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"Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with Claudette, a world famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion until a secret from Daniel's past threatens to destroy their meticulously constructed and...
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The Darby-Jones boardinghouse in Ruby Falls, New York, is home to Mona Jones and her daughter, Oneida, two loners and self-declared outcasts who have formed a perfectly insular family unit: the two of them and the four eclectic boarders living in their house. But their small, quiet life is upended when Arthur Rook shows up in the middle of a nervous breakdown, devastated by the death of his wife, carrying a pink shoe box containing all his wife's...
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A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes from folk to house music.
Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you'll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won't know it-almost all of these venues have been demolished or repurposed, leaving no record of what they were, how...
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A Nick and Ben Story Having explosive sex is easy for Nick and Ben-getting past their hang-ups and opening up to each other won't be. Handsome New York City bartender Nick might've left life-and his abusive, homophobic father-in West Virginia far behind, but even though he was a star quarterback in high school, he can't outrun the effect those years had on him. He's still not comfortable as a gay man, and he keeps his relationships short… as in...
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The tenth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War. Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of The Human Division will appear in e-book form every Tuesday.
Colonial Union diplomat Hart Schmidt is back home for Harvest Day celebrations-to a family whose members wonder whether its youngest son isn't wasting his life clinging to the lowest rung of the CU's diplomatic ladder....
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Cheyenne (Sean Penn of MYSTIC RIVER, MILK) is a former rock star. At 50, he still dresses 'Goth' and lives in Dublin off his royalties. The death of his father, with whom he wasn't on speaking terms, brings him back to New York. While there, he discovers his father had an obsession: to seek revenge on one of his Nazi captors who humiliated him during WWII. Searching for peace with his father's death and combating a mid-life crisis, Cheyenne decides...
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Ballantine Books
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[2021]
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The multi-Emmy Award-winning syndicated TV star offers more than 125 recipes straight from her home in upstate New York during the pandemic with personal stories on loss, gratitude and the special memories of what makes a house a home.
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We are guilty of actions that make no sense. We perform acts of beauty and acts of ugliness. We give in to hidden ambitions, latent hungers, and clumsy grasps at insight. At the heart of these stories are the rituals-grand and small-in which we humans partake; the peculiar gestures we hope will forge meaning or help us glean some sort of understanding. They may be formally ceremonial and spiritual, like the imposition of ashes in a darkened church....
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Connects the metaphor of home that runs through the stories of our faith — the Prodigal Son, the Son of Man has nowhere to call home, heaven as home — with the deep desire to belong and to feel wanted
• Author of Keeping the Feast turns discussions about food and faith into what it means to live in community, to create home, and to feel at home
The author writes, "One of the characters in Robert Frost's 'Death of a Hired Man' says, 'Home...
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Feeling a Bit Lost These Days? Here's Your Map Home
You want a life of purpose and meaning, but if there's a map to get you there, you haven't been able to find it.
Until now.
Your treasure map is closer than you think, and Jami Nato tucked it inside these pages. Your journey begins by looking at your past, and then following the breadcrumbs that God has left for you every step of the way.
Jami found her breadcrumbs in the rubble after her marriage...
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Who are Clover's parents? No one knows, but she's a good kid despite being raised by a household with an enthusiasm for petty vandalism, dumpster-diving, and violent video games.
Please Keep Warm is a tender adventure in personal growth with plenty of buckwild shenanigans, high drama, and laughs.
It's nice and gross at the same time!
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A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes from folk to house music.
Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you'll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won't know it-almost all of these venues have been demolished or repurposed, leaving no record of what they were, how...
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Silver Sprocket
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2023
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Who are Clovers parents? No one knows, but shes a good kid despite being raised by a household with an enthusiasm for petty vandalism, dumpster-diving, and violent video games.
Please Keep Warm is a tender adventure in personal growth with plenty of buckwild shenanigans, high drama, and laughs.
Its nice and gross at the same time!
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Switchgrass Books/Northern Illnois University Press
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[2017]
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"It's the summer of 1983. Ronald Reagan is in the White House, Princess Leia is on magazine covers, and Thea Knox is on the road. Fresh out of college, Thea is driving solo from California to New York. Her plan is to house-sit for her parents for the summer, but they sell her childhood home on a whim, leaving Thea (once again) to her own devices. She takes a detour to visit her Aunt Wendy in Merdale, a college town nestled in the Kansas prairie. Unlike...
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Hanover Square Press
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[2023]
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"Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you'll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won't know it--almost all of these venues have been demolished or repurposed, leaving no record of what they were, how they shaped music scenes or their impact on the neighborhoods around them. Traditional music history tells us that famous scenes are created by brilliant, singular artists. But dig...