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Found in a cardboard box, merely hours old, she was one of the lucky ones. She was rescued, she survived, and she was cherished.
Amara's adopted mom and dad said she was the best of all cultures, a melting pot of humanity in one human being. Indeed, her life was a tapestry of threads woven from the individuals who had come before, those who had created her.
One simple DNA test was all it took to unravel the mystery of Amara.
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Salt, sand, sun, and soul. Professional surfing is Drew Johnson's sport, but after a bad break at last year's competition, he's been looking to make a strong comeback. He needs to outsurf the famous Australian champion, Shawn Kennedy --sex on a surfboard. Shawn has it all: talent, looks, money, sponsorships, endorsement deals, but all he really wants is Drew. Fraternizing with competition is against the rules and both risk losing more than just their...
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"Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another. A thirteen-year-old meditates on...
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Not all monsters are make-believe.
When a badly mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, DCI Jack Logan's dream of a quiet life in the Highlands is shattered.
While the media speculates wildly about monster attacks, Jack and the Major Investigations Team must act fast to catch the killer before they can strike again.
But with Nessie-hunters descending on the area in their dozens, and an old enemy rearing his ugly head, the case could...
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Joaquín, a young man whose perception of love is affected by a distant and broken upbringing, struggles to balance a connection between his best friend Carol (a reckless photographer) and the unexpected arrival of a romance that questions his expectations of happiness. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Lucia Vega is on a winning streak. Her book, Throw Away the Key, has taken the country by storm. And now it's being made into a movie. After years of chasing it, she can finally taste freedom. Reece Carras is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. Handsome, rich, and generous, he's everything girls like her aren't supposed to dream of. But dream she does. And in his strong arms she finds a freedom she never even knew existed. Falling in love was...
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Blood's Thicker Than Water is a story of Sex, Money, Murder and family ties in the heart of the city of Wilmington, Delaware. Two crews collide and leave a blood-bath in the streets; News reporters and local on-lookers are left speechless as Police and Medical personnel scrape up the pieces that the M.O.B and Yayo Boyz violently left behind.
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DCI Monika Paniatowski investigates a case that could be the making - or, more likely, breaking - of her career DCI Monika Paniatowski has only been back from maternity leave for three days when she is called in to investigate a nightmare of a case. Not only is the murder victim a mother of three small children, but her husband is a wealthy politician. Monika knows that if she can't make a quick arrest her career is on the line. It's lucky, then,...
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Blood Is Thicker Than Water is a modern take on the age-old dilemma faced by many heroes and heroines throughout the ages-when faced with the life-and-death choice of family you're born to versus family you choose, what's your decision? Lisa is a happily married African American woman whose dysfunctional family creates constant upheaval, which culminates in their pressure on her to save the life of her drug-addicted brother instead of her loving husband...
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Get the Summary of Kerry Washington's Thicker than Water in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Thicker than Water" is a deeply personal narrative by Kerry Washington, chronicling her life from her early days on the set of "Scandal" to the complexities of her family history. Washington shares her experiences filming her final scene as Olivia Pope, reflecting on her character's evolution and her own sense of liberation....
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Some people do sensational acts to attract mass, or world attention to themselves. Why some cowards even defected to their country's enemy? This story is, described and examined, this kind of people, 2 defectors from the Soviet Union, who defected to the United States. These defectors lived privileged lives in the Soviet Union (they were not poor). One was-Svetlana Alliluyeva (daughter of the President of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin). And, another...
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Flash Gordon volume 17
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Flash intercepts a baby who's been marked for death, which leads him and Aura to the Deviates' lair, where they learn a shocking secret. Meanwhile, Zarkov & Baylin search for the lost rift blaster; and Joe ends up aligned with the enemies.
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Wolfblood volume 4
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Rhydian is reunited with his father – but why has he really come? And why is Dacia so interested in him and the wild Wolfblood's?
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Why isn't there more revenge in the world? The courts are constantly failing victims of crime, just as they failed Antonina Downing. So much so that she determined to set out on a course of action that would put right the wrongs that had been done to her. Except that her plan spiralled out of control and led in a direction she least expected, towards a second catastrophe.
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Give Some Chenoa, a single mother struggling to graduate high school and attend college, seems to get herself into situations that her sister, Deloris, believes are a result of naivety and lack of experience. After being abandoned by her son's father, Lance, and victimized by her teacher, Mr. Smith, when he tries to redefine the meaning of "extra" in extra credit, Chenoa steps out on a limb and decides to trust men again when she meets Sean, the fire...
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Arctic Air volume 11
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Krista's mother pays a visit to Yellowknife and throws Krista's life into turmoil.
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Legends aren't built overnight. In fact, they take decades of hard work, long days, and selfless sacrifice-if one is lucky. Huerta Cigars is a result of the combined passion of patriarch Alejandro Huerta, who emigrated from pre-Castro Cuba to Nicaragua, and his sons Roberto and Manuel. Their unwavering dedication to their dream of producing the best cigars made for a success. Upon Roberto's passing he left the cigar empire to his only daughter, Sofia,...
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