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41) It's Not Nothing
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Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a homeless shelter hidden among the hedge-rowed avenues of Newport, and through the revolving door of service jobs and quick-fix psychiatric care, always grasping for hope, for a solution. She's desperate to readjust back into a family and a world that has deemed her a crazy bitch living a choice they believe...
42) Circle of Time
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Based on historical facts, Circle of Time weaves the story of time traveler Bridget Littleton, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and Bridget's ancestor Sir John Lyttleton, into a dramatic and fascinating tale of love and betrayal. A student of Tudor history for 50 years, author Debra Shiveley Welch tells the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn as she truly believes they were, and unravels the complexities of Henrician politics. When 21-year-old Bridget Littleton...
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Bestselling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, and many of Mantle's friends, family, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In this fictional portrait, Mickey--now in heaven--realizes that he's carrying a huge weight on his shoulders, as he did throughout his life. He needs to unburden himself of...
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Laura tenía sueños grandes. Desde niña quiso ser enfermera. Se resistía al destino de las chicas de su generación: casarse, ocuparse del hogar y tener hijos. Como todo lo difícil le costó mucho trabajo y tuvo que poner todo su empeño en convertir su sueño en realidad.
Se adelantó a su tiempo desde muy pronto. Encontró un marido dispuesto a aceptar que hiciera compatible su decisión de trabajar y tener hijos, pero los celos terminaron...
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From New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Shana Abé comes, an epic novel of historical fiction in, the tradition of, The American Duchess, a sweeping love story between John Jacob Astor, the richest man in America, and teenaged beauty Madeleine Force, set against the backdrop of the drama and tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic.
"I won't begin with our ending, which everyone in the world knows anyway. Our beginning,...
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Even in death, he said, the novella's power would bind us together, all of us who had read it, appealing as it did equally to our emotions and our intellects.
A bond between three friends forms over a mutual fascination with an obscure Peruvian novella and is fractured by an accidental death. From the streets of Montreal's Plateau and Latin Quarter to the ruins of Machu Picchu, award-winning author Devon Code's Involuntary Bliss traces this tragic...
47) Longing
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Longing tells the story of the greatest artistic couple in history, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. They met when she was eight years old and he was seventeen, drawn together first by music and then by their passion for each other. Drawing on their letters and remarkably frank journals, J. D. Landis writes of Clara and Robert's enforced separations, their marriage, their artistic triumphs and failures, and finally their shared devotion to, and love...
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"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture -- one more after thousands -- she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens -- the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what...
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Una narrativa autobiográfica, que transcurre durante diez años de mi vida, la mitad en México y la otra mitad en la isla de Gran Canaria, junto al caballero mejicano, hombre que con su amor me despertó otra vez a la vida y a la ilusión de vivirla.
En ella, comienzo relatando cómo llegó a mi vida desde la infancia, cómo transcurrió nuestra existencia hasta que ya adultos nos volvimos a reencontrar y los acontecimientos que tuvimos que sortear...
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Trust Your Struggle is a novel that is intended to enlighten, empower, and inspire people who have been either directly or indirectly impacted by the criminal justice system. This is a story that explains how a child is able to survive the adult correctional system while overcoming her childhood traumas. The characters in the book are closely based on the true story and life of Carissa and she does a wonderful job of capturing most of the elements,...
51) Siempre te amaré
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Gracias a todos los lectores por haber leído este pequeño libro basado en una historia real.
Pareciera cosa extraña en dónde lo escribí; me encontraba en el taller donde trabajo, escribiendo y aprovechando los momentos en los que no tenía nada que hacer, no sé por qué ahí me dio por escribir.
Los demás trabajadores solo me miraban y quizás pensaban o tal vez dirían: "éste está loco".
Mi compañero Joel en algunas ocasiones cuando...
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Quand le regard de l'autre s'enfuit au milieu de nulle part, quand les souvenirs s'effacent sur le tableau de la vie et que les mots que l'on voudrait présents semblent perdus à jamais, se mêlent alors des sentiments de tristesse, de colère et d'impuissance dans le cœur des proches, mais naissent aussi une tendresse profonde et un amour renouvelé pour ceux et celles dont la mémoire s'est dérobée.
Dans ce florilège d'émotions enveloppé...
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Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not really working. Just when things seem most bleak, Sang Ly learns a secret about the hated, ill-tempered woman, the "the rent collector"-she...
55) Rat Six
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"Perchance I suffer only mildly from claustrophobia but when I learned of the horrors and scarcely imaginable dangers of the tunnels of Ku Chi under the Iron Triangle of Vietnam all
those years back, I was one big goosebump. Then I met and talked with Tunnel Rat Six, aka Jack Flowers. Now he has written his memoir, telling us the way it was. So if you are prepared to be really frightened (by proxy) read it." -Frederick Forsyth
"Jack Flowers has...
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Short stories and short-short stories about traveling rock musicians that focus on the unseen, less than glamorous side of touring as a struggling rock band-the personal tolls, the grueling poverty, the gnawing hunger for fame, and the small and unlikely moments of redemption. These characters are slowly realizing that their dreams are slipping away, that age and hard living have worn them down, that their funky, rootless, rock & roll lives have not...
57) Le Sursaut
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Through a window that I stare at every day, I watch my vocation unravel. What happened ? In the space of a week, pushed by an evil spirit, I went from purgatory to hell. My soul is bleeding, it can never happen like this again; It is not possible. I have to get over all of that. All my conversations end with the same litany: my job is killing me. I have nothing more to do here. Engaged in the fight against terrorism, against a distant enemy, I find...
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Le Franco-Ontarien, pour des raisons historiques, politiques et linguistiques, est un hybride tiraillé et ballotté dans un entre-deux incertain qui repose sur un socle mouvant. D'o le malaise persistant du Franco-Ontarien en quête de libération, qui cherche à vivre pleinement sa différence, à régler ses conflits intérieurs. Comment fait-il pour évoluer dans un tel contexte? Tout est question de métissage culturel et d'identité traquée...
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PHOENIX
An ancient feathered spirit who lived in a remote desert for a long time, where it was consumed repeatedly by fires a muse would set, only to rise from the ashes of each..remade, renewed, and more evolved, and however much before the muses arrive, it may dive, tumble, fall.. or occasionally land and to something cling, but never at the expense of losing its wings
THE ROSE CHAPTERS
A story of a pilgrim in search of love from...
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Jason Wittman , M.P.S., is fond of saying, "All teens are young adults deserve 24/7 access to at least one responsible, caring adult who loves them unconditionally." Unfortunately, many teens get cut off from their families and end up on the streets fending for themselves. For the past thirty-five years, Jason has been a father figure to countless teens and young adults. Follow Jason, the Street Shrink, as he deals with street violence, suicides,...
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