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3341) Invincible
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The Fault in Our Stars meets Go Ask Alice in this dramatic romance about a teenage girl who survives a terminal cancer diagnosis, only to get trapped in the deadly spiral of addiction. Fans of Gayle Forman and Sara Zarr will be swept away by this gritty romance, the first in a duology. Evie is living on borrowed time. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer several months ago and told that by now she'd be dead. Evie is grateful for every extra day...
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It's the final year of primary school for Sophia and Charlie at Warm Gully State School. They are friends for life. But ,Charlie has important news, which throws Sophia a curve ball. How can she get through Year 6, knowing what she knows now?
Join Sophia and Charlie as they meet new friends, some very cool and sassy seniors and a bunch of energetic and playful preppies!
Together, they will work out the challenges they face and make their year a fun...
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“When Losses Become Legacies” features nine memoirs, creatively told, about grief, God, and glory. In these true stories, modern-day saints meet suffering, their Savior, and sometimes, the supernatural.
Sooner or later, we all lose someone we love. Maybe the person closest to us. Maybe early in our lives, or theirs. Loss and grief have immeasurable power to draw us into darkness or deliver us into a higher purpose.
For those who follow Christ,...
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Granny is sick and getting weaker every day. When ten strangely dressed men from Sardonia arrive and begin buying in the marketplace, Minty knows that Granny's premonition has come true. The defilers have arrived, but what can she do about it? She's not yet thirteen years old. Having magic and knowing how to wield it are two different things. Will Granny be able to handle this new threat in her weakened position, or will Minty be left to fight alone?
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3345) Bigger Than the Sky
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Bigger Than The Sky is a wake-up call. Seemingly about sorrow, the sun keeps breaking through. As you turn the pages, you will meet Vicki and her friend Peter. Vicki facing her husband's death and Peter having awakened after a series of strokes. Peter lived in peace and presence, no matter what occurred. Peter loved Ramana Maharshi, who embodied that same peace-most of the time he sat in the sun with his cats, life itself having become his teacher....
3346) Waving to Heaven
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Abby Wright was feeling a different kind of sad following a death in the family. It was not the kind where she fell and hurt her knee or when it was time to get out of the bathtub. It was the kind of sad she could not explain to anyone.
Children notice when their routine is altered by the death of a parental figure, no matter who they may be. Abby Wright learns that all will be okay in her new world without Grandpa Jack, and what she must do is...
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Sunk deep in a world of his own creation, a troubled poet, mindful that he has gone mad, accepts a therapist's offer to help him understand why. The result is a compilation of poems and verses that unveils the radical nature of his views on truth, fear, love, and death.
Raw, dark, and existential, Manifestations of the Singular portrays a unique strain of modern-age poetry and illustrates how far one's solitary journey in search for meaning can go....
3348) Éloge à l'épouse défunte
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Éloge à l'épouse défunte est le témoignage d'un amour absolu et réciproque de 60 ans mis en poésie, de sentiment en sentiment. La maladie de la muse de l'auteur ainsi que son décès n'ont fait qu'exalter ce besoin de s'exprimer, de tracer en mots les ressentis de chaque jour passé à ses ctés.
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Through his work with spirits and with the grieving here on earth, Anthony has found profound truths that inspire everyone. Questions and answers range from 'What is heaven like?' to 'What happens to souls who commit suicide?', and everything in between. One of the hardest truths to grasp in this three-dimensional world is that life doesn't stop. It doesn't even slow down long enough for people to catch their breaths. As Anthony puts it, the souls...
3350) The Mealworm Diaries
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Mealworms are small creatures that live in dark secret places. Jeremy is a bit like that when he leaves his home in rural Nova Scotia and moves to Toronto with his mother. Lots of things keep him from enjoying his new life, but the worst is his science partner, Aaron, who is more annoying than sand in a bathing suit. Jeremy is also burdened by the secret he carries about the motorcycle accident that injured him and killed his father. Although Jeremy...
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In Vigil: Notes from a Hospice Life, A.J. Land reflects upon her work as a hospice social worker, caring for people who are ill and dying. This is the type of daily work that fosters endless introspection and floods of emotions. Poetry is the form that allows these very human realities to find voice and shape. At once personal and poignant, Vigil recognizes the universal nature of death and loss; A.J. Land hopes to provide words of comfort for others...
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Are You Struggling With Grief, Wrestling With Unanswered Questions, and Uncertain About Your Faith After The Passing Of Your Mother?
One Daughter's Journey Through Grief and Brokenness To Faith and Healing Will Inspire You To Find Your Path Towards Freedom and Embrace The New Life That Is Waiting For You!
In the United States alone, thousands of women pass away after a courageous battle with cancer. The loss carries on to loving sons, daughters, spouses,...
3353) Raised In Captivity
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With sharp comic turns and absurdist twists, Raised in Captivity explores the guilt, self-punishment, and redemption in the lives of two estranged and equally odd siblings when they reunite at the funeral of their mother--whose demise was caused by nothing less than an errant showerhead.
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Does it stink, getting older?(Spoiler Alert: It does not.) We all have questions. -How do we deal with life when it invades the pristine shoreline of our plans? -How will I move on from loss? -Am I spending too much time looking back? -Is it OK that I'm not OK?(Spoiler Alert: Yes, it is.) You are not alone. Robert Kugler has been there. In AN ALMOST TOLERABLE PERSON: UNCOMMON THOUGHTS ON LIFE, LOSS, AND LOOKING BACK, Robert looks at those questions,...
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There is no one set formula for why decent people come to consider suicide. Each comes to the edge of their personal cliff in their unique way. The journey a person takes from loss to suicide is for most people - especially for youth - the same downward spiral. The trajectory is remarkably similar - and preventable, if help is offered soon enough, is caring, humane manner.
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Un ton léger pour une histoire pas vraiment amusante, mais qui permet de relativiser et d'avancer.
Tout commence le jour o Danny, dix ans, envoie une brique à trois trous dans la fenêtre d'un vieux voisin, ce qui a pour effet d'écrabouiller sa loutre empaillée. Dommage pour le voisin, bien fait pour la loutre..À la suite de quoi, Danny fait plusieurs rencontres, qui vont le pousser à tout quitter, l'école, ses parents, sa petite sœur Angela,...
3357) Howl
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When eleven-year-old, Jamaican-born and Brooklyn-raised Celia Johnson arrives at Camp Glynwood, she already has plans to run away. She needs to get home to continue her search for her younger brother, Kyel, who has been missing for over three months. However, on the night of her great eascape, Celia makes an incredible discovery: she can talk to animals. Suddenly, Celia is catapulted into the wildest adventure of her life. Slipping away from camp...
3358) Grandpa's Scroll
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A scroll that a grandfather plans to finish painting with his granddaughter shows how love can overcome differences and distances.
Lily lives in Washington, DC. Her grandpa lives in Korea. They've never met but are good pen pals. Just when he is about to visit Lily in the U.S., Grandpa dies. Lily and her mom fly to Korea, where they uncover the rice paper scroll Grandpa had hoped to finish painting with Lily. To honor his wish, Lily writes a poem...
3359) The Promise Of Living
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In 2004, George Goens lost his daughter during the birth of his second grandchild. How does one respond to the simultaneous crash of life and death? In The Promise of Living: Loss, Life and Living, Goens wrestles with his conflicting emotions over the convergence of two very disparate events - one celebrating the beginning of life, one grieving the loss of another. Goens begins his story at the expected date of his daughter Betsy's birthing of her...
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There are moments when the heart no longer wishes to feel because everything it's felt up until then has brought it nothing but anguish. In She Felt Like Feeling Nothing, r.h. Sin pursues themes of self-discovery and retrospection. With this book, the poet intends to create a safe space where women can rest their weary hearts and focus on themselves.
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