War is not my mother

War is not my Mother

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My Mother Is a Fairy

Chen Miaomiao, a Shanghai teenage girl, is dumbfounded when one night she finds out that her loving mother is not a human, but a blue person who hails from another world. When her father begins to press for a divorce, Chen, with help from her best friend, tries to save her family from disintegrating. However, despite her endeavors and her mother's reluctance to part from ...

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The Woman in this Film is not my Mother

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My Mother is a Fairy - Danyan Chen

Anotace: Chen Miaomiao, a Shanghai teenage girl, is dumbfounded when one night she finds out that her loving mother is not a human, but a blue person who hails from another world. When her father begins to press for a divorce, Chen, with help from her best friend, tries to save her family from disintegrating. However, despite her endeavors and her mother`s reluctance to ...

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The Woman in this Film is not my Mother - Serena Korda

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The Woman in this Film is not my Mother - Serena Korda

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The Woman in this Film is not my Mother - Serena Korda

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This Is Not About Me

'My mother thought I was the menopause' - one of Britain's greatest contemporary novelists turns her focus, in luminous, powerful prose, to her eccent

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Such a Good Mother - Monks Takhar Helen

Anotace: SOME THINGS ARE TOO PERFECT TO BE TRUE... `A sharp, compelling take on modern motherhood` HEAT `A nail-biting, dark thriller` PLATINUM `Fiendishly entertaining... A suspenseful and unsettling cautionary tale` PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *** An invite to die for. Rose will do anything to give her son the life ...

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Such a Good Mother - Takhar Helen Monks

<p>SOME THINGS ARE TOO PERFECT TO BE TRUE... 'A sharp, compelling take on modern motherhood' HEAT 'A nail-biting, dark thriller' PLATINUM 'Fiendishly entertaining... A suspenseful and unsettling cautionary tale' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *** An invite to die for. Rose will do anything to give her son the...

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When Time Stopped : A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains - Ariana Neumann

<p>'It's not always a grim story. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. But the message is stark. This is the way bullies work. When Time Stopped is more than just history. It's a warning.' Michael Palin In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the...

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Safiyyah´s War - Hiba Noor Khan

<p>'Safiyyah's War has the soul of a classic &amp; the urgency of a story for our times. A tale of tolerance, unthinkable bravery, and heart-in-mouth true events. I loved this book' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'All at once, Safiyyah's War broke my heart and filled me with immense hope. With its unforgettable characters and exquisite storytelling, this really is an ...

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Safiyyah´s War - Khan Hiba Noor

Anotace: `Safiyyah`s War has the soul of a classic & the urgency of a story for our times. A tale of tolerance, unthinkable bravery, and heart-in-mouth true events. I loved this book` Kiran Millwood Hargrave`All at once, Safiyyah`s War broke my heart and filled me with immense hope. With its unforgettable characters and exquisite storytelling, this really is an extraordi...

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My Family and Other Animals

'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine... a country where we can grow.' 'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I

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I Want My Mum!

All day there had been disasters - the water pot went all over the latest painting; the Little Princess fell off the seesaw and banged her knee; and worst of all, there was a monster under the bed that night. The castle had been ringing with the constant shout of 'I Want My Mum!' And Mum always knew exactly the right thing to sort out the problem. But the next day, the in...

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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You

A letter, two lovers, a terrible lie. In war, truth is only the first casualty. â€Inspires the kind of devotion among its readers not seen since Dav

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My Sister´s Bones - Ellwood Nuala

Anotace: `COMPELLING AND INTRIGUING, RIGHT FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE` Sharon Bolton ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO GO BACK? Kate Rafter is a successful war reporter. She`s the strong one. The one who escaped Herne Bay and the memories it holds. Her sister Sally didn`t. Instead, she drinks. But when their mother dies, Kate is forced to return to the old family home. And on her fi...

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I Want My Mum! - Ross Tony

Anotace: All day there had been disasters - the water pot went all over the latest painting; the Little Princess fell off the seesaw and banged her knee; and worst of all, there was a monster under the bed that night. The castle had been ringing with the constant shout of `I Want My Mum!` And Mum always knew exactly the right thing to sort out the problem. But the next d...

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I Want My Mum! - Tony Ross

<p>All day there had been disasters - the water pot went all over the latest painting; the Little Princess fell off the seesaw and banged her knee; and worst of all, there was a monster under the bed that night. The castle had been ringing with the constant shout of 'I Want My Mum!' And Mum always knew exactly the right thing to sort out the problem. But the next da...

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Over My Dead Body: Dr Miriam Price has been murdered. And she´s absolutely furious about it. - Evansová Maz

Anotace: `Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. How can one book be so many things? I couldn`t put this fabulous, first class, five star read down.` JANICE HALLETT`Thoroughly wicked, compulsively page-turning, and funny as hell.` S J BENNETT`Warm, wacky and witty. I loved it!` SALLY PAGEHello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I`m Dr Miriam Price . . . and I`...

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Say You´ll Be My Jaan: The must read fake engagement romcom of the year - the perfect feel good pick me up! - Kumar Naina

Anotace: "Think of it like Tinder. Except your parents are the algorithm" Meghna has tried everything to find her jaan: blind dates, the dreaded apps, even attempting conversations with strangers. Everything except arranged marriage. Then Seth, her best friend and the-one-who-got-away, asks her to be his "best man" and suddenly her parent's tas...

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Say You´ll Be My Jaan: The must read fake engagement romcom of the year - the perfect feel good pick me up! - Naina Kumar

<p>'A warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut' COLLEEN HOOVER, It Ends With Us-----"Think of it like Tinder. Except your parents are the algorithm"Meghna has tried everything to find her jaan: blind dates, the dreaded apps, even attempting conversations with strangers. Everything except arranged marriage.Then Seth, her best friend and the-one-who-...

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Over My Dead Body: Dr Miriam Price has been murdered. And she´s absolutely furious about it., 1. vydání - Maz Evansová

<p>'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. How can one book be so many things? I couldn't put this fabulous, first class, five star read down.' JANICE HALLETT'Thoroughly wicked, compulsively page-turning, and funny as hell.' S J BENNETT'Warm, wacky and witty. I loved it!' SALLY PAGEHello? Can you hear me? Probably not. I'm Dr Miriam Price . . . and I'm...

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Risking It All (Fran Varady 4)

Fran Varady is reunited with her mother after fifteen years apart, but it's not without its complications in Risking it All, the fourth Fran Varady my

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State of Us

"Dre and Dean have got my vote!"—Adib Khorram, award-winning author of Darius the Great Is Not Okay When Dean Arnault’s mother decided to r

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Sons and Lovers - David Herbert Lawrence

<p>This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence. '"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. - And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look...And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen ba...

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Five Finger Death Punch: Got Your Six - CD (ESM1644)

Hudební CD - Got Your Six je šesté studiové album americké heavymetalové skupiny Five Finger Death Punch vydané v roce 2015 Got Your Six je šesté studiové album americké heavymetalové skupiny Five Finger Death Punch vydané v roce 2015 Seznam stop Got Your Six / Jekyll And Hyde / Wash It All Away / Ain't My Last Dance / My Nemesis / No Sudden Movement / Question Eve...

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King of Thorns - Mark Lawrence

<p>The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition. To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I've walked from pawn to player and I'll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood... The land burns with the fires of a hundr...

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Kill in the Morning

'I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though - a garrotte around a target's neck or a knife in their heart - it's not for me. Too much empathy, that's my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is different...' The year is 1955 and something is very wrong with the world. It is fourt...

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The Woman on the Bridge - O´Flanaganová Sheila

Anotace: A stunning historical novel from multi-million-copy bestselling author Sheila O`Flanagan`Winnie is a great character . . . she`s always real - she`s always human` Roddy Doyle`A riveting rollercoaster of drama, tragedy, triumph and love` Patricia Scanlan `Unputdownable, full of poignancy, warmth and real and relatable women` Kate ThompsonDublin. The 1920s. As wa...

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The Woman on the Bridge - Sheila O´Flanagan

<p>A stunning historical novel from multi-million-copy bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan'Winnie is a great character . . . she's always real - she's always human' Roddy Doyle'A riveting rollercoaster of drama, tragedy, triumph and love' Patricia Scanlan 'Unputdownable, full of poignancy, warmth and real and relatable women' Kate ThompsonDublin. The 1920s. As war...

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The loves i have lost - Alica Frühwaldová

<p>This is a story of a family affected by the atrocities of war. But also a story about the belonging, bravery and courage of ordinary people who selflessly help others in hard times. Despite depicting the frenzy of war, the message of the book is positive, with images of life before and after the war filled with love and compassion. The book is enriched with many ...

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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster - Mirinae Lee

<p>A playful, ambitious and action-packed novel that explores the turbulent story of twentieth-century Korea through the life of one remarkable, charismatic - and unreliable - woman</p> <p>SLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So wh...

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Emma (9780141199528)

Kniha - autor Jane Austenová, anglicky The Penguin English Library Edition of Emma by Jane Austen 'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall' Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than inter...

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Solo Saxophone Level 6 Advanced Student Book with Audio CDs (3)

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. In the early 1990s Katy, a young reporter, arrives in Sarajevo, a city under siege, and receives conflicting advice from two colleagues. 'Of all the wars I've ...

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Solo Saxophone Level 6 Advanced

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. In the early 1990s Katy, a young reporter, arrives in Sarajevo, a city under siege, and receives conflicting advice from two colleagues. 'Of all the wars I've ...

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Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud

‘Towards the end of the summer of 2016 I found an old diary in a cardboard box, hundreds of typed pages, the first dated 9 September 1989. I put the diary away without reading it; I had lost my father, my mother had died only three months earlier, and it was not the right time to think about anything. I was heartbroken.As I remembered it the diary was about sitting again,...

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Statecraft

A collection of the former Prime Minister's speeches and articles, 'Statecraft' brought Margaret Thatcher's unrivalled political experience to bear on the challenges of the early new millennium. Margaret Thatcher's influence on modern politics continues to be undeniable, controversial and unmatched by any other statesman or woman. In 'Statecraft', Britain's first ever fem...

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The Crow Folk - Stay Mark

Anotace: `Swept me straight back to days of losing myself in Diana Wynne Jones novels, and getting lost in truly absorbing, sometimes scary, sometimes emotive adventure with its roots in folklore and history. A story that is full of magic and delight that will thrill readers of any age`-Rowan Coleman, author of The Girl at the WindowAs Spitfires roar overhead and a dark ...

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Crow Folk

'Swept me straight back to days of losing myself in Diana Wynne Jones novels, and getting lost in truly absorbing, sometimes scary, sometimes emotive adventure with its roots in folklore and history. A story that is full of magic and delight that will thrill readers of any age'-Rowan Coleman, author of The Girl at the Window As Spitfires roar overhead and a dark figure s...

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The Crow Folk - Mark Stay

<p>'Swept me straight back to days of losing myself in Diana Wynne Jones novels, and getting lost in truly absorbing, sometimes scary, sometimes emotive adventure with its roots in folklore and history. A story that is full of magic and delight that will thrill readers of any age'-Rowan Coleman, author of The Girl at the Window As Spitfires roar overhead and a dark...

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Red Herring Without Mustard

'You frighten me,' the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.' So begins eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce's third adventure through the charming but deceptively dark byways of the village of Bishop's Lacey. What the fortune teller in fact claimed to see was a vision of Flavia's mother, Harriet, who died on a mountainside in Tibet when Flavia...

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A Brilliant Life - Rachelle Unreich

<p>'A delicate, evocative story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe: a mother's love.' - Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist A powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter - a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal.Born in Czecho...

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Between Never and Forever - Shain Rose

<p>For fans of Sara Cate and Lauren Asher, a forbidden, second chance romance about a young woman who is thrust into the world of a past lover when she takes a gig at his family’s casino to pay off her mother’s medical debts. As my best friend’s brother, Dex Hardy has always been my downfall—older, forbidden, and completely irresistible. Our paths were never suppo...

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Robinson Crusoe, 1. vydání - Daniel Defoe

<p>The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ... 'Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle,...

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Emotion Of Great Delight

From bestselling author of the Shatter Me series and the National Book Award-nominated A Very Large Expanse of Sea, Tahereh Mafi, comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating dual-identity as a Muslim teenager in America, and reclaiming your right to joy. It's 2003. It's been several months since the US officially declared war on Iraq, and the political wo...

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Ziggy, Stardust and Me - James Brandon

<p>The year is 1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And homosexuality is still officially considered a mental illness. In the midst of these trying times is sixteen-year-old Jonathan Collins, a bullied, anxious, asthmatic kid, who aside from an alcoholic father and his sympathetic neighbor and friend Starla, is completely ...

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The Storm We Made: The spellbinding WW2 sweeping book club novel ´One of the most powerful debuts I´ve ever read´ Tracy Chevalier - Vanessa Chan

<p>Destined to become a modern-day classic, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war and the power of familial love, for fans of Pachinko, All the Light We Cannot See and Wandering Souls. Her decision changed history. Now her family must survive it. British Malaya, 1930s Discontented housewife Cecily is seduced by Japanese general Fujiwara ...

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Daughter of the Moon Goddess, 1. vydání - Sue Lynn Tan

<p>The bestselling debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess.</p> <p>A young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm, setting her on a dangerous path where those she loves are not the only ones at risk</p> <p> </p> <p>THERE ARE MANY LEGENDS ABOUT MY MOTHER… ...

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Breathless - Jennifer Niven

<p>Your first love, your first time, your first heartbreak. The new novel from Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places. You were my first. Not just sex, although that was part of it, but the first to look past everything else into me. Some of the names and places have been changed, but the story is true.Claudine Henry was not supposed to spend her summer on ...

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Emma - Jane Austenová

Anotace: This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Emma" by Jane Austen. `I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall`. Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the rom...

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Parallel Lines : A Journey from Childhood to Belsen - Lantos Peter

Anotace: "I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi`s If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child`s clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBAThis is a story of a young boy`s journey from a sleepy provincial town in Hungary during the Second World War to the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen. After a ...

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Courseberakers book 2 A Heart So Fierce and Broken - Brigid Kemmererová

Anotace: In the sequel to New York Times bestselling A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Brigid Kemmerer returns to the world of Emberfall in a lush fantasy where friends become foes and love blooms in the darkest of places. Find the heir, win the crown. The curse is finally broken, but Prince Rhen of Emberfall faces darker troubles still. Rumors circulate that he is not the tr...

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Parallel Lines : A Journey from Childhood to Belsen - Peter Lantos

<p>"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER "A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON "A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBA This is a story of a young boy's journey from a sleepy provincial town in Hungary during the Second World War to the concentratio...

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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction-including two never-before-published novellas-featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, from Diana Gabaldon"The Custom of the Army" begins with Lord John Grey being shocked by an electric eel and ends at the Battle of Quebec. Then comes "The Space Between," where i...

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Martyr!: The Instant New York Times Bestseller - Kaveh Akbar

A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR‘I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life’ John Green, author of The Fault in Our StarsCyrus Shams is lost.Ever since his mother’s plane was senselessly shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby, Cyrus has been grappling with her death. No...

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Primer of Happiness 1 - The Return to Ourselves - Pavel Baričák

<p>In a simple form suitable for first-graders, this book explains the principles of self-acceptance, forgiveness, positive thinking, “letting go” of your parents, understanding illness, dissolving pain, “problem” solving, stopping fights, listening to your heart, becoming sensitive to the symbols of life and liberating yourself from other people's pain. Among the t...

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Primer of Happiness

"Your soul yearns to be loved. By you."In a simple form suitable for first-graders, this book explains the principles of self-acceptance, forgiveness, positive thinking, "letting go"of your parents, understanding illness, dissolving pain, "problem" solving, stopping fights, listening to your heart, becoming sensitive to the symbols of life and liberating yourself from oth...

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Zodiac Academy 6: Fated Throne - Peckham Caroline

Anotace: Fate has torn us apart and sometimes I believe the stars have given up on us altogether.Without my sister, the world seems darker than ever before and the shadows loom thicker, rising up to answer the call of the Shadow Princess and changing the face of Solaria for good.Now Lionel Acrux has the strength to make a move for the throne, I`m not sure how much time w...

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Zodiac Academy 6: Fated Throne - Caroline Peckham

<p>Fate has torn us apart and sometimes I believe the stars have given up on us altogether. Without my sister, the world seems darker than ever before and the shadows loom thicker, rising up to answer the call of the Shadow Princess and changing the face of Solaria for good. Now Lionel Acrux has the strength to make a move for the throne, I'm not sure how much tim...

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