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Gabriel, a Brazilian-American, has always known he was gay. Because of his father's disapproval as a young kid, he's been forced to hide the biggest part of himself for years.Billy is your typical lumberjack who was raised to be as manly as possible by his carpenter father. He grew up believing the only road there was to take was getting a wife and a couple of kids but yet it never felt quite right to him.Gabriel meets Billy when Billy is hanging...
2) Asa
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Read the final book in the romantic, fast-paced adventure series Between Heaven and Hell Jayla's hands dripped with blood, and her heart was shredded. The only road to redemption was the one she didn't want to take. Asa was surrounded by a wall that kept the family he loved distant. To get close, he'd have to face the thought that he may let them down. When the female on a suicidal mission meets the hell beast unable to love, time stood still. Before...
3) Nash
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A curvy girl, older hero, quadruplet cowboy instalove romance. SierraI came to Texas for a quick getaway. The cute little rental cottage was supposed to be the perfect place to spend the weekend…alone. But when an early summer storm washes out the bridge on the only road leading back to town, I'm left stranded with a man I'm finding impossible to resist. NashLife at the ranch is hard, but predictable. It's a life I've come to accept, even though...
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Could It Be? focuses on twelve biblical passages. Most of them have been
denigrated or disregarded, either by those who want nothing to do with organized religion or by others who claim to be genuinely Christian. The author reclaims those discarded gems, proclaims those stories as relevant, countermands erroneous interpretations, and counteracts the results of misinformation about their meaning and purpose.
The book is designed to stir the status...
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Jesus said no one comes to the Father except through him. But in our inclusive world, such an exclusive claim isn't popular. Believers today face persistent pressure to abandon this belief, which the world sees as antiquated at best and hateful at worst. What we need is godly encouragement to stay the course and courage to share the gospel compassionately with those around us.
Based on his popular book Not All Roads Lead to Heaven, this new devotional...
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"We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom...
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What would guilt make you do? Hadleigh Keene died on the road leading away from Hollyhock Asylum. The reasons are unknown. Her sister Morgan blames herself. A year later with the case still unsolved, Morgan creates a false identity, that of a troubled housewife named Charlotte Turner, and goes inside. Morgan quickly discovers that Hollyhock is... not right. She is shaken by the hospital's peculiar routines and is soon beset by strange episodes....
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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Five girls played together in the Smith Sisters Orchestra: Irene on trombone, Erma on vibraphone, Edwina on trumpet, Mildred on violin, and Lila on saxophone. But what of the littlest sister? When Viola's time came, almost every instrument was taken...except one. When she first sat behind a drum kit, she lost the beat, made a terrible racket, and had more fun than she'd ever had before. Viola took to the road with her family, learned from the greats,...
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Encanto's daughter volume 1
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old MJ Robertson-Rodriguez leaves the human world for Biringan to rule the land of the mythical Encantos following the death of her estranged father, King Vivencio"--
MJ Rodriguez has spent her life hiding in the human world and guarding a heavy secret: She's not entirely human. MJ is half-encanto, a fairy from a world unknown to humankind, and as the only child of King Vivencio, she's also next in line for the throne. Now, upon her...
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Kairos files volume 1
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Labyrinth Road
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[2024]
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English
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"When the normally unseen sixth grader Hector discovers he can turn invisible, he learns that he is not the only invisible boy at his school and there are worse things than bullies lurking the halls"--
12) Reunion: a novel
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Harper
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2024.
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English
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"A novel about three friends' midlife reckonings at a college reunion in coastal Maine"--
"It's June 2021, and three old college friends are heading to New England and the twenty-fifth reunion that was delayed the year before. Hope, a stay-at-home mom, is desperate for a return to her beloved campus, a reprieve from her tense marriage, and the stresses of pandemic parenting. Adam is hesitant to leave his bucolic but secluded life with his wife and...
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2021
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"Seth must choose . . .Cling to the search that’s kept him alive. Or give it up for the sake of his sanity. His wife’s unsolved murder has driven him to a breaking point, but God has only one response for his desperate prayers: Trust Me. Cassady longs for dignity. But the leather and fishnet she ran away in aren’t helping her chances. When she finds herself hungry and stranded at the end of the dirt road, she takes a risk. And knocks on his...
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TwoDot
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[2023]
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English
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"A travel guide to Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, blending history, culture, and local flavor. An entertaining travel companion and a useful resource for those visiting the two national parks, and the vast chunk of Montana that connects them"--
Montana is home to two of America's most popular national parks, and many of the twelve million visitors who travel to Big Sky Country each year include both Glacier and Yellowstone in their plans....
15) Woods witch
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SRS Cinema
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[2024]
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English
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"When two up-and-coming internet vloggers take a road trip to film footage in a forest that's known for disappearances and deaths, they find themselves in a fight against the supernatural--for more than just ratings. The events to follow considerably deteriorate, spiraling the adventure seekers head on into mysteries, mayhem, and murder"--
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Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A paradigm-shifting book looking at the pervasive influence of silence and how we can begin to dismantle it in order to find our voices at home and at work. Having a seat at the table doesn't mean that your voice is actually welcome. Knowing something is wrong doesn't mean it's easy to speak up. In fact, there are incentives for many of us to stay silent. Why speak up if you know that it won't be received well, and in fact, often makes things worse?...
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Scribner
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2024.
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English
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"In David Coggins's previous book, The Optimist, he tackles the techniques of fly fishing and meditates on its virtues, recounting his triumphs and frustrations. Now, in The Believer, he deftly mixes travel, local cultures, further fishing challenges (some knee-buckling in their disappointment), and details his own experience as life and love crowd his time to fish. Self-consciously--and self-deprecatingly--Coggins embarks on seven far-flung fishing...
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Bonkers volume 1
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Bonkers: the new megaseries from New York Times bestselling author Patrick Carman There's something in Jenny's armpit, and it's getting bigger. Ten-year-old Jenny Kim and her two buddies, Fen Stenson and Barker Mifflin, live in the town of Nevermind, where strange happenings are so normal that finding a mysterious thing growing in your armpit isn't even considered a big deal. But when the mysterious thing gets so big Jenny has to haul it around in...
19) The sky was ours
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the radical pursuit of utopia. It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away--while the world around her veers badly off course, hurtling toward economic and ecological collapse. She wants to find something better. But she has no...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Over the past few decades, China has climbed the ranks of the global powers with staggering speed. Its vast economy and growing regional aggression make it a threat to supersede the United States as the world's dominant power. But this outcome is far from inevitable. Like neighboring Russia-which harbors global ambitions of its own-right now China is at a turning point. Whereas international sanctions and a turn away from fossil fuels are steadily...