Livesay
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Girls trip volume 1
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"Marketing manager Caila Harris knows that the road to success in the beauty industry doesn't allow for detours. She's forsaken any trace of a social life, working 24/7 to ensure her next promotion. When grief over her grandfather's death leads to several catastrophic decisions, Caila gets one final chance to prove herself: shut down an unprofitable factory in a small Southern town. But as soon as she arrives in Bradleton, she meets one outsized problem:...
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"Sometimes faking it can lead to the real thing... Driven and focused, Dr. Nicole Allen is an accomplished surgeon. With a tough past, Nic's gone above and beyond everyone's expectations. But when she disciplines an intern--a powerful donor's son--a prestigious fellowship she's awaiting is placed in jeopardy. Coming from a successful family who runs a medical business empire, Benjamin Reed Van Mont is the black sheep, having chosen to start his own...
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American Royalty (Tracey Livesay) volume 2
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English
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Taking their relationship public, American rapper Danielle "Duchess" Nelson and brilliant reclusive royal Prince Jameson learn that their popularity comes with a price when people try to take advantage of their fame, especially when his family is embroiled in yet another scandal
"Against all odds, sexy American rapper, Danielle 'Duchess' Nelson and brilliant reclusive royal Prince Jameson have fallen in love! They've decided to take their relationship...
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Sexy, driven rapper Danielle "Duchess" Nelson is on the verge of signing a deal that'll make her one of the richest women in hip hop. More importantly, it'll grant her control over her life, something she's craved for years. But an incident with a rising pop star has gone viral, unfairly putting her deal in jeopardy. Concerned about her image, she's instructed to work on generating some positive publicity... or else. A brilliant professor and reclusive...
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"When a silly, impulsive decision lands free-spirited India Shaw behind bars in San Francisco, she has no choice but to call the only person she knows in the unfamiliar city--the very man she abandoned after a steamy two-day fling. The fact that she's pregnant with his child is something she'd rather not divulge. Tech executive Michael Black never thought he'd hear from the quirky beauty after she left his bed four months ago, much less be called...
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"Successful PR executive Chelsea Grant is one assignment away from making partner at her firm and nothing will stand in her way. Her big break? Turn a reclusive computer genius into a media darling in time for his new product launch. He may have been dubbed the "sexiest geek alive" but he has no patience for the press-and it shows. Piece of cake, right? Only problem is...his company doesn't want him to know they hired her. After a disastrous product...
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Revenge has been the only thing on real estate tycoon Marcus Pearson's mind since his mother's mistreatment at the hands of her upper-crust employer. He worked his way up from the bottom, but the only way he's going to get entry to their exclusive world is by finding a wife already in it. So when the most beautiful woman he's ever seen turns out to be a socialite from "old" money, and needs his help, he has the perfect proposition--marriage.
Pamela...
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Shades of love volume 3
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English
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An accident changed Leighton Clarke's life forever.
After waking from a coma, Leighton Clarke can't remember anything from the past six years. She's stunned when her doctors inform her she has amnesia, something she didn't think occurred outside of soap operas. Anxious and disoriented, the only person who elicits any feelings is Jonathan Moran, a gorgeous chef with compassionate brown eyes . . . who also happens to be her fiancé.
Jonathan...
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The old way of selling is to push a message or product. The new way of selling is to pull people in with a compelling story-one that is magnetic to clients.
Better Selling Through Storytelling helps people become master storytellers so they can truly love what they do and get off the self-esteem roller coaster of only feeling good if their numbers are up. John Livesay encourages readers to give up selling-and become storytellers instead! He teaches...
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The Self-Completing Tree is the author's own collection of the best of her last 50 years of writing. In this new edition, the celebrated Grand Dame of English Canadian letters and award-winning poet uses the metaphor implied by the title - a tree, half verdant, half in flames - to symbolize the androgynous self. This is the theme of much of Livesay's work and a central metaphor for the most definitive collection of her poetry. The result is a spiritual...
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Madeline is a young woman that has reached a small measure of success in her life as she has a successful art gallery, but underneath the facade of her successful career there is a lurking predator that haunts her. She is trapped nightly by this predator of her mind and relief only comes by the blade. Will she survive herself? Will she survive the pain of recovery? Come read the harrowing true tale of her life inside her head. Does she recover or...
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Buckle up for a wild ride with a rideshare driver who signed up for a side hustle but ended up with a master's degree in the human experience. You'll meet the bartenders, baristas, drunks, drug dealers, and pirates he drove around and read tales that will leave you laughing, shocked, and disgusted. From AI and algorithms to sex and vomit to violence and car chases, Five Star Rides has it all.
And it's all stranger than fiction.
13) Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833
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By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women...
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John Livesay, a keynote speaker and author of the business book Better Selling Through Storytelling, presents us with a business fable set in Austin, Texas. It is about a sales representative whose old ways of selling are not working anymore. With the help of his colleague, he learns how to use storytelling in his sales meetings, which wins him more sales success than ever before. As a result, he becomes irresistible to his clients.
The Sale Is in...
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Commitment makes you weak. It's playboy Carter Richardson's motto. The only exception to the rule is his aunt, and when Carter learns she's terminally ill, he rushes to her bedside. Filled with fear and guilt-and desperate to ease his aunt's mind-Carter does the only thing a guy could do... he panics and blurts out that he's engaged to his aunt's enticing protegee.
Lauren Olsen has already had her heart crushed once by Carter. Against her better...
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The Allied forces on the Western Front had taken a beating under the weight and new tactics of the German army masterminded by General Ludendorff in 1918. However in August the Allies were ready to fight back, and they did so with a vengeance; spearheaded by the Canadian and Australian corps and 500 tanks the allied forces hammered through the German lines. Ludendorff dubbed it as "the Black Day of the German Army". This was the start of the Battle...
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Philomel Books
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[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note
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Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
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[2017]
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English
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"Add a little bit of Spidey and a touch of Deadpool, take away the Y chromosomes, blend it all together, and what do you get? Peter Parker and Wade Wilson's worst nightmare: the murderous, mixed-up miss named Itsy Bitsy! The "daughter" of our two heroes is stronger than them, faster than them and has seriously creepy daddy issues -- but what crazed mind could have conceived of her in the first place? As the body count rises, Spider-Man and Deadpool...
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DC Comics
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[2022]
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English
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"After the events of Trial of the Amazons, a new era for these warriors has dawned. Amazons from around the world have come to Themyscira to witness history and the crowning of their new leader. She stood between Man's World and the dangers of Doom's Doorway for centuries; when she was called upon to serve her people, she stood strong and clear-eyed, unafraid to look certain death in the face; she has united peoples on the brink of war."--
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Death of Hawkman volume 1
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English
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Collected for the first time, the acclaimed miniseries from writer Marc Andreyko (BATWOMAN, WONDER WOMAN '77) and artist Aaron Lopresti (WONDER WOMAN), DEATH OF HAWKMAN-the last great adventure of one of comics' most legendary heroes! Traveling through space with the incredible power of the Zeta Beam, he once soared the skies of the faraway world of Rann as its greatest guardian. Now he's retired to his home planet of Earth, trying to live a normal...