Lisa Green
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Television legal analyst and attorney Lisa Green offers something new: a witty, direct and empowering legal guide for women, filled with accessible information they can employ to understand and respond to common legal issues throughout their lives, from dating, marriage, and kids to jobs, retirement, aging parents, and wills.
Lisa Green has an urgent message for women of all ages, especially those who consider themselves fully briefed on nutrition,...
2) The First
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A tale of myth, mystery, and a past long forgotten...
An ancient secret could hold the key to their salvation... or their destruction.
Rinni and her brother Mori have been raised by their grandmother ever since the violent death of their parents. The Shadows, creatures who lurk beyond the walls of their village, kill anyone who attempts to leave.
But the biggest threat lies within their own village. Everyone and everything is dying, slowly and...
3) Dawn Rising
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Once upon a time, a girl was born. A hundred years later, she grew up.
Aurianna must rewrite the past in order to save the future. She was supposed to be the answer to an enigmatic prophecy discovered on the night of her birth. But a terrible curse changed her life forever.
That is, until a mysterious stranger arrives to break the spell. He awakens Aurianna to the truth of her past and the powers she never knew she had.
When he sweeps her back...
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EVIL LIVES RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER In the small California town of Shadow Springs, the haunted house is a fun local legend for most, but for seventeen-year-old Bailey Thompson, the evil inside that house is quite real. She blames her brother's suicide on his obsession with the house's history of tragic death and mayhem, and she has worked tirelessly to try to solve the mystery no one else seems to believe exists.When a family finally moves into the...
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Broken by betrayal. Surrounded by destruction. United by hope.
Aurianna must live with the consequences of her heartbreaking decisions in the aftermath of a betrayal too devastating to face.
She and her friends have no idea who is trustworthy and who is scheming for power. Their only option is to seek assistance from two groups: one that no one thought to ask, and one that no one thought existed.
The fate of Eresseia lies in the hands of those...
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A savior has awakened. But she might just doom them all.After Aurianna foils a deadly plot to destroy the capital city, the people believe she has fulfilled the prophecy and prevented the civil war.However, when Aurianna returns home to the future, she realizes her attempts to thwart the catastrophe failed. Nothing has changed. Yet despite everything, the Arcanes still insist the prophecy is woven into her destiny.Now Aurianna must work to determine...
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[2015]
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From dating, marriage, and kids to divorce, retirement, and aging parents, Green offers you jargon-free lessons on how to solve the legal challenges that arise over the course of a woman's lifetime. She helps you take legal charge of your life, and provides the essential tools you need to care for yourself, your assets, your family, and your career.
8) In the swish
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Red Deer Press
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[2016]
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English
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"Bennett Ryan is one of the region's very best basketball players. In fact, she single—handedly led her team to an undefeated State championship. But when she is forced to switch schools in her senior year, she must first fit in with her old rivals on this new team, then face her old team in the most heated playdowns of her young career."--Publisher.
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Red Deer Press
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[2017]
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English
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"In an Orwellian world eerily similar to our own where a close election divides a nation, an average girl is thrust into the social-media spotlight, labeled a terrorist, and given the title: revolutionary. From high school kid to rebel chief Sam Smart leads the good fight against a right-wing autocratic government bent on total control in this fast-paced novel."--
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What child can resist opening a present under the tree before Christmas morning? Well, a little boy named Jon faces an even more herculean challenge. Can he resist opening the toymaker's box until Christmas, the box that has been entrusted to his grandfather by the toymakers, Santa Claus, and the Angels themselves? If he cannot, then Christmas for everyone will be jeopardized. Come along as Jon learns that his choices have consequences, but also that...
11) Mud
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Lionsgate
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[2013]
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English
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Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
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Schwartz & Wade Books
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[2020]
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English
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"In revolutionary France, a girl named Marguerite Lalanne longed to perform above large crowds on a tightrope, just like her acrobatic parents. Sneaking off to the fairgrounds for secret tightrope walking lessons, Marguerite finessed her performance skills, ultimately performing for crowds as a young rope dancer. And eventually, Marguerite would perform as Madame Saqui, waltzing and pirouetting across- and never falling off- countless ropes above...
13) Mud
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
14) Shotgun stories
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Distributed by Genius Entertainment
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2008
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English
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This film tracks a blood feud between two sets of half brothers in the cotton-fielded back roads of Southeast Arkansas. The first set of Hayes boys were deserted by a violent, alcoholic father who never gave them proper names. The second Hayes family knew a different, sober man who led a comfortable middle-class life. When those first sons crash his funeral, the anger that had rested in the background of their lives threatens to rise up and overtake...
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
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English
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Paul is in his mid-'20s and is a man with little in the way of ambition. Among his friends, Paul has a reputation as a ladies' man, but he's not at all good with long-term relationships. Deep down, Paul senses that he would like to lead a different life, and that feeling becomes all the more clear when he meets Noel. Paul and Noel soon fall in love, but for Paul this is a different sort of relationship than he's accustomed to.
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Criterion collection volume 152
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Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in rural North Carolina are forced to confront a tangle of difficult choices as they discover what it takes to make a modern American hero.
20) Prince avalanche
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2013
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English
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An odd couple of sorts, introspective and stern Alvin and his girlfriend's brother, Lance, dopy and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer of 1988 repainting traffic lines on a desolate country highway where the surrounding areas have been ravaged by wildfire. The men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship.