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In this coming-of-age historical family drama, twelve-year old Fransie learns her family is leaving rural Halifax, Virginia and moving to New York City. This starts her on an emotional roller coaster.
The only life Fransie knows is the country with its farm animals', trees, dirt roads and living in a one family house. But now she's forced to accept living in a city filled with traffic lights, cement sidewalks and attending an interracial school....
2) Big Bunny
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A parent and child share the telling of a story about a giant bunny who eats carrots-- and maybe trucks and bridges (according to the child).
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One man's quiet life is shattered when he's forced to confront terrifying secrets he'd thought buried high in the Italian Alps
The New York Times has called his work "daring and remarkably assured," The Washington Post has dubbed it "shamelessly entertaining," and the Los Angeles Times claims it renders "the raw elegence of the human experience itself." Now Paul Watkins returns with his most engaging and atmospheric novel yet. The ice soldier of...
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Everyone knows a leopard can't change its spots. But can a thief hide the spots on a catnapped Bengal? Groomer Cassie McGlone is about to find out . . .
With no ID for his pet, an agitated young man shows up at Cassie's Comfy Cats claiming his house has burned down and he needs to board his big, brown cat, Ayesha. But after a bath washes dye out of the cat's coat and reveals beautiful spots, Cassie suspects the exotic-looking feline may in fact...
5) Tell No One
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A stunning memoir of one man's search for his birth parents, which uncovered an astonishing global scandal at the heart of the Catholic Church.
Brendan Watkins was eight years old when his parents told him he was adopted. When he was in his late twenties, he started searching for his birth parents and eventually discovered the identity of his birth mother: he was told she was a Catholic nun. And she wanted nothing to do with him.
For the...
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Cat groomer Cassie McGlone tails a killer gone wild over feral felines. . .
Cassie's good friend Dawn is part of an organization that's trying to protect a colony of stray cats on the property of a condo community in Chadwick, New Jersey. The residents have got their backs up over the cat invasion, and Dawn has come to Cassie's grooming and boarding shop, Cassie's Comfy Cats, to ask her help in talking sense to them.
Not everyone's against the...
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Too many new companies and products have names that look like the results of a drunken Scrabble game (Xobni, Svbtle, Doostang). In this entertaining and engaging book, ace naming consultant Alexandra Watkins explains how anyone-even noncreative types-can create memorable and effective brand names. No degree in linguistics required.
Watkins lays out in detail the elements of names that suit your target market and make people stop in their tracks and...
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When a Detroit man is viciously assaulted during an explosive police siege, anxiety-plagued rookie defense lawyer Issabella Bright rushes off to take his case. A freshly-minted attorney who has hardly seen the inside of a courtroom, Issabella convinces herself that defending this one helpless soul is the opportunity she needs to jumpstart her legal career and conquer the self-doubt she's always struggled with.Unbeknownst to her, Darren Fletcher--...
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The fur is really going to fly when groomer Cassie McGlone drags in a catnapper . . .
With her new van, Cassie has expanded her Comfy Cat business to include mobile cat grooming. Next stop: a cat expo at a hotel just outside her hometown of Chadwick, New Jersey, where Cassie will give a grooming demo using shelter cats to encourage adoption while her veterinarian boyfriend Mark will offer a program on cat care and health.
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Cat lovers are thrilled to welcome an expert groomer to the picturesque town of Chadwick. But scratch below the surface, and unmasking a killer becomes a game of cat and mouse...
Professional cat grooming isn't all fluff-when the fur starts flying, Cassie McGlone, owner of Cassie's Comfy Cats, handles her feistiest four-legged clients with a caring touch and nerves of steel. While these qualities certainly help keep her business purring, they also...
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Cassie McGlone's Comfy Cats grooming service can turn a scruffy stray into a glamorous Cat-dashian. But, with a drug-peddling killer at loose in her picturesque hometown of Chadwick, New Jersey, she'll need to comb through some dangerous suspects to avert a catastrophe...
To an animal lover like Cassie, all cats are beautiful... though some may be more photogenic than others. When a customer brings in Quentin, a Maine Coon, who looks more wolf than...
12) Claw & Disorder
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Expert groomer Cassie McGlone knows how to handle even the feistiest of felines, but their owners are a different tale ...
Around the quaint town of Chadwick, New Jersey, are two families in need of Cassie's help. Wealthy perfectionist Gillian Foster is orchestrating the restoration of her family's nineteenth century home and wants her purebred Himalayan, Leya, boarded at Cassie's Comfy Cats. Meanwhile, the elderly Tillmans are in dire straits, hoarding...
13) The Red House
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IT WAS THE CRIME THAT SHOCKED A NATION.
The Flowers were the perfect family. Until the day fifteen-year-old Joseph shot dead his parents and baby brother whilst his younger sister Eve hid. The family home became known as 'The Red House', the place where the walls were covered in blood.
THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD THE KILLER.
No one knows why Joseph murdered his family: the following day he crashed his car and has been in a coma for two decades. Eve's...
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In 1963, Jane Roberts met a spiritual entity named Seth. He spoke through her and the lessons he taught proved timeless and crucial. Roberts went on to write much about her channeling experiences with Seth and her books have sold 2.5 million copies. Her Seth material is consistently one of the top two most visited collections at the Yale University Archives. From 1968 to 1975 Roberts held an ESP class in her home, during which she channeled Seth....
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For a relationship to be fulfilling and lasting, the last chapter should be of paramount importance. When you are yourself and happy with whom you are, you gain a quiet self-confidence that people notice. Truth-be-told, it doesn't happen overnight, but over time you're more likely to attract those, who actually like YOU for who YOU are and for what YOU stand for. Your paths will cross, for instance, at work, at a party or social event, at a sporting...
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"Escape from Dark Places" tells the author's personal story of how she and her son battled anxiety and depression. The author takes you on a journey to answer questions such as, How big is the problem? Why is the number of those suffering trending upward? And how can we help reverse the trend and stop the stigma? The author takes a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on history, psychology, science, and philosophy, to construct a viable solution....
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This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos n Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black shows and films. After generations of stereotypes, the underground humor finally emerged before the American...
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A current truism holds that the undergraduate degree today is equivalent to the high-school diploma of yesterday. But undergraduates at a research university would probably not recognize themselves in the historical mirror of high-school vocational education. Students in a vast range of institutions are encouraged to look up the educational social scale, whereas earlier vocational education was designed to "cool out" expectations of social advancement...
20) Cut to the Bone
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The stunning new DI Meg Dalton novel from Roz Watkins, the acclaimed author of The Devil's Dice and Dead Man's Daughter.
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A DISTURBING DISAPPEARANCE
When beautiful young social media star and poster-girl for meat-eating Volet goes missing, her supporters are quick to accuse animal rights activists of playing a part in her disappearance.
A CHILLING MURDER
The clock is ticking for DI Meg Dalton and her team to find Violet before an all-out war escalates....