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It's the oldest story in the world: Boy meets Girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. But when the boy is Nick Sharman, and the girl has a violent ex-jailbird as an old boyfriend, who promises extreme retribution on anyone who gets involved with her, it's never going to be that simple... and both Sharman and the girl are looking at a lot of trouble.
With a bent brief planning an audacious multi-million pound robbery with a bunch of heavy duty thugs in...
2) Soft Parade
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Rev. Lawrence Schmetterling, the pastor of an evangelical church in Colorado Springs, meets the wrong woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. Early in the morning, while driving him back to her place to beget a multitude of sins, she pulls off on the side of the road and shoots him in the face.
When Pastor Larry's mind suddenly awakens in a black hole, he believes he's dead and this dark, empty place is Hell.
But is he really dead? And is this...
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In the depths of the Depression, a young girl goes to live in the country Although the Depression has destroyed Detroit's economy, Elsa cannot imagine living anywhere else. She loves her friends, her family, and the hustle and bustle of the great industrial city. But when a mysterious illness forces her to miss half of fifth grade, her parents take drastic action and send her to stay with her grandmama to heal. Not just for a week. Not just for a...
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In this memorable story, a young boy finds solace flying his kite from the rooftop after soldiers take his father and brother away.
Without his father and brother, the young boy's life is turned upside down. He and his family have to stay inside, along with everyone else in town. At suppertime, he can't stop looking at the two empty places at the table and his sister can't stop crying. The boy looks out the window and is chilled to see a tank's spotlight...
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I don't know what happened to my life.Just a few months ago, I was independent and had an exciting job I loved. Now, along with my friends, I'm in hiding.Why? Because I'm one of the Five, a group of human women bestowed with powers and abilities to fight and control supernatural beings. A prophesy was written about us centuries ago. We are supposed to save the world, though none of us knows how. Now, Cornelius, the leader of a malevolent group known...
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"I'd been up 35 hours, flown across the world, and watched my sister die ... it was time for a hot American shower, a bed, and a new day."
In this true story, Kim Green takes readerson her journey through two simultaneous stories that inspire great faith. In 2015, she walked intimately through her sister's last months of fighting cervical cancer and two international adoptions. Finding Home is a tale of standing on faith and the Word of God,...
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A murdered groom. An unexpected baby. A vengeful father. Can the killer's brother save the day?Raised in foster homes, when Jess Bentley promised, 'til death do us part,' she envisioned many happy decades building a family with Frank. But a desperate drug addict in a dark parking lot ended those dreams before the honeymoon was over. Convinced the empty place in her heart will never heal, she's ready to give up-until she discovers their brief marriage...
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In this long-awaited follow-up to New York Times bestseller The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi, discover the stories of key men and women from the Bible who changed the world and whose stories continue to offer life, hope, and direction for today.
The God of the Way is a grand story of scriptural faith and the people who changed the world forever. Merging the ancient with the modern, bestselling author Kathie Lee Gifford partners once again with Rabbi...
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You wake up after a divorce or break-up on tear-stained pillows. Though you know you need to get out of bed, you have no motivation to do it. You mentally force yourself to get up and tell yourself, "It's a new day!", but it sounds fake even to yourself. As you start your morning routine, you start thinking whether you'll ever be in a lasting relationship. You wonder what you've done wrong. You feel hopeless, overwhelmed, and simply - sad. As you...
10) Killing Time
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Urban Explorers love the excitement of 'exploring' long-abandoned buildings, searching for mysteries in the dark, empty places. But when one such explorer takes a solo tour of a decaying mansion near Cherringham, he discovers that some houses can turn fatal. Just a careless accident? His friends don't believe so and call on Jack and Sarah to investigate. And before long it's clear that the past can harbour deadly secrets that nobody is safe from...
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11) Anyone But Me
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Cincinnati baker Paul Whiteside is a good man. He owns his own business, volunteers, tithes at church, and has just meet a nice girl. Still, he wonders if there is more to life, something meaningful, something to fill the empty place in his heart (soul? spirit?). When he picks up a brochure after church one Sunday, he is compelled to accept the challenge-The Experience of Becoming Poor. He embarks on a thirty-day pilgrimage to live and work with the...
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On the outside, Josefina Navarro's life seems fortunate enough-she lives with her father and her nursemaid, Regla, who raises her after the death of her mother in a luxurious home in Vedado, one of Cuba's wealthiest districts. She attends society dances and is courted by all of Havana's elite young bachelors. Enchanted by the rituals of her nursemaid, Josefina learns about the profound mysticism inherent in even the most mundane affairs. Though she...
13) Verbena
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Set in contemporary small town America, this is the story of Verbena Martin Eckert McHale ("Bena," for short), an indomitable woman who is damned-but not doomed-by the bad behavior and bad luck of her two husbands.
When Bena's first husband, Bobby Eckert, dies in a car wreck, she's left with their five children, a little mortgaged house, a little bit of insurance, and a big empty place in her heart. Not to mention that the hole Bobby left is jagged...
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Melville House
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The New Yorker's Best Book of 2023
"sorrowful, tender...beautiful." – The New York Times Book Review
“...arresting and memorable….Masud both finds a way to comprehend her own story and establishes a strong voice that confirms her as a significant chronicler of personal and national experience.” – Financial Times
"Sharply, subtly, and very movingly, Masud...
"sorrowful, tender...beautiful." – The New York Times Book Review
“...arresting and memorable….Masud both finds a way to comprehend her own story and establishes a strong voice that confirms her as a significant chronicler of personal and national experience.” – Financial Times
"Sharply, subtly, and very movingly, Masud...
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"In a country as vast as the United States, place looms large. Steven Moore, a former soldier, writes about place, explicitly rural places, in a way that transcends specificity and speaks to the universal: whether the Midwest, Appalachia, or remote West, what Moore has to say about rural places speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptiness that surrounds. Place and how...
16) Empty Eyes
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Europe Comics
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2023
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Somewhere on the Eastern Front in 1917, between Poland and Russia. Behind the gates of the Nurk Orphanage, there is a scene of utter devastation: the building lies in ruins, and decomposing bodies are scattered around the place. Only three children have survived, by taking the most extreme measures But one of the orphans can no longer bear this harsh way of living. Luckily, he discovers new friendsthe only ones?in the beautiful Victorian dolls lining...
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Cherry Lake Publishing Group
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2023
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On the first day of class at Nightmute Academy, Suni's connection to the supernatural leads to a warning about the school--delivered to her from beyond the grave. Suni, Gale, and Shi-woo are new students at the Nightmute Academy. They also happen to be the only students. Well, the only students who aren't haunting the place, anyway. Nightmute is filled with all kinds of ghosts! Join them as they piece together and solve the mystery behind Nightmute...
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"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
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It's the height of the tourist season in Santa Cruz, California, and Sally Solari has her hands full, both juggling crowds of hungry diners at her French-Polynesian restaurant Gauguin, as well as appeasing her father, who's distressed at the number of homeless people camped out in front of Solari's, the family's Italian seafood restaurant out on the historic fisherman's wharf. Nevertheless, when Sally gets the opportunity to volunteer at a farm-to-table...
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After unwittingly unleashing Yves from the Empty Garden, theres only one place Lucifer can go to set things rightand thats the Shade itself. And as Lucifer traverses the underworld in search for a cure, Val and Raina become pawns in a much larger game