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Jessica Belle Campana aka Reina Cannon returns to Raleigh, North Carolina with revenge in mind. She feels robbed of her rightful place in the Deveraux family, and is outraged when she discovers that not only does she have a twin sister, but that Chrissy has been welcomed into the close-knit family.Refusing to lose out again, she concocts a plan to eliminate all who stand in her way to the one thing she desires most-family. Chrissy Barton adjusts to...
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A collection of four favourites from the Wacky Families series. There’s no such thing as a normal family! But some are wackier than others... Cecil's Mum wears long black boots and carries a sword; Gunk's dog Spot loves lettuce and seems to be growing awfully big, awfully fast; Horace's Dad has silver wings and a green and orange tail; and tom's family circle includes a Senior Bogeyman, a tooth Fairy's assistant and a large and hairy best friend...
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"Fighting for Their Lives" is a fictional story about a couple. Upon learning they were told they can't have children, they prayed for a miracle. Though their prayers were answered, tragedy struck when Caroline began hemorrhaging during her seventh month of pregnancy, resulting in premature labor. The moment Kristen was born she has to fight for her life. Months later, Kristen started thriving. Her parents gave thanks for their wonderful miracle....
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IN THE EARLY SUMMER of 1933, an 18-year-old naive Kentucky farm boy, Michael Boone, becomes a driver for a traveling religious revival troupe. As the summer unfolds and the itinerant group moves from town to town, he learns that things are not what they seem; primarily that the goal of the enterprise is making money, not saving souls and that hardly anyone in the group fits into a neat and normal family narrative. Michael, in turns, is exposed to...
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The Diary of an Extraordinarily Ordinary Woman and Her Rather Eccentric Sister is the story of two sisters' parallel but divergent lives. Growing up in a seemingly normal family, tragedy and brutality strike them as young adults. Through the blurred vision of grief and unrelenting heartbreak, Leslie comes to grips with how dysfunctional her family really is and embraces the opportunity for change. She takes responsibility for her mother, sister, and...
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Come take a stroll down the memory lane of medical history. Reflections on Pediatric Medicine from 1943 to 2010 recounts the struggles of a dedicated pediatrician as he attempts to strike a balance between a normal family life and the demands of the rapidly evolving world of modern medicine. Through vividly drawn stories compiled from a career that spans more than half a century, author Byron Oberst takes readers on an amazing journey from the early...
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Offers a more democratic way to think about families, politics, and public life.
Public policy often assumes there is one correct way to be a family. Rethinking Sexual Citizenship argues that policies that enforce this idea hurt all of us and harm our democracy. Jyl J. Josephson uses the concept of "sexual citizenship" (a criticism of the assumption that all families have a heterosexual at their center) to show how government policies are made to...
48) Goodbye Tsugumi
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Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and occasionally cruel. Now Maria's father is finally able to bring Maria...
49) Vampire Crush
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I swear, my life was always totally normal. Normal house, normal family, normal school. My looks are average, I don't have any superpowers, no one's showing up to tell me I'm a princess-you get the picture. But when my junior year started, something not normal happened. There were new kids at school... new kids with a wardrobe straight out of a 19th-century romance novel, and an inexplicable desire to stay at school until sundown. And on top of that,...
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In this original text, prolific mathematics author Steven G. Krantz addresses conformal geometry, a subject that has occupied him for four decades and for which he helped to develop some of the modern theory. This book takes readers with a basic grounding in complex variable theory to the forefront of some of the current approaches to the topic. "Along the way," the author notes in his Preface, "the reader will be exposed to some beautiful function...
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Annabel Turner sneaks out of her bedroom window at night and walks the streets of her quiet suburban town, while dreaming of a different life. She peers through people's windows, eager for a glimpse of what normal family life looks like.
She just wants to stay out of the way of her alcoholic father until she can get away and pursue her dreams. Unlike her friends, Annabel has little interest in marriage or having children. She desires an education...
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Harley Lowell had a normal family until her father unexpectedly abandons her and her mother. With a crushed heart, she moves on with her life and focuses all of her attention on her college education.
A year later, her life is turned upside down when her missing father shows up without explanation and forces her into the protective arms of three sexy, mysterious, and incredibly infuriating men. Unable to leave, Harley tries her best to avoid the...
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Were Doing What for Summer Vacation? is a nonfiction story told by Ali, a typical nine-year-old American girl who spent the summer traveling on a budget across Borneo with her older brother and parents. Ali just wanted to be a normal kid with a normal family spending summer vacation at the beach in Florida. Unfortunately, she has former hippie parents that wanted a big summer adventure. This was not her idea of summer fun! On her adventure, she lived...
54) Go Home Lake
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In the late 1960s Penny is the youngest of four kids, known on her street as the girl with the mean brothers. She spends all year looking forward to her summers spent at Go Home Lake, where she passes the days in a soaked bathing suit, catching frogs, and getting her daily fill of fresh air.
Yet Penny's summers are far from pleasant. Her father's weekend visits to the cottage are sporadic, and her brothers prey on her innocence in every way, while...
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If Will Fletcher's severe bipolar disorder isn't proof he shouldn't be a parent, his infant daughter's grave is. Once a happily married, successful veterinarian, he now lives with his sister and thrives as the small-town crazy of Half Moon Hollow. But when a fifteen-year-old orphan claims she's his daughter, Will is forced back into the role he fears most: fatherhood.
Her biological dad isn't the hero Regan Whitmer hoped for, but he's better than...
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Enchanted rock volume 2
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Sissie Klein can barely remember the night that tore her from life, as she knew it. At the bedside of her premature daughter, she makes a deal with God to create a normal family out of her muddled life. With good intentions and a youthful optimism, Sissie moves heaven and earth so baby Meg will enjoy a better future than the one she sees stretching out before her...but some fates are unavoidable.
As Meg comes into her own, tragedy strikes, taking...
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As daunting as God's plan can be for our lives, it is important that we step out into the unknown, into the uncharted waters, when God calls our name. That is exactly what happened in the life of the Dawson family. Leaving the confines of a 'normal' family existence when the call of God came knocking, the door was opened and they served 25-years of bringing hope, help and healing to the nations.
With Galatians 6:9'Let us not become weary in doing...
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Adventures Await When You Overcome Fear This is the story of a normal family of five living a very unusual life. The Medearis family has faced Middle Eastern prisons, death threats, being kicked out of a country two times, and war. It hasn't always been easy, but in the midst of it all, the invitation of Jesus to follow and not be afraid has won the day. But this is more than just their story. It's also a guide to help you step out in bold faith....
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Can any good transpire when Romani magic collides with Voodoo Magic? For Grandmother Zenobia, the answer is unclear.The year is 1890 in Carrefour Parish, Louisiana. A Voodoo high priestess with a mysterious past, Grandmother Zenobia conceals her magical powers from her grandson Will. She wants him to have a "normal" family life, including savory Southern dinners and festive church gatherings. When Will reveals that he's in love with a girl named...
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Graceland "Grace" Braun is a self-reliant, dedicated high school counselor. She spent her youth moving around as her mother, Maybelle, a Dolly Parton-wannabe and Elvis groupie, worked her way through several marriages while desperately searching for her "one true love." Their relationship was more like sisters than mother/daughter, with Grace becoming the practical one who worried about paying for food and rent. When her mother abandoned Grace at...
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