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I want to. I can't. I've been friends with Cooper Rice from the moment we met. He was just as famous a decade ago on our college campus as he is now being the star quarterback for the Chicago Grizzlies. But he's not only talented on the field, he's also the gorgeous football star women fawn over, posing in underwear and razor ads. Here's a secret those women don't know-Cooper Rice isn't a playboy. He's the kind of man who wants to settle down with...
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A breathtaking debut collection of interrelated stories suffused with magical realism
In stories that evoke the haunting beauty and loneliness of New England beaches, Sofia T. Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels her son's fiancée on how to be a good wife to him, with disastrous consequences. A mysterious, commanding cat appears in a young woman's home, as inexplicable as the demise of her...
83) For the Win
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Bex ist eine Thunderbird und gehört damit zur College-Elite. Leider hat diese Rolle nie wirklich zu ihr gepasst. Sie lebt lieber mit ihren drei Schlangen zusammen, sammelt bei Exkursionen Reptilien aller Art und meidet Partys, wo es nur geht. Das ändert sich, als Loren völlig betrunken in ihr Zimmer in der Studentenverbindung stolpert und halbbekleidet einschläft. Denn eigentlich ist der muskulöse Footballer mit Bex' Cousine zusammen und steht...
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Sports fans will cheer for these exciting titles, which capture some of the most thrilling moments in college and professional sports. From buzzer-beater basketball shots and amazing trick football plays to soccer's World Cup goals and baseball's World Series home runs, these titles are packed with action stories. Readers will also meet each sport's superstars and record holders-and revel in all the fascinating facts every fan wants to know.
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This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.
The daughter they never knew
When Miles Jenkins sees the graceful young figure skater on TV, he can't believe how much she resembles Lark McGee, the girl he dated briefly in college. Could this aspiring star be the child Lark gave up for adoption eighteen years ago? He has to find out.
Locating Lark ignites conflicting emotions in Miles-including regrets for...
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This. Book. The characters. You will fall in love with them, and you will devour this book so quickly, you'll end up wanting to read it all over again.
When I signed up for the nanny agency, I didn't expect a remote mansion on a windswept cliff. Or a brooding billionaire who resents his new role. His brother's death means he's now in charge of a moody seven-year-old girl. She's lashing out at the world, but I can handle her. I have to. I need the...
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Alice will unbedingt Musikerin werden. Doch ihre Mutter würde sie lieber an einem Elite-College sehen und weigert sich, sie zu unterstützen. Als Alice erfährt, dass ihr leiblicher Vater berühmt ist und ihr Bruder niemand Geringeres ist als Brian Oliver, will sie die beiden unbedingt sehen. Kurzerhand stiehlt sie sich auf die Filmpremiere ihres Vaters - nur um dort von Teeniestar Dylan Reese erwischt zu werden. Der verrät sie jedoch nicht, sondern...
88) Cinderwich
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"Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?"
Decades after trespassing children spotted the desiccated corpse wedged in the treetop, no one knows the answer.
Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr. Judith Kane, travel to Cinderwich, Tennessee, in hopes that maybe it was their Ellen: Katie's lost aunt, Judith's long-gone lover. But they're not the only ones to have come here looking for closure. The people of Cinderwich, a town hardly more than...
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"The youthful-sounding Sarah Bierstock is an excellent choice to narrate this coming-of-age novel... Bierstock creates a likable character in Isabel, and listeners will want her to find her path--even if takes an affair with a professor to eliminate the bad options."- AudioFile
An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman's final semester at an elite New England college into controversy...
90) The Ha-Ha
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A modern country house farce with a diverse cast of characters
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Fred Twistleton is about to turn forty. Gathering with his friends to celebrate at a rented stately home, he finally hopes to get together with his college crush, the woman of his dreams, Heather. But Fred is also keen to publish his memoirs, and Heather realises the revelations they contain could threaten her career as a high-flying foreign correspondent.
When...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens
Conventional wisdom says you have to graduate from college in order to get a good job and start making money. But what if you start your financial journey as a teen?
Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens (2004) contains all the financial knowledge from his best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad (1997) restructured for teenagers who want to start their financial...
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Summary of Eli Sanders's While the City Slept is a journalistic work portraying the series of events that led up to a sexual assault and homicide in an outlying neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The victims were Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who lived in a peripheral neighborhood called South Park. Isaiah Kalebu was convicted for the murder.
Teresa grew up in a family of ten other siblings in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents were very religious....
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Secrets From My Travel Diaries will transport you back to 1997, when the author, as a college student, ventured from a small Ohio town to study and live in Germany and France, eventually traveling to more than ten countries.
Her diaries, written on train rides and after late-night adventures at the disco, helped her clarify her thoughts and feelings at a pivotal time in her life.
Years later, after leaving her corporate career, the author rediscovered...
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Murder threatens to disturb the creativeness of Sherebury's art college.
One late-summer's evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party to introduce the new teaching assistant, sculptress Gillian Roberts.
However, tragedy strikes on a tour of the sculpture department when the lift breaks down and a corpse is discovered...
95) Echoes of Grace
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In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the "echoes" she inherited from her mother-visions which often distort her reality. One morning as her sister, Mercy, rushes off to work, a disturbing echo takes hold of Grace, and within moments, tragedy strikes.
Attending community college for the first time, talking to the boy next door, and working toward her goals all help Grace recover, but her estrangement from Mercy takes a deep toll. And...
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Ethel Rosenberg's story is seldom told and not widely known. What tends to be told is the life of a convicted spy who was killed for her beliefs, a victim of social injustice. Barbara Krasner pays tribute to this complex and misunderstood woman
and lets her sing-sing out about her childhood, her dreams to perform on stage, her love for a college boy with shared ideals, her tender love for her husband and sons, and her deep love for what she felt...
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Herman Bavinck looms large as one of the nineteenth century's greatest Christian thinkers, contributing much to modern Reformed theology. Yet, despite his theological prowess, Bavinck was first and foremost concerned with being "a worthy follower of Jesus." In this book, John Bolt―editor of the English edition of Bavinck's four-volume masterpiece, Reformed Dogmatics―brings the great Dutch theologian's life and work to bear on following Jesus in...
98) Blood Will Tell
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American Anglophile Dorothy Martin tackles a tricky puzzle in the historic university town of Cambridge.
Dorothy Martin isn't overly enthusiastic when her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, invites her to accompany him to a conference in Cambridge, picturing cramped student accommodation. But St. Stephen's turns out to be recently renovated, and bolstered by ensuite facilities, Dorothy is looking forward to exploring the historic and...
99) Der Kontakt
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Rex Walker, Anthropologe am Bostoner College, wäre gern wie sein Vater, der vor langer Zeit spurlos verschwand: ein wagemutiger Abenteuer auf der Suche nach geheimnisvollen Relikten. Doch davon ist sein Leben als Professor weit entfernt - bis er einen versteckten Hinweis auf den Verbleib seines Vaters entdeckt.
Mit Hilfe seines Freundes Marcus lässt er sich von einem Milliardär engagieren, der ihm von einer sagenumwobenen "Brücke" berichtet,...
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Once upon a time there was a beautiful college student...
Erin cleans Mr. Morris's house twice a week to pay her tuition. The reclusive ex-soldier intimidates her, but she can't help but feel sympathy for him. Then she walks in on him touching himself, and she has much darker, much more sensual feelings.
And a beastly professor with scars he can't hide...
Blake Morris knows he's scarred both inside and out. He's reclusive and surly. Nowhere near...
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