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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
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"Five years ago, Cass barely survived a brutal attack that left her family dead. Now a scuba diving instructor in Thailand, she has spent years trying to build a new, anonymous life for herself as one of the Permanents, a group of expats who have claimed the beautiful Thailand destination as their own. The permanents are charming, they're close-knit, and they don't linger on who they were before the island--they're the perfect group for Cass to finally...
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CRS report volume RL34556
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Congressional Research Service
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2020-
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English
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CRS report volume RL33809
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Congressional Research Service
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[2018?]-
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English
7) Defiance
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DAW Books
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2023.
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"The 22nd book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi"--
"In the east, outright warfare has tied down the Assassins' Guild, and that region is in confusion. Ready to hand is an age-old feud in the west, where the Master of Ashidama Bay has long hated the Edi people of the north shore and equally hated the Aishidi'tat...
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Bantam Books
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2009.
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English
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Fingered for a crime he didn't commit, brash lawyer Jimmy Payne goes on the most terrifying run of his life, from bloody Mexicali to the bullet-riddled San Joaquin Valley, and when he meets a foul-mouthed Mexican teenager in search of his missing mother, the unlikely duo attempt to find the woman against startlingly violent odds
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CRS report volume R41592
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Congressional Research Service
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2018-
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English
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CRS report volume R43840
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Congressional Research Service
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[2018?]-
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English
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Legal sidebar volume LSB11140
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Congressional Research Service
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2024-
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English
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In focus volume IF11892
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Congressional Research Service
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2021-
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English
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In focus volume IF11343
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Congressional Research Service
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2019-
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English
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CRS report volume R46697
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Congressional Research Service
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2021-
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English
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Legal sidebar volume LSB10603
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Congressional Research Service
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2022-
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English
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A Christy Award finalist from the best-selling author of War Room!
Desperate to escape haunting memories, J. D. Jessup travels from Nashville to Tucson and volunteers on an organic farm. The hardened landowner has one prevailing rule: If J. D. sees an "illegal," call the border patrol. But when an early morning ride along the fence line leads him to a beautiful young woman named Maria, near death in the desert, his heart pulls him...
Desperate to escape haunting memories, J. D. Jessup travels from Nashville to Tucson and volunteers on an organic farm. The hardened landowner has one prevailing rule: If J. D. sees an "illegal," call the border patrol. But when an early morning ride along the fence line leads him to a beautiful young woman named Maria, near death in the desert, his heart pulls him...
18) Edge of tomorrow
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[2014]
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In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are...
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