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New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement. It's all Lily Denton dreams about. But ever since her mother died, her overprotective father won't ease up on her. So she spends her days working at the library and her nights hoping life doesn't pass her by . . . until the Fall Festival. As tourists fill the streets, the crisp autumn air sneaks in-as does the thrill of a far more dangerous kind. Some men have a gift for avoiding...
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Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the legend of Sleepy Hollow is actually true? Also, Rip Van...
4. Stray Birds
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A collection of poems. 1 STRAY birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh. 2 O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words. 3 THE world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal. 4 IT is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom. 5 THE mighty...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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A tenant farmer's son had no business daring to dream of a future with an earl's daughter, but that couldn't keep Amos Darby from his secret friendship with Charlotte Terrington... until the reality of the Great War sobered youthful dreams. Now decades later, he bears the brutal scars of battles fought in the trenches and their futures that were stolen away. His return home doesn't come with tender reunions, but with the hollow fulfillment of opening...
6. Clawed
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Publisher:
Saguaro Books, LLC
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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All I wanted was a family. So, I surrounded myself with the only friends I've ever had and joined JROTC so I could feel the love of a family unit. When we went to a two-week summer camp in the mountains of Kentucky, Carter Rollins, the leader, tempted me with always being, desired. If I joined his Army Pride, I'd have the connections I'd dreamed of. Yet something was mystifying about the boy with eyes like an autumn sky. Maybe it was his rugged exterior...
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"On a picture perfect May afternoon in 1979, Chicago businessman Louis Blaine boards a DC-10 for a flight to Los Angeles. It's just a day trip. He plans to be home around midnight -- home to his pregnant wife and his seven year-old-daughter. But the flight is doomed. Thirty-one seconds after the plane becomes airborne, it falls from the sky. Engorged with Jet fuel, it slams into the ground a mile from the airport. The earth quivers -- the smoke is...
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Dragonfly FM
Pub. Date:
2019
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Chinese
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Seeing the autumn sunset at the seaside, the golden sunshine sprinkled on the beach, the red sunset disappear in the sky, some people will say: Wow! This is really beautiful! The Ancient Philosophers-What do the Four Books and Five Classics include? Qin Wen Han Fu-Who are the two Simas of the Western Han Dynasty? Tang and Song Poetry-What is the Changhengge? Ming and Qing novels-How did a dream of Red Mansions form a "redology?" Culture and Art-What...
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Kingston Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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Rocker Gordon had it all. The model girlfriend, an NFL career and more money than he knew what to do with until one wrong play cost him everything. He knew his career would eventually end but he didn't expect it to be so soon. Now, he's returning back to his hometown to coach the local high school football team. It was always part of his long term plan but back then someone else was a part of it too. Warbee Carter never had the desire to leave her...
11. Foxly's Feast
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Sky Pony
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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To say that Foxly is hungry would be an understatement-he can't stop thinking about food! He's completely ravenous. So Foxly sets out to find something delicious and filling. First, he discovers a deserted bag of groceries. But will it be enough to fill this fox? It looks like he has something bigger in mind. Foxly approaches a group of roosters and hens, but he still does not chow down. Just what could this crafty fox be up to? Foxly is dreaming...
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Publisher:
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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She is a serious poet who is writing with wit, dedication and thoughtfulness. I admire greatly her wonderful skills with language, dance and culture. She in-deed brings many things of beauty to the world and that is everyones good fortune. - Laurie Ramey. Poet, Professor and Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Director, Cal State Los Angeles. With lyricism and a chord of ontological idealism, the book, A Multicultural Song that I Sing Alone...
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Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Red Queen meets The Scorpio Races in a high-flying new fantasy series filled with passion, betrayal, and adventure from debut author Shina Reynolds. Seventeen-year-old Aluma Banks has always dreamed of soaring freely through the skies astride a powerful winged steed of her own. But flying is a privilege granted only to the Riders of the king's Empyrean Cavalry, the aerial warriors who defend the borders of their land from the fallen kingdom of Laithlann....
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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'Utterly enjoyable from beginning to end!' Being Unique Books Life is about to change forever… When best friends, Tina and Jodie, make a drunken New Year's Eve vow to change their lives before they hit the big 3 - 0, neither expected to end the year with much more than another hangover… Twelve months later, Jodie is married and living in Provence - and Tina is exactly where she was a year ago (although now her rent is double). Tina can't help...
16. Calm Night
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Rosedog Books
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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About the Book What is the bright sun without the night sky? Perhaps at first it would appear pleasant. Constant sun filled days is ideal. Is it not? But in all actuality it would be a turning point of an unconceivable event with an unexpected aftermath. A new world government is birth out of calamity and the greatest devastation the entire earth has ever succumb. Lordia, the young queen with no crown decked with gems nor a palace on high is the promise...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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**You can pre-order Dilly's brand new heartwarming Christmas novel now** It's Christmas Eve. Flurries of snow fall on the cobbled streets of Whitechapel and an abandoned baby, swaddled in a blanket, is found on a doorstep in Angel Lane . . . Named after the street on which she was found, Angel Winter was blessed to be taken from the harsh streets into a loving home. But fate deals a cruel blow and she's torn from the only family she has ever known,...
19. A Garden of Two
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Publisher:
Phindulo Ramavhoya
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Step into the enchanting world of "A Garden of Two," where love blossoms like the most vibrant of blooms and the air is infused with the sweet fragrance of shared dreams. This romantic tale, penned by the skilled hand of an expert storyteller, invites readers to wander through the seasons of Emma and Oliver's love story-a journey that unfolds within the magical embrace of a carefully cultivated garden.The narrative begins with the chance encounter...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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All I Want for Christmas by Gina Rochelle Ditching her faithless fiancé, schoolteacher Isabella plans to spend the holidays alone. But when she unintentionally inspires a young pupil to make an impossible wish, she joins forces with his - totally gorgeous - uncle to put things right! Could two wishes come true this Christmas? Dreaming of a White Wedding by Misty Shaw When Scarlet discovered her husband-to-be in a passionate clinch with her bridesmaid,...