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USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight brings together a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford, one of 1930s London's hottest socialites, authors, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters-and a modern American desperate for change, connected through time by a little London bookshop.
1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford's seemingly...
62) Circle of Time
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Based on historical facts, Circle of Time weaves the story of time traveler Bridget Littleton, Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and Bridget's ancestor Sir John Lyttleton, into a dramatic and fascinating tale of love and betrayal. A student of Tudor history for 50 years, author Debra Shiveley Welch tells the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn as she truly believes they were, and unravels the complexities of Henrician politics. When 21-year-old Bridget Littleton...
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Bestselling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, and many of Mantle's friends, family, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In this fictional portrait, Mickey--now in heaven--realizes that he's carrying a huge weight on his shoulders, as he did throughout his life. He needs to unburden himself of...
64) It's Not Nothing
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Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a homeless shelter hidden among the hedge-rowed avenues of Newport, and through the revolving door of service jobs and quick-fix psychiatric care, always grasping for hope, for a solution. She's desperate to readjust back into a family and a world that has deemed her a crazy bitch living a choice they believe...
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Aleen Cust has big dreams. And no one-not her family, society, or the law-will stop her.
Born in Ireland in 1868 to an aristocratic English family, Aleen knows she is destined to work with animals, even if her family is appalled by the idea of a woman pursuing a veterinary career. Going against their wishes but with the encouragement of the guardian assigned to her upon her father's death, Aleen attends the New Veterinary College in Edinburgh, enrolling...
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Laura tenía sueños grandes. Desde niña quiso ser enfermera. Se resistía al destino de las chicas de su generación: casarse, ocuparse del hogar y tener hijos. Como todo lo difícil le costó mucho trabajo y tuvo que poner todo su empeño en convertir su sueño en realidad.
Se adelantó a su tiempo desde muy pronto. Encontró un marido dispuesto a aceptar que hiciera compatible su decisión de trabajar y tener hijos, pero los celos terminaron...
67) Euphoria
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New York Times Bestseller: An "enthralling," prize-winning novel of a love triangle among three young archaeologists in 1930s New Guinea (Vogue).
Winner of the Kirkus Prize
Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Named a Best Book of the Year by: The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Newsday, Vogue, New York Magazine, Seattle Times, San...
69) Voyage East
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A stirring tale of life aboard ship during the last great days of the Merchant Navy
New junior officer Laddie signs on to the cargo liner Antigone on a voyage to the Far East. He finds himself part of a crew who all have their own stories to tell about life at sea.
Over the course of the eventful journey to Hong Kong and Singapore, he comes to know them all, from Captain 'China Dick' Richards and the experienced and remote Master to the vulnerable...
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"Welcome to Jamaica" is a book about the adventures of a musician and roving Rastamon named Mighty Spliff. Mighty loves to go on vacation, and when he's on vacation, he loves to party with his friends. His passion for travel is exceeded only by his passion for smoking ganja. He's always searching for the "good stuff." Unfortunately, calamity seems to accompany him on his trips and Mighty is no stranger to danger. In these stories, he finds himself...
72) The Pilgrim
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1969. Social unrest, racial injustice, the sexual revolution. All play a part in the story of one young man's journey to self-discovery. The Pilgrim chronicles one year in the life of the author. Fresh out of high school, our hero travels to south Florida with his father to work in the booming construction business. Along the way he meets characters that would leave an everlasting impact on his life. Sunshine, the easygoing hippie hustler, always...
73) Finding Home
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American Air Force pilot John Stevenson crashes in Laos
in 1972, on his last mission before returning home. While
trying to hike back to the Military base, he receives a nearly
fatal snakebite and only survives thanks to kindness of a
local fisherman.
It's a twist of fate that changes the course of John's entire
life.
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Short stories and short-short stories about traveling rock musicians that focus on the unseen, less than glamorous side of touring as a struggling rock band-the personal tolls, the grueling poverty, the gnawing hunger for fame, and the small and unlikely moments of redemption. These characters are slowly realizing that their dreams are slipping away, that age and hard living have worn them down, that their funky, rootless, rock & roll lives have not...
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El año 2020 será recordado en la historia de la humanidad por la pandemia del covid-19. En el momento de editar este libro, de acuerdo con el portal de la Universidad de Johns Hopkins, se contabilizaban más de cien millones de contagios y más de dos millones de muertes a causa del virus. Las cifras siguen creciendo. Antes del 2020, la transformación digital era una realidad que casi todas las organizaciones aceptaban como necesaria, sin embargo,...
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Jason Wittman , M.P.S., is fond of saying, "All teens are young adults deserve 24/7 access to at least one responsible, caring adult who loves them unconditionally." Unfortunately, many teens get cut off from their families and end up on the streets fending for themselves. For the past thirty-five years, Jason has been a father figure to countless teens and young adults. Follow Jason, the Street Shrink, as he deals with street violence, suicides,...
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Roland J. Beckerman is a Southern man that grew up learning right from wrong in a healthy family environment. He had many successes in most of the things he attempted to do as a young man. As he continued to age, he became versed on many subjects and excelled in most of his endeavors. His experiences led him to be able to put this book together and in chronological order of truths during a specific period of his life, all while making it flow into...
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« Je ne suis pas un allumeur de bougies. Si je me prêtais à cette pratique d'inspiration mystique, je heurterais ma conscience. Une conscience égarée et sans convictions. Mes certitudes n'ont pas bonne mine. Comme dit la chanson, plus on apprend, plus on ne sait rien. Et lorsqu'on a la fâcheuse habitude de toujours tout remettre en question, on plonge dans l'anarchie philosophique. Balancé par la houle incessante des lacunes, le sceptique surnage...
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Expect the unexpected is the key to this novel. Angela, the protagonist, works as a pathologist at the Coroner's Office and is a successful professional woman. The day that her husband – a foreigner she has helped to take refuge in her country – abandons her for a younger woman, her world falls apart. Psychologically traumatized by what she considers her husband's betrayal, she tries to find comfort in her work. However the constant emotional...
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PHOENIX
An ancient feathered spirit who lived in a remote desert for a long time, where it was consumed repeatedly by fires a muse would set, only to rise from the ashes of each..remade, renewed, and more evolved, and however much before the muses arrive, it may dive, tumble, fall.. or occasionally land and to something cling, but never at the expense of losing its wings
THE ROSE CHAPTERS
A story of a pilgrim in search of love from...
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