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xvii, 218 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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In a practical guide to creating meaningful and memorable written messages, the author explains how to write a well crafted letter to suit a variety of circumstances, ranging from condolence and congratulations to illness and fund-raising.
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(Rebecca J.).Letters of enchantment volume 2
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English
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Two weeks after returning home from the front, Iris and Attie seize another chance to report on Dacre's movements, while Roman, who has lost his memory and is stuck in Dacre's realm, becomes entangled in a mysterious pen pal correspondence, leading to a pivotal decision that could impact the course of the war and his relationship with Iris.
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"In the hands of author Elizabeth H. Cottrell, the handwritten note is set free from old-fashioned irrelevance to become a superpower tool for connecting with others. Heartspoken: How to Write Notes that Connect, Comfort, Encourage, and Inspire will guide you to uncovering your own unique note-writing voice and give you the confidence to use it. Consider the flipping of a light switch. You can't see the electricity. You may not even understand how...
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258 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, where she is living with her strict grandparents, and rejoin her mother, a carefree singer in San Francisco. But Mama's new husband doesn't think a little girl should live with parents who work all night and sleep all day. Lexie's class has been raising money to ship a doll to the children of Japan in a friendship exchange, and when Lexie learns...
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464 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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An ode to the dwindling art of letter writing explores its potential salvation in the digital age, chronicling the history of letter writing as reflected by love letters, chain mail, and business correspondence, while surveying the role that letters have played as literary devices.
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"What would happen if the intimate secrets you shared with your sister suddenly went viral? Sisters Cassie and Sid Sunday have not done a bang-up job of keeping in touch. In their defense, it hasn't been easy: Life veered in sharply different directions for the once-close sisters. Today, beautiful and bighearted Sid lives an expat's life of leisure in far-off Singapore, while harried, iPhone-clutching Cassie can't seem to make it work as a wife and...
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Wings of the nightingale volume 2
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English
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Serving as a flight nurse during World War II, Lieutenant Georgia Taylor finds her comfortable private life thrown into question by her tenuous bond with a pharmacist serviceman who harbors resentment over lingering grievances.
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English
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"Originally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused of murder, she is on the run, and she turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her, each telling her that she represents their ideal a respectable family man, a far-left activist, a cynical artist, an evangelist, a playboy, and a lost soul. Each reacts to her plight in his own way, their...
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Wings of the nightingale volume 1
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English
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A wartime correspondence between a World War II flight nurse and an army engineer takes an unexpected twist when she arrives to evacuate the wounded in his battalion.
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278 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Reggie and Nigel Heath--brothers who lease law offices at 221B Baker Street in London, England, and answer mail addressed to the location's most famous resident, Sherlock Holmes--find themselves pulled once again into a case straight out of Arthur Conan Doyle.
15) Blue flowers
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201 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic...
16) I wanna new room
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
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English
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Through a series of brief letters to his parents, Alex presents all the reasons why he should not have to share a room with his younger brother.
17) Above and beyond
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English
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Trevor's love for Kyla, the widow of his best friend, is complicated by a secret that threatens to destroy their fragile relationship.
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xiii, 207 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Witty, moving, informative, and inspiring, Signed, Sealed, Delivered begins with Nina Sankovitch's discovery of a trunk filled with a trove of hundred-year-old letters in an old house she has just bought with her husband. They are from a Princeton freshman to his mother. Sankovitch cannot help think of her own son, who is about to go off to Harvard, and of the letters she's kept and cherished from a beloved sister and from her husband. From there...
20) I love Dick
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1 audio disc (8 hrs., 27 min.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a married, failed independent filmmaker falls for one of her husband's colleagues, the titular Dick, the filmmaker embarks to allure Dick with the assistance of her husband, who is open-minded and consenting enough to help.
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