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1501) The perfect love storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A playboy bachelor helps a grieving widow learn to love again, but her heart is broken once more when she learns their relationship was based on a bet"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It's time to get laser focused on what makes us feel happy and fulfilled. Lifestyle creator, advice expert, and podcast host Tinx wants to take your hand and guide you to a new way of thinking about life, love, happiness, and friendships--where dating evolves into era of self-discovery and not just a means to an end, sharing wisdom becomes a collective power, and chaos turns into a source of creativity. Making small but mighty shifts in thinking can...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so tenacious and how we can learn to conquer them. We are all vulnerable to addiction. Whether it's a compulsion to constantly check social media, binge eating, smoking, excessive drinking, or any other behaviors, we may find ourselves uncontrollably repeating. Why are bad habits so hard to overcome? Is there a key to conquering the cravings we know are unhealthy...
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Skid doesn't believe in ghosts or time travel or any of that nonsense. A circus runaway-turned-bouncer, she believes in hard work, self-defense, and good strong coffee. Then one day an annoying theoretical physicist named Dave pops into the seat next to her at her least favorite Kansas City bar and disappears into thin air when she punches him (he totally deserved it). Now, street names are changing, Skid's favorite muffins are swapping frosting...
1505) A time to bloom
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive. However, none of that can mask their concern that they are quickly running out of money. Del's work teaching in their booming town offers hope, not only to support her sisters financially, but...
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A trillion-dollar industry, the US non-profit sector is one of the world's largest economies. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many social justice organizations have joined this world, often blunting political goals to satisfy government and foundation mandates. But even as funding shrinks,...
1508) The book of Clarence
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Striving to find a better life, Clarence is enthralled by the power of the rising Messiah and soon risks everything to carve a path to a divine existence.
Author
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" --
1510) Where to invade next
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
1511) Next of kin
Author
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two bickering strangers trying to foster their younger siblings team up to create a stable home, but the chemistry between them threatens to undo their plans. When people-pleasing Chloe learns that her birth mother has unexpectedly had another baby, she doesn't hesitate to become a next-of-kin guardian. But when she fails to pass Child Protective Services' financial evaluation, she is faced with a see her baby sister placed in foster care or participate...
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to take stock of our current planetary crisis. This is a guide for researchers of many stripes; a book that nurtures and promotes a revitalized natural history in direct response to worlds falling apart"--
1513) Love in tandem: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After a failed engagement and her mother's battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter's life is finally turning around now that she's landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn't see coming was the imminent closure of the school's music program. She's determined to save it, even if it means getting creative. There's no way she's chalking this up as just another failure in her book of recent embarrassments. Zach Bryant is back in town just long enough...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle's name. Daniel flounders at first--but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith -- and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A novelization of the upcoming film from the director of God's Not Dead, God Bless the Broken Road is a heartwarming story about a grieving army widow who finds her way back to her daughter, her faith, and a new love. Amber Hill never imagined she would find herself a war widow and single mom. She feels robbed and is angry at God, and she doesn't know how to help her nine-year-old daughter Bree through her grief. Where, Amber wonders, are the Sunday...
1517) Azul salado
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Una novela sobre los sabores de la familia y la auténtica belleza de Mallorca. Marina regresa a Mallorca, su isla natal, tras una llamada de socorro de su madre. Vuelve dispuesta a tomar las riendas de La Ultramarina, el negocio familiar, mucho más que una casa de comidas. Allí revive los recuerdos que atesora junto a las mujeres más importantesde su vida: la abuela Carmen, su madre y su hermana Irene. En un momento vital clave, volver a la raíz...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Tiger is so excited to sing in the spring play, but he feels worried when a substitute teacher directs the play instead of teacher Harriet. Daniel learns an important lesson--things sometimes change, and that is okay. You can learn to do things in a different way!"--Back cover
1519) Wind River cowboy
Author
Series
Wind River Valley romances volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Kira Duval was part of a special forces team that got caught in an ambush -- leaving only two wounded survivors: herself and Weapons Sergeant Garret Fleming. Losing her team was traumatic, and in the chaotic aftermath, as the Army moved them from hospital to hospital, she lost Garret too. But she never lost her secret yearning for him. Finally, she gave up trying to track him down back in the States. But as she settles in at Bar C cattle ranch in...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nell Stevens' life is a mess. When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell's happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she's been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, sky-high rents force her to rent a room in a stranger's house, and in a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a f**k up. Even worse, a forty-something f**k up. But...
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