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While watching the demolition of his old school Placidus College, Simon Hickey looks back on ten turbulent, life defining years, when the first crop of Australia's baby boomers were awakening to their sexuality. Seduced by the power of the pulpit, and the Aquinine Brothers, Simon's attention is directed toward a religious vocation.
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An offbeat love story about the adventures and mutual rescue of a young woman out of place in her hometown and a mysterious stranger who calls himself Peter Parker (and begins to cast her in the role of Spider-Man's first sweetheart), The Night Gwen Stacy Died is about first loss, first love, and finding our real identities.
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With Blue's father in prison for selling marijuana and his mother estranged for over the last seven years, Blue is doing well, all considering. As the second addition to the not-so-nuclear Dixon family of Lisa, her ten-year-old son, Dwight, and the retired, Jewish introvert, Av, Blue finds himself living in a much better area of Halifax, Nova Scotia, going to a much better school and for the first time, actually applying himself academically as he...
4) Ties
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When a shiny new convertible arrives for her twenty-first birthday, Hattie Beckett has had enough of her absent dad trying to buy a place in her life. It's time for him to face her--or get out of her life forever.She tosses some clothes in a bag, looks up her father's last known address, and sets her GPS for Silver Stand, California.When she arrives at a beach-bum paradise that's totally foreign to her New England upbringing and finds nothing but...
5) Riptides
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Enzo Rodriguez doesn't take much seriously--unless it involves waves, boards, or good beer.When too-hot-to-handle Jessica Mills strolls into his life, Enzo is willing to forego all of those things for every second he can spend with her.But Jessica has a huge secret--and when it's revealed, it not only crushes Enzo, but has the last person he wants to ask a favor of--his brother-in-law Adam--bailing him out of jail.Enzo is convinced that the only way...
6) Dummy & Me!
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Sixteen-year-old Deanna Lambert is miserable. She can't find her niche with the popular kids at school and she believes she is ugly. Then, too, after her mother deserted the family to pursue an acting career, Deanna's father has grown distant and embittered. Now Deanna is saddled with most of the chores at home--and she and her dad barely communicate. Yet Deanna's one happy escape is her volunteer work at the nearby children's hospital. There the...
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No past. No future. Only now.
Originally a self-publishing success launched on N. Frank Daniels's MySpace page, the novel Futureproof tells the story of Luke and his friends as they navigate Atlanta's subculture of delinquents. In short order, the seemingly harmless high from his first cigarette sends Luke on a downward spiral that ends only after years of self-abuse. It is an extreme cautionary tale told with sensitivity, ferocity, and grit.
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***2013 InD'Tale RONE Award Finalist*** A little lie can change the course of everything. . . Like every other eighteen-year-old in love, Olivia has dreams of spending forever with the love of her life. Luke is all she's ever wanted – until she overhears something she was never meant to. In a matter of seconds, Olivia's heart is shattered. Olivia handles it the only way she knows how - she runs- leaving behind her family, friends and the boy she...
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Billy grew up in a foster home run by a Dad who treated the elderly women like he was a cruel madam of a whorehouse. He was even more abusive to Billy than the ladies. To survive, Billy strives to be an artist who creates a perfect painting of a perfect woman as if he is a crack addict without any lack of product. But he falls for Bitea; perfectly imperfect in love, in emotions, in her faith in him. She rattles his conscience about how he watches...
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En febrero de 2021, la escritora Lucy Sante envió un mensaje a sus más allegados para comunicarles su transición de género: «Tenía pavor a verme delante de lo que ahora enfrento. Por lo que sea, ahora el dique ha reventado, se me ha caído la venda de los ojos, ha levantado la niebla». A sus 66 años, Lucy Sante llevaba toda la vida buscando la verdad artística a través de sus libros, pero fue entonces cuando se sintió impulsada a afrontar...
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THIS MUCH IS TRUE - Truth In Lies Book 1 by KATHERINE OWENShe just wants to escape her tragic story. He just wants to learn her name. This much is true.Tally Landon just wants to escape her tragic story if only for just one night. She doesn't count on meeting Stanford's baseball wonder, Lincoln Presley. But now, she just plans to add him to her long list of one-night stands. That's the plan.Lying to the guy about virtually everything is her sure way...
12) Heart's a Mess
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Sometimes our hearts break…When John Smith's father was dying, his family knew there was nothing to do, but they tried anyway. Paying more money than they had, they took John's father and the last of their hope to Ezra Abel for a healing. And we fight to keep it beating…But Ezra's faith healing is only a trick-a way to fool families out of their money. Worst of all, he humiliates these families when they're at their lowest. After his father dies,...
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The complete Sovereign Era story of Nate Charters! 162,000 words, including Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era Revised and Expanded Edition and Pilgrimage -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era.About The Books In This Omnibus CollectionBrave Men RunApril 18, 1985 – A startling revelation shocks a world already wound tight by the desperate tensions of the Cold War: super-humans exist... and they demand autonomy.Until that day, high school sophomore...
14) They of the West
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Dralen never could leave well enough alone.He knows better than to go near the canyons. That's where the Logans live, wild men of the hills said to devour lone travelers in frenzied midnight feasts.But the mysterious cloaked figure he saw down by the canyons had to be there for a reason. And he can't get his Urpa's poem out of his head: something about "They of the West" and "Treasures buried in memory's mine."Folks used to mine for topaz in the canyons,...
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In "Pawsitive Bonds: A Tale of Friendship and Resilience," follow Emily and her loyal canine companion, Max, as they navigate challenges in their small town. When Max faces being taken away, Emily refuses to back down, rallying support from her community and celebrities alike. With unwavering determination and the power of friendship, Emily and Max triumph against adversity, proving that love knows no bounds. This heartwarming tale celebrates the...
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