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1) Broken Road
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Deeply rich, emotionally complex romance perfect for fans of This is Us. Is twenty years too late for a second chance? Ruby Vasilakis fell in love once and never recovered. The life she built without him is small, manageable, and most important, safe. But when he walks through her door twenty years after first stealing her heart, safe is the last thing she feels. Vander Vitalis walked away from his soulmate not once, but twice. He can't blame her...
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Broken Roads Lead Me Here tells the true-life story of a boy born into unimaginable abuse in Glasgow in the sixties. By the age of eight, Colin had been abandoned by his mother and continued to be sexually, physically, emotionally, and spiritually traumatised by the man she left him with. Blunted by severe trauma, Colin went through one unimaginable nightmare after another, each more traumatising and soul shattering than the last, with no one to tell...
3) Broken Roads
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Kelsey has been in love with Michael for as long as she can remember. Growing up in the same town just houses apart, they were always in the same circle. However, Michael never seemed as interested in Kelsey as she was in him.
That was until the summer before high school. Michael finally asked her out. Kelsey couldn't have been happier. They dated through college and were about to be married. Thinking this was her happily ever after, she put her...
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What if you were forced to pack your belongings and leave your family, friends, career, home, and life behind? Could you say good-bye to everyone and everything you love, not knowing if you will see them again? That is what deportation is: permanent banishment from your home, family, friends, and job, from a life built over years. It is an extreme action that causes lasting harm to everyone it touches.
Broken Hope: Deportation and the Road...
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Every road, even the broken ones, will eventually lead us to our destination. We hope to find our place in the world, sometimes getting lost and straddled with the fear of never being found. Ultimately, it's that broken road that leads us to the meaning of life, love, and happiness.
You watched as Allison and Liam fell head over heels. You watched as they sealed their love with the bond of marriage. Now it's time to watch them take the next step...
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Step back in time and experience the charm and excitement of interior India in the 1980s and early 1990s. In "Once upon a time: Traveller's Tales," author R. Radhakrishnan takes you on a captivating journey through the heart of the Indian countryside in the eighties and nineties; where progress had been slow, and remnants of the colonial era still lingered.As a field officer for IBP Co. Limited, Radhakrishnan had a posting in the Malwa region of Madhya...
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Pavilion Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In an off-beat nuanced film, Rocksy, a small-time hustler, journeys into chaos to steal a car while his lady friend Rosie hangs a watercolor painting in their modest room and dreams of peace. The fight to survive their broken dreams and aspirations forces them to commit a crime that changes their lives forever. Shot on the streets of Kingston where poverty, beauty and desperation collide, this Jamaican story transcends its Island locale to become...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"From one of Australia's most prolific writers comes the engrossing, definitive chronicle of an infamous true-crime saga, about a father suspected of murdering his three sons, the trial that gripped a nation, and the brutal spectacle of Australia's criminal justice system. On the evening of September 4, 2005, Father's Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, in rural Australia. His car veered...
10) Powerless
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Chestnut Springs romances volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Two childhood friends. Two broken hearts. One impromptu road trip to get away from everything. That's all this was supposed to be. To Jasper Gervais's fans, he's the handsome, talented hockey heartthrob on TV. But to Sloane, he'll always be the lost boywith the sad eyes and a heart of gold. The man she's loved in secret all her life. So when her life falls apart on the day she's supposed to marry someone else, it only makes sense that he's the one...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"How did Puerto Rico end up in its current situation? A Spanish-speaking territory controlled by the United States and populated by the descendants of conquistadors, enslaved Africans, and indigenous inhabitants, this island (or rather archipelago) has aunique history. Jorell Melaendez-Badillo begins the book with an overview of the pre-Columbian societies and cultures that first inhabited Borikaen, the indigenous name of the Puerto Rican archipelago....
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Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"On All Other Nights is a joyful middle-grade anthology centered around Passover-from an exciting array of bestselling and award-winning Jewish creators! Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder-a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs-where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt. And yet this story...
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Willow Bay Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"The unique confluence of Jim Wilson's two careers - piano technician/confidant to the stars and a globally successful recording artist - has led to extraordinary experiences with some of the world's most exalted music legends: singing Beatle songs withPaul McCartney, limo rides with Elton John, road trips with Carole King, and horseback riding with Dan Fogelberg. But beyond this everyman's unique telling of intimate celebrity tales, Tuned In is an...