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Have you ever wondered about your life's purpose? The next step in the life-changing Human Design system, The Book of Destinies presents in-depth profiles of the 192 Life Themes that encompass humanity. Based on the place, date, and time of your birth, your Life Theme reveals a remarkably detailed portrait of your true nature, allowing you the peace of knowing who you really are so you can live your life with clarity and fulfillment. Instead...
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"Bestselling author Aimie Runyan makes her contemporary women's fiction debut with this charming escape into the lavender fields of Southern France and a young woman who discovers her family's secrets and the hope for her own future"--
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta...
4) Beautyland
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"A tender, deeply wise novel of a young woman who doesn't feel at home on this earth, by the author of Parakeet"--
"At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The...
5) Memory piece
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"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
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"For the first time ever, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Forbes' Richest Self-Made Woman Liz Elting shares her story on how she co-founded and drew TransPerfect, the billion-dollar translation and language solutions company that began as a dream in a NYU dorm room. In Dream Big and Win, Elting divulges practical and inspiring tips you can implement immediately, teaching why success is not solely about attaining and wielding power. Elting shows...
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A collection of thirteen lectures by acclaimed education professor Leo Buscaglia that were given around the world between 1970 and 1981; covers such topics as behavior modification through love, finding one's identity, the children of tomorrow, and avoiding victimhood.
9) The mulligan
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Recounts the metamorphosis of a 'successful dentist' who is both unhappy and unfulfilled. He decides to cast it all aside and try to find some true meaning in his life. His journey becomes a trip into the past...
10) Jango
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Noble warriors volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Seeker, the Wildman, and Morning Star discover that the mysterious warrior sect they had been so desperate to join is not quite what it appears from the outside.
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2024.
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"American chef Georgia May Jackson has one goal -- to run her own restaurant in Paris. After a grueling decade working in Parisian kitchens, she is on the cusp of success. But in one disastrous night, Georgia loses her sous-chef position, her French boyfriend, and her sense of taste! Renowned for her refined palate and daring use of bold flavors to create remarkable dishes, Georgia is devastated to discover her culinary gift has simply . . . vanished....
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"In this magical, mysterious novel, a young woman returns to the small town she'd once fled, determined to make peace with her past and to discover the truth about what happened to her young neighbors years before. Secrets are laid bare, a mystery is solved, and new beginnings are started"--Provided by publisher.
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"What does a purpose look like? Little Turtle has no idea, but it seems important. He tries to find one, but everything he tries feels wrong. When he meets another turtle with the same problem, the two decide to help each other and set out to figure out what they're meant to be."--
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"A paradigm-shifting book looking at the pervasive influence of silence and how we can begin to dismantle it in order to find our voices at home and at work Having a seat at the table doesn't mean that your voice is actually welcome. Knowing something is wrong doesn't mean it's easy to speak up. In fact, there are incentives for many of us to stay silent. Why speak up if you know that it won't be received well, and in fact, often makes things worse?...
17) Vestments
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Let me begin today, illumined by Thy light, to destroy this part of the natural man which lives in me in its entirety, the obstacle that constantly keeps me from Thy Love...
Taught this prayer as a boy by his grandfather, James Dressler recites it each time he's tempted by earthly desires. Originally drawn to the priesthood by the mystery, purity, and sensual fabric of the Church, as well as by its promise of a safe harbor from his tempestuous home,...
18) Norman
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"Norman the Button has fallen off his coat and is suddenly without a job. Determined to feel needed again, he heads out in search of a new profession."--Back cover.
19) Light and air
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"It's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. But what happens when you actually have it? When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned--and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world. Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place. But it is not, Halle learns, a prison. Free of her worried and difficult father for...
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"Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one question Penny doesn't know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny's 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday...
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