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Smoke from Small Fires Anne Powers It's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving... |
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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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The Too-Brief Chronicle of Judah Lowe Christopher Carter Sanderson Fiction. The formal playfulness of Christopher Carter Sanderson's novel, The Too-Brief Chronicle of Judah Lowe, is visually apparent at a glance. It consists of two parts, each composed of a series of short... |
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Dog Logic Tom Strelich If Dr. Strangelove and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy got together and had a litter of puppies you'd get Dog Logic, a duck-and-cover fable and love story. Hertell Daggett is not what he used to be: once married, once a physicist, and once shot in the head in a New Year's Eve accident, or... |
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Death of Heaven JZ Murdock A horrific childhood event. Two broken boys struggle to grow up. One to achieves great and covert things for our country, things that nearly destroy him. The other continues his struggle through adulthood. Finally they come back together to help one another, one more than the other... |
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This Is Your Quest Joanne Reed An exciting journey through history, socio-economic discourse and philosophical discussion. This book will guide you, using a holistic approach, to finding true happiness. It has the potential to change lives, not by giving advice as to how you should lead your life but by exposing you to concepts... |
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Teenagers Playing Grown-Ups Karen Chaston An unplanned pregnancy can be stressful, complex and a difficult situation at any age. Though what if you are a teenager, too young to understand that no matter what choice you decide upon you truly are at the cross-roads to your future life. Every woman's experience of... |
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You Can Live Happily Married for a Lifetime Wendy Fierstein You Can Live Happily Married For a Lifetime, will be invaluable for couples at every stage of their marital journey. Discover the reasons why misunderstandings happen. Resolve any challenge so that your marriage will be strengthened. Find out how to reignite the... |
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Court Appointed Priscilla Audette Books about death are invariably about life. In her book Memento Mori, Muriel Spark says: "Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites... |
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What Matters Most Helen Bea Kirk Meagan Morris has lost everything. Her family is dead, and all that remains of them, all that was endowed to her, has been stolen.Desperate to retrieve her legacy, Meagan disguises herself and attempts to rob King of her grandmother’s pearls at gunpoint. When Officer Dell arrives at the scene, King doesn’t... |
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Some Thoughts on God and Other Things Jerome Gleich Our cities, states, countries, and seemingly the whole world, seem to be coming apart at the seams. While many of us live in relative comfort, the wars, killing, economic strife, lack of morals, decency, and just common sense, take a heavy toll on our spirits and psyches... |
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Mood, Food and Gratitude Bo L. Arnold What if you discovered that just behind your thoughts is the real you - a powerful, unlimited being capable of creating an easier, healthier, and more peaceful life? The time has come for us to discover that the way we have been taught to think is completely out of alignment with who... |
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I'll Be Looking at the Moon Lucia Barrett Barrett's heroine relies on her own determination and creates her own successes rather than waiting to be rescued by a man. It's a welcome contrast to the sexist, demeaning attitudes that defined Elizabeth's childhood and a satisfying victory for a... |
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Life with My Idiot Family Kathy and Gary Picard Seven-year-old little girls love their daddy. Kathy was no exception, so when her daddy started paying "special" attention to her, she felt "special" in turn. Her daddy loved her... what could be better than that? Few betrayals run as deep as the betrayal of being sexually... |
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America's War for the Greater Middle East From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Bacevich, one of the... |
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Shoes Fetish 1 Sharon Bennett & Beatrice Moore What good are men when a woman can have shoes? According to Carmen Robertson, the central character in Shoe Fetish by Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore, dealing with the later is infinitely less troubling. Carmen, Bethany, and the inexplicably named... |
