through deceptive practices, has temporized the freedom of far too many innocent people with puritanical, senseless prison sentences.
This reasoning is laced with a mythology rich in ideals that are spoon-fed to the American people by this country's political leaders-judges are infallible and neutral; the objective of all prosecutors is justice; public defenders...
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Michael Armstrong has spent close to fifty years either defending or prosecuting criminal cases in New York City. His public service has included stints as District Attorney for Queens County, New York, and chief of the Security Frauds Unit in the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan. None of his experiences were as tense or as dangerously waged as the Knapp Commission's investigation into police corruption, prompted by the New York Times's report...
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This book is about telling and showing how the currently accepted regular everyday practices of Lawyers in America today is proving to be entirely too dysfunctional for the society. Today we now have a system which generates too much of its own business, often frivolous, ridiculous and absurd relative to the common sense of the everyday average citizen. Most persons in America today who are forced to deal with the legal system and lawyers probably...
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Quines deben leer esta obra?:
1. Personas que desean ser promovidas
2. Aquellos que quieren que sus bendiciones sean ms sostenibles en el tiempo
3. Quienes desean tener un panorama equilibrado sobre las bendiciones espirituales y las materiales
4. Administradores que necesitan presupuestar sabiamente
5. Personas que no se atreven a emprender algo
6. El cristiano que desea ser buen mayordomo de sus bienes
7. Aquel que desea comprender cmo involucrar...
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Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row, including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood in Arizona, have made headlines and renewed vigorous debate surrounding the death penalty in America. Austin Sarat's book instantly became an essential...
27) Grim Tuesday
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Keys to the kingdom volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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Seventh-grader Arthur Penhaligon returns to the parallel universe known as the House to fight his latest enemy, Grim Tuesday, whose greed threatens to destroy both the House and the Earth.
28) Love is
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A girl finds a baby duckling, and discovers that love is taking care of something that needs you, and also knowing when to let it go.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Jasper quit his school football team after blowing a big play, which is giving him a lot of time to get into trouble with his friends--but when he is allowed to rejoin the team rather than face detention he finds that everybody is mad at him: his teammates because he quit, and his friends because he is avoiding punishment.
31) Red wolf
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When fulfilling her duty as a shapeshifting guardian for her village means abandoning the young man she loves, the future she imagines with him, and her values, sixteen-year-old Adele must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her friends and neighbors safe.
The village of Oakvale has been surrounded by a dark forest filled with terrible monsters. Like every person who grows up in Oakvale she has been told to steer clear of the woods unless...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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When Ms. Alex is called away from the classroom, she leaves Yasmin in charge, but the other children just ignore her and start acting silly and noisy--until Yasmin thinks up a way to motivate them to finish the math assignment, quietly.
33) Dingus
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As Henry finishes fifth grade, his biggest concern is facing a summer with nothing to do. With his best friend, Max, away at summer camp, it's looking so bad he can feel himself "being pulled by the gravitational force of nothingness." But then Henry does something irresponsible, something with real consequences. And suddenly he'd give anything to go back to the nothingness. Has Henry turned into the dingus Max told him not to be? A classic coming-of-age...
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Ghost buddy volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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When Billy Broccoli finds out that his ghostly best friend, Hoover Porterhouse, is failing Responsibility, he decides to give him a pet. The problem is that pets are scared of Hoover.
35) Dan unmasked
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Thirteen-year-old Dan blames himself when his best friend Nate is hit in the head by a baseball during practice--desperate to help, Dan seizes on the suggestion that even in a coma Nate may be able to hear him, and sets out to read to Nate from the superhero comic books that both boys love.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Seventeen-year-old Lucille is struggling to get through each day, paying bills and looking after her little sister, Wren, while her father is institutionalized after a breakdown and her mother is "on vacation," but nothing else seems to matter when she is with Digby Jones, her best friend's twin brother.
38) Carly
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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This is eight-year-old Carly's first summer at Storm Cliff Stables horse camp, and she is already having a hard time following all the rules, so when she finds a garter snake and decides to keep it as a pet, she needs to keep it a secret.
39) Rescued
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Ape quartet volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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When John was ten years old his father brought back a baby orangutan from Indonesia, and Raja quickly becomes John's "brother" and responsibility--so years later, after his parents divorce, and his father has sold Raja to a roadside zoo, John sets out to rescue him and bring him to a sanctuary in Indonesia.
The third entry in the taut, heart-wrenching quartet that made Eliot Schrefer a two-time National Book Award finalist introduces us to an orangutan...
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EllRay Jakes series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Third-grader EllRay is becoming famous for messing up, and when his little sister accidentally kills EllRay's class goldfish, and then he forgets his teacher's read-aloud book at home, it only makes matters worse.
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