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She fell for the wrong woman ... now it's going to cost her.
In the shadowy world of 1940s New York City, a sultry spy falls for the one woman she shouldn't. When reporter Jenny Ryan's father is murdered, her burning need for justice drives her to take on a ruthless tycoon. But her plan goes awry when she falls for the criminal's alluring mistress, OSS agent Kathryn Hammond.
Kathryn is more than just a popular nightclub singer with a glamorous façade....
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" Growing up in a tranquil wilderness, Teal Swan had a childhood that was anything but serene. Horrors lurked behind the façade of the perfect houses and pious community of the surrounding towns, and Teal attracted undue attention because of her unusually powerful extrasensory abilities. At the hands of a local cult member, she barely survived 13 years of horrendous abuse--and even after her escape, she was left powerless, lost, hurting, and with...
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Guess How Much I Love You volume 18
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Little Nutbrown Hare creates a new animal out of shadows. / Little Nutbrown Hare discovers that everyone else can whistle but him.
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This is a book for those in need of a new path to feeling God's kindness and grace. Come, receive courage-not beyond your fear, but within it.
Trauma-informed therapist and author K.J. Ramsey offers reflections on one of the darkest valleys of her life and asks: How can you become courageous when you feel crushed? How can you feel loved by God when you're afraid he's forgotten you? How can you experience God's kindness right in the middle of your...
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Most have heard of Moses, who delivered the Ten Commandments; however, few have heard of Zipporah, his Midianite wife.
Love in the Shadow of Mount Horeb tells of the powerful love between them! It is her story which allows us to see Moses through the eyes and heart of the woman who knew him as her husband and passionate lover. She openly shares their intimate hours together and the secret of how they never allowed their lovemaking to become dull.
Has...
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The Class of 67 is a historic novel; an episodic, coming-of-age story set on the Ohio State campus in the sixties. The protagonist, Jerry Roush, and his classmates live through turbulent social upheavalthe free speech movement; the struggle for civil rights, open housing, and access to the pill; the space race, and the threat of nuclear war. Jerry and his friends struggle to incorporate the changes, while dealing with their own identities, relationships,...
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This fascinating chronicle of a Dutch mother and daughter records an agonizing, but eventually triumphant, journey from the horrors of life in a WWII Japanese prison camp in the 1940s to peace and prosperity in the United States in the 21st century. Rising from the Shadow of the Sun reveals human greatness and depravity through the eyes of a little girl and her courageous mother. Ronny's life glows like a "lunar rainbow" of perseverance and hope....
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A passionate and heartrending memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America's new health crisis. Behind closed doors, thirty-six million people around the world abuse opioids, three million of them are in the US. Nick Bush was one of them. Forty-five thousand people in the US die annually from the disease, two lives lost to it were Nick's sister and brother, three were...
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The biggest misconception around emotional healing that keeps people going in circles for years or even decades is that it is an intellectual activity. Most likely you've been trying to solve your emotional issues by searching for the root cause, right? Trying to track down the initial core trauma that happened? Trying to figure out all the psychological logic behind your harmful patterns? That's ALL intellectual.
Inner healing is not intellectual,...
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In the heart of Manila, Agent Maria Santos, a skilled operative, unveils a sinister web of government corruption during a covert police operation. As she delves deeper, her path intersects with Rico Velasco, a former hacker entangled in the conspiracy. Amidst the chaos, Maria discovers her secret crush from university days, Gabriel Reyes, is a journalist aware of the scandal. A fateful love blossoms, intertwining their destinies in a city of contrasts....
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Mothers are powerful influences on little girls' lives.
Until we have children of our own, we often don't realize just how much our lives are shaped by the women who raised us.
Growing up with a mother who suffered from depression and bipolar disorder shaped me in many ways, and taught me lessons that I carried with me into adulthood. This life experience left me with limiting beliefs that shadowed who I was and prevented me from showing up as my...
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Explaining how multitudes of North Americans are carrying the pain of all types of loss-not just the deaths of loved ones but also the loss of a spouse through divorce, children who leave home, and the decline of health as they age or get sick-this balanced resource empowers mourners and grief counselors to turn grief into an experience to be learned from. Defining the varieties of heartache and its consequences, this effective guide explores how...
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Driven by the conviction that things can change and that he can change them, Tony Macaulay takes up a job running a youth club in the staunchly nationalist New Lodge, in an area known as Murder Mile, where youth unemployment is at 90 per cent. Challenge enough you might think, but it's also a requirement of the job that Tony, a Protestant from the Shankill Road, and his wife Lesley live in the local community.
Inspiring, heart-breaking, and often...
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The Nazis have invaded Denmark. Blond, blue-eyed Karl Nielsen is a perfect target.
Seventeen-year-old Karl's future doesn't look good in April 1940 Denmark. German soldiers are raiding farms in the countryside just like his family's to draft those that look like him.
His father can't bear the thought of his son in Hitler's army and swiftly ships him off to England to escape forced selection. He may never see his family again. Across the North Sea,...
56) I Miss You, I Love You, I Hate You: A wife's journey in the shadow of her husband's terminal cancer
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A memoir of a life that ended too soon. A life worth celebrating and remembering. Through the book you can glimpse inside the story of a young wife trying to come to terms with her husband's terminal cancer. Through her blog posts from that time and through fresh eyes years later. It's a story of love, endurance, forgiveness and, yes, even hate. It's emotionally raw in its truthfulness. It's healing. It's powerful.
The story takes you back to the...
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"In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly--and fast"--
In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. A brother and sister...
59) Bits & pieces
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Rot and Ruin volume 5
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Twenty-two short stories, eleven of which were previously published, based on the Rot & Ruin series in which fifteen-year-old Benny Imura and his friends fight a zombie plague in a post-apocalyptic America. Includes a related comic book script.
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Some doors that are opened, can never be closed.
My name is Nelly and I belong to one of the oldest cults in the world, The Cult of Mothers. For years, the Masters have been kidnapping witches, stealing our rituals, and forcing us to be their slaves. They took our spirits, our very ancestors, and turned them into shadow slaves. Now, the very spirits that helped us are out to destroy us. Yet, we Mothers are going
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