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Facing Resource Insecurity includes the first-person stories of seventeen individuals who have experienced the rippling consequences of need, and the resounding hope that exists when communities come together to help their neighbors.
From a former inmate who has found his calling as a counselor, to a young mother who sought services to feed her kids after an illness, topics explored in this compilation include food, housing, education, finances, emotional/mental...
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Quelqu'un a volé un gâteau au concours de pâtisserie-qui ça peut être ? Douze animaux pâtissiers sont des suspects possibles, et notre détective déductif utilise la logique de déduction pour découvrir qui est le responsable de ce «couac». Ainsi, le voleur a laissé des poils derrière lui, donc ce n'est pas un oiseau. Suivez les soustractions qui éliminent les suspects un par un pour découvrir le coupable. Cette histoire astucieuse amusera...
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Set in the mid-twentieth century, Tales of ZIDAC is the story of a group of children in rural Kentucky who set out to explore their small town after a night of spooky storytelling. A simple trip to the local haunted schoolhouse turns out to be more than the adventurous children had bargained for.
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Through the Aftermath is a collection of post-apocalyptic tales from 19 different storytellers, all with their own spin on the end of the world. Whether you're into zombies, nuclear wastelands, ecological disasters, dystopian nightmares, giant robots, or anything in between, this book covers it.
This anthology was created as an opportunity for a variety of voices to be heard in one place. From best-selling authors to first-time writers, this collection...
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“Scarlet Stiletto: The Fourteenth Cut-2022” features twelve award-winning stories from the 28th annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards.
“The Scarlet Stiletto” series of eBooks—the First to the Fourteenth Cuts—feature superb collections of spine-chilling crime and mystery short stories, by Australian women writers, curated from 29 years of the Scarlet Stiletto Awards hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia.
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“Women of Colonial Australia” is a collection of short stories focusing on women from the nation's colonial past, with each author breathing life into a tale of one of their ancestors. Through this, each narrative, woven with meticulous research and imagination, brings to life the diversity of experiences that these women faced. This collection remembers and celebrates their lives and the legacies that these women left behind. May their strength,...
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In its 75th anniversary year, this book examines the history, evolution and future of the NHS. With contributions from leading researchers and experts across a range of fields, such as finance, health policy, primary and secondary care, quality and patient safety, health inequalities and patient and public involvement, it explores the history of the NHS drawing on narrative, evaluative and analytical approaches. The book frames its analysis around...
29) Cut
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Cut is a thrilling, provocative novel set against the backdrop of a major Melbourne hospital's surgical team in the time before #metoo blew the lid off institutionalised misogyny and sexism. Carla is a young doctor striving to become the first female surgeon at a prestigious Melbourne hospital. When a consultant post opens up, she competes with her lover for the job and thinks she can be judged on merit. But an assault after a boozy workplace dinner...
30) Pay dirt
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 22
The V. I. Warshawski volume Book 22
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 22
The V. I. Warshawski volume Book 22
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 22
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"V .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where Angela, one of her protégées, is playing. And that's where trouble finds V.I. Sabrina, one of Angela's roommates, disappears and V.I. agrees to try to find her. Finding a...
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The Girl Meets Duke volume Book 4
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HarperCollins
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[2024]
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Unabridged.
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10 audio discs 0 : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Author Tess Harrow and her daughter, Gertrude, are starting to get a bad reputation due to their involvement in recent murder cases, so Tess has come up with the perfect plan to drum up some positive press. She'll combine her new book release and her bookstore opening into one big event, giving her a chance to wine and dine the locals and some big press contacts. But the night before the party, Tess is greeted by a surprise: her mother has come for...
33) Rhapsodic
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From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited first book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the "bargainer" she owes countless favors to.
Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past.
For the last seven years Callie has been wearing a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she once
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
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"At Heim Hochland, a Nazi sanctioned maternity home in Bavaria, three women's fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant student from Berlin--an Aryan beauty, she's secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only 18, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official's child. And Irma, a 44-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose....
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"Adele grew up in the shadows--first watching from backstage at her mother's Parisian dance halls, then wandering around the gloomy, haunted rooms of her father's manor. When she's finally sent away to boarding school in London, she's happy to enter the brightly lit world of society girls and their wealthy suitors. Yet there are shadows there, too. Many of the men that try to charm Adele's new friends do so with dark intentions. After a violent assault,...
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"Twenty-two years ago, Naomi Shaw believed in magic. She and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent that summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder-the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi was attacked. Miraculously, she survived her seventeen stab wounds and lived to identify the man who had hurt her. The girls' testimony put away a serial killer, wanted for murdering six women. They were heroes. And...
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He thinks she's an elderly widow. She's convinced he's a grumpy old man. Neither could be further from the truth.
After a short and difficult marriage, recently widowed Edith Sherman has learned her lesson. Forget love. Forget marriage. She plans to fill her thirties with adventure. As she awaits the final paperwork for a humanitarian trip to South Africa, she accepts a short-term nursing position in a small Midwestern town. The last thing...
After a short and difficult marriage, recently widowed Edith Sherman has learned her lesson. Forget love. Forget marriage. She plans to fill her thirties with adventure. As she awaits the final paperwork for a humanitarian trip to South Africa, she accepts a short-term nursing position in a small Midwestern town. The last thing...