David Gordon
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"In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected--from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes. Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class...
2) The pigeon
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"Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld...Which is why his newest task--retrieving a pet pigeon snatched from a rooftop coop in Brooklyn--has Joe puzzled--until he learns that the bird is valued at close to a million dollars. Joe hatches a plan to sneak into the luxury park-side apartment building where the pigeon is held captive. But that simple plan takes a deadly turn when he stumbles...
3) Dune
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"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
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Strip club bouncer and retired Special Forces operative Joe Brody, who moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in New York, must take out a shadowy figure named Zahir who has been invading the mob's territories to sell a powerful new brand of heroin.
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Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualifica-tion to add to his resume: an alliance of New York City's mob bosses has deemed him its "sheriff." In the straight world, when you “see something” you “say something” to the law. In the bent world, they call Joe.
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"Expulsed Harvard student and ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, Joe Brody is getting his life back together, living with his grandmother in Queens and taking what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his night reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian...
10) Uh-oh, Max
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When Max gets in trouble after speeding up a ramp, all of his Trucktown friends try to help out.
12) Dizzy Izzy
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Izzy, the ice cream truck, tries to get himself dizzy.
13) Smash! Crash!
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Best friends Jack Truck and Dump Truck Dan love to smash things but sometimes their antics get them into trouble. One day they meet Wrecking Crane Rosie. Are Jack and Dan's smashing days over?
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On Liberty - John Stuart Mill advocated individual liberty based on a philosophical concept called utilitarianism, or “the greatest happiness for the greater number.” This intellectual tradition rejects natural rights, such as those in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. Despite beginning with a different theoretical foundation than natural rights proponents, Mill reaches a similar conclusion-that diversity in individual thought and action...
16) Trimaxx #6
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Things get personal when the Mechani send a mechanical assassin to take out DR. ALEXANDRIA CRUZ. Trapped within AREA 61 with no back up what so ever Mo must find the strength to defeat a powerful and determined foe and to make matters worse shes got to do it without Trimaxx!
17) Trimaxx #7
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The Mechani are opening up worm holes all over the world and attacking major cities! Trimaxx and Mo have been fighting for nearly 24 hours straight. Its up to MATHIAS SPERLING and the rest of the team to determine the secret of the Mechanis new carrier wave or else Trimaxx and Mo are doomed!
18) Trimaxx #5
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The Mechani have ambushed a top secret convoy and pinned Olin, John and Mathias down. With her friends facing certain death Mo must first retrieve a top secret weapon before even thinking of saving them. Somehow Mos got to figure out how to save the top secret weapon and her friends and shes got to do it quick as the Mechani have unleashed their most dangerous harbinger yet!
19) Trimaxx #8
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Invincible Joe has a plan to stop the Mechani Blitzkrieg attack. What he doesnt realize is that the Mechanis base is on the moon and Trimaxx and Mo will have to do the one thing he hasnt trained them for; sub space combat! For Mo and Trimaxx to save the world Joe has to find the confidence to send them on their most dangerous mission yet!
20) Trucks line up
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As soon as Jack Truck wakes up he gets the other trucks in line, but somehow he misses Pete.