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When Olivia Berrington gets the call to tell her that her best friend from college has been killed in a car crash in New York, her life is turned upside down. Her relationship with Sally was an exhilarating roller coaster, until a shocking betrayal drove them apart. But if Sally really had turned her back, why is her little girl named after Olivia? As questions mount about the fatal accident, Olivia is forced to go back and unravel their tangled history....
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What have you been missing? In Oneness, author John Greven invites readers to see the world as it really is, right now, without the mind's own reflections obscuring its multifaceted mystery. Oneness takes the reader, step by step, to the inescapable reality that is the self. The intent of this book is to look afresh at one's daily experience, to point to something that the mind may have overlooked. It is not pointing to anything new, anything that...
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Maggie spent her whole life feeling like her parents hated her. While her father was one of the most well-known authors and her mother was a small town's biggest celebrity, they did not show much interest in their children, or so Maggie thought.
When her father suddenly passes away, she flies home to be there for her siblings. Things take a turn when Maggie finds a series of letters addressed to her from her late father on each of her past birthdays....
85) Never let you go
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"Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail and Lindsey started over with a new life. Now, Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more than ever. When Andrew is finally released from prison, Lindsey believes she has cut all ties and left the past behind her. But she gets the sense that someone...
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"First comes love. Then comes murder. Lucas Forester didn't hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, sophisticated and beautiful. Sure, she had extravagant spending habits, that petty attitude, a total disregard for anyone below her status. But she also had a lot to offer. Most notably: wealth that only the one percent could comprehend. For years, Lucas has been honing a flawless plan to inherit Michelle's fortune. Unfortunately, it involves taking...
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Play Trivia-on-Book: The Girl You Left Behind: by Jojo Moyes. A mesmerizing book by Jojo Moyes, brings the past into the future with a painting called The Girl You Left Behind. Painted in France before World War I, it brings together the lives of Sophie Lefevre and Elizabeth Halston even though they lived more than a century apart. The Girl You left Behind is a story that combines mystery and intrigue with heartache and love in a timeless tale of...
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What happens when you find yourself living a nightmare that you thought only happened to other families? Or that you thought only ever happened in a TV drama?
The Spencer family are a hardworking, unassuming, contented, ordinary family – a mother, a father, and three offsprings.
Nothing different from anyone else. Until one night, a tragedy unfolds, and their ordinary lives are thrust into total disarray.
What they all once knew has all but gone,...
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Today's world is no more inoculated from dangerous political ideologies than it was in the past: while former communist countries have become full-fledged democracies, some flagship democracies have been slowly gravitating towards leftist ideals. Lefty's Playbook asserts that this leftward gravitation is no accident, but a well-choreographed plan. Lefty's Playbook lays out this plan in a format written to reach all levels of political education: as...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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It's been eighteen months since Nicolae Carpathia's rise to power, and has been captivating the whole world, including President Fitzhugh. There are some far away, who suspect he's something more, the prophesied Antichrist.
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"When a box from her mother showed up on Katy Tur's doorstep, months into the pandemic and just as she learned she was pregnant with her second child, she didn't now what to expect. The box contained thousands of hours of video - the work of her pioneering helicopter journalist parents. They grew rich and famous for their aerial coverage of Madonna and Sean Penn's secret wedding, the Reginald Denny beating in the 1992 Lost Angeles riots, and O.J....
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As a missionary in the Sudan, amid unrest and war following Sudanese independence, Nikkel wrote these quasi-public letters - missionary epistles -to his friends and supporters back home in the USA. These letters present a vivid picture of daily struggle in an impoverished, war-torn, but lavishly beautiful country.
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"A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands."--
"When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem--she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they've been together...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.
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It looks like a familiar story: A woman reeling from a great loss with too much time on her hands and too much booze in her glass watches her neighbors, sees things she shouldn't see, and starts to suspect the worst. But looks can be deceiving. . . . Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to her family's lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she...
96) It had to be you
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Lucky Harbor novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Ali Winters is not having a good day. Her boyfriend left her, everyone in town thinks she's a thief, and now she's about to be kicked out of her home. Her only shot at keeping a roof over her head and clearing her name is to beg for help from a police detective who's as sexy as he is stern....
After a high-profile case goes wrong, Luke Hanover returns to his hometown for some peace and quiet. Instead he finds a bombshell brunette in...
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"They always say that once you achieve the American Dream, you rise above poverty and all of its problems....But no one tells you that you only go up one rung of the ladder-one rung of hundreds. And no one tells you that it's even easier to go back down."
While You Were Away tells the stories of three second-generation immigrant women amid the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States.
No one knows why Olivia suddenly had to move from New York...
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"Every year, young princesses and princes arrive at Mrs. Paws' Magic Pet Shop to pick a perfect unicorn pet. But this year Princess Ava arrived too late. There are no unicorns left . . . only Pugicorn! He's short and hairy. He can't sit still or gallop gracefully--and he certainly can't leap over rainbows. Can a pugicorn ever be a princess's best friend?"--Publisher's description.
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The left has truly lost its mind. The party out of power used to be "the loyal opposition." No longer. Now it's "the Resistance." The left, abandoning any pretense of fairness and decency, has declared political war on President Trump. Waged by a stunningly broad array of militants--the Democratic Party, countless left-wing interest groups, radical academics, the liberal mainstream media, Antifa shock troops, Hollywood, and the tech oligarchs--this...
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The Girl You Left Behind: by Jojo Moyes Conversation Starters. In The Girl You Left Behind, the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Me Before You, tells the story of two strong women who lived a century apart. Sophie, whose husband painted her portrait in the early 20th century, lives in France and has to make difficult decisions to ensure her husband's return from World War I. Liv is a young widow who lives in the early 21st century; her husband...