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Here on Moon Edward M. Krauss Betrayal, divorce, recovery. Here On Moon is the story of Carole, a wife and mother with a successful career who, in her mid-30s, is devastated by her husband Ken's infidelity and humiliated by his refusal to be forgiven. She has no choice but divorce, and we follow her through the... |
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Strengthening Your Identity Mwati Mwila We all know life has its ups and downs, but when Mwati Mwila was diagnosed with bipolar disorder while a college student, she thought her life would mostly be down from that point on. Not understanding why she had been chosen to suffer, she found herself on an incredible... |
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The Journey Home Gabriel Bron The Journey Home is a novel narrated through 35 engaging vignettes involving a son’s relationship with his parents during their final year of life. Using amplified recollections vivid dreams, and impressionistic flashbacks, The Journey Home leads the listener on an amazing pilgrimage of discovery and healing. Starting... |
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Floating Underwater Tracy Shawn Part psychological fiction and part mystical fiction with a dash of magical realism, Floating Underwater follows a woman’s astonishing journey through the extraordinary and, ultimately, to her own self-actualization and power. Fearful that her lifelong premonitions not only predict the future but can also change its very course, Paloma... |
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All Four: Invasion Eddie Shannon All Four: Invasion is set in the future. Our world is on the brink of annihilation at the hands of powerful aliens called Hero's led by a curiously evil boy. All hope for humanity lies in the abilities of four individuals sprinkled across the planet Earth with unique energy. Although their presence is revealed to Earth, they still must be found. |
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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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Diggin' Up Bones Bonnie Wright Diggin' Up Bones reveals shame's maniacal weaponry, joker-like masks and mind games causing psychological and emotional damage to the most vulnerable, manifesting itself in adulthood, and conceived and embedded across future generations. This inspirational love story digs deep, challenging and uprooting the... |
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Observer Lanza Robert & Nancy Kress If we can alter the structure of reality, should we? Caro Soames-Watkins, a talented neurosurgeon whose career has been upended by controversy, is jobless, broke, and the sole supporter of her sister, a single mother with a severely disabled child. When she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning... |
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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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Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself? Thomas E. Patterson Patterson explores five traps that the Republican Party has set for itself and endanger its future. The traps vary in lethality but, together, they could cripple the party for a generation or more. One trap is its steady movement to the right, which has distanced the party from the moderate voters... |
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Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation Alice McVeigh Emma, a privileged young heiress, decides to mentor Harriet Smith, a pretty boarding-school pupil, and to matchmake her as eligibly as she can… But how is she to guess that Harriet has a secret? Meanwhile, the brilliant, penniless Jane Fairfax consents to a clandestine engagement with Frank Churchill – though not daring to... |
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Cry Then Flourish Aulora Chaste A book of poems that relay true events of an empress enduring & overcoming abuse, self hatred, mental illness, and lust. Just like her, you will land upon confidence, self love, & security. Document your inner healing journey & progression with this poetic journal. Reinvention starts now. Cry then flourish! |
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The Palm Reader Antoinette Zam When someone from a friend group dies, the secrets do not die with her. Four women — Casey, Elle, Kathy, and Lauren — were barely adults when they met and became friends at Northwestern University. Their friendship grew over the four years they spent at college, and when their time together came to an end, they held on tight to their... |
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Forgotten Ellis Island Lorie Conway "How rare it is to find an absolutely fascinating story that has never been told," wrote noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about Forgotten Ellis Island. The book tells the lost story of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital that saved tens of thousands of lives as immigrants flooded onto Ellis... |
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Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits Arthur Hoyle Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits takes the reader on a journey across American history, from the colonial period to the present, through the life stories of exceptional men and women who have responded in unconventional ways to the challenges and circumstances of their time and place. The journey begins in... |
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Elly Uncomposed Valerie Niemerg Rehearsal pianist Elizabeth Kirtenpepper loves her cramped, corner studio and the cool, unseen depths of the orchestra pit. But when she's mysteriously transported into a real-life 18th-century opera—The Marriage of Figaro—Elizabeth finds herself in a very different kind of pit: the scullery of the ruthless and domineering Count... |
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