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Politics meets passion in this MacGregors novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Alan MacGregor knows what he wants—and it's spirited shop owner Shelby Campbell. But Shelby has her reasons for keeping the dashing senator at arm's length, including the centuries-old feud between their families...
A NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
Alan MacGregor knows what he wants—and it's spirited shop owner Shelby Campbell. But Shelby has her reasons for keeping the dashing senator at arm's length, including the centuries-old feud between their families...
A NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
2) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
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Portfolio/Penguin
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First edition.
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English
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"Drawing on social science, philosophy, biography, theology, and eastern wisdom, as well as dozens of interviews with everyday men and women, Brooks shows us that true life success is well within our reach. By refocusing on certain priorities and habits that anyone can learn, such as deep wisdom, detachment from empty rewards, connection and service to others, and spiritual progress, we can set ourselves up for increased happiness"--
3) Fox Crossing
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A Fox Crossing Maine Novel volume 1
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Center Point Large Print
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English
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Crossing paths with a black cat is said to bring bad luck.
But crossing paths with The Fox is a whole other story . . .
SOME SAY THE FOX IS GOOD LUCK
In the mountain village of Fox Crossing, Maine, everyone knows the story of The Fox. According to local legend, one of the town's founders crossed paths with a curious-looking fox with a distinctive white ear and paw. The unusual fox sighting not only inspired the town's name, it sparked a fantastical...
4) Ghosts
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Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
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An Aventurine Morrow Thriller volume 1
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Center Point Large Print
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English
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"Popular author Aventurine Morrow is working on a biography of Genevieve Smithson, a veteran of the SOE-Britain's network of operatives in occupied France during WWII-and travels to York, England, to interview the aging survivor. Complicating matters, however, is Aventurine's nephew, Paul, who has accompanied her to the U.K. in an attempt to work through the grief of losing his father at sea. As the two travel together, hints of Aventurine's past...
6) Queen Lucia
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Lucia volume 1
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Queen Lucia E. F. Benson - Mrs. Lucas, Lucia to her intimates, resides in the village of Riseholme, a pretty Elizabethan village in Worcestershire, where she vigorously guards her status as "Queen" despite occasional attempts from her subjects to overthrow her. Lucias dear friend Georgie Pillson both worships Lucia and occasionally works to subvert her power. Everyone must visit Riseholme. It's the most precious English village that you ever could...
7) Measuring up
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HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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First edition.
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Publisher Annotation: Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the only thing she wants more than to fit in at her new school is to celebrate her grandmother, A-má’s, seventieth birthday together. Since she can’t go to A-má, Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-má to her by winning the grand prize in a kids’ cooking contest to pay for A-má’s plane ticket! There’s just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese...
9) Frizzy
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First Second
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First edition.
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Publisher Annotation: Marlene loves three things: books, her cool Tía Ruby and hanging out with her best friend Camila. But according to her mother, Paola, the only thing she needs to focus on is school and "growing up." That means straightening her hair every weekend so she could have "presentable", "good hair". But Marlene hates being in the salon and doesn't understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. With a few hiccups,...
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Project Gutenberg
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First published in 1903, "The Kempton-Wace Letters" is a novel co-written by Jack London and Anna Strunsky. Published anonymously, it constitutes a profound discourse on the philosophy of love and sex, presented as a series of letters between a young scientist and an elderly poet.
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The Littles volume 8
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English
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The Little family, tiny people less than six inches tall, find maps and papers in a secret room that may clear up the mystery surrounding Grandpa Little's disappearance.
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Summit Entertainment
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English
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"In Verona, Italy - the beautiful city where Romeo first met Juliet - there is a place where the heartbroken leave notes asking Juliet for her help. It's there that aspiring writer Sophie finds a 50-year-old letter that will change her life forever. As she sets off on a romantic journey of the heart with the letter's author, Claire, now a grandmother, and her handsome grandson, all three will discover that sometimes the greatest love story ever told...
13) The sister
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Alfred A. Knopf
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First United States edition.
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English
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“This lyrical and haunting story of two sisters, their troubling past, and the terrible secrets they each want buried will stay with you long after you [finish the novel].” –Harlan Coben
From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely...
From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely...
14) Glory road
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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Widescreen edition.
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English
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Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
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Mariner Books
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English
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A novel of two sisters' lives, spanning from 1950s Ireland to modern-day America. Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in west Ireland. Yet one day she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister, Johanna, and a boy named Michael Ward, a son of itinerant tinkers. Back home, her family hadn't expressed much confidence in her abilities, but Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, earn a living,...
16) Betrayed
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Urban Books, LLC
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"In Haley's compelling Mitchell family drama, characters struggle to learn the true meaning of unconditional love, the power of forgiveness, and God's amazing grace."--bookdepository.com
17) Lola's fandango
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Barefoot Books
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After learning how to dance a style of flamenco known as the fandango, Lola plans a surprise for her mother's birthday.
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Barefoot Books
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One winter day, the little red hen finds a grain of wheat lying on the ground. With patience and hard work the grain of wheat will become a loaf of bread. But will the rooster and the mouse help the little red hen? The little red hen finds none of the lazy barnyard animals willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the bread she makes from it.
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Project Gutenberg
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In Emma Goldman's essay Marriage and Love (1914) she believes that marriage and love are all part of this superstition that people uphold in order to have meaning in society. Goldman wants people to know that marriage and love shouldn't be seen as a correlation. You don't need one to have the other.
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