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Three teenagers, biological siblings separated by adoption, explore the meaning of family in all its forms--how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it.
Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest...
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Sometimes our lives have to be completely
shaken up, changed, and rearranged
to relocate us to the place we're meant to be.
-Adrianne Hemenway
Lena is taken away from her dysfunctional family and placed in an orphanage in a small Russian town. She is terrified but determined to figure out a way to survive in a place where children live by the rules of their own, wear matching clothes, and are occasionally dragged off to "crazy houses."
Will Lena...
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Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant life. But secretly, she is terrified: her marriage is falling apart and her need to control the people around her threatens to alienate her entire family. And Celeste allows no one to see how vulnerable she really is. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. Her life, however, is a lie: she has no money, has...
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How does a child raised by a single-parent African American Mother go on to graduate in the "Top 10%" of his college class, walk-on and play college basketball, become President of his IBM sales training class, close sales of $1/2 million, $1 million, and $25 million in Paris, Brussels, and Hong Kong and self-publish a "Best Seller" book? Fueled by his Mom's mantra, "You can do anything if you put your mind to it," and other "seeds of knowledge" ingrained...
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Barely a grown woman, Rina's marriage to her imaginative and sometimes impractical dreamer husband, continually growing list of children, the impending Great Depression, and the chaos of life in general take over, moulding her into a strong woman not unlike her own parents, proving the apple does not fall far from the tree. Faced with constant moves and less than desirable circumstances, Rina relies on the Lord and her love of David and their children...
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Anxiety has become the only thing Abigail Hartley can count on. She's jobless, dreamless, loveless and stuck living with her parents-it's not exactly the 22 she had in mind. But when tragic news rattles the Hartley household and years of secrecy begin to surface, Abigail can no longer hide behind her fears. She joins forces with her sarcastic, pre-teen sister and heads to the only place that might have the answers she's looking for. One month in Georgia...
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A cohesive collection of poems that blend the unanswered questions of how things such as finding love, addiction to vice and need of success plagues our everyday lives. The "Arcade" represents ones mindstate while striving for the things we lust for. The "Tree" represents a dream, standard or goal. These poems explore the actions and habits that keeps us in the same place for "days"(far from the tree). Deeply influenced by paintings, these poems were...
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T B.J. Lambertirees are unmistakably crucial to the physical success and well-being of our planet. These giants of the plant kingdom allow and invite people to pass under their branches to share their essence and energy, and wisdom in a completely selfless way. In my story, an apple tree drops its apples beneath its branches, and they are TAKEN by the people who pass under to taste the sweet.
The tree is not ready to surrender its self-worth to children...
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In the darkened corridors of literary enchantment, "Whimsyshire Manor: Middle Name Mastery" extends its ethereal tendrils, weaving a narrative that transcends mere persuasion. This is not a plea; it's an unspoken pact, a veiled warning that lingers in the shadows of your subconscious.
Ignore this, and the spectral essence of missed opportunities may haunt your every step. Do not underestimate the unseen forces at play within these pages. The...
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