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After a traumatic experience in her hometown of Miami, Elena Flores moves away to live with the father she's never met. It's not easy starting a new school in the middle of October, so when her half sister invites her to a party, she thinks "what's the worst that could happen?" Elena must learn to navigate her new life in the wealthy suburbs of Long Island and try to build relationships, but that's hard to do when she doesn't know who to trust and...
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This book is a journal of lives much like your own perhaps after a few Long Island Ice teas and just like that potent brew these poems are served with equal amounts inspiration, friendship, passion and romance with a little coca cola of course. Within these pages are unshackled imaginings of crystal waterfalls cascading into a rainbow bloom as a symphony of hard and soft rocks fills the air with all the grandeur of Mother Natures opera. But to conceptualize...
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Theresa Caputo Raising Spirits volume 19
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Theresa delivers healing messages to her son's friend who lost his mother to cancer. Back home on Long Island, clients revisit their readings months later, touched by the profound messages they received.
4) Chronicles
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A compelling collection of short stories. From "Holidays" discussing the interest concept of birthdays. We make our birthday wishes but do they ever come true? To "Long Island Iced Tea", a story of passion. And "Writing" to contemplate new surroundings from travel. Lives are different in new environments, but how different? Lastly, a decisive finish with "It Will Be A Long Time" by imagining a world of closure and lostness.
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About the Book This magical story tells of a little girl named Emy, who has a hard time falling asleep. What can her mom do to help her? She decides to tell Emy a special story about fairies and butterflies. Fairies and Butterflies takes your imagination to this magical place and makes you dream about it, just like Emy does. About the Author Evelyn Acosta studies anthropology/sociology at Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York. She works with...
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The manager of a Long Island strip club, shows us what's it like through his eyes, to work and be the boss, in the adult entertainment industry. In seven nights, he will open and close this topless bar, all the while dealing with complications, controversy and the madness that can and does occur on a daily bases by the staff and customers. From drugs and alcohol, to sex and violence, and also theft. He is faced with making sure Club Inferno runs smoothly...
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About the Book Dreamcatchers, Edens, and Universes conveys awe for the beauty and complexity of nature, and love for all things: animals, plants, and minerals, and whatever Gods they may be. Everything in nature is linked to everything else, by gravity, and who knows what other forces. We know almost nothing about anything. Stand in Awe of a Mosquito's Eye. About the Author Carl Hasper is the author of Rimes of Ancient Fables. He was born in the beautiful...
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From author Lena Gregory comes a hunt for more than just treasure...
Danika Delany is loving running her uncle's old fashioned malt shop on eastern Long Island and putting her own modern spin on the treats they serve. Life is finally looking up for her! That is, until local billionaire Maxwell Crumbholtz dies and leaves his fortune in the form of a treasure hunt. Chaos descends on Watchogue, and Dani and the rest of the gang from the Coffee & Cream...
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__Leah loves the trappings of Christmas, but as a nice Jewish girl in New York, she's always felt like an outsider looking in. So when she gets invited to a picturesque Connecticut Christmas with her adorable new boyfriend's parents, she can't wait. The fact that she'd never quite gotten around to telling him that she's Jewish isn't going to stop her-she's going to finally have the Christmas of her dreams. Graham's head-over-heels for Leah, but he...
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US Navy Commander Gabi Halsey's story continues from, The Cairo Rose is Chocolate Pink. The Secretary of the Navy reviews her court martial that forced her to resign from the Navy in Book I. He reinstates her commission. The Chief of Naval Operations uses her unique situation to be his eyes and ears to evaluate the controversial female Captain Molly Grafton, Commanding Officer of the USS Omaha Beach, CG-77.Off the coast of North Korea with Gabi commanding...
11) Flight
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Why is everyone trying to kill Prissi Langue?It's 2097 and teens can fledge and grow wings as they go through puberty. Fifteen year old Prissi has been having fun flying, goofing with her BFF Nancy, and stirring up arguments with her NQB (not quite boyfriend) Joe Fflowers. Despite her mother's death three years before, her dad's unending and very depressing grief, and Joe's threats to run away from school to avoid fledging, Prissi's life is pretty...
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"She is a new kind of celebrity-a television superstar reporter-bred by television and its peculiar kind of intimacy which brings her into the living rooms or bedrooms or kitchens of almost a million viewers every night."-New York Times
For 30 years on TV, she told other people's stories. Now she's telling her own.
In 1967, by accident, Melba Tolliver was the first Black American to anchor network news. Going on to report and anchor for WABC-TV...
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In this heartbreaking story of family, struggle, hope, and forgiveness, V.L. Brunskill tells of her life as she grows up on Long Island, New York. Vicki-lynn and her brother Peter are adopted as infants into a family defined by violence. V.L. defends her mother and brother for a decade before escaping to a domestic abuse shelter.How far would you go to save your family?The Killing Closet examines V.L.'s adoptive father, Jo Selbach's hidden gender...
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Kensington Pub Corp
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2024
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In this Gilded Age gothic homage to "Gaslight" starring Ingrid Bergman, a wealthy young newlywed in early 20th century New York is isolated within her opulent, yet ominously empty mansion by the charismatic and controlling new husband plotting to undermine her sanity...
"A gothic mystery as full of twists and turns as a Victorian staircase. I couldn't put it down!" —Lisa Jackson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author...
"A gothic mystery as full of twists and turns as a Victorian staircase. I couldn't put it down!" —Lisa Jackson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author...
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The University of Chicago Press
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2024.
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"In this convincing book, MIT climate scientist Susan Solomon argues against the hopeless passivity we too often feel when confronted with dire predictions about the future of our planet. Her antidote is to provide the inside story of past environmental victories, to extract from this neglected history the essential elements of what works, and to show that we have not just the popular will but the specific means to save the planet. In each case, she...
16) Flashback
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Kendra Michaels volume 11
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Grand Central Publishing
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"When two sisters in their twenties go missing while investigating a series of brutal murders committed over two decades before, Kendra Michaels joins the search for the missing women. The sisters' mother was one of the victims, and police seem to have had little interest in actively pursuing the cold case. Armed with the box of photos, videos, police reports and notes gathered by the sisters over the years, Kendra's investigation takes her to nearby...
17) The voyage
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Aldana Libros / Greystone Kids
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[2024]
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"Drawn to the horizon since she was small, the heroine of this story longs to discover what lies beyond it. She builds herself a boat, with the help of her parents, who know they cannot keep her on the little island they call home. With courage, joy, and the gift of the most brilliant of swords from her parents, she sets off.Beautifully illustrated, this immersive book celebrates the great joys of the voyage itself. It captures the experience of finding...
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Marshall Publishing & Promotions
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©2014
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"A fantastic musical DVD adventure featuring 22 sing-a-long songs from the world famous "Lots & Lots of Trains" DVD series for kids. Your children will be dancing and singing along to all the wonderful train songs performed by award-winning children's musician, James Coffey in this amazing hour-long video."--Container.
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