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"Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion...
2) Wolf Island
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The Great Bear Rainforest is a majestic place full of tall trees, huge bears, and endless schools of salmon. Award-winning photographer and author Ian McAllister's luminous photographs illustrate the story of a lone wolf who swims to one of the small islands that dot the rainforest's coast. The island provides him with everything he needs-deer, salmon, fresh water-everything, that is, but a mate. When a female wolf arrives on the island's rocky shores,...
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When his father leaves town, twelve-year-old Rodney Culver's mother takes up with Otis Dell, a fry cook at the local diner-and a well-known petty thief. While Rodney resists the man's influence at first, Otis soon draws the boy into his small-time criminal world. After a simple heist goes violently wrong, Rodney becomes an unwitting fugitive, swept away from his mother to the primitive mountain sanctuary of the mysterious Lester Fanning. But with...
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When storms roar and orcas are on the prowl, it's the seal gardens of the Great Bear Sea that provide safety and shelter to sea lions, otters, a variety of seals and other sea mammals. Ian McAllister's glorious photographs reveal the beauty and mystery of this rarely seen place of refuge. This is the third title in the My Great Bear Rainforest series, following Wolf Island and A Bear's Life.
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A Whale's World follows a pod of spy-hopping orcas as they explore the ecosystems of the Great Bear Sea while hunting for their next meal. Past rocky shores and through kelp forests, they observe foraging wolves, hungry grizzly bears, curious black bears, graceful fin whales, splashing porpoises, slippery seals, and other members of the Pacific coastal food web. The book gives readers a fun introduction to the many ways that marine and land animals...
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When strange late-night letters start arriving at home, Emily's parents set off to investigate. But when her parents disappear completely and Emily is left home alone to face the weird strangers that begin to appear at her door, she takes all of the clues at her disposal and makes for the place where the letters came from - the mysterious Night Post. What she'll discover is the secret world of the Midnight Hour - a Victorian London frozen in time,...
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This is the first biography of Dell Burke, whose estate sale drew national attention when she died in 1981 at age 93. Painstakingly researched for over five years, June Willson Read's landmark history tells the story of a broken young woman who saw opportunities in the Alaskan gold rush, the copper mines in Montana and the oil fields in Wyoming. But it wasn't mining that made Burke's fortune — she focused on the entertainment needs of the lonely...
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The two books of Milanese Braids, 'Milanese Lace: An Introduction' and 'New Braids and Designs in Milanese Lace', both by Read and Kincaid (1988, 1994), have long been out of print. To make the braids available to a new audience, we reproduce them here, together with about forty new braids that were not included in earlier books. The braids are drawn from both Milanese and other continental braid-type laces. This is intended to be a reference book...
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• Would you like more happiness, self-confidence or resilience?
• Would you like to improve your relationships?
• Would you like to manage mental health symptoms or prevent them from arising?
If the answer is yes to any of these questions, this book could help you. Being Human offers a journey of self-discovery to help you find self-acceptance and self-love through a blend of psychology with a mind, body, spirit approach in a language that will...
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This true story is about the author's involvement with a Bible study group that turned out to be a cult remarkably similar to the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas, led by David Koresh. As of 28 February 1993, Read had been with them for some three years, and had grown to love and trust the leaders completely, but after she found out the truth about them she could no longer remain. That did not stop them from wanting her back under their control and...
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After 25 years of marriage Stella has adapted her life satisfactorily around her husband's workaholic hours and his apparent disinterest in herself and their son. Until.....one day her world comes crashing down when he's forced to reveal that he's borrowed large sums of money, supposedly for his business, using their home as collateral without her knowledge. The bank is calling in the debt, which opens a floodgate of fury when Stella realises the...
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IS YOUR RETIREMENT PLAN TO BE SELF-FUNDED AND NOT RELY ON A GOVERNMENT-FUNDED PENSION?
DO YOU THINK IT'S TOO HARD TO ENTER THE PROPERTY INVESTMENT MARKET?
DO YOU WANT TRUE FINANCIAL FREEDOM?
IF YOU ANSWERED "YES" YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK.
The great Australian dream has always been to own our own home. But over the last few years the dream has shifted. Now we want to live life on our terms and find true financial freedom that will allow us to spend...
14) RollerSnake
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Snake is upset that he is slower than the other animals in the jungle. He slithers around across the ground and wiggles from his tail to his nose. He wishes he had feet so that he could jump and leap and run like the wind blows, and be as fast as the other jungle animals. Snake's lifelong dream is to compete in an annual jungle race which he has never been able to do. But this time around, snake had an idea. An idea so brilliant that maybe, just maybe,...
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Open the gate to Fairacre, America's favorite English village. Having bid a last farewell to her pupils at Fairacre School, Miss Read settles down to what she hopes will be a relaxing retirement. It is not entirely so, of course. She finds herself as busy and in demand as ever: on holiday in Florence, helping with church and school affairs, and offering a kindly ear to her eccentric neighbors. With her teaching days behind her, Miss Read discovers...
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What do you consider to be your biggest flaw?...You may be an inveterate procrastinator. You may feel like you failed as a parent. You are not alone in feeling this way. Everybody has their flaws and foibles. What matters is how we deal with them.According to Brené Brown, she has collected thousands of stories from people worldwide about shame and its effects on the human mind.It is clear from these stories that those who embrace their imperfections...
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This warm, stylish cookbook is full of great on-trend recipes that suit today's lifestyle of relaxed eating using fresh seasonal produce. Tim Read, the latest MasterChef NZ winner, delivers excellent recipes with an emphasis on generosity, freshness, and ease of preparation. Perfect for family meals or sharing with friends, this is modern New Zealand cooking at its best. Tim loves using fresh food, gathering vegetables from the garden, catching fish...
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Lending Library for Prime Members Ultimate Guide How to Borrow, Read, and Return
Have you ever heard of Amazon Prime? If so, did you know you can buy, borrow or rent thousands upon thousands of books from them with just the click of a button? Do you know how to go about renting, borrowing and busying books from Amazon Prime or do you need some assistance? On the other hand, if you've never heard of Amazon Prime before, do you want to learn about it?...
19) Cat Ranch
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When the kids are away, the parents will play! Gal pals Reggie and Donna agree to an overnight cat sitting stay at a remote country estate. Their mission? Five-star care for nine indoor rescues. What they get instead is the arrival of a psychic hippie, a rejected rock musician, and a never-ending evening of surprises.The question is, where are the cats?
20) Give and Take
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Have you ever wondered why you think the way you do about people, jobs, relationships, and just about anything you have ever encountered? Everything you have ever experienced, every thought you have thought is the direct result of what you have given to it, or what you have taken from it. This is the capacity of our souls to give thought and to take thought concerning all that we see, hear, and feel in this life. God has designed us in his image,...