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Tales for the Peeps is a collection of stories written for parents to read aloud to their children or to listen as their children read the stories aloud to the parents. Family relationships and social issues represented in these stories can be discussed as a family to establish moral principles.
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Varias personas comunes afrontan una situación desconcertante y un joven discapacitado en Brevard, Carolina del Norte, demuestra que juntar la habilidad de cada uno, incluyendo la de un gato, es indispensable para develar ese misterio en Francia. En este relato de suspenso el lector verá que la determinación y la perseverancia reemplazan la falta de otras ventajas y que todos tenemos aptitudes decisivas aunque no lo creamos así. Cada cual está...
3) Go East
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The Sweedies are an average modern family with their share of quirks. They face life with humour and cherish family time, especially with the Grannies.
A trip to Spain brings mishaps – Sally Sweedie, mother to Jen and Ted, misplaces her phone while dealing with treacherous weather.
Back home in Southend for Christmas, two new arrivals join the Sweedies. Howard, father of the household, feels restless and buys a motorcycle, much to his wife's chagrin.
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Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner
Man Booker–shortlisted Mother's Milk, the fourth installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, sees Patrick as a lawyer, married, with a five-year-old child and another on the way.
The novel shifts points of view from Patrick-furious over his mother's decision to sell their mansion in the South of France to a...
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Situated deep in the Louisiana bayou is the formerly opulent Sorrow Estate. Once home to a magical family-the Sorrows-it now sits in ruins, ever since a series of murders in 1902 shocked the entire community. Now the ghosts of girls in white dresses shift in and out of view, stuck in time as they live out the past on repeat.
When Frances Green Sorrow is born carrying the "signs" of the so-called chosen one, it is believed she will bring her family...
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Frosh, un ragazzo dalla bellezza straordinario richiama il quadretto perfetto della famiglia Teri Davis fino a quando un tragico evento che coinvolge lui e Maurice, trasforma il tutto in un calderone di disavventure. Si rende conto che la sua disavventura minaccia di invadere l'armonia della famiglia allargata. L'architettura della casa vacilla. I suoi genitori, Teri e Shahana, non vanno pi d'accordo per un minuto. Suo fratello e tre sorelle si allontanano...
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On the same day Greek American marine biologist Amelia Drakos receives word that funding for her beloved Seahorse Laboratory has been cut, she discovers that her deceased father had lived a secret life.
With foreclosure and unemployment looming, as well as the fallout from a brief, confusing love affair, Amelia reluctantly becomes curator for Minnesota's Mall of America Sea Life Aquarium. At the same time, a string of perplexing e-mails from someone...
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"A wise and necessary book, one I've been recommending ardently to everyone I know. " -Julie Orringer, author of The Flight Portfolio
Suspenseful and gripping, award-winning author Michael Frank's What is Missing is a psychological family drama about a father, a son, and the woman they both love.
Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of...
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An absorbing family saga set amid the commotion of the last forty years of Indian history
The Way Things Were opens with the death of Toby, the Maharaja of Kalasuryaketu, a Sanskritist who has not set foot in India for two decades. Moving back and forth across three sections, between today's Delhi and the 1970s, '80s, and '90s in turn, the novel tells the story of a family held at the mercy of the times.
A masterful interrogation of the relationships...
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The Angelic Scripts are letters from a long ago deceased couple that truly loved one another even into death. They were chosen by God to be among those angels that could and would help other people to achieve goodness in their own lives and families. Through a series of letters they converse with each other and God to continue to uplifte each other and give advise.
11) La hora rosa
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En medio de los años sesenta en un pueblo remoto, dos familias se encuentran viviendo la prueba más fuerte de su vida. Una chica enamorada, un joven despreocupado, una madre calculadora, un sacerdote cómplice y una curandera vengativa se reúnen en una serie de circunstancias que se irán entrelazando para tratar de mantener el honor y el buen nombre familiar. Solo durante La hora rosa se conocerán los secretos que Cecilia guarda en lo más hondo...
12) Evolve
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A soon-to-be university fresher is game-on ready to start a new life away from family. But when the time arrives, she may not be as ready as she anticipates Screenplay 37 A4 pages in screenplay format
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Gail. Hannah. Bridget. Lizzy. Flavia. Each of them has a shameful secret, and each is about to find out that she is not alone… Gail, a prominent Boston judge, keeps receiving letters from her husband's latest girlfriend, while her husband, a theology professor, claims he's nine-months sober from sex with grad students. Hannah, a homemaker, catches her husband having sex with a male prostitute in a public restroom. Bridget, a psychiatric nurse at...
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Ford Davenport is in way over his head with his multiple personality girlfriend. To make things worse, he and his family watched a tape left by his deceased father, leaving hints of a life that none of them knew about. Ford's life is about to change, and not for the better. He will do whatever it takes to save his family, even losing himself. Basically…he's F%#CKING SCREWED.Warning: If you are looking for a sweet, sensitive book with a happily ever...
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He was her best friend growing up and she grew to love him, but never said a word, not wanting to lose his friendship. When Ronnie moved into town and he fell in love, she relegated herself to the permanent friend zone, choosing to be the third wheel in the relationship. Her love was so strong for them both that when they found out Ronnie couldn't have children, she became their surrogate. Then tragedy struck and she was left alone, pregnant and grieving....
16) House Under Snow
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A novel by an acclaimed American poet, House Under Snow is a story of mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, of a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and '70s with her two sisters and her charismatic, self-destructing mother. Evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Anna's first passionate love affair with a troubled...
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En algunos momentos, la vida se muestra tan estable, cómoda y perfecta. Carlos, un rico empresario, aprovecha todo eso en su vida. Él tiene acceso a todo aquello que desea tener, no le falta absolutamente nada. Sin embargo, su vida en familia no sigue esa misma perfección. Él está casado, pero es como si no estuviese, no hay diálogo, ni amor, ni romanticismo. Él tiene una hija adulta, pero sabe poco de ella y su vida. Pero un día, todo cambia...
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Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.
With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage...
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Par l'auteur du best-seller L'HOMME QUI SEDUISIT LA JOCONDE, un nouveau roman extraordinaire. Dédié à tous ceux qui croient fermement que ceux qui aiment ne trahissent pas et que ceux qui trahissent n'ont jamais aimé. Peut-on trahir quand on aime vraiment ? On dit que celui qui a vraiment aimé n'a jamais trahi et que celui qui a trahi n'a jamais aimé... MAIS EST-CE VRAIMENT LE CAS ? De retour chez lui, Alessandro retrouve sa fille, une femme...
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