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3) The waves
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The Waves is Virginia Woolf's most experimental and lyrical novel, capturing the inner lives of six friends as they move from childhood to adulthood, each voice blending and separating like the tides they witness by the sea. Through shifting soliloquies, Woolf reveals their innermost thoughts, fears, and desires, weaving a delicate tapestry of identity and connection against the unrelenting passage of time.
As Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny,...
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2023.
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A scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her 45th birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's...
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WINNER OF CBC CANADA READS
WINNER OF THE STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR
Here’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election—but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock—an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers—to let his name stand in the election. No need...
WINNER OF THE STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR
Here’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election—but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock—an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers—to let his name stand in the election. No need...
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The Recurring Dream will take you on a journey through times and places filled with true love, romance, loyalty, courage, and mysteries revealed. My stories will help you understand that there's not only a physical world but also a spiritual world. I will show you the loving personality of God for you even before you were born and while you were being formed in your mother's womb. The Recurring Dream has stories that can soften the hardest heart and...
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This book is about four strong women who are best friends that help each other through bad marriages, children with drug addiction and gay issues, abusive relationships, and alcoholism. The women don't always agree with each other's life choices, but they support those women and those choices. Basically, it's a tribute to the strength of women and those cherished friendships.
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On a green, lush hill, a lonely little oak tree named Otis yearns for companionship. One day, his wish is granted when an 8-year-old boy named Jonny arrives with his big yellow truck and bright red fire engine. Jonny spends hours playing under Otis, building forts and climbing to see the big blue sky.
As Jonny grows, he brings books instead of toys, but Otis doesn't mind as long as Jonny is there. Their bond is tested when Jonny carves "I love...
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Jackie, Nia, and Cheryl are three individuals whose lives are interwoven together in a story about family, tragedy, hate, love, inspiration, and a higher power. Each of them is forced to call on God to help with their individually issue. Jackie and Nia are also challenged through therapeutic intervention to look inward and unlock the hurt that has caused their lives to become stuck, full of hate, and grief. Cheryl is challenged to take on another...
12) The Unforgiven
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The Unforgiven is the story of two women who meet in their childhood, spend their lives together, and in an act that takes place, it forever changes the course of their lives and people in it. The story embodying the manuscript is the depiction of two young women of diverse ethnic and social backgrounds, brought together as young girls on summer vacation in their youth.
13) Chasher
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Alyn, along with his two flatmates, were on track to graduate college at the end of the semester, entering the real-life responsibilities of adulthood. Openly differentiated on personal situations regarding work, class, and relations, they were always there for one another throughout the years. Rather than following the landscape, Alyn sought out for an adventure and was primed as he ran across a girl at a concert. Deciding to take a chance to see...
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Sliding Across Mountains is a book about the power of friendship. In a small town in Tennessee, a writer, a mother, a widow, and a parish nurse form an unlikely friendship and a curling team. These four ladies learn more than sliding rocks down a sheet of ice. They learn what they can accomplish with a team of support and love is not always on the rocks.
15) MAD Druggist
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Once upon a time, there was a very kind, loving, generous, and caring man who did good works. Unfortunately, the ungodly hypocrites in authority did not like his radical ways of counseling and made it very difficult for him to hold on to his livelihood. All he wanted in this unprecedented, unheard of, crazy cruel spiritual journey is for someone to give him a break!
The tumultuous pharmacy career finally catches up with Louie, and no one is willing...
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NOT JUST A DREAM tells how a little girl reacts to a new Hispanic student. She has many questions, but she has already decided that the new student will not "fit" into the class. After she dreams about the day, she realizes that she had not shown tolerance to someone, who is not like her. She feels much better, when she interacts with the new student and finds out that they are a lot alike.
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A chance meeting in South Africa, in the middle of nowhere, changes everything for American Peace Corp worker Mandy Walker. When the taxi she is riding in runs out of petrol, she and her companion are stranded alongside a country road with their fellow passengers, all of whom are Zulu. While they wait for help, friendships develop as they share problems and stories--and Mandy finds herself drawn to 8-year-old Jabulani, an AIDS orphan. She determines...
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2016.
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"The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty...
19) House party
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Hoping to fit in and make friends, Casey decides to hold a house party when her parents are out of town.
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2020
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All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows her ex-best friend lives near the field, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her.Why would Beth do that and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasnt seen Flora for twelve years. She doesn't want to see her today or ever again. But she cant resist. She parks outside the open gates of Newnham...
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