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Our marriage was given about two weeks to two months to survive. We stood two chances of making it work out--slim and none. But through commitment and stubbornness, we hung in there. The name sumpter is in the dictionary and says "a packhorse," which I relate to a mule, telling Bill he was stubborn as a mule. This book tells a little of the years we lived in Rapid City and how we grew. I'm sure there are others that have endured more turmoil and grief,...
43) The Spare Room
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Emily Chang is a seasoned executive who has worked with some of the world's most renowned companies like Procter & Gamble, Apple, and Starbucks. Over the last twenty-one years, her job has brought her and her family to eight different homes across the U.S and China. And everywhere she's lived, Emily has found herself at the unique intersection of her Offer and Offense. Life has served up young people who have been abused, neglected, or marginalized,...
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Emily Chang is a seasoned executive who has worked with some of the world's most renowned companies like Procter & Gamble, Apple, and Starbucks. Over the last twenty-one years, her job has brought her and her family to eight different homes across the U.S and China. And everywhere she's lived, Emily has found herself at the unique intersection of her Offer and Offense. Life has served up young people who have been abused, neglected or marginalized,...
47) Spares
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Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls - we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own... Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye - but some people are doing all the taking. Spares - the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference...if he...
48) The glass spare
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Glass spare volume 1
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After discovering that she has the ability to turn people into gemstones, Wilhemina, the fourth daughter of the wealthiest nation's king, seeks redemption putting herself in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas about Wil's power.
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Survivors volume 3
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Rafe Beaumont, 5th son of the Earl of Haddington, is naturally seductive. Women flock to him, and he knows just how to get them to swoon. These skills were well utilized during the wars, when he seduced wives and mistresses of Napolean's confidants to glean secrets and battle plans. Now he's hot on the trail of Napoleon's most elusive assassin. Rafe must find him through his daughter, but she seems immune to flattery and entirely unseducible. Colette...
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"A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover an unsettling secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community-a story of family, identity, and the delicate linebetween faith and deception. Luke Nolan has led the Hope congregation for more than a decade, while his wife and daughters have patiently upheld what it means to live righteously. Made famous by a...
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Her adolescent crush is back in Whisper, North Carolina, but something nefarious has also moved into town . . .
FBI agent Sean Malone's homecoming is interrupted by a blast from the past. The little tomboy who'd followed him and his brothers around is now grown up and drop-dead gorgeous. And he finds himself fantasizing about her in ways he'd never done before.
Grace Whitman thinks where she'd spent her childhood summers is the perfect place to...
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Reporter Julia Nash has waited years to join the top ranks of investigative journalists. When a trip to Dubai reveals the key to a mystery in the world of Thoroughbred racing, Julia finds her chance. But then she's caught snooping...and held in the sole custody of Lord Harrison Rochester!
As long as it takes. That's what Harrison vows when he keeps Julia at his desert estate. He'll discover what the beauty has been up to-even if the search leads...
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Valeria Anson has always been one in a set, her and her twin brother sharing everything from clothing and toys to their mother's womb. But the one thing they didn't share was the searing image of their mother's brutal murder, one that haunts Valeria every night without fail. Almost a decade has passed since their mother's untimely demise, and despite their father's role as Viscount and Chief of the King's Imperial Force, the masked killer has never...
57) No Time to Spare
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From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice-sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical-shines....
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Get the Summary of Prince Harry's Spare in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: For Harry, this is that story at last.
Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness-and, because he blamed the press for his mother's...
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Going from black sheep to king, with the help of one very specialwoman…
Gabriel Montoro's worst nightmares are realized when his olderbrother abdicates the throne of Alma, leaving fun-loving playboy Gabenext in line. Now he needs to shape up-fast. That's where SerafiaEspina fits in.
The exquisite ex-supermodel can school him in thesocial niceties. But as they get into the royal routine, Gabe beginsto see this old family friend in a very different...
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Quick Bites is a collection of middles, published in major newspapers and magazines. What is it that makes the middle stand apart? The middle is short, hardly ever more than 600 to 800 words. It draws strength from humour that skips and romps with the deftness of a mountain goat. It thus turns into a sort of mirror, at times, concave, at times, convex, (never does it remain a plain mirror), and manages to see what lies behind the even contours, that...
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