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How many children could say their home hosted the humblest and highest at the same time, on any given evening invaded by expatriates their father never hesitated to invite in? Through the back door he welcomed a bookseller, organ grinder, biscuit maker, macaroni man, and one called Galli who thought he was Christ. Through the front, disgraced Italian counts and generals made as officious entrances as a small house on Charlotte Street afforded....

Following the death of their husband and father, Logan, Carol Ainsley and her 12-year old daughter, Jill, help a horse desperately in need of someone to love him. When they do, they have no idea how much he will rescue them from their grief and help rebuild their lives. From the moment Official Business, Biz for short, wins their hearts, to the day Carol and Jill bring him home, their path is fraught with twists and turns. Biz's homecoming wou...

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This book portrays Sufic message of Hazrat Inayat Khan's journey to America, Russia and Europe in his own words as he wrote. "The message of love, harmony and beauty is like a divine stream of spiritual evolution flowing onward throughout our daily lives. And this awakening to purity and wisdom is the true essence of all that is understood by the term Sufi. I was transported by destiny from the world of lyric and poetry to the world of industr...

Horses escaping a wildfire. A pig trapped in a bomb cyclone. A donkey at a live-stock auction. An abandoned dog. These are just some of the gripping animal adventures Mel, her daughter Lennon, and their dog Mojo take the reader on in Second Chances: Moonlight Mile Ranch. While Second Chances shares the amazing stories of each animal rescued, it also reveals the grit two families experience while building a horse ranch. Slick and his daughter J...

Emmitt at Love is a 21st century Fitzgerald-esque take on love, loss, repentance, and redemption, as experienced by Emmitt Raines, a writer, in the last quarter of the 20th Century. Emmitt's journey begins on the banks of the New River, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and from there outward to the rocky coasts of the New England Maritime, the lights of Paris, the smoother waters of the Cote D'Azur, and finally to the far western Pacific shores of...

In this modern love story, Mariah, a young woman enamored with the Earth, meets Max, a widowed wind scientist. As the seasons unfold, Max deals with grief asMariah continues to cope with losses of her own. When Howard, representing a public relations firm for the fossil fuel industry, harasses Max and his fellow climate scientist Buck, Max leaves town. COVID strikes shortly after Max returns. Mariah and Max grapple with new love during the pan...

If it's true, as I suspect, that most of us have only the most vague notions of the time when the French were exploring and exploiting the interior of North America, and perhaps have no realistic notion at all of the Native peoples with whom they would interact, then I think this brilliantly researched and imagined historical novel will bring us one giant step closer to clarity in our thinking of that time and place. That we may also gain some...

Born into a world devoid of fossil fuels, Jason Ryder survives his mother's death, then journeys in search of his missing father. His quest takes him hundreds of kilometers from his home, following a trail that is years cold, in a world slowly returning to its once wild splendor. Even though there are unexpected dangers and new lessons he must learn, Jason's greatest obstacle is one man's greed. Can he overcome all, find his father and fulfill...

Desperate to keep her undocumented single mom from being deported, Yolanda enlists the help of her classmates-many of whom are facing their own fears-in a race against time to keep her small world from coming apart. Told from multiple viewpoints, this contemporary YA novel follows a diverse group of high school students during their senior year. As they help Yolanda combat anti-immigrant rhetoric, the teens experience fear and prejudice themse...

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Five strangers, two men and three women, share a Back Bay Boston apartment like a multi-generational family. High-tech high jinks, vengeful jealousy, and violent death combine to complicate lives and loves.

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Humanity is reaching its breaking point, and something must be done. Four long years have passed since Constance Neethe, the heir to the throne of Men, nearly got her friends and herself killed because of her debilitating drug addiction. Since then, the young princess sought solitude from the growing insurrection headed by her Curae counterpart, Prince Ewan Inathius, heir to the throne of the immortal Curae race. But the time of hiding and pre...

What an extraordinary story Deng has to tell! It is not just about South Sudan, it is a universal story about survival and determination - how a child can face the most difficult of situations and find a way through them. It is a privilege to introduce you to Deng Atem and his moving memoir, Jumping Over the Ram. Anderson Cooper, CNN Anchor"When people have called us "Lost Boys" many of us have been angered by the term. We knew that we had not...

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