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"Brisk, snarky, and delicious." —People Magazine
A murder at a suspense writer convention makes everyone a suspect—especially the victim's literary rivals.
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Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national psyche, the product of cynical foreign interventions. Fascist Italy wanted Eritrea as the springboard for a new, racially pure Roman empire; Britain sold off its industry for scrap; the United States...
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Humanity lives in a bubble of ignorance, a state of mind that distorts our perception to include pain, discord and scarcity. However, this doesn't have to be. Permanent Safety, Health, Prosperity and Peace can be our experience once we Remember who We Really are.
This Truth is not new. Every Illumined Individual throughout the ages has discovered It. Religions have been built on It. For most of us, though, the Promise of sustained Harmony and Happiness...
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Scarlet
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[2023]
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"Murderpalooza, the premier thriller writers conference, is meant to be an exciting celebration of the genre and its preeminent writers. But when bestselling author and industry favorite Kristin Bailey is found dead in her hotel room, four rival authors--a midlister, an egomaniac, a has-been, and a newbie--also get targeted by an anonymous social media account and wonder if they're next"--
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"The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While we work to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning,...
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Scholomance volume 3
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"The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out--and I didn't even have to turn into...
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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the...
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"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." --Siddhartha Mukherjee,author of the Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies Could Talk." With it, the doctor-turned-journalist established himself as a seriously entertaining authority in the field of health. Now, in illuminating and genuinely funny prose,...
14) I Do He Didn't
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For years, Gina lived with a partner who was a serial cheater, emotional abuser, and narcissist, but her remarkable strength and bravery helped her endure the pain and turmoil. Gina's unwavering trust in God's plan gave her the courage to face the difficulties of her situation and hope for a better future. Through various means, God revealed to her what she needed to see. This is a true story of God's love for his children and how he doesn't give...
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A writer interrogates a woman who may or may not have killed her husband, in a taut tale of psychological suspense by the author of Sincerely, Yours.
After twenty-five years in the remote English countryside, living under an assumed name, Erica Miller has decided it's time for the world to hear her story-from her point of view, rather than from the tabloids or the gossips who think she got away with murder.
She hires Prudence Carr to write about...
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Told in six parts, Things I Didn't Do with This Body sings in myriad voices and forms-ragged columns rich with syncopated internal rhyme, crisp formal sonnets, and the angular shapes of a stream-of-pill-induced-consciousness.
Bedecked in Fenty and Shalimar, Amanda Gunn's startling debut, Things I Didn't Do with This Body, invites you to read with all of your senses and gives fresh meaning to the phrase a body of work. Told in six parts, this collection...
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How many excuses are there for not doing homework? Let us count the ways: Giant lizards invaded the neighborhood. Elves hid all the pencils. And then there was that problem with carnivorous plants....The excuses go on and on, each more absurd than the next and escalating to hilarious heights. Featuring detail-rich illustrations by Benjamin Chaud, this book is guaranteed to amuse kids and their parents, not to mention anyone who has experienced a slacker...
18) If I'm found
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Is Dylan hunting Casey to prosecute her or protect her? Casey Cox is still on the run, fleeing prosecution for a murder she didn't commit. Dylan Roberts--her most relentless pursuer--is still on her trail, but his secret emails insist that he knows the truth and wants to help her. He's let her escape before when he had her in his grasp, but trust doesn't come easily. As Casey works to collect evidence about the real murderers, she stumbles on another...
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Some people have loved ones taken from them without warning leaving much "unfinished business" be it of practical nature and/or sometimes more important of a personal nature. There is no sense of closure with the living loved one as there was much needed to be said before the final goodbye. Now there are tools to help the living say their final goodbyes to their departed loved ones to achieve the closure they need, want and desire in their relationships.
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#1 This book is the culmination of the lessons, thoughts, feelings, perspectives, and insights I took from a project I started in 2014 called Extraordinary Routines. It is a collection of different ways I have tried to improve my life and work, and it is me, the person I am, the people I was drawn to speaking to, and the lessons I learned.