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Meat? Really?
Starved, Uzbe swallowed it. But there was something in it. He suddenly felt so dizzy. His consciousness was fading out fast. He fell.
Two men emerged from the heavy mist and put him in a sack.
Uzbe was horrified. With his last energy, he whined:
Dad, Mom, take this nightmare away... But would he ever wake up at all? Bali, 2008, Uzbe went missing. Him and his owners, a Canadian and Balinese couple, relentlessly searched for each other,...
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In this heartwarming sequel to Promises of the Heart in the Savannah Skies series, USA Today bestselling author Nan Rossiter returns to Tybee Island off the Georgia coast to focus on beloved characters Maeve and Gage as their relationship is tested by secrets they are keeping from each other.
Thirty-four-year-old Maeve Lindstrom loves her job at Willow Pond Senior Care. Her older sister Macey thinks Maeve is the only human being on earth who can...
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A heartwarming story about love, acceptance, finding your place in the world, and learning to carry on in the face of overwhelming loss.
It's been eight months since Libby Tennyson's husband, Jack, passed away, and now every afternoon when the fiery sun sinks below the horizon, she finds herself wandering through the empty old farmhouse in which they raised their six sons. Melancholy hour, she calls it-the time of day that was once a flurry of dinner,...
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The first novel in a new series from bestselling author Nan Rossiter tells the moving story of a couple struggling to start a family and the young foster girl with a heart condition who changes their lives forever.
"A multi-leveled, beautifully written story that will glow in readers' hearts long after the last page is turned."-Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author
Can the course that they've set for the future handle a slight detour...?
Macey...
5) Emily, alone
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Newly independent widow Emily Maxwell dreams of visits by grandchildren and mourns changes in her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood before realizing an inner strength to pursue developing opportunities.
6) Ocean state
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"In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable....
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A year after the death of her husband, Emily Maxwell gathers her family by Lake Chautauqua in western New York for what will be a last vacation at their summer cottage. Joining is her sister-in-law, who silently mourns the sale of the lake house, and a long-lost love. Emily's firebrand daughter, a recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, brings her children from Detroit. Emily's son, who has quit his job and mortgaged his future to...
8) Cloudcastle
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In this sizzling historical romance set in the majestic Colorado Rockies, USA Today–bestselling author Nan Ryan brings to life the tempestuous passions of a beautiful, strong-willed ranch owner who can't help loving a mysterious drifter she is not sure she can trust One minute, Natalie Vallance is safely ensconced in the stagecoach taking her from Santa Fe to her ranch in the Rockies. The next, a shot rings out, and the coach is surrounded by marauding...
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"The thief [Satan] comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I [Jesus] have come that they may have life and have it to the full" (John 10:10, NIV).
As physically, emotionally, and sexually abused and neglected children by parents deeply involved in the occult, we had no idea our lives were any different from anyone else's until we were bullied by our peers and ostracized by neighboring families. We were born before mandated reporting by teachers...
10) Forest Outings
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Ellie Gooden is just settling in for her first winter in Horizon when Patti and Earl Mough's young eco-warrior son Josh stops in town with three members of his organization, including media darling and local boy Link Fairweather. Everyone is thrilled to see him but what should be a joyful reunion quickly goes south. It's clear that Josh's co-workers are a nest of vipers, and worse, his parents are facing a zoning crisis championed by the Mayor and...
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OPENING THE SHUTTERS is a book of poems by Nan Knighton which has been called "extraordinary" by author Delia Ephron, "glorious" by playwright Ken Ludwig and "stunning" by Richard Ridge of Broadway World. Charles McGrath, former Editor of The New York Times Book Review says, "Reading Nan Knighton is like reading a 21st century Edna Millay" and Elizabeth Goodenough of Secret Spaces of Childhood says, "Her poems fly. They take risks...with arresting...
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Nan Goodman has a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Harvard and a J.D. from Stanford. She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, Nan Goodman investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America. By looking at accidents and...
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The star of a Wild West show falls for its savage new attraction Though one of the most experienced political operatives in Washington, senator's aide Diane Buchanan is a cowgirl at heart. Raised by a showman to rope, ride, and shoot, she returns home when she learns her family's western show is in danger of folding. With her skills as a trick rider, Colonel Buck Buchanan's Wild West Show finds new life. But it isn't until the Redman of the Rockies"...
14) Heyvin!
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Life can turn on a dime. Just ask Wendy Shaw. Once she had it all and knew where she was headed. Then, in an instant, it was all yanked from beneath her and nothing was ever the same again. Only with the help of a couple of unlikely people is Wendy able to survive that fateful day when everything she knows and takes for granted was snatched away. At 17, Wendy Shaw has it all the right boyfriend, the perfect best friend and a great life they all share...
15) Tyme for a Rhyme
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Tyme for a Rhyme is a fully illustrated compilation of children's verses and is designed to entertain, teach, and perhaps bring a feeling of nostalgia to grown-ups who remember the old-fashioned poems and illustrations of their youth.
16) The Mocking Bird
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The Mockingbird is a story about the very first birds that God created back when time began. When called to the tree in the garden to receive their songs, one feathered character arrived late and missed out completely. The story explains what happened next and why he is called the Mockingbird.
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Her kingdom bankrupt, a princess travels to the New World in search of a fortune When Princess Marlena's father, the benevolent ruler of the tiny kingdom of Hartz-Coburg, dies, he leaves behind nothing but a famous name and a mountain of debt. To fill her beloved nation's empty coffers, Marlena has two choices: marry or beg. Although she's considered one of Europe's great beauties, Marlena has a fiery temper and frightens off all but the most repulsive...
18) Desert Storm
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Married off to a Texas landowner, a young woman fights temptation when her husband's son moves home Her whole life, Angie Webster has been raised to heed her father. Since her mother dieda fallen woman, and a disgrace to the family nameJeremiah has kept Angie away from friends, from society, and, most of all, from boys. But as Jeremiah nears death, he realizes it is time for her to settle down. He chooses Barrett McClain, a wealthy rancher whose isolated...
19) Summer Dance
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nan Rossiter brings together characters from her acclaimed novel Nantucket in a powerful, heartwarming love story that bridges past and present.
When Liam Tate was seven years old, his uncle Cooper opened his heart and his Nantucket home to him. In the intervening decades, Liam has found both love and loss on the island, and since learning of his son Levi's existence, a new kind of happiness. Yet one...
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THE SPINSTER. Ellen Cornelius knows exactly what Mister Corey is: an unscrupulous swindler a man without morals who will fleece her foolish old aunt out of her fortune. But as the group travels west in search of the fountain of youth, Ellen is both repelled and beguiled by his dark, compelling sexuality. Her only protection is to hide behind her prim, patronizing manner and her acid tongue. THE SEDUCER Steve Corey tests Ellen's fragile poise saying...