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This is the inspiring true story of a young confident Australian born Lebanese woman of Islamic faith suffering from a rare autoimmune disease.
Claudia Sultan shares her life of uncertainty, from her young life of dealing with her loud but lovable, and gossipy, extended family, to thinking about love and dealing with her family's concept of her marriage.
Up to the moment her life suddenly crumbled with battling Scleroderma, an auto-immune group...
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If you've ever fallen in love, struggled with love, or faltered in love, Cupid on Trial will speak to your heart and change the way you feel about yourself and someone you love. You will laugh, cry, scratch your head, even tremble as you eavesdrop in the bedrooms, kitchens, dance clubs, and coffee shops of Lovejoy, a fictional city where real couples are struggling with love in turbulence, relationships pushed to the brink, and situations they never...
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Detective Miller novels volume 1
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"Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner), Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consultant Barry Shepherd at the Sands Hotel. Initial evidence suggests a hired gun and a botched job. The search for the hitman begins and Miller begins to reconnect...
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PERience through seasons of grief and her daughter's unexpected health issues, weaving in stories of other couples who have stayed together through infidelity, terminal illness, loss, infertility, addiction, and, in an unusual twist, even the journey of an arranged marriage. These couples have found connecting points that allowed them to stay in love and defeat the rising divorce statistic. Ultimately, every married couple has seasons of struggle,...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Zita, cast aside by her father and raised as a kitchen maid, learns when she is nearly twelve that she is a princess and that her twelve sisters love her, and so when she discovers they are victims of an evil enchantment, she desperately tries to save them. Inspired by the Grimm fairy tale, "The twelve dancing princesses."
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2021.
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The Nobel Peace Summit Award-winning actress, activist, and humanitarian chronicles her efforts to recover and rebuild after a massive stroke, discussing how her health challenges were also shaped by industry standards, childhood traumas, and family bonds.
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"Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken stories of the barrio -- even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea...
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This heartfelt cookbook tells the story of a mother desperate to heal and connect with her hard-to-reach, severely autistic son, Leo, through the most vital everyday activity--cooking. For many years, Erica Daniels had been out to find a successful dietary intervention for eleven-year-old Leo, who suffers from significant food allergies, gastrointestinal disease, and autism. Through trial and error in her own kitchen, she finally hit her gastronomic...
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"A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustov©Ł's collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty...
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When Olivia Rawlings¿́¿pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club¿́¿sets not just her flamb©♭ed dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to the most comforting place she can think of¿́¿the idyllic town of Guthrie, Vermont, home of Bag Balm, the country¿́¿s longest-running contra dance, and her best friend Hannah. But the getaway turns into something more lasting when Margaret Hurley, the cantankerous,...
16) On My One
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The album title takes its name from a saying in Jake's Nottingham hometown and couldn't be more apt. Instead of saying on my own, they say on my one.
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"A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail -- a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western bohemians and vagabonds. It was a time when the Shah of Iran...
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In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era-the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia. In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan's West Side to the restaurants of the Village, living out her buoyant...
20) Cinderella
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A simplified retelling of the traditional tale of the kitchen maid, mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, who is helped by her fairy godmother to attend the palace ball where she dances with the prince.