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"Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style twenty years old, living and working...
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"From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles"--
"San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career...
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Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Emma Stone, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
"Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve.
Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
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5) P.S. Jane
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When pleasure party consultant and busy mom Jane McKenna accidentally ingests a mysterious compound, she wakes up to discover she has gained unexplained superpowers. But balancing motherhood to two kids and being part of the PTA was hard enough without new abilities! Now she must figure out how to incorporate being a supermom into her hectic schedule to keep her family cared for and her bossy PTA rival from kicking her out. When a villain appears...
6) PROPHET SONG
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"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
7) P-51 Mustang
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An illustrated history of the renowned fighter aircraft, ideal for modelers and aviation enthusiasts: "Highly recommended." -AMPS Indianapolis
The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most successful and effective fighter aircraft of all time. It was initially produced, in response to a 1940 RAF requirement for a fast, heavily armed fighter able to operate effectively at altitudes in excess of 20,000 feet. North American built the prototype...
8) The P.I
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Private investigator-slash-crime writer Kit Angelis is closing up shop when trouble walks in. Blond, as usual-the sexy sleuth's favorite flavor. But this damsel really is in distress: covered in blood, she's carrying a wedding dress, a bagful of cash, a recently fired handgun and Kit's card. And she can't remember a thing…. Suddenly Kit is embroiled in a deadly mystery-and the key is this sultry stranger. She might be a killer. Or she might be totally...
9) P'tit Claude
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Ce livre relate l'histoire d'un garçon traversant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Après une jeunesse insouciante à Paris, il doit contracter un mariage hâtif avant sa captivité en Allemagne. Il devra survivre dans différents stalags avant de retrouver sa liberté et une vie normale. Saura-t-il s'adapter à tous ces événements?
10) P-51 Mustang
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Today, the Mustang is a living legend and is remembered as probably the finest long-range single-seat piston-engined fighter ever built. Here, in words and images, the esteemed aviation historian Martin Bowman tells the story of an aircraft that continues to provoke enthusiastic praise. We look at the Mustang's involvement in the Second World War and the Korean War, as well as other conflicts and engagements. This new addition to the Images of War...
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P.I. Jane volume 4
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Meet Jane Day. Twenty-something temp-by-day, detective-by-night. Jane is employed by M.W. Investigations, which operates out of the owner, Margaret "Peggy" Woodward's suburban home, and is entirely staffed by women. Under the guise of a knitting club called the "Stitch & Bitch," Peggy's girls meet once a week. The other P.I.'s are assigned run-of-the-mill cases: insurance fraud, infidelity, nanny watching-- the usual. Jane's cases, though? They're...
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P.I. Jane volume 2
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Meet Jane Day. Twenty-something temp-by-day, detective-by-night. Jane is employed by M.W. Investigations, which operates out of the owner, Margaret "Peggy" Woodward's suburban home, and is entirely staffed by women. Under the guise of a knitting club called the "Stitch & Bitch," Peggy's girls meet once a week. The other P.I.'s are assigned run-of-the-mill cases: insurance fraud, infidelity, nanny watching-- the usual. Jane's cases, though? They're...
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P.I. Jane volume 1
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Meet Jane Day. Twenty-something temp-by-day, detective-by-night. Jane is employed by M.W. Investigations, which operates out of the owner, Margaret "Peggy" Woodward's suburban home, and is entirely staffed by women. Under the guise of a knitting club called the "Stitch & Bitch," Peggy's girls meet once a week. The other P.I.'s are assigned run-of-the-mill cases: insurance fraud, infidelity, nanny watching- the usual. Jane's cases, though? They're...
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P.I. Jane volume 3
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Meet Jane Day. Twenty-something temp-by-day, detective-by-night. Jane is employed by M.W. Investigations, which operates out of the owner, Margaret "Peggy" Woodward's suburban home, and is entirely staffed by women. Under the guise of a knitting club called the "Stitch & Bitch," Peggy's girls meet once a week. The other P.I.'s are assigned run-of-the-mill cases: insurance fraud, infidelity, nanny watching-- the usual. Jane's cases, though? They're...
15) P.R.A.Y
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P.R.A.Y. is a book focused on practical disciplines for developing a life of prayer. Developing a life of prayer can be, at times, somewhat overwhelming or possibly intimidating. Jesus emphasized the importance of prayer so much so that it was a personal discipline and one that he desired for his disciples to develop. Jesus told his disciples to pray with him right before he was arrested and taken to be crucified. The objective of the book P.R.A.Y....
16) P.O.W
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Captured!
The Veles have retreated to their last stronghold. Lance finds himself in an underground facility where old friends and even older enemies must work together to survive the grueling experiments conducted by Irene, Amber, and Doctor Cecil.
With no backup and no support Lance's skills are put to their greatest test in a fight for survival unlike any he's experienced. Between what seems like innocent childhood games and military exercises...
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For fans of Veronica Mars. Jane Day's a twenty-something temp-by-day, detective-by-night…and also sometimes during the day (don't tell Chad). Jane straddles two worlds: Reality - in boring grayscale - and her Imagination - in full, vibrant color. Jane uses the fantasy to cut through the tedium, living as much inside her head as out. Her wheelhouse is the weird. Not necessarily the macabre, but just the...strange. Collecting the first two volumes,...
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Drawing inspiration from Sappho, Mary Oliver, Greek myths and European fairy tales, Poem Begins With P, traces America's relationship with her Beloved through the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. The poems follow a roller coaster of fear, heartbreak, anger, and grief, but through it all, America's love remains strong.
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Broken trust. Broken promises. Shame, confusion, and guilt. Unimaginable violence. Then the War came, and the cycle started anew. This is the story of Kurt, a Bavarian infantryman serving somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. He is like many of his comrades and not a few of his enemies: he fights a war within a war, a singular combat against what he knows of love, hate, sex, addiction, and abuse. A combat against monsters both...
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Le roman de Francisco Angulo, Projet Lazare R.I.P., est l'œuvre d'un talent certain qui nous plonge dans les arcanes les plus insondables de l'âme humaine. L'auteur nous entraîne dans une quête existentielle profonde, à la lisière du réel et de l'imaginaire, du rationnel et de l'irrationnel.Avec un style fluide et envoûtant, Angulo tisse une intrigue complexe o se mêlent enquête policière, thriller métaphysique et réflexion philosophique....