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  Rescue

  by Anita Shreve

  A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma--streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love... (more)
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  The Idea of Perfection

  by Kate Grenville

  Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. They meet in the little Australian town of Karakarook, where Harley has arrived to help the town build a heritage museum and Douglas to demolish the quaint... (more)
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  Animorphs: Book 37

  The Weakness

  by K. A. Applegate

  While Jake is away at an out-of-town wedding, Tobias discovers the place where Visser Three feeds. There is a unanimous decision to acquire cheetah morphs and run him down. But which Animorph will lead the mission in Jake's absence?
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  Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths

  by Dan B. Allender

  Put your flawed foot forward. Pick up most leadership books and you’ll find strategies for leveraging your power and minimizing your areas of weakness. But think about the leaders whose names have gone down in history. Most of them were so messed up that, if they were looking for work today, no executive placement service would give them the time of day. God’s criteria for choosing leaders runs counter to the... (more)
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  Weakness Is Not Sin: The Liberating Distinction That Awakens Our Strengths

  by Wendy Ulrich

  What is the difference between sin and weakness? And what difference does it make to distinguish between them? With keen doctrinal and professional insights, psychologist Wendy Ulrich helps us understand that sin and weakness have different origins, lead to different consequences, and call for different responses. She teaches readers how to distinguish motivating guilt from debilitating shame; how to... (more)
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  A Little Book on Joy

  The Secret of Living a Good News Life in a Bad News World

  by Matthew C. Harrison

  "So many churches, so many pastors and christians have so little joy today," my friend observed. "These are difficult times."With these words Matthew Harrison embarks on a quest to rediscover the joy of being a Christian - the secret of living a Good News life in a bad news world. In "A Little Book on Joy", Harrison takes the reader on a journey...+ fromt the father's joy at the podigal's... (more)
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  Sea Breeze: Book 1

  Breathe

  by Abbi Glines

  Sadie White's summer job isn't going to be on the beach life-guarding or working at rental booths like most kids her age. With her single mother's increasing pregnancy and refusal to work, Sadie has to take over her mother's job as a domestic servant for one of the wealthy summer families on a nearby island. When the family arrives at their summer getaway, Sadie is surprised to learn that the owner of the house... (more)
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  Grid

  by Monty Joynes

  The scene is New Orleans, one of 16 Open Cities in the year 2032. The United States, victim of economic depression, The Great California Earthquake, food riots and anarchy has a new constitution administered by 30 SIG’s (Special Interest Groups) who have divided the production centers of the country. Desiree Bazile is the tempestuous Publicity and Promotions Director of the New Orleans Grid, a pari-mutuel game... (more)
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  Re-Evolution Of The Fragile Ego: A Path to Leadership's Core

  by Lorrie James Del Bel

  In the midst of an innocent conversation with his neighbor, author Lorrie Del Bel's life was forever changed. His neighbor was unsure about leaving his labor job to become a supervisor. He felt himself incapable of bossing people around and disciplining them for not doing their job. He confessed these feelings as though he was afflicted with a fatal disease or shameful deformity. But the remarks sent Lorrie on a... (more)
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  Bíblia King James Atualizada w/Maps (Portuguese) (Portuguese Edition)

  by Iberian-American Bible Society & Abba Press Brazil

  This is a new and very accurated translation of the oldest manuscripts of the Bible in the original languages: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into modern Portuguese language. A long and hard project which takes more than 12 years of a great International Bible Committee of scholars all over the world. The International Committee had the special acess to the Dead Sea Scrolls which has been considering the most important... (more)
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  A World In Another Dimension

  by Jeekeshen Chinnappen

  This Book is an introduction to NLP, with techniques showing how to deal with stress, phobia, relationship hitches along with methods for enhancing self-confidence, communication skills, leadership skills and many other required skills for personal & social success. A bonus chapter on Mind Control has also been included in it, to raise the understanding concerning the psychic powers of this modern phenomenon.... (more)
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  A Modern Instance

  by William Dean Howells

  Dramatizes the deteriorating relationship between Marcia Hubbard and her husband, Bartley, a philandering journalist, and their subsequent divorce.
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  The Secret Between Us

  by Barbara Delinsky

  Nothing will break this mother-daughter bond. Not even the truth. Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond... (more)
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  Prize for Sister Catherine, A

  by Kathleen Rowntree

  1st trade paperback, fine
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  Gone With the Wind

  by Margaret Mitchell

  Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so... (more)
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  Fundamental tax reform : issues, choices, and implications

  Winning entry, Professional Cover/Jacket Category, in the 2009 New England Book Show sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. Reform of the federal income tax system has become a perennial item on the domestic policy agenda of the United States, although there is considerable uncertainty over specifics. Indeed the recent report of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform recommended not one but two... (more)
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  Little Bee

  (published as "The Other Hand" in the UK)

  by Chris Cleave

  The publishers of Chris Cleave's new novel "don't want to spoil" the story by revealing too much about it, and there's good reason not to tell too much about the plot's pivot point. All you should know going in to Little Bee is that what happens on the beach is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself Little Bee) and a well-off British couple — journalists trying to... (more)
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  The Organisational Leadership Audit

  by William Tate

  The Organisational Leadership Audit looks at leadership as an organisational resource. It shows how organisations need to provide a shared, honest and valid purpose, develop a conscious, supportive leadership culture, create a leadership structure that works, and remove obstacles to individual leadership. So, the key question for organisations becomes: How well is leadership being managed from an... (more)
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  Azmat Riggalah

  by Ehab Abdul Salam

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  Ladder of Years

  by Anne Tyler

  "BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION," declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her... (more)