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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kristin Hannah's The Four Winds
Elsa Wolcott and her family live through the unrelenting harshness of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression in Kristin Hannah's novel The Four Winds (2021). Elsa unexpectedly gets pregnant and quickly married in one of the worst times of the twentieth century. She becomes a farmer, has two kids, learns the difficulties of surviving as a single mother, and struggles with unending...
4) The women
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"When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps...
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"Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting...
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The Toltecs
What made it possible for the Toltecs to achieve their unparalleled greatness?
A figure exists who, since he is inextricably linked with Toltec life, may give us a clue. This is Quetzalcóatl. His historical reality seems to be established without doubt, since his qualities as leader are many times mentioned.
Toltec Wisdom
Quetzalcóatl may be viewed as a metaphysical concept and spiritual icon as the feathered serpent symbolizing...
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Wind dancers volume 5
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The Wind Dancers-Kona, Brisa, Sumatra, and Sirocco, are back with four more full-color illustrated titles sure to delight the imaginations of horse-loving little girls everywhere.
The four Wind Dancers are a team, they're family. That is, until Kona, the leader of the quartet, who might just be a little competitive, decides to break up the foursome for a soccer game with the real-life horses, because winning at all costs is what matters. Or does...
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Imagine a world where everything is connected, where people work together for the mutual benefit of all living things. Imagine a world full of abundance, love, and prosperity, not driven by scarcity and fear. This is the world of Ayni (AY-Nee), and the people of the Andes have lived this way for hundreds of years.
Join Erin Lucero on her personal journey to inter-connectedness. Following the teachings of yoga and shamanism, she shed the fears and...
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The world of Man is over.His time has come.The blazing inferno that was mankind has been extinguished, and the remaining sparks have been scattered to the four winds. One man stands between an evil as old as time, and its complete conquest of Earth.The Blackwolf has been charged with protecting the dying light. In a desperate battle, against a timeless adversary, surrounded by madness and death – a small knot of humanity, along with some very unexpected...
11) Return to Me
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**A sequel to the How Sweet It Is novel, Hungry for It** Rémi and Claudia have been together for over two years. During that time, their families have grown to accept what the twenty-nine year old reformed player and her fifty year old lover mean to each other. Theirs is not just another kinky May-December affair. But a ghost from Rémi's past rises up to threaten what the two women have found together. Can they put these demons to rest or will their...
12) Craze
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When Krista catches her boss doing the unthinkable, the only thing she can do is run, straight into the arms of the eye-candy she's been trying not to flirt with on her lunch break. But whose side is he on? Ryan's security firm is having a hard time getting off the ground, and this may be just the job to help the company out. But pseudo-bounty hunter isn't really what Pierce Securities is trying to get a name for. When he finds out their target is...
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Tom Mason, Chicago area high school teacher, has been teaching at Grover Cleveland High School for a while - long enough to loathe the faculty meetings and long enough to know that as bad as they are, they aren't fatal. Usually. Having had all he can take of the endless bickering, picking and factional disputes, he sneaks out of the meeting for a short break only to find the meeting over when he returns, the usual suspects having departed to the four...
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"One night, you will stand in the stone courtyard of Fort Calmier, and the whole world will know of Jackson Marcrombie, the Great Guardian of the North." Eight hundred years ago, the Sorcerer Guy of Gisborne from Prince John's court planted a trap in a last attempt to capture Robin Hood, but the curse laid on the Golden Arrow backfired, releasing a burst of pure magic energy into the outlaw. As the generations passed, this power weakened more and...
15) Comet Weather
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This tale of four fey sisters is "a golden slice of British rural fantasy in the tradition of Diana Wynne Jones and Tanith Lee. . . . I loved it" (Paul Cornell, New York Times–bestselling author of Witches of Lychford).
Levelheaded Bee still lives at Mooncote, the family home in Somerset, where she has an unconventional boyfriend of whom her sisters are unaware. Stella, a DJ who's just done some gigs in Ibiza, has vowed never to return to...
16) The whispers
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"A propulsive page-turner about four families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens-and what is lost when we give in to our own worst impulses On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue late into the night. Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party hears...
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The Great Courses
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2010.
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After mastering the four forces that affect wind, step back to view their patterns of flow across the Earth's hemispheres. Examine the two models of air circulation that help account for large-scale air-circulation patterns and variations in temperature from the poles to the equator.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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"It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she'd worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses, and severe setbacks, this historic night of winning best supporting actress for her role as the sassy Mammy...
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Bluebush Productions, LLC
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[2014]
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Swing back into action with Sterling Archer-the world's greatest spy-and the agents of ISIS for another hilarious season of cocktails, carousing, and animated awesomeness. Follow the team around the globe, from the mysterious Bermuda Triangle all the way to the Vatican, as they bicker, backstab, and bumble their way through assassination plots, an ill-advised marriage, an unexpected pregnancy, and a venomous snake bite in a very, very bad place!
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