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21) Slice
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A tale about a series of murders seemingly connected to one woman. Has her late psychopathic husband come back to haunt her?
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I missed one-step on the staircase, and landed into the 'Fall', the traumatic brain injury. There, there was a series of medical checkups, treatments, and therapies, covered with several physical and emotional ups-and-downs. It was a long journey for the 'Rise' that helped me in regaining most of my lost capabilities - 'most of', but not 'all'. 'The Fall and The Rise' is a spontaneous narration that attempts to inspire others who are sailing in the...
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Dead from my addiction, my life withered to nothing more than rotting fruit clinging to a vine. The devil himself was ready to pluck me for a feast of his liking. Yet by the right hand of God, I escaped the claws of my demons and found myself in search of something more. Inch by inch, I pushed through ten thousand miles and seasons that tested me from one extreme to another. Come join me on my journey as I learn of the Lord's amazing glory and grace...
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Vietnam Journal Tet '68 volume 4
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From Harvey nominated writer and artist Don Lomax and taken from the pages of his acclaimed Vietnam Journal series, comes the story of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a war journalist, Scott 'Journal' Neithammer, as he chronicles the lives and events of soldiers on the front line. This Issue: "Inch by Inch" 'Journal', along with most of the other press covering the war, realizes ultimately that although America...
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Listen and relive the exciting tales from Highlights, now on audio! Hear about a child who helps a butterfly return to where it belongs and the beauty of the summer sky, along with other poems.
Stories include: Animal Crackers by Heidi Bee Roemer, Barnyard Breakfast by Melanie Rook Welfing, Camping Out with Honey by Gale Sypher Jacob, Dancing the Blues Away by Eileen Spinelli, Fourth of July by Yuko Green, Garage Sale Duck by Jody Jensen Shaffer,...
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After he is exposed to a radioactive cloud, Scott Carey finds himself shrinking, slowly, day-by-day, inch-by-inch. Scott once had a normal, everyday existence as a husband and father, but as time passes, he becomes a national spectacle, something worthy of newspaper headlines. As Carey shrinks, smaller and smaller, his family become giants, more and more unreachable, and even the family cat becomes a predatory menace. In this world of disproportion,...
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(Excerpt) The history of those bloody and disastrous wars which have caused the downfall of mighty empires (observes Fray Antonio Agapida) has ever been considered a study highly delectable and full of precious edification. What, then, must be the history of a pious crusade waged by the most Catholic of sovereigns to rescue from the power of the infidels one of the most beautiful but benighted regions of the globe? Listen, then, while from the solitude...
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This end-times prophetic book takes Believers in Christ slowly, inch by inch, ever closer to the revelation of God's End-Times Glorious Church spoken of by the Apostle Paul. However, it is not a theological dissertation, nor is it written using the lofty language of academia. Instead, it is written so anyone can understand it. In addition to the Glorious Church, other subjects addressed in the vision include: The Antichrist, the False Prophet, the...
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He wants her more than life, but can she trust him with her biggest secret?Kann is a lion shifter from another world. Literally. Even though he's learned how to walk, talk, dress and sound just like everyone else in Mystery, Alaska, he still can't find his mate. Until she walks right into the local grocery store. Her blue eyes and killer legs make his lion stand up and roar. Well, that and her soul is glowing just for him. That only happens……with...
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Charming and arrogant, elite Ashana, Calian, has one purpose: serve his prince. He has never considered breaking his oath...until her. Clover Celestia. The High Princess with a stubborn streak and a spark that incinerates his oath to ash. She's nothing he expected and everything he needed. Inch by inch, she slowly incinerates his defenses until he faces the truth-that all he wants is to mark his princess. Because she's his. His goddess. His Fated....
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Anne Perry started out as a good writer, but has won greatness inch by inch by reading other authors, listening to editors and agents, and adapting techniques from other creators. Now you, too, can have a lesson from an author who The New York Times has called 'First Rate,' and who's included in the 100 Masters of the crime genre; who's sold 25 million copies worldwide to continuing critical acclaim. In this instructional video, Anne references...
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Quest For The Sea volume 4
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Re-settlement It is late August. The fish are far out at sea and the weather is worsening. In Hay Cove, a cloud of tension hangs over the families. As the community recovers from a terrible fight, the men take to the seas in a desperate attempt to catch enough fish to pay the debt. But it is not the bill collector who disrupts life at Hay Cove; it is the resettlement program. The Wheelers must move out of their home and they have no choice but to...
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"I have loved and lost many times in my life," writes author M. Lucia Frangiosa. After the pain of a heart-wrenching divorce and the devastating loss of her second husband inch-by-inch to a horrible death, Frangiosa found that after going through the grief, "when you feel you cannot breathe, eat, sleep, or live without him, when you feel the flames of life within you have gone out" there are still embers glowing within, a flicker of life fueling the...
35) The Happy Family
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The boisterous and bow-legged Happy Family of Montana rides high in this sequel to Chip of the Flying U. Originally published in 1910, The Happy Family is, like Chip, cinematic in its fast action, unusual in its emphasis on human relationships, unique in its warmth and humor. Here are the cowpokes who endeared themselves to generations of readers-Andy, Weary, Irish, Pink, Happy Jack, Big Medicine, and the rest. They were so popular that their creator...
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Learning how to fly stole my childhood, and accomplishing my dreams took my parents.
After my parents' death, taking care of my little brother and running my dance studio are the only things I've got time for in my hectic life. Until Declan Sinclair. As the number one draft pick for the Philadelphia Kings, he's not afraid of putting in a little hard work to get what he wants. And he wants me. I don't know if my heart can survive falling in love.
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Amy Reilly grew up in the rural town of Haven in the Oil Region of Western Pennsylvania, a once-prosperous land where oil barons built magnificent mansions and grand boomtowns. Now the boomtowns are ghost towns, the money is gone, and nature is reclaiming the land inch by inch.
As soon as she was old enough, Amy left the town behind and started a new life in Pittsburgh, where everything was more exciting and she could forge a new identity. In...
38) The Social Magus
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Everyone knows UK general elections aren't what they used to be. British politics, Westminster in particular, is mired in an integrity crisis. Expenses scandals, cash for questions, a tainted honours system and other wrong-turns have created a deeply disillusioned electorate.
Enter Real Alternative, a bold new party with a youthful, charismatic leader and a radical manifesto. True, it stands to win very few seats, but what really matters is that...
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Behind These Walls offers a compilation of powerful poetry that examines life's trials and tribulations, focusing on the realities of life that many of us choose to ignore. Based upon personal experiences of poet Corinea Andrews as well as stories shared in passing from friends or acquaintances, these verses are filled with raw emotion and offers insight into the struggles of everyday life that will not soon be forgotten. Andrews presents beautifully...
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The Wolf Strikes Back In the simple town of Vadovara, a peaceful heaven of Gujarat State of India, a farmer's family lives. Like every other family, Ratan lives with his wife Ramila and his small daughter in a dignified way. Though he earns a meagre wage, he is content to live a simple life, often helping his community at large. The rich landlord of the community, Chainrai Mody, boasts of his "higher connections" and cajoles the lower working people...