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1) Commitment
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a family whose single mom, fighting mental illness, slowly becomes unable to raise her family, told from the perspective of each of the three children. As the novel opens, a mother drives her eldest son Walter from their home in Los Angeles to the University of California at Berkeley. It will be her last fully responsible act before breaking down completely and being committed to a mental hospital, leaving her children behind. Holding...
2) Commitment
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English
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Commitment is the story of a couple sent to unravel the mystery of a failing construction project. Patrick and Josefina, partners in life who first came together in Forgiven, are tasked with putting a project in Puerto Rico back on track at the behest of their boss and mentor, Sandeep. Along the way, the danger and corruption afflicting the project puts stress on both their professional lives and their marriage. Aided by the friends they cultivated...
3) Commitment
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English
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When I started this story, all was right with my world. Then in early January, something called COVID-19 came to become a bane to humankind. While I wrote each word, the cloud of COVID was all around. Residents in the retirement village were dying at a rapid pace. My wife and I were quarantined for most of 2020, eating meals in our small apartment with little or no contact with humanity.
I continued writing, and it became a way to escape the madness....
4) Commitment
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Korean
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The highly educated son of an ex-North Korean agent is tasked to kill North Korean spies hiding in Seoul to save his kidnapped younger sister.
8) Commitments
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English
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Available as an eBook for the first time, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky's classic novel, Commitments, about the ties that bind and the love that remains.
Sabrina Stone is struggling to be a good mother and to do what's best for her young, handicapped son. When she meets investigative reporter Derek McGill, who's doing a feature story about special-needs children, Sabrina is immediately struck by his tenderness toward Nicky...and...
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English
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Commitment to a Deceitful Liar is a look inside the life of the author, raised in a West Indian home with all its beliefs and myths. Simpson struggled with telling all for this book, but the truth is the story, and Simpson reveals all of hers: sexual abuse, being raised with a stepfather, domestic violence and various struggles within the Black community unravels. Her old self would have worried about what people thought, but her new self believes...
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English
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What's love got to do with it? Everything, according to Richard Isay's informed and illuminating look at the role of romance in modern gay life. I highly recommend this book for people of any generation and partnership status. -Dean H. Hamer, Ph.D., author of The Science of Desire and The God Gene "Richard Isay offers something far better than simple bromides and false hope. In this book, he challenges us with a provocative, illuminating, and ultimately...
13) The Commitment
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Filipino
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A gay couple's commitment to each other is challenged while attending a family wedding where they may or not be welcome.
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English
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The character and legend of Robert E. Lee make him one of the most beloved figures in American history, particularly in the South. This attractive gift book captures that character and legend for Southerners, Civil War buffs, and home school students "Do your duty in all things," Robert E. Lee told his youngest son. "You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less: Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War,...
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English
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As far as Marcus O'Connell is concerned, his situation is perfect. He's now living with the love of his life, Charlotte, and they're serving as guardians for Eva, a little girl he rescued whose mother is serving time in prison for a crime of which, in Marcus's mind, she was unfairly convicted.
But Charlotte isn't on board with Marcus's way of thinking. Because her divorce is now final, she wants-no, expects Marcus to want the same things she...
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Below are two of twelve words we will briefly discuss. All twelve are words that edify, educate, enable, encourage, energize, enlarge, enlighten, equip, and exhilarate. Remembering and reflection speak of thinking to recall from memory. This is a good process to help you learn from history for setting new goals. Remembering requires exercise to develop and maintain a satisfactory level of memory. In addition, it takes slowing down and sometimes even...
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English
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You are meant to feel joy every day-to be wildly happy, deeply purposeful, and fulfilled. So, why are so many of us so miserable? The unconscious emotional conditioning that most people have received in their lives keeps us stuck in negative patterns of anxiety, depression, addiction, and aimlessness. We've been taught to live in reaction, not in intention.
In reality, life is not as hard as it's been made out to be. When you live your life on purpose,...
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