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Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.
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These seemingly disparate characters gradually realize their connections to each other just as they realize that something is not quite right about their world. And it seems as though the answers might lie with Hawthorne Abendsen, a mysterious and reclusive author whose bestselling novel describes a world in which the US won the W Man in the High Castle is Dick at his best, giving readers a harrowing vision of the world that almost was. "The single...
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Casa Cielo Press
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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In the ninth century, culture shock is the least of her problems. When twenty-first-century Leylah Farhani falls through time and lands in the year 885, she finds herself trapped in a world she can hardly understand. Forced to choose between her modern sensibilities and the harsh realities of life in Viking-Age England, the wrong choice could spell disaster, not only for her but for the handsome young Dane who shelters her. Using only her wits and...
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Wings ePress, Inc
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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Four generations of women live together, each with her own problems, learning how to cope with her own issues while providing support for the others. Elizabeth is the glue that holds the family together: her elderly mother suffering from dementia, her two grown daughters, one with a marriage in crisis and another who plans artificial Insemination, and two grandchildren resentful of their parents' separation. Elizabeth's own second-time-around romance...
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"What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen--of Out of Africa--fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama,...
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Subterranean Press
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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Civil War soldier and partial vampire Trevor Lawson travels by night, working to combat evil and hunting LaRouge, the vampire queen who turned him. If he can trap LaRouge and drink from her, he may be able to return to mortal life. In this adventure he may gain the help of an unexpected ally or find himself sinking deeper into darkness.
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I Travel By Night volume 1
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GraphicAudio
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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For Lawson, the horrors that stalked the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh were more than just those of war. After being forcibly given the gift of undeath by the mysterious vampire queen LaRouge, Lawson chose to cling to what remained of his humanity and fought his way free of the Dark Society's clutches. In the decades since, he has roamed late nineteenth-century America, doing what good he can as he travels by night, combating evils mundane and supernatural,...
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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Come out of the darkness into the light of your New Dawn with the clear and concise guidance within. Easy to read and understand, this marvelous book will serve as a lifeline if you are lost in a Dark Night. And if you are not in a Dark Night of the Soul, no matter where you are on your journey through life, understanding and applying the principles in this book will show you the way to bring more light into your life.
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Open Road Media
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2022
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English
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Two short novels featuring the vampiric gunslinger who seeks vengeance and justice across the Old West, from the New York Times-bestselling master of horror. He was once a husband, father, lawyer, and Civil War soldier. Now he is a vampire struggling to hold onto his last thread of humanity-and to destroy the one who made him. In I Travel by Night, Trevor Lawson handles matters from his lair at the Hotel Sanctuaire in New Orleans. When a prominent...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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Introduction: positive proximity -- Spaces. Beacon, New York: the power of created spaces ; Moab, Utah: natural space ; Wilmington, Delaware: waterfronts -- Identity building. Phoenixville, Pennsylvania: history ; Carrboro, North Carolina: culture ; Finger lakes, New York: food -- Translation. Middletown, Connecticut: partnerships ; Gainesville, Florida: conscious bridgers ; Bringing positive proximity to your town.
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Hazel Wood volume 2.50
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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In this companion book to "The Hazel Wood" and "The Night Country," the author presents a collection of dark fairy tales by Alice's reclusive grandmother Althea Proserpine.