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"In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, has opened in the West End to rapturous applause from the audience. The reviewers, however, are not as impressed as the playgoers and their savage notices not only shut down the play but ruin Lowry's last chance for a dramatic career. With her future in London not looking bright, at the suggestion of...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2006]
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English
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A Royal Air Force officer is caught between the ravages of World War II and unrequited love. Flight Lieutenant David Bradford meets and falls in love with a beautiful Jewish girl, Sarah while recuperating from a leg wound in Jerusalem. Her family rejects him, however, and wages war on the couple by trying to keep them apart.
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He had her at "hello ;" After the prom night accident that had stolen the innocence of his small lakeside hometown, Jack Llewellyn had run. The guilt-;especially facing his high school sweetheart, Arlie Gallagher-;had been too much. Now he had no choice. He was back in town, and on Arlie's radar. Arlie couldn't believe that after all these years, she still had him under her skin. He was such a changed ;a responsible business owner, a single parent....
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Janet Raye Stevens
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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Time has met its match in Beryl B Six months after feisty librarian-turned-time-cop Beryl Blue's last adventure with the gruff and sexy Tom 'Sully' Sullivan, she's back in 2133, chasing time-traveling thieves and other temporal miscreants for the time tourism company, Time Scope, Inc. She misses Sully, but fate has cast a deadly shadow over his future, and until she can find a way to fix that fate, she knows they can never be together. Beryl's also...
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2015
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HL: High-Low 680L
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English
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After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles to work through her grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real.
8. Giant days
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5 stars
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"Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther,...
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910L
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English
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4.3 stars
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"High adventure and high ideals merge when a corps of intrepid female aviators battle to take part in the hugely popular air shows of the 1920s and 1930s. Ultimately, one of our heroines would win a race that earned her the right to be called America's best pilot"--
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America's Test Kitchen
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©2021
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English
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2 stars
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"Poultry enthusiasts unite! ATK has you covered from the basic to the spectacular with 500 recipes that deliver low-key dinners, game-day favorites, simple sandwiches, special-occasion showstoppers, and beyond. You can call chicken a lot of things. Blank canvas, weeknight go-to, lean protein, we've heard it all. But boring? That's where we draw the line. Sure, it might have started to feel a bit redundant. But that's not the chicken's fault. ATK is...
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2015
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English
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"In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed for two years in Afghanistan in a directionless war, he struggles...
13. Even if we break
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Friends Finn, Liva, Maddy, Carter, and Ever begin a farewell round of the game they have played for three years, but each is hiding secrets and the game itself seems to turn against them.
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This Raging Light volume 2
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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After a month in a coma, eighteen-year-old Eden finds it hard to resume her life and relationships but forms an unlikely connection with Joe, who visits his best friend, Jaz, another coma patient, every day.
17. Breakaway
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The BookTok sensation: a spicy coach's daughter college sports romance, second in the Beyond the Play series, with new exclusive content in this edition! A secret friends-with-benefits arrangement with the hockey coach's daughter shouldn't have a shot in the dark of leading to more… Cooper As a pro-bound college athlete with a good-time reputation, I usually have my pick of puck bunnies. But lately, I've been in a dry spell that feels more like...
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Are you struggling to be who you are? Is making connections with others or even yourself a challenge? If you're checking this book out, you're probably looking for a change. I bet you've read some self-development books in the past. Those hundreds of pages are full of useless talk and sugar-coated B.S. Can you recall a single piece of advice that stayed in your mind? Did any of it change your life? I want to save you time. I'm going to cut out all...
19. Royal
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Rixton Falls volume 1
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English
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A Wall Street Journal bestseller!His name is Royal, but he's no prince charming. He's not even a prince - though you could say I loved him once upon a time.He was my older brother's best friend.Growing up, he sat at our dinner table every Sunday, teased me mercilessly, and pretended I annoyed him.When I was old enough, he took me on my first date.Royal taught me how to drive. Escorted me to my junior prom. Gave me my first kiss…amongst other things....
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory. By inviting so many into the final months of Joey's life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis; the inspiring, simple way they chose to live; and how they loved each other every step of the way. But there is far more to the story. "My life is very ordinary," says Rory. "On the surface, it is...