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Wayne Smith is arguably the finest rugby brain in the world - a man the players he coached dubbed 'The Professor'. In Smithy: Endless Winters & The Spring of '22, we'll hear from not only Wayne, but also the women and men who took the Ferns to a World title. In this long-awaited memoir, Wayne Smith will tell his best, most entertaining, insightful, and amusing anecdotes from an amazing career in in the game. We'll look inside the Black Ferns' World...
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Honest History is the award-winning magazine for kids that brings important stories from the past to life through engaging, educational topics, beautiful illustrations and fun activities. Each issue is filled with often-untold stories of people, places, and events from around the globe that inspire and encourage kids to create a positive impact on history themselves. Created to provide big brain benefits to curious young minds ages 6–12.
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Post World War I, two men are attempting to find the perfect woman, although they both disagree about what might be considered ideal. Yogi Johnson, a World War I veteran, struggles with his lack of attraction to the opposite sex, until one day he's met with a gorgeous Native American woman. Scripps O'Neill, reeling from being left by his wife and young daughter, befriends a waitress and tumbles down a path of commitment. A parody that pokes fun at...
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Claire Summers is a determined, independent single mother who is doing her best to make lemonade out of the lemons life has handed her. Keith Watson is a results-oriented workaholic with no time for a social life. As the executive assistant to a local philanthropic businessman, he's used to fielding requests for donations. But when a letter from Claire's eleven-year-old daughter reaches his desk, everything changes. The girl isn't asking for money,...
8) Spring
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On the heels of Autumn and Winter comes Spring, the continuation of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.
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Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of why some of the best literature has been created by writers in the grip of alcoholism. In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking...
14) Paperwhite
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2000
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Lucy and Miss Mamie while away the long hours of winter in various ways while waiting for a paperwhite bulb to grow and bring them spring
16) Burned
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Deciding to come clean about a terrible mistake they committed during spring break, high school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer hope to end the blackmail of a ruthless stalker who retaliates by plotting a murderous revenge.
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For retiree-turned-PI Poppy Harmon, spending her golden years running the Desert Flowers Detective Agency is far from the glamorous life she once knew. But becoming ensnared in two twisted Palm Springs crimes might be her worst look yet . . .
If Poppy didn't believe she was in too deep as the only female juror in a high-profile assault case involving an infamously hot-tempered crooner, she's sure of it upon meeting blast-from-her-past Rod Harper....
19) Bad like us
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"While at a private beach lodge with her popular classmates when an anonymous letter leads to murder, Eva places her trust in Colton and together they uncover secrets that upend everything they thought they knew about their fellow spring breakers"--
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