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A pussycat purchased at a pet shop, and abandoned. Concerned with his stray cat tag, and the desire to belong to a human, Franc initiates an adoption process, and follows his intuition. His intelligent approach combined with uncomplicated feline logic, helps him to achieve his goals, and simultaneously portrays a heart breaking picture of a family saga.
It is then, when we begin to wonder about our frailties, and the unconditional love animals offer...
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Matt Morrow, now in his teens, is a legendary musician. Natalia, his mother, has moved from man to man since the death of her beloved Trent Goodacres. Matt has moved out of his mother's home and started life on his own. But no matter how he tries to distance himself from his mother, Natalia seems to know just how to reel him back in. As the seventies begin, The Morrow Saga turns its attention from Natalia to Matt as one generation hands the baton...
1683) A Montana Inheritance
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Rusty Blackstone, World Champion Steer Wrestler, gets life-shaking news from his former girlfriend and first love, Jenny. He has a five-year-old son named Todd. Even worse, Jenny is now the ex-wife of Rusty's worst enemy and rodeo nemesis, Warren Weston, who claims Todd as his own. To add even more tension to their rivalry, Warren is also dating Rusty's sister. Before he can come to terms with the idea of fatherhood, Rusty unexpectedly inherits a...
1684) Grains of Graphite
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Grains of Graphite is a North American poetry collection focusing on a wide range of emotions, many of which are intimate. The book was written with the intent to place readers in different situations, so they may experience emotions through new or altered experiences. People are welcome to interpret scenes in their own way separate from the writer's vision. There's beauty in the way individuals relate to the stories in this book.
1685) A Darker Light
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Sara has the perfect career: as a photographer for a glossy travel magazine, she is able to pursue her passion for photography while at the same time appeasing her mother, who wants her to have a "real job." But Sara's ideal world comes crashing down when she is diagnosed with macular degeneration. As her vision begins to deteriorate, she faces the devastating prospect of having to give up both her career and her passion. Hoping to avoid surgery,...
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"Goodbye FD: Whispers of Love" is a captivating story that follows the journey of FD, an architect who unexpectedly falls in love with Mercy, a music superstar. Despite Mercy's initial disinterest due to her engagement to Daud. Their paths cross on a blind date, where FD mistakes Mercy for his intended date. As their relationship blossoms, they face numerous obstacles, including Mercy's engagement to Daud, a photojournalist and heir to a vast business...
1687) A Small Measure of Peace
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A Small Measure Of Peace & Other Stories: Is a collection of short stories of adventure, profound loss and reflection.A Small Measure Of Peace: A man finds himself constantly haunted by dreams and visions of a violent battle and races against time to uncover the mystery before he succumbs to exhaustion.Forty Three And Six: Explores the grief at losing a parent, through the recall of key moments in the life of the son as he mourns the loss of his beloved...
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The culture of China is rich with marvelous folklore and legendry that has informed its tale telling from the era of oral storytelling up through the current age of the written word. “Chinese Myths and Folk Tales” draws on that magnificent repository of lore, featuring more than 200 fables and folk tales drawn from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums of traditional tales. Here are stories of ancient demons, strange...
1689) Las manos blancas
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María es una exigente profesora de Literatura y una mujer de recio carácter.
Francisco, su único hijo, practica el ajedrez para guardar la memoria de un padre ausente y estudia para complacer a una madre a la que eleva a la condición de modelo femenino, lo cual influye en su modo de relacionarse con otras mujeres. Pero las mejores lecciones de su aprendizaje las recibirá fuera del tablero y de las aulas.
Atrévete a leer esta emocionante historia...
1690) Ten Days
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In a riveting debut novel infused with uncommon insight, Janet Gilsdorf draws readers into an unforgettable story of love, heartache, family, and renewal.
After six years of marriage, Anna and Jake Campbell have settled into a routine of daily responsibility and familiar comforts. The demands of raising two small children-three-year-old Chris and baby Eddie-take a toll, especially combined with Jake's schedule as an orthopedic surgeon. But together,...
1691) In Security: A Novel
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Part airport thriller, part family drama, part love story, In Security explores how those who strive to protect us are often unable to protect themselves.
Gary Waldman is a grief-stricken former tennis coach slowly reentering the world after the death of his wife. As he struggles to remain a good father to his six-year-old son, Waldman finds unexpected comfort and stability in the rule-bound confines of the TSA, working as a Transportation Security...
1692) The Spin I'm In
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A determined widow faces the challenge of a new life to regain the confidence and independence of her youth, but finds that life, unlike knitting, doesn't always follow a pattern.
After twenty-five years of being the perfect wife and mother, Martha LeBeau finds herself unexpectedly widowed and shocked to discover her husband had been living a double life, leaving her penniless and in debt. Determined to regain her lost confidence and independence,...
1693) Dicen
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Dicen cuenta hechos reales en una red de voces acalladas durante generaciones, no está escrito desde la reflexión política, sino desde la justicia poética, es el relato contemporáneo de la postguerra española.
Dicen es un libro innovador. No es poesía, no es ensayo, no es narrativa corta y es todo a la vez. Escrito en secuencias cortas, recoge la memoria íntima de una familia y va reconstruyendo sus vida insignificantes para mostrar el terror...
1694) Losing Mother
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Something has gone horribly wrong with Josephine...As her children struggle to accept a life-changing diagnosis, one son cloaks himself in denial while his sister subversively plots her escape from the unfolding nightmare.It's left to the younger son to cope with his mother's increasingly bizarre symptoms, but his own stability begins to erode under the strain-with devastating results.
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Elodie Jones did not have a conventional childhood. Her parents were acrobats in The Sweeney Sisters' Dazzling Bigtop Extravaganza, and the closest thing Elodie had to preschool was a box of crayons and a clown named Chuckles. Now that her daughter Madison is starting preschool, Elodie just wants to blend in with the other parents and give Madison the normal childhood she never had.
When Elodie volunteers to be room mom for Madison's class, she assumes...
1697) Surviving Hal
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Mothers-in-law are famous for being difficult but when Nell marries Andy it's her father-in-law, Hal, who is the problem. A corrosive force in his own family, Hal is a truly ugly Australian who spreads his corruption whenever he gets the chance. Surviving Hal takes place in Sydney and Thailand and is the story of Nell and Andy trying to keep their family together against the influence of a charismatic but ugly soul.
1698) Hermana
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Muchas familias tienen secretos y están dispuestas a lo que sea por mantenerlos, pero ¿dónde está el límite?
Una se perdió. Una mintió
Alice: guapa, amable, manipuladora, mentirosa Clare: inteligente, leal, paranoica, celosa Clare piensa que Alice es una mentirosa manipuladora que intenta robar su vida. Alice piensa que Clare está celosa tras su regreso tras una larga desaparición y la nueva situación en la familia.
Una de las dos está...
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Ben and Brenda Tremblay should have been enjoying the twilight years of their life together. They should have been spending languid days with their daughter and grandchildren, supported by a universe of friends and savoring quiet hours in a home filled with mementos. But Brenda suffers from Alzheimer's disease in a care hospital, a cruel, final obstacle for a couple who survived profound conflict and unthinkable loss in their 63 years of marriage....
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In this charming novel, Darrin Doyle paints a captivating portrait of the all-American family-if the all-American family's youngest child ate an entire city in Michigan with a smile, that is. Doyle has a flare for writing about family dysfunction with a twist. With a unique blend of realism and fantasy, The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo is the moving story of the hauntingly beautiful Audrey Mapes, who began her illustrious "career" by downing crayons by...
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