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81) Payasa
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Nita, la payasa protagonista de esta novela, vive en el barrio de mala muerte de Declivetown donde las drogas y la chatarra son parte de la moneda local.
Aunque está rodeada de delincuencia, trabaja cada día para alcanzar el sueño de ser una artista reconocida y poder vivir de su arte en las filas de Payasos Sin Fronteras.
Inspirándose en la obra de grandes artistas universales como Charlie Chaplin o da Vinci, ensaya sus números y prepara sin...
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"Abby Drake is a masterful storyteller."
-Sue Margolis, author of Gucci, Gucci, Coo
The secrets sisters keep can be startling-and in the hands of Abby Drake, author of Perfect Little Ladies and Good Little Wives, they can be outrageous, eye-opening, wickedly smart and wildly funny. With The Secrets Sisters Keep, Drake once again takes women's fiction far beyond common chick lit-delighting readers with a deeply satisfying story of four sisters...
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This fascinating book, based on current research, scrutinizes the Erie Canal and the pivotal role it played in shaping the economic, geographic, and political growth of New York State. • Explores the planning, building, and success of this historic canal. Demonstrates how existing towns expanded and new towns grew along the canal. • The text provides students with a hands-on look at how the canal was built, the impact it had on commerce, how people...
84) Haole Teacher
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WWI took many men away, leaving women to adapt to their absence. Iowa school teacher, Ina Marie Martin found herself a victim of this tumultuous time. Like men who were physically or mentally injured, she needed to recover, to find a way to avoid becoming an outcast. She fled her shame and found a new life on the Island of Hawaii. Other circumstances besides the war, contributed to the tumult of that era; influenza, prohibition, food and clothing...
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Four romance writers. Four failed marriages. Can they create the perfect man? Romance writers should be experts on love, but that's not the case with Libby Day and her friends. Although they can come up with great stories on the page, their relationships in real life are all miserable failures.While on a writing retreat in the mountains, they decide to try to pen the perfect man-the kind that only exists in a novel. Libby yearns for a rock star. Nicky...
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Nobody knows that better than Elinor Young, one of the posh housewives of Westchester County. She's worked hard all her life to get where she is. With her perfect husband, gorgeous grown-up children, and a house with more rooms than she can count, Elinor has it all-including her own personal blackmailer. Somehow, someone has figured out that she hasn't been spending her afternoons in Manhattan with ladies who lunch but with a major married politician,...
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And the end begins.
In one fell swoop, civilization is changed forever.
No one is unaffected, few are prepared.
Some become survivors, others - easy prey.
Only the strong, and crazy, will survive.
Through the blood and chaos, civilization will be permanently transformed.
And it all begins with one terrifying moment, when the lights go out and never come back on.
Total Collapse!
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No mother ever expects to grieve the death of her child before or immediately after the child is born. But the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reports that as many as 31 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss. When the unthinkable happens, where do women turn for help?Written from the perspective of one grieving mommy to another, Hope for Today, Promises for Tomorrow is a ten-week study that will...
89) Reckless
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From elite London society to the golden sands of Egypt...; and the sacred places of the heart...;
When Kat Adair plunges into the waves to rescue a drowning man, it is just the beginning of an odyssey that will sweep the fisherman's daughter into danger and desire. Convinced she is in love with the man she saved, Egyptologist David Turnberry, she feigns amnesia, thus enabling her to linger among the highborn. Hunter MacDonald, rugged archaeologist,...
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Have you ever wondered how a dead person can come back to life? Have you wondered if there could somehow be a virus that turns humans into beings hungry for the blood of living beings? Would you know what to do if a zombie apocalypse breaks out? Read on… For decades, zombies have caused us amazement, fear and curiosity due to their strange, rare and unknown nature. Zombies worry us because they show us all the degradation that we can reach. In this...
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Quinn Kelley leads a normal life in a small quiet Texas town. She teaches at Sutter High School with her lifelong best friends, Eli, Bess, and Jess. One ordinary Wednesday afternoon, everyone is taken completely by surprise when the unthinkable happens! Quinn is in the middle of teaching a history lesson to her students, when a scream pierces the air. Quinn darts out the door only to find distraught students, including her own son, rushing out into...
92) Silver Bound
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Sheriff Guy Trident doesn't have much to do with off-worlders; he has his hands full keeping his own planet safe. But he'll do anything, go anywhere to save Jewel Quinn. She broke his heart years ago when she left to marry a Terraloft aristocrat. Now she's run away from her husband, only to fall into the clutches of slavers. Posing as a wealthy playboy, Guy arrives at Zuthuru Station to learn he's too late: Jewel's memories have been erased. She's...
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This is the story of my journey from a university psychology department to public mental health and private practice, and on to being a psychologist in Indian land. It includes, of course, the many interesting people, novel experiences, and challenging ideas I encountered along the way. It is a story of expanding spiritual awareness and growth as a human being and the part played in that by the Chippewa/Ojibwa Indians, whose own practice of faith...
95) The Forlorn Hope
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David Drake's astonishing stand-alone sci-fi military novel about space mercenaries, The Forlon Hope, is not to be missed!
They had fought long and hard, and damn near won in spite of everything. But now the men who hired them are going to sell them to the enemy...and so begins a novel of adventure in which a band of Star Mercenaries is driven across the face of a planet by enemies bent on their destruction. With only the guns in their hands, this...
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This book is an interesting, easy to read adventure story set in several countries — Norway, Spain, Peru, Brazil — and it tells the story of the spiritual journey of the hero as he lives through a wide range of experiences. It is, in part, science fantasy! At the start of the story, Alexander is earning extremely good wages by fishing commercially in the North Sea. The ship's crew is a collection of societal misfits, who manage their dysfunctional...
97) Desert Blade
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In the post-apocalyptic Midwest, now a ravaged dust bowl, former guardsman Derek Covington must find help for a sick boy. With nothing but memories of all he lost, Derek crosses the desert alone in search of the doctor who saved his own life ten years ago. Drifter gangs who loot and pillage don't dare come near, for Derek has a formidable weapon: a prosthetic arm with a deadly blade. For a decade, Dr. Lidia Sullivan has fantasized about the handsome...
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I Miss You, Brother is written from the viewpoint of the authors youngest son who lost a sibling. It is meant to start conversations to express the grieving child's different emotions.
Some children will be very vocal about their feelings while others will not shed a tear nor want to talk. He sees your friends embracing you, but his friends are not allowed to come play right now.
Not knowing how to deal with grief, he may lash out in frustration....
99) The Road to Me
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Jacqueline Oliver is an indie perfumer, trying to bury her ravaged childhood by shoveling ground under her own feet. Then she gets a call she dreads-the hippie grandmother she bitterly resents was apprehended when police busted a charlatan shaman's sweat lodge. Others scattered, but Nellie was slowed by her walker, and the fact that she was wearing nothing but a few Mardi-Gras beads. Jacqueline is her only kin, so, like it or not, she's responsible.
Despite...
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Backpacking is a type of international travelling wherein a backpack is used rather than suitcases or other types of luggage. This type of travel refers to either travelling from country to country in the different cities and places or nature trekking from country to country. In other words, the travel can either be city trekking or outdoor trekking as long as it involves the use of backpack and not booking in tour packages. Backpacking is actually...