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2981) The Goddess Inheritance
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Love or life. Henry or their child. The end of her family or the end of the world.
Kate must choose.
During nine months of captivity, Kate Winters has survived a jealous goddess, a vengeful Titan and a pregnancy she never asked for. Now the Queen of the Gods wants her unborn child, and Kate can't stop her-until Cronus offers a deal.
In exchange for her loyalty and devotion, the King of the Titans will spare humanity and let Kate keep her...
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Florrie Munat became her husband Chuck's caregiver on the day he suffered a severe stroke. Any chances for his recovery were, derailed when they learned that Chuck was also suffering from Lewy body dementia. After that devastating news, Florrie and Chuck assumed their loving marriage had been shattered forever. But, what happened next surprised them.
With honesty, humor, and compassion, Florrie's inspiring memoir invites the reader to walk in her...
2983) Finish Line
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Five years ago, Ralph Bryant had what would be considered by most a "perfect" life. He lived in the greatest city in Canada, worked for a Fortune 500 company, and had a beautiful wife and children. Yet, he was in the darkest place anyone could imagine. Shackles Lost: A Poetry Mixtape is a raw and unflinching look at the impact of childhood trauma and abandonment, as well as three generations of mental illness. Poet and essayist Ralph Bryant painfully...
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Her father died before she was born, but Ella Benton knows they have a supernatural connection. Since her mother discourages these beliefs, Ella keeps her cemetery visits secret. But she may not be the only one with secrets. Ella's mother might be lying about how Dad died sixteen years ago. Newfound evidence points to his death in a psychiatric hospital, not as a result of a tragic car accident as her mother always claimed. After a lifetime of just...
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Will she lose everything she's worked so hard for?
The Second World War may be over, but the war in Polly Pride's home is only just beginning, and it will test her like never before.
Her son, Benny, never seems to be far from trouble, spending all his time with shady characters and winding up in the wrong places at the wrong times. Her daughter, Lucy, is seeing another man behind her husband's back and leaving her children to run riot. And Charlie,...
2986) Record Breaker
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It's 1963, and Jack's family is still reeling from the SIDS death of his baby sister. Adrift in his own life, Jack is convinced that setting a world record will bring his father back to his senses and his mother back to life. But world events, including President Kennedy's assassination, threaten to overshadow any record Jack tries to beat-from sausage eating to face slapping. Nothing works, and Jack is about to give up when a new friend suggests...
2987) A Miracle for Maggie
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Maggie Davis is a young girl who lives in Chester, Nova Scotia, near Halifax, when her beloved Uncle Nick is killed by diabetes. Maggie's father, a doctor, is greatly saddened by his brother's death, and soon has to deal with his own daughter's diagnosis with the dread disease. Various remedies are tried, including starvation diet popular at the time, but nothing works and Maggie's condition worsens. Meanwhile, in Toronto, Banting and other doctors...
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At the age of thirty, just as everything was falling into place for him, Lee Pesky died of brain cancer. For his father, Alan, grief came with the realization that he had lost the chance to love Lee as he was- not as he wanted him to be. Ambitious, successful, and always striving for more, Alan had a hard time relating to a son who struggled with learning disabilities at a time when there was little understanding or help for kids who had them. Their...
2989) Run, Boy, Run
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"'Srulik, there's no time. I want you to remember what I'm going to tell you. You have to stay alive. You have to! Get someone to teach you how to act like a Christian, how to cross yourself and pray....The most important thing, Srulik,' he said, talking fast, 'is to forget your name. Wipe it from your memory....But even if you forget everything-even if you forget me and Mama-never forget that you're a Jew.'"
And so, at only eight years old, Srulik...
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The inspiring true story of a woman who learned to redefine what it means to be broken.
In her early twenties, and newly diagnosed with depression, Heidi believes she is permanently damaged. When her boyfriend's headache turns out to be a cancerous brain tumor, she sets her brokenness aside to become his caregiver.
Depression returns just a few years later, as she mourns the loss of her husband and attempts to raise two young boys on her own. Anxious...
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When a loved one dies abruptly or before their time, mourners are left with an unmet expectation for a future that no longer exists. This Changes Everything revokes the notion that death has the final say. With humor and unique magical realism, Sonya Joy Mack portrays the life she and her mother, Vicki, would have lived in “This Changes Everything” if only her mother had survived. Her story shares a joyful cross-country journey of finding joy...
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WildBlue Press
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A family tragedy propels this gripping true crime debut as a mother searches for answers in the shocking murder of her husband—and conviction of her son.
In the early morning of October 18, 1986, Cherie Wier's life collapses when her teenage son takes the life of her beloved husband. For years, Cherie grapples with events preceding and following the crime, struggling to overcome the consuming grief she suffers from her loss and the difficulty...
In the early morning of October 18, 1986, Cherie Wier's life collapses when her teenage son takes the life of her beloved husband. For years, Cherie grapples with events preceding and following the crime, struggling to overcome the consuming grief she suffers from her loss and the difficulty...
2993) The honest truth
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A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
2994) When I cast your shadow
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Dashiell Bohnacker was hell on his family while he was alive. But it's even worse now that he's dead. After her older brother, Dashiell, dies of an overdose, 16-year-old Ruby is overcome by grief and longing. She doesn't know that Dashiell's ghost is using her nightly dreams of him as a way to possess her body--and to persuade her twin brother, Everett, to submit to possession as well.
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Redwood Press
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2021.
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"A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confronts the loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the importance of relationships-friendship, family, and romantic-as...
2996) Disciples of chaos
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Seven faceless saints duology volume 2
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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Damian Venturi and Rossana Lacertosa travel north to Brechaat to save their friends while protecting Ombrazia from a new and dangerous magic.
2997) Con alas de mariposa
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Cuento De Luz
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[2021]
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Español
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A grandmother and her granddaughter explore together the secrets of nature and forge a bond that will live out forever. With Butterfly's Wings is a tender story about a girl who loses her beloved grandmother and finds comfort in remembering her through what she learned from her.
2998) Don't ask if I'm okay
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Page Street YA
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2023.
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Publisher Annotation: Heartfelt and bittersweet, this coming-of age story explores the tender space of healing where grief meets love.
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Why couldn't I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here, and this sidewalk belongs to me?
When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa's escape from the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his route to freedom. Travelling...
3000) Fear of missing out
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Despite the loving intentions of her mother and boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Astrid wants to make the decisions about her life and death when her cancer returns, including exploring the possibility of cryopreservation.
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