Scott Spencer
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"Since their college days, Kip Woods has been infatuated with Thaddeus Kaufman, who, years later, is a married father of two children and desperately trying to revive a failing career. Kip's devotion to Thaddeus has been life-defining and destiny-altering, but it has been one that Thaddeus has either failed to notice or refused to acknowledge. But over the course of this heated and mesmerizing novel, set against a background of privilege and affluence...
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A congressional candidate's campaign threatens to unravel when he becomes consumed by an obsession with his dead lover. Aspiring politician Fielding Pierce and social activist Sarah Williams are madly in love. But while both are passionate liberals, their very different approaches to their beliefs result in a rollercoaster relationship. Nevertheless, when Sarah is killed in a terrorist attack during a mission to help Chilean refugees, Fielding is...
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Daniel Emerson lives with Kate Ellis, and he is like a father to her daughter, Ruby. But he cannot control his desire for Iris Davenport, the African-American woman whose son is Ruby's best friend. During a freak October blizzard, Daniel is stranded at Iris's house, and they begin a sexual liaison that eventually imperils all their relationships, Daniel's profession, their children's well-being, their own race-blindness, and their view of themselves...
8) Willing
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Thirty-seven-year-old freelance writer Avery Jankowsky is devastated when his girlfriend, Deirdre, confesses that she has been having an affair. Beside himself with jealousy and grief, Avery accepts his uncle Ezra's advice-and his tickets to an all-expenses-paid international sex tour. Sensing a white-hot book idea (and a chance to get back at faithless Deirdre), Avery joins a group of mostly wealthy and accomplished travelers on a mad Nordic whirl,...
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A rock singer's life is recounted by his bastard son. The narrator is Billy Rothschild, who interviews people for a book he is writing on the singer. The singer refused to recognize him and abandoned his mother. Still, Billy hopes to bring them together. By the author of Men in Black.
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A naïve young woman faces a decision so important it will change her life forever. At the height of the Second World War, Caitlin Van Fleet moves to Washington, D.C., to become a "government girl" in the office of pro-German Congressman Stowe. Young and impressionable, she enters into a passionate love affair with the congressman's aide, Betty Sinclair. But their relationship, while intense, is short-lived: When Caitlin befriends Joe Rose, an undercover...
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Paul Galambos is an ordinary professor of psychology, struggling to glean any degree of satisfaction or success from his family and his career - until one day he is recruited by a top-secret organization and given carte blanche to pursue experiments and studies as he sees fit, no longer confined to lab rats. This is the life that Paul was destined for, replete with money and respect, if only he can ignore the incessant pull of his conscience. Alternately...
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A romantic getaway becomes the setting for a terrible act of violence when two unlikely couples are stranded by a fierce snowstorm. Virgil Morgan's precarious relationship with his father has served to cut him off from the world at large for most of his life. But when he meets Tracy, their immediate, intense love for each other grounds him in a way that nothing else can - until his old insecurities return in the form of his father's new stepson. And...
13) Endless love
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[2014]
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English
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"When beautiful Jade ... meets charismatic David ... , her sheltered world of privilege is turned upside down as the pair's instant desire sparks a reckless summer love affair. ... But when David's mysterious past and Jade's overprotective father threaten to tear them apart, their romance will be put to the ultimate test"--Container.
15) Waking the dead
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USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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When one man's 70's idealism confronts his 80's aspirations, he begins an emotional rollercoaster that brings ghosts back to life and the ultimate question: does love conquer all, even death?
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American folk music and musicians volume no. 15
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Scarecrow Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Eva-Birch Media
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English
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What every family member of a loved one with dementia needs to know: How to help without sacrificing YOU. In Surviving Alzheimer's you'll find: -- The best, most current thinking on how to enhance quality of life and safety while minimizing stress on everyone involved. -- The "Why This, Try This" approach to understanding what's behind odd, frustrating behaviors -- and what you can do about them. -- How to defuse resentment, guilt, anger, and family...
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Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Mickey's Once upon a Christmas: Donald Duck's nephews learn why holidays come once a year. Goofy and his son discover the spirit of Santa, and Mickey and Minnie reenact a classic tale of giving in this holiday offering.
Disney's a Christmas Carol: Ebeneezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet-to-Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge...