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According to a study by Christopher Udry, this form of informal insurance has both advantages and disadvantages. Over a year in rural Nigeria, Udry asked people to record every gift or informal loan they gave to each other and the conditions under which those loans were reciprocated. Every month, he also asked if anything unfortunate had happened to the villagers. The observed result is that at any given time, a normal family is in debt or loans to...
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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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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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From the author who brought you Dear Thing, Julie Cohen, comes After the Fall--a poignant, beautifully heartbreaking novel about what it means to be family, the ties that bind us, and the secrets that threaten to tear us apart.
When an unfortunate accident forces Honor back into the lives of her widowed daughter-in-law, Jo, and her only granddaughter, Lydia, she cannot wait to be well enough to get back to her own home. However, the longer she stays...
65) Life before
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Xander hopes to get through what he hopes is a great summer, and then start college with a clean slate; however, his graduation day from high school brings terror, and he runs away.
66) Select
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Julia Jaynes of Austin, Texas, is one of the Select, a secret group of humans with abilities bordering on the supernatural, but, unlike her younger sister, she has never been entirely comfortable as part of the "perfect" family--and when she falls for a normal human guy and draws attention to her more-than-normal family she finds herself banished to that most ordinary of institutions: public high school.
67) Cora's Kismet
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After enduring years of abuse by their guardians, Cora and Viola Daniels were already planning their escape when everything they thought, they knew about themselves and the world around them shattered.
Cora is shocked to find out that everything they thought they knew about themselves is wrong, and that they've had loving parents all along-as well as powers beyond her comprehension. Facing finding a mate, a ceremony to unbind her previously unknown...
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"Pure Heart Guide" is a captivating story filled with wisdom. This saga starts in the Beaver Mountains of Utah. It embraces some youngsters' journey as they are trapped in a world of ancient paths, one of mystery, paranormal, and science fiction. There is wisdom to be learned, choices to be made, and consequences for those choices. With every path taken a new world opens up that has long lasting effects on all.
A normal family goes on their annual...
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Santiago Amigorena weaves together memory, history, and imagination to tell the story of his Jewish grandfather, a Polish immigrant in Argentina, and the guilt he experiences when he is unable to help his family leave the Warsaw ghetto in this powerful novel about identity, loss, and the unshakable power of love-a critical sensation in France that marks his American debut.
In Buenos Aires, the afternoon of September 13, 1940, was rainy and the war...
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In three stunning intertwining novellas, Ellen Gilchrist explores the tumultuous nature of family and the ties that bond even beyond death.
Journeying through the lives of different members of the Hand family, Gilchrist masterfully weaves together the tumultuous relationships that are bound by blood. A harrowing custody battle leads Anna Hand to Istanbul and back to ensure once and for all that, her niece is safe from her conniving mother's ploys.
Jessie,...
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Family secrets can be the deadliest… Three women discover that the people who are trying to protect them are in fact fueling the fire for those who want to make them pay for their family's history. Family is everything… until they're not. Deadly Ties - They tried to bury an environmental disaster… along with those who got in the way. Kyara is out to save her family at all costs. "Nothing tastes as good as revenge!... a fast-paced and suspense...
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"The son did as he was told. All his bloody life, he has done as he has been told. Time to change that, he thinks, grabbing a pen. He doesn't write that this will be the last time his father stays here. He doesn't write that he wants to break the father clause. Instead, he writes: Welcome, Dad. Hope you had a good flight."
A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby...
73) Toxic Attention
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They seem like a normal family with normal issues but someone is trying to destroy that. Again. Nia is there to save her niece. But she's not clear from what. As she delves deeper into the mystery, some shocking truths about her own family come to light. Is her brother telling her the truth or is he hiding his own dark secret? Her niece has been ill for years but is it really a medical mystery? Or something deliberate? With her brother now suffering...
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Her dad wasn't supposed to die.
He wasn't supposed to have a second family, and her mom wasn't supposed to slip into a prescription drug haze.
And she definitely wasn't supposed to kiss her new "half-brother." Ivy Lynwood has spent her life under the oppressive thumb of her abusive father. When the impossible happens, and he's found dead in a boat fire, Ivy thinks her life may finally be turning around. But her newfound freedom is short-lived; just...
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The Restart and the Remedy (Aces High MC - Dakotas - Book 3) MYRAI was born lucky.I was born into a family of bikers that were closer than most normal families. My parents' best friends had a boy two years before I was born. He became my best friend, my lover, and what I thought was my soul mate.Then I found out I wasn't lucky.My entire family had been in on his lies.They backed him.They broke me. Once I escaped that life, I found myself in the center...
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Sang Sorenson's father abandoned her and her sister, leaving them to fend for themselves for months. He's returned, and finds Sang is missing. He demands she return. Right now.
Will he call the police if she doesn't?
Her Academy team doesn't want to risk losing her ghost status and she doesn't want to put them in danger, so she reluctantly returns home, but is comforted that she will still be monitored by them.
But the second she opens the door,...
77) Scarlett Reaper
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Travelling across time and space, Scarlett and the other Reapers deal with the worst of the worst. Called to find those Obscure who manage to evade hell's death waif's, Scarlett is normally more than happy to rid the world of these abhorrent humans who stain the earth.When she's tasked to reap Zachary Graham though, things just don't make sense. The attractive veterinarian from London, seems like a normal family man and not at all like her normal...
78) Family Reins: The Heartbreaking Fall of an American Dynasty-and the Discovery of What Really Matters
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The story of the iconic Anheuser-Busch dynasty, written, for the first time, by a Busch heir.
As an heir to the Anheuser-Busch company and fortune, Billy Busch was raised on the real stories of how his family built one of America's oldest and most iconic brands. Since the company was formed almost 150 years ago, the Busch family, their beer, the famous Clydesdales in their advertising, and even their style of business have become a symbol of the American...
79) Angel in Waiting
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Is your family "normal"? The answer to that probably depends on who's asking and who else is within ear shot when the question is asked. As a parent of four children, I know my answer has often been "not a chance," especially when one of the kids has done something without thinking, at least from my perspective. But in reality, I have to admit my family is pretty typical. Do you believe in miracles or in a "higher power"? We all tend to have very...
80) Witch on Ice
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I'm a witch in love with a frog. And you thought you had problems? Hi, my name is Sammara Eve Hain, and I don't admit that to just anyone. Especially the witch part. If it were up to me, I would've been born into a nice, normal family. One that went camping on weekends and played board games and watched television. Not one that spent their Saturday nights cackling around a cauldron and turning people into frogs. Okay, that's an exaggeration. They...
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