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"Bea and Awilda have been best friends from the moment Awilda threw her fourteen year-old self across Bea's twin-sized bed as if they had known each other forever. Bubbly, adventurous Awilda taught sheltered, shy Bea how to dress, wear her hair and what to do with boys. She even introduced Bea to her husband, Lonnie, in college, who pledged to take good care of her for the rest of their lives. But philanderer Lonnie breaks that promise over and over...
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Nine years ago, Katie and Scott Monroe were blessed beyond their wildest dreams with identical triplets: Sammie, Alex, and Jackie. Three beautiful daughters and two adoring parents formed the picture-perfect party of five. But this tight-knit family unravels when the three little girls go to see a movie, but only one emerges from the darkness of the theatre. How could Sammie and Alex vanish without a trace?
Plunged into the abyss of a parent's...
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This book is the story of a devout Hindu girl, a deeply committed Christian young adult, a woman who was on her way to atheism and a woman who fell in love with Jesus. All those people are me. This book is my story.
And Then There Was Jesus is a story which demonstrates that religion simply does not work. It fails at the very think it supposedly aims to do: bring people closer to God. On the contrary, religion successfully drives a wedge between...
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Kristin Baker is an eighteen year old author with a passion for writing fiction originating from a childhood of solitary imagination to which writing came out the victor. And Then There Was Rain is her first collection of poems containing a variety of free verse and shape poems inspired by her own life exaggerated with mythological and fantastical stories such as haiku's, folktales and lyrical sonnets. The stories Baker tells use descriptive and expressive...
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Marnie Edwards thinks she has her life together. Then State Trooper Scott Randall starts asking mysterious questions at the same time she learns her mother has been hospitalized with cancer. When a bedside confession reveals she was adopted, suddenly Scott's investigation into child-trafficking becomes personal. Every time Scott turns around, he learns Marnie has something to do with his current investigation. Finding himself falling for the beguiling,...
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This retrospective journey will bring every sense of emotions to your life, beginning from childhood to the making of the man. You are being invited into a one of a kind adventure which will captivate your attention from the instant you begin to absorb the words. I have put down all guards in recanting my life experiences. Throughout these pages, you will encounter a looking glass into personal and intimate pieces of history that characterizes the...
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Sadie Hawkins wants nothing more than to find success as a screenplay writer. But when she discovers the love of her life hanging from their bedroom ceiling, Sadie gives up on her dreams.Until she receives an unexpected gift.Sadie has become the sole owner of the cabin in the woods she always adored. A secluded place where she can resurrect her dreams and drown her sorrows.Yet the woods are not the same. The days are still and lifeless. The shadows...
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Joshua (Leon) and Natalie (Garcelle Beauvais) appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie discovers her husband has led a secret life, she is forced to deal with losing everything she loves. While picking up the pieces of her shattered world, the process of healing introduces some newfound obstacles in the form of a new love interest (Brian White). Now, Natalie must test the boundaries of her trust and the capacity...
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The scoop of Jennifer Stern's career has just landed on her doorstep. Literally. Ian Greer-the playboy millionaire-is everything the headlines claim. Charming, flirtatious, and ready for a good time. But Jennifer soon suspects he's pulling a fast one and there's a different man behind the handsome mask he shows the world. He's a puzzle she longs to unravel. Too bad she's turned her back on that part of her life. No longer a journalist, Jennifer just...
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When Raven gets out on her own,
ready to take on the world, she soon realizes that power in the wrong hands will soon end the world she thought she wanted, and knows that she must grow her powers in order to keep them.
Facing an unknown power that was created by someone that she loves, and must destroy in order to keep this evil with an undying thrust from ending her world completely.
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Eight Kingdoms...and then there was ONE. There are eight types of kingdoms spoken of in the Bible. Two of those kingdoms - the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven - constitute the central message of the New Testament. If all the text that speaks directly of these two kingdoms were removed from the New Testament, there wouldn't be enough left to fill up a single page in a newspaper. Yet, the kingdom message is completely unknown by a large majority...
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What happens when an upstate lawyer and an actor cross paths? Love certainly wasn't on their minds initially, but Steve Cofax and Jason Hart can't seem to keep their hands off each other. Even though Jason's middle class status doesn't match Steve's affluent achievements, they still find a rapturous love between the tension of their bodies. As their relationship blossoms, Jason begs for their encounters to be more discreet as to not attract the attention...
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A fictional account of a week in the life of a Hospital manager during the Swine Flu crisis. The author uses her experience as a Clinical Services Manager in the Health Service to provide a compelling insight into the daily drama that surrounds the frontline running of a hospital during a would be epidemic. The manager and her team are asked to identify a process for dealing with the crisis and at the same time continue to provide care and meet existing...
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Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can believe Margaret doesn’t have religion, and that...
20) Shatter me
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Shatter me (Mafi) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill. No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, sees her as an opportunity. An opportunity for a deadly weapon. Juliette has never fought for herself before. But when she's reunited with the one person...