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2) Ill Wind
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Hard-hitting veteran reporter Deuce Mora is awakened in the pre-dawn hours and called to the scene of a gruesome hanging to identify the body of a dear friend, an FBI agent on the verge of taking down one of Chicago's biggest Mob operations. Deuce knows it's murder, but the authorities have no choice but to call it a suicide-the scene was triple-locked from the inside.
The ill wind sweeping the Windy City has also whipped up two more unexplainable...
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Explores how to handle illness, both when oneself is sick, when a loved one is sick, or when a friend is dealing with illness. Additional features include a table of contents, sidebars, an infographic, Fast Facts, questions to inspire further thought, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research. Author/Illustrator biography Educational front/back matter Glossary of key words Index Infographics Informative sidebars Phonetics Photo...
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"Felicity Jin grew up literally hanging onto Mom's apron strings in their magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, California. Her mother's enchanted baked goods, including puffy pineapple buns and creamy egg tarts, bring instant joy to all who consume them. Felicity has always been hesitant in the kitchen herself after many failed attempts, but a takeout meal gone wrong inspires her to craft some handmade fortune cookies. They become so popular...
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When Joe Gall heads to Indonesia on an assignment to acquire a fortune in precious metals, he finds himself in the midst of an attempted coup and a civil war, a bloody battle fought by the military and the Communists. Now he has to guard something even more valuable than gold and silver-his own life-in this gripping thriller by the Edgar Award finalist.
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Opal May Kane's courageous journey is a tale of triumph over overwhelming adversity. A poor Southern girl, she who grew up on a small pig farm in Mississippi facing the harsh realities of poverty and missed opportunities. Her life is ravished by the depths of an unjust, unfair, and cruel existence. The normalcy of childhood and lost innocence marred by family responsibilities, proved to set off a life cycle of pain and suffering.
From the beginning...
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Leanne grew up under the steady trickle of the harsh and belittling words of her critical mother, in the shadow of her sisters' perfection, and under the weight of a dark secret. With her self-confidence all but eroded, and her head hanging down, she is surprised when Mike McKinley notices her. With every kind word, Mike erases a little pain from her past, and for the first time, she feels as if she is standing on firm ground. But seven years into...
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Several months after I'll Come Back for You... Helen Beck is training to become a witch like her late-grandmother, but managing a bed and breakfast and her ADHD makes concentrating nearly impossible. When her mentor convinces her go into the woods and practice magic under the moonlight, she hopes that the natural world unlocks her dormant powers. A year ago, Everett Myer left Alaska to come home and help his father run the family hardware store. But...
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These eighteen short stories address all the different elements of weather and weather forecasting, from a variety of different angles. Some of them are dark, some of them are funny, some of them are sweet, many of them are a bit weird. We begin with A Lesson on Fronts, a lesson on weather, entwined with some life lessons. We work our way through some weather-assisted murders, a sweet story of loss, some funny takes on 'routine' weather forecasting,...
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To all my Beyoncé stalkers...Are you ready to journey through the captivating realms of fascination, authenticity, and contentment? In this thought-provoking yet delightfully witty exploration, join me as we delve into the mind-boggling obsessions that haunt us, taking us on unexpected detours – from high-flying daydreams to the mesmerizing allure of the utterly rich and famous, with none other than Beyoncé herself making a special appearance.But...
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When the heir to a comic strip empire is rubbed out, Manhattan private eye Steve Conacher is drawn into a colorful spread of nasty secrets. When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under his...
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Though Quirt's name is little known, his skills as a gladiator are quickly obvious and hard to match. In Aureity, noblemen battle in the arena circuit, using their powers of teleportation and telekinesis to prove their breeding and strength. The prizes at play are not only silver and bronze but also the chance to rise amongst the nobility and mate with the ruling class of women. Older than most players, Quirt still manages to draw attention and awe...
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Prominent physicians Allister Vale and John Scadding have written a meticulously researched and definitive account documenting all of Winston Churchill's major illnesses, from an episode of childhood pneumonia in 1886 until his death in 1965. They have adopted a thorough approach in gaining access to numerous sources of medical information and have cited extensively from the clinical records of the distinguished physicians and surgeons invited to...
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This classic book, long out of print in English, challenges accepted ideas of illness by suggesting it's not an enemy to be fought. When you see your symptoms as bodily expressions of psychological or spiritual conflicts, you can use them as guides to inner work. You can respond to troubles with infection, allergies, respiration, digestion, skin, nervous system, heart and circulation, sexuality and pregnancy, even accidents, with practical actions...
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In I'll Pray for You and Other Outrageous Things Said to Disabled People, Hannah Setzer volunteers to go first and say the things that we all think, but rarely say. Hannah has lived her whole life as a disabled woman and is here to share her story, though don't think for a second that this is inspiration porn. In fact, Hannah's disability is the least interesting thing about her!
I'll Pray for You is full of . . .
- parenting fails,
- awkward stories,...
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Aohara is a playboy; life is an everlasting summer and there's no rest for the horny, especially for a top like him.
Pursued relentlessly by a guy named Masaki, Aohara is frustrated when Masaki insists on being on top, and making Aohara the bottom. But Masaki is friendly and soft-spoken, making it hard for Aohara to fend off his advances...