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"Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, Mitzi has returned to rule the roost; Patrick is about to be released from prison; Kevin has a successful new business and is finally ready to tie the knot with Isabelle; and best of all, there's hopeful news about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan. That doesn't mean there aren't a few dark clouds on the horizon....
42) Knives out
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A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth...
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Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing...
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Kidnapped by their doomsday-prepper father to keep them safe from a supposedly new pandemic, Haley and Ben are confined to his compound with no outside contact and no idea if the threat is even real.
Haley and Ben live with their mother. When their dad is convinced there's a new, much deadlier pandemic coming, he kidnaps them. Confined in his prepper hideaway far off the grid, he believes they will be safe from other people. Haley and Ben have no...
45) Hate list
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
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"In one of the most entertaining and twisty thrillers of the year a London family, a mother, father and young son, must deal with the murder of their secretive next door neighbor and the intrusive police investigation that follows. Readers will be faced with ever shifting and increasingly frightening suspicions that one or all of them had something to do with it"--
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"In the vein of Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood comes a novel of psychological suspense from debut author Michelle Adams, where a woman returns to her family's home to learn the truth and escape her sister's influence If you knew my sister, you'd run, too ... First there was the Robert Kneel incident. Then what happened to Margot Wolfe. And now she's found me again. Dr. Irini Harringford was given away by her parents just before her fourth birthday....
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"The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multi-generational family saga, set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee--an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land."--
Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota...
50) Maine
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Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction from the author of Commencement. By turns uproarious and achingly sad, Maine reveals the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family, along with the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer, to the family house and to each other.
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After the shocking, life shattering realization that her husband was living a secret life, she is determined to get real answers. In her pursuit to understand how this seemingly strong, stable, committed thirty-three-year marriage had been anything but, she reaches out to the one person she knew would have answers. Through painful and heartbreaking discussions, she realized that her life with him was an astonishing manipulation and distortion by this...
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Are you hurting as a result of a family rift? Do you find it difficult to have healthy relationships with family members? You are not alone. Unfortunately, family estrangement is far too common, even among Christian families. In the pages of this book, Julie shares her personal experience with such heartache. Many years of miscommunication, hurtful words and unhealthy interactions eventually led to a full estrangement from her family.But her story...
53) Jesse's Story
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Jesse lived a tortured life characterized by mental illness and drug addiction. He developed a criminal lifestyle but was not very good at it. This is a story of his coming to grips with the consequences of his behaviors and his attempts to right his wrongs. While this is a true tale, certain events have been fictionalized to protect the privacy of those affected by Jesse's struggles. This is a tale of suffering and redemption.
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In an effort to improve her station in life, Amanda manipulated her daughter to tap into the power of the government and society's desire to protect children. Weaknesses in the child protection system and human errors are combined, causing the destruction of her immediate and extended family.
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After two personal tragedies in one year, the landscape of Gertrude's life looks flat and barren. Suddenly childless, she wanders in a vast emptiness for months. Her women gather, bringing sustenance and encouragement, but it is not until a long look in the mirror shows a serious weight loss and sickly pallor, that she knows a change must be made. Summoning an intrepid strength, Gert pulls herself together and takes a step forward. With relief and...
56) Papucho
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Papucho es un relato de la vida real, narrada en un lenguaje ágil y sencillo que de manera vívida transporta al lector al escenario de los hechos. Expone la vulnerabilidad existente en la franja que separa el amor y el compromiso con el desamor y la traición entre parejas separadas por la distancia, que causan cifras alarmantes de matrimonios rotos y hogares deshechos.
La obra muestra el resquebrajamiento del sentimiento interno que produce la...
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There Is No Music is based on incidents that happened in life to people that were struggling to live in a place in time where you could not hear joy, peace, security, love, trust, patience, and loyalty. There is no music when a child is abused or misused by an adult.
There is no music when you just want your civil rights, but you are punished because you want equal rights, and you have to leave where you live and have no place to go.
There is no...
58) Karma
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KARMA encompasses the twelve laws of existence that govern our lives. They are spiritual guidelines that can help us maneuver through this life. Our actions can ultimately decide our fate.
In this story, we follow the fate of an aspiring young Filipino boy and his dysfunctional family living in the 1970s. Their pursuit of love, significance, and security is a deep human need that is present in all of us.
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Behind the Scene is a personal story of one little girl's experience growing up on a small Midwest farm. She was born into a large family, living in poverty, where her family's mode of transportation was a horse and buggy. This was required by the Amish religion her family belonged to. Early in her life, her dad wanted a car. They left the Amish and joined the Mennonites.
The deep, dark secrets of her family's dysfunction, she vowed never to expose...
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Whether solo parenting for night, a week, half time or for the rest of time; this book offers cheats to get your parenting zen on. These tips on cooking, laundry, first aid and taking care of yourself prioritize saving you money, time, sanity, energy and letting your kids f' up in a supported way. Going it alone will challenge you to the core more than any reality TV show. Somedays you will feel like superhero, other days a melted mess on the couch....
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