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"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...
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"Psychologist and interpersonal relationship expert Ty Tashiro knows what its like to be awkward. Growing up, he could do math in his head and memorize the earned run averages of every National League starting pitcher. But he couldnt pour liquids without spilling and habitually forgot to bring his glove to Little League games. In Awkward, he unpacks decades of research into human intelligence, neuroscience, personality, and sociology...
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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
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Wuthering Heights is a tale of passion, revenge, and the destructive power of love. The novel is narrated by Mr. Lockwood, a gentleman from London who rents a house called Thrushcross Grange in the Yorkshire moors. He becomes intrigued by the mysterious goings-on at Wuthering Heights, the nearby estate owned by the reserved and surly Heathcliff. The main narrative unfolds through the eyes of Nelly Dean, a servant who has witnessed the events at Wuthering...
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"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
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"A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not...
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"When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago's thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars and something called Love Potion Number...
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On a bitter cold day, in the December of his Junior Year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. They borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster,...
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In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf w̌hich has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. Meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the caf'̌s time-traveling offer, to: confront a man who left, receive a letter from a husband whose memory has been taken by early-onset Alzheimer's, to see a sister...
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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...
14) Country bride
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Rediscover romance on the ranch, in this classic story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Kate Logan is devastated when her former fiancé, the man she's always loved, marries someone else instead. After one glass of champagne, she spontaneously-foolishly-proposes to her longtime friend Luke Rivers.
Luke is a man of his word, and he will not renege on his promise. Not only does he refuse to break the engagement, he insists...
15) Gossip: A Novel
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"A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real."
-Susan Isaacs, New York Times Book Review
The critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know, Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip, a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing things about others, the consequences of rumor, and the unexpected price of friendship. A story set among the...
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A radical new take on the crisis of intimate abuse, Violent Partners argues that as a culture we misunderstand the root causes and basic effects of abuse, and until that changes there is no hope of fixing the problem. Dr. Linda Mills challenges assumptions, tears down myths, and offer solutions, all the while telling riveting stories of couples who have conquered violence in their relationships. In Violent Partners, she describes several programs...
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Les compétences relationnelles font l'objet d'une multitude de publications, mais rares sont les ouvrages qui en présentent les fondements. Véritable ressource d'autoformation sur la connaissance de soi, la gestion de ses émotions et l'écoute, ce guide dévoile des stratégies indispensables à l'élaboration de relations interpersonnelles saines et constructives. Alliant théorie et pratique, il offre une vision holistique des concepts de base,...
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Este es el primero de tres tomos de la colección Gridale que recogen temas de varias de las ponencias presentadas por académicos latinoamericanos y europeos en un Simposio organizado por el Gridale y el ielepi en la Universidad Alcalá de Henares, España, en octubre de 2022 para analizar los resultados de la Conferencia sobre el Futuro de Europa realizada durante un año entre 2012 y 2022, con el objetivo de brindar oportunidades a la ciudadanía...
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The facts are nothing short of startling--no matter how many people seem to walk down the aisle, the divorce rate in America is at a record high. What's the secret to getting into a happy marriage and, even more important, staying in one? Now world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. William Glasser and his wife, Carleen Glasser, update their classic guide to successful marriages, Staying Together, for couples young and old. As they examine the questions of...
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