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Finding your Millionaire Dating love is relatively the easy part. The hard part is building up a good relationship and keeping the romance burning. The way to a man's heart is through their stomach. Yes, this is true. Thus, cooking and serving a delicious meal would show your new lover that you care about them and that you are also creative and capable. Definitely a keeper. Cooking for someone is a good way to say, "I care for you" without needing...
42) My Real Hue
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My Real Hue is an extraordinarily brave man's quest to fully understand and accept himself despite his family obstructing his path. Though it spans five decades, the story is a poignant reminder that adult life is constantly and comprehensively affected by childhood. From the instant readers meet young Danny, his torturous relationship with his parents is evident. His dysfunctional family capitulates everything from challenges with coming to terms...
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In the seventh book in his Emotional Recovery from… series Richard Schwindt M.S.W., R.S.W. turns a therapist's eye towards the source of our greatest joys and challenges – the family. Basing his thoughts and observations on more than thirty years of clinical experience, Richard explores family life and the most common struggles that afflict family members. He addresses: The family life cycle When and how things go wrong How are we effected by...
44) Eden: a novel
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She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Becca Meister Fitzpatrick - wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community - is the dutiful steward of her family's iconic summer tradition. That is until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter's boldness in the face of impending single motherhood and summons the courage to reveal a secret she...
45) The latecomer
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot (a Tonight Show Summer Read pick) and You Should Have Known, adapted as HBO's The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their...
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HarperColllins Publishers
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2021.
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English
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It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with trees. One night, while driving home, her mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby's little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is what will happen next.
47) Dirt: A Novel
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HarperCollins
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[2012]
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English
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The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house surrounded by a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento. He doesn't know who his father is, his abusive grandfather is dead, and his grandmother, losing her memory, has been shipped off to a nursing home. Galen and his mother survive on the family's trust fund-old money that his aunt, Helen, and seventeen-year-old cousin, Jennifer,...
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Atria Books
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2012
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"Reunited with her cousin, Kelsey, when a job offer returns her to the home of her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma, Logan risks everything to secure her cousin's happiness while Kelsey's celebrity and controlling parents threaten her efforts to live a normal life"--Provided by publisher.
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"Rising Over the Waves: Surviving Among Emotionally Immature Parents" is a compelling and insightful book that sheds light on the challenges faced by individuals who grew up with emotionally immature parents. This book offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating the complexities of such relationships and finding healing and growth.The book goes beyond mere identification and provides valuable insights into navigating challenging conversations...
52) Ode to America
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Ode to America is a song both difficult and sweet. It touches upon America's bittersweet soul as it struggles to impress itself upon a girl so unfamiliar with its cold and aloof persona. It is written in poetic form, daring its readers to catch up as it takes flight into issues both far and near to every person's aching heart, in a country so treasured and bold. It covers topics such as racism, prejudice, capitalism, relationships and more, as it...
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This is the first book in the chronological order of the life of the author. Experience with her the family mysteries and turmoil. Be transported in time as Leite reveals what life was like growing up in rural America, caught between the "haves and the have nots" during the 1940s. Feel with her what daily life was then, the hardships to the simplicity, and contrast it to life today. Most readers will envision someone they know in her captivating story....
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"A wanderer struggles to understand his uncle's downfall six years after a financial catastrophe George Chell has never met a man as witty, as charming, or as brilliant as his uncle. Edward Chell was a financial titan, ruling over a kingdom of profit with an emperor's savage grace--until a stock market crash revealed that everything he had was built on sand. It destroyed both empire and emperor in one fell swoop, and nephew George was cast out into...
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Twelve/Hachette Book Group
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2017.
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English
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On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect...
57) Game changer
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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While thirteen-year-old Teddy fights for his life after a football injury at training camp, his friends and family gather to support him and discuss events leading to his coma. Told through dialogue, text messages, newspaper articles, transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy's inner thoughts.
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Days of redemption volume 3
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Eventide is the riveting conclusion to The Days of Redemption trilogy by Shelley Shepard Gray, celebrated author of tender Christian romance novels set in Amish country. Honest and faithful Elsie Keim falls for her new neighbor, Landon, but she can't bear to tell him the truth: She's going blind. Landon is enamored with Elsie. When Elsie's brother Roman steps in and shares the truth of Elsie's disease, Landon is floored. His job is demanding and takes...
59) Happy Holidays?
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The best thing about the holiday season is spending time with family. At the same time, sometimes the worst thing about the holiday season is spending time with family. The stories in this collection touch on that and more as Mandy Nichols, Jeff Resnick, and Judi Straub struggle through what's supposed to be the joyous season. One family contemplates murder; another wants to end what they see as a bad relationship, while another can only see their...
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"I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU" Hebrews 13:5
Opposites attract and Chad and Sierra are that. Chad is destroyed on the outside by a suicide bomber
while Sierra is broken on the inside by human trafficking. They are each other's reflection of who
they are, beautiful but ravaged by life.
Chad Michaels, an Afghan vet, comes home to a suicide bomber who destroys not only his family
but the man he was. Now, he must deal with life as a burn victim,...
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