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"The Feeling" is a unique work of non-fiction representing the exposure of a secretive narrative that has been waiting in the wings for 30 years. It tells the story of Rachel and Michael Sanders, a couple living a suburban New York lifestyle in the 70's, appearing to be "The Brady bunch," but behind closed doors is anything but that.
Michael's remorseless cheating interludes are linked to his unceasing anger and volatile moods. Rachel unlocks her...
82) Just Compass
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Eddies spontaneous awakening experience changed him overnight, forever. Walk with Eddie through what would turn out to be his journey of spiritual awakening, as his two mindsets battled between this is it! and is this it?Follow Eddies journey as he constantly questioned what was going onas he embarked on a quest with no idea where it was headed. Would he ever get to understand what was happening to him before being consumed again by the so-called...
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From the Authors Since writing my book, A Dream Within a Dream, in 2008, the enigmas of the Kiger family have slowly been peeled away, revealing pain, suffering, regret, and forgiveness. My wife, Barbara, a psychologist who has worked with adolescent girls and their families for the last thirty years, has been very curious as to how such a tragedy could have taken place in this seemingly normal family. After many late night discussions and debates,...
84) Gambled Pride
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He's running from his past, she's chasing her future.
Lied to by her father, abandoned by her mother, and determined to keep her promise to a dying sister.
Rachel Stanley, feels lost and afraid after saying a final farewell to her beloved sister. She is truly alone in the world, and must travel west disguised as her sister, to marry one of two men, she's never met.
Rachel knows who's to blame for her miserable and empty life. She wants revenge.
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Shocked awake in a strange bed with no knowledge of how she got there, Isabel's abrupt introduction to alcohol and adulthood is only intensified by her consequent marriage and accompanying motherhood. Three years later, after an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to raise two young children on her own, she opts to follow her American-pilot husband to his new job in Iran, hoping that the new location will mean an end to his alcoholism and abuse.
Soon,...
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Okay, I'll admit it: I have funny (some may say weird) children. Our three children, Rylee, Davis, and Kalel, entertain everyone on a daily basis. This book is a collection of pictures, funny stories, and quotations of actual things our children have said or done.
Our life...
Quotes from Lisa before we left for a three-hour car ride:
* "It doesn't matter that your brother has one more book than you."
* "Well, pull your pants up if your butt crack...
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Young genius fakes suicide to escape a life of exploitation by an insidious mother and sadly ends up with the same circumstances in his new life. Supremely gifted Brandon Blakely, genius with an IQ of 220 highest known on worlds record is turned over for scientific research and stem cell study. Cursed to a life of selfishness and tyranny by his parents. With fame and fortune more precious than the happiness of their only child, and will stop at nothing...
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Take your finances by the reins today
Creating a personal budget is very essential when building a strong and better future for yourself. This eBook will guide you in managing your stuff such as debts and liabilities. This book will also give some tips to follow and to consider.
Without cash the world as we know it would pound to an end. Cash is not going to vanish whenever soon. With costs going up consistently, it is sure that individuals will...
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This is the story of what may happen in any country of the world! In this case, when ethics of old fade and the United States of America allows more and more government to support more and more people, the once-stable economy fails, which allows radical Islam to plant the seeds and eventually succeed in establishing an Islamic State. Our democratic republic's president is replaced with a caliph who rules under the strict code of Shariah (Islamic Law)....
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In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, “The McCartney Legacy, Vol 1: 1969-73” captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician. Informed by hundreds of interviews, extensive ground up research, and thousands of never-before-seen documents “The McCartney Legacy, Vol 1” is an in depth, revealing exploration...
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In 1963 Joe Kaufmann is a Jewish doctoral student in history at Indiana University. He is unwittingly dragged into a waking nightmare when he befriends freshman music major Robert Stangarden. At the end of the school year, Joe helps Robert move back to his home in Indianapolis. However, he comes face-to-face with Robert's parents, Henry and Ada Stangarden, whom he recognizes as Nazi civilians who had worked at the Buchenwald concentration camp where...
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My fantasy novel, Destinies in Motion, shows the Vladners, a normal family who could easily live next door to any reader, at the time in their lives when the interference of mysterious events has turned their daily existence upside down. It happens that only their cat, Tacker, knows about the nature of these changes but he remains silent; which is why his mistress, the teenage girl Lana Vladner, is forced to commence a quest to unveil the mystery...
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Laura has grown up in a home rife with secrets and mental illness, and craves a normal family. More than anything in her young life she wanted normal, but the secrets invaded the normalcy she tried to create.And at age twenty-six when she thought that she had finally achieved the measure of normalcy she craved, and had put all the family secrets away in their pigeon holes, a monumental secret was dropped in her lap when her tea leaf reading grandmother...
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"Winner of the 1997 Charles A. Corr Award in Literature" Myra Bluebond-Langner is professor emerita at University College London and Board of Governors Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Rutgers University. She is also the author of The Private Worlds of Dying Children (Princeton), winner of the Margaret Mead Award.
A revealing account of how families adapt to living with a chronically ill child
What is it like to live with a child who has a...
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"One of the first things I learnt as a parent was that I was human. As much as I wanted to do the "right" thing, the truth was that I was flawed. I was flawed because we all are, whether we like it or not. We get emotional, get frustrated, feel tired, feel pulled apart, and have very little time for ourselves. It's not the best set of circumstances to build an awesome parenting foundation, yet there we are, warts-and-all, be-speckled in all our triumphant...
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IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
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"Normal. Who is to say what this word means? For Magda Newman, it was a goal. She wanted her son Nathaniel to be able to play on the playground, swim at the beach, enjoy the moments his friends took for granted. But Nathaniel's severe Treacher Collins syndrome -- a craniofacial condition -- meant that other concerns came first. Could he eat without the aid of a gastrointestinal tube? Could he hear? Would he ever be able to breathe effortlessly? But...
99) Rules
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Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.
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