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Frank is another dreamer whose life is suddenly burned to the ground. More a disillusioned literature PhD than an experienced financier, he had naively agreed to join his wife's inheritance with his own personal guarantee of a college friend's private equity partnership debt.
The business implosion and subsequent bankruptcy took all their assets. Francy, an orphaned European heiress, now finds herself homeless, still married to pleasant, witty Frank-who...
82) Finding My Elf
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Single All the Way meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this festive romcom about Cam, who's trying to find the "the one" and also trying to find himself-while spending winter break working at a hectic Santa's Village.
Escaping to NYU for college didn't turn out the way Cameron planned-he's flunking his theater classes, about to lose his scholarship, and he still hasn't found anyone he can call his "people." When he gets home for winter break,...
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"I've been single for my entire life. Not one boyfriend. Not one short-term dating situation. Not one person with whom I regularly hung out and kissed on the face." So begins Katie Heaney's memoir of her years spent looking for love, but never quite finding it. By age 25, equipped with a college degree, a load of friends, and a happy family life, she still has never had a boyfriend...and she's barely even been on a second date. Throughout this laugh-out-loud...
84) Time of the Cat
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It's time to take history seriously.
The cats and humans of Chronos College know that time travel is the best job in the world, and nothing bad can ever happen to them in the past… except that one time they lost a traveller. And that other time they lost a cat.
Now they have a chance to make up for past mistakes by rescuing a long lost legend. If only they could convince Professor Boswell, the grumpiest marmalade tabby of all time, to join their...
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He may only have one eye, but it adores her... he just doesn't know it yet.
Reece Spencer became a monster after a Halloween party gone wrong, but instead of letting it ruin his life, he dedicated his life to monsters. After selling his portion of a successful investment firm, he funded the creation of a college for monsters just outside the monstrous little town of Screaming Woods.
This is his life now, trying to help monsters live as normally...
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was originally published in the 1953 edition of . In December of that year, J.R.R. Tolkien took possession of a reel-to-reel tape recorder and, some time during the first few months of 1954, decided to record 'the whole thing on tape' as a way of 'testing' the performative quality of the dramatic dialogue between Tídwald and Torhthelm. For the older Tídwald, Tolkien adopted a slower, deeper voice, perhaps akin to 'the voice of Gandalf' that W.H....
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The prestigious Midwest Book Review "unreservedly" recommends January 6: A Novel "to community and college/university library collections" and calls it "essential reading for those with interest, in politics, terrorism, freedom..."
"Brewer gets inside the violent insurrectionists' heads as the revolution spreads. It didn't happen... but it could have!" - John Dinges, author of The Condor Wars
The day democracy was assaulted...Protesters at the...
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Don't worry about what Dennis Monk did when he was drinking. He's sober now, ready to rejoin the world of leases and paychecks, reciprocal friendships, and healthy romances-if only the world would agree to take him back. When his parents kick him out of their suburban home, mere months into his frangible sobriety, the twenty-six-year-old spends his first dry summer couch surfing through South Philadelphia, struggling to find a place for himself.
Monk's...
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As the world recently commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, our fascination with the pharaoh begs for a balanced view. Most recovered mummies have not escaped the modern trafficking in ancient bodies and body parts. The story of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from the infamous mummy-pits of Egypt, provides a salutary example of what most mummies have endured.
Frank Holt...
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The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari...
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Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques - and the students they exclude. She reveals the new labels students stick onto each other today, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students falling under these categories are often shunned.
92) What's Mine
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In the harsh glare of the desert, a mastermind killer leaves victims to die of exposure in the wilderness, leaving behind chilling clues, drawings on canyon walls. National Parks Officer Peyton Risk, an expert at solving homicides within the National parks, has seen it all, and is summoned to hunt him down. With Peyton's deep knowledge of the wilderness, she knows the parks as no one else does. Yet this killer seems to operate by no rules whatsoever...
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A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women.
In the midst of a historic "birth dearth," why do some 5 percent of American women choose to defy the demographic norm by bearing five or more children? “Hannah's Children” is a compelling portrait of these overlooked but fascinating mothers who, like the biblical Hannah, see their children as their purpose, their contribution, and their greatest blessing.
The social scientist Catherine...
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Who Else Wants to Say, I Passed? The Master Lecture Series Boosts Exam Scores While Reducing Test Anxiety and Study Time.
Say goodbye to boring study sessions with Dr. Rosenthal's Master Lecture Series for the NCE, CPCE, CECE, and State Counseling Exams. Revolutionize your exam prep and have fun doing i with the help of Dr. Howard Rosenthal, EdD, an award-winning educator and professor emeritus of human services and addiction studies at St. Louis...
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Le véritable pouvoir de la prédication, c'est-à-dire le pouvoir qui produit un vrai réveil et qui transforme les vies, vient de Dieu seul. C'est pourquoi il est si essentiel de prêcher la Parole de Dieu en suivant le modèle qui nous est donné dans les Écritures. Dans ce livre, Steven J. Lawson, pasteur d'expérience et excellent vulgarisateur de la Bible, examine le modèle de prédication que Paul nous présente dans 1 Corinthiens 2.1-9....
96) Martyr's Promise
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Sometimes it takes a monster to hunt a monster.
When Summer Mackenzie and her boyfriend disappear in the fog-shrouded forests of Northern California, it sets off more than one alarm. The sheriff's department is looking for them, the state rangers are on their trail, and even private security companies have gotten involved.
But Summer wasn't an ordinary college student; she was a human born into the immortal Mackenzie clan, a line of powerful vampires...
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Henry Wilson in the Enchanted Flask with Cameron Schultz is an enthralling fantasy novel by Christopher A. Salvo. The story revolves around 17-year-old Henry Wilson, an average teenager who unexpectedly discovers he possesses extraordinary mental abilities which opens powerful super-human prospects and more as follows:
1. Henry's Gifted Mind: Henry's seemingly ordinary life takes a dramatic turn when he realizes he can read minds and induce thoughts....
98) Xavier's Kitten
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When this curvy girl meets the man of her dreams, out pops... everything but the truth about who she is. Oh, boy.
Xavier Grimes
Getting into an accident on my first day in Silver Spoon Falls wasn't part of my plan. The spunky little spitfire who hit me certainly wasn't. I don't have time for love. I absolutely don't have time to chase this curvy little kitten around. But here I am anyway, head over heels, chasing her all over town. What is it with...
99) Bad Animals
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A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian.
Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public library more than anything. But when a teenager accuses Maeve-Maeve!-of spying on her romantic escapades in the mezzanine bathroom, she winds up laid off and humiliated. Stuck at...
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These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Exodus: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Exodus: Audio Lectures features scholar and professor Christopher Wright teaching through the book of Exodus in 32 engaging and challenging lessons....
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