Rebecca Stern
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Collects a variety of essays written by thirty-seven different authors seeking to make essay writing--and reading--fun again. Topics include a character analysis of Mario and Donkey Kon; what breakfast would be like on Mars; and how having a tail would make your day different.
Collects essays from thirty-eight different authors writing today, each author having been prompted by Language Arts teacher Rebecca Stern and social entrepreneur Brad Wolfe...
3) Iconoclast
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Burdened by the pressing weight of survivor's guilt, Sean McPherson, an ex-cop, is desperate for redemption. At Pines & Quill, a writer's retreat in the Pacific Northwest, he and his fiancée, Emma Benton, are planning their lives together. He wants to go back into law enforcement. She plans to walk again.
Georgio "The Bull" Gambino, head of a Seattle-based crime family, has a long reach. Like cockroaches, his minions infiltrate even the most inaccessible...
4) Impervious
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In the village of Fairhaven-nestled between Washington state's Bellingham Bay and the Cascade Mountains, home to writers' retreat Pines & Quill-friends and family have gathered for the union of Sean McPherson and Emma Benton. Sean has been working with the FBI and local police to help solve crimes, particularly murders bearing the mark of crime boss Georgio "The Bull" Gambino. Emma, who has just learned to walk again, has begun to feel at home and...
5) Iniquity
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Crime boss Georgio Gambino abducts Sean "Mick" McPherson's pregnant wife, Emma, and his friend's two daughters and contracts to sell them and another group of women-some into forced labor, others as sex slaves, and a few for their organs.
Gambino confines three best friends-Mick, a PI; Joe, a homicide detective; and Rafferty, an FBI special agent-to Pines & Quill writing retreat and pits them against each other with a warning: "Mick, if you try to...
6) Indelible
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When a sniper killed his partner, Sean McPherson was injured in the ambush. Now an ex-cop, he takes a job at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest. At Pines & Quill, he hopes to heal and put his life back together in the Zen-like capacity of groundskeeper and all-around handyman.
Sniper, Jason Hughes, blames McPherson for the loss of more than ten million dollars' worth of heroin―and he wants revenge.
In the guise of a New York City limo driver...
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"Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize in Economics. There's just one problem -he's dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize must stay within his grasp, and so they conspire to conceal Avishay's corpse until the committee's announcement. The potential of a glorious legacy for their late friend - and by extension, for them all - is a mere eight days away. What could go wrong? Their plan starts out simple: crank up the AC, take shifts...