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"There are secrets that bring friends together, and others that drive them apart... Mariners Island is barely ten miles long, but when Ivy, Ariana and Cam were teenagers, it was their whole world. Beyond the pristine beaches and iconic lighthouse lies the beautiful old library that belongs to Ivy's family. While that bound Ivy to the island as an adult, Ariana could not leave Mariners behind fast enough. The town holds too many...memories. Not only...
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Quill Tree Books
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2024.
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Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant-by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about because he's Black and her parents are racist.
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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
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According to Jack Haywood, the trouble with the Hill-the farm-is that nothing ever happens there. He expects this summer, the summer of his fourteenth year, to be no different. First there is Jenny Holmes, whom he can go to see only on the pretext of seeing her brother, Les, a real pain. Jenny, who lives a mile and a half away by moonlit trail through piney woods and cypress swamp. Then there is the 'gator hole, even further from the Hill, where one...
6) Big Time
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-- What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life...
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Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß ist der erste Roman von Robert Musil und gilt als eines der frühen Hauptwerke der literarischen Moderne. Mit Hilfe der psychologischen Darstellung der Pubertät von vier Schülern spiegelt der Roman modellhaft autoritäre Gesellschaftsstrukturen wider, indem er einen Zusammenhang zwischen psychischer Disposition und diktatorischer Institution herstellt. Die Handlung spielt vor dem Hintergrund der Ichfindung...
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Blink
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[2023]
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A normal day. Until two siblings are accused of crimes they didn't commit. Come Home Safe explores the pain, the truths, and the hopes that come with growing up as a person of color in America, as well as why "the talk" and discussions about social justice are so important in the community. This engaging YA novel from ABC News legal analyst Brian Buckmire is told in a way that can help foster conversations about what it means to navigate today's world,...
9) Family meal
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2023.
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"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...
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Get the Summary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for...
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Book #1 in the Angel Interceptors series - A MILLION MILES AWAYShe thought she could run with Rock stars...Jasmine Ashcroft isn't even eighteen yet, but she believes she's got the whole adulthood thing dialed in. Between a devastating loss at 13 and getting bounced around a couple of continents, she's had to figure a lot out for herself. So…college? Bring it on. Career planning? No problem. Dating? Heck, yeah! Well…maybe. After she gets those...
14) Crashing Down
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When reckless meets responsible...
Straight A student Kathryn Lane is all work and no play. She's determined to keep her scholarship, and that means no distractions...until she takes a summer internship at Stone Cliff Resort and meets bad boy Noah Ryan. She knows she should keep her distance-after all he's not the kind of guy she can bring home to daddy-but his disarming smile and dangerous ways are entirely too tempting.
College dropout, Noah Ryan...
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Der moderne Mensch lebt häufig getrennt von der Natur und gegen seine wahren Bedürfnisse. Meine täglichen Gedanken sollen den Leser dazu anregen, sich wieder mit dem Mensch-Sein zu befassen und Wege aufzeigen, um im Einklang mit der Natur zu sich selbst zu finden. Ein bewusstes Leben ist heute wichtiger denn je. Denn nur ein bewusster Mensch lässt sich nicht von falschen Göttern manipulieren, sondern wählt stets den Weg, der ihn glücklich macht....
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DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Dickens collection: Novels Oliver Twist The Pickwick Papers Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Mystery of Edwin Drood Christmas Novellas A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted...
18) Nemesis
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None can escape the judgement of Nemesis.
390BC. A winter has passed since the Gauls crossed the mountains to crush an Etruscan army outside Clusium.
Now, determined to avenge a death by the hand of a Roman observer, Brennus plans a terrible revenge.
Confident in the might of their arms, the Romans march to drive away the threat. But the battle goes horribly wrong. Overwhelmed by the ferocious brutality of the Senone warriors, the citizen army...
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Walter's freshman year at a top Engineering School wasn't what he had hoped for. Academic success was a given but wasn't college supposed to be about freedom, drugs and wild sex? This was 1969 after all. But as Walter laments "freshman year was just OK, I somehow missed out on that sex thing."Walter was hoping sophomore year will be his MVP season. Regrettably it wasn't, it was a nothing, in fact it was The Year that Didn't Exist. The story opens...
20) Anjanne Ajnabee
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In "Anjanne Ajnabee," readers embark on an emotional journey with Raahul, a high school student whose life is intertwined with memories, regrets, and unresolved emotions. Central to this narrative is Raahul's profound connection with Divya, a pivotal character whose presence shapes his world in ways he could never have imagined.The narrative explores the concept of emotional debt, drawing a parallel between financial and emotional obligations. Raahul...
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