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Sam Savage's most intimate, tender novel yet follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt. Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse...
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Based on realistic circumstances, situations, and life's vicissitudes that may be experienced between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four, Charles Green's indispensable fictional story gently displays life's lessons of a young man and how they ultimately serve as the pathway to triumph. Charles's soliloquy is from the perspective that continuous growth is a result of mistakes, evaluation, course correction, and moving forward with faith in God. We...
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Sharp Obsidian lays bare the inner struggles of a father and his strong-willed teenage daughter when she begins to test life's boundaries. Her father refuses to let destructive influences twist her morals, and dispirited, he commits his daughter to a teen recovery camp. She is indignant but meets the challenge with grit, uncovers her true essence, and matures into a savvy young woman
Julia – A headstrong fourteen-year-old challenging her parents...
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Bringing Up Billy: Growing Up On A Family Farm, is a delightful collection of stories from a simpler time. It was a time when neighbors all knew one another and took care of each other without question. A time when the stresses of the day were about making it home for dinner at six-thirty, when you were out playing in the woods a little too late. For Billy Blasedale, life is one adventure after another, as he learns all about life, friendship, and...
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Madeline Orsini had retired as Executive Director of Magnolia Garden, an exclusive assisted living facility in Charleston, South Carolina. Her life's dream of a husband and children long ago crushed by a savage assault, Madeline had resigned herself to a life of solitary contemplation of what might have been. However, a seemingly inconsequential project conceived by Jane Lincoln, Madeline's replacement, to construct family trees for residents of Magnolia...
6) Chamoch
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Chamoch habitaba este libro. Vivo como gato, raro como maceta, un día decide dar un paseo por los recuerdos de quien lo lee.
Una lectura divertida, retadora, que involucra directamente al lector. Un favorito de los cuenta cuentos.
Ricardo Cie, autor integral de Chamoch, también escribió Chocolate y merengue e Historia de un árbol.
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So much can change in a year. For some of the guests and staff of The Resort, adjusting to those changes is much more difficult than for others. Has Stanley, the beloved owner, made a decision about holding onto the Resort or moving on to other things? How has a new addition to the LaPointe family changed the already tense dynamics of a weeklong family vacation? With many new faces on staff, can Michelle and Dave keep control over the dining room...
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'One of those books that makes you feel good about being alive!'
In the imposing Glen Carrick House overlooking Scotland's famous Loch Ness, lives eighty-eight-year-old Mimi McKinlay, cared for by her three adult sons. Hamish has inherited his mother's musical talents, Fin is the responsible brother, and Angus has the complicated and brooding personality to match his dashing good looks.
But what all the brothers share is a concern that their beloved...
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Living Right: Stories of Moral Clarity" is a captivating collection of narratives that delve into the complex world of ethics, values, and human behavior. Through a series of thought-provoking and heartwarming tales, this collection explores the profound impact of moral choices in our lives. Each story is a journey that leads readers through moments of decision and consequence, highlighting the importance of integrity, empathy, kindness, and the pursuit...
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The Things I Could Tell You! is the story of Cameron Spears, a Chicago teenager growing up in a house filled with secrets and domestic violence. After changing identities and moving to Memphis, the past comes back to haunt Cameron, forcing him to make a deadly choice that changes his life forever.
11) That Summer
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A woman returns to cottage country where, years before, she and her sister both fell in love with local boys, and their lives changed unalterably. Cinematic in its feel and pacing, recalling the 1950s genre of Dirty Dancing and My American Cousin, That Summer is a meditation on what endures of fleeting moments. Cast of 5 women and 3 men.
12) Bordertown Café
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This is an art book on the politics of urban conflict based around artist Stan Douglas' stunning photo installation of the same name, depicting a violent confrontation in 1971 between police and Vancouver's counterculture known as the Gastown Riot. The book, which features essays by Alexander Alberro, Serge Guilbaut, and others, addresses various issues raised by Douglas' work, including the suppression and assimilation of the counterculture. It also...
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I have done this before, I purged my emotions and gave you pieces of me before when I published Catharsis 1. I can only hope that Catharsis 2 gives you the same feeling, and more.
This is a book that captures my state of mind at different times in the past two years. A collection of short notes I wrote to express how I feel about certain people, and situations in my life. I hope you relate to most of the chapters, if not all.
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I fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)... Painted against the backdrop of E.E. Cummings poetry, Chopin's Nocturnes, and the unleashed passions of the times, River of Forgiveness is a coming-of-age story set at the close of the Second World War. Eighteen-year-old Sydney Archumbault's chance encounter with an older British stranger awakens her longings to the exuberant power of her one true love, forever altering the course of her life. Intrigued...
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Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Cree mother and a French father, Réauna, affectionately known throughout Tremblay's work as "Nana," was sent with her two younger sisters, Béa and Alice, to be raised on her maternal grandparents' farm in Sainte-Maria-de-Saskatchewan, a francophone Catholic enclave of two hundred souls. At the age of ten, amid swaying fields of wheat under the idyllic prairie sky of her loving foster family, Nana is suddenly...
16) Making Waves at River View Cottage: An escapist, heartwarming read from Jennifer Bohnet for 2022
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Making Waves at River View Cottage is a delightful, well-written novel in an idyllic setting. What more could you ask for?' Jo Bartlett Life doesn't always give you a second chance to make another choice...
Cassie Lewis, a widow for over 20 years has begun to realise there must be more to life.
In-between working at the family boatyard in picture perfect Dartmouth and raising two children, she wonders where the years have gone.
Both her children,...
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