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2) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
4) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
A social scientist and Harvard professor draws on social science, philosophy, biography, theology and eastern wisdom, as well as dozens of interviews with everyday people to help those over 50 find purpose, meaning and success as they age.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Head-in-the-stars Audrey is about to marry down-to-earth Josh. Though they are polar opposites, they have a healthy, stable relationship; Josh is just what Audrey needs. But romance should be unpredictable and full of fireworks, and as the big day approaches, Audrey's found herself wondering if Josh really is "The One." So, when Josh's sister shows up to the rehearsal dinner with Fred, Audrey's "What If? Guy" Audrey finds herself torn. Surely Fred's...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. This stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia...
Author
Language
English
Description
Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art-and finding the strength to stand up again.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz explores these questions and many more in this profound, poetic, and poignant masterpiece...
12) City of betrayal
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 7
Language
English
Description
A grifter skilled at interacting with difficult men, Elizabeth Bates teams up with the suffragist movement in an attempt to pass the 19th Amendment in Tennessee. But she would never have expected the lengths to which some would go to keep the vote out of women's hands. She'll need to devise the perfect con or the suffragists' life's work could all be for nothing.
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Language
English
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Description
Drawing on interviews with marine geologists, marine biologists and oceanographers, a premiere chronicler of the aquatic world provides a fascinating history of deep-sea exploration and shows how urgent it is that we understand the ocean in a time of increasing threats from climate change.
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Language
English
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Description
"The year is 1998, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We follow Bunny from adolescence to middle age -- from Baku to Athens to Houston -- as her own ambition and desire...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Red Clark had heard Juilos County was "plumb bad," so he had come to nose around and get himself a job. Disgusted with what he is seeing, he befriends Zee Hill, a journeymen printer who wants the chance to get out a real paper -- one that will show various characters of that country in their true colors, and get justice for some of the small cattlemen against the greedy range barons. On his first day in Juilos, he runs up against the three biggest...
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Language
English
Description
After shifting her focus from tracing the family trees of violent criminals to helping adoptees find their biological parents, forensic genealogist Rowan Healy agrees to help Austin detective Jack Bruner find justice for the victims of the West Campus Rapist through her DNA research, which leads them down a dark path.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
With her husband and son off at war, and the burden of running the farm falling to her, Joetta, shunned because she doesn't support the Confederacy's position on slavery, finds one act of kindness bringing her family to the edge of even greater disaster.
Author
Language
English
Description
After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn, delivering a box of books to Penryth Hall, the home to her once dearest friend, Tamsyn, is drawn into a mystery when Tamsyn’s husband is murdered and the crime is blamed on a curse—one that could claim Tamsyn’s life as well.
Author
Series
Belles of London volume 3
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A confirmed spinster and equestrienne, Lady Anne Deveril, in exchange for a favor, agrees to attend a holiday house party with Felix Hartford during which their unrequited feelings are at last laid bare as she loosens the reins and lets him take control.
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