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1) Body movers
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So Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned. She didn't plan for her parents to skip bail for a white-collar crime, leaving her to raise her brother. She didn't plan on having the silver spoon ripped from her mouth and forgoing college to work retail. She didn't plan on her blue-blood fiancé dumping her. And she didn't plan on still being single ten years later, working at Neiman Marcus, with no idea where her fugitive parents...
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Will Trent volume 9
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On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters, and a large children's hospital. Anything that happens...
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Body movers volume 5
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Carlotta Wren deals with an uncomfortable living arrangement when she moves in with her ex-fiancae in order to feel safe while a serial killer is on the loose, and tries to figure out what has been bothering her brother as well as why a close friend would be accused of being the Charmed Killer.
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A police lieutenant with the elite "Red Dogs" until she retired at twenty-nine , Aud Torvigen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the color of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway into the failed marriage between a Scandinavian diplomat and an American businessman, she now makes Atlanta her home, luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness of the New South. She glides easily between the world of silken elegance and
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Body movers volume 3
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Carlotta Wren has always dreamed of taking a vacation from her life as daughter to fugitive parents and mother to her younger brother, Wesley. So when she is temporarily suspended from her job, the invitation from body mover Cooper Craft to ride to Florida for some fun in the sun and a VIP body pickup sound like a good idea. Wesley trying to elude loan sharks goes along as chaperone. They're greeted in Florida by three men each claiming the body.
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After the death of his younger brother, D.J., a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. His efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he discovers 'stepping, ' an old traditional dance performed by African American fraternities and soon finds himself in the middle of a fierce rivalry between the top...
10) The answer man
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Technician Ken Parker of Atlanta is offered $50,000 to teach an embezzler to beat a lie detector. The suspect gets off, only to be murdered. Now Parker's only hope of being paid is to find the $12 million the man embezzled.
11) That's wild
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The award-winning feature documentary tells the inspiring journey of Cliff, Ahmani, and Nicholas, three underserved teenage boys from Atlanta, attempting to climb four 12,000 ft snowcapped peaks in the heart of the Colorado wilderness, all while overcoming their own personal mountains.
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"In the 1940's, there were sixteen tea rooms in Atlanta. They were opened by ladies as a way to make extra money, but the name was a misnomer; a tea room wasn't a place to have tea, but a nicer version of a 'meat and three'...Today Mary Mac's Tea Room is the only one of these original tea room-style restaurants that still exists...'Mary Mac's Tea Room' is not only the story of a restaurant that has served diners for over 65 years, but it is also a...
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In March 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving, inspirational account-now a motion picture from Paramount-Ashley shares the details of her traumatic ordeal and expands on how her faith and the bestselling book The Purpose Driven Life helped her survive...
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The group crosses paths with a mysterious priest and takes shelter in his church. As Daryl and Carol follow a lead to the whereabouts of Beth, the others begin to realize that they're being hunted. As Bob's life hangs in the balance, the group prepares to face off against the cannibalistic hunters of Terminus.
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"Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not cut out for the job as a cop. Her male uniform is too big, she can't handle a gun, and she's rapidly learning that the APD is hardly a place that welcomes women. Worse still, in the ensuing manhunt, he'll be partnered with Maggie Lawson, a cop with her...
17) Out of the blues
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Assigned to the cold-case murder of a blues musician whose death had been ruled a drug overdose, rookie homicide detective Sarah "Salt" Alt considers new evidence from a convicted felon who Sarah helped put behind bars.
18) 6 1/2 body parts
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Body movers volume 6.5
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"At 18, Carlotta Wren had her future planned--she would attend college, then marry handsome Peter Ashford, whose family was equally as wealthy as hers, and they would live their lives as members of Atlanta society in relative luxury. But she hadn't expected her parents to skip town on a white-collar crime charge and leave her no resources to raise her younger brother Wesley. For the past ten years, they've scraped by without their fugitive parents,...
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The popular comedian traces her youth in Atlanta's most troubled neighborhood at the height of the crack epidemic, discussing her experiences with petty crime and prostitution that led to her becoming a mother at age thirteen before resolving to secure a better life for her children.
20) Scream for me
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"Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where Die for me left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer"--Provided by the publisher