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1) Monsters
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English
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"The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn't realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning...
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Adams Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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How to select exceptional employees, You cannot manage productively without first hiring effectively, yet all too often this most important of all management skills is overlooked-as if on promotion into management, a manager becomes mysteriously endowed with all the critical skills of intelligent employee selection. The odds are that no one ever taught you how to hire effectively and manage productively-until now. Martin Yate, CPC, New York Times...
3) Boys among men: how the prep-to-pro generation redefined the NBA and sparked a basketball revolution
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Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
5) Profile
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Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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An undercover British journalist risks her life by infiltrating militant extremist groups online.
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Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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The NFL draft features no action on the field. No passing, running, tackling, or kicking. Hey, there isn't even a field. Yet the draft has become more popular than many other sporting events, including the NBA and NHL playoff games, against which it goes head-to-head for viewers. In fact, the draft has spawned its own cottage industry in which names such as Gil Brandt, Mel Kiper Jr., and Mike Mayock have become as well known as any of the first-round...
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English
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"Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities mingle freely with few questions asked. Intelligence agencies have always recruited bright undergraduates, but now, in an era when espionage increasingly requires specialized scientific...
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Bob Hope classic comedy collection volume disc 2
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The cat and the canary: Wally protects an heiress who must spend the night in a haunted mansion to inherit millions. The ghost breakers: A radio personality finds himself marooned on an island with a pretty traveler in a haunted castle. Caught in the draft: A gun-shy movie star finds himself bungling his way through misadventures as he tries to win the heart of the colonel's daughter.
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Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
"Superstar sports agent J. B. Bernstein went to India to run a televised pitching contest, teach the winners about baseball, and get them recruited by Major League Baseball--changing forever the lives of two young men and their families back home, as well as his own"--
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English
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In the chaos following World War II, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. The U.S. government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis' knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation, code-named Paperclip, to allow them to work in the United States without the public's full knowledge. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues,...
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Most of us have had at least one amazing teacher who has inspired, influenced, or encouraged us to do better, aim higher, or just be more confident. However, most of us have also had at least one teacher who has not met our expectations. In Teachers Matter, education researcher Marcus A. Winters, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, argues that our failure to identify and reward high-quality teachers has been devastating for public school...
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Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Arabic
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Talal Derki returned to his Syrian homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Osama and his brother Ayman both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems content to follow the...
14) The German wife
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2022
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English
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"Berlin, Germany, 1930--When the Nazis rise to power, J�urgen Rhodes is offered a high-level position in their burgeoning rocket program. J�urgen and his wife Sofie fiercely oppose Hitler's radical views, and joining his ranks is unthinkable. Yet it soon becomes clear that if J�urgen does not accept the job, their income would be put on the line, and so would their lives. Huntsville, Alabama, 1950--J�urgen is one of many German scientists...
15) Foul trouble
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"College recruiters are clambering to sign up Terrell Jamerson, the #1 high school basketball player in the country. But not all of these recruiters are straight shooters, and Terrell will have to think fast if he wants to stay in the game"--
16) Paradise now
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced to reflect on her...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
An American intelligence officer's youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him.
Edward, the only witness to his father's suicide and a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his...
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