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38081) Wishing Water
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Will her desire for love have disastrous consequences?
Lissa Turner has everything a girl could wish for. She's beautiful, intelligent and has a wonderful family in the beautiful Lake District. Despite her good fortune though, Lissa is not happy. Her real mother abandoned her as a baby and her feelings of confusion and vulnerability have persisted.
As soon as she is old enough she takes up a job in Carreckwater, a lively village in the heart of...
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La jeune Nirmala, encore si jeune, va devenir mère et sa vie bascule.
Insouciante et joyeuse, la jeune Nirmala vit dans un petit village de l'Inde. Un jour, sa vie bascule et change à tout jamais. Dans cette contrée lointaine, les coutumes ancestrales sont parfois cruelles, et ce qui est un bonheur devient un malheur pour cette jeune femme encore enfant. Seuls son courage et l'amour immense qu'elle renferme transformeront sa vie, celle de l'enfant...
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Little Jimmy Brown never knew the warm embrace of a mother's arms while he grew up. When he was just a babe, his momma passed on to the great beyond, leaving him all alone in this harsh world. The poor boy was shipped off to an orphanage, where he spent the next nine years surrounded by cold walls and stern caretakers instead of a loving family. At the orphanage, Jimmy found solace in caring for the animals and tending the garden. Though the work...
38084) Pieces of Me
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Maddie is living on the streets, trying to protect herself and make enough money to get a place to stay and find a way to go back to school. When she meets Q, she is wary but welcomes his friendship. And then she meets Dylan, a six-year-old boy, living on the streets with his family. When Dylan's father asks Maddie to watch the boy for a while, she is happy to help. But Dylan's parents don't come back; and Maddie and Q are left looking after him....
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Drug addiction is different for everyone who struggles with it. I am no exception. No one tells you just how far down the rabbit hole you'll go until you find yourself bounded so deep that the only way out is salvation or death. This is my story about that fall and my redemption.
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So you want to be the special guy that almost every girl will find irresistible. You're fed up with the fact that you're having such a hard time trying to impress a girl only for you to end up rejected at the end of the day. Your main questions usually circles around what you have against what other guys have. Why is it so easy for other males to attract the opposite sex, but almost impossible when you do it? Even when you're trying your best, you...
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"Escape from Dark Places" tells the author's personal story of how she and her son battled anxiety and depression. The author takes you on a journey to answer questions such as, How big is the problem? Why is the number of those suffering trending upward? And how can we help reverse the trend and stop the stigma? The author takes a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on history, psychology, science, and philosophy, to construct a viable solution....
38088) Les murmures du temps
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À travers cet ouvrage, plongez au cœur de thèmes sombres et authentiques en parcourant ses trois parties saisissantes. "Les murmures du temps" explore l'amour tourmenté, la haine dévorante et les liens familiaux dysfonctionnels. Malgré la noirceur de ces sujets, des éclats d'espoir émergent du livre, illustrant la puissance des amitiés improbables.
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Jade Bonne Pons fait de l'écriture son moyen d'explorer les profondeurs...
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Think your twenties are just a waiting period, waiting to get married, waiting for real life to begin? Wrong! As Shannon Fox and Celeste Liversidge show with humor, intelligence, and reassurance, getting a ring on your finger is the last thing you should be thinking about when you're in your twenties. In fact, statistics show that if you wait and marry at thirty, your chances of having a healthy, long-lasting relationship more than double. So before...
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Sénégal, Tunisie, Cte d'Ivoire, Maroc, île du bout du monde...
Après ses Jours de neige, parus en mars 2016, Claire Mazard promène cette fois-ci ses lecteurs par jours de soleil dans les pays chauds. Par petites touches colorées et acidulées, elle observe, constate, dénonce.
Ces cinq nouvelles, sélectionnées pour le prix Choix des lycéens, sont inspirées de faits réels et surprennent, interrogent... et inquiètent même un peu parfois!
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38091) Celebrating the Temporary
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In Celebrating the Temporary, Paula Severe recounts her life as a mother, daughter, teacher, and traveler.
Being the wife of an itinerant United Methodist minister required packing and unpacking on short notice. Paula was an avid public school teacher, and each move meant finding a new job to fulfill her passion for teaching children. Soon after the fall of Communism, she was among the first in a team to visit and meet local Russian people who...
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La femme devient mère en mettant au monde un enfant. Quant à l'homme, il ne lui suffi t pas de donner au nouveau-né son patronyme et de subvenir à ses besoins matériels pour être père, le dessein divin ayant prévu pour lui autre chose.
Alors que notre société s'éloigne depuis plusieurs générations de ses repères judéo-chrétiens, bien plus de pères qu'on ne l'imagine éduquent leurs enfants dans la foi de leurs ancêtres avec ses...
38093) Slam Dunk Shoes
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Jamal's been asked to try out for the super-elite youth basketball team. His dad makes him a deal: If Jamal makes the team, he gets new shoes. But will the fancy new shoes really improve Jamal's game?
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Are you at your wits' end dealing with an angry teen? This important guide offers frustrated parents powerful mindfulness tips to navigate heated moments of interaction with their child, as well as skills based in positive psychology to foster compassion, caring, and lasting connection. Does your teen get angry easily or act out? You aren't alone. Parenting a teen is hard enough, but parenting an angry teen is especially difficult. You might feel...
38096) Mr. Romance
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Stories, poems and real life anecdotes from a globe-trotter artist and entrepreneur.
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This beautiful book is designed to reach out to families and those thinking about parenthood. We all know the rewards of parenting - a beautiful bouncing baby with eyes full of adoration and expectation. But, the other side of parenting is where we can sometimes feel lost or alone. Where we wonder if we are up to the job, and if we actually know what we are doing.
This book outlines ways, in which you can be helped and supported on your parenting...
38098) Making Memories
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Callie has been the IT manager at the Mindalby cotton mill for all of her adult working life, and when it closes down, she realizes that she has let everything else slide, including her own dreams. Seizing on the closure as a sign, she decides to open up a craft and quilting shop in town, pursuing her own interests and hobbies and taking a risk for the first time since her husband ran off with her best friend.
Helping her, every step of the way is...
38099) One Speck of Truth
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A heartwarming and poignant story that explores the bonds of family and the importance of knowing your own history, from the critically acclaimed author of My Life with the Liars and the ALA Notable Book Forever, or a Long, Long Time
Alma has everything she needs, except answers to her questions. Her mother won't tell her why her beloved stepfather, Adam, is suddenly gone this summer. Or about life in Portugal, where her parents met. Not even about...
38100) Ghosted and Breadcrumbed: Stop Falling for Unavailable Men and Get Smart about Healthy Relationships
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Break Free from Unfulfilling Relationship Patterns
Psychotherapist Dr. Marni Feuerman offers profound and insightful advice for all those who find themselves in painful and unsatisfying relationships again and again. She offers explanations and solutions for why we attract and accept poor treatment, experience a lack of emotional connection from romantic partners, and often reject the good ones. Based on the science of love, neurobiology, and attachment,...
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