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Get the Summary of Noé Álvarez 's Spirit Run in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "Spirit Run," Noé Álvarez shares his journey from the fruit packing warehouses of Selah, Washington, to the transformative experience of the Peace and Dignity Journeys (PDJ), a marathon connecting Indigenous communities from Alaska to Panama. Witnessing his mother's toil in the empaques, Álvarez seeks escape through education,...
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How do we navigate the Good Red Road using a modern world lens? With the current wave of divisiveness and discontent in the world, we are all searching for a path to a more inclusive, powerful, and purposeful life. We are seeking to align ourselves to our soul's purpose. Join Larry Running Turtle Salazar and Pamela Two Spirits Reader as they teach you empowering practices for your spiritual journey. No matter what religion or philosophy you hold,...
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Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier. His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center included four nighttime ceremonies during which participants imbibed a vomit-inducing plant-based brew that contained DMT, a powerful mind-altering...
4) Rebel skies
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Rebel skies volume 1
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Tundra
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military elite of the Mikoshiman Empire, a vast realm of floating cities. Kurara also has a secret -- she can make folded paper figures come to life with a flick of her finger. But when the Midori is attacked and Kurara's secret turns out to be a power treasured across the empire, a gut-wrenching escape leads her to the gruff Himura, who takes...
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"IRISH MILKSHAKE MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR: In advance of their St. Patrick's Day wedding, Tara Meehan and Danny O'Donnell are off to the Aran Islands with their bridesmaids and groomsmen for a joint hen and stag party. The weekend kicks off with the ferry trip to Inishmore, as the passengers enjoy boozy milkshakes on board and entertainment from a pair of famous Irish-dancing twin brothers. But faster than Tara can say 'Oh, Danny Boy,' a murder...
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2024.
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"In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the heaviest bombardment by the United States against communist Pathet...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to a rare uterine cancer at just sixty-six years old, she wanted to do something monumental to honor the person her mother had been: adventurous, courageous, inspiring. Emily's mom had taken up running in her late forties; she ran her first marathon at fifty. She learned to swim at sixty so she could do triathlons, and she lived through a grim diagnosis with extraordinary joy and strength, still going for...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"American chef Georgia May Jackson has one goal--to run her own restaurant in Paris. After a grueling decade working in Parisian kitchens, she is on the cusp of success. But in one disastrous night, Georgia loses her sous-chef position, her French boyfriend, and her sense of taste! Renowned for her refined palate and daring use of bold flavors to create remarkable dishes, Georgia is devastated to discover her culinary gift has simply...vanished. When...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When a fortieth birthday celebration leads to a ghostly visitor, four friends find themselves navigating surprising mysteries and spiritual hijinks, in this clever debut from Melissa Holtz. Alyssa Mann isn't adventurous, not since her husband died and she found herself the single mom of a teenage daughter. But there's no way to avoid celebrating the big 4-0, so when her best friends drag her out for drinks and a tarot reading, she throws caution...
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Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away.
"These are the stories of the ones who got away, of intrepid airmen who eluded the prison camps of an enemy who controlled a continent. These are war stories, not of great armies or even of platoon-sized units. These are stories of men on their own, or of small bands of brothers numbering just two or three -- all...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel vocal group, and the longest-running musical institution in America. Their story intersects with pivotal moments and issues in American history and is an ideal prism through which to trace music, culture, history, and race in America. Spirit of the Century invites readers to follow along the Blind Boys' eight-decade journey together from a segregated trade school, through the rough and tumble...
12) In perpetuity
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Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"It's a surreal smuggling operation across the boundaries of life and death in the latest moody mystery from award-winning graphic novelists Peter & Maria Hoey. The Afterlife is just as the ancient Greeks imagined: an endless twilight where time stands still in perpetuity and shades have nowhere to go. For Jim, that means long shifts at a gas station, with only crossword puzzles and cigarettes to break the tedium. One day, two criminal shades from...
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Why do we run? To what end, all the effort and pain? Wherefore this love of muscle, speed, and sweat? The Greeks were the first to ask these questions, the first to suspend war, work, politics, to enjoy public celebrations of athletic prowess. They invented sport and they were also the first to understand how physical activity connected to our mental well-being. After a lifetime spent with her head and heart in the books trying to think like a Greek,...
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Red Deer Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Inside her father's circus at the dawn of the twentieth century, a spirited Canadian girl fights for equality and the right to her inheritance.
"This middle--grade novel is about an irrepressible girl thrust into challenging circumstances. Her great-aunt Ada has died and a committee of relatives is bent on vulturing Ephemia's education trust fund for themselves. Twelve-year-old Effy's only hope is to locate and dazzle her long lost poppa before time...
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Dell
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A young magazine writer in Mumbai must prove her matchmaking skills-and contend with growing feelings for her close family friend-in this debut romance Jia Deshpande, the ever-confident stylish fashionista, is a writer with Mimosa, Mumbai's top women's magazine, where she begrudgingly writes clichae articles about finding "the one." Out of the office, Jia writes the messy truth of real love on her anonymous blog while balancing competitive family...
16) Dog days
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Lily Dale mystery volume 6
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Do you believe in spirits? A series of strange happenings force Valley View guesthouse manager--and sceptic--Bella Jordan to question her beliefs in the new installment of New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub's heart-warming cozy mystery series set in Lily Dale, New York's Spiritualist home. After attending a family wedding in Chicago, young widow Bella Jordan is returning to the guesthouse she runs in Lily Dale--the quirky upstate New York...
17) Pale shadows
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Coach House Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Dickinson after her death: a novel of the women who brought Emily Dickinson's poems out of the shadows Grieving the loss of her sister and alone in a big house, Lavinia goes through Emily's things and wonders what to do with her sister's poems. She enlists the help of Susan, Emily's best friend and brother Austin's wife, who rouses herself from a deep depression to put the poems into some order to approach a publisher. Lavinia also brings Austin's...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy's adventures continue at Kamp Koral. The campers befriend a ghost camper, have a demolition derby under Lake Yuckymuck, and continue to drive their teenage campy counselor Squidward absolutely crazy! Camp Master Krabs finally hires a camp nurse, and he also hires the Flying Dutchman to run the camp store. This volume contains the second half of Season One, episodes 14-26, in a 2-disc set - Plus the Tidal Zone: A SpongeBob...
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Izdatelʹstvo Clever
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Russian
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Splat the Cat eagerly welcomes his friends over for playtime, only to find himself having a run of bad luck, losing game after game. Frustrated and feeling humiliated, he chooses solitude over playing and losing. However, Splat quickly realizes that being alone isn't as enjoyable as being with friends, despite the losses. The story captures his internal struggle on whether to rejoin his friends and the worry if they would accept him back, or mock...
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Shades of magic volume 1
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Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Kell es el último antari, una estirpe de magos con una capacidad inusual y codiciada para viajar entre Londres paralelos: Rojo, Gris, Blanco y, mucho tiempo atrás, Negro. Se crio en Arnes, ubicado en el Londres Rojo, y oficialmente está al servicio del imperio de los Maresh como embajador, viajando entre los cambios de régimen del Londres Blanco, a menudo sangrientos, y la corte de Jorge III en el Londres más anodino, aquel donde no queda ni...
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