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Will her daughter's secret tear her family apart? When troubled teenager Immy disappears, she leaves her widowed mother Bea completely devastated. Bea pours her love into her six-year-old niece Phoebe, even taking her in when her single father Ewan takes a job abroad. Then Immy returns, in desperate need of her mother's help and love. But Ewan is clear: he will never let Bea see Phoebe again if she welcomes her daughter back. As Bea grapples with...
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Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting...
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Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A novel set in 1953 Tehran, against the backdrop of the Iranian Coup, about a young couple in love who are separated on the eve of their marriage, and who are reunited sixty years later, after having moved on to live independent lives in America, to discover the truth about what happened on that fateful day in the town square"--
1953, Tehran. Amidst the political upheaval of the time, Roya finds an oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri's book and stationery...
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Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a young Irish detective, Garda Strafford,...
45) Jade war
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Green Bone saga volume 2
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In Jade War, the sequel to the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award-nominated Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hundreds of years. Beyond Kekon's...
46) Almost Christmas
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Universal
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[2017]
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English
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A beloved patriarch asks his family for one gift this holiday season: to get along. If they can honor that wish and spend five days under the same roof without killing one another, it will be a Christmas miracle.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
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[2007]
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English
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In this season, Jesse inherits the Smash Club, the venue where his band used to play, Joey falls for a comedienne who's into insult humor (sooo unTanner), and Danny wins a perfect-couple contest with an unlikely fiancée. The girls are busy, too: Michelle enters a soapbox derby, D.J. sweats the SATs and Stephanie starts a new school and makes a surprising new friend. But the biggest surprise comes last, when Danny gets an offer on the Tanner house...
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Image Comics
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c2016
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English
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Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family is still alive and endures many horrors along the way.
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Warner Home Video
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2005
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English
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This is a story about a sports broadcaster later turned morning talk show host Danny Tanner and his three little girls, D.J. (Donna Jo), Stephanie and Michelle Tanner. Before the show begins, Danny Tanner's wife is killed by a drunk driver. So he needs help raising his three little girls. He asks his rock musician brother-in-law, Jesse Katsopolis and his comedian best friend, Joey Gladstone to move in with them. As the show goes on, Jesse gets married...
51) Brown, white, black: an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
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Picador
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2019.
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English
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Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
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Skeletons Out of Closet is about a middle-class family that dates as far back as the late '50s. Knowing that there was no help from the outside world because things were handled differently in those days, you have the Ponder family. The children lost their mother to situations unknown and only had the love of their beloved grandmother to help them to cope.
The grandfather was a wealthy and well-respected member of the town, so things were hidden...
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Combining families after a divorce isn't as easy as The Brady Bunch made it look. Adapting to divorce is difficult enough without dealing with another change in your family. This valuable resource will expose readers to the different scenarios they might encounter when a parent marries again. Teens will glean tips on getting to know their stepparent and stepsiblings, sharing their parent's love with new family members, and even welcoming a new baby...
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Cheryl said many times that "I'm done with that life, I'll never go back to it." But she did. When her aunt Judy finds her in jail after two years of thinking she may be dead, she hopes and prays this is a second chance for her niece. Her sensitive, funny, bookworm niece. Her big sister's eldest daughter, who has since died. And through writing White Flag, bestselling author Judy L. Mandel finds that it didn't start with Cheryl, but that the tentacles...
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Adultery is dangerous and destructive, which stems from a moment or moments of pleasure that draw you in physically and/or mentally.
A decision, one decision, led to multiple decisions that ultimately caused the destruction of my family. Now what is your marriage worth? What is your family worth? That's the question of thought among many that should have made me make the right decisions. I was misled by my reasoning and justification for my actions....
57) Secret Writer
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Sarah is a beautiful Caribbean girl with lovely black hair who was gifted a pink diary from her mother. This diary was her most prized possession, so she hid it away from everyone, including her mother. Sarah lived with step-brothers who weren't too fond of her, so attacking her self-esteem and self-worth was always their go to pass time. Sarah used her time doing things she loved, like writing poems. She wrote them in her pink diary.
One day her...
58) Relationships
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For close to thirty years, Gus Barni has been a metaphysical researcher and a leader in the field of wellness and well-being. His company Vibrational Health was founded with the intent to bring humanity to a state of higher consciousness. Along with high vibration frequencies and nutritional compatibility, Gus offers an integrated, interdisciplinary program designed in helping people achieve needed lifestyle changes.
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Growing up on the family tree of an American dynasty did not protect D.T. Shanti from the darker legacies of sexual abuse, addiction, and domestic violence. This story is one of survival in the face of peril, redemption despite self-hatred, and the impact that abusive legacy has on establishing the trajectory of a child's life.
Whether she was walking the streets of her small hometown in North Carolina or being presented to American and international...
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