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Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love. -- publisher marketing.
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People wake up and face extraordinary circumstances every day. Maybe you're experiencing something hard right now. Maybe you wonder how you'll get over it. Maybe all it takes is to make one life-changing choice... Replace anger with forgiveness through studying the real-life examples of seven inspiring mentors. Avoid discouragement by purposefully recognizing God's hand in your life. Diminish the heartache from tragedy through the concentrated act...
3) Flip flop!
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Random House
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[2011]
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English
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Rhyming text explores the many options that summer presents to two best friends, from swimming in a pool versus swimming in the sea, to wearing flip flops versus going barefoot.
4) Glass chin
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Phase 4 Films
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[2015]
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English
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Former boxing champ Bud "The Saint" Gordon has fallen from grace and is living in a rundown apartment. Down on his luck and desperate to turn his life around, he makes a deal with a corrupt businessman to work as an enforcer and collect on outstanding debts. After a job gone wrong, he is framed for murder and has to make a tough choice between friendship and integrity.
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People make hundreds of choices every day -- both large and small -- yet most individuals feel they have little control over their own lives. Now Gary Zukav, author of the monumental bestseller The Seat of the Soul, joins his spiritual partner, Linda Francis, in a revolutionary look at the power of choice and how to use it wisely. They explain how changing our decision-making can help us avoid self-defeating patterns of thought and action -- and help...
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Very short introductions volume 71
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"We make choices all the time - about trivial matters as well as important ones that affect our lives and those of others. We also constantly judge the decisions that other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational and what guides our own choices, especially in cases where we do not have complete information about the outcomes? What strategies should be applied in making...
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"Jamie Beaton was admitted to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Wharton, Columbia, Harvard Law, Yale Law, Cambridge, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Stanford Business School and was awarded the Schwarzman Scholarship before he turned 26. In [this book], he shares his insider knowledge about the elite college admissions process with you, delivering honest and effective advice guaranteed to maximize your chances of getting into the school of your choice"...
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Charlesbridge
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[2023]
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English
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Best friends April and Mae are having a Saturday movie night at April's house: Mae brings the pizza, half pineapple for April, half pepper for herself, and April picks the movie, a scary movie which she knows Mae likes--April does not like scary movies but the friends realize that that is OK as long as they like each other.
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""So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth this provides!"-Aimee Bender. Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and...
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"When troubled teenager Immy disappears, she leaves her widowed mother Bea completely devastated. Bea pours her love into her six-year-old niece Phoebe, even taking her in when her single father Ewan takes a job abroad. Then Immy returns, in desperate need of her mother's help and love. But Ewan is clear: he will never let Bea see Phoebe again if she welcomes her daughter back. As Bea grapples with this impossible choice between two girls who sorely...
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Deluged with messages that range from "It's Ivy League or bust" to "It doesn't matter where you go," college applicants and their families often find themselves lost, adrift in a sea of information overload. Finally-a worthy life preserver has arrived. The Enlightened College Applicant presents a no-nonsense account of how students should approach the college search and admissions process. Instead of providing recycled entrance statistics or anecdotal...
13) Cora's decision
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The Spirit Squads that represent the different castles are an important part of the Kingdom of Neptunia, and Cora and Shyanna are delighted to be chosen--but their friend Rachel was left out, and when Cora finds out why, she is forced to make a big decision.
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ABC Studios
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2010.
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English
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Out of nowhere, a mysterious flash causes nearly everyone in the world to lose consciousness and gain a glimpse of his or her life six months into the future. As one elite FBI unit attempts to solve the mystery, the rest of the world's population soon discovers that, when it comes to destiny, nothing is set in stone. Includes 22 episodes, featurettes, commentary, interviews, blooper reel, and deleted scenes.
17) Just like fate
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Simon Pulse
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2013
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English
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"With her Grandmother dying, Caroline is given a choice to either stay by her Gram's side or go to the biggest party of the year. The story is told in alternating chapters, revealing what happens if Caroline stays or goes"--
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Are You Living with the Stress of An Overwhelmed Schedule and Aching With the Sadness of an Underwhelmed Soul? Lysa TerKeurst is learning that there is a big difference between saying yes to everyone and saying yes to God. In The Best Yes she will help you, Cure the disease to please with a biblical understanding of the command to love. Escape the shame and guilt of disappointing others by learning the secret of the small no. Overcome the agony of...
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Hazelden
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Ever wonder why some people seem to be at peace despite the ups and downs daily life can bring, while others are restless even in seemingly ideal circumstances? In Choosing a Good Life, Alyson Berman explores what it means to be at peace with ourselves, our choices, and the world around us in all its glorious chaos. She takes us into the lives of people who, despite their vastly different talents, challenges, and interests, have achieved a deep sense...
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