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The Love of a Widow' is an emotional, highly entertaining and even educational book by a talented new young Ugandan writer. The book tells the story of a kind lady, Pollah, who tragically lost her family in a terrible accident. This led to her becoming a widow and being lonely and bereft of support in the world. Yet Pollah never gave up trying to find new love, she expressed her new love in helping the children at the school who were once strangers...
2) As I Burn
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I'm a girlFull of fireFull of desireThis hungerIt's never fulfilledAs I Burn, explores that desire to mean more. To discover that piece of you. That you never knew was hiding. Ready to break out into the world and own those words that you've always held.Ella Rye brings that vulnerability, that many have grown to love. Giving you another chapter, another heartache. She's ready to rise above the ashes.
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In the summer of 1914, unrest simmers across the Austro-Hungarian empire. Nationalist tensions are on the rise, the imperial parliament has been suspended, and the heir to the throne has been assassinated. While the capital hums with whispers of war, Ilse Eder lives a life apart, secluded on her brother-in-law's country estate. Headstrong but unworldly, she finds herself entangled in an illicit romance with the aristocratic Junius von Hess. As she...
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From novelist Dana Gricken comes the first installment in a poetry trilogy called The Heart's Companion. With nine chapters-ranging from love to heartbreak to mental illness, body issues, and women's rights, Ten Years: A Poetry Collection tells the story of life's lessons in a touching and deeply personal way. Whatever you're going through, let this poetry collection be your heart's companion that helps you through it all. So pull up a chair, get...
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Intended for Mature Audiences 18+Gabe has been brought up with Bree, since he was nine years old when his parents died. Now he's twenty six and been in love with Bree for the past seven years. She's coming home for the holidays and has him so tied in knots he can't think straight.Bree avoided going home for the holidays last year because she didn't think she'd be able to handle being around Gabe, the man she's in love with, who she thinks she can...
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These chapters provide a nuanced exploration of the diverse roles, achievements, and challenges faced by Mongol women throughout history, covering aspects of nomadic life, royalty, military leadership, cultural contributions, and the evolving status of women in changing times.
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These chapters provide a comprehensive exploration of Celtic warrior queens, covering historical figures like Boudicca, Cartimandua, and Aethelflaed, as well as the legendary Queen Medb from Irish mythology. The final chapter reflects on their historical memory and lasting legacy.
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The author of Rejected Princesses returns with an inspiring, fully illustrated guide that brings together the fiercest mothers in history-real life matriarchs who gave everything to protect all they loved.
Mothers possess the "maternal instinct"-an innate fierceness that drives them to nurture, safeguard, fight, and sacrifice for the most important things that matter to them. For some mothers, it's their children. For others, it's artistic expression,...
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La obra colectiva Perspectivas sociopedagógicas para la equidad de las mujeres Cuba-Quebec aborda el tema de la equidad de las mujeres cubanas y quebequenses desde diversas perspectivas sociopedagógicas. Estas reflexiones colectivas aspiran a un cambio social duradero. La equidad de las mujeres se aborda a través de nueve temas transversales: 1) el liderazgo de las mujeres; 2) las mujeres en la enseñanza superior y el mundo de la investigación;...
10) The Naïve Woman
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THE SEQUEL TO THE FEARLESS WOMANTrustful, naive Cassie is about to find out the hard way that the truth sometimes sounds better than it is. As Cassie Nash begins to forge the relationship she wished for with Bob Huntley, her biological father, whom she located after her mother's death, he dies.Family is everything to Cassie, and in time, she seeks out Michelle Huntley, Bob's sister, her aunt, and her only remaining blood relative. Michelle, however,...
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An incredibly moving novel about the emotional side-and consequences-of open adoption from the author of Pictures of You.
In this heart-wrenching story of an open adoption gone wrong, Caroline Leavitt's Girls in Trouble reveals the astonishing power of family bonds and maternal love. Sara is sixteen and pregnant. Her once-devoted boyfriend seems to have disappeared, so she decides her best and only option is an open adoption with George and Eva,...
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In "Wolf World" by Jo Ann Lordahl, the prologue and chapters one and three depict a complex emotional journey experienced by the protagonist, Christine Forrester, as she grapples with the death of her father. The prologue sets the stage for Christine's introspective exploration, expressing her struggle with the past and her determination to understand and reconcile her experiences. Chapter one delves into Christine's emotional turmoil as she prepares...
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"Esta soy yo. Faye Lizzy Sandstrom. Trabajo para una agencia de escritores fantasma llamada Ghostly Whisper, con sede en Londres. Como ya había advertido, somos algo así como agentes secretos con licencia para escribir. Y todos nos conocemos. O casi."
Faye Lizzy Sandstrom, escritora fantasma apasionada por el terror, la fantasía urbana, la ciencia ficción y lo distópico, recibe un nuevo encargo. Esta vez se trata de una trilogía con el provocativo...
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All I did was go away for the weekend; by the time I'd returned, my husband had killed himself.
It was thirteen years into my marriage before I realised Simon had bipolar. Despite our difficulties, I was living the life I'd always dreamt of. We were renovating our Victorian home, working hard in our respective careers, and considering adopting our second child. However, with each manic episode, my dreams were slowly deteriorating into heartbreak...
15) Finding Kait
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An unlikely friendship, a road trip filled with idyllic sunsets...and a million dollars of stolen cash.Kait De Lucca is the wife of a rich and influential businessman and has everything she could ever wish for. Except true love. And freedom. Then her best friend dies and Kait is beyond devastated. She's spent her whole life living by the rules and doing as she's told.So, when she breaks those rules, it's with spectacular results.With the voice of...
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My canvas is empty
until it is streaked with lines
of the world
of my heart.
In Finding Poetry, Finding Me, author Rebecca P. Bruckenstein explores the world around her and the relationships we have with ourselves and each other. She allows the musicality of poetry to infuse the way she walks in the world, stepping in and out of the past, present, and future. Through her work, she hopes readers will turn inward to discover a roadmap to finding...
17) Until Charlie
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"This must be heaven, I thought. I studied his graceful movements, admiring Charlie as he walked around the room, as if it were my own private symphony."Abbey Jamison abandons her small East Coast town, planning to pursue her life's dream of earning her college degree, gaining valuable work experience, and opening her own successful business. What she doesn't plan is finding the love of her life. Meeting Charlie Wright, Abbey knows her life will be...
18) Fly Away Home
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American Eve Danaher is devastated when she loses her daughter in a bitter custody battle and four-year-old Victoria is whisked to Europe out of her reach. Eve counts the days until Victoria turns eighteen, dreaming of their reunion. But years of lies have transformed the horse-mad girl Eve loved into an angry stranger. Hopes for reconciliation shattered, Eve goes to the west of Ireland in a quest to find the peace that has eluded her for so long....
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Que veut dire coconstruction ? Que signifie la coconstruction dans la recherche partenariale ? Le livre Coconstruction en recherche partenariale : perspectives féministes propose une réflexion collective sur la notion de coconstruction, o coconstruire est synonyme de bâtir sur les idées des autres et de tirer profit de l'influence des autres. Cet ouvrage collectif vise à exposer et à comprendre comment la coconstruction est vécue et appliquée...
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A groundbreaking anthology devoted to Asian/Pacific Islander American women and their experiences
Asian/Pacific Islander American Women is the first collection devoted to the historical study of A/PI women's diverse experiences in America. Covering a broad terrain from pre-large scale Asian emigration and Hawaii in its pre-Western contact period to the continental United States, the Philippines, and Guam at the end of the twentieth century, the...
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