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The decades-long love story of a NASA commander and the leader of the Astronaut Wives Club
Far Side of the Moon is the untold, fully authorized story of the lives of Frank and Susan Borman. One was a famous astronaut-an instrumental part of the Apollo space program-but the other was just as much a warrior. This real-life love story is far from a fairy tale.
Life as a military wife was beyond demanding, but Susan always rose to the occasion. When...
22) Mothers Don't
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A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator of this story, is about to give birth. She is a writer, and she realizes that she knows the woman who committed the infanticide. An obsession is born. She takes an extended leave, not for child-rearing, but to write. To research and write about the hidden truth behind the crime.
Mothers don't write. Mothers give life. How could a woman be capable of neglecting her children? How could she kill...
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In this raucous psychological thriller, a millennial office worker finds relief from her crippling ennui in the embrace of a cliquey fan club, until she discovers the group of women is bound together by something darker than devotion.
Day after day our narrator, a gloomy millennial, searches for meaning beyond her vacuous job at a women's lifestyle website-entering text into a computer system while she watches their beauty editor unwrap box after...
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A fantastical novel from award-winning author Colleen Nelson, about a hundred-year-old sideshow and a girl with no past.
Frankie doesn't trust easily. Not others and not even herself. Found in an alley when she was a child, she has no memory of who she is or why she was left there. Recurring dreams about a hundred-year-old carnival side show, a performer known as Alligator Girl, and a man named Monsieur Duval have an eerie familiarity to them.
Frankie...
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For Fans of Julia Glass and Ann Hood, a Novel about How the Choices We Make Last a Lifetime
Vegas Girls begins when three former high school friends, now in their mid-thirties, reunite in their hometown of Las Vegas-a city they vowed to escape as soon as they could-to celebrate their new lives and revisit old haunts. But what starts out as a week-long, sun-kissed reunion takes a strange turn as mysterious gifts appear, familiar faces pop up in unexpected...
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"This is an absolutely brilliant book. If you really wants to learn more regarding OKRs in Agile and other important stuff related to it you must read this book. It's truly a master piece." "Super easy to read, with clear chapter summaries. Lots of solid content that is not hidden amongst fluff. Straight to the point and a must have for any agile practitioner curious about OKRs." "Allan's writing is perfect for busy managers who need to set objectives...
27) The Jade Bones
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Four young people risk their lives to save the world from a looming apocalypse in this captivating sequel to The Seventh Sun.
Cast into the underworld after an act of shattering betrayal, Mayana and Ahkin must overcome unimaginable odds if they are to return home and reclaim the throne of the Chicome. A river of blood and demons disguised as children are only two of the challenges standing in their way. Fortunately, they are not unequipped. Mayana's...
28) Prophecy's Child
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One gifted girl summons ancient magic Rival mobsters want her power… Nils Kane's government Red Legs track her every move. All Winnie wants is a return to her normal life, but too many push her to remain an outlaw. With magic-dependent tech failing everywhere, can Winnie embrace the new power born within her and choose sides in the coming conflict? Prophecy's Child is the second book in the action-packed Broken Throne series. Enter a world with...
29) The Charm Runner
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Running Black Market Magic is Deadly… Winnie Durham just wants honest work in her shop selling charms. Then Nils Kane's Resolution 84 outlawed magic. Caught between the law, her mother's escalating medical bills, and a vow to never deal in dark magic, Winnie is given an opportunity that's too good to refuse.Will they close Winnie's shop? Can she stay ahead of the law long enough to discover the real reason magic was banned? The Charm Runner is the...
30) Mended Throne
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Winnie and her Dragons, the planet's only hope. A strategic retreat leaves the world vulnerable to spreading evil. Nils Kane will unleash utter destruction on the world unless he's stopped. But are Winnie, the Dusters, and the dragons enough to do it? The world's survival depends on Winnie's decision and sacrifice. Mended Throne is the fifth and final book in the action-packed Broken Throne series. Enter a magical world with gangster mages, crooked...
31) Face the Night
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On a harsh frontier where good and evil contend for people's minds, a young woman must fight for her true identity in this scintillating YA fantasy from the author of the award-winning Age of the Seventh Sun trilogy.
Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life. Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer-until fate took a turn. Now family, home, and even her name have been stripped away. As...
32) Queen of Avalon
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Backed into a corner ... she comes out fighting. The world's magic continues to fail. The middlings want their charmed items and Sable more than ever. They can feel the future coming-a future when the magic will be gone forever. Winnie's taken over the charm runners in Baltimore and New Amsterdam. With the Philly boss joining her, the East Coast is hers. Will Winnie finally unite the entire nation before Director Kane's new Project X stops her? Queen...
33) Stolen Destiny
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Only Merlin's Descendent Can Answer Excalibur's Call. An evil far greater than man has returned, and only she can heal the world and repair its failing magic. Can Winnie unite the nation's charm runners and sable bosses? The world's survival depends on Winnie's decision. Stolen Destiny is the fourth book in the action-packed Broken Throne series. Enter a magical world with gangster mages, crooked cops, and an ancient evil threatening to end it all....
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"Exquisite and gripping. . . . The Gulf is a page turner to be savored; Cochran is a master of both prose and plot."-Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother's Lovers
In this electrifying debut literary thriller, set on the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s at the height of the women's liberation movement, a closeted young woman attempts to solve her surrogate mother's murder in a tight-knit, religious small town.
?In Parson, Texas, a small town ravaged...
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Literary legend Ana Castillo explores the secrets that are kept within households and the women they impact the most in this breakout collection that cements her place as a leading voice in feminist fiction.
The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and women's rights and protesting the Vietnam...
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"Angelina Lopez is the new queen of small-town romance-and of our hearts!" -SIERRA SIMONE, USA TODAY bestselling coauthor of A Merry Little Meet Cute
Gillian Armstead-Bancroft-Pride of the East Side and once-perfect bruja, wife, and mother-is going to spend her summer getting good at being bad.
The first time she left Freedom, Kansas, behind, she did it by doing everything right.
This time, she'll hide from the large Mexican American family...
37) Haunt Me
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Maria has never gotten over her sister Isabella's death ... and the guilt she feels about what happened. It hangs over everything she does, even an innocent slumber party with her two best friends.
When one friend suggests they play a game that summons the spirits of the dead, Maria thinks it's all make-believe. But then she starts to hear from a spirit - a spirit claiming to be her sister. Maria doesn't want to think it's possible... but the sinister...
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Zadie loves Tae Kwon Do, comic books, and outer space. She also loves visiting the community theater that her mom runs, especially the lighting grid over the stage and the stage manager's booth, which is filled with levers and buttons like a spaceship control panel. So when the family's finances suffer a blow and Zadie has to give up her usual activities to spend the summer at the theater, she doesn't mind too much. After all, she's always wanted...
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Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel Garcia Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colon family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future.
Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television, but years later...
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Twelve-year-old Henna loves living on Earth's End, the smallest and remotest settlement in the Gardenia Isles. As one of her island's three residents-the other two are her papas-she spends most of her free time in the garden, coaxing beautiful blooms out of her beloved plants. But when her papa Niall
suddenly becomes seriously ill, Henna's perfect world is uprooted. So when she hears of a legendary, long-lost plant with miraculous healing powers,...