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What happens... after The One?
April 16th is always one of Charley's worst days of the year. It's her husband's birthday, a painful reminder of his death four-years ago. So naturally, her car breaks down. She nearly gets run over trying to catch the bus. And then, she's made redundant.
Her friends see the redundancy as a chance for her to start again and live the life she always wanted, but since being widowed Charley has clung to familiarity and...
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Sur un fil narratif sauvage et vivifiant, ces poèmes racontent la mutation d'une femme en louve. Le recueil part ainsi à la découverte de cette femme animale, surréelle et puissante. Une fois louve, l'héroïne nous entraîne dans ses folles courses via sylves et sous-bois. Elle nous invite à explorer, nous aussi, un soi farouche et fier aux multiples manières d'être femme.
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A heartwarming picture book about an iron ore—mine horse and a timid young miner in Bell Island, Newfoundland, from award-winning author of Mr. Hirota's Garden and The Agony of Bun O'Keefe
Out in Conception Bay, on the northern Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, sits tiny Bell Island, a tight-knit community where iron ore has been mined for centuries. Slowpoke The Bell Island Mine Horse tells the story of eleven-year-old Jimmy, who...
4304) Tenderness
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In a country where violence and the threat of violence is a constant weather for queer black people, where can the spirit rest?
With lush language, the meditative poems in the Isabella Gardner Award-winning Tenderness examine the fraught nature of intimacy in a nation poisoned by anti-Blackness and homophobia. From the bedroom to the dance floor, from the natural world to The Frick, from the Midwest to Florida to Mexico City, the poems range across...
4305) Falling Through Love
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Falling Through Love submerges readers into Kichloo's deeply personal yet widely resonant experiences, exploring relationships in their most exposed and honest states. Written in a variety of poetic forms-free verse, rhyme, prose, and visual poetry-Falling Through Love takes the reader on a poignant journey with the writer, about charting one's own path in life, investigating failure, family dynamics, and love. Looking at life backward and forward...
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Why does one youngster stab another with a knife which they will never, ever dare to stab themselves with? Why are our young people killing themselves without thinking of the pains and sorrow such barbarism and bestiality will leave their loved ones with for the rest of their lives? Why do some young persons-members of the same community-prey on one another with such jungle-like ferocity in the nation's cities? Why are there now so many of such gruesome,...
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Si bien la muerte puede ser vista como el cierre de un capítulo, también abre la puerta a la eternidad de las memorias y las enseñanzas que dejamos atrás. En nuestras acciones y conexiones, en nuestras risas y lágrimas, en nuestras luchas y triunfos, tejemos un tapiz único en el vasto lienzo del tiempo. Es un recordatorio de que nuestra influencia puede perdurar mucho después de que hayamos partido, extendiéndose a través de las vidas que...
4308) The Blessing: A Memoir
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When Gregory Orr was twelve-years-old, he shot and killed his brother in a hunting accident. From the immediate aftermath-a period of shock, sadness, and isolation-it quickly became clear that support and guidance would not be coming from his distant mother. Nor would it come from his father, a philandering country doctor addicted to amphetamines. Left to his own devices, the boy suffered.
Guilt weighed on him throughout a childhood split between...
4309) A Sudden Silence
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The Caldecott Medal–winning author portrays a teenage boy's battle with grief-and a devastating mystery-after his brother is killed by a drunk driver.
Jesse Harmon is tortured by guilt because he survived the hit-and-run accident that killed his deaf brother, Bry. His guilt is compounded when he finds he is attracted to Bry's crush, Chloe. Together Jesse and Chloe try to track down the drunk driver who killed Bry-but discovering the driver's identity...
4310) L'homosensuel
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« Parce que m'aime ma solitude, elle-même si chaud que fus-je vers ces corps ignifuges » Entre humour, tristesse, politique, sexe, religion... L'homosensuel est un véritable ascenseur émotionnel o chaque vers est choisi sur la ligne de la fiction et de la réalité.
4311) Dying To Live
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Death is certain for all of us, but it is the one thing we avoid thinking about. Our views on death and loss influences our lives in no small way. Dying to Live is about Godly principles that equip you to overcome the fear of death. Death is not the end. It's just the beginning of life.
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Can two broken hearts mend each other?
Taking over the Flower Shed studio at Halesmere, Alice is looking to mend her heart through horticulture after the end of her ten-year marriage. She isn't looking for romance, especially not from brash young tree surgeon, Zac.
Zac has his own past he's trying to move on from, and he's only staying at Halesmere until the new year. But when their circumstances change in a way that shocks them both, they have...
4313) Dream Spinner
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Disfigured by a car accident that also killed her dad, Jori has been transformed from a popular high school student into a bitter loner. Fatherless, isolated, and betrayed by her best friend, Jori is angry at the world. And now her sister Lisa has disappeared, unable to cope with the changes in her family. Walking home from school one day, Jori stumbles upon a strange house and meets Professor DePris, who shows her a living tapestry woven from dreams....
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Willem and Molly were married on February 10, 1984. Molly was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 2007. What Do I Do Now? A Caregiver's Journey with Alzheimer's is a memoir in the form of 100 essays and anecdotes. The book tracks the author's emotional, psychological, and spiritual ups and downs watching his wife's cognitive mind disappear. It is an inspirational guide to coping with loss and growing stronger through the experience.
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4315) Head Case
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IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
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ONE MISTAKE. ONE BAD NIGHT. ONE TOO MANY DRINKS. Sarah Aronson's Head Case is a powerful and heartbreaking debut novel about a guy who had it all...until he drank that fifth beer and got into the car.
Frank Marder is a head, paralyzed from the neck down, and it's his fault. He was drinking. He was driving. Now Frank can't walk, he can't move, he can't feel his skin. He needs someone to feed him, to wash him, to move his body.
But if you ask...
4316) Inheritance
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The Lifeboat: All night in his lifeboat my father sang to keep the voices of the other men who cried in the wreckage from reaching him, he sang what he knew of the requiem, of the hit parade and the bits of hymns, he sang until he would never sing again, scalding his raw throat with sea-water until his ribs heaved, until the salt wept from his eyes on dry land, flecked at his lips in his squalling rages, streaked the sheets in his night sweats as...
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I received a lot of advice on what to do and how to do it after I lost my 20-year-old son, Aaron, to a fatal car accident on Memorial Day in 2010. See a counselor, sign up for a grief group, go here, go there, do this, do that. But I was completely lost and the only thing I knew for sure was that I didn't want to follow any of those suggestions. I was too exhausted because losing my only child was utterly debilitating on every level.
One person,...
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Pensées écrites suite aux rencontres tout au long du cheminement de ma vie.
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Femme ayant grandi selon la philosophie amérindienne, « le respect de toute forme de vie », Sylvie Richard a, au fil des rencontres de sa vie, écrit des pensées qu'elle a regroupées en un recueil.
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Don't Forget Me is a survival manual and a lifeline for those whose lives have been touched by substance use and addiction.
With the pervasiveness of drugs today and death by overdose as the leading cause of death for people under 50 in the US, almost everyone has been directly or indirectly affected by this drug epidemic. Loving someone with substance abuse can be terrifying. Steve Grant shares what he learned during his own difficult journey to...
4320) The Year of the Beasts
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Alternating chapters of prose and comics (illustrated by Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Nate Powell) are interwoven in Cecil Castelucci's extraordinary YA novel about jealousy and grief, and how they cut us off from the ones we love.
Every summer the trucks roll in, bringing the carnival and its infinite possibilities to town. This year Tessa and her younger sister Lulu are un-chaperoned and want to be first in line to experience the rides,...
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