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Kendra's going to drag humanity to the stars no matter who stands in her wayKendra and Aiyana Cassidy's dreams are coming true.Aiyana's teleportals are growing in popularity, and Kendra's starship is nearly complete.But the Artemis Colony is throttling the planet's supply of rare earth metals.If Artemis isn't stopped soon, in twenty years ¾ of the population will be dead.They don't want a war, but if Artemis insists, Kendra's never learned how to...
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Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars-and often they've been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis...
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Former sweethearts revisit their teenage love-and their conflicting memories of the past.
In between business in Iceland and home in Silicon Valley, Cedar Rivers has come to Albany, New York, to meet a woman he hasn't seen in twenty years. When he knew her, Kat was a cute proto-Goth with chipped black nail polish. Now she's a literary up-and-comer who has summoned him to vet her new memoir-an account of the summer they were sweethearts. And she's...
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New York, one summer night, several teenagers rape a young girl, she had drunk too much, her name was Pamela. She dreamed of a great love, she will get the sordid. If almost all the protagonists have known the damp straw of the dungeons, one has fled. He took a backpack, filled it with some clothes, and stuck his thumb out.he goes elsewhere. Somewhere exists without a doubt. He does not know which, surely, a port, where the sailors carry to oblivion....
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Brandywine River Museum of Art
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Horace Pippin's response to the question of what made him a great painter: 'I paint it the way I see it.' This exciting new publication will look closely at Pippin (1888-1946) as an artist who was embraced by the art world, yet remained independent, creating and upholding a unique aesthetic sensibility while also candidly, if subtly, expressing his opinions on a wide range of social issues. A self-taught master of form, colour and composition, Pippin...
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Learn why this book was a GalleyCat Mystery & Thriller Bestseller. Should we dig for the truth when Pandora's Box is a coffin of buried secrets? For twenty-five years, Diana Ferguson's killer has gotten away with murder. When rookie obit writer and newsroom editorial assistant Kris Langley investigates the unsolved mystery of a young artist obsessed with Greek mythology, not only does she fall in love with Diana's sexy nephew, but she must also fight...
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"Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a thrilling historical adventure that plunges readers into the tumultuous world of 17th-century France. This gripping sequel to "The Three Musketeers" reunites readers with the beloved musketeers-d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis-two decades after their earlier escapades.
Set against the backdrop of political intrigue, war, and romance, the novel follows the musketeers and their new...
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Adulterio, identidades falsas, oscuros motivos, plagio,
sadomasoquismo, saltos de capítulo inusuales, un pequeño
asesinato aquí y allá. Donlea ha logrado atraparte otra vez".
-The New York Times.
Avery Mason es la presentadora de Eventos Nacionales y acaba de recibir
una noticia que será historia: por primera vez en veinte años y, gracias
a una nueva tecnología, han identifi cado los huesos de una víctima del
atentado a las Torres...
10) Summary of The Destructionists by Dana Milbank: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican P
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DISCLAIMER This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.Summary of The Destructionists by Dana Milbank: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET:-Chapter astute outline of the main contents.-Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis.-Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original bookIn 1994,...
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"In a historical mystery, a serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she's shocked to discover her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman--and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from the city,...
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"An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting...
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"In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love--leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built. Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and...
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Zenya was a teenager when she ran away from home to join the Mecha God's warrior sect. She was determined to earn her copper wings and protect the people and city she loved. Under the strict tutelage of a mercurial, charismatic leader, Zenya became Winged Zemolai. But after twenty-six years of service, Zemolai is disillusioned with her role as an enforcer in an increasingly fascist state. After one tragic act of mercy, she is cast out and loses everything...
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Two years after the man she loved was killed in Afghanistan, Morgan Bartley is trying to put the pieces of her life back together. The reno on her dilapidated beach house in the Outer Banks might be just the distraction she needs to keep her debilitating anxiety attacks at bay and begin to heal her heart...if she can ignore the ridiculously handsome guy next door. At twenty-eight, single-dad Jackson Montgomery's life revolves around his five-year-old...
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2024.
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"Now you don't need to wait until winter to pull out your knits! Knitwear designer Marie Greene's delightful collection of lightweight patterns using plant-based yarns are designed to keep you cool and fashionable--and show off your knitting prowess year-round. With a wide range of lace details, unexpected textures, and classic shapes, Marie's well-crafted, top-down, and (mostly) seamless patterns are perfect for knitters of advanced-beginner and...
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"Agnes "Ness" Larkin has been out of the spotlight since her quick departure twenty years ago from a starring role in a hit teen TV drama. When the show is tapped for a reboot, no one is more surprised than Ness that she signs on to rejoin the cast, leaving behind a normal--if not exactly thrilling--life in Toronto. Also back for round two are Libby, Ness's former best friend and soon-to-be makeup-empire magnate, and Hayes, Ness's one-that-got-away,...
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"Detective Chelsey Calhoun's life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods of Washington state--but Ellie's reappearance leaves Chelsey with more questions than answers. It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun's sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she's been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings...
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"From the woman who helped introduce Buddhism to the West and founded Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one's own path that Pico Iyer calls "unflinching" and "indispensable." The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. Her life was forever changed when she saw the iconic photo of...
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"A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide--from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew...