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Four adult siblings reconnect on a brief adventure through the Loire Valley in this international-bestselling novel by the beloved French author of Billie.
Simon and his two sisters, Garance and Lola, flee their cousin's dull wedding-and Simon's judgmental wife-to visit their younger brother, Vincent, who is working as a guide at a château in the heart of the enchanting Tours countryside. For a few hours, they forget about kids, spouses, and work,...
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In the house of the mosque, the family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries. Now it is occupied by three cousins: Aqa Jaan, a merchant and head of the city's bazaar; Alsaberi, the imam of the mosque and Aqa Shoja, the mosque's muezzin. The house itself teems with life, as each of their families grows up with their own triumphs and tragedies. Sadiq is waiting for a suitor to knock at the door to ask for her hand, while her two grandmothers sweep...
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Prologue: Awakening to the InfiniteIn the quiet depths of the night, when the world slumbersand the stars whisper secrets to the dreaming soul, thereexists a realm beyond the confines of ordinary perception-a realm where the boundaries of time and space dissolve,and the spirit soars free
84) The Banjo Pilot
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The Banjo Pilot is the story of Duke Steel, a North Carolina bluegrass banjo player who played banjo with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1949. He then goes on to start his own band. After a personal tragedy involving a plane accident with his wife on board, he later joins a major airline as a pilot in 1958. After twenty years, he reacquaints himself with the bluegrass community when his daughter brings him back into the world of bluegrass....
85) Poor Angus
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Poor Angus centres round a struggling painter, Angus McAllister, who has returned to the seemingly idyllic Hebridean island of his birth in the hope that it will inspire him to create his masterpiece. His privacy is invaded by Janet, a visitor with relatives on the island, who has decided that an affair with an artist would be the simplest way to incense and recapture her husband, a golf-fanatic devoid of imagination.
So begins an irresistible story,...
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From "an outstanding storyteller," a historical novel inspired by the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I (Woman's Weekly).
It is 1559, and Elizabeth Tudor has just succeeded to the throne of England. Beside her are the family who will share the momentous triumphs and setbacks of her reign: the Allgraves.
As the Spanish Armada descends upon the country and Mary Stuart lays claim to the English crown, together Elizabeth and the Allgraves will...
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Phule's Company volume 5
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What's a millionaire bachelor to do? Join the army-with his butler-of course. Meet Captain Willard Phule and his company of misunderstood misfits. Together, they've taken space by storm-and left a tradition of zaniness and laughter in their wake... Desperate to kick Phule out of the Space Legion, General Blitzkrieg sends a crack team of environmental investigators-including celebrity canine Barky the Environmental Dog-to sniff out Phule and his unnatural...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned,...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Yearning for life in a cloistered scriptorium, thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, escapes her scheming cousin Ivo and joins her servant Judith and an old friend, Parz, in hunting dragons and writing about them.
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The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he's thrilled. Too bad his dad walked out...
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From the author of the wildly popular Bunny Suicides series comes this hilarious collection detailing all the quirks and endearing oddities of motherhood. Mommy loves chocolate cake (no matter how bad it is for her), has magical spit (removes any stain!), and loves spa treatments (especially when she's not the one paying). Whether she's admiring her shoe collection or hiding Daddy's favorite grungy T-shirt, Mommy's always there doing her best to be...
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Book two in the gripping Nurse's War series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller.
Will she be reunited with those she loves?
With her first husband dead and the war still ferocious, Victoria finds herself nursing injured soldiers on the Burma front. There she meets charismatic American, Captain Taylor King and, impulsively, marries a man she barely knows.
But when Victoria becomes pregnant with his child, she must leave the only security she...
96) The Nurse's War
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A gripping story from bestselling author, Fenella J. Miller.
For King, for country...for love?
Victoria Bahani, the privileged seventeen-year-old, daughter of the Rajah of Marpur and an English woman, has always believed she would marry an Englishman. And when she meets Captain Henry Hindley-Jones she knows he's exactly the kind of man she's been thinking of.
But when war breaks out everything changes for Victoria. With Henry away fighting, Victoria...
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London, 1974: Die siebzehnjährige Pippa St George, Tochter aus gutem Hause, wird von ihrer besten Freundin auf ein Konzert im dunklen, schmutzigen London geschleppt. Dort trifft sie auf Oz, den Sänger der Punkband, der für alles steht, was ihre Familie verachtet. Gegen alle Konventionen und gegen jede Logik verlieben sich die beiden ineinander, doch dann werden sie von der harten Realität eingeholt.
London, Gegenwart: Online-Redakteurin Gilly...
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Humorous and heartwarming tales of resilience, self-care, and mental health from the popular webcomic War and Peas.
Told in rhyming verse and delightful comic illustrations, these stories cover everything from heartache and personal growth to creative burnout and searching for the elusive perfect email signature.
While the groundbreaking Webcomic duo War and Peas is famous for their dark style of humor, they decided to try something more poetic...
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Grumpy Cat is back with a mission: Teach the world to "NO" everything. She's collected all her least favorite things and can't wait to tell everyone what to think about them. Grumpy Cat: No-It-All is packed with feel-good topics just begging for a cranky makeover: kittens, rainbows, smiles, birthday parties, cuddles, and more. Anyone who takes delight in sometimes seeing the glass half empty will love the hilarious new photos and commentary from the...
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This is not just a book about running. It's a book about cupcakes. It's a book about suffering.
It's a book about gluttony, vanity, bliss, electrical storms, ranch dressing, and Godzilla. It's a book about all the terrible and wonderful reasons we wake up each day and propel our bodies through rain, shine, heaven, and hell.
From #1 New York Times best-selling author, Matthew Inman, AKA The Oatmeal, comes this hilarious, beautiful, poignant collection...
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