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Moshoeu never thought he was special in any way, and His grades from junior primary to secondary were great. He had a reputation for being troublesome, which was more psychological, not physical. He was always in search of new challenges, and that got him in trouble. His schooling was free from undergraduate to postgraduate due to his good performance. At work, he worked hard to impress, but no recognition was forthcoming, until job-hopping became...
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A story about a lady who went through so much abuse in her life. She was a casualty and had to be strong and solid for herself and her children, and she survived it. She will go on with her life in this book of Survivor Queen.
This is about a Survivor who went through so much in my life. I was pulled in every direction by a man that said he loved me! The only thing that helped me cope with the situation was God and my children. I am a Certified Nursing...
3) Vivencias
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Fue en una reunión de ex alumnos cuando el Hijo del Juez me dice "leí tu publicación en Facebook, dedícate a escribir". Fue en un paseo de curso de nuestros hijos cuando una oxigenada me dice: "¡me encanta leerte!". Fue en el centro de Reñaca cuando de la otra vereda me gritan: "¡abrígate!, no te vaya a dar frío en los pies". En esos momentos entendí que quizás yo podría escribir un libro. Un par de inviernos después, ya tenía más de...
4) Kitsaphrenia
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What would you do if you had a pet with talent? Well, since I am a writer I decided to put out a book about her. I will be mean and not tell you what she did that was different. You will have to read the book. It will be easy though, because there are, a lot of nice pictures, some of them, like the cover, I have painted. Have fun.
Carole always had artistic talent, but her early days were, spent in the musical theatre. She had roles in 'Funny Girl'...
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Summary: In Medellin, Colombia, during the time of Pablo Escobar, 15-year old Joe Cardenas is, forced to deal with the sudden suicide of his best friend, Alex Cuevas. An early morning call in December of 1981, sets Joe off on a quest to understand what led Alex to take his life.
The truth Joe discovers threatens the lives of everyone he knows, as he faces Cartel-connected enemies determined to hide powerful secrets. Armed with nothing but his ingenuity...
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Jayiah starts life out as a normal young girl growing up in a single-family home. She is the middle child of three kids and is quite content with life until her mother meets a special guy. That's when things changed forever. At the age of ten she has to learn to grow up quickly while helping with her younger sister. After the honeymoon stage was over Reggie exposed her family to a world of drugs and prostitution. In one year, things had taken a turn...
7) Emma
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Tu aimes les témoignages? Tu adoreras ce livre! C'est un roman basé sur une histoire vraie.
- Mais pourquoi tu te donnes autant de mal? me répond mon amie.
J'ai une hésitation. C'est vrai, pourquoi? Qu'est-ce que tout ce travail me donne? Je chasse aussitt ce doute. Je n'arrive même pas à concevoir l'idée de ne pas étudier à fond, de ne pas connaître tous les sujets sur le bout de mes doigts, de ne pas les maîtriser à la perfection....
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Suecia, principios del siglo XX. La joven Berta sueña con ser artista. Sin embargo, su futuro parece estar ya escrito al crecer en una pequeña granja del país. Su padre espera que se dedique a las labores del hogar y su madre, quien la comprende y apoya, está enferma de tuberculosis. ¿Tendrá Berta la valentía suficiente para volar libre y perseguir su sueño?
El pájaro que llevo dentro vuela adonde quiere es una bella y emocionante novela...
9) Diana's Wish
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As a young girl, Diana has difficulty getting used to her life with a newly diagnosed illness. But when she is introduced to the world of service dogs, her outlook improves drastically.
Join Diana on her journey with help from her family and school friends.
10) Kipling's Choice
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2007
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As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England's highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country.
When World War I broke out, John, like his father before him, wanted to fight for his country. When his military application was threatened for the same reason as his father's—poor eyesight—Rudyard...
When World War I broke out, John, like his father before him, wanted to fight for his country. When his military application was threatened for the same reason as his father's—poor eyesight—Rudyard...
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"Before she was the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice and other classic novels, Jane Austen was a young woman wrestling with society's expectations and challenges of the heart. Her own story involves choices that changed literary history--and perhaps even the choice to walk away from love. This graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth includes her creative awakening and her much-speculated-upon encounters with Tom Lefroy, a brash law student"--Adapted...
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Young royals volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
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940L
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In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.
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Nach der Schulzeit in Berlin studiert Gustav Behrendt erst in Freiburg, später in München gerät er in die Kreise der Künstler-Boheme der Jahrhundertwende. Immer scheint Gustav abseits zu stehen, im Zustand des Beobachtens zu verharren: zuerst in den Freundschaften als Junge, dann im Verhältnis zu den Frauen.
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"El Hombre que Nació Ayer"Adéntrate en la fascinante historia de un hombre que se proclama como el Buda Maitreya. En este relato revelador, este personaje extraordinario desafía las nociones tradicionales sobre la vida, la felicidad y la espiritualidad.A través de las páginas de este libro, descubre los pensamientos transformadores de este individuo único. Desde cuestionar la relación entre el dinero y el miedo hasta desafiar las estructuras...
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Sara tiene una vida difícil: la pérdida de su madre le obligó a mudarse a Tokio donde, por ser diferente, es marginada por sus compañeros. Sola, se refugia en sus libros de fantasía sin pensar que pronto protagonizará su propia aventura atrapada en un Japón desconocido.
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To save her family, one girl will sacrifice her very identity. Living in poverty in the shadow of the Forbidden City, Daiyu never imagined that the life of the emperor would impact her own. But a chance meeting with a girl who looks exactly like her changes everything. Daiyu's family is offered enough money to support them for life if she only agrees to take the stranger's place at the emperor's selection for new consorts. In order to pull off the...
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Mary may have inherited the brilliant mind of her late mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, but she lives a drab life above her father's bookstore, waiting for an extraordinary idea that'll inspire a work worthy of her parentage-and impress her rakishly handsome (and super-secret) beau, Percy Shelley. Ada Lovelace knows a thing or two about superstar parents, what with her dad being Lord Byron, the most famous poet on Earth. But her passions lie far beyond...
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Young royals volume 4
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IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
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1030L
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English
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In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and Spain.
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The classic fictionalized story of a little boy who lived to be perhaps the greatest king this world has ever seen.
Long before he entered history books as Emperor Akbar, the Great Mughal, Prince Akbar was a brave young boy, growing up alone while his father Humayun was far away, fighting to win back the throne of Hindustan. But, he had his faithful companions, a fierce black sheepdog and a clever snow-white cat, to protect him from demons and other...
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