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Out of my mind volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Because she loves horses but is scared of them, Melody wants to conquer her fears, so she hopes a summer camp will be the place to welcome someone with cerebral palsy who wants to learn to ride
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"The most beautiful thing I saw from here was a place I spent the worst part of my life coming home from..."
These pieces were written at a time when the world felt harsh and cold. Sometimes, those are the times the river bursts free, and we can pour all the gentle, intimate and vulnerable things into its flow. These are the times when the texture of things becomes challenging, exciting and even magical in turn; when tears become oceans, and...
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This is a personal, poetic exploration of what it means for a son to care for his father in his final year of life, and what then arises after death has come, and the caring period has ended.
After his father was, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the author, SJP Dooley, became his primary carer. During the challenges of this final year, as his father lay bedridden, the author sought solace in the poems that came to him. This book is the result.
The...
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It began with a group of us indulging in a world we were neither ready for nor understood, Roe the youngest. Headed for destruction, we allowed sin to become our best friend, "druggin' and thuggin'". It wasn't only about the drug scene with this group of guys and girls. We had a passion for music. Some of us managed, wrote, and produced; some sang and rapped. Others played instruments and engineered. We were talented and trying to get ahead. Although...
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This is a poetic exploration of what it means for a son to care for his father in his final year of life, and what then arises after. After his father was, diagnosed with cancer, the author became his primary carer. During the challenges of this final year, as his father lay bedridden, the author sought solace in poetry.
These poems journey a broad field, from childhood remembrances, to family life, wilderness, the nursing home, and beyond. Nature...
11) The Hacker
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SHE BETRAYED MY FAMILY--I WILL MAKE HER PAY.
The sweet redhead in our building isn't as innocent as we thought.
She brought a Fed into our circle. Got my twin brother shot.
Now she will pay. I'm putting her in charge of nursing him back to health.
If he dies, she dies. That's what I told her, anyway.
Of course I wouldn't actually harm her.
Our beautiful neighbor is already under my skin.
But that won't stop me from punishing her
then touching...
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Out of My Heart is the stunning sequel to Out of My Mind, the beloved, multi-million-copy-selling, multi-award-winning novel that's held a place on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly four years!
Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is now a year older and a year braver. But, not as brave as she wants to be, as she's terrified of horses. Even though she loves horses-loves loves loves them-from afar. Not one to be thwarted,...
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Carly:
He helped rescue me from my worst nightmare, and now I can't keep him out of my daydreams. The heat between us is palpable, but neither of us is willing to act on it. I'm hoping we can at least be friends. Is there a possibility we could be more? Not if my ex has anything to say about it.
Axl:
I want her. Though I know she's interested in me, I'm just not the right man for her. Besides, she hasn't completely healed from a traumatic assault...
14) Nate
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Grief and loneliness have been my closest friends for a year, and a change is long overdue. A walk down memory lane in my hometown sounds ideal to start letting go of this never-ending sorrow and try to meet again the carefree, happy girl I once was.
But back in Texas, it's not that girl I meet first.
Nate Bowers, president of the Chaos Chasers, is not a saint. He says so himself. As a pragmatic teacher, I should flee from that handsome man as fast...
15) Worship Songs
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God is to be worshipped. I knew that, but I did not know how. I asked the Lord one day how He wanted me to worship Him, and He gave me Worship Songs. Every day, we would meet, and He would give me a song-sometimes two, sometimes more. It was amazing how the Holy Spirit was speaking, and as He was speaking, I was writing His every word. The Lord gave me two hundred songs.
Not only did God want me to hear and sing these songs but He wanted His words...
18) Eat My Heart Out
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As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into these cracks, allowing the non-expert to understand the flaws in the economic philosophy of the 1%.
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Outlander novels volume 8
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"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it "a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]." Now the story continues in Written...
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