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"A frank and funny look at what to do when together is too close Two's company, especially for those who love each other. So what happens when--due to retirement, working from home, or even running a business together--spouses find that being in the same space all the time is awkward, complex, annoying, and just plain challenging? How can partners co-exist without co-exhausting each other? Cynthia Ruchti and Becky Melby know all too well how adjusting...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In today's contentious social climate, is it possible to talk to people -- whether strangers or friends -- about life's deepest and most sensitive topics? In The Listening Road , you'll ride along on one man's remarkable 33-day journey cycling across the United States on a mission to engage with people from all walks of life in real conversations about things that matter most. As a pastor, Neil Tomba noticed a disturbing trend among people in church:...
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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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In March 1967, a Cessna 195 flew from Oregon towards San Francisco carrying a family of three: Alvin Oien, Sr. (the pilot), his wife Phyllis and step-daughter Carla Corbus. Due to worse-than-predicted weather, it went down in the Trinity Mountains of California only eight miles from a highway and beneath a busy commercial airway. This was before radio-beacon type emergency locators were required equipment for airplanes; the family survived the crash...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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"A practical guide to documenting your decisions and preferences in case of incapacitating illness. It won't happen to me. I'm too busy to worry about a living will. My family will know what to do. No one wants to plan for incapacitating illness or death. But to spare loved ones from needless emotional suffering, or even legal battles, people of all ages need to document and communicate clear decisions about the final details of their lives while...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In this sweet historical romance, a British noble's reluctant American bride discovers that their match is more than perfect.
England, 1889. Though she stands to inherit her grandfather's fortune, Clementine Maccoish prefers her work as a schoolteacher to the gaiety of high society. But when her pretty cousin runs off with a charlatan, it falls to Clementine to fulfill her grandfather's wish and marry into English nobility. Loyal to a fault, she...
1986) We Were Kings
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Thomas Nelson
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[2022]
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English
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"A twenty-year-old crime, an accelerated death penalty, and an elitist family cover-up: Nyla races against the death row clock to save a woman the world is rooting for... and against. Which side will you choose? Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Francis Quick was convicted of murdering her best friend, Cora King, and sentenced to death. Now the highly debated Accelerated Death Penalty Act has passed giving Frankie thirty final days to live. Surprising...
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HarperChristian Resources
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Taking the tangible ideas that coauthors Lisa Jacobson and Phylicia Masonheimer laid out in their book, this companion workbook puts you in control of the experiment and gives you the tools to renew your romance with your spouse. Do you remember the spark and mystery you shared when you and your husband were still dating? That kind of exciting, loving interaction and intimacy doesn't have to end with marriage, but it does for so many couples. So...
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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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They're free, fun, and with this book, easy to achieve. And just look what a woman stands to gain from her orgasmic life: Oxytocin-nature's Ecstasy-in her bloodstream, relaxation-less stress and tension, falling asleep and staying asleep better, more supple skin (really!), lower risk of heart disease, immunity boost, reduced hunger and cravings for junk food. Far too many women aren't enjoying the benefits of this delicious activity, and Dr. Natasha...
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Death walker volume 1
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Dream Treader Press
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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An unorthodox personal tale of both tragedy and transcendence, My Life After Life confronts timeless questions concerning what happens to our loved ones and ourselves after death. The journey began for Doctor K Paul Stoller one evening in 2007 when he received a phone call from the state police that his 16-year-old son Galen had been killed three hours earlier at an unguarded railroad crossing. Dr. Stoller and his mother, Galen's beloved grandmother,...
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"Governor General's Award Finalist: A "wry, moving" memoir of a woman retracing her grandfather's escape from Amsterdam during the Holocaust (Alison Pick, Booker-nominated author of Between Gods ). Why couldn't I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here, and this sidewalk belongs to me? When her marriage suddenly...
1991) Once Upon a Crime
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Sisters Grimm volume 4
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English
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In the long-awaited fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series, the Grimms take on New York City!
Surprises abound for Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, fairy-tale detectives extraordinaire. When they venture into the big city, they stumble upon a murder, face betrayal by a friend, and discover an amazing secret about their mother, Veronica.
Sabrina just wants to be normal-no detecting, no dangerous escapes, and especially no Everafters. Unfortunately,...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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With an enemy in their midst, can they still protect their fighters in the skies? Pearl has given up on her dreams of being a journalist after being denied a promotion because of her gender. Joining the WAAF as a radio telephone operator for Bomber Command, Pearl's new job at RAF Fenthorpe serves two purposes - providing an income for her grandmother, and keeping a close eye on her younger sister, Thea, an instrument repairer at another Lincolnshire...
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W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On , recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ. When Jinger Duggar Vuolo was growing up, she was convinced that obeying the rules was the key to success and God's favor. She zealously promoted the Basic Life Principles of Bill Gothard, fastidiously...
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Tangled in time volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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For fans of the Royal Diaries series and of Gail Carson Levine, here is the second adventure in a middle grade time travel series from Newbery Honor-winning Kathryn Lasky!
In book 2, newly orphaned Rose finds herself time-traveling between present day and the court of the two most memorable English princesses in history.
When Princess Mary ascends the throne in sixteenth-century England, Rose is forced to leave Princess Elizabeth and serve Mary....
1995) Luminous
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Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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From the author of Crown of Coral and Pearl comes an immersive new fantasy about a witch who must learn to harness her power-or risk losing her loved ones forever.
Liora has spent her life in hiding, knowing discovery could mean falling prey to the king's warlock, Darius, who uses mages' magic to grow his own power. But when her worst nightmare comes to pass, Darius doesn't take her. Instead, he demands that her younger sister return to the capital...
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Few people are aware that in the aftermath of German and Soviet invasions and division of Poland, more than 1.5 million people were deported from their homes in Eastern Poland to remote parts of Russia. Half of them died in labor camps and prisons or simply vanished, some were drafted into the Russian army, and a small number returned to Poland after the war. Those who made it out of Russia alive were lucky-and nine-year-old Krystyna Mihulka was among...
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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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DOC is an engaging memoir from Ron Losee, a Yale Medical School graduate who, in 1949, headed west with his wife, Olive, and their two-year-old daughter to find a place to settle down and practice medicine. The four hundred townspeople of Ennis, Montana, needed a doctor, and Ronald E. Losee, M.D., became "Doc." Losee's patients are a broad array of characters. Townspeople, cattle ranchers and migrant workers, miners and fly fishermen, new mothers...
1998) The Warsaw orphan
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Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Instant New York Times bestseller! Inspired by the real-life heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan is Kelly Rimmer's most anticipated novel since her bestselling sensation, The Things We Cannot Say. "Gripping This one easily stands on its own." -- Publishers Weekly "Heart-stopping." Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author "A surefire hit." Kristin Harmel, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In the...
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Chicago Review Press
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2015.
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English
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The notorious life and times of one of the wealthiest women in 19th-century America Born into grinding poverty, Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of the richest women in New York, with servants of her own and mansions in Manhattan and Saratoga Springs. During her remarkable life, she acquired a fortune from her first...
2000) The Innocents Abroad
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The book that made Mark Twain famous and introduced the world to that obnoxious and ubiquitous character: the American tourist Based on a series of letters first published in American newspapers, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's hilarious and insightful account of an organized tour of Europe and the Holy Land undertaken in 1867. With his trademark blend of skepticism and sincerity, Twain casts New World eyes on the people and places of the...
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