Life at the edge of sight

First Sight

At the centre of the storm is Timmie O’Neill, who has created an international empire that inspires, fills, and consumes her life. Always willing

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Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future

Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis, t

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FAME-ISH: My Life at the Edge of Stardom

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The House at the Edge of Magic - Amy Sparkes

<p>"Sometimes you are a whisper away from magic without even realizing it."Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman’s purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of m...

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House at the Edge of Magic - Amy Sparkes

Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures.

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House at the Edge of Magic - Amy Sparkes

Anotace: Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman's purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including Flabberghast - a young wi...

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Land's Edge

Tim Winton’s homage to the ocean and his childhood is a magnificent celebration of life at its limits.

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Book of Life

A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. After travelling through time in SHADOW OF NIGHT, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchant ing series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to...

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Friends at Waters-edge and Fremont House

The story is one of a life pattern being temporarily implanted in the brain of a sick person, hospitalised and in a coma, by inhabitants of a far off

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Gmo Sapiens: The Life-changing Science Of Designer Babies

GMO Sapiens: the Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies is an exciting new book which takes a look at the cutting edge biotechnology trends that are

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The Library of Heartbeats: A sweeping, heart-rending Japanese-set novel from the author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World, 1. vydání - Messina Laura Imai

<p>From the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: a powerful, moving novel of grief, hope, friendship and love based around a real archive on an island in Japan, where people travel to record their heartbeats.To find what you have lost, you must listen to your heart . . . On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a lib...

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The Book of Life : (All Souls 3) - Harknessová Deborah

Anotace: Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew once more in the phenomenal climax to their epic tale, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. After travelling throu...

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Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier - Oprah Winfrey

<p>You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of a lifetime.In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness, no matter how challenging your circumstances. Combining their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle, they show you how to improve your life right now -...

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The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) (1913348296)

Kniha - autor Nino Haratischvili, 944 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. "That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, ...

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Build the Life You Want - Oprah Winfrey

<p>You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of a lifetime.In Build the Life You Want, Harvard Professor Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness, no matter how challenging your circumstances. Combining their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle, they show you how to improve you...

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The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller - Haratischvili Nino

Anotace: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR The bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation`s War and Peace.Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century.At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prosp...

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The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller - Nino Haratischvili

<p>LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR The bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation's War and Peace. Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a fami...

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The Book of Life : (All Souls 3), 1. vydání - Deborah Harkness

<p>Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew once more in the phenomenal climax to their epic tale, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. After travelling throug...

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Boom Alien Life CK

TRVALÁ LICENCE | Visceral Sounds that are out of this world<br><b>TRVALÁ LICENCE</b><br><br>PERFECTLY HIT THE RIGHT NERVEThe most unnerving sounds to us human lifeforms are often those we’ve been evolutionarily primed to be responsive to. Screams, shrieks, and wails poke at our primal brains with startling urgency. Growls and clicks can abrup...

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The Diary of a Bookseller (1781258635)

Kniha - autor Shaun Bythell, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In ...

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Frostpunk Game of the Year Edition

Frostpunk: Game of the Year Edition consists of: Frostpunk – the full version of the highly acclaimed society survival game, which sold over 3 000 000 copies worldwide and won a number of critics awards. Frostpunk Season Pass - a set of three expansions of the Frostpunk universe: The Last Autumn is a turning point in the Frostpunk universe. Revealing the restless ev...

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Frostpunk Game of the Year Edition (PC)

Frostpunk: Game of the Year Edition consists of:Frostpunk &ndash; the full version of the highly acclaimed society survival game, which sold over 3 000 000 copies worldwide and won a number of critics awards.Frostpunk Season Pass - a set of three expansions of the Frostpunk universe:The Last Autumn is a turning point in the Frostpunk universe. Revealing the restless e...

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Beware of Pity

"Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back."--Salman Rushdie The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed ...

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The Goal

Get ready for another binge-worthy romance from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy!She’s good at achieving her goals…College senior Sabrina James has her whole future planned out: graduate from college, kick butt in law school, and land a high-paying job at a cutthroat firm. Her path to escaping her shameful past certainly doesn’t include a g...

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Never Split the Difference : Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Voss Chris

Anotace: `A master of persuasion.` Forbes `This book blew my mind.` Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought hi...

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Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth - Avi Loeb

From the iconoclastic Harvard astronomer and New York Times best-selling author of Extraterrestrial, an urgent explanation of why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity's survival - and a game plan for how we can settle among the stars. <p>In 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, went public with a theory that shook the scient...

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Life is awesome !, mp3 - Martin Randysek

Filip is a young, beginning teacher. He lives in a modern two-room apartment at the edge of a small city with his dog Aron. He recently got broken up with by his girlfriend Elis. Thankfully, she left for England for a part-time job...

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Never Split the Difference : Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Chris Voss

<p>THE HUGE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</p> <p>A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating – effective in any situation. </p> <p>‘Riveting’ Adam Grant‘Stupendous’ The Week‘Brilliant’ Guardian____________________________After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the ...

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The Bilingual Brain : And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language - Albert Costa

<p>'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher SpectatorThe definitive study of bilingualism and the human brain from a leading neuropsychologistOver half of the world's ...

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Yoga of Courage and Compassion

Lessons in fearless living through breathwork, gentle movement, and meditation based on the experiences of those at the edge of life

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The Truants - Weinberg Kate

Anotace: AN OBSERVER AND i BOOK OF THE YEARJess Walker, middle child of a middle class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour.Drawn into a tightly-knit group of rule breakers - led by their maverick teacher, Lorna Clay - Jess begins ...

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Treasure of Silver Lake

The Treasure of Silver Lake is one of Karl May's most popular books. The bandits are preparing for a major heist. First they want to steal the wages of the lumberjacks at the Black Bear Creek. Then they want to raid a rich farm in Kansas on their way to robbing a railway station that has money for the construction of the Union Railways. Their final target is the Silver La...

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Wigglesbottom Primary: The Toilet Ghost

Life at Wigglesbottom Primary is often lived on the edge. A class talent show becomes a thing of great mystery and intrigue when it turns out that Jac

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None of this Rocks

None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman - lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy - that reads like a double album full of revealing stories from his youth and his experiences of modern rock and roll stardom. With wit and wisdom, and maybe a little bit of whining, Trohman grapples with depression, his mother's brain cancer, antisemitism, pills, petty larceny, s...

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The Goal - Kennedy Elle

Anotace: Discover another binge-worthy romance from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy!She`s good at achieving her goals . . . College senior Sabrina James has her whole future planned out: graduate from college, kick butt in law school, and land a high-paying job at a cut-throat firm. Her path to escaping her shameful past certainly doesn`t...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie

Anotace: `This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.` -Elton John`Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan`s delight. Divine. I couldn`t put it down.` -Pete Townshend`In Bernie Taupin`s miraculous memoir Scattershot you`ll meet legends, cowboys, geniuses, unforgettable faces in the night, shady p...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan's delight. Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'In Bernie Taupin's miraculous memoir Scattershot you'll meet legends, cowboys, geniuses, unforgettable faces in the night, shady pu...

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Unlocking the Secret Garden

"Imagine...you hold a key in the palm of your hand. Turning it over, observe the weight of it, the designs worn to a smooth bronze through the passage of time. You walk towards a high stone wall covered with tapestries of wisteria, virginia creeper and ferns. Under the waving foliage, you can just make out the edge of a door..." You are at the beginning of a retreat, fill...

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Soon to be a major new TV series - Heather Morris

<p>One of the bestselling books of the 21st century, soon to be a major new TV series starring Harvey Keitel and Melanie LynskeyI tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart...In 1942, Lale Sokolov arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival - scratching numbers into his fellow victims' arms ...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie

Anotace: An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, the lyrical master and longtime collaborator of Elton John. This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, a...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug."This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half...

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The Foundling - Stacey Halls

From the bestselling author of The Familiars, and set against the vibrant backdrop of Georgian London, The Foundling explores families, secrets, class, equality, power and the meaning of motherhood. <p>Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling...

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The Foundling - Halls Stacey

Anotace: The captivating Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Familiars Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . . London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in c...

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Never Split the Difference

'A master of persuasion.' Forbes'This book blew my mind.' Adam Grant, bestselling author of OriginalsA former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-fa...

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The Power of Habit : Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change - Duhigg Charles

Anotace: In "The Power of Habit", award-winning "New York Times" business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding...

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Awakening In The Dream

New York Times bestselling author David Wilcock's latest captivating work of nonfiction, exploring new hidden truths about extraterrestrials, dreams, sacred science, channeling your Higher Self, and Ascension What happens when a UFO researcher suddenly comes into telepathic contact with the very beings he has been so avidly studying, after years of increasingly provocat...

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Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language - Albert Costa

Anotace: 'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher Spectator The definitive study of bilingualism and the human brain from a leading neuropsychologist Over ...

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The Curator - King Owen

Anotace: Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that never was, Owen King`s The Curator is full of sly humor, sensuality, and strangeness - Holly BlackFrom Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjure...

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The Curator - Owen King

<p>Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that never was, Owen King's The Curator is full of sly humor, sensuality, and strangeness - Holly BlackFrom Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurer...

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The Curator - Owen King

<p>Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that never was, Owen King's The Curator is full of sly humor, sensuality, and strangeness - Holly BlackFrom Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurer...

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The Power of Habit : Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change - Charles Duhigg

<p>In "The Power of Habit", award-winning "New York Times" business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whol...

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The Perfect Marriage

The Perfect MarriageWould you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress?Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned.The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He is a struggling writer who has had little success in his car...

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Night Train to Marrakech (The Daughters of War, Book 3) - Jefferies Dinah

Anotace: `The desert hides dark secrets...` MARRAKECH 1966 Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met. It`s an epic journey that`ll take her to the edge of Atlas Mountains - and closer to the answers she`s been craving all her life. But dark sec...

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Night Train to Marrakech (The Daughters of War, Book 3) - Dinah Jefferies

<p>'The desert hides dark secrets...' MARRAKECH 1966 Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met. It's an epic journey that'll take her to the edge of Atlas Mountains - and closer to the answers she's been craving all her life. But da...

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Keep Calm and Trust the Science

What is life like at the edge of science in a pandemic? World renowned immunologist Professor Luke OÂ’Neill tells all, sharing his diaries from the fr

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Last Days of Old Earth

THE FIGHT FOR A DYING SUN There is no space for defeat. Defeat means death on the battlefield or the end of our search for the last rays of a dying sun. We must escape these bitter, glacial wastelands and find a new home. A new future. Last Days of Old Earth is a turn-based strategy game set in a far future world where the sun is dying. The remnants of humanity must migra...

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Modeling Remaining Useful Life Dynamics in Reliability Engineering Taylor & Francis Ltd

One of the key tools used in defining and implementing predictive maintenance policies is the RUL indicator. However, it is essential to account for the uncertainty inherent to the RUL, as otherwise predictive maintenance strategies can be incorrect. This can cause high costs, or alternatively, ineffective predictions. The book starts by building on established theory, an...

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The Whispering Dead - Darcy Coates

<p>USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy Coates returns with a ghost story that will haunt you long after the final page. She hears them whispering...Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper's cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all...

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The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters

<p>WINNER OF THE BARNES &amp; NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR AN ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTIONOne family's deepest pain. Another family's darkest secret.On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi'kmaq people from Nov...

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Awakening In The Dream : Contact with the Divine - Wilcock David

Anotace: What happens when a UFO researcher suddenly comes into telepathic contact with the very beings he has been so avidly studying, after years of increasingly provocative dreams? What happens when these telepathic readings begin predicting the future with astonishing precision--and speaking about an incredible upcoming event in which all life in our solar system wil...

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