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"There's HUMOR, (Chicago) HISTORY, a MYSTERY, and even a dog story, in this informative and fun read all rolled into one. It's the summer of 1960 and for Peggy Standish everything is about to change. She's moving away from her best friend and the only home she's ever known. Though it's just from the inner city to the outskirts of Chicago, to Peggy it might as well be on, "The Other Side of the World". Change is not a word that nearly thirteen-year-old...
1662) Piękność
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"Nieoczekiwana podróż w poszukiwaniu siebie Veronique jest jedną z najbardziej rozchwytywanych modelek - pojawia się na okładkach prestiżowych magazynów i chodzi po wybiegach pokazów haute couture na całym świecie. Niespodziewanie tragiczny atak terrorystyczny na lotnisku w Brukseli na zawsze odmienia jej życie. W eksplozji giną dwie osoby, które kochała najbardziej, a ona sama doznaje ciężkich obrażeń, w wyniku których zostaje...
1663) Dos vidas para Lydia
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"La vida de Lydia da un vuelco cuando Freddie, su alma gemela y su pareja desde hace más de diez años, muere. Lydia sabe que Freddie habría querido que siguiera adelante y viviera al máximo, así que, con la ayuda de su mejor amigo, Jonah, y su hermana, Elle, decide abrirse de nuevo al mundo (y tal vez, al amor). Pero entonces sucede algo increíble: Lydia tiene la oportunidad de volver atrás y seguir viviendo junto a Freddie. La elección parece...
1664) Season of salt and honey
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"Frankie is a runaway bride. Or rather, she is running away from her fiancé's funeral, the unthinkable event that has thrown her entire life into crisis. Frankie and Alex were high school sweethearts and each other's first loves. They should have been together forever. But Alex died in a surfing accident, and now Frankie is walking away from her family, driving north and east, letting her body do the thinking, all the way into the Cascade Mountain...
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"The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love--and the end of love--and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know--but which he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their once-passionate romance....
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Si miras la vida de cerca, no tiene ningún sentido. ¡Aléjate y disfrútala! Este libro entronca con ese increíble verso: «Al lugar donde has sido feliz no debieras tratar de volver». Es una de las verdades más grandes que existe y perder ese lugar jamás es triste porque siempre llegarán otros diferentes y mejores.
If you look at life closely, it doesn't make any sense. Stand back and enjoy it! This book connects with this incredible verse:...
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"A man consumed by a meaningless life is going to do something he's never considered doing before. He's going to enjoy the day...For hyper-particular publishing heir Jonathan Grief, the day starts like any other--with a strict morning fitness regimen that'll keep his divorced, easily irritated, cynical, forty-two-year-old self in absolutely flawless physical condition. But all it takes to put a crimp in his routine is one small annoyance. Someone...
1668) La invitada
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"No se mudaron a una casa embrujada construyeron una. Helen y Nate abandonaron la ciudad con la esperanza de comenzar de nuevo en una apartada localidad de Vermont, su idea es formar un hogar en el bosque donde puedan alejarse del bullicio y el ajetreo citadino. En medio de aquel paisaje imponente las cosas parecen marchar bien hasta que descubren que ese hermoso lugar guarda un secreto perturbador y Helen, antigua profesora de historia, se obsesiona...
1669) Picking up the pieces
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"As Nora and her British Army officer husband, Gordy, pack up yet another home and leave the sun of Cyprus for the drizzle of England, she can't shake a feeling of regret--at her failure to follow her own dreams, but also, if she's honest, at having ended up an officer's wife at all, drifting through a life of temporary homes and temporary relationships. Since losing her parents at a young age, Nora's life has been lacking an anchor: someone or something...
1670) There's power in the V
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"Growing up as one of the unattainable Bell sisters was always bittersweet. On one end, it prided me. I was one of the most desired girls of the neighborhood, a piece to a strong family puzzle that many envied. On the more trying end, we were declared a trio, branded by the actions of one another. Our mother, the matriarch, always instilled in us that family was everything; we were our sisters and a representation of her. There was power in the V...
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"Happy-go-lucky journalist Summer has always managed to focus on the silver lining. But nothing in her life has prepared her for her husband Seth's recent revelation: he wants a six-month break from their marriage. Determined to stay positive, Summer decamps to Jersey to spend six months by the sea, where every passing week makes Seth more of a distant memory. Then she meets sweet, charming Jude, whose life seems to be on permanent hold even before...
1672) Finding Jane
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"A business trip from the crowded streets of Los Angeles to the countryside of England was supposed to be a reprieve for Jane Reynolds. She needed a break from congested commutes, endless work days, and mostly, to stop crying from a broken heart. But her first night out in the bustling streets of London, and an encounter with a young man only reinforce that life and love are just illusions, no matter how far she travels. Taking refuge in a bookstore,...
1673) Justo antes del final
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"De vuelta al territorio autobiográfico, Emiliano Monge ha conseguido en esta nueva novela algo que parecía imposible: una novela que es un retrato a la vez que un mural; el retrato de una madre y el mural del mundo en que vivimos. Esta es la historia de una mujer que se enfrentó a su tiempo y a su mundo, pero es también la historia de ese tiempo y de ese mundo: la segunda mitad del siglo XX y las primeras décadas del siglo en el que estamos....
1674) Mi lista de deseos
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Brett Bohlinger tiene un buen trabajo, un amplio loft, un novio irresistible. Pareceria que no puede pedirle nada mas a la vida. Pero su madre muere dejando un testamento con una condicion unica: para recibir su herencia, Brett debe completar la lista de objetivos que ella misma habia escrito en un diario intimo cuando tenia catorce años. Brett no consigue entender la decision de su madre. Sus ilusiones de entonces no tienen nada que ver con sus...
1675) Szczęście w nieszczęściu
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To powieść o nieustającym poszukiwaniu miłości, wyzwaniach, które stoją przed samotną matką i nie zawsze prostych relacjach z dorosłymi - jakże różnymi córkami (co nie dziwi, skoro mają trzech ojców...). Paryż - stolica miłości i sztuki. Isabelle McAvoy, młoda stażystka w galerii malarstwa zakochuje się bez pamięci w bogatym, znacznie starszym arystokracie. W jego zamku w Normandii przeżywa cudowny sen na jawie. Aż dowiaduje...
1676) Truth or dare
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Resort at Castaway Bay volume 1
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Sydney Whitmore, a forensic psychologist living in San Francisco, moves home to Shipwreck Island, and the resort owned and operated by her family, after tragedy strikes leaving her struggling for a way to make sense of things. After finding out about the assault of an old friend, which has left him comatose, she renews her relationship with Ezra Reinhold, a reclusive billionaire who enjoys poking around in cold cases and has the means to hire the...
1677) El secreto de las nubes
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"In her second year teaching sixth grade English, Maggie Topper is chosen for a special assignment: to privately tutor a student with serious health issues that prevent him from attending class with other kids. It isn't easy for her to make a connection with Yuri Krasny, the son of two Ukrainian immigrants, until Maggie uncovers his passion for baseball. As she uses the sport to get Yuri more interested in her lessons, he begins to slowly open up...
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"Bohaterowie opowiadań mierzą się z różnymi problemami - śmiercią, strachem przed starością, konfliktem z rodzeństwem, chorobą, toksyczną relacją z matką, wypadkiem, po którym wszystko się zmienia, wypaleniem, nieszczęśliwą miłością. Wydaje im się, że już nigdy nie będzie dobrze, że utknęli w jakimś magicznym punkcie, z którego nie można pójść dalej. Czy uda im się ruszyć do przodu? Czy życie nabierze jaśniejszych...
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In the deep south of rural Alabama, where hearts are trusting and faith is essential for survival, three generations of women navigate life in their day, tied by a generational cycle they cannot seem to break. As a ten-year-old girl in 1926, Ruth Coleman witnesses her family's home go down in flames with her parents perished inside. Years later, she sinks into a bitter pool of vodka sparking a string of destructive actions that linger for generations...
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Christmas 1889. A baby is born in the early hours at Vienna General Hospital, only to be abandoned by her unwed mother and entrusted to a foundling home and its loving caretaker. Fanny Schindler grows from a precocious girl into a strong-willed young woman. Undeterred by the rules of her station, she's determined to rise above her humble origins and pursue her dreams at all costs, becoming an apprentice to one of the most glamorous fashion houses...
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