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Book cover for "Setting a place for us".
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Publisher:
Ten Speed
Pub. Date:
[2025]
Language:
English
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"An enthralling and intimate collection of essays and recipes that explores the history of eight countries to understand the impact of human conflict on a culture's cuisine and food system, from the James Beard Award-winning author of In Bibi's Kitchen"--
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Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
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3.7 stars
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"A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites with his family for the first time in three years. Rafiq and Layla must now contend with the choices and betrayals that lead to their son's estrangement -...
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Publisher:
HarperChristian Resources
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Stuck" is a journey to take an honest look at the fight going on inside, leading us to the God who has a plan to restore it, to restore us. Because as we realize that our stuck places are the very places that make us ache for God, we find Him waiting there for us with hope and freedom. Do you feel stuck? So many of us live stuck. Stuck in trying to seem perfect. Stuck in sadness. Stuck feeling numb. Stuck pursuing more stuff to make us happy. Stuck...
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Publisher:
HarperChristian Resources
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Do you feel stuck? So many of us live stuck. Stuck in trying to seem perfect. Stuck in sadness. Stuck feeling numb. Stuck pursuing more stuff to make us happy. Stuck in something we can't even name. These stuck places often go unattended inside of us and they are shaping our lives more than we would like to think. In Stuck, Bible teacher Jennie Allen shows us where we are stuck and why: - We are stuck in anger because we aren't trusting God to defend...
Book cover for "A treasury of the world's great speeches, each speech prefaced with its dramatic and biographical setting and placed in its full historical perspective".
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Publisher:
Simon and Schuster
Language:
English
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date:
1989
Language:
English
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Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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"When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down one late summer's morning to write out the invitations to her eightieth birthday celebration, she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have spent over fifty years building. But she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed. She can't live a lie any more"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher:
Crown
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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There is No Place for Us discusses the issue of the "working homeless" in America, where individuals with full-time jobs cannot afford housing due to rising rents, low wages, and inadequate tenant protections. This problem is especially evident in rapidly growing cities, where gentrification leads to displacement. In his book, Brian Goldstone explores the lives of five families in Atlanta who, despite working hard, struggle to maintain stable housing....
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Publisher:
Little A
Pub. Date:
©2023
Language:
English
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"Growing up in rural Oregon, Brandon Wolf grappled with the devastating loss of his supportive mother and with the embedded racism and homophobia of a community that made him feel like an unwelcome stranger. After the lack of connection and role models led him down a spiral of risky behavior, Wolf escaped to survive. In Orlando, he found what he'd been searching for: belonging-in a community that was a safe space with people he'd come to call his...
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Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstonean updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York. That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkess A Place for Us. A lifelong fan of the show, Foulkes became interested in its history when she made an unexpected discovery: scenes for the iconic film version...
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Publisher:
OrangeSky Audio
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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In the vein of the USA Today bestselling Oyster Bay series comes a new feel-good series about sisters navigating family life while finding love in a quaint, lakeside town. When Britt Conway was eighteen, she left Blue Harbor without a glance back, telling herself that she was closing the door to her painful past for good. But when her father takes a fall and needs her help to oversee the family business until he is back on his feet, Britt can't refuse,...
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Publisher:
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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Series:
Love is Queer volume 3
Publisher:
argon
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
German
Description:
Wenn Liebe nicht ins Drehbuch passt: "No Place For Us" erzählt von Blumenhändlerin Ivy und Netflix-Star Jane, von dem Mut, zu sich selbst zu stehen, und von einer Liebe, die alle Unterschiede überwinden will. Zwischen Ivy und Jane sprühen die Funken, als die junge Schauspielerin zufällig Ivys Blumenladen in Frankfurt betritt. Trotzdem verlieren sie sich nach einer durchtanzten Nacht und einem einzigen Kuss aus den Augen. Erst ein halbes Jahr...
Book cover for "We Change Places, Places Change Us".
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Publisher:
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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This nonfiction book introduces the relationship between people and the places we live. It discusses the impact we have on the earth and the impact the earth has on us.
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Publisher:
Amazon KDP Publishing
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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I started off in my 12-year-old Prius with a camera and a bunch of worn but high-quality camping gear and a vague plan to see as many National Parks, friends, and Unusual Things as I could. I wound up driving 25,000 miles in 35 US states and 2 Canadian provinces and I visited and photographed 31 National Parks, 11 National Monuments, 1 National Seashore, 1 National Grassland, 2 National Memorials, 3 National Historic Sites, 2 National Parkways, 17...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the secluded Victorian house overlooking the ocean, it has long been abandoned. With many mysteries and wonder to be found in the house, it becomes a place for Jane to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years later, she returns home to Maine following a terrible mistake that threatens both her career and marriage and is horrified to find the Victorian is now barely recognizable due to the new owner, Genevieve, transforming...
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Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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A novel of manners about the romantic 'pas de deux' between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despite Elizabeth's negative feelings about Darcy, fate seems determined to keep throwing this pair together, and Darcy, almost in spite of himself, will make revelations that will end up causing Elizabeth to question everything she believes. Set in a time when marrying well was...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Paris, 1844-45), by French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas, is one of the most popular novels ever written. This book presents a tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era. Edmond Dantes, a nineteen-year-old sailor from Marseilles, is soon to be captain of his own ship and to marry his beloved, the beautiful Mercedes. But spiteful enemies provoke his arrest on his wedding day, and he is condemned to...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters. It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...