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Publisher Annotation: In this dazzling debut novel, Shirlene Obuobi explores that time in your life when you must decide what you want, how to get it, & who you are, all while navigating love, friendship, and the realization that the path you're traveling is going to be a bumpy ride. DEBUT NOVEL 352pp., 100K
3) The promise
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For the last five months, Tom Anderson has been without a job, a fact he's been hiding his wife Jean and everyone else. He leaves each morning pretending nothing has changed and spends his day rotating through two coffee shops and the library, using their wi-fi to search for a job on the internet. The stress of Tom's secret is putting serious strain on his marriage and it looks like the legacy that began with his father is still at work, slowly destroying...
4) Ward D
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Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff...
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"Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships-Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among them-Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice to characters who reveal how we live now-at...
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2019]
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"A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future-with clear parallels to today's headlines-in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled upon a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hidden A world half in darkness. A secret she must bring to light. It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar catastrophe began to slow...
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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The cycle of seasons on Earth is as interesting as it is important to the way we all live. From the cold of winter to warm summer days, it s essential to understand just what s happening and why we always have the same weather at the same time of the year. Readers will learn what the sun s rays are doing to different parts of Earth at different times as well as the importance of Earth s axis, or tilt. With great photographs, diagrams, and detailed...
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Mia knows her family is very different than her best friend's. In the 1980s, the coastal fishing town of Prince Rupert is booming. There is plenty of sockeye salmon in the nearby ocean, which means the fishermen are happy and there is plenty of work at the cannery. Eleven-year-old Mia and her best friend, Lara, have known each other since kindergarten. Like most tweens, they like to hang out and compare notes on their crushes and dream about their...
10) Grow vegetables
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DK Pub
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[2008]
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From the Publisher: Home-grown vegetables are fresh, healthy, and inexpensive. Here is the manual for growing your own, whether on your balcony, in your apartment, or in a garden, large or small. Even if you have only a few hours a week, Grow Vegetables teaches you the tools and methods you need to produce your own vegetables.
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"From stand-up comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish comes The Last Black Unicorn, a hilarious, edgy, and heart-wrenching collection of autobiographical essays that will leave you laughing through tears. Tiffany Haddish grew up in one of the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles. Her mother wound up with a debilitating brain injury after surviving a car accident. Tiffany never fit in anywhere: not in the households she rotated through in the...
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"'When l was in pharmacy school, l discovered that food has a profound impact on our healing and that what we put in our bodies will either heal us or make us sicker. In the same way that we use pharmaceuticals to impact our biology, we can use food as our medicine. l call this concept food pharmacology. Food is one of the most powerful tools in your healing journey.' More than 35 million Americans currently suffer from Hashimoto's--the country's...
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"Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away--no climate change, no war, no Twitter--beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren't so sure it's a good idea. Space technologies and space business are progressing...
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Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 18
[Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes volume 18
Mary Russell novel volume 18
[Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes volume 18
Mary Russell novel volume 18
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"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after...
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