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"In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped...
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Get the Summary of Nina Burleigh's Mirage in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mirage" by Nina Burleigh recounts Napoleon Bonaparte's secretive 1798 expedition to Egypt, involving a fleet of 300 ships, 34,000 troops, 16,000 sailors, and 151 scholars and artists. The mission aimed to undermine British trade routes and expand French influence. The scholars, including prominent figures like Gaspard Monge and Claude-Louis...
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Nina Samson, an analyst working at Coronado Base Command, lands in Navy sniper Mace Callahan's lap like an I.E.D. Two weeks of fiery passion with the lithe redhead, and the self-proclaimed bachelor raises the white flag.Arriving in San Diego, Nina, a single mother with an eight-year-old daughter, spots danger ahead. Mace's Hollywood good looks and wicked smile makes her heart run a zip-line of crazy. Lust for the sexy SEAL swiftly turns to fear when...
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Nina es muy, muy desordenada, y como no quiere que toda su familia la regañe, se inventa un montón de MENTIRAS enormes. Sin embargo, sus mentiras empiezan a aparecer en forma de MONSTRUOS ruidosos y divertidos, ¡pero también muy grandes y pesados! ¡Nina está harta de los monstruos! ¿Cómo podrá deshacerse de ellos?
46) L'envol de Nina
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Nina est une adolescente ayant la particularité de voir dans le futur et de connaître les évènements qui vont survenir. Ignorant qu'elle est atteinte du syndrome d'Asperger, son quotidien à la maison ou au collège est compliqué et les interactions sociales sont difficiles. Cependant, elle est secrètement amoureuse d'un jeune homme dont elle ne sait pas grand-chose mais qui semble lui aussi avoir un don singulier... La force de ses sentiments...
47) Acepte a mi nina
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Este libro esta basado en hechos personales reales que he ido superando en el transcurso de los anos. ?Has pasado por algo similar?, abuso sexual, maltrato familiar, depresion, aborto, ataques de panico o miedo de salir a la calle,!deshazte de esas cadenas, tu eres una hija(o) de Dios vales mucho! Entregale todo a Dios,!y se feliz!
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It's been a while since Nina Statleon-ex-coffin lover, current chicken wing lover-lost her vampire mojo during a particularly brutal OOPS case.Her friends Wanda and Marty are worried. Nina clearly hasn't dealt with the emotional fallout caused by losing one's immortality. She's got issues. Big issues. And it's time to call in the Big Gun-Paranormal Psychologist January Malone.Her friends will get Nina to the therapist's office, even if they have to...
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"Raised on Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux in 1970s Lebanon, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. As the bombs fell, she lived an adolescence of excess and transgression, defying death in nightclubs. The more oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous sex she had, fueling the resentment by day of the same men who would spend the night with her. As the war dies down, she...
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Este livro é, sem dúvida, o mais comovente de todos os que Ziraldo já escreveu para crianças. Com uma enternecedora força poética, o autor sonda os mistérios da vida e da morte e, numa linguagem cuidada e simples, consegue falar da dor de um modo delicado e cheio de esperança. É, claro, uma conversa difícil para se ter com crianças, mas aqui está o segredo de quem sabe falar para elas com precisão e sensibilidade.
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Blackwater Renegade Dex knows what he has to do-and she isn't going to like it. Forcing Nina James to confront her past after everything she's gone through is going to be rough-and he's a Renegade for Christ's sake. The fiery and feisty Nina gives him a run for his money. Battling her inner demons is destroying her, and he's hell-bent on saving her. But, will this hostage capture more than just his heart?
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2022
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Aie confiance, crois en toi...
Nina Hill est libraire. Elle a une culture générale incroyable, un agenda bien rempli et un chat nommé Phil. Que désirer de plus ? Quand on lui rappelle qu'il n'y a pas que les livres dans la vie, elle hausse les épaules et se plonge dans un nouveau roman.
Quand Nina apprend la mort du père qu'elle n'a jamais connu, elle découvre par la même occasion l'existence d'innombrables
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When Nina Sankovitch's sister died at the age of forty-six, Nina turned to books for comfort, escape, and introspection. In her beloved purple chair, she rediscovered the magic of such writers as Toni Morrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ian McEwan, Edith Wharton, and, of course, Leo Tolstoy. Through the connections Nina made with books, authors, and other readers, her life changed in unexpected ways. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair also tells the story of...
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Identity Crisis. As a biracial teen, Nina is accustomed to a life of varied hues-mocha-colored skin, ringed brown hair streaked with red, a darker brother, a black father, a white mother. When her parents decide to divorce, the rainbow of Nina's existence is reduced to a much starker reality. Shifting definitions and relationships are playing out all around her, and new boxes and lines seem to be getting drawn every day. Between the fractures within...
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On the evening of her father's funeral, while his family recites suras from the Koran, Noun interrupts the ceremony. Faithful to the memory of her father, a writer and journalist, a freedom fighter, she decides to put an end to this memorial and to make sure that her father's last wishes are respected: to be buried to a jazz tune. Locked up with the dead body, Noun looks back on her experience in Lebanon. She reminisces about the war, the straitjacket...
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2021
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Die junge Frau und das Meer – Nina Portlands erster Fall
Chaotisch, clever und absolut unbeirrbar: Kapitänstochter Nina Portland bringt frischen Wind in die skandinavische Krimiszene
Der Auftakt von Jens Henrik Jensens Nina-Portland-Trilogie
Verlassen treibt ein Küstenschiff auf hoher See. An Deck ist es ganz still. Und dieser süßliche Geruch über den Planken ... Im Hafen von Esbjerg scheint sich ein düsterer Verdacht zu bestätigen. Ermittler...
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#1 After World War II, my grandmother, Oma, was one of the first people in her village to emerge from the underground cellar. She and her children moved back into the family house. As women in the village waited for their husbands and sons to return, they became alarmed when stories began circulating that the Soviets were raping and killing German women.
#2 The Americans arrived in...
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#1 John Hancock, the second president of the United States, was a minister in the small Massachusetts town of Braintree. He built his ministry on hope and comfort, and he showed kindness toward the villagers who came to him for help.
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