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Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Steer your life by the stars and make all your interpersonal relationships shine. This beautifully designed, horoscope-driven handbook will teach you to bring energy to your relationships and divine the true nature of personalities using the power of astrology. Do you know how to live peacefully with a Taurus? Discuss money issues with a Cancer? Improve your sex life with a Scorpio? With chapters arranged by astrological sign, The Astrology of You...
82) Hello stranger
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
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English
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A never-before-published collection of stories from Kathleen Collins.
These short stories, discovered only recently, highlight Collins's masterfully blend of the personal issues-- race, gender, family, and sexuality-- with the ordinary moments that shape our lives. Also known as an artist and filmmaker, her stories create full-bodied men, women, and children who justify their lives while integrating the African American experience without becoming...
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Series
Publisher
Teach Yourself
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Forgiveness can be hard, but it can enrich your life and bring a new dimension to the way you feel about yourself and others. Hare empowers you to step back from hurt and blame, and more towards forgiveness, giving you the power to heal not only your own life but the wider community.
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Publisher
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Discover the three types of love--and the key to finding the one you're truly meant to be with. We love and we love again -- sometimes our hearts get broken but, somehow, we find the courage to dive back in. In this soul-searching book, relationship expert Kate Rose guides readers down the path to a deeper understanding of who they are, what they want, and finally, to the discovery of their Twin Flame."--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Robert L. Leahy takes a more nuanced approach to tackling feelings of jealousy. In this compelling book, you'll uncover the evolutionary origins of jealousy, and how and why it's served to help us as a species. You will learn that confronting jealousy in your relationship does not have to be a catastrophe, but can redirect you and your partner to build more trust, acceptance, and connection.
87) Surrender to me
Author
Series
Wicked lovers volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Hunter's career as a Navy SEAL is on hold, and he accepts an acquaintance's proposition to share in a ménage-- but now he wants more than one night. Will Kata surrender herself, inch by inch, to the hard-core man who wants her for himself?
89) Always: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Torn between two men, Kailey Crane is faced with an impossible choice: embrace the bright future she has with her new fiance, or dedicate herself to reclaiming a past love that may be gone forever. Set amidst the Seattle music scene of the 90s as well as the present day, Always parallels the past and present in a unique love story about a woman who discovers what she's willing to save and what she will sacrifice"--
Author
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction site after leaving an abusive marriage. In "Crazy for You," two girls spy on a neighbor's sex life, while their own sexuality hovers in the distance. In "A Real Marriage," a college student marries a...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What does it take to make a hero? Junior doctor Kerry Smith is addicted to rescuing others. Eighteen years ago, on the eve of the millennium, she saved the life of teenage footballer Joel Greenaway who 'died' for eighteen minutes. But life after death doesn't guarantee a happy ending"--
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Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Many of us were raised with the idea that true love means finding our "other half" and that a spark is the best foundation for successful long-term partnerships and marriages. But what if this understanding is flawed? Grounded in two decades of original research and work with couples from around the world, Love by Design introduces a groundbreaking new foundation for love: The Emergent Love Model. As Dr. Nasserzadeh knows, successful partnerships...
95) Wahala: a novel
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Language
English
Description
"An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group-the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha"--
Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be "the one" (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he's just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo has...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Running away with her fiancé's brother after he convinces her that he loves her more and that the man she was about to marry has been unfaithful, Ashley Barton takes a job at a bridal shop when the ensuing relationship also fails, a situation that leads to an explosive confrontation 17 years later.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins México
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Julia es una mujer rebelde y hermosa. Se casa muy joven sin estar completamente enamorada y poco después le es infiel a su marido a pesar de que él es un buen hombre y ella termina enredándose con su jefe, y se va a vivir con él. Pero la vida con su nueva pareja es un infierno, pues él es extremadamente celoso y la violenta en todos los niveles. Por fin ella toma fuerzas y lo abandona, pues descubre que él está haciendo planes para asesinarla....
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Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding work in the spirit of Tarkovsky orJodorowsky that reimagines the American frontier at the turn of the millennium, a time when suburban development was metastasizing and the Social was about to implode. Following a caterer at a convention center, a surveyor residing in a storage unit, and the masses lining up for an Event on the horizon, The Glacier is a poetic rendering of the pre-apocalypse and a requiem for the passing of one world...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Charged with the brutal murder of two men, Agnes Magnusdottier has been removed to her homeland's farthest reaches, to an isolated farm in northern Iceland, to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family on the farm avoids Agnes. Her arrival threatens the peaceful rhythm of their way of life, while her stoic approach to the daily chores is an unsettling contrast to the passion that, rumor has it, drove her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Binge-then-Read: The Golden Bachelor
2024 Reading Challenge: Book where the main character is over 50
Binge-then-Read: The Golden Bachelor
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"Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox,...
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