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At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, an enigmatic, brilliant, yet perverse, teacher who instructs his students not only about how to reason, but how to prevaricate. As the years go by, LaVerdere's covert and overt instruction lingers in his students' lives as they seek some sense of purpose or meaning. When Ben feels the pace of his life accelerating and views his intimate relationships as less...
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Janet R. Douglas
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2024
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English
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"A Wonderful Stroke of Luck" delves into the profound journey of Janet R. Douglas, offering a unique dual perspective as both therapist and patient. Douglas courageously addresses the profound effects of brain damage on personal identity and relationships, unraveling the complexities of faith, resilience, and the human spirit in the face of adversity. The memoir unfolds the challenges of returning to a high-powered corporate position, providing poignant...
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Sterling's Montana volume 1
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English
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4 stars
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"The Sterling Ranch's season opening isn't going so smoothly. With the ranch's lodge full of guests and a Montana blizzard threatening, Will Sterling needs help--and he needs it fast. So when his childhood friend Poppy Carmichael agrees to lend a hand, he's grateful for a second chance...and more enticed by the woman she's become than he cares to admit.For Poppy, it was supposed to be a retreat full of horse rides and hoedowns--with a side of showing...
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In the six decades since he took to the stage and screen, Kirk Douglas has starred in eighty-three films, nine plays, written seven books, and made a remarkable commitment to humanitarian causes world-wide. Now in My Stroke of Luck, his vivid and very personal reflection upon his extraordinary life, Kirk Douglas finally completes his story by offering a candid and heartfelt memoir of where it all went right. Written in his own words, Kirk offers tender...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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The book I present to you has the working title of A Stroke of Luck or a Beginner's Guide to Being Hospitalized as a More-Mature Person and What You Can Reasonably Expect. I believe that it represents a piece of innovative non-fiction, in that it is written with a positive, yet realistic, message about being a 'hospital virgin' at a more mature age. The project has been developed through my own experience of hospitalization recently, for treatment...
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Filament Publishing
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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The stroke I am referring to in this book is a CVA (Cerebrovascular Accident). In my case, it was a blockage in the central lobe with a banging headache, dizziness and then the whole left side losing feeling. Not nice! I realised this was life threatening when my consultant turned to my husband and said, "We need to act quickly; time is not on her side." My husband's response was, "Don't stand there, get on with it!" If he hadn't, my life now would...
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Ediciones Fortuna
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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Close your eyes. Imagine that you wake up in the best suite of a luxury hotel, married to the hottest actor: the one that everyone is swooning over, including you. You have no idea how it happened, but there's a gorgeous ring on your finger and he seems crazy in love with you. Just like that, your normal life, working at a big chain store, takes a one hundred and eighty degree turn, and you find yourself not only beside the man you've loved as long...
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Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing [and a trademark] of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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At last: Amy Michaels loves her new life in Lucky Harbor. A waitress in the local diner, she's looking forward to her first weekend hike through the mountains. But when a wrong turn takes her off the trail, she finds herself up close and personal with forest ranger Matt Bowers. And even though she's tempted to kiss that sexy smile right off his face, she won't make the mistake of getting involved with the town heartthrob. But after a hot night under...
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Brook Forest Voices
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2015
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English
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"A Stroke of Luck" is the remarkable true story of a close-knit family that meets challenge after challenge with resilience, hope, and love. Alex was a normal, bright, and healthy little girl, when the sudden onset of a mysterious illness began to take over her life. Months of physical therapy and medication failed to provide relief from acute pain and muscle spasms. Doctors across the country were at a loss for answers. A last ditch attempt at treatment--brain...
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Purple Porcupine Publishing
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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When musician Bruce Hughes woke up in the hospital after a devastating series of rare strokes, his world was shattered. Unable to move or speak, the thought of ever playing his guitar or performing with his bandmates again seemed impossible. His pain was excruciating, and his future was uncertain. Doctors questioned whether he'd ever walk or talk again. But Bruce's story doesn't end there-it's just the beginning of an extraordinary journey of determination,...
11. Stroke of Luck
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JMS Books LLC
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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Mason Jaspers is a virgin, but that's about to change. At least, he hopes so. Then again, it all depends on his longtime crush and current tutoring student Owen Fairchild. Owen is everything Mason is not: the confident jock to Mason's insecure nerd, taut and toned where Mason is long and gawky, tan and ruddy where Mason is pale and smooth, and far from a virgin. Owen is GSU's resident cock of the walk: openly gay and eagerly slutty, sleeping with...
12. Stroke of Luck
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Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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At his fathers farm, city boy Nathan finds more than he thought including a charming farmhand, a crime ring, and a horse that only he can hear talk
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Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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Most people think that stroke victims end up looking like Frankenstein with a horrible facial expression and erratic movements. But, that is not the way it has to be. Today, it is possible for some stroke victims to make a full recovery. Gerry Purdy knows this because his wife, Alicia - a healthy, beautiful and smart person - suffered a stroke on August 23, 2011 and was able to return to her vivacious self. Our Stroke of Luck portrays the life they...
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"Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it. From the New York Times bestselling author of Life and Other Inconveniences comes a new novel of heartbreaking truths and hilarious honesty about what family really means. Barb and John Frost are testy and bored with each other after fifty years of marriage. At least they have their daughters- Barb's favorite, Juliet; and John's darling, Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at...
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 6
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English
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When "Pigeon Tony" an elderly pigeon racer is arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy Angelo Coluzzi, the Coluzzi's family seek revenge on Pigeon Tony and his lawyer Judy Carrier.
17. Windfall
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"Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. When she buys him a lottery ticket that turns out to be a winner, their lives are changed forever and their friendship is put to the ultimate test"--
18. These old shades
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Set in the Georgian period, about 20 years before the Regency, "These Old Shades" features two of Heyer's most memorable characters: Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, and Leonie, whom he rescues from a life of ignominy and comes to love and marry.
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"As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I...
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2014
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English
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"When Tim Ellison finds a cheap room to rent in his dream location, it seems nothing more than a wonderful stroke of luck. Despite the fact that the owner of the house, the mysterious Anna London, is unfriendly and withdrawn, he takes it. But when strange and terrifying things start happening in the house at night, Tim wonders if renting the room has been a terrible mistake--until his feelings for Anna start to change. But as Tim falls for Anna, her...