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"Dropped, after an isolated childhood, into a complex, pressing world of people, Portia Quayne soon finds herself betrayed through the affections that are to her most natural, through her love for Eddie (in which she is at once child and woman) and through her need for family love from the unknown relatives she must learn to know. But the "heart" that is seen as threatened in this novel, the heart that sometimes seems to be dying, is not simply the...
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A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bowen's "The Death of the Heart," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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What's dead is alive, what's alive is dead.
Now that the White Sorceress, Bringer of Life has been found, and the rightful King of Castilles restored to the throne, all that's left to do is live happily ever after...until another ominous prophecy disrupts the peace.
Rumors of undead things roaming the land and chaos tipping the world into darkness spur Reina and Quinn into another journey, but the new prophecy holds a nasty surprise. The...
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Kasumi and Mai are two adorable young Japanese teens that had to move out of her mothers to their fathers due to their her being sick. She is being treated at the hospital in the time being and couldn't take care of her daughters. While living in the farm which is own by their father, they were living there quite smoothly and things were going very well until some tragedy has happen.
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The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Third Edition offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair during and after such a tragedy. In this new and updated edition, Deborah Davis encourages grieving and strives to cover many different kinds of loss, including information on issues such as the death of one or more babies from a...
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May 30, 2002
"How will we ever get through this?" is the question I asked on the night of September 11.
"How?"
Maybe the answer is here, all around me. Not just in the cleanup, not just in the purpose demonstrated by all who came and labored in these months.
The answer is in the enduring spirits of all assembled here. That, for me, is the miracle in all of this: having looked horror in the face, we bear the pain without losing heart.
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Nothing rattled Keith Echelmeyer. Come back from rappelling into blue glaciers in Antarctica, teach a university class the next day. Crawl out from a plane crash with a broken leg, head to Greenland in a cast the next week. Bag an iconic Alaska peak for a first winter ascent over the weekend, stroll into work on Monday.
He flew his single-engine plane like, most of us drive cars. The mileage of his glacier flights equaled a few trips around the world.
But,...
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"Genuine and raw…a heartfelt work of despair, triumph, and redemption."
-Boston Globe
The critically acclaimed Heart of the Game-subtitled "Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America"-explores the pure roots of a sport that is stained by scandal at its highest level. S.L. Price, award-winning writer for Sports Illustrated and author of Pitching Around Fidel, gives a tragic but ultimately uplifting account of the death of minor league...
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Time for a Heart-to-Heart is not your typical memoir, but is rather eclectic in tone - at times philosophical, poetic, poignant, uplifting, confessional, hysterically funny, and nostalgic. But most of all, it is an inspiring story of the triumph of hope and the human spirit in the face of the direst of circumstances and the ultimate challenge of survival. People who have gone through significant heart disease or have undergone organ transplants —...
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Part sports writing, part travelogue, this is a portrait of Spain, its people, and their passion for a beautiful yet deadly spectacle.
A brilliant observer in the tradition of Adam Gopnik and Paul Theroux, Edward Lewine reveals a Spain few outsiders have seen. There's nothing more Spanish than bullfighting, and nothing less like its stereotype. For matadors and aficionados, it is not a blood sport but an art, an ancient subculture steeped in ritual,...
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Their forbidden love may get them both killed. Bella is a red werewolf, sole survivor of the fire that killed her entire pack. Devlyn is a beta male werewolf in a pack of grays. Forced to flee her adopted gray pack when the alpha male becomes a vicious threat, she struggles to live as a lone wolf, until Devlyn, the gray male who rescued her as a pup, comes to bring her home. When a local red werewolf goes on a killing spree, Bella and Devlyn must...
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Employing a unique combination of psychology, philosophy, sociology, and dog training theory, Vicki Hearne recounts her experiences with Bandit, a dog deemed so dangerous that the state of Connecticut condemned him to death. Hearne rescued Bandit and was soon entrenched in a legal battle that extended well beyond his case as she fought to prove that no dog is inherently vicious. She quickly discovered the factors that contributed to Bandit's behavior...
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Despite advancements in the care of those who are suffering from the loss of a child to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death, many parents, especially mothers, cannot or will not give themselves permission to mourn. Their feelings are real and complex, yet they are often denied a safe place to live through and ultimately befriend the grieving. A Piece of My Heart is such a friend. The moving story of a mother's loss of her week-old son, it chronicles...
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If you or someone you care about has experienced the death of a spouse, you'll find this slim but powerful book to be an invaluable companion through the soul-searing, sometimes bewildering aftermath of loss. Written by someone who has been through deep waters himself, I Carry Your Heart offers an unvarnished but ultimately transformative view into the process of grief, as lived and told by a keen observer of his own struggles and story.
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When prosperous lawyer Ernest Brendel mysteriously disappeared, along with his wife Alice, and their 8-year-old daughter Emily, friends in the close-knit Rhode Island neighborhood worried that family had been kidnapped. It would be agonizing months in a massive FBI search before they would know the heartbreaking truth.
The shaken community began to lose hope that the family would ever be found alive. Their worst fears were confirmed when heavy rains...
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Explores whether capturing lions is better than shooting them. Large predators are hardwired to live, fight and die on their own terms and it takes constant vigilance to keep them safe in captivity. Captivity might be better than death, but it isn't a long-term solution either.
18) Life After Death, A Pure Heart of Gold: Learn the Value of Your Life and Think Growth and Riches
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A man died and went to heaven. Life After Death, A Pure Heart of Gold: Learn the Value of Your Life and Think Growth and Riches shares this man's story as he is transformed into a bird and travels around the world. Along the way, he shares lessons and principles learned by others, gleaned from their lives. With plenty of references to beloved characters from the Bible, Crisanto weaves a fable filled with amazing principles and life lessons that you...
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In A Mighty Heart, an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about Danny Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. And then came the news of his shocking and brutal murder. Danny's reasons for being in Karachi, the complete story of his abduction, and the intense effort to find him are told here for...
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"The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Third Edition offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair during and after such a tragedy. In this new and updated edition, Deborah Davis encourages grieving and strives to cover many different kinds of loss, including information on issues such as the death of one or more babies from a...
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