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In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, Io, a descendant of the Greek Fates, must solve a series of impossible murders to save her sisters, her soulmate, and her city.
Descendants of the Fates are always born in threes: one to weave, one to draw, and one to cut the threads that connect people to the things they love and to life itself. The Ora sisters are no exception. Io, the youngest, uses her Fate-born abilities as a private...
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Lucy McLaren went back to her family name after she and her long-term partner split. The McLaren family history and their cottage in Somerset in England drew her inexorably to the past and gave it an importance that she was unable-or perhaps, unwilling- to explain. As her daughter Beth grew older and began to question the past, and Lucy's relationship floundered, she knew the only way to save her sanity, and justify her actions to her daughter, was...
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Tom can see ghosts-and that's the least of his gifts. Now he must harness his newfound magic to save Chapel Hollow. A drifter trying to hide his extraordinary powers-and find a place where he belongs-Tom Renfield has recently settled in the small Oregon town of Arcadia. But when Laura Bolte gets into his cab, he's plunged deep into a world of magic he didn't even know existed. The pair is thrown together by supernatural forces, and Tom learns that...
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Life is an adventure. Some things we can control, other experiences randomly happen. We can choose the environment, however, and the Deschutes River located in Central Oregon has had a significant impact on my life. Through poems, essays, and photographs with their captions, experiences will be shared in hopes that the reader can relate to shared feelings or vicariously enjoy a most refreshing immersion.
Not all life's happenings are pleasant or have...
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In the late 1700s brothers Stephen and John Jones, traveled from Virginia to a flat meadow just across a creek, today known as Dunns Creek; built a log cabin for their families. A band of renegade Cherokee attacked the cabin; massacred members of this family. From the front porch of the home Walker Williams built in 1903 for his bride, Ida, you can look across the creek and see their burial mounds. As you read do not miss the recipes; many of the...
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"Twenty years ago, eleven-year-olds Charlie Paige and Scott Ashby were murdered in the city of Bristol, their bodies dumped near a dog racing track. A man was convicted of the brutal crime, but decades later questions still linger. For as long as he can remember, filmmaker Cody Swift has been haunted by the deaths of his childhood best friends. The loose ends of the police investigation consume him so much that he decides to return to Bristol in search...
9) Grant
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Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. He is often caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't capture the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War...
10) Long past summer
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"It's hard to move on from a broken heart--and harder to move on from a broken friendship. Mikaela Marchand is living the polished life she always planned for: a successful New York lawyer, with a promotion in her sights and a devoted boyfriend by her side. She's come a long way from the meek teen she was growing up in small town Georgia, but the memory of her adolescence isn't far--in fact, it's splashed across a massive billboard in Times Square....
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"Sometimes change can hurt. This collection of short stories traces the growing pains of a new world, beginning with the death throes of our current way of life and ending with a world transformed by science and technology, and by grief, hope, love, and humanity's will to transform. This is a collection that will both tear you apart and tend to your wounds. Cade's stories are informed by science, tracing the biological and emotional threads that bind...
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"Secrets Behind a Successful Entrepreneur" is not just a book; it is a roadmap for aspiring entrepreneurs eager to unravel the mysteries that shroud entrepreneurial triumphs. "Secrets Behind a Successful Entrepreneur" takes you on an immersive exploration into the minds of accomplished entrepreneurs, unraveling the enigmatic threads that bind their triumphs.
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Delighted by the promise of living and working in a glittering Gilded Age mansion, Minerva Biggs moves to idyllic Bryd Hollow, North Carolina with her dog Plantagenet. She's looking for a new beginning; what she finds is five quite possibly deranged people, four French bulldogs, two distracting dimples attached to one inconvenient man … and one murder.Nope, make that two murders. When Minerva makes a connection between her new employer's fatal fall...
14) Threads of Fate
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Threads of Fate is a rich tapestry of narratives skillfully woven together to
showcase the resilience, compassion, and enduring threads that bind us across
the vast expanse of time. Each story serves as a unique window into the
human experience. Such an experience will leave us with a profound sense of
connection and a renewed appreciation for the unique bonds we share.
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This coming-of-age story gives the author's lighthearted viewpoint on growing up in the West Virginia countryside in the 1960's and 1970's. Readers will laugh along with the author as they discover that despite the situations in which we grow from children to adults, there are many common threads that bind us together. The author shares his rich experiences with an amusing cast of characters, which forged an indelible impression on his life's journey....
16) A single thread
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Moving from Fort Worth, Texas to New Bern, Connecticut to open a quilt shop begins a new life for Evelyn Dixon, bringing unexpected connections with a trio of women who come to the shop for quilting classes.
17) Dirt
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The poems in this collection celebrate dirt, and try to bring out the beauty within the muck and the soil of society. Sex and religion weave their way through the collection in a manner that grounds them. Relationships and language are brought low to reveal a power at the core of what makes us human. Many of the poems were written during and inspired by Billy's time travelling through India. Beauty and humor are the threads that bind these poems together....
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South American gold, smuggling, a love triangle, art collections, and high fashion are all parts of a murder or murders. Amid the backdrop of Jazz Age London, Scotland Yard Inspector Fitzhugh must weave through high society without tipping his hand about the suspects and causing a financial panic. Is the killer one of the elite or just a devious thug with a penchant for money and murder? Passion and profit are the threads that bind or unravel the...
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Those Tales Called Blue is a collection of short stories from South India. This collection by the well-acknowledged and young Indo-Anglian author, Anu Lal reveals the many sides of human existence through a set of enlightening storylines and the subtle philosophical threads that bind them. These deeply engaging tales combine fantasy with realism. The author cleverly utilizes the parable style to provoke effects in the reader.
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20) Heart string
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"Follow the thread of this reassuring story to see how, even in a world as vast as ours, there is always a bond that connects us to the ones we love-and to the world we share"--
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