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"Sixteen-year-old Hal Stevens is a budding historical scholar from a small town in Colorado. A virtual outcast at high school, he has only two friends: Roberto the Biker Witch and Cleo Mallawi. Cleo claims to be the reincarnation of Queen Cleopatra. She also believes she's being stalked by an ancient Egyptian demon, Ammut, the Devourer of the Dead. But when Hal and Roberto find Cleo murdered in the forest near her home, it appears she may have been...
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As Edith, her best friend of forty-two years who is dying of ovarian cancer, spends her last days at a hospice near her, Ashley, stumbling around into heartbreak, helps Edith celebrate her life as they reminisce, hold on, and try to let go.
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In 1953 at a distinguished New York publishing firm, Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate, is tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg--a project that makes him realize that the people around him are not what they seem.
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Jurassic Park volume 2
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670L
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English
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On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions. The first one, including children, is led by a paleontologist, the other is made up of evil scientists who want to do experiments. The animals rout both without much concern for their motives.
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Boldwood Books
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2024
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English
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Preorder the BRAND NEW moving story of love and courage that will captivate readers of Fiona Valpy, Lorna Cook and Hazel Gaynor. 1941: For the townspeople of Poole on the Dorset coast, the war feels like it's right on their doorstep. And with more and more men leaving to fight, one fisherman's daughter is determined to do whatever she can to help. Peggy volunteers to use her skills on the water to work with the flying boats alongside the RAF based...
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Katie Winters
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2024
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English
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A long-lost family of Italian royalty. Deep-seated secrets. And a remarkable journey of discovery.Catherine Copperfield knows where she came from. During her childhood, her Grandfather Gionnocaro told her endless stories of his youth in Italy before a ship brought him to America in the 1940s. It was a romantic past of grandeur and intellectualism -- a far cry from his poor livelihood in New York City.But he lost his wealth in the blink of an eye.And...
10. Pirate latitudes
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The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
11. Outer Banks
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Arcadia Publishing Inc
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1999
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English
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A destination for many tourists eager for sun, sand, and a simpler way of life, and a far distant cry from the glitter and neon of more traditional, commercial oriented beaches, the Outer Banks of North Carolina is a natural wonder sheltering and buffering Eastern North Carolina from the volatile temperament of the Atlantic Ocean. Even before the official birth of North Carolina and into the twenty-first century, this coastal strip of barrier islands...
12. My Journey
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WestBow Press
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2013
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English
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My Journey is a true story of a young widow suddenly faced with the challenges of being alone in Cuba with forty-eight hours to leave the island with her two young sons and her husbands casket. What began as an adventure in the US Navy turned into a life changing event, opening new doors that proved there are no chance happenings. The power of her childhood faith foundation allowed her to find comfort by visualizing the images of the stained glass...
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iUniverse
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2010
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English
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In what was the most devastating event of their lives, Tom and Pat Monahan lost their nine-year-old grandson, Tommy, in a house fire in December of 2007. This unimaginable tragedy rocked their lives with pain and sorrow beyond description, of a kind and strength they had never dreamed of. As a way of dealing with this unspeakable grief, Pat Monahan practiced what she preached as a professional bereavement counselor: she began journaling her feelings...
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Regan Arts
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2017
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English
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"Welcome to the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward, a maximum-security hospital and inpatient psychiatric unit for the inmates of the New York City jail system, with its hub on Rikers Island. It is a world of heartbreak, violence, and pain, where severely ill men are often lost in a tangle of courts, jails, and bureaucracy. It is also a place of challenges, redemption, and surprising joy, where tough, hardworking doctors and staff fight to...
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Words in the Wings Press, Inc
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2022
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English
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Resilience has brought Larissa Whitcomb a long way toward surviving recent losses of those closest to her. "I'm emotionally bankrupt," she admits in the aftermath of her tragedies. And she still needs to get through holidays while grieving. Yet, somehow, gradually, she yearns for more. It is time to be grateful for each day, reframe her grief, and to expend energy in new directions. When she discovers old letters and postcards amongst her mother's...
16. Legacy
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"LEGACY" is a heartwarming collection of 10 short stories for young adults. Some of the stories are based on the author's impromptu, on-demand storytelling to his young children. Instead of reading a story, he would make one up - his kids would cry "tell me a story from your mouth!", so he would. A few of the stories are based on the author's real experiences; some thrilling, some funny, some heart stopping. All in all, the reader will find the stories...
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Author's Republic
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2017
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English
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A THRILLING TRUE STORY THAT MADE NAUTICAL HISTORY In the year 1994, skipper Pekka Piri and navigator Matti Pulli piloted a 7-meter motorboat from Helsinki over the Baltic Sea, North Sea and North Atlantic to Iceland. Both 48 years old, Piri had lost his career as a personnel manager, and Pulli had lost his ship, the freighter m/s Finnpolaris, in a wreck off the west coast of Greenland. Now what they both needed was space. On May 17, 1994, they set...
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Elizabeth Beechwood
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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Memories are open to interpretation, just like the best From eastern Europe to the Pacific Northwest, this collection explores the complicated and often contradictory dreams and desires of women of all ages and the role that memory plays throughout our lives. A daughter returns to the island where her mother disappeared, searching the dark waters for a creature that promises oblivion just beyond the shore. In a war-torn village nestled in the Tatra...
19. Out of the Ice
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Simon & Schuster Australia
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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By the bestselling author of The Lost Swimmer, a tense, eerie thriller set in the icy reaches of Antarctica When environmental scientist Laura Alvarado is sent to a remote Antarctic island to report on an abandoned whaling station, she begins to uncover more than she could ever imagine. Reminders of the bloody, violent past are everywhere, and Laura is disturbed by evidence of recent human interference. Rules have been broken, and the protected wildlife...
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Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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When all hope seems lost, a woman finds herself, a new love, and a new life. Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author, Ellen Joy, delivers another feel-good story in this captivating series. Samantha's ex is getting married and it hurts. As if that isn't bad enough, an embarrassing mistake brings her dream career as a travel writer to an abrupt end. So, after hitting rock bottom, Samantha decides to recover with her sister and her mother, Evelyn, at Evelyn's...