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A woman's bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations uncovering secrets, lies, and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus.
A woman's bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations uncovering secrets, lies, and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus.
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Alexandra Ryans's life has been anything but normal. Some might even call it a fairy tale. As the daughter of the former U.S. ambassador to England, she grew up within the palace walls, best friends with the three young princes. Adored by the press and the British people. What more could a girl want?
If only the press knew the real story behind her relationships with the Dudley boys. Then, they'd really sell some papers.
Oliver Dudley, youngest son...
3) Lemonade
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Synopsis: Jackie Ng is a 56-year-old Chinese female from Malaysia.
She was diagnosed with brain tumour in 1998. Two brain surgeries
and a series of complications caused her to live with paralysis. Her
fortitude, she struggled through depression and disability, and
managed to rejoin the society. She published a short medical memoir
Rising and a Chinese version during the high of Covid-19
pandemic 。This new book is an in-depth healing narrative...
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The last thing advertising art director Lucy Bellamy wants is to go home to the Outback, but duty to family calls. At least there's one bonus-her first love, sexy cowboy neighbour, Garth Mackenzie, is there and the attraction between them is still explosive. But Lucy has no intention of getting stuck in this two-bit town and she counts down the days until she can go back to her real life.
After an engineering degree and working in the mines of Western...
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The hot sands of the arena are tortuous. Will they leave ripped apart or together forever?Nero's reign, AD 60. Afra would give everything for love. With the object of her affections beholden to an abusive marriage, the powerful huntress leads a group of Romans through the African desert in an effort to buy her companion's liberty. But her rescue attempt ends in tragedy and a distraught Afra is accused of murder and condemned to death by slavery.Cinnia...
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A girl with secrets. A bad boy in trouble. A community out to get them.Sophia's lifelong mission is to avoid trouble. It's safer that way. If you don't get noticed, trouble leaves you alone.A few short months ago she had the perfect family, but not anymore. As she nurses a painful secret, home and school implode around her and trouble comes knocking. Trouble has a name and a face. And trouble's going to get her killed.Driven out of her friendship...
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Angie Edmonds is content with life in her small town. Being alone doesn't bother her. Really. Until Liam Smythe, the man who broke her heart, shows up at her vet clinic with an injured puppy. Unfortunately, he's just as irresistible as she remembers. In an attempt to prove to him that she's moved on, somehow a little white lie begins . . .
When Liam returns to help run the family farm, his enjoyment of the slow life in Spring Downs surprises him....
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Disaster #1: My kind of magic involves Tarot cards, not shapeshifting, but I've been bitten. Now I'm a werewolf, forced to join my sworn enemies. I need to find a cure for lycanthropy fast and get the heck out of Dodge.
Disaster #2: My powerful but crazy new grandfather has just announced he has an Evil Plan to destroy all magic. Because of course he has. And it somehow involves me.
Disaster #3: My new pack hates me, and my only ally is Conal, the...
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Jemima Smythe is over the world of fashion. But when her dream of teaching falls through, Jemmy is determined to show her hometown she's ready to put down roots. Three beautiful and boisterous kids in need of a nanny offer her an opportunity to prove just that. But their smoking-hot dad, Ned, offers her another-become his wife, as a matter of convenience only.
Ned McCormack is at his wit's end. A single father to three kids, he quit the city and...
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Houdini's the baddest dog on the block. He jumps fences, chases cows and rolls in cowpats. But now, just maybe, he's met his match. The Sicilian might look like just another feral cat, but she rules the neighbourhood with an iron paw. Nothing happens without her say so. For a while, even Houdini toes the line - until The Sicilian makes an offer he can't refuse.
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Never trust a werewolf.
I'm the weakest cartomancer who ever lived, but I can use Tarot cards to work magic. Most days. That makes me the natural prey of the Soldiers of the Light, the jumped-up werewolves who police the magic community. They've hunted cartomancers for centuries because of some stupid ancient feud.
Never speak to a werewolf.
I'm helping the local vampires track a rogue that's menacing our little town when I knock a handsome stranger...
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First as a doe-eyed ingénue with As Tears Go By," then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-less icon, Marianne Faithfull carved her name into the history of rock 'n' roll to chart a career spanning five decades and multiple detours. In Why Marianne Faithfull Matters, Tanya Pearson crafts a feminist account that explains the musician's absence from the male-dominated...
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Stella and Josie live for their summers at the boardwalk-each one a carbon copy of the last. Josie lives in Australia most of the year; her half-sister, Stella, lives in New Jersey. But every year, they come together for a beach vacation with their dad, and to make more memories. The real excitement for them is their secret special place under the boardwalk, where they hide their sister scrapbook, adding memories from each summer.
But this summer...
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A mother will do anything to keep her family safe
Maeve's daughter, Mila, was a happy teenager until the bullying started.
But the very day Mila fights back, one of her tormentors goes missing.
With Mila under suspicion and gossip raving, Maeve decides to trace her daughter's missing classmate.
But the more she probes, the more everyone around her seems to have something to hide-even her step-son and partner at home.
And when Mila secretly starts...
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Rebel Werewolves, Civil War, and Vengeful Angels. Rebel werewolves threaten to change Civil War history unless two angels save the day. Journey back to 1862 Virginia where angel Ashley Moore and her Valkyrie sister take on a rogue pack of werewolves. Ashley Moore and her sister Ingrid risk their earthly existence when they run afoul of both human and non-human enemies. Facing history-changing failure in the war to end slavery, Ashley and Ingrid confront...
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Unraveling a web of corruption across borders, Kit Chase navigates love, revenge, and deadly conspiracies, in a high-stakes gamble against money laundering masterminds in the heart of the Balkans.
Kit Chase is an international lawyer, determined to uncover the truth of a massive money laundering scheme. After a whistleblower's investigation points to senior officials within her own organization, she discovers that the legal system she trusts is not...
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A roadmap for hiring, coaching, and motivating top performers
In business, your people are your most important asset. But finding, training, and motivating the right people can be daunting and costly. If you want to keep your best employees-and grow your business with their support-then Getting Your People to Step Up is the book for you! Business coach Shivani Gupta reveals seven proven strategies to help you recruit top talent and ensure your...
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The war began six hundred years after she died…and five years before she came back.
In the far-flung future, an unknown alien species appears, determined to wipe out humanity. The Solar Union, in making a last-ditch effort to save billions of lives on dozens of different planets, retrieves the soldiers they need from those who've died over the past six hundred years.
Lilah is no soldier. In fact, she hates the concept of war. But it's either fight,...
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Freelance photographer Sebastian Richards has put aside travelling the world to show his grandmother he is capable of helping out on the family farm, even though it's hard to let go of his wanderlust. But when he rescues a beautiful woman from a difficult situation, and Sebastian learns Isabella Romano is going to his hometown, heading back to Prickle Creek holds more appeal.
Isabella has come home to the Outback for a short visit to her father before...
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What is the role of activists and civil society in defining and defending the collective good in healthcare, especially in cases where that good seems to be heavily shaped by market dynamics? Presenting conceptual and empirical studies from a variety of healthcare contexts and theoretical perspectives, this book addresses this vital question by drawing together multidisciplinary scholarship from science and technology studies, sociology, organization...