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1) The friend
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Language
English
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A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their...
Author
Series
OMG-- (Talia Aikens-Nuez) volume 2
Language
English
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April Appleton wakes up to quite the sight: a herd of elephants marching down her street! She realizes that her powers of witchcraft have done it again. With her friends, Grace and Eve, April must figure out how the elephants got to her town in the first place and then how to get them back home. But with elephants playing in the neighbor's pool, sitting on cars and eating everyone's trees, how will they do it? Early readers will delight in the misadventures...
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Language
English
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Description
No one takes chili more seriously than Brian Baumgartner, whose character as Kevin Malone became a household name in the Emmy-winning TV series, The Office. In real life, Brian is a true chili master and aficionado who is just as serious as his fictional counterpart about making the most perfect pot of chili. Featuring 177 chili recipes stamped with Brian's "seriously good" approval rating, Seriously Good Chili Cookbook contains new and inventive...
5) Una noche
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
A teenager becomes caught between his best friend and his sister when a plan to run from Havana to Miami becomes complicated.
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Table Talk is a portable dinner party and a book to read alone while laughing out loud. Table Talk is a salon attended by your smartest friends and by all of the wittiest people they know. Table Talk is a collection of brief but critically acclaimed, half serious/half tongue-in-cheek pieces that borrow the format of The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" column. Selected from several decades (1990-2013) of The Threepenny Review, known colloquially as...
Publisher
House Lights Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Nick Brown, a neurotic best-selling author on love, with the heightened emotional capacity of a woman, can write so eloquently on the subject, but can't keep girls from leaving him. After he comes back to his apartment in New York City to find his fiancee with another man, he returns to his hometown and the only woman he had ever left, his mother, Mimi. There he renews his relationships with the people that matter the most, his friends and family....
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The onetime outsider finds himself fully a part of this eclectic group of misfits all the while struggling with the knowledge that life exists beyond our world. Special Agent Alex Foster, a smart, dedicated FBI investigator who's on a mission to Beacon to track down fugitive CEO Jonathan Walsh for white-collar crime, soon learns he harbors even greater secrets. The arrival of a new alien management on the spaceship complicates matters.