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2) Max
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal.
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"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
4) Rabbit hole
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Becca and Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. The journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted...
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What do you do when you're not ready for love, but love is ready for you?
Formerly "Malibu Betrayals". Hollywood screenwriter Samantha Dekker spent the last year picking up the pieces after her husband's suicide. Along with grief, guilt, and tabloid hell, she's had to watch helplessly as the film industry slammed its doors in her face. Now Sam has the rarest of Hollywood opportunities-a second chance...working with the one man she swore never to...
6) Didier
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Français
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Le roman québécois Les quatre saisons: Didier gravite autour des thèmes universels que sont l'amour, la mort et l'amitié au masculin, des sources d'inspiration privilégiées par Luc Desilets. Cette fois-ci, l'auteur met surtout l'accent sur la relation père-fils. Depuis la mort de son père, Didier rêve de faire publier un ouvrage dans lequel il lui rend hommage. Il envoie son manuscrit à différentes maisons d'édition et essuie malheureusement...
7) Fearless
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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A young man who survived a plane crash becomes more wildly alive and takes more risks when he discovers that the crash transformed him into a man without fear of death. Meanwhile, his wife struggles to find within him the man she married, and another survivor of the crash believes nothing and no one can heal her pain
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"On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister Summer walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again, the door to the roof is locked, and no footsteps are found. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing woman, Autumn must pursue answers on her own, all while grieving her mother's recent death. With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. She falls into an affair...
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Perfect for fans of One for the Murphys and The Penderwicks, this poignant and moving middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who moves to a new town and meets an unforgettable family-one that will change her and her mother's lives forever.
Magnolia Grace never wanted to leave Georgia. She never wanted to move with her mama to the farm her daddy owned before he died. But now here she is, in a tiny Vermont town where everybody sings the praises...
10) Managing Negative Emotions: A Guide to Dealing With a Lost Job or Business, Losing Loved Ones, an
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If you are frequently feeling helpless, lonely, or out of control due to the loss of a loved one or stress of any kind, then you need a guide to Managing Negative Emotions. Life can sometimes knock you down, leaving you lost and unable to control the rush of unwanted thoughts and feelings. It becomes all too easy to feel as though you have no hope of getting your life back on track. These intensely negative emotions can leave you feeling stressed...
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A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller's plays. Compiled at a time when social distancing is a consideration, these duologues all lend themselves to Zoom/Social Distance friendly performances.
It includes duologues from:
Too Much Punch For Judy
Hard To Swallow
Missing Dan Nolan
I Love You, Mum, I Promise I Won't Die
Game Over
...and many, more of Mark's plays...and musicals. It also includes, a previously unpublished...
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My Memories of a Singing Country Legend' is a fast moving biography of Country Singer Lance James. It's up close and personal and is written by myself, Bill Jones the Jazz Drummer, international author and movie director. I originally met the singing country legend when we worked together fifty years ago, in the music department of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.I became a close friend and compadre of Lance James at the beginning of his...
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"I want the boy." For three years Angie Montoya hid her son from her late fiancé's family...until his brother tracked them down. Now Jordan Cooper demands she move to his Santa Fe ranch-the boy's birthright. But how can Angie live with the man who called her a gold digger...the man whose one kiss she's never forgotten? Racked by guilt since his twin's death, Jordan seeks redemption by raising his nephew. But Angie resurrects a hunger in him that...
14) Heart Wars
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★★★★★ A deeply personal story told brilliantly!
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Benedict is living the dream of a happy family in the midst of a full-blown war.
With his loving wife and lively kids by his side, every day becomes a memory. Suddenly, his world comes crashing down when his wife, Chelsea, dies at the detestable Colour bridge alongside his good friend Manny. He is thrown into an abyss of mourning and doubt until Jeanette shows up in their lives.
Would...
15) Save Steve
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From Jenni Hendricks and Ted Caplan, authors of Unpregnant comes a twist on the cancer love story that’s dark humor mixed with quirky fun—Dirty Rotten Scoundrels meets The Fault in Our Stars.
Steve Stevenson is a jerk. That might not be a cool thing to say about someone with cancer, but it’s true. Yeah, he throws legendary parties and is the most popular guy in school, but he also loves humiliating pranks and Cardi B, and he doesn’t recycle....
16) Frozen beauty
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"When the body of 17-year-old Kit Malloy is found out by the woods frozen to death and half-undressed in the back of the boy-next-door's truck, her sisters Tessa and Lilly are left to pick up the pieces, search for answers, and ultimately find their own voices"--
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Sometimes the best path is the unexpected one.
Jack is on the verge for leaving for college, but before he does, he wants to track down his estranged brother, Alex and find some closure in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, Hallie has just found out some upsetting news about a friend in Oregon, and she has a small window to go see him before it's too late.
Jack and Hallie are practically strangers. They shared a class together years ago...
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They say hindsight is 20/20. They're not wrong.
Ten years after their parents' death in a car accident, now-grown sisters Carmen and Manon are together for one of their rare visits — and one of them is finally ready to confront their shared tragedy.
Carmen is a boisterous country-and-western singer who has left her home, and all her past, in the dust. Manon lives a more sheltered life, closely aligned with the traditions of religious Quebec, which...
19) August
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Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people. "-Time Out New York"Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original. "-New York magazineOne of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays...
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While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon, she's diagnosed with vitiligo--a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color--and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal she shared with Gram, something strange happens. Someone...
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