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12/10/2013
Suspect LAPD cop Scott James is not doing so well, not since a shocking nighttime assault by unidentified men killed his partner Stephanie, nearly killed him, and left him enraged, ashamed, and ready to explode. He is unfit for duty - until he meets his new partner. More >>

Tags: Attitude, Behavior, Character-Courage-Conscience, Personal Responsibility, Relationships, Social Issues, Values
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12/03/2013
Joyland Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. More >>

Tags: Character-Courage-Conscience, Personal Responsibility, Raising Boys to Men, Values
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11/26/2013
Rush Award-winning author and former schoolteacher Jonathan Friesen has a knack for crafting exciting stories teenagers want to read. Rush features 18-year-old Jake King, an adrenaline junkie who jumps at the chance to join an elite group of firefighters who rappel into wildfires. More >>

Tags: Behavior, Character-Courage-Conscience, Health, Hobbies, Personal Responsibility, Raising Boys to Men, Relationships
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11/19/2013
The Emotional Life of Your Brain Why are some people so quick to recover from a setback while others wallow in despair? Why are some so highly attuned to others that they seem psychic, while others put both feet in it over and over again? Why are some people always up and others always down? More >>

Tags: Attitude, Behavior, Health, Mental Health, Relationships
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11/11/2013
Visitation Street In Visitation Street, Ivy Pochoda combines intensely vivid prose with breathtaking psychological insight to explore a cast of solitary souls, pulled by family, love, betrayal, and hope, who yearn for a chance to break free. More >>

Tags: Character-Courage-Conscience, Relationships, Social Issues, Values
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11/05/2013
The Keeper of Lost Causes The Keeper of Lost Causes, the first installment of Adler- Olsen's Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl MØrck (pronounced: murrk), who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best. More >>

Tags: Character-Courage-Conscience, Relationships, Social Issues, Values
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10/29/2013
The Defining Decade Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twenty-something years don't matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emerging adulthood. Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues that twenty-somethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much of which has trivialized what is actually the most defining decade of adulthood. More >>

Tags: Behavior, Character-Courage-Conscience, Internet-Media, Mental Health, Personal Responsibility, Relationships, Social Issues
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10/22/2013
The Kite Runner The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons -- their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. More >>

Tags: Character-Courage-Conscience, Men's Point of View, Motherhood-Fatherhood, Personal Responsibility, Relationships, Religion, Social Issues, Values
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10/14/2013
Guilty Wives by James Patterson, David Ellis In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. More >>

Tags: Behavior, Character-Courage-Conscience, Marriage, Personal Responsibility, Relationships, Values
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10/08/2013
The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag On a frigid New Year's Eve in Minneapolis, a young woman's brutalized body falls from the trunk of a car into the path of oncoming traffic. Questions as to whether she was alive or dead when she hit the icy pavement result in her macabre nickname, Zombie Doe. More >>

Tags: Abuse, Character-Courage-Conscience, Relationships, Values
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