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52281) Verity river: Roman
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Le rêve d'une amoureuse de la nature perturbé par d'étranges événements...
Passionnée par la nature et les animaux depuis sa plus tendre enfance, Verity était bien décidée à tout mettre en œuvre pour réaliser son rêve, lorsqu'un chat pour le moins kamikaze, un accident de car et un étrange personnage d'un autre monde, d'une autre réalité, changèrent son existence à tout jamais. Verity allait avoir l'occasion de réaliser son rêve...
52282) As Far as the Stars
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How do you change what's already written in the stars? Christopher is the sort of guy that no one notices, yet when Air catches sight of him making intricate paper birds in the airport, she can't look away. But their worlds are about to collide in ways they never expected. Someone they love is on Flight 0217 from London Heathrow. And it's missing. Convinced that her brother was on a different flight, Air drives them hundreds of miles across the country,...
52283) Created
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A professor questions science and faith as he searches for the truth-and a dinosaur-in this suspenseful, action-packed adventure. After his sister's death sends him into the loving arms of God, paleontology professor Travis Perego fights to reconcile the career he's devoted his life to with his fragile new faith. His struggle between evolutionary theory and the Bible soon attracts the attention of the dean who makes at least one thing clear in Travis's...
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What is a natural cure for her headaches, migraines, peripheral neuropathy, and fibromyalgia? Earlier civilizations developed knowledge and information by observing natural world around them.
Even today, less developing countries are relying for all their health cures on herbal natural medicine. Today across the USA, there are many herbal stores that are selling only herbs for different illnesses. Such stores are growing in popularity with the American...
52285) Awayward
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In her foreword to Awayward, National Book Award–winning poet Jean Valentine writes, "Jennifer Kronovet's poems in Awayward are so surprising and compelling and beautiful, so intelligent and felt. Kronovet uses simple words and works at a mysterious depth, one we can enter with gladness. "Written while Kronovet was living in Beijing, Awayward illuminates the sense of disconnect that travelers experience when their major touchstones of language and...
52286) She Plays to Win
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A recent Purdue University study showed that, in 2019, 95% of TV coverage, including highlights on sports networks, focused on men's sports. That doesn't leave much room for women, and female athletes are more than fed up with this inequality. One of those athletes, Prabhleen Kaur Lamba, decided to interview a number of top female athletes, and reflect on many other issues that female athletes face. In this breakout book, She Plays to Win, Lamba features...
52287) À la recherche du bonheur
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"À la recherche du bonheur" exprime des émotions, des expériences et des réflexions personnelles qui ne manqueront pas de susciter des réactions chez les lecteurs. Il inaugure une nouvelle étape d'un parcours littéraire, o l'auteure s'attache à l'exploration de la beauté et de la profondeur de la langue française.
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Rim Johnny, ancienne professeure d'université, est une éminente poétesse engagée en faveur de la...
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The voices of rural midwestern women are missing from the relatively new field of Civil War–era women's history. This growing literature has focused on women of the Confederacy, and the voice of northern women traditionally only subsumes those in urban settings or of the middleclass who participated in aid societies. Rural northern women, especially from the Midwest, are largely absent from scholarly publications.
When Slavery and Rebellion Are...
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Letters from Alice can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.
This is PART 1 of 3.
It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her life forever. Thrown into secrecy after an unexpected turn, Alice was determined to keep bewildered...
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What if you could heal the world by eradicating racism, one person at a time? This is the question that motivated the writing of AFFIRMED. Based upon actual lived experiences, AFFIRMED answers the question for the writer, yet for the reader, only time and intention will tell.
Written as a compilation of thirteen "life lessons", AFFIRMED breaks a silence about being biracial in America: the love, the heartache- and the resiliency of an exceptional...
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Clare Marie Edgeman's journey to Finding F*ck Yes is chocolate cake in an era of paleo diets and the Whole 30: indulgent, sticky, and not diet-culture friendly. From her nerdy teenage years in rural Montana to her empowered late twenties in New York City, this vulnerable memoir is simultaneously hilarious, heartwarming, and painfully, beautifully authentic.
Edgeman holds nothing back in this striking debut, as she describes her unconventional and...
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The Outer Banks of North Carolina attract those with a conviction to dream and do. Explorers, pirates, lifesavers and the world's first pilots decorate the halls of local history.
Some of the Outer Banks' greatest accomplishments are due to daring women who pushed the odds. Eleanor Dare created a new life amidst a doomed colonial expedition, Chrissy Bowser found her freedom as the Civil War rocked Roanoke Island, and Irene Tate watched the Wright...
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In this book, I will walk you through a few of my traumas (childhood trauma, abandonment, a murder case, trying to find a job with a record, rape, family trauma), what they made me feel like and what things I was displaying during each trauma. Maybe you can identify yourself in my actions/feelings, even if you can't identify yourself in the exact trauma I went through. I will also tell you what tools I used to get to where I am now, on the other side...
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When Peggy Nash first decided to run for elected office, she had no idea where to start, who to contact, or what the rules were. For those who are underrepresented in political life, politics can seem like a secret society designed to shut them out.
“Taking Office” is a practical handbook for activist women on how to open doors and take their place in the political process. Find out how to build a team, get nominated, inspire volunteers, and canvass...
52295) Raised as a Lie
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What if everything you ever believed about yourself was a lie?
Raised As A Lie is a complex and moving memoir about race, identity, worthiness and trauma. This compelling emotional tale catapults the reader into a world of deception and family secrets that leaves one astounded. In Raised As a Lie, Dr. Naeema Olatunji shares a vulnerable exploration of the denial, deceit, abuse and racism faced in her formative years. The memoir inspires reflection...
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A Fatal Secret
A young boy is found dead at the bottom of a well. It looks like a tragic accident — but Ryder and Loveday suspect otherwise...
A Fatal Truth
When a garden shed goes up in flames with someone trapped inside, WPC Trudy Loveday and the coroner are sent to investigate...
A Fatal Affair
Ryder and Loveday must crack the case when a young girl is found brutally strangled on a village green
52297) My Name Is Love
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Right out of high school, Darlene Love began singing lead vocals for legendary producer Phil Spector, cutting such classic hits as the number one "He's a Rebel," "Da Doo Ron Ron," and "He's Sure the Boy I Love." As part of the girl group the Blossoms, she held a regular spot on television's Shindig!, and with Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans she toured the country.
Later, she sang backup-and collected numerous scintillating backstage stories-with,...
52298) Fanny Says
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An "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O'Connor. A cross-genre...
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Infertility is one of the most painful and painfully common of human experiences. One in six couples will experience fertility challenges when they attempt to get pregnant, and while more and more people have spoken openly about infertility in recent years, the experience can still be incredibly isolating.
But none of us is alone in our struggles. In fact, infertility is a universal part of the human experience that is mentioned in the earliest...
52300) Christmas at the Little Waffle Shack: The festive, feel-good read from bestseller Helen Rolfe
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Heritage Cove is in full swing for the festive season and as the temperature dips, who will be lucky in love this Christmas?
It's December in Heritage Cove and along with the village Christmas tree, frosty mornings and the promise of the most wonderful time of the year, the new waffle shack is about to open. And its owner isn't a stranger to the Cove, because after all this time, Daniel is back to make amends with his brother Harvey – as well as...
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