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1) Lemonade
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Synopsis: Jackie Ng is a 56-year-old Chinese female from Malaysia.
She was diagnosed with brain tumour in 1998. Two brain surgeries
and a series of complications caused her to live with paralysis. Her
fortitude, she struggled through depression and disability, and
managed to rejoin the society. She published a short medical memoir
Rising and a Chinese version during the high of Covid-19
pandemic 。This new book is an in-depth healing narrative...
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Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Cove applies the proven wisdom of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Cove provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more. In addition, this audiobook...
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Dans cette époque matérialiste o nous vivons, pour sauvegarder notre capacité de rêve, d'enthousiasme et d'imagination, ne pourrions-nous pas nous réfugier dans un « Ailleurs » ? , celui du monde enchanté de l'harmonie poétique et musicale, l'une des formes d'expression les plus anciennes et les plus spontanées, indispensable à la pensée. humaine. Découvrez, grâce à l'extraordinaire talent de Jean Faubert et de Ghislaine Paradis la...
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Experience all the power, poetry, and passion of one of the Bible’s most moving stories as God and Satan contest for the soul of a good and faithful man—a man whose faith is about to be tested in ways most of us can scarcely imagine. This full cast recording makes the language—and the emotions—of this great text accessible in a completely new way.
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Heartbroken over a failed romance, talented pianist Danny Murtaugh drops out of music school and returns to his rural hometown, where he discovers two new passions: one for the untouched woodlands of the reclusive Frederick P. Garrick, and one for Stephanie, the stunning new waitress at the town diner. Danny finds himself returning to the scene of the central tragedy of his life, and a painful unspoken secret. But secrets link to secrets, and in...
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Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer volume 4
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The Slayer and her allies make one last desperate attempt to bring sunlight back to Earth and send the reigning Evil forces back into the shadows . . .
But the loss of Buffy's powers is proving too much to bear, and even with the help of Spike, the witches, and newly discovered Potential Slayer Thess, she might not make it.
Will Buffy be able to hold on long enough to save the world and see her Slayer legacy continue in Thess? Find out in the conclusion...
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Book 5 The Fool's Journey Series Noel Eastwood's unique blend of rollicking good storytelling and the wisdom of esoterica and the Tarot continues in this, the final book of the Fool's Journey series. Follin and Eve fulfil their mystic's quest but only after they are faced with life-changing experiences that test their resolve and their magical powers. The couple's seven-year-old twins, Aidan and Fiana, prove to be a handful as they too grow in wisdom...
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In 16th century France, Marguerite de Valois is growing up in one of Europe's most dysfunctional families - the Medici clan, whose extreme inbreeding has led to an alarming number of genetic defects in France's kings.
Her mother, Queen Catherine de Medici has taken note of Marguerite's uncharacteristic beauty and intelligence. In a scheme to unite the country during the raging religious wars, she opts to marry off her Catholic daughter to the...
11) The do-over
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Emilia has always wanted to fit in with the A crowd. So, when Ben, the hottest guy in school, asks her out, she chooses him over Alistair, her best friend -- even after he confesses his feelings to her. Six months later, Emilia wonders how her life would have been different if she'd chosen Alistair instead. Haunted by her mistake, she finds a magical solution that promises to rectify the past. As a result, everything in her life is different. What...
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Divine space pirates volume 3
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Aerie and Exton are still at war with the Revolutionary States, but there is much to celebrate. Now that they are together again, Aerie finally has what she's always wanted: a loving home. but her past, and her parents, are far from letting her move on with her new life. When Merra further escalates the war with her treachery, Aerie is face with an impossible choice: save her mother, or betray Exton.
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In this tender-hearted debut, set against the tumultuous backdrop of life in 1973, when homosexuality is still considered a mental illness, two boys defy all the odds and fall in love. The year is 1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And homosexuality is still officially considered a mental illness. In the midst of these trying times is sixteen-year-old Jonathan Collins, a bullied, anxious, asthmatic kid,...
14) Crow's Rest
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Avery Flynn arrives for a visit at her Uncle Tam's, eager to rekindle her summertime romance with her crush-next-door, Daniel.
But Daniel's not the sweet, neurotic guy she remembers, and she wonders if this is her Daniel at all. Or if someone-some thing-has taken his place.
Her quest to find the real Daniel, and get him back, plunges Avery into a world of Fae and changelings, where creatures swap bodies like humans change their socks, and magic...
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I hate you, Fuller James.
I hate your floppy hair and your lopsided grin and those laughing blue eyes that always seem to be laughing at me.
I hate that you're the most popular guy in school and I'm still the girl who sneezed and spit out her retainer on someone at a middle school dance. It's just such a cliche.
I hate that I'm being forced to tutor you in English and keep it a secret from everyone. Because otherwise it might put our basketball...
16) The Dead House
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Hachette Audio
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2015
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English
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Debut author Dawn Kurtagich is dead on in this terrifying psychological thriller!
Over two decades have passed since the fire at Elmbridge High, an inferno that took the lives of five teenagers. Not much was known about the events leading up to the tragedy - only that one student, Carly Johnson, vanished without a trace...
...until a diary is found hidden in the ruins.
But the diary, badly scorched, does not belong to Carly Johnson. It belongs...
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El Mulá Nasrudín, el sabio tonto del folklore oriental, ocupa un lugar especial en los estudios Sufis.
Los Sufis, quienes creen que la intuición profunda es la única guía real hacia el conocimiento, utilizan los cuentos humorísticos de Nasrudín prácticamente como ejercicios. Ellos te invitan a que elijas algunos que te resulten especialmente atractivos y que reflexiones sobre ellos, haciéndolos tuyos.
Los maestros Sufis dicen que de esta...
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Seis jóvenes, que luego se convertirán en los grandes artistas del Siglo XX, se encuentran en la búsqueda de respuestas a una pregunta llena de misterio: ¿sabes lo que es un laberinto?
El laberinto de Tristán lleva al lector por los vericuetos de la imaginación para presentarnos a la tía Gertrudis (inspirada en Gertrude Stein), Tristán (Tzara), Pablo (Picasso), Renato (René Magritte), Marco (Marc Chagall) y María (Mary Cassatt) como protagonistas...
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The brand-new deluxe edition of Mooncakes features never-before-seen content from the bewitching graphic novel by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu. Perfect for any collector's bookshelf, the new edition comes in a deluxe hardcover package featuring a new cover and bonus content, including an introduction and behind-the-scenes development art and writing.
A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average...
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