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Princess Adriana is about to leave the Kingdom of Ayrden on the Journey of her sixteenth year.
If she is ever to ascend to the throne, Adriana must go-alone and unarmed-into the unknown. She's been trained and gifted for the Journey, just like all the royals who preceded her-even the ones who never returned.
Adriana leaves Ayrden on Sultan, the black stallion gifted to her by her brother just the day before at her birthday celebration. With bravery...
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An elderly woman and a young boy team up to save the countryside. Old Frances Crawford is looking for wild mushrooms when she hears the gunshot. A few minutes later, the teenage hunter blunders into her clearing, two dead rabbits over his shoulder. As an apology for hunting on her land, Wilson offers her one of the rabbits, and Frances is happy to take it. She hasn't been able to afford meat for some time. He is handing it over when she falls at his...
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On a sun-dappled street in Naples, Florida, Jim Franza, a retired litigator, is hit by a car in front of his home. His wife Ivy, her best friend Marge Coppola and young neighbor Elena Pineda, watch in horror as Jim is killed instantly and the driver runs from the scene. Ivy is devastated and turns to alcohol for comfort. She blames the driver and Elena for Jim's death since Elena was with the driver minutes before he raced down the road. Elena feels...
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Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue, and often doesn't even try to do so. This fuels...
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Hardin's sixth collection attempts to behold language anew, to listen in on its "preview of eternity." Aware of ambiguities, his poems nonetheless speak openly to existence, to the mind's "attempts/to console itself," and to the "intoxication of incoherence" existence so often feels like.
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Experience the Journey of Success in a Brand New Way.
One of the most valuable things you can learn is how the principles and structures of all embodied experiences are primarily rooted in the structures of Consciousness. Consciousness is primary and all embodied experience is secondary. That includes how you experience success in all avenues of your life. In Nothing in the Way: Clearing the Paths to Success & Fulfilment, Kidest OM takes you deep...
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The meanderings and twists and turns of real-life told through the poetry of a crazy mind... or am I sane? You decide...
What if I told you all is not as it seems...
What if I told you this is the land of dreams...
Dive inside, come on, let's see... the twists and turns of the life we see.
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Are you tired of being overwhelmed, depressed and feeling out of control in your life ? "If I told you that it is possible to clear the way towards making positive changes, is that something that would interest you?” If you answered yes to both of these questions, then this book is for you. It will provide you with an awareness of different types of clutter that exist that may be weighing you and your family down. “Release The Clutter" Offers...
9) Past, Present, & Future: Clearing Your Past, for Living in the Present, and Manifesting Your Future
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Everyone has a past, our goal is to live in the present, the future is not written yet. The question is, do we allow our past to sabotage our future?
Many people today know they have the ability to manifest goals and dreams in their lives, and yet for many, even though they put the techniques into practices, it does not work so well. Why?
We all carry around old home movies in our heads, some embarrassing, some treasured. We tend to hang onto them....
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All learning is based on the mastery of essential literary skills, and in this impactful title from author and reading specialist Peg Grafwallner, educators will discover tools they need to embed literacy into all subjects. Using this book's skill-building strategies and reproducibles, educators can effectively teach those literacy skills to support developing students as they learn to read, write, and think critically.
Through this title, educators...
11) In the Clear
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On her seventh birthday, Pauline rode across the lawns on her street followed by her best friend Henry, he on the blue wooden horse, she on the red. On the seventh lawn at the top of the street, she collapsed, becoming a sudden victim of the polio outbreak of the summer of 1954.
Five years later, when In the Clear begins, she has survived, but paid a heavy price. A brace on her left leg allows her to walk, but she confines herself to her house, humiliated...
12) In the Clear
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He needs to keep the gorgeous competition out of his head... and his bed.
Former FBI agent Abe Royal believes in hard work, justice, and a suit for every occasion. He's hot on the trail of an elusive book thief when he realizes he's being followed... by a sultry, cunning stranger.
Ambitious, young detective Sloane Argento has just been handed the case of a lifetime. It's a challenge she's prepared to meet head-on. Until she finds herself in a sexy...
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Written as a sequel to her groundbreaking memoir Roughing it in the Bush, Susanna Moodie's Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush candidly explores the communities that developed along Lake Ontario in the 1850s. Based on her experiences of living in Belleville, Ontario, Moodie utilizes her sharp wit and observant eye to create a vivid imagining of society life in mid-nineteenth century Canada.
Moving from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Life in the Clearings...
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Written in a soaring prose, Butler's haunting and powerful stories blend Vietnamese folklore and contemporary American realities, creating a vibrant panorama that is epic in its scope. This new edition includes two previously uncollected stories...
15) London match
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Bernard Samson novels volume 3
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Bernard Samson suspects there is a traitor within his
department of MI6. A jaded but highly skilled British intelligence agent
nearing the end of his career, Samson already got KGB major Eric Stinnes to defect.
But when a British KGB agent makes a sweeping confession with a suspicious
undertone, the finger points straight back to London-where Stinnes is locked
up, refusing to talk.
The spy who's in the clear doesn't exist. In the spectacular
third...
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In this bestselling compilation of essays, written in the clear-eyed, uncompromising language for which he is famous, Orwell discusses with vigor such diverse subjects as his boyhood schooling, the Spanish Civil War, Henry Miller, British imperialism, and the profession of writing.
17) River Vale
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River Vale explores a historically rich community that has been known over the years as the Overkill Neighborhood, Harrington Township, Washington Township, and the borough of Eastwood. One of the first settled areas of the Kakiat Patent, River Vale was the scene of the Baylor Massacre, New Jersey's bloodiest skirmish of the Revolutionary War. The area's fine farmland enabled some of Bergen County's earliest settlers to flourish. Strong streams
...18) Tracker
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Only thirteen, John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for his family's winter meat, and in doing so finds himself drawn to the doe who leads him and hating his role as hunter.
A thirteen-year-old boy must come to terms with the approaching death of his beloved grandfather, with whom he shares a very special relationship.
20) The Tree of Life
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For in the clearing's center stood the Tree of Life. He had met the symbol too often in patterns and designs not to recognize it, but here that fabulous thing was living, growing, actually springing up from a rooted firmness in the spangled grass as any tree might spring. Yet it could not be real.