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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"A groundbreaking exploration of a debilitating disorder that's underdiagnosed and misunderstood. Most days, Shalene Gupta was the person she'd always aspired to be. She was hardworking, excelled at work, and had a long-term boyfriend who she desperately loved. Then, every month like clockwork, it all came crashing down in fits of rage and inconsolable sorrow. Work became meaningless, and she struggled to get through the day. The lows were subterranean....
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Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
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"A witty, atmospheric, and brilliantly told novel that offers compelling portraits of womanhood, motherhood and female friendship, along with the irresistible intrigue surrounding an extraordinary British family. Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she'll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father's - now a famous...
3. The Cycle
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Carver thought he'd saved the world from the endless dead, but as Earth tries to find peace, a new threat targets the guides themselves, and Carver's first on its list. With WW1 still raging away, lost souls continue to pour into Riven, filling its world to bursting. The Guides, charged with cleansing those dead, are stretched thin even before a mysterious enemy begins tearing them apart. Carver must hunt down the monster before it destroys the guides,...
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., first revealed the sequences that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. Faced with a new century, a new millennium, and social and technological revolutions, Schlesinger confronts the possibility of a revolution in American political cycles.
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English
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Song of the Bamboo: O South Wind, the Wanderer, come and rock me, Rouse me into the rapture of new leaves. I am the wayside bamboo tree, waiting for your breath to tingle life into my branches. O South Wind, the Wanderer, my dwelling is in the end of the lane. I know your wayfaring, and the language of your footsteps. Your least touch thrills me out of my slumber, your whisper gleans my secrets. (Enter a troop of girls, dancing, representing birds.)...
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A comprehensive guide to giving well to family members Giving is at the core of family life, and with current law allowing up to $5,120,000 in tax-free gifts, at least through December 2012, the ultra-affluent are faced with the task of giving at perhaps largest scale in history. Beyond the tax saving and wealth management implications, giving to family members opens up a slew of thorny questions, the biggest of which is, "How do I prepare recipients...
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Publisher:
The Child's World, Inc
Pub. Date:
2019
Lexile measure:
650L
Language:
English
Description:
Introduces the process of photosynthesis. Readers will gain insight into how photosynthesis works and its effects. Additional features include a diagram of the cycle, table of contents, a phonetic glossary, an index, an introduction to the author, and sources for further research.
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Publisher:
Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Stormwarden A young girl, her brother, and a Firelord's descendant are caught up in the rescue of the Stormwarden Anskiere-and the unbinding of the demons that could destroy all of humanity. Keeper of the Keys As Jaric struggles to accept his father's heritage, Taen's brother is possessed by the demons who use him as a pawn to hunt down and slay the Firelord's heir. Shadowfane Jaric faces the Cycle of Fire that drove his father to madness, while Taen...
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Publisher:
Nathan Allen
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Privileged rich kid Fraser Jaensch faces a twenty year prison sentence for a shockingly violent crime. His attorney advises him that his only alternative is to become a subject in a top-secret program of radical therapy.Fraser thinks it'll be a breeze. He thinks he got off scot free.But he has no idea what he's in for. A purveyor of nonsense that occasionally vomits out something profound.
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Publisher:
Joy Publications
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
This true story tells the tales about the capacity of the human will. Nathaniel Allenby's (Fight to Survive, Cirque Quirk) The Cycle of Kindness regales readers with larger-than-life factual accounts of sneaking into castles, learning to dumpster dive, being robbed in London, protesting at the Camp for Climate Action, and pedaling across Germany and the Pyrenees mountains through the freezing cold. Using journal entries from the expedition to recount...
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Publisher:
T. M. Bennett
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Jax's sister is afraid Jax is going to ruin her wedding. Meanwhile, Jax just wants to be free from so many chores and expectations. When his friends on Teluthia warn him about a possible invasion, he feels only more weight added to his burden. However, according to most officials on the foreign world, the crashed starship full of dead soldiers in full fighting gear is nothing more than a well-prepared exploration party. Jax and his friends know better,...
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Publisher:
Ashika Laldaparsad
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
In The Cycle of Five, silent nights, author Ashika P skillfully portrays characters who endure incredible challenges in life. It is a story brimming with the essence of family, the vitality of relationships and the despair of betrayal. A seemingly idyllic setting, where family values are strong and where hard work is rewarded with success, money, the comforts of life and happiness. Where cigar smoking is de rigeur and where laughter and frivolity...
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Publisher:
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Not too many people leave this world untouched by the unforeseen elements of life. It is a struggle between good versus evil, love versus hate and the loneliness that can be in our hearts even though we are surrounded by family and loved ones. The book deals with what humans have in common with the earth and the everlasting storms of life. It deals with the need to be loved and wanted and to be able to dream until our hearts content. No matter what...
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Publisher:
Upper Room
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Are you soul-weary? Do you struggle to make time for God in the midst of a packed schedule? Or do you sometimes stay so busy doing things for God that you can't relax and just "be"? Jesus faced amazing pressure and overwhelming demands throughout his ministry, but he did not experience the burnout so common today among Christian ministers and laypersons. You can learn the rhythm of living that Jesus demonstrates - the Cycle of Grace - throughout the...
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Publisher:
Ink Start Media
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
The Pisan Interlude intersected over two-hundred years forming a transcendent arc in Corsican history. This book completes the initial trilogy of the Cycle of Cyrnos. The first book explored the origins of the Corsican people from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age, The second book developed the foundation of the Corsican people from the Bronze Age to the Preaching of the First Crusade and Pisa's acquisition of Corsica.
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Publisher:
FrostProof808
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
This is a collection of magic realism. In the title story, sometimes letting go just isn't possible. You've loved the same soul down through the ages, but just before you can be together forever, he is ripped away yet again. The eerily weeping heavens combine with the sea and a departed love to ease the burden of the one who has been left behind. "Carmen, Whose Face Was Cracked, the kindest and most beautiful woman in all of Mexico suffers a cracked...