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"Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region's booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and prompted an influx of immigration, especially among highly skilled and educated migrants from China, Taiwan, and India. At the same time, the response to these newcomers among long-time neighbors and city officials...
163) Positive I.D
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A year after she is raped, a housewife becomes determined to seek revenge. She creates a new identity, but only a thin line separates reality from fantasy.
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"After years of sacrifice to earn his medical degree, Doctor Jim Baker has finally achieved the lifestyle most only dream of. His new life, in an upscale normally crime-free Chicago suburb, is not the only one that is suddenly ripped apart by a series of unexplainable murders. ... No progress is made in any of the cases until investigators start accepting clues from some very unusual sources"--Page 4 of cover.
165) Disturbia
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When he is sentenced to three months of house arrest, teenager Kale Brecht starts spying on his neighbors and becomes convinced that a serial killer lives next door.
166) Surviving Carmelita
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After a fatal car accident involving the young daughter of a family friend, Josie leaves her Chicago home and young family to recover with a cousin in Key West, where an unlikely collection of people and circumstances come together to give her a chance at finding healing and redemption.
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"Recent studies have found that as many as one in five Americans have experimented with some form of sexual non-monogamy, and approximately one in fifteen knows someone who was or is polyamorous. Although gathering statistics on polyamorous people is challenging, there has clearly been a growing interest in and normalization of relationship practices defined by emotional intimacy and romantic love among multiple people. Over the past decade, the mainstream...
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"More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces how the ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat where...
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"Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro offers a critical new perspective on the emerging phenomenon of the global suburb in the western hemisphere. American suburban sprawl has created a giant human habitat stretching from Las Vegas to San Diego, and from Mexico to Brazil, presented here in a clear and comprehensive style with in depth descriptions and images. Challenging the ecological problems that stem from these flawed...
175) Bad mother: Vol. 1
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"A nerve-wracking thriller from crime writer Christa Faust and blockbuster artist Mike Deodateo Jr. When her teenaged daughter goes missing under mysterious circumstances, suburban soccer mom April Walters embarks on a harrowing mission to find her; a journey that takes her through the underbelly of her suburban community and sets her on a collision course with a massive crime syndicate and its lethal matriarch. Tested to her limits and beyond, April...
178) Corazones retorcidos
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Las vacaciones de verano de Ivy comienzan con un accidente, un castigo y un misterio: un extraño cuya aparición en medio del camino, en medio de la noche, anuncia una serie de eventos cada vez más inquietantes. A medida que pasan los días, Ivy lidia con ofertas espeluznantes, recuerdos corroídos y un secreto que siempre ha sabido: que hay más en su madre de lo que parece. En aquel entonces, el verano en que Dana cumplió dieciséis años, sus...