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When Leighton Marx is taken at a festival in front of her loved ones, police are quick to label it a random trafficking incident, but Leighton's husband, Owen, and her ex-best-friend, Marnie, suspect there's more to the story. After Marnie meets Sarah, who saw something at the festival that doesn't add up, she starts looking for Leighton herself-only to uncover secrets and inconsistencies surrounding her disappearance that grow deeper and more complicated...
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The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times top 20 bestseller 'Deliciously twisted' Red'Addictive' Stylist'Atmospheric' Good Housekeeping Having a baby is all about firsts. The first touch. The first kiss. The first cuddle. They mark a lifetime of firsts — including the first goodbye. When Romilly says goodbye to her new baby daughter, abandoning her at the hospital hours after giving birth, no one can understand why she would leave — and...
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"Jennifer Barnes never expected the shocking news she received at a routine doctor's appointment: she has a terminal brain tumour-and only six weeks left to live. While stunned by the diagnosis, the forty-eight-year-old mother decides to spend what little time she has left with her family-her adult triplets and twin grandsons-close by her side. But when she realizes she was possibly poisoned a year earlier, she's determined to discover who might have...
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UK's bestselling language learning audio series. This full course takes you from complete beginner in Italian to complete confidence. It is the perfect companion for holidays and business trips abroad. • Easy to use – fast, flexible and portable• Easy to follow – just listen, speak and learn• Easy to learn – no complex grammar Whether you're a beginner or you want to refresh and build upon your existing knowledge, you can become confident...
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From the prizewinning, debut fiction author: an exhilarating virtuosic story collection about women navigating the wilds of male-dominated Alaskan society.
Set in Newman's home state of Alaska, Nobody Gets Out Alive is a collection of dazzling, courageous stories about women struggling to survive not just grizzly bears and charging moose but the raw, exhausting legacy of their marriages and families. In "Howl Palace"-winner of The Paris Review's...
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In a truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block, this newly-commissioned anthology of seventeen superbly-crafted stories, each inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. Contributors include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Connelly, Megan Abbott, Craig Ferguson, Nicholas Christopher, Jill D. Block, Joe R. Lansdale, Justin Scott, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Warren Moore, Jonathan Santlofer,...
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This empowering collection of inspirational essays from some of today's most powerful women in media, entertainment, academia, and sports explores a crucial question: What was the moment you realized you were ready to fight for yourself? Featuring stunning black and white photography and contributions from figures as varied and acclaimed as Joanna Gaines, Soledad O'Brien, Gloria Steinem, and many more.
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In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives both of readers and the people they helped. Learn how you can be part of the solution, doing good for others while adding fulfillment to your own life....
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UK's bestselling language learning audio series. This full course takes you from complete beginner in French to complete confidence. It is the perfect companion for holidays and business trips abroad. • Easy to use – fast, flexible and portable• Easy to follow – just listen, speak and learn• Easy to learn – no complex grammar Whether you're a beginner or you want to refresh and build upon your existing knowledge, you can become confident...
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A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal-one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency.
Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals-or 'Cures'-by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a...
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From author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women's activist, and intellectual.
For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple....
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Award Winner at the 2023 Hear Now Palooza, sponsored by National Audio Theater Festivals. Wizards. Prisoners. Preachers. And robots! They stick out. They change the conversation. They challenge the traditional narrative. They are Outcasts-isolated, different, misunderstood. Being normal is nice. But being outcast is a real part of the human experience. Have you ever had the feeling of being alone in some way, of being on the outside looking in? If...
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A collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, compiled by the editor of the New York Times best-selling anthology My Little Red Book.
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff was a shy teenager, who was embarrassed to talk about anything relating to the body, when she first heard her great aunt's harrowing story of getting her first period while on a train fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland. Rachel started wondering about...
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A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.
Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when they talk about money, it unflinchingly recounts the power of money to impact health, define relationships, and shape identity. The collection includes previously unpublished essays by trailblazing...
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The author of Our House takes you on a haunting and nail-biting journey of tragedy and revenge.
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn't know it existed if you weren't standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But, you are. And that's when you see a man up there-a man you'd recognize anywhere. He may be older now, but it's definitely him.
But that can't...
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If keeping secrets is integral to the human soul, so is
the desire to uncover the secrets of others. The delicate balance between
preserving, revealing, and discovering secrets breeds conflict and the power of
knowledge. Yet, as we learn to harness this power and manage these conflicts,
we develop trust and discretion.
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short mysteries, thrillers & memoirs?
Written by members of The Ohio Writers'...
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In this literary thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family's killer - aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy past.
When Marty returns to Pennsylvania after living in California for ten years, he's happily welcomed by his father and younger brother, Jody. The joyful reunion is short-lived. Two days later, Jody enters the house to find his father and Marty shot dead as their masked killer flees...
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Introduce your children to ten fascinating non-fiction books about the Olympics. From autobiographies from some of the top Olympians in recent history, to information books that explain the lesser known sports, this collection will inspire our Olympians of the future!
· The Modern Pentathlon
· Ade Adepitan: A Paralympian's Story
· Against the Odds
· Becoming an Olympic Gymnast
· My Olympic Story
· Olympic BMX· Olympic Heroes
· On the Track
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Introduce your children to the wonderful world of Shakespearean comedies with these abridged stories, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects, music and fun, your children will come away with a newfound love for these classic stories!
· A Midsummer's Night Dream· The Tempest
· Twelfth Night
· Much Ado About Nothing
· A Comedy of Errors
· The Merchant of Venice
· As You Like it
· The Winter's Tale