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The Love of a Widow' is an emotional, highly entertaining and even educational book by a talented new young Ugandan writer. The book tells the story of a kind lady, Pollah, who tragically lost her family in a terrible accident. This led to her becoming a widow and being lonely and bereft of support in the world. Yet Pollah never gave up trying to find new love, she expressed her new love in helping the children at the school who were once strangers...
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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been a disappointment to her Granny, whose dream of rearing a Perfect Southern Lady would never be quite fulfilled. But after all, as Florence reminds us, "no matter which sex I went to bed with, I never...
3) Finding Kait
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An unlikely friendship, a road trip filled with idyllic sunsets...and a million dollars of stolen cash.Kait De Lucca is the wife of a rich and influential businessman and has everything she could ever wish for. Except true love. And freedom. Then her best friend dies and Kait is beyond devastated. She's spent her whole life living by the rules and doing as she's told.So, when she breaks those rules, it's with spectacular results.With the voice of...
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La obra colectiva Perspectivas sociopedagógicas para la equidad de las mujeres Cuba-Quebec aborda el tema de la equidad de las mujeres cubanas y quebequenses desde diversas perspectivas sociopedagógicas. Estas reflexiones colectivas aspiran a un cambio social duradero. La equidad de las mujeres se aborda a través de nueve temas transversales: 1) el liderazgo de las mujeres; 2) las mujeres en la enseñanza superior y el mundo de la investigación;...
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American Eve Danaher is devastated when she loses her daughter in a bitter custody battle and four-year-old Victoria is whisked to Europe out of her reach. Eve counts the days until Victoria turns eighteen, dreaming of their reunion. But years of lies have transformed the horse-mad girl Eve loved into an angry stranger. Hopes for reconciliation shattered, Eve goes to the west of Ireland in a quest to find the peace that has eluded her for so long....
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My canvas is empty
until it is streaked with lines
of the world
of my heart.
In Finding Poetry, Finding Me, author Rebecca P. Bruckenstein explores the world around her and the relationships we have with ourselves and each other. She allows the musicality of poetry to infuse the way she walks in the world, stepping in and out of the past, present, and future. Through her work, she hopes readers will turn inward to discover a roadmap to finding...
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"This must be heaven, I thought. I studied his graceful movements, admiring Charlie as he walked around the room, as if it were my own private symphony."Abbey Jamison abandons her small East Coast town, planning to pursue her life's dream of earning her college degree, gaining valuable work experience, and opening her own successful business. What she doesn't plan is finding the love of her life. Meeting Charlie Wright, Abbey knows her life will be...
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Que veut dire coconstruction ? Que signifie la coconstruction dans la recherche partenariale ? Le livre Coconstruction en recherche partenariale : perspectives féministes propose une réflexion collective sur la notion de coconstruction, o coconstruire est synonyme de bâtir sur les idées des autres et de tirer profit de l'influence des autres. Cet ouvrage collectif vise à exposer et à comprendre comment la coconstruction est vécue et appliquée...
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She wasn't looking for a knight in shining armor. He wasn't looking for a beauty to rescue. But one fateful night at a Yankees game changed all that. For both of them."I met Finn the night the Yankees swept The Series. He dumped a Coke down the front of my shirt and I punched him in the nose. Not the most romantic way for two strangers to strike up a conversation, but he tried to dry me off with a napkin, and when his hand touched the front of my...
10) Her Boss's Baby
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When my sister and her husband die tragically in a car accident I become an insta-father, inheriting my three-year-old niece overnight. The problem is I'm a Spanish billionaire. Business, luxury, and caviar company is all I know. What am I supposed to do with a little girl? My answer, it seems, comes in the form of one very blonde and curvaceous Australian. She's a live-in nanny with a sterling track-record and the ability to work magic with kids....
11) Norma
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Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.
It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.
Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's free, gorging on an online riot of canceled soap operas, message boards, and grocery store focus groups. Transcribing chatter for fifty cents a minute. It's all of humanity-grim, funny, and desperate-wafting...
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Important conversations about leaning in, work/life balance, and empowering females around the world have energized a generation of women. Fast Forward, by two leaders, whose experience spans corporate America, public service, and global diplomacy, takes the next step. Through interviews with a network of more than seventy trailblazing women, Fast Forward shows women how to accelerate their growing economic power and combine it with purpose to find...
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A woman's coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal-set against the stark landscape of the far north.
Millicent is a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse to work for a failing daily newspaper. With winter looming and the Yukon descending into darkness, Millicent begins a relationship with Pascal, an eccentric and charming middle-aged filmmaker who lives on a converted school bus in a Walmart parking lot. What...
14) Bracing
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Bracing' is a full collection of poems, mostly about contemporary life, experienced richly, intensely, unsentimentally and with humour. The writing is humane and accessible, wearing its intelligence lightly. There is something for everyone in 'Bracing', even for those who were put off poetry at school. This is a mature, well-rounded piece of work. The subject matter ranges across modern life and beyond - childhood, parenthood, love, lust, loss, shopping,...
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Heather Browne's short fiction collection questions our ways of knowing. Each story's protagonist finds affinity in unexpected places: a moose in a kitchen helps old friends communicate; a skull saves a child from drowning. Browne's stories risk the intervention of the uncanny, and immersion in the elements. "…seductive, slippery, and sometimes a little shifty-eyed" – Diane Schoemperlen, author of This is Not My Life
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An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her bestselling...
17) Passion and Fire
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A flame is a beautiful thing. The way it dances in the shadows.Bringing joy to others. Glowing brightly…Flame by name. Fiery by nature.She too is on the move, from job to job.This time as a pole dancer.Aloof. Beautiful. Never staying in one place too long.Never getting attached to anyone.She is too strong willed for any man to tame her,And a certain talent she possesses has gotten her into trouble,on more than one occasion.Damien is a vampire and...
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An unsuspecting First Lady must rely on a Secret Service agent to discover who can be trusted-and who will do anything to keep control. When a shy, country girl from Virginia marries a prominent Georgetown attorney, her life is bound to change. But when that attorney is catapulted to the office of President of the United States, she is thrust into the position of First Lady-and uncovers a world of secrets and betrayals that alters everything she once...
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Written by someone who cared for teen girls just like you at one of the top children's hospitals in the United States, this book explains the often confusing world of hospital care. In down-to-earth terms, it helps you to understand the doctors, nurses, and other staff who will be caring for you.* It tells you how to be a patient that everyone likes and wants to help. Win their hearts, and they'll do a bit extra to make your stay enjoyable.* It gives...
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