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The Understudy Ellen Tovatt Leary The Understudy is the story of Nina Landau, an actress, living in New York City in the early '70s and trying hard to make it on Broadway. We follow her from her Broadway audition nerves to her eventual success on stage. Along the way we discover what goes on backstage during a Broadway show, how actors deal with the mistakes that... |
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Above the Ether Eric Barnes A mesmerizing novel of unfolding dystopia amid the effects of climate change in a world very like our own, for readers of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood. In this prequel to Eric Barnes's acclaimed cli-fi novel The City Where We Once Lived, six... |
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Mrs. Alworth Tim Castano Mrs. Alworth envelops the reader, like a blanket. Tim Castano does an amazing job of pulling the reader inside the characters' heads, and navigating their layers, from their appearances to their inner, vulnerable selves, to how they receive and perceive one another, and ultimately, to how they love. The central relationship is so pure... |
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Catnip for the Cat Lover's Psyche Ann Lapatka Ann Lapatka transports the reader through adventurous, real life stories – the tragedies, the triumphs, the laughter and the tears – of her experiences with beloved companion cats. She shares with you how her cats blessed, enriched – and even surprised her – in totally unexpected ways. Cat lover or not, Catnip for... |
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The Retired Detectives' Club: See No Evil Shawn Scuefield Meet retired police detective Robert Raines. After devoting forty-three years of his life to serving and protecting the streets of Chicago, he has called it a career. But good cop instincts die hard—if they die at all. Before long, he finds himself teamed with two fellow retired cops, Dale Gamble and Ashe, as... |
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The Colour of the Sun Gillian Thorp One hot June afternoon in Durban, South Africa, a child is born. Doctors and nurses marvel because the birth is one of the rarest in the world. The child, Gillian August, is born still shrouded in her amniotic sac. She is a caul baby, and in 1970s South Africa, this heralds greatness. Or it might have, had August's caul not been stolen within... |
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Vapour Trails Abdul Qadir Two friends living a legally questionable life decide one day to leave it all behind and turn over a new leaf. They soon realize that actions have consequences, and getting out is much harder than getting in. A transgressive tour of Pakistan, Vapor Trails describes a world that is painted in strange... |
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Unexpected Enemy Tim Cagle After years of heartbreaking infertility, Ann Sorenson finally conceives through in-vitro fertilization. The joy of conception is overwhelming. Then, nature intervenes when she delivers a baby several weeks premature. Joy turns to confrontation as everyone knows this... |
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Someday Everything Will All Make Sense Carol LaHines Someday Everything Will All Make Sense follows Luther van der Loon, an eccentric harpsichordist and professor of early music, as he navigates the stages of grief after the untimely death of his mother. Luther obsesses over burial practices, rails against the funerary industry, and institutes a suit against the Chinese takeout whose "sloppy... |
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L'héritage des Lumières Les Lumières sont souvent invoquées dans l'espace public comme un combat contre l'obscurantisme, combat qu'il s'agirait seulement de réactualiser. Des lectures, totalisantes et souvent caricaturales, les associent au culte du Progrès, au libéralisme politique et à un... |
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The Little Book on Wisdom Patricia Ann Jordan Can you use more wisdom? Do you consider yourself wise? Do you "practice" using wisdom? Yes, you can practice using wisdom. You can become more wise at any age, at any stage of your life. Practice will make almost perfect. The Little Book on Wisdom can help in your life's... |
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Law of Zero Chad Michael Hardy In this inspirational cross between self-help and memoir, Chad Michael Hardy chronicles his journey from a strict Mormon upbringing to self-acceptance and true authenticity. Facing discrimination and a crisis of faith due to living inauthentically, Hardy embraced the transformative law of Zero to get unstuck, find balance, and unlock... |
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Amphibious Naomi M. Wong At a dinner party somewhere in Chile, a spunky, hypnotic human weapon steals something she can't remember from her hosts. She is the Agent, known in that part of the world by the name "Bathsheba." David Miller the Killer, Bathsheba's trainer in covert operations at the World Council of Eugenics, discovers... |
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Godfrey's Crusade Mark Howard Godfrey's Crusade is the first installment of the Griffin Legends series. It's a fantasy novel with a mixture of martial and religious themes; we're going on a crusade here after all if the title didn't give it away, it has a carefully chosen combination of fantasy and real historical elements, its plot structure is increasingly complex throughout... |
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God Bless Our Divided America David W. Marshall History is a powerful tool we can use to study the past, as well as its sometimes complex relationship with the present. To understand our nation's history is to also know its relevancy to today's current events. Over the centuries, the United States has been marked by divisions of race, class, religion, culture... |
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Clarice Lispector Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice became, virtually from adolescence, a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil. Moser tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great... |
