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"Shoestring loved the sudden intake of breath when he stepped onto the rope. The upturned faces of the audience made him think of coins scattered at his feet, more coins than he had ever taken when he was a pickpocket."
Twelve-year-old Shoestring is leaving behind his life of crime and starting a new career with the Troupe of Marvels. Their lead performer, he has an invisible tightrope and an act to die for. But trouble is brewing-the magical...
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Most every person who stutters will experience a turning point-a moment in time when they come to accept their stuttering and embark on living a life without compromise. Before reaching their turning point, each person who stutters must fight past feelings of shame, despair, and loneliness. These dispirited feelings affect more than just the person who stutters: family, friends, teachers, speech-language pathologists, and others are also affected....
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Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the strategic struggles of the 21st century, critical questions arise about its motivations. What are the driving forces that influence how Japan will act in the international system? Are there recurrent patterns that will...
44) One Station Away
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From the critically acclaimed Olaf Olafsson, an intimate yet sweeping story of a New York neurologist and the three women who change his life
An overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose untimely death her fiancé is desperate to untangle. A mysterious patient who is comatose after a violent accident. These are the three women who animate Olaf Olafsson's brilliantly rendered One...
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My Blue Peninsula is a confession that fills seven notebooks, with a final notebook left mostly empty. In them, Dora Giraud tries to explain to her adult daughters why she remains in Istanbul after escaping death at the hands of extremists, and why she risks her life to campaign for the truth about the Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian genocides, ferociously denied for a century by the Turkish state.
Dora's desperate need to understand her family...
46) Endless chain
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Shenandoah Album novels volume 2
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With the warmth and comfort of a handmade quilt, Endless Chain explores the intricate patterns of family and community, and the threads that bind them together
Sam Kinkade is finally feeling at home as a minister in rural Toms Brook, Virginia, content with his life and Shenandoah Valley congregation. But his plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community are being met with resistance. Fortunately, when the church-run community center is...
47) Fallen Queen
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It's time for me to reclaim my memories... and my throne.
My twin brother, Faer, wants to see me either dead or married to the sea prince and dragged into the deep. He doesn't care which, as long I lose my claim on our throne. But I can't abandon our people to his cruelty.
At least I have three of the best knights in the four Fae kingdoms on my side: Azrael, the charming prince who hates to love me. Duncan, the grouchy warrior who loves to hate...
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Are you struggling with your faith? Looking to strengthen your faith?
Bet on the Turtle: My Long Slow Journey of Faith is a unique, thought-provoking and inspirational book, which will be enjoyed by anyone who is struggling with or looking to strengthen their faith. The author shares fond and humorous memories of an idyllic childhood along with Christian school and church experiences. Sadly, his family's faith was shattered as the result of tragedy....
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In the scenic town of Wantugu, secrets are Interlaced into every thread of life, and the greatest mystery of all belongs to Eliza Caldwell, the mysterious dressmaker. Behind the charming facade of her shop, "Stitch and Secrets," Eliza guards a hidden truth that has defined her existence. The town's curiosity, fueled by a relentless journalist and an unexpected romance, threatens to expose the secrets she has kept for years. As tensions rise and loyalties...
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In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as "a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction." The phrase "fine meshwork" can apply not only to O'Brien's writing but also to the connective threads that bind her work to others', including, most illuminatingly, Roth's.
Since the publication...
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Lady Chatterleys Lover, by D. H. Lawrence, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
52) On mystic lake
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Annie Colwater's only child has just left home for school abroad. On that same day, her husband of twenty years confesses that he's in love with a younger woman. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie comes to the painful realization that for years she has been slowly disappearing. Lonely and afraid, she retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up, hoping that there she can reclaim the woman she once was--the woman...
53) Calling Cobber
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Eleven-year-old Jacob 'Cobber' Stern has the world on his shoulders. He is still grieving for his mother six years after her death; frustrated by his distant workaholic father; abandoned by his best friend Boolkie, who now has to study for his bar mitzvah; and overwhelmed by his sense of responsibility for his ailing almost one-hundred-year-old great-grandfather, Papa-Ben. On top of that, Boolkie is pressuring him to perform his magic act at the school...
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A Stirring Memoir on Parenthood and the Invisible Threads that Bind Us to Those We Are Meant to Love The obstacles, surprises, and moments of grace that Jennifer Grant experienced, working through the adoption process to bring home her daughter from Guatemala, forever changed her life. Love You More tells Grant's deeply personal story of adopting her daughter, Mia. The process confronted her notions about what family means, pushed her into uncomfortable...
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The spider doesn't know, till the wind begins to blow. What fate will, ever, have in store for it? To build among the trees could tempt the gentle breeze To test the strength of gossamer and wit. And as the web breaks down, and it tumbles to the ground, It is taken as a lesson learnt it life. Challenges are memories, with pride, the spider clings to these, For these are blessings hidden in the strife. The silken thread that binds it to foundations...
56) Silver Screen Legends: The Inside Story of 10 Iconic NFL Movies That Changed Football and Cinema
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Dive into the heart-pounding world where football and cinema collide in "Silver Screen Legends: The Inside Story of 10 Iconic NFL Movies That Changed Football and Cinema." Unearth the untold tales behind the gridiron's most iconic moments as we journey through the thrilling narratives of films that have left an indelible mark on both the sport and the silver screen. From the rebellious spirit of "The Longest Yard" to the heart-wrenching friendship...
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How do you begin your day? All of us have our daily rituals, which have a way of influencing the rest of our day. In her book, The Daily Grind: GOD With Your Coffee, author Susan Ward Diamond shares stories and reflections gleaned from years of praying and meditating early each morning over a cup of coffee. Begun as a personal spiritual discipline, Diamond began sharing her Thoughts for the Day with her congregation by email. Before long, her meditations...
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Embark on a compelling journey into the heart of governance with 'Voices of Democracy: Unveiling the Tapestry of Governance.' This illuminating exploration intricately weaves together the threads of democratic principles, political participation, and civic engagement. From the grassroots to the corridors of power, this book unveils the complexities of democratic values, shedding light on the vital role of citizens in shaping the political landscape.'Voices...
59) Gray Police
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Discover the secrets of the Gray, where mind-reading rebels clash with a genetically resistant space enforcer in a battle spanning galaxies… In the mesmerizing debut of the "Thousand Eye Universe" series, prepare to be transported to the enigmatic realm where the Gray, a delicate balance between Light and Dark, holds the key to maintaining reality. Madrigan is a man whose life has been a twisted labyrinth of experimentation, gifted with the uncanny...
60) Chasing the Smokies Moon: An Audacious 948 Mile Hike - Fueled by Love, Loss, Laughter, and Lunacy
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Before she went missing, Susan Clements was hiking with her daughter on one of the most popular trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, less than a mile from Clingmans Dome. When Nancy East's search and rescue team joined the effort to find her, she learned Susan was a mother to three children who adored her. What Nancy didn't know then was how much the search for Susan would impact and influence her own life's path afterward. Two years later,...
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