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4) The Swim
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The Swim is a prequel novella giving a picture of former police detective Michael McLaren's life from teenager to the strong man he is today. He's been through a lot from his ordeal beginning with the "swim", his move from the Force, and his cold cases. He's made enemies, friends, and he has loved and lost. Like many of us.
5) A Long Time
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Older age is not the time to slow down and wait to die. Ned Quist, an author, has lost in his life, but has decided to renew old acquaintences, refresh friendships from his high school band and find happiness as a member of a band comprised of the infirm and old. Old relationships are reestablished and high school band members become octogenarian members of a band whose goal is fun, friendship and the opportunity to take the stage and play. Older...
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"The Often Forgotten Hero" follows Sarah Jones, a dedicated 911 dispatcher juggling the demanding roles of a single mother and an essential emergency responder. Each day, she navigates the routines of getting her daughter, Lizzy, to school and then immerses herself in the high-stress environment of the Pineworth Police Department as a dispatcher. Through riveting chapters, readers witness Sarah's intense calls, the challenges she faces, and the toll...
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Sliding Across Mountains is a book about the power of friendship. In a small town in Tennessee, a writer, a mother, a widow, and a parish nurse form an unlikely friendship and a curling team. These four ladies learn more than sliding rocks down a sheet of ice. They learn what they can accomplish with a team of support and love is not always on the rocks.
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From debut author Cameron Kelly Rosenblum comes a stunning teen novel that tackles love, grief, and mental health as one girl must process her friend's death and ultimately learn how to stand in her own light. Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places and We Were Liars. It's the summer before senior year. Reid is in the thick of Scofield High's in-crowd thanks to her best friend, Hattie, who has been her social oxygen since middle school.But summer...
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Who are the employees of St Jude's Medical Center? You already know who they are. You work with them. Come take a madcap meeting with them anyway and see how and why they leave common sense behind as the new hospital administrator William Petty changes everything. He adjusts associated staffing levels (fires people) and increases workloads (sometimes for the fired people). He even limits Father Chuck to added-value duties. In response, the employees...
10) Love's Destiny
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Book 2 of Maggie Lynn's journey through the tragedy of family, life, and marriage. Can she trust anyone, including her friends?Maggie's short second marriage unravels on her every breath.The future of her two-century ranch slipped through her hands. Now, strangers own and operate it. In the last year, her naïve actions and the onslaught of events lead to her decisions.Abandoned in a foreign country, seven months pregnant, and nearly penniless, Maggie...
11) Samantha
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The windshield on the pickup truck was torn from moorings, the driver hung over the steering wheel, his head seeping red liquid onto the dash. In the automobile, lay two more bodies. Bradley's forehead swelled above his right eye, the result of his head hitting the top of the windshield. Samantha's hair was streaked with blood from her head wound. The windshield on her side was cracked in spider web fashion. Neither of them was conscious of the sound...
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Español
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Obra cómica, divertida y de enredos en la que se relata la historia de dos amigos que tienen un "alter ego" y fingen llamarse de diferente manera para escapar de su vida diaria y, finalmente, para casarse con dos mujeres que sueñan con casarse algún día con alguien llamado Ernesto. Lo que no saben estos hombres es que al adoptar esta falsa personalidad, esto los conllevará a un sin fin de problemas enredados y disparates, los cuales tendrán...
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An "intelligently written and thought-provoking" novel of two women, an abandoned baby, a long-ago trauma, and a confrontation with truth (Cambridge Journal).
When they were nineteen, taking a summer journey along the British coast, Olivia and Eve found a newborn baby in a phone box.
The trip had been filled with adventures, arguments, and friendship. But that day marked the end of it all. The baby could have drawn them together, but instead,...
14) Pont Judith
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You cannot put a price on your first love.David Wayne has always called Point Judith, Rhode Island home and for good reason-the small village is the jewel of the ocean state-clean beaches, shopping, restaurants, fishing, boating and, year-round ferry service to Block Island.After traveling the globe for five years on business the self-made billionaire is ready to go home. At thirty-six thousand feet in the air, David is shocked when he reads The Lighthouse...
15) A Summer Morning
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As 34-year-old Timothy Dugan makes his way through life, he is beset by a growing list of problems. His girlfriend, a full-time college student, wants to have a baby, he hates his job, and his mother announces that she and his father, long divorced, plan to remarry. He copes by drinking too much. When his mother suggests it's time for another round of therapy, Timothy loudly resists. He knows his outlook is sour and vows to do better. Then Harcourt,...
16) Déjouer l'oubli
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Chantal, prof de maths retraitée et désœuvrée, est en perte de repères dans son bungalow.
Nicole, sa voisine et meilleure amie, voit sa mémoire défaillir depuis la mort de son mari.
Entre elles, un lien unique. Du genre qui vous mène à fuir en douce vos vies en déroute pour mordre l'asphalte en direction de la Gaspésie.
Deux femmes, une seule urgence de vivre.
S'évader pour mieux se souvenir. Tout faire pour déjouer l'oubli.
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17) A new friend
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Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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600L
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"Eight-year-old Sophie Mouse is excited to return to school after the long winter break, but there is a new student--a snake--and Sophie and the other animals are afraid to sit near him, much less ask him to play with them, because they have heard snakes are awful" -- Provided by publisher
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What I Learned At Bastogne, set before and during World War II, is the prequel to What I Learned At The 'Zoo, his coming-of-age novel set in Yazoo City, Mississippi. That first book rollicks the reader into the turbulent 1970s and results from Beasley's thought for one short time that he hailed from Texas. His father, the late Brigadier General Glenn D. Beasley, Sr., United States Army, knew and determined that his son would also know, instead, that...
19) The Pink House
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Jen Johanssen is a former porn actor trying to fit into the world of academia. Her sister, Lolly Johanssen, is a cancer survivor. Nicole Parks is in prison for loving the wrong guy. And Sonya Yakowski, also in prison, is a member of a family of traveling criminals, desperately missing her young son. The lives of these four women converge in a Florida prison, where Jen and Lolly have joined forces to put on a grant-funded drama production. Despite...
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"The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies."-Author Unknown
When betrayal is discovered, wounded partners experience betrayal trauma. This unique form of trauma is a result of a significant violation of deep attachment to someone who is relied upon as a source of safety, security, and dependability. When a person experiences relational trauma, particularly chronic emotional and/or sexual betrayal, complex PTSD...
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