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True stories of life in Florida, from persevering through natural disasters and crime to encounters with celebrities and alligators. Includes photos.
More than twenty million people live in Florida, that unique land that juts off into the Atlantic. They are ranchers and golfers, sunbathers and retirees. And their lives often fall within the realm of the perfectly normal. But sometimes these Floridians, many of whom have flocked from elsewhere, find...
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Pavilion Studios
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2023.
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In an off-beat nuanced film, Rocksy, a small-time hustler, journeys into chaos to steal a car while his lady friend Rosie hangs a watercolor painting in their modest room and dreams of peace. The fight to survive their broken dreams and aspirations forces them to commit a crime that changes their lives forever. Shot on the streets of Kingston where poverty, beauty and desperation collide, this Jamaican story transcends its Island locale to become...
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To defeat the vampires, Luke must destroy their god. The vampires have taken too much from Luke. He's lost friends and family. Because of them, he's been forced to live an immortal life of brutal conflict. Now he's going to take everything from them. Luke must overcome everything the vampires and their dark god throw at him. Assassins, werewolves, elite vampires, and the money and power of the bloodsuckers are arrayed against him. He might be a powerful...
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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...
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Critter wrangler rule #17: even the smallest creature can be big in magic.
Kyra Greene never thought she'd return to Asgard. Not after she burned the Rainbow Bridge, the only road home. Now she has no choice. With her unborn child's life at stake, she must find a new route to the old world, or die trying.
Asgard will bring up ghosts of her past and Kyra will have to atone for her crimes, but none of that is as important as saving the life of her child-until...
6) 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...
7) Hurricane
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With a Category 5 hurricane barreling towards the southeast coast of Florida, Kayla Woodbridge is forced to cut her beach vacation with her children short and return home to prepare for the coming storm. Boone Chadwick, a new friend she met at the beach, isn't as concerned about the impending storm as Kayla is and refuses to heed her warnings to vacate the island. When the causeway bridge, the only road on and off the island, is destroyed after being...
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Take a road trip down the iconic "Mother Road"! Route 66 tells the stories of this highway's people, legends, and funky roadside attractions.
Part legend, part nostalgia, part working highway, part touchstone to an America of the past, Route 66 is the only road in the United States so fascinating that both Americans and international visitors read about and may never actually travel. Route 66: America's Longest Small Town takes you on a virtual road...
9) 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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Emelie
Who leaves their girlfriend in the woods after a fight?
My now EX-boyfriend that's who. One fight, okay a BIG fight because I found out he was cheating on me while we were camping and poof! He left me in the woods.
So, I start walking to town, only I get turned around end up at the river where I meet Axel. This guy is HUGE.
With a storm rolling in I don't have much choice but to trust him and take shelter in his cabin since I've been walking...
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Richard V. Fisher is Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught and researched since 1955. In 1997, he was awarded the Thorarinsson Medal, the highest honor of the International Society of Volcanologists. Fisher is the coauthor, with Grant Heiken and Jeffrey B. Hulen, of Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change (Princeton). He also wrote Pyroclastic Rocks with H.-U. Schmincke and coedited Sedimentation...
14) Murder road
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"A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long...
15) Not All Roads Lead to Heaven Devotional: 100 Daily Readings about Our Only Hope for Eternal Life
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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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"Vividly illustrated by Julia Oldham, Iceland Summer recounts Kurt Caswell's journey traversing the country by foot and bus accompanied by his lifelong friend Scott. The pair set out from Reykjavík and travel clockwise along the Ring Road, stopping along the way for backcountry walking trips. Caswell immerses himself in the natural beauty and charming eccentricities of the tiny island nation. With his drinking and hiking buddy by his side, and fueled...
17) North Bay Road
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Liz Galin, an out-of-work fashion stylist, lives in a walk up studio apartment in Alphabet City in Manhattan. She has put her life on hold during COVID-19 to care for her mother going through chemo, and cannot see her boyfriend Cary as he is an emergency room doctor during the height of the pandemic. One Monday morning, she receives a cryptic letter from a Miami lawyer indicating that she should call his office. When she does, she and her mother Linda...
18) Low Road West #5
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BOOM! Studios
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2022
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Forced from the only refuge they have been able to find, the teenage refugees must face off once and for all against the enemy that surrounds them... and the enemy within them.
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"Something is amiss with the world's magic. Spells don't work the way they used to--when they work at all. Only the powers of the Crystal Mages remain as they were, powers founded on the use of the mystical element adamis, the harvesting of which has enslaved the peoples of the Twilight Lands. They need a hero. At the same time, ravenous beasts have begun to appear, legendary creatures that seem to be proof against any magic. And Clea Stylachos, granddaughter...
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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...