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Graham Hale Gardner died before turning 23 and never learned to walk or speak due to severe cerebral palsy complicated by epilepsy. Yet he left a legacy of love and compassion that deeply moved scores of people from widely different backgrounds. Graham’s story, written through the eyes of his father, speaks of the enormous legacy left by a boy who never spoke. A story that raises provocative questions about the “invisible lines of connection” that make us human.

This book presents a glimpse into CJ’s life as a young woman navigating through the complexities of her sexuality. CJ’s journey through life taught her that sexuality is not just black and white; it is diverse and, most of all, it's personal. CJ learned on her quest for self-understanding and self -discovery that her sexuality is her own; it is her power, and, most of all, she writes the narrative.

James Denis gives Captain Lacey a task to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames. Lacey, who has been drawn into danger delivering items for Denis before, opens the package to find a single chess piece - a white queen. The piece tells Lacey nothing, but he soon realizes it plays deeply into Denis’s ongoing battle for control of London’s underworld.

Crazy Little Thing...called love. A new lesbian romantic comedy from the best-selling authors who brought you More Than a Kiss! Ollie and Claire fell head over heels in love, drove to Iowa and got married. One year later they realized they’d made a big mistake. But in order to get divorced they have to drive back to Iowa and live together for three months before the judge will grant them a divorce. Can Ollie and Claire fall back in love? Can their love survive a divorce?

Two days before 14-year-old Lacy Mitchell runs away from her abusive father, she finds something in her mother’s closet, something that gives her the courage to leave. Lacy starts on a journey to find the man that could change her life. As Lacy gets closer to finding the man, circumstances force her to do something that she will regret for the rest of her life. This explosive coming-of-age story set in the late 1970s is full of twists and turns, forgiveness, and courage.

In 1951, Lillie Mae Parker works for a department store in Atlanta, Georgia. She's an aspiring, young seamstress who is enchanted by a charming new suitor. His worldly ways and grandeur captivate her - until secrets, lies, and unsavory behaviors bring her harm. Uncovering more than she ever imagined, Lillie is pushed to make decisions that she never expected.

Your mother may tell you not to play with your food. But what if your food plays with you? Follow Buck, Tyliyah, and Trynity as they try to find their way home after getting slurped up into their alphabet soup. They’re transformed into a world full of adventure filled with hippos, a rabbit, giraffe, and even angry strawberries. They will need to work together to find a way back home.

What if, in the next 90 days, you could have a completely new life, aligned with your purpose, and start each day with a sense of excitement? Unbridle It! Buck Up and Create Your Happy will lead you through the exact steps to take so it can happen for you. There are so many things out of our control, but our happiness doesn't have to be one of them. Using the tips, tools, and lessons learned through her lifelong love affair with horses, Leeanne encourages you to take the reins and start implementing positive changes for dealing with adversity and bringing joy into your life.

Leaving a successful career in the US, a father makes a fateful decision to settle his wife and two young daughters on an isolated beach in the Dominican Republic. He plants ten thousand coconut seedlings and declares they are the luckiest people alive. In reality, the family is in the path of hurricanes, and in the grip of a brutal dictator.

Lenny Hodge and his supernatural team are once again called on by Terrifitemps (the temporary employment agency that secretly controls the world) to save the Earth from a dire fate! The sinister Grubnoids have appeared from deep beneath the surface of our world, ready to fulfill their destiny! The Grubnoids plan to recreate every television show ever broadcast, and they will use the entire population of Earth as their unwilling puppets! Will Lenny and his talented team save the day? Or will the entire population of our planet become part of a game show that never ends?

Let’s face it - life is hard. It comes with ups and downs and no true road map of how to make it. Courtney and Jennifer share their personal journeys through life, in hopes of inspiring their listeners to not give up because of their current situation, and instead, make the choice to live the life they want.

Thanks to Aunt Midge’s unlikely friendship with Nicholas Pennington, the Duke of Valle Charme, Avery Ayers and her associates at Antiques and Artifacts Appraised head off to their most glamorous assignment yet—cataloguing and appraising the contents of a castle-like mansion on the Hudson River. But regal splendor becomes a backdrop to mayhem when the precious Viktor Petrova timepiece disappears—and housekeeper Suzanne Vick plummets from a parapet to her death.

Incredible experiences as told in a series of 22 short stories covering a 40-year career in Heavy Civil Construction. Most of us love to watch new buildings going up. There’s something about the whole process and the cranes, earthmovers and daredevil nature of scaffold climbing that appeals on a primal level. That same fascination is likely to extend behind-the-scenes to the unusual things that actually happen on construction sites; particularly when matched with the storytelling skills of a 40-year construction professional.

Mari Manos has never been able to hide her cancer survivorship. She wakes every morning, grabs her pink forearm clip crutches, and starts her day. Mari loves Camp Chemo—where she's developed a healthy crush on fellow camper Jase. At Camp, she knows that she'll never get the look or have to explain her amputation to anyone. Jase wants to move on, to never reveal his past. But when Mari transfers to his school, he knows she could blow his cover. That's the last thing he wants, but he also cannot ignore his attraction to her.

Questo audiolibro riguarda VOI! Vi mostrerà che avete usato solo una piccola parte delle vostre reali capacità - che nella vostra mente subconscia, o "mente subliminale", come la chiamano a volte gli scienziati, c'è un gigante addormentato che, risvegliato, può portarvi alla fama e alla fortuna quasi da un giorno all'altro! Un Genio della tua Mente tanto potente, tanto capace di soddisfare ogni tuo desiderio, quanto lo fu mai il meraviglioso Genio della Lampada di Aladino.

What do you do when a killer targets the people you love the most? When he knows how to make them vulnerable? When he knows the same about you? These are the questions that haunt FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy. The police say his daughter’s death was an accident. Quincy will risk everything to learn the truth — and there’s only one person willing to help. Ex-cop Rainie Connor had once been paired professionally — and personally — with the brilliant FBI profiler. He helped her through the darkest days of her life.

They don't know who he really is. They never know where he'll show up. But the citizens of Gotham City know they have a protector. With an arsenal of amazing weaponry and a repertoire of incredible acrobatics, he is the legend they call Batman. In a toxic brew of big-city corruption, a bone-white, green-haired, eternally grinning clown is born. His name is the Joker. Charting the origins of the Dark Knight and early battles between the Caped Crusader and the Clown Prince of Crime, Batman depicts the timeless, violent war between criminal and crimefighter, Batman vs. the Joker.

There were three things that marked out Lucy Willow as different. The first was that she lived on a train. The second was that she had a snail called Ernest as a pet. And the third, the most important of all, was that she had green fingers.

Life’s tough when you didn’t expect to be living it. But now that Journey has a future, she apparently also has to figure out what that future’s supposed to look like. Some days the pain feels as fresh as that day: the day she attempted suicide. Her parents don’t know how to speak to her. Her best friend cracks all the wrong jokes. Her bipolar II disorder feels like it swallows her completely. But other days - they feel like revelations. Like meeting the dazzling Etta, a city college student who is a world unto herself.

Emily Vole makes headline news in the first weeks of her life, when she is found in an abandoned hatbox in Stansted Airport. Then, only a few years later, her neighbour Mrs String dies, leaving Emily a mysterious inheritance: an old shop, a small bunch of golden keys, and a cat called Fidget. In the shop Emily discovers drawers full of fairy wings and the beginning of an adventure of a lifetime as the old Fairy Detective Agency comes back to life. It is up to Emily to reopen the shop, and recall the fairies to duty.