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Annalisse and Dennis seem to be living the American dream until Annalisse's secret past and the effects of post-traumatic stress syndrome threaten to destroy her family.
This skillfully crafted novel explores the long-term effects of personal tragedy in haunting flashbacks of Annalisse's former life-flashbacks that are interwoven with a passionate romance and reveal a person entirely different from the woman Dennis thought he married.
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In December 1913, the city of Vienna glitters with promises of the future for nineteen-year-old socialite Amalia Faulhaber. Then, almost without warning, life takes a dramatic turn as simmering political unrest escalates into World War I, the most deadly war the world has yet known.
Amalia is devastated when the Prussian baron Eberhard von Waldburg breaks off their engagement to return to his native Germany and a commission in the army. But while...
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Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor,Clay and Bonesis the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI.
Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic artist. The idea of using her artistic skill to help victims of crime was too compelling to pass up.
Soon she was documenting crime scenes, photographing charred corpses, and digitally retouching...
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Morgette and the Shadow Bomber is the sixth volume of the adventures of Dolf Morgette, the legendary gunfighter and lawman of the Old West. While in Alaska, he hears about a series of mysterious bombings in Pinebluff, Idaho. At first he doesn't think that he and his family are in any danger. It sounds to him like the bombings are directed at mine owners, probably by disgruntled miners who are unhappy about recent cuts in wages. But he is very wrong....
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For Kalvin Barnes, the only thing that comes close to the rush of playing the knockout game is watching videos of the knockout game. Kalvin's crew always takes videos of their KOs, but Kalvin wants more-something better. He thinks if someone could really see the game for what it was, could appreciate it, could capture the essence of it-that would be a video for all time. The world would have to notice. That's where Erica comes in. She's new in town....
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Welcome to Blandings Castle, a place that is never itself without an imposter.Wodehouse himself once noted that "Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice." On this particular occasion there are two, both intent on a dangerous enterprise. Lord Emsworth's secretary, the Efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is afoot-despite the distractions caused by the Honorable Freddie Threepwood's hapless affair of the heart.Freddie...
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In galactic terms, the Earth lives in a dangerous neighborhood. Seven times in the past humanity has reached for the stars, only to have their civilization destroyed by an extinction event. The scattered surviving pockets of humanity returned to a meager agrarian existence, with little or no retention of their prior technology and knowledge base. As fuel and food stocks were depleted, those survivors without the ability to acquire more, perished.This...
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Our adventurers wizards head forth to the Trader Kingdom of Cardion City. There they find new and wonderful things that stir their creativity and imagination. They meet family and friends and get themselves into big trouble. The Darkness of the world seems to be seeping in and how to venture on is still a deep question they have to answer.
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Hablemos sobre nuestros adorables amigos, la relación entre los seres humanos y sus queridas mascotas, en particular los perros, ha evolucionado a lo largo de los años. En la actualidad, muchos consideran a sus perros como miembros de la familia, compartiendo con ellos un vínculo profundo y afectuoso. Como resultado, la salud y el bienestar de nuestros fieles compañeros de cuatro patas se han convertido en una prioridad en nuestros hogares. Una...
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The Independent Guide to Universal Orlando 2024 is the latest and greatest edition of the best-selling theme park guidebook series. This guide is fully up to date with new additions and changes to the theme parks.Book Highlights:Theme Parks - Details on every ride, show, restaurant and activity at Universal Studios Florida, Universal's Islands of Adventure and Volcano Bay Water Park.Hotels - All the hotels at the resort and what advantages they offer.Skip...
17) Reclaiming Pride
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Grigori & Matisse must accept their destiny and learn to trust each other before they can face the enemy they know...and the one they never saw coming The first time Grigori Federov, Zenith of the Wall, dreamed of his Kindred, he feared Crowley's good fortune was making him wish for things he couldn't have. As much as he doesn't want to get his hopes up, the man in his dreams is in trouble, and every time they connect, the threat is worse. Accepting...
19) Dressed in White
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When love is real there are no obstacles toprevent a couple from rejoicing. Harry and Dina believed itwell, but fate taught him that happiness can beas ephemeral as life itself and that at the end of everythingonly vestiges of suffering remain and the memory of aglorious love that, ironically, afflicts the heart.
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Why do people tell dirty jokes?
And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny?
G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know, his Rationale of the Dirty Joke remains the most exhaustive and authoritative study of the subject.
More than two thousand jokes and folktales are presented, covering such topics as The Female Fool, The Fortunate Fart, Mutual Mismatching, and...