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81) Loveless
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"Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong--but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture...
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"The year is 1888 and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to capture ten to twelve images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate and detached world, occurrences from one end of the globe could now be viewable with only a few days delay on the other side of the world. No human...
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"Giovanni Trincanato has brought ruin to the shipyard he inherited from his father and when a worker he fires hangs himself on the construction site, Inspector Montalbano is called to the scene. In short order, the inspector loses his temper with the crass Giovanni, delivers a slap to his face, and unfortunately, it wont be the last he sees of Trincanato. Meanwhile, a mysterious schooner called Halcyon shows up in the harbor, seemingly deserted except...
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When an anonymous tip during a true crime podcast reveals clues to a 20-year-old unsolved murder, tea shop owner and bride-to-be Daisy Swanson suspects a connection between a current homicide and this cold case, setting out to solve it before she walks down the aisle.
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Harper Audio
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2019
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Tap into your inner power with this mind-opening guide to vibrational-based living from Instagram star and self-help pioneer behind the internet community Vibrate Higher Daily.
"There is another way of being in the world. There is a better way to exist, rise, move beyond, and take our power back."
Too often we feel pulled down by circumstances or the negativity of others. We think we have no control over the things that are hurting us and holding...
86) Maleficent
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A novelization of the Walt Disney Studio's film Maleficent which film explores the origins of one of Maleficent, the fairy who curses Princess Aurora in Disney's animated classic film Sleeping Beauty.
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[2022]
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"Cora thinks her husband, Finn, is cheating--she just needs to catch him in the act. That's where Paige comes in. Paige lost her son to a hit-and-run last year, and she's drowning in the kind of grief that makes people do reckless things like...agreeing to Cora's plan to reveal what kind of man Finn really is. All the while, their reclusive new neighbor, Georgia, is acting more strangely every day. But what could such a lovely young mother possibly...
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"Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own, and a future for her family. When she moves to Edenton, North Carolina from the plantation where she was born, she is free, newly married, and ready to follow her dreams. As the demands of life pull Josephine's attention-deepening her marriage, mothering her daughters, supporting her grandmother-she struggles to balance her real estate aspirations with the realities of keeping life going...
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"On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own...
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[2021]
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"Interpret the messages from your spirit guide and discover what your angel numbers are trying to tell you in this enlightening, informative guide to numerology. You pull into your driveway and your clock reads 11:11 exactly; your favorite song runs three minutes and thirty-three seconds; on your drive to work, you are following a car whose license plate number ends in 1234. Are all these number coincidences or do they mean something more? In this...
92) Digging up love
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Taste of love ; 1
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[2022]
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"Alisha Blake works her magic in the kitchen, creating delectable desserts for her grandfather's restaurant in rural Illinois...Then a dinosaur bone turns up in her grandparents' backyard. When paleontologist Quentin Harris arrives to see the discovery for himself, he's hoping that the fossil will distract him from a recent painful breakup. Instead, he finds Alisha...The big-city academic and the hometown baker seem destined for a happily ever after"--...
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"Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921, racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob."--
95) Omens bite
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Sisters of Salem ; 2
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"The problem is that the Goode sisters have split from each other. Grief and anger have torn them apart, driving Mercy to save the cursed Gates on her own and Hunter into the arms of a dangerous goddess. When it comes to breaking the curse, Mercy and Hunter's bonds are put to the ultimate test."--
97) Beat the devils
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"USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely-concealed anti-Semitism. The country is in the firm grip of McCarthy's Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House of Unamerican Activities Committee. Hollywood's sparkling vision of the American dream has been suppressed; its remaining talents forced to turn out endless anti-communist propaganda. LAPD detective Morris Baker-a...
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"Known for his sharp mind, sharp suits, and bold courtroom strategies, Bronx native Barry Slotnick is considered the best criminal lawyer in the United States. Slotnick mediates Bette Midler's bathhouse contract and represents John Gotti, 'the Dapper Don.' He defends 'Subway Shooter' Bernie Goetz and negotiates future first lady Melania Trump's prenup."--
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2021]
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In "The Gift of Neurodiversity", Armstrong argues that we have been too quick to pathologise brain differences. Indeed, in recent years, we have re-classified these differences, labeling many of them "disorders." What science actually suggests is that there are many different ways for our brains to be wired, and that there are actual "gifts" or "strengths" attached to some of these differences.
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Hachette Audio
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[2017]
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The Moores are missing: The Moore family just vanished from their home without telling a soul. A last-minute vacation? A kidnapping? A run for their lives? You'll never see the truth coming. The housewife: Maggie Denning is a former chief detective adjusting to a quiet life in the suburbs with her family. But when the woman next door is found brutally murdered, Maggie starts investigating--and everyone's a suspect. Even her own husband. Absolute zero:...
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