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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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That night the darkness swallowed the landscape outside of the windows. Nothing was visible from the comfort of indoors. A cold wind blew as Gilbert herded his horses into the security of the sturdy barn. He held his arms close to his sides, shivering as he quickly paced back to the front door of his home. He slid the lock across, bolting it shut from the inside. His boots slipped off his tired feet with ease, collapsing in a leathery heap on the...
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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...
4) 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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In time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith's Moondust, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of the surviving men.
The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest of all journeys...
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Jim Harrison has garnered critical acclaim for masterpieces such as Legends of the Fall, The Beast God Forgot to Invent, and, most recently, Returning to Earth. Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren't irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake...
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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,...
10) Failure: Poems
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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.
11) Swan Song
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A retired hairdresser Pat, escapes his small-town nursing home after learning of his former client's dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Pat embarks on a comical and bittersweet odyssey across town to confront the ghosts of his past.
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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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"Novelist Seymour Blicker and Molson's Ale have been two of Canada's best-kept secrets." - Providence Sunday Journal
"The real hero of this unusually funny, and always scatalogical novel is the author..." - Hartford Courant
"Beyond the pungent humor and satire is a bittersweet moral." - Library Journal
"Peopled with some of the fastest-talking con artists this side of Barnum and Bailey's - Booklist
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Between 1993 and 1995 John Hartley and his alter ego Johny Nocash led the Irony Board(s) on a journey with an intended destination of fame and fortune. The paths of life do not always lead in the desired direction, however. Described at the time by renowned music journalist Martin Aston as "bittersweet, naive, hook-lined, captivating, unpretentious, clever - but not clever-clever - and deserving of more widespread attention", the Irony Board's tales...
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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...
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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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Continuing his acclaimed series of meditations on life and death, David Horowitz turns to the consolation that his marriage and family have brought him amid the trials of age and illness. You're Going to Be Dead One Day is a political warrior's reflection on the mysterious rejuvenating power of love, the bittersweet way in which our children reward us while also leaving us behind, and how kindnesses to others bring blessings home.
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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. ...
19) 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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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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