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Immerse yourself in the late 90s and early 2000s with the first three books of the Lost and Found Family Series. This box set includes the prequel, Homing Instinct, along with Six Weeks With You and Rules of Disengagement. This series weaves tales of belonging, hope, and the timeless quest for a place to call home In Homing Instinct, follow Darcy's journey as she searches for a place to call home. When her new roommate, Francois, breaks through her...
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The Goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld is out of balance with who she's meant to be. Though Persephone shares domain of the Underworld alongside Hades, she struggles to get a handle on her growing frustrations. The constant pull between the King – her husband in title only – and the demands of her mother, Demeter, have forced Persephone into an untenable situation. Regular Godsrests keep her refreshed and renewed – and protected from...
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Snowbound in a secluded cabin. Lost in ghosts of the past. Driven by a life unfulfilled. All Blaire Kincaid wants is to make her own way in the world. Using her newly acquired PI skillset, she sets out on an eighteen-year-old cold trail to find the missing nephew of heiress, Reva MacGlenary. But Darian MacGlenary doesn't want to be found. When he spies the young woman stumbling into his Appalachian hollow, he panics. The bearded mountain man has tucked...
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James Ramsay is twenty-one years old and he has just inherited a building in New York City. After the death of his estranged mother, he finds that he is now the owner of No. 1 Dutch Street-a five-story brownstone near the World Trade Center.
As James takes up residence there, trying to figure out his next move, he gets to know the only other tenant: an elderly black woman named Nellydean. Under a mounting tide of taxes, James finds himself faced...
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An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions
Lost and Found in Johannesburg begins with a transgression-the armed invasion of a private home in the South African city of Mark Gevisser's birth. But far more than the riveting account of a break-in, this is a daring exploration of place and the boundaries upon which identities are mapped.
As a child growing up in apartheid South...
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The guide mentioned puddles, but I envisioned lakes, deep treacherous lakes, and I was drowning. One turn has passed, another Solstice is just around the corner, and having an illicit affair with not one but two lovers-smith Ianys and shunned forester Taruif-is taking its toll on truth seeker Kelnaht.A stripling has gone missing from the tribe, and heavy rainfall hides all traces of his whereabouts. With days creeping by without a lead, it's hard...
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When she was twenty-four years old, Ellen Anderson Penno lost her partner in a climbing accident while they were ascending Mount Baker in Washington's Cascade Range. The avalanche hid his body in a crevasse just weeks before Penno was slated to begin medical school, and she soon found herself torn between deferring her studies for a year, or starting right away with a full course load. Rather than succumbing to grief and risk never beginning her medical...
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Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2020]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Español
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"When Carmen's wild toss sends the hula-hoop soaring over the fence, the twins don't know how to get it back. But then, as if by magic, their toys come sailing back over the fence. Soon after, there's a new neighbor poking her head over the Garcia's fence"--Provided by publisher.
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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A self-proclaimed sock detective inside her parents' New York City laundromat, 10-year-old Magnolia Wu and Iris, a new friend from California, set off across the city to solve the mystery of each missing sock, meeting people and uncovering the unimaginable along the way.
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Dutton
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2024.
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English
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"A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life's little limbos, those in-between spaces where you're no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be. About her debut, Out of Love, Hazel Hayes said, "The journey from writing horror to writing love stories was a short one. There is nothing more horrific than love." In her new novel, she sets out to prove it. This genre-defying, meta-modern...
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Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press
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[2023]
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English
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"Without the Byzantine Empire, there never would have been Western civilization. Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philosophical and political thought is derived from that of the ancient Greeks; our Christian religion comes from the Jewish religion, and both of these came to us via the Roman Empire and the civilization and culture it created. Western society has other...