Graham Halstead
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Set on the island of Okinawa today and during World War II, this deeply moving and evocative novel tells the entwined stories of two teenage girls-an American and an Okinawan-whose lives are connected across 70 years by the shared experience of both profound loss and renewal. Luz, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her no-nonsense sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base. Luz's older sister, her best friend and emotional center, has died in...
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Sometimes love needs a little help from Mother Nature-and what better time than the holidays to let it snow . . . and snow . . . and snow . . .
STARRY NIGHT * Fern Michaels
As the host of a radio program for the lovelorn, Jessie Richmond is surprisingly lonely, especially with the holidays approaching. So she decides to make the trek to her uncle's bookstore in rural New York state and hold a speed dating event-only to find herself snowed in-with...
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Forget everything you know about reality. The quantum world doesn't play by those rules.
Daniel Rice is a government science investigator whose specialty is solving seemingly intractable problems through scientific inquiry.
But Daniel's intellectual strength is sorely tested by the bizarre realities he finds in the quantum world. Extra dimensions of space trap the unwary, probability replaces cause and effect, and time isn't what anyone imagined....
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American public opinion tends to be sticky. Although the news cycle might temporarily affect the public's mood on contentious issues like abortion, the death penalty, or gun control, public opinion toward these issues has remained remarkably constant over decades. There are notable exceptions, however, particularly with regard to divisive issues that highlight identity politics. For example, over the past three decades, public support for same-sex...
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Sophia is destined to be the savior of an ancient tribe, but controlling her Fire magic at a school where dragons fly and mystery is around every corner is more complicated than she thought.
At Orenda Academy, power is absolute, and students are thrown into a dangerous competition to survive. The Elders who run the tribe are ruthless, and they see Sophia as the ultimate threat. Liam is the outcast son of a Water chief who's lost everything. He's...
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For Baby's Sake: His ex inherited a baby, and she needs his help! Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard! James Kavanagh is rich and sexy as sin, but his workaholic neighbor Lila Baxter has been there, done that, and has the heartbreak to prove it. They've avoided each other since their affair ended, but now she's brought home a baby. He's clearly the last man Lila wants to ask for help. But she knows nothing about babies, and James...
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Thirteen authors, including Gail Z. Martin, David Gerrold, and Jonathan Maberry, come together to pen short stories innovating Sherlock Holmes, adapting and revolutionizing the iconic character. Sherlock Holmes is one of the most iconic and lasting figures in literature. His feats of detection are legendary, and he continues to capture audiences today in stories, movies, and on TV. In this new anthology, BAKER STREET IRREGULARS, authors present the...
228) Change Your Space, Change Your Culture: How Engaging Workspaces Lead to Transformation and Growth
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Technology is widely accepted as a powerful business productivity tool, a lever. The office is not. It is even accounted for as overhead, or sunk cost, something to manage and minimize. Our case for space aims to uncover what companies lose with this mindset and what they could gain with a new understanding of how powerful the tools of design, space and place making are. For organizations that want to move at the speed of business changing their workspace...
229) The Water Legacy
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Fire and Water are forbidden.
Sophia
Liam and I survived the Elemental Cup, but the tournament was only the beginning. The Koigni Elders were impressed by my performance and believe I can help them take over the entire tribe.
But they're asking me to fight for a cause I don't believe in, and forcing me to use my magic in ways that feel wrong. I must learn how to use my powers to contact the ancestors- or I'll lose everyone I love.
Liam
Sophia...
230) Restart
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Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
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Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. But did you know Alice was sexting Brandon when he crashed his car? It's true. Ask anybody. Rumor has it that Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the bathroom stall at Healy High for everyone to see. And after star quarterback Brandon Fitzsimmons dies in a car accident, the rumors start to spiral out of control. In this remarkable debut novel, four Healy High students, the girl who...
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A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash...
233) First, Become Ashes
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The Fellowship raised Lark to kill monsters.
His partner betrayed them to the Feds.
But Lark knows his magic is real, and he'll do anything to complete his quest.
K. M. Szpara follows Docile, one of the most anticipated science fiction novels of 2020, with First, Become Ashes, a fantastic standalone adventure that blends pain and pleasure and will make readers question what is real, and what is magical.
Lark spent the first twenty-four years,...
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Presented for the first time in audio format, the chilling transcript of Stephen G Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth's interviews with notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, as seen on the hit Netflix documentary series Conversation with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes-based on their New York Times bestselling book.
Handsome and educated, Ted Bundy killed scores of women during the 1970s, eventually confessing to thirty murders committed over seven states between...
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Alisa Salazar and her schoolmates have to write a difficult essay on an unknown topic. Some of her classmates try to revise, others pin their hopes on lucky charms; everybody is worried and anxious. Only Alisa has nothing to worry about: after all, she has a real life oracle at home - Duper the Truenox! But what will happen if Duper suddenly discovers that his gift of seeing the future is gone forever?
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Alisa Salazar really hates the baby photo that her parents have decided to put in the family archive kept at the intergalactic museum on Pluto. Her parents try to explain that remembering the past is the solid foundation upon which every family is built, but Alisa decides to go to Pluto to delete the photo. She has no idea of the terrible danger that lies in store.
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Alisa Salazar has a million things to do: friends to meet up with, Duper to take for a walk - even her dad has asked her to accompany him to an important dinner party... What a shame cloning is forbidden on Earth! How great it would be if she could send a couple of clones in her place. Then a device for making clones unexpectedly ends up in Alisa's hands. Now Alisa herself is in terrible danger.
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Alisa's mother is invited to the far-off planet Dibala, renowned throughout the galaxy for its delicious popcorn. Zdob, a local businessman and head of the popcorn corporation, has invited Mrs. Salazar, an architect, to design a hangar for his new, super-advanced robots. But Zdob's plans are suddenly thwarted by the local residents, who take the hated businessman hostage along with Alisa's mother. Alisa has to go to Dibala to save her.
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It looks as if Alex Taylor has really fallen for Alisa Salazar. He dreams that she will feel the same way about him. But Alisa has no time for this nonsense - the intergalactic zoom racing tournament is just around the corner. She needs to get ready, and most of all, win! Alex has just one chance to get Alisa to notice him - he has to take part in the competition and beat her, whatever the cost. But what will happen if that cost turns out to be too...
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Erik Schroedinger just cannot learn to tell jokes. However hard he tries, his friends never laugh. Even the book by Ridik, humor professor extraordinaire, doesn't help. But what wouldn't you do to make your friends happy? Erik decides to sign up for lessons with Ridik, but he has no idea how difficult the path to real humor can be.