John Knowles
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Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
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Handling risk is one of the chief goals of organizations, mainly in the InfoSec program. Risk management delivers the vehicle for the balance between compliance and security. Businesses need to defend their data by launching and upholding an operational risk management platform. Organizations must considered their environment, resources, threats, and sensitivity of their data. In this book, you will learn the fundamentals of risk management with security,...
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Zak and Jason look forward to the next episode of their favorite television series: StarTrick. But when Zak makes a mess giving his dog a bath, he is banned from watching television. When learning about the solar system in class, Zak makes his friends laugh by showing a book on the extraterrestrials. The whole class is punished by having to take a science test.
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When the Maffiolo brothers enter their bulldog into a dog show, Zak decides to register his dog as well. Zak and his friends work together to get Princess ready for the competition. After receiving another bad grade in math, Zak's parents want to get Zak a tutor. In hopes to avoid a mean tutor, Zak invents a fake teacher.
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After reading a magazine, Zak is terrified that aliens are living disguised among the human population. His friends do not believe him until they see their teacher with green hair! Zak accidentally breaks his sister's "Teeny Weeny Bunny" DVD. Zak has a great idea to re-records scenes from the DVD.
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To get out of a test, Zak tries to catch Olivia's hurt hip. When he finds out it is not contagious, he wears a false cast on his arm to get out of the test. Zak and Jason decide to dress up the neighbor Mrs. Lightfinger's cat as the superhero, Badcat, for a photo competition in their favorite magazine.
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Zak wants a toy robot called the Exterminator for his birthday. His parents only want to buy Zak something with educational value. Zak arranges to swap toys with Ulysses to get the robot. Zak needs to carry a peanut on his head for eight hours to break the school's world record. But the Maffiolo brothers are attempting the same record.
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It is sports day. The day's champion will go on to represent the school at the inter-school games! Zak knows he is not the best at gymnastics, so he has to make a huge effort to beat the Maffiolo brothers. Zak's class are on a camping trip at Black Fang Castle. The castle is said to be haunted by the ghost of the White Lady.
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Mr. Perceivall is letting the children choose their school trip destination and finance it themselves. But Zak ruins their fundraising idea. Zak borrows Alban's latest Gamekid console, but accidentally breaks it. Zak decides that he can work to earn money and buy a new one for Alban.
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Zak only needs one more card to complete his Star Trick collection album. The only problem is that the Mafiolo brothers have two of them. Zak must make a deal to get the card he needs. Zak wants to prove that he is a real magician. Zak decides to make Gerald, the class gerbil, disappear. Only, Gerald disappears in real life and Zak has to try to get him back.
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Mrs. Lightfinger is offering a reward to anyone who finds her cat, Sapphire. When Zak and his friends come across a cat that looks a lot like hers, they decide to give it a little bit of a makeover to win the reward. On a day trip to a farm, Zak and his friends decide to go on a night-time rescue mission to set a goat free.
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Zak and Alban are chosen as team captains for the class soccer game. Rather than by the training, Zak's team look for lucky items that famous soccer players wear to make them play better. Zak accidentally breaks a nose off of a statue. Zak is convinced he has super-powers because he did not get caught. Impressed by his gift, his friends ask him to grant their wishes.
17) A separate peace
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World War II rages overseas, the prestigious Devon prep school holds a summer session for boys trying to graduate before they are drafted. Among the students are two unlikely new roomates - Gene, a quiet, introspective bookworm; and Finny, a carefree and wildly popular athlete. Charmed by Finny, Gene joins him for a series of exciting escapades. But when Gene's grades decline, he suspects that Finny secretly wants him to fail. Fueled by anger and...
18) Golden years
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After five decades of law-abiding, tax-paying citizenship, retired couple Martha and Arthur are forced into an unexpected life of crime in this star-studded comedy heist caper.