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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and...
7) Genesis
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious fervor leads him to sue Zoe for custody.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
165 p.
Language
English
Description
A leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants-and by extension humans-rests in this playful yet eye-opening guidebook. Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about 300,000 years ago-nothing when compared to the history of life on our planet-humans have succeeded in changing the...
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
7th edition.
Physical Desc
497 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Family law attorney Emily Doskow helps the reader understand the divorce process, minimize day-to-day conflict with your spouse, and avoid costly exhausting court battles. She also discusses child support and custody, alimony, property division, and drafting a marital settlement agreement.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 177 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former United States Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens proposes six new amendments to the Constitution and articulates not only the need for such changes, but also precisely what those improvements should be.
Publisher
Random House Reference
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 472 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains information for business owners about founding, and selling a small business, that includes the legal aspects of franchise agreements and independent business ideas, contracts, intellectual property, and liabilities, selling a small business, retirement planning and other topics.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xix, 291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The essential road map for understanding-and defending-your right to privacy in the twenty-first century. Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers...
20) Abortion
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines some fundamental questions surrounding the issue of abortion today. Addresses the rights of women and the need to protect the helpless unborn, explores the debate over when life begins, and provides information on the legality of abortion in various areas of the world today.