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"Bad aim brought together the lawyer and the innkeepers' son. Everything else drove them apart. Amanda thought she was getting away from the pressures of work when she agreed to host a bridesmaids' weekend at a lakeside inn. She planned perfectly for the bride and the rest of the bridal party-from the delicious dinners to quaint accommodations to a hike by the waterfalls. She didn't count on Luke, the innkeepers' son, whose lack of tennis ability...
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Code word volume 1
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English
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The Armageddon genie--nuclear terrorism--is out of the bottle, freed by bin-Laden's heedless avengers and "a pissant dictator with Ray-Bans and a fondness for movies, " as America's president describes North Korea's ruler a few hours before announcing a decision that will mark him forever as either a hero or a mass murderer. In a twenty-first century Pearl Harbor, nuclear terrorism takes its first city--Las Vegas--and stalks Baltimore. The terrorists...
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Post Hill Press
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"Saving Our Service Academies covers one man's unrelenting thirty-year fight with the military bureaucracy to instill qualities of force and thoughtfulness in officers-to-be, to show young men how to be adults with other men and women, and to show young women how to deal with the men... The service academies are government programs that no longer fill the needs for which they were created, and so like all government programs, can be re-examined. Indeed,...
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2022
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In my family, I've always been known as the 'Muffin Queen'. Out of necessity, I created muffins for breakfast, lunch, on the go snacks, sometimes dinner and a sweet yet healthyish treat for dessert. As a single mom of 4, during those maddening, insanely disjointed, hectic years from age 6 to 16, with school, hobbies, work and hormones, I needed a friend! Muffins became my antidote to madness, my friend. How? I needed a quick, healthy and affordable...
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Before the mists of time, when all spirits were one, the Goddess Epona, Guardian of Horses, bestowed a precious gift upon the people of the Island of Epos: the inner horse spirit. This mystical gift forged a
magical bond between humans and horses, creating a unity that protected the island from harm. However, as the ages passed, the people forgot their enchanted connection with horses, leaving Epos vulnerable to danger. Princess Whinny dreams of celebrating...
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FutureCycle Press
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[2009]
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English
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Winner of the 2009 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. No Loneliness is a collection of lyrics and narrative poems written about the confusions and attempts at order in the poet's life. It is a book about work and sweat, the lasting effects of physical violence, the spiritual grace that comes from nature, the strange communion of love, and the many heartbreaking ways the world we live in tries to redeem us.
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Page Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Willie describes the events of her growing up with various family members and being a firsthand eyewitness of segregation in the South during the 1950s, as she recalls. Living with her grandparents in Yazoo City, Mississippi, is the basis of the early times from five to twelve years of age. After her grandfather died, it became a new experience for both her and her grandmother. They were uprooted from Mississippi by an aunt who moved them to Chicago,...
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Silent threat volume 2
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English
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"The second book in an action-packed duology featuring a father-daughter spy team as they take on a network of killers, a treacherous, planned attack on the world's most powerful leaders--and the final countdown to Armageddon"--
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The Word Works
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[2023].
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Selected poems from 20 of Cavalieri's 26 published volumes of poetry embrace the years 1979-2022, with the added bonus of a generous number of new poems. Together they sing a long life rich with compassion, sharp perception, adventurous craft, and a startling variety of subject matter. Cavalieri recreates for us the life of a child growing up in Trenton, of a Navy wife, of an active member of the DC community, of a wise poetry mentor, of a loving...
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2023
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English
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Dr. Colegrove brings the obscure facet of international trade known as offsets or international industrial collaboration into the mainstream. He defines offsets, then compares and contrasts them with other government policies such as tariffs, trade agreements, and domestic economic set-asides and boosts. He shows that, properly implemented, offsets are as good a tool in a government trade tool box as any other policy. But if poorly implemented, they...
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New Bay Books
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[2023]
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English
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"Fire at the Stymie Club is a retrospective collection of stories set mainly in St. Louis, in Springfield, Illinois and in Maryland, along the Chesapeake Bay's western shore, where author Sandra Olivetti Martin was co-founder and publisher of a widely read newspaper, Bay Weekly. The book includes versions of her prize-winning stories for the paper. The book also includes features and columns written for the flourishing sister independent, Illinois...
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
c2010.
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English
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Learn about eighteen of Maryland's most influential and courageous women, past and present. Ideal for the classroom, this educational book offers brief biographies and commentary on poet Lucille Clifton; politicians Helen Delich Bentley, Barbara Mikulski, and Verda Welcome; photojournalist Sadie Kneller Miller; fashion designer Claire McCardell; and art collectors the Cone sisters. This book takes a look at each woman's achievements and the courageous...
16) How we move
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BookBaby
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"How We Move" is the first book in the Young Athletic Movement Series. It focuses on helping children aged 2-6 gain a rudimentary understanding of how we as humans move, then helps them to create good subconscious movement habits of four of our most basic movements. These movements are breathing, sitting standing, and walking. Young Athletic Movement is a media company dedicated to promoting better health in young people. We believe that movement...
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University of Iowa Press
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English
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"From age five, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power-era converts to Islam, feels drawn to the faith even as her father, a devoted Muslim, introduces her to and, at the same time, distances her from it. He and her mother abandoned their Harlem mosque before she was born and divorced when she was twelve. Forced apart from her father--her portal into Islam--she yearns to reconnect with the religion and, through it, him. In Heir to the...
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The remember volume 1
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Mary Dee
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Miss Carlisle Makes A Wish is a fun filled journey of one little girl who has an insatiable love for dogs! The amazing illustrations will capture your heart and take you into the world of Miss Carlisle and her never-ending wish. All the while this story encourages children to share their WISHES, HOPES, DREAMS.
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