It's hard to imagine that the world might never have known Frank Sinatra nor been seduced, charmed and entertained by his beautiful music if it hadn't been for the pity and compassion of an Italian woman in 1915. When the midwives could not help Dolly deliver her only child, they called a doctor who used forceps to rip the inert child from her womb. The baby's ear torn and bleeding, he was cast aside
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"911. What's your emergency?" If it were only possible to solve life's problems with a simple phone call, Pete Webster and his daughter Rowan might have avoided 15 years of hurt and loss. Pete Webster was just finishing his EMT training in a small town in Vermont when he was called to the scene of an accident that changed his life forever. At 21 one years old, his life was normal and predictable. He planned to be an EMT, meet a nice girl, marry and
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Isabel Duncan is a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab and her best, maybe only, friends appear to be the six bonobo apes with which she is currently working. The apes have been taught to communicate using American Sign Language, and she is studying and documenting their ability to express human-like emotions when a devastating explosion destroys the lab, critically injuring her and freeing the apes. A reporter who had visited the lab before the explosion, John Thigpen, is sent to cover the story of the explosion and he forms an alliance with Isabel to locate and reclaim the apes.
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Mickey Haller is used to sitting on the left side of the courtroom, beside whatever defendant is currently paying for his expert legal counsel, but when the prosecutor's office asks him to be independent special prosecutor in the retrial of child molester and murderer, Jason Jessup, he can't refuse. Aside from the fact that he'll be assisted by his ex-wife Maggie McPherson, for whom he still has feelings, and his newly discovered half brother, Detective Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller accepts the assignment because after 24 years in prison, the evil Jessup is
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How can you disappear in plain sight? Apparently Katie Feldman has figured it out, escaping an abusive marriage in Boston and reinventing herself as a waitress in a small coastal North Carolina town. She tries to keep to herself and avoid personal contact outside of work, but with her physical beauty and inherent kind and loving nature, that is impossible. She soon develops friendships with her neighbor, Jo, and with the children of the man who runs the general store where she buys her food.
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At the close of the 1936 Olympics Louie Zamperini, an 18 year old track star from Los Angeles was considered to be the favorite for the 1940 Olympics. Many believed he would be the first to break the elusive 4 minute mile. When war broke out in Europe, the 1940 Olympics were cancelled and Louie's dreams were put on hold, but the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 permanently changed all that Louie had planned. He joined the Army Air Force and became a bombardier flying missions over Japan.
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Jack Morgan's visit to his father in prison was to be a welcome farewell to the dying man who'd given him nothing but unhappy memories of a disappointing relationship. Instead, Jack leaves the prison as the reluctant owner of his father's defunct private investigation business, Private. When he tries to turn down the failed business, his father tells him it comes with a 15 million dollar account in the Caymans that is his reward for putting up with all the years of parental disdain and neglect.
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