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"In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities"--
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities Close your eyes and picture the perfect mother. She is usually blonde and thin. Her roots are never showing, and she installed that gleaming kitchen backsplash herself (watch her TikTok for...
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Dream Catch Publishing
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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Writing this book helped me to reshape the narrative that had been written ages ago about my ancestors and allowed me to transform pain into power. Screaming From The Inside is not your typical go-to prison book and learn about God. In this book, you will find yourself checking your moral compass, and then taking a careful look at the world that you have been creating. You will laugh and cry, but beyond that, you will learn a vital truth at every...
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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While breaking the hottest news story of the year, broadcast journalist Isabel Murphy falls apart on live television in front of an audience of millions. She lands at Three Breezes, a four-star psychiatric hospital nicknamed the "nut hut," where she begins the painful process of recovering the life everyone thought she had. But accepting her place among her fellow patients proves difficult, and Isabel struggles to reconcile the fact that she is, indeed,...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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Fueled by the wisdom and advice of his two Holocaust-surviving parents, a well-known news addict puts the key stories of 2020 into context during a time when historic turmoil and media mania stretched American sanity, democracy, and toilet paper.
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English
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3.8 stars
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"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine...
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English
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4 stars
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"For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali's piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he's never charged, though that doesn't matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last...
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Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally--he's a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene--along with a threatening message from the killer--it looks like someone has been taking notes. Elizabeth Needham is the headstrong and brilliant NYPD Detective in charge of the case who recruits Dylan to help investigate another souvenir left at the scene--a playing...
10. Shy Willow
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English
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4 stars
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"Willow is shy. VERY shy. Her home is in an abandoned mailbox, and she'd rather stay put. Outside kids scream and soccer balls collide, trees look like monsters, and rain is noisy in a scary kind of way. It's much nicer to stay inside, drawing. But then a young boy drops a letter in Willow's mailbox: it's a note to the moon asking for a special favor. Willow knows that if she doesn't brave the world outside, the letter will never be delivered, and...
11. Twenty
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Jack Swyteck novel volume 17
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English
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4.3 stars
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A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
13. Alice
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Chronicles of Alice volume 1
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English
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3 stars
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"A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll...In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside. In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn't remember why she's in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and...
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Krewe of hunters volume 36
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English
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Women are being taken in Virginia, and FBI agent Mark Gallagher is determined to put a stop to it. Certain he's closing in on the killer known as The Embracer, Mark is less than thrilled when he's partnered with rookie agent Colleen Law, worried she's a liability when there's so much at stake. But like everyone in the Krewe of Hunters, Colleen has talents that extend beyond the usual investigative toolbox. She can hear the voices of the victims in...
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Agatha Raisin's plans for a perfect Christmas and a reunion with her ex-boyfriend James Lacey must be put on the back burner whenshe is hired by a wealthy widow who believes a member of her family is trying to kill her--a case that become more complicated when the old lady drops dead at high tea.
16. The wicked city
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2017
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English
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3.7 stars
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Moving into the building that once hid a speakeasy, Ella Hawthorne uncovers the Jazz Age story of a scandalous love triangle involving redheaded flapper Gin Kelly, a rugged Prohibition agent, and a wealthy debonair Princetonian.
"In the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams, two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment --a flapper hiding an extraordinary past, and a modern-day...
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Klaatu diskos volume 1
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Candlewick Press
Lexile measure:
740L
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English
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After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
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Dotdash Meredith
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English
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Twenty-five years ago, Scream and the chilling character Ghostface debuted in theaters, the start of one of the most popular movie franchises of all time. Now, on the occasion of the fifth Scream film, this special edition from Entertainment Weekly goes deep inside the new movie while also revisiting the most hair-raising scenes from the first four. Read intimate interviews with franchise stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette;
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While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
20. The Prophecy
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2014
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English
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Death has come to court. As the plague rages outside the palace walls, tormented screams and pleas for help go unanswered by the members of the French court sheltered within the castle. Mary Queen of Scots feels safe-but she doesn't know that someone using the secret tunnels may bring the threat inside. Mary worries that those she loves--her husband Francis, and friends Lola, Bash, and Kenna--remain stranded beyond the gates, among the sick and dying....