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761) Gone: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Celebrating the achievement of a successful career only to be abandoned by her failed sculptor husband, Eve Adams struggles to raise her children alone while balancing conflicting demands, the realities of midlife, and her evolving views on forgiveness and letting go.
763) The weekend
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"For nearly four decades, lifelong friends Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie have seen each other through romances, child-rearing, changing careers, divorces, medical recoveries, and general aging. But now Sylvie has died, and the three remaining women are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Thrust together In this weathered old house on the ocean, where the ghosts of their younger selves compete with their current realities, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Anna Sale wants you to have that conversation. You know the one. The one that youve been avoiding or putting off, maybe for years. The one that youve thought theyll never understand or do I really want to bring that up? or its not going to go well, so why even try? Sale is the founder and host of WNYCs popular, award-winning podcast 'Death, Sex, & Money', and in 'Lets Talk About Hard Things', she uses the best of what shes learned from her podcast...
765) The glamourist
Author
Series
The vine witch volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
Description
A spellbinding novel of bloodlines, self-discovery, and redemption by the author of the Washington Post bestseller The Vine Witch. Abandoned as a child in turn-of-the-century Paris, Yvette Lenoir has longed to uncover the secrets of her magical heritage and tap her suppressed powers. But what brave and resourceful Yvette has done to survive the streets has made her a fugitive. With a price on her head, she clings to a memento from her past-what she...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Shaun T unveils the 7 transformational principles that guided his progress through life and that are at the core of his incredibly successful workouts. The author shows you how to become more flexible and resourceful, give everything you've got, and, most importantly, trust and believe in your path to success. The only real obstacles in life are the mental ones, and the author can train you to achieve astonishing results in your own life, just as...
767) Behind the eyes
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hector is the hope of his family, but when he seeks revenge after his brother's gang-related death and is sent to a San Antonio reform school, it takes an odd assortment of characters to help him see that hope is still alive.
Author
Description
Poetry and prose that describes using aikido principles, humor, a positive attitude, and grit to live with the multiple challenges of glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. This book is intended to be helpful to anyone facing life challenges, whether they be serious and life threatening or day-to-day.
770) Passion Blue
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In fifteenth-century Italy, seventeen-year-old Giulia, a Count's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent, but once there she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion blue, and to question her true heart's desire. Includes historical notes and glossary.
771) The widow's war
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
When Lyddie Berry's husband is lost in a whaling disaster, she becomes the dependent of her ruthless son-in-law, who tries to take everything she and her husband had worked for.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
An illustrated selection of answers to the title's question, submitted online and collected by Ben Nemtin, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn and Jonnie Penn, collectively known as The Buried Life and featured in the MTV reality television series of the same name. Some answers include essays relating how the online submissions were accomplished. Also included are brief essays on how the four young men accomplished some of their lists' tasks and their experiences...
773) Becoming enlightened
Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a spiritual leader and Nobel laureate, dissects the Buddhist principle of enlightenment, advising listeners on how to achieve Buddhist edification. He also provides exercises for expanding one's potential for spiritual growth.
775) Motherland
Author
Pub. Date
[2013], p2013
Description
From an Academy Award—nominated screenwriter, an epic novel of love and loss and the long shadows war leaves behind.
Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with her. So does Larry. Both men go off to war, and Ed wins the highest military honor for his bravery. But sometimes heroes don't make...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Undone by motherhood, judged by her husband, thirty-two-year-old Rachel Clayborne flees with her baby in the middle of the night for the one place on earth that's been her refuge: her grandmother's lake house in northern Wisconsin. Hoping to reconnect with a former, healthier self, she instead faces a confused and dying grandmother, her controlling and possibly gold-digging nurse, and a changed ex-boyfriend--her first and most passionate love. As...
777) The Bass Rock
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The lives of three women weave together across centuries in the dazzling new book from the Granta Best of Young British Novelist, author of All the Birds, Singing. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has always borne witness to the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries, the fates of three women are inextricably linked to this place and to each other. Sarah, accused of being a witch, is fleeing for her...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"One of the greatest abilities God has given each of us is our ability to believe. When you believe, you ignite the promises of God and the surpassing greatness of His power is released. When you believe, supernatural doors will open, you’ll defeat giants, you’ll accomplish dreams much bigger than you thought. When you believe, no disappointment, no setback, no injustice, no illness, and no person can stop Him from taking you where He wants you...
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