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Growing up on a reservation in the southwestern United States, this young man faced many challenges common to Native American communities. One of the biggest challenges that Cheetah faced was something that no child should ever have to endure, sexual abuse.
The abuse began when he was just a young boy and continued for several years. He felt alone, helpless, unable to tell anyone about what was happening to him. Over time, the abuse took a heavy...
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El silencio de una niña
Este libro es el relato de hechos reales iniciados en Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos y concluido luego en Los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica.
Es la historia de una niña que perdió su inocencia a manos de quien se suponía la protegería de todo mal y luego de muchos años de sufrimiento logró escapar del yugo del más cruel de los delitos: El Tráfico de Seres humanos
3) The Ending
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Samantha created a life she loved. She was finally where she wanted to be in life. She built a successful restaurant and was surrounded by the people she loved the most. She hadn't looked back and was hoping she never would have to. Today should have been like every other day, paying bills, getting ready to receive new dishes until that moment she heard that voice. The voice of man she would never forget.
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We live in a cybernetic world full of challenges and hurdles we have to either cross or jump. This book talks about taking a long chronological walk through life to find that God is always with you-helping you and protecting you every step of the way as you take a leap of faith to crawl out the crisis life has dumped on your lap. Can you walk a mile of suffering struggles, rise above the odds against you, and end up on top, while shooting up to the...
5) H.E.R.O
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Season 1: Based in modern times in 2016. In this world some people around 33% of the world's population have mutations. That gives off either extraordinary features or powers. Some have one, others have multiple. These mutated people were seen as outcasts in society, freaks of good or evil nature. No one at the time could really tell the difference in the past. These mutated people hid from the judgment of the world, turning toward groups like them...
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This book shares an intriguing journey that uncovers the scandalous and thought-provoking tale of family secrets, lies, lust, and abuse. Three marriages, racial tensions, a baby, and a secret affair are only some of the things that have unknowingly plagued Shyrell's family for decades. She's always asked herself "what" and "why?" Never in a million years, would she or her siblings imagine there is a "who?" In this true story, travel with Shyrell as...
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I'm Maya, the one who knows all the tea and tells it like it is. You are about to be entertained with the lives of me and my girls and their fucked up fantasy lives. These are my girls, and I got their backs, no matter how they portray their men or their relationships. Just like any other squad, we go through shit, we talk shit, we may fuck shit up, but most of all we ARE the shit! My life is probably the best of them all. I am SINGLE as hell. I go...
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Amanda is a newly single parent in nursing school trying to make ends meet by pole dancing at a local bar. She meets Brent, her Prince Charming when she notices a slow change in his personality. Before long, she finds herself trapped in an abusive relationship and gaslighted into submission. Stalk Home is a true account of a domestic violence survivor. It encompasses Amanda's struggles and determination to decipher between lies and reality. Isolated...
9) The Mob Trap
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Winner of the 2023 Chicago Script Awards.
The Mob Trap is a murder mystery in the Agatha Christie mold, and very much a response to her classic play The Mousetrap. The heads of the five largest crime families check into an inn in upstate New York. When the proprietor of the establishment discovers one of the mobsters murdered, the race is on to find the killer before a mob war breaks out. If you are a fan of Agatha Christie's plays, and also love...
10) The Shoebox
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When Peter Michaels, the forty-two-year-old rising star of Boston's architectural world, stumbles upon an old shoebox of mementos from his first love, he is thrown into a tailspin that could cost him his upcoming marriage, his career, and even the love of his life. It's 1985, and Peter is bidding on the greatest architectural project of his career, just weeks shy of his wedding to Boston's most ambitious socialite.
And yet he is still secretly tormented...
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Sailors and Dogs Keep off the Grass is Thomas Turman's coming-of-age account of a spirited, sensitive and humorous four years in the Navy Construction Battalions (Seabees). This follows Turman from Boot Camp in San Diego, to the odd Nevada Navy, to the mobile construction battalion's work in New Foundland, Spain, Cuba, Bermuda and in one incident, a secret "Black Op" job in the Caribbean. Escaping from the Navy, there are sensual and humorous side-trips...
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Third Party Situations follows the life of Kayla, from her dysfunctional childhood in an abusive household, to her life as a troubled teenage mother, and her subsequent spiritual awakening as an adult. With little to no parental guidance, Kayla endures incest committed by a family member as a child, an unplanned pregnancy at the age of 15, and numerous events in her life that leave her struggling to find meaning and purpose in her life. Poignant and...
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"Remember Who You Are" is a gripping story about love, loss, and growth. When two young people from different backgrounds fall in love, they reveal themselves to each other and discover, a unique bond that neither has ever, experienced before.
This book shares an emotional and warm story about a boy whose home life and emotional stability is tedious to say the least. With encouragement from strategic family members and friends, he shares his feelings...
14) Storm Watch
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Eunique Mavry woke up one morning to a failed marriage, eclipsed by the sudden death of an aunt, who had raised her, and the shattering news that she had been downsized from the company she had refashioned into a major retail icon. Years of her life suddenly hurled into a cataclysmic void, amassing a perfect storm, intersecting her life with despicable circumstances. Disconnected in time and space, a chance phone call from a mere acquaintance jolted...
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I wanted to answer questions you may have. Every story has two sides, and I wanted to give you an insight into the darker side of an affair. Question One: How did you meet? Question Two: How did it escalate? Question Three: When did the line get thin enough to cross it? Question Four: How was the first time together? Question Five: Why did it keep happening? Question Six: Do either of you love each other? Question Seven: Has he ever talked about me,...
16) Finding Right
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Innocence Lost...
Turmoil...against the trials of good and evil, ingrained beliefs verses realty. Emily has lived under the church umbrella. She lives the intoxicating life of the pure innocence of the preacher's daughter. She lives each day in the new green of Spring, in the vibrant colors of the trees in the fall and in the Sun coming through the window in the midst of the rain. The newness that a child can be blessed with, fades as the reality...
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Charlotte. The road that led away from an abusive home and changed her life forever. The field that led to her desolate discovery, untraditional family, unpredicted love and her unremitting zeal to pursue her dreams. A story of survivorship, hope, beauty and loss which splinters with shock as she uncovers a pinion to her fields of everything.
18) Don't Die
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Fentanyl-laced cocaine almost kills Madison Avenue ad agency executive Katie McFarland. Her husband, Mac, an investigative reporter and author, is determined to disrupt the flow of deadly fentanyl, manufactured in China and smuggled into the United States by Mexican drug cartels. The drug contacts Mac developed are murdered, and he focuses on helping his wife face her addictions – a greater challenge than he ever imagined.
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BETTE JOHNSON, who is eight months pregnant, decides to leave her philandering, self-centered husband, STEVE, without telling a soul. After withdrawing $350,000 from their joint bank account, she buys an SUV she sees in the classifieds from LOVEY, a woman of pure evil, and departs for the snowy mountains. She has a car accident and is knocked unconscious. BEN AVERY, a snowplow driver, rescues her and tends to her wounds. Later, Lovey finds a note...
20) Dante
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Dante is an adventure tale, which includes superhero elements (action, drama, betrayal, etc.). Dante discovers his abilities in the midst of an attack and he goes on to hone those abilities and use them to help others. Through the years, Dante continues to encounter adversity and challenges that threaten to break him down. But through it all, he pushes on.
Dante is full of characters that enrich the story and keep the reader guessing along the way....
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