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Ace
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"A fortune teller finds an unexpected family on her journeys in this heartwarming and charming fantasy debut. Tao, an immigrant fortune teller, lives in a wagon and roams the dusty outskirts of the kingdom of Eshtera. Fleeing a troubled past, she travels between villages telling only small fortunes: whether it will hail next Thursday; what boy will kiss which barmaid; when the cow will calve. Big fortunes come with big consequences...which she wants...
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English
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A wealthy rancher´s son attempts to play matchmaker with his nanny in the USA Today-bestselling author's heartwarming Texas romance. Marnie McCafferty has received her share of propositions over the years, but never one like this. Little Jace Fortune is determined to make his new nanny a permanent part of the family. The problem is he hasn't bothered to okay his plan with his father, the amazingly hunky, comfortably rich and completely love-shy...
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Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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Resolving to give away a divorce settlement to his most deserving relative, devout Muslim Harris, the presumed head of a large extended family in England and Pakistan, rashly bequeaths his fortune to a prosperous cousin, complicating a difficult web of familial debt and obligation.
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Publisher:
Harlequin
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
A little fortune is a good thing. Marnie McCafferty has received her share of propositions over the years, but never one like this. Little Jace Fortune is determined to make his new nanny a permanent part of the family. The problem is he hasn't bothered to okay his plan with his father, the amazingly hunky, comfortably rich and completely love-shy Asher Fortune. Normally, Asher would be amused by his son's matchmaking efforts. But this time, Jace...
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
About half of all new businesses fail in their first five years. This is the story of one of them. At the start of the 21st century, Matthew Spaur remarried, became a stepparent to three boys, and started a weekly newspaper--all at the same time. Almost overnight, he became a self-employed working parent with bad business timing. He did this despite having never owned a business, worked on a newspaper, taken a journalism class, or sold advertising....
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Publisher:
First District
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
There has never been a better time for us to start taking saving seriously. Our hyper-meritocratic world has long glorified the notion of constantly earning more in order to fuel victory in some futile race to lifestyle and possessions. And so the careful saver was always the subject of ridicule. Then along came COVID-19. Jobs disappeared overnight, and those who kept theirs could forget about pay rises any time soon. Suddenly, those who had a nest...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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About half of all new businesses fail in their first five years. This is the story of one of them. At the start of the 21st century, Matthew Spaur remarried, became a stepparent to three boys, and started a weekly newspaper-all at the same time. Almost overnight, he became a self-employed working parent with bad business timing. He did this despite having never owned a business, worked on a newspaper, taken a journalism class, or sold advertising....
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
For decades, countless Americans have quietly operationalized their entrepreneurial ambitions by purchasing established, profitable small businesses to control their destinies and create millions of dollars in personal wealth. The pride of ownership and the personal and professional fulfillment of owning a successful business are undeniable, and the lure of charting one's course has tremendous appeal. But, making the decision - even entertaining...
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
There has never been a better time for us to start taking saving seriously. Our hyper-meritocratic world has long glorified the notion of constantly earning more in order to fuel victory in some futile race to lifestyle and possessions. And so the careful saver was always the subject of ridicule. Then along came COVID-19. Jobs disappeared overnight, and those who kept theirs could forget about pay rises any time soon. Suddenly, those who had a nest...
12. The blood card
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English
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4 stars
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"In this nail-biting transatlantic mystery, threat of mass violence looms over Elizabeth II's coronation--can Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto crack the case and save the crown?"--
13. One true heart
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Series:
Harmony volume 8
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
"Millanie McAllen is always logical. But after returning to her childhood home, she learns that some things are beyond explanation--like her undeniable passion for Drew Cunningham...After finding success as a singer on the road, Beau Yates returns to Harmony to make peace with his dying father--only to find the woman he's been dreaming of for years. But the secrets they discover might be too much for him to bear...When Johnny Wheeler is charged with...
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What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be getting married within the year? Her roommates panic! What is going to happen to their blissful existence of eating take-out, drinking too much wine, bringing men home, and never vacuuming? Lucy reassures her friends that she's far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married. And then there's the small matter of not even having a boyfriend. But...
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Publisher:
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Lexile measure:
790L
Language:
English
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A universal portrait and an insider's look at life in Latin America, their cause for happiness, however, triggers a series of events that marks the lives of everyone in the small village of Santiago, Mexico. Woven into Chayo's and Candelario's story are an unforgettable array of characters: Marta, the hotel maid who reads cast-off American magazines and dreams of El Paso; don Justo, the heartbroken fortune-teller; Esperanza, the midwife who finds...
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Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
770L
Language:
English
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When her mother dies Sparrow is left with only an aunt for a relative, and no human friends, because most of the residents of the small town of Beulah find her "unusual" and think her house near the Everglades is haunted (which it is)--in fact Sparrow's only real friend is the Boy, an unusually solid-seeming ghost who accompanies her everywhere, but never speaks, and who has a secret which Sparrow will need to discover, perhaps with the help of a...
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Series:
Biblioasis international translation volume no. 25
Publisher:
Biblioasis
Language:
English
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"Mia Couto, winner of the Neustadt International Prize, and a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, first became famous as a writer of enchanting short stories. In Rain and Other Stories, one of his most appealing collections, here available in English for the first time, the borders that separate people melt as a poor African country emerges from sixteen years of civil war and assumes its identity as an independent nation. In these playful,...
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Publisher:
Islandport Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
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"Cheerful Ruby LaRue and her shy friend Eleanor Bandaranaike couldn't be more different. Ruby has lived her whole life in the small ski town of Paris, New Hampshire. Eleanor's family comes from Sri Lanka. But these unlikely best friends share one thing: they both have BIG plans. So when a mysterious fortune teller urges them to go outside their world to unlock their dreams, they plunge down a whirlwind path to try to reach their goals."--
19. A Killer Cupcake
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Series:
Beachfront Bakery Cozy Mystery volume 1
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Allison Sweet, 34, a sous chef in Los Angeles, has had it up to here with demeaning customers, her demanding boss, and her failed love life. After a shocking incident, she realizes the time has come to start life fresh and follow her lifelong dream of moving to a small town and opening a bakery of her own. When Allison spots a charming, vacant storefront on the boardwalk near Venice, she wonders if she could really start life anew. Feeling like it's...
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Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press, Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Haley can't face Christmas. Her super-critical family hate her presents and her life. It's her turn to prepare the holiday diner, but her apartment kitchen is too small for anything but toast. Which is the only think she knows how to cook. When her cookie fortune turns out to be an ad-Madam Zelda, Fortune Teller-she makes a desperate decision. Zach is the mastermind behind the ad. He and Zelda show Haley that a fortune cookie can be full of surprises,...