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1781) A Mother's Sacrifice
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Glenda Jenkins has been beaten by her husband Harry one too many times - and this time he's put her in a hospital bed. Battered and bruised, Glenda slowly makes her recovery. But she fears what awaits her back at home... When Glenda meets kind hospital porter Frank, he offers her a lifeline she can't refuse. The pair decide to run away together, escaping the terror of Harry. But, fearing for her life, Glenda has to make the biggest sacrifice of all...
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Sometimes destiny tempts us, and sometimes we tempt destiny-either way, every choice brings consequences.WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Literary Fiction"Suspenseful, intriguing and powerfully tense, this is a dark fantasy work like no other... The Temptation of Destiny is a master class in tension and supposition." ~ Readers' Favorite Book Reviews, K.C. Finn (5 STARS)Jake has the perfect life-a successful marriage, three great children,...
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The brand-new instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series!
September 1940
With harvest approaching, land girl Daphne is busier than ever as she ploughs the fields and tends to the animals with her friends Sal and Charlie. All three girls enjoy the relative peace of Goodwill House…but war is never far away.
When a German plane crash lands in the grounds of Goodwill House, everyone is shocked, especially when the two German...
1784) The Red Canoe
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One of the Most Anticipated Mysteries & Thrillers of 2022-Criminal Element
One of the Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of 2022-CrimeReads
Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suicide. He has just been served divorce papers by his wife Naomi, who is fed up with his savior complex and the danger it often attracts to their door. Living on the border of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community...
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An utterly delightful and surprising family drama-think Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding set in New Jersey-about a boisterous, complicated Italian family determined to help their widowed mother find a new boyfriend.
Lively widow Varina Paladino has lived in the same house in Wyldale, New Jersey, her entire life. The town might be slightly stuck in the 1960s, when small businesses thrived and most residents were Italian, but its population...
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Before internet chat rooms, Facebook, or OkCupid there was ― the telegraph. In this 19th-century bestseller, two young telegraph operators meet "over the wire" and begin a romance, sight unseen, using Morse code as their secret language of love. Written in a remarkably modern voice, this charming tale offers both an authentic glimpse of Victorian society and a prescient view of online friendships. Nattie, known as "N," has no idea at first whether...
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The great scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression...
1788) Tétramorphe
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Une saga du début du XXe siècle aux années soixante-dix. Quatre histoires, quatre destins, quatre voyages. Petit aristocrate de la Pologne prussienne, paysanne des montagnes dans une Italie fasciste, jeune Bretonne devenant femme de chambre à Paris, femme à l'esprit libre et moderne pérégrinant de la Bourgogne à l'Aquitaine... leurs histoires, celles de leurs enfants et de leurs petits-enfants. Des choix, des renoncements, des valeurs et des...
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After being imprisoned and tortured for 72 days because of his writing and political views, a Chinese dissident turned short-story writer makes his way out of China through the mountains, stops in Vietnam for one day, and then ends up in Frankfurt, and later Brooklyn, where he writes short fragments of his life and of the nightmare he has left behind. This is his story, as told by him and those around him.Are we the lucky ones because we have no dreams...
1790) The Crossing
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The Crossing is a powerful and haunting love story of surprising discovery set in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen during Prohibition. Irish-born Johnny Flynn, a former British soldier, is banished from his homeland and sent to America on a ship so riddled with disease that he realizes the voyage was meant to murder him. When he survives the trip, the captain forces him to walk the plank into the Hudson River. Miraculously, an Irish gang, the Swamp Angels,...
1791) L'île de Léo: Roman
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Simon est le seul élève issu d'une banlieue populaire dans une classe de sixième d'un collège bourgeois. Il y rencontre Léo, solitaire et mystérieux, qui semble lui aussi mal à l'aise avec son environnement. En effet, son esprit reste attaché au lieu féérique dans lequel il passe toutes ses vacances. Léo décide un jour de faire découvrir cet endroit à son camarade de classe, à qui il confie une mission importante. Cet échange de bons...
1792) Un secret: Roman
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En quête d'une vérité, John Mitchell revient sur les traces laissées par son père avant son décès. À cet effet, il se rapproche de Michel Ruiz, employé dans un magasin de décoration, persuadé que ce dernier l'aidera dans ses recherches. Parviendra-t-il à découvrir ce secret si bien gardé depuis des années?
1793) Seasons Between Us
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What is a life well-lived? What decisions will you make to have a meaningful life? What kind of stories will you leave behind? Recommended by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Booklist, and Foreword Reviews (starred review). Travel with twenty-three speculative fiction authors through the seasons of life to capture the memories, identities, and moments of stepping through the portal of change, as they cope with their own journeys...
1794) Trouble in July
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A community lynches a wrongly accused man in Caldwell's scathing indictment of Southern prejudice When word spreads through Julie County that Sonny Clark, a black man, has assaulted Katy Barlow, a white woman, the man's fate is sealed. With frightening speed, authorities and an outraged mob align to apprehend Clark and condemn him without trial. By the time Barlow confesses that no crime occurred, it is too late. Told from the multiple perspectives...
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En estas páginas encontrará, querido lector, una poesía y veintún relatos impregnados de trozos de vida, de imágenes y vivencias, en las que cada narrador ha volcado la impronta que Cervantes nos dejó. Algunos de estos narradores ya tienen premios literarios, incluso libros de relatos y novelas publicadas. La mayoría le robamos tiempo a la vida para sentarnos a escribir, para poner sobre el papel unas líneas, por eso esperamos que cada lector...
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À la découverte des traditions et de la culture de la Tunisie.
Le « Printemps tunisien » déclenché par l'immolation de Mohamed Bouazizi, qui est aussi devenu le « Printemps arabe », est également un printemps litéraire. Une apiration à la liberté de parole et d'écriture, qui ne s'était pas exprimée avec autant de force depuis longtemps, s'est emparée de beaucoup sur un axe allant de Casablanca à Sanaa. Au centre, la Tunisie a ouvert...
1797) The Fishermen: A Novel
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Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens...
1798) Labels & Lace
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When the constrictions of labels limit us. Sometimes it takes the right person to be strong enough to unravel the stereotypes and wrap us in the right kind of lace. ★Labels & Lace is an Omnibus that includes The Formation of Us, The Conception of Us, The Revelation of Us and some bonus content at the end of book 1.★ Blurb from book 1: Banished from the reservation before the fires even died down, my guilt and shadows followed me.My hands stained...
1799) Le vieux tilleul
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Julienne vit au Lander à Sarlat en Dordogne depuis sa naissance. Mariée à Roger dont elle a eu un petit garçon, elle s'occupe de sa mère handicapée et de son père, à la ferme. Sa sœur Odette vit en ville avec son mari et leur petite fille. Julienne va connaître les horreurs de la guerre avec la crainte de ne plus revoir son mari résistant. Elle va rencontrer des contraintes et des malheurs tout au long de sa vie.
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Multitude de destins tunisiens.
Assis devant un café express au pois chiche, Bayram attendait Kader. Son regard se promenait, scrutait le lieu, les visages. Coincé entre le cinéma Le Paris et le restaurant La Grotte, le café-bar était le confluent de divers espaces, le lycée Carnot, le Conservatoire de la musique, la maison de la culture Ibn Rachiq qui y déversaient leurs populations. Il était devenu le lieu de rendez-vous des marginaux...
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