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The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes...
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Forest Jenson lives the wild life, and the only thing he takes seriously is his career as a pastry chef. At thirty-five, he still spends all of his free time hooking up, hitting the town, and refusing to settle down. Growing up and having a family are the furthest things from his mind until an old one-night-stand crashes the party to inform him he has a daughter. A seven-year-old daughter.Ella Hartley has never met her father. In fact, for as long...
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Jason is a troubled young gay man looking for love and acceptance in the early 1990s. Living with his recently divorced mother, her personal venture for freedom brings nothing but drama and conflict into his life. His best friend, Merlot, is in love with him, but Jason is conflicted about his feelings.His need for validation leads to toxic relationships with emotionally unavailable men, and he turns to sex, drugs, and alcohol for comfort.When a violent...
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Raw. Visceral. Powerful. Victoria Vale brings a forced marriage, enemies-to-lovers mafia romance to the Leave Me Breathless Black Rose Collection.... Elena I never believed rumors of mobsters ruling the Miami underworld, until I came face to face with Diego Pérez-the ruthless head of a Colombian crime family. He says my father will die if he cannot pay back a loan he defaulted on. Our family is bankrupt, and Diego will accept nothing as collateral...
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Ms. Fraser survived many harrowing experiences. She was poisoned at three months old, raped at four years old, and abused by a partner with a weapon. God healed her from an eight-centimeter tumor spread on her spine. A high school student physically assaulted her; she suffered from five dislocated discs in her upper and lower back and two dislocated discs in her neck.
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Caught off guard, surprised by their own reactions, emotions bubble up that women fight to smother. Where did that come from?What can I do with this feeling that won't go away?Why do I feel and act this way?
Counselor Marilyn Meberg has been there too. When she got pregnant, she got scared. When her baby girl died, she got angry. When her husband died, she battled loneliness and sorrow. In between the peaks and valleys, Marilyn began to see a pattern...
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This anthology represents a selective literary collection of research and scholarship over fifty years of the author's professional career. At the time this manuscript was submitted to the publisher, America was experiencing an endemic in violent crime and mass shootings; death, destruction, and heartache over COVID-19; an increase in suicides among young people; a rise and proliferation of hate groups rooted in the philosophy of white supremacy;...
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Desire for beauty is at the heart of human existence. Some find this meaning out of their religious or spiritual perspective. Some find it at the edge of their traditions. And others find it outside any recognizable tradition. This book speaks especially to the second and third groups of people.
Desire releases us to explore difference, and to honor alternatives. Desire shapes our lives in unique ways. It centers our energies for personal and relational...
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Domestic equalizers volume 7
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"Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed, 'cuz Dixie Cash is the best good-night reading around! "-Nancy Martin, author of the Blackbird Sisters seriesThe Domestic Equalizers are back! Author Dixie Cash's delightful small town Texas hairdressers-turned-sleuths take on a new case in I Can't Make You Love Me, But I Can Make You Leave. A former Queen of Country Music, a long way from Nashville, faces a murder rap when her back-up singer...
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Niall Horan's third solo album and first since 2020's chart-topping Heartbreak Weather. Precede by its lead single Heaven, the album matches the pure emotion of his globally beloved past work with a powerful new element of soul-searching reflection.
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For years, when I fell asleep, I dreamed of a man with blazing green eyes and a cruel smile. The day I meet him, the ruthless mercenary leaves me for dead. Just hours after humans are born, the gods take what little power we have. In return, they protect our borders from the vicious, merciless fae. The humans who manage to keep their power are known as the corrupt. And they are burned. When my forbidden power is discovered, I'm forced to flee my tiny...