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Bittersweet in the hollow volume 1
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2023]
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When a girl goes missing in her secluded Appalachian town, seventeen-year-old Linden, who can taste other people's emotions, recovers haunting memories of her own disappearance and explores the legend of the Moth-Winged Man, leading her to wonder if there are some secrets best left buried.
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*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*
Although widely criticised and hugely wasteful, The Common Agricultural Policy did at least afford British farmers a degree of support. Post-Brexit, that support will vanish - to be replaced with a woefully misconceived agricultural export drive that cannot possibly deliver.
Bittersweet Brexit suggests a solution: paying workers decent wages in the agricultural sector could...
3) Bitter/Sweet
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Brian, an American businessman, is sent to Thailand in search of local coffee plantations to purchase, but he ends up finding more than just coffee, and that the original purpose of the trip might not even be about coffee after all.
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After adopting her son from a Chinese orphanage, Chris Prange-Morgan and her husband soon realized that the picture-perfect family life they had envisioned was not to be. Abandoned, severely neglected, and malnourished, their son had suffered profound trauma in his earliest years that no amount of love or affection could remedy. His deep emotional wounds manifested as challenging behaviors that strained family relationships and thwarted well-intentioned...
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DISCLAIMERThis book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.ummary of Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club) By Susan Cain: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET:Chapter astute outline of the main contents.Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis.Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original bookSusan Cain's new book...
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This short story is based on characters of the upcoming novel, Marianna of the Sea. A comparison of two couples is presented within this bittersweet tale. Relive a time when life was simpler, traffic was slower, and the Beach Boys music was the rave. Hawaiian floral bathing suits and skirts, floppy straw hats, and sunglasses were the fashion here, and everywhere on the coast of Southern California in the mid-1970's. Marianna had wanted a final,...
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In Failure, Philip Schultz evokes the pleasures of family, marriage, beaches, and dogs; New York City in the 1970s; revolutions both interior and exterior; and the terrors of 9/11 with a compassion that demonstrates he is a master of the bittersweet and fierce, the wondrous and direct, and the brilliantly provocative.
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This uplifting memoir follows a high school girl's journey through adolescence. Complicated situations with her friends, experiences with her family during the pandemic, and bittersweet memories with her volleyball coach led to unbelievable transformations in her life. She hopes to inspire other teenagers to find hope in their struggles and become open-minded individuals.
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Mayson and Renée are best friends. Two women who've known each other for a lifetime and are as different as they are close. Mayson is a free-spirited and out lesbian, and very much desired in her Southern California queer community. Renée, straight and sheltered, is just getting out of a difficult divorce and searching for an escape from her pain.While Mayson slips in and out of affairs, taking pleasure where it bites the sweetest, Renée steps...
10) Easy on the Pies
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Recipe for a Disastrous Holiday:Take one mid-aged baker,Stir in a misaddressed message,Pour a Thanksgiving snowstorm into the mix,Add the return of an ex-beau,Blend in a mystery dinner guest,Season with a dash of murder.Serve cold. From the author of 5 Days 'til Christmas comes a new cozy mystery and a whole new cast of characters.Once upon a time, Henrietta Sweet, AKA "Mother Hen" AKA "Henny" was a celebrity baker, but that was years ago. These days,...
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Every woman has secrets. But Sage never thought the lover she'd shared her life with for years had one big enough to blow their entire world apart.With one shocking revelation, the life she'd taken for granted with Phil-decadent threesomes under the Miami moonlight, lazy afternoons in the home they'd shared for years, and the complete surrender to her deepest desires-is shattered. Left adrift, Sage begins to rebuild her life one piece at a time. ...
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Two young boys. Tiny cold town. Such close friends. One moves away. The pair drift apart. Seventeen years later, Jesse finds Matthew online, and when the two reunite, so much has changed, yet so much feels familiar. Maybe it's finally their time. From critically-acclaimed writer, Neptune Henriksen, comes a love story about second chances, bittersweet memories, and the life-saving power of coming home. Part 3 of the Queer Summer Trilogy.
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Heartbeats in Ink, is a delightful anthology of poetry covering love, loss, and hope.This collection of heartfelt verses is a rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of love and life, capturing the experience in each poem. From giddy infatuation to bittersweet goodbyes, these poems are sure to tug at your heartstrings. With each page, you'll be transported into a world where love reigns supreme and poetry is the language of the heart.
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A New York lady architect associated with an international fashion company meets a younger man on a plane flying from Buenos Aires. Both are marked by the encounter but the immediate circumstances separate their paths until their memories induce them to date and meet in Gramercy Park. A succession of episodes in New York, Venice and Paris help consolidating their bond. A bittersweet romance that takes place in elegant and sophisticated places. You...
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"From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness. When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club's parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend...
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You are invited to immerse yourself in The Silent Sound of Stubborn Colors: Dreaming... with my back against the wall, the latest poetry collection by JR Hataway. With each turn of the page you'll be met with raw honesty as the author seeks solace and connection through the power of words. Prepare to have an indelible mark left on your heart, as Hataway crafts images of melancholy and distant love with some wonder and awe thrown in. Experience the...
17) Hestor's Way
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Love is the last thing on gifted artist, Beth Hadley's mind as she prepares for a one-woman show while enjoying a bittersweet summer before her son, Kit leaves for college. Then, out of the blue, an unexpected, secret love blossoms with Jack Talbot, Kit's best friend, and they begin a passionate affair that could destroy her world, tear her family apart, and shatter the peace of her close knit community. As Beth struggles with guilt and remorse over...
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Alfred David and Mary Elizabeth Meek have compiled a collection of fairy tales that ranges from the Grimm brothers' inimitable recreations of archetypal folktales to the modern prose charm of James Thurber's Many Moons. The appeal of the stories is wide and varied: the refined intelligence of Perrault, the wondrous imagination of Andersen, the descriptive power of Ruskin, the bittersweet melancholy of Wilde. These are but a few of the artists represented...
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Staying Whole While Falling Apart celebrates troubled all-rounder, Aaron Auslander, as he strives to find meaning and shape his identity in the midst of too many influences. Love and parenthood complicate matters, and Aaron has to find creative ways to rally and stay whole.
Gering artfully combines surreally black humour, arresting imagery, and tenderness to take the reader on a grand tour of the human landscape. The narrative roves from apartheid...
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Tickets to the Fall of Icarus charts the flight of two flamboyant characters, Icarus and Audrey, as they navigate their way through the maelstrom of modern life amidst natural disasters, pandemics, online dating and even a little self-sabotage.
In artfully executed narrative poetry, Gering deploys his inimitable style and humour to bring characters into dynamic life on the page. Few readers won't see glimmers or shards of themselves in Audrey and...
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