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1) Spare
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How do you survive when your only purpose is to give your live to others . . . bit by bit? In the derelict house next door to a building site, Dawn lives with a young woman who says to call her Mum.Dawn loves the hole in the roof, where she can always see blue. She loves her book of birds and she loves Mrs Goring, the old lady who lives on the ground floor.But when Dawn's medicine runs out and Mrs Goring disappears, Dawn begins see the world as it...
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A stumpy tail, mismatched paws, a long, drooly snout and the biggest dog heart that ever beat. In a celebration of what makes a pet unique, a little girl imagines how an odd assortment of parts combined to make the perfect dog.
With spare, inviting text from Alison Hughes and charmingly offbeat illustrations by award-winning illustrator Ashley Spires, this gorgeous picture book is sure to be an instant classic.
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Are you a people pleaser struggling with assertiveness? Would you like to learn to set healthy boundaries, build strong relationships, and stop striving for people's expectations? If you've been looking for a book that will free you from external validations, then keep reading; you've found the perfect book!
Studies show that over 50% of people identify as people pleasers. This means they go out of their way to avoid conflict by...
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I was born and raised on a working ranch twenty-eight miles north of Philip, South Dakota. As a young person, we worked hard and played hard, and events that occurred caused considerable pain to me both mentally and physically. My choices were not the best, and at seventeen, I was much on my own. The saying "I was the only hell my mother ever raised" was probably very accurate. I write this to tell what it was like growing up and to let others know...
5) Spare Parts
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A pandemic ruled society. The answer was a vaccine. The problem was that the vaccine made women infertile. Those who refused the vaccine were on the outer; they were hunted by the government and their children removed, taken to facilities where they would become spare parts for the new generations of cloned children. Harper had known her role as a spare part since she was two. There was no questioning her role in life. It was her job as a natural...
6) Spare Parts
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In Spare Parts, Claudia Martin, an avionics engineer at Duffet Commercial Airplane Co. (DCAC), finds a serious software anomaly which could threaten the integrity of the Flight Management Computer system -- and that could bring down a jet. Her boss, an ex-lover, chooses to overlook her warning in order to meet the accelerated airplane development schedule. But Claudia's own values will not allow her to agree to let it go. Claudia finds her professional...
7) Spare Change
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"We are born in a burning world blind".
Spare Change is a collection of poems that reflects on general conflicts about identity, individuality, boundaries, politics and compassion. Divided into four sections, it exhibits the relationship between creativity and anxiety. Written in a personal voice but still dealing with questions that concerns everyone. These are the voices we hear when no one is around.
8) Spare Parts
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An unwanted and unexpected descent into the depths of a most vile traffic.
Carl "Kalle" Nebuloni lost his parents and a sister in a tragic road accident. In Lisbon, where he lives, he divides his time between caring for his niece, sole survivor of the crash. But had this really been an accident?
The discovery of new and disturbing evidence forces Kalle to confront the possibility that the death of almost his entire family may not have been the result...
9) Spare Change
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New Year's resolutions are one of Riley's least favorite things - until this year. Twenty-three and single, Riley thinks resolutions should be fun, not hard. Just before midnight, she vows to make the easiest resolution ever: save her pennies and at the end of the year, buy something nice for herself. Easy! ...Or is it? Working at a cancer treatment center can change one's perspective, and before long Riley decides to donate her extra money to cancer...
10) Spare the Rod
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A stranger in Sherborne fleeing justice from murder in another town causes a young apprentice working on the Abbey misericords serious injury.
When young Luke, stepson to Matthias Barton, becomes involved with the felon an unhappy rift is revealed in the Barton household.
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The disappearance of Luke causes Matthias to leave the school in the hands of his wife and Martin Cooper, as he and Ezekiel Jacobson attempt to find Luke before he meets...
11) Spare Parts
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In a godforsaken bar in the middle of nowhere, an all-girl band - Ms. 45 - rips the stage apart with their punk spirit. But their performance impresses an enthusiastic fan who lures the girls into a trap, sedates them, and starts...customizing them. Slowly they begin to gain consciousness and, in total shock, realize their arms have all been replaced with axes and chainsaws to fight gladiator-style in a junkyard arena owned by a sadistic "emperor,"...
12) Spare Room
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A mysterious veteran rents a room from a struggling waitress caring for her brother with Down Syndrome, sparking unforeseen consequence.
13) Spare Parts
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The Kryl invaded in the dead of night.
The Nevers family had to flee. Yuzosix, once their home, must be left behind.
Along the way, young Elya Nevers develops a strange habit...he begins to collect bot parts. Something about it soothes him.
But this strange obsession soon catapults Elya into an inescapable conflict, one that will shape the man he becomes.
And plant the seed of his destiny.
14) Spare Me
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Ryan Hutton has spent his entire life being the shy, nerdy, rule-following nice guy on Summersweet Island. He's the high school bowling coach and algebra teacher, who's always predictable, and he's always been fine with that. At least until a sexy nutjob gives him the best kiss of his life in his favorite pizza place. Suddenly, he doesn't like being the quiet, obedient nice guy anymore.
When Danica Brewster first set foot on this beautiful island...
15) Spare Parts
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On a dark frozen planet where no planet should be, in a doomed city with a sky of stone, the last denizens of Earth's long-lost twin will pay any price to survive, even if the laser scalpels cost them their love and hate and humanity.
16) Spare Change
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Small-town gossip never much bothered Olivia Westerly. As a single career woman, she's weathered her share. It's easy to ignore the raised eyebrows over her late-in-life marriage to Charlie Doyle. But after he drops dead on their honeymoon, the whispers are salt on her raw grief. Especially when an orphaned, eleven-year-old-boy shows up on her doorstep, looking for the grandfather he never met. Behind Ethan Allen Doyle's wary blue eyes lie heavily...
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Love and Laughter join hands
For two decades, Martin and his wife blissfully penned a daytime soap together while growing their large family before real life took a melodramatic turn…
Sexy star Roxanne parlayed her role on the show into a thriving luxury bedding business and never looked back. Just when she was on the brink of having it all, the universe pulled the rug out from under her, leaving her with a secret heartache…
When Roxanne accepts...
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Jake Boddine was a loner. He had no friends, yet always seemed to know everything that was going on in town. His only contacts were the local toughs and several from out of town who just had to challenge him. They all went home limping with their tails tucked between their legs. One day, Jake happened to meet four slightly younger guys. This was the beginning of a relationship that led to a chain of events that staggers the imagination. It was a circle...
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Are you a people pleaser struggling with assertivness? Would you like to learn to set healthy boundaries, build strong relationships, and stop striving for people's expectations? If you've been looking for a book that will free you from external validations, then keep reading; you've found the perfect book! Studies show that over 50% of people identify as people pleasers.
20) Spare the Rod
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Spare the Rod traces the history of discipline in schools and its ever-increasing integration with prison and policing, ultimately arguing for an approach to discipline that aligns with the moral community that schools could and should be.
In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warnick investigate the history and philosophy of America's punishment and discipline practices in schools. To delve into this controversial...
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