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A deeply imaginative debut novel about a family in crisis.

She's the one woman I'd give anything to forget--and now I'm stuck living with her.I'm making a fresh start in Lake Tahoe, until my stubborn sister decides to move Mira into our cabin. I'll be damned if I move out on Mira's account.Nothing has changed in the years since I last saw Mira. Her tempting body and smart mouth taunt me daily. The only hope I have at keeping my sanity is the knowledge that Mira is hiding something.Sooner or later I'll discover her secret, and knowing her, it'll be damning.But first, I have to ignore the urge to kiss and touch and make Mira mine again.

My cheating ex has me swearing off men. Until Lewis comes along, stealing my breath and my good sense.I've never been one to lust after guys. But Lewis is six and a half feet of rugged man, and he's...eye-catching. Sexy. And silently brooding in all the best ways.The more time I spend with him, the naughtier my thoughts are of us together, and he's not helping put a stop to it. It's infuriating. I'm fantasizing, and lusting, and I can't remember why I wanted to stay away.But Lewis carries his own relationship baggage. Baggage that could break me in ways no ex-boyfriend ever did.Despite all the reasons I shouldn't get involved, Lewis might be the one man I can't resist.

Where would an independent, redheaded, suburban American woman bump into a fiery preacher man from Nigeria? How did sparks of both attraction and anger start to fly right away? Can a deep friendship or even a romance begin to form between people whose lives are so radically different in most every way possible? Little did they know that they would remain connected for many years ahead, even though they would live on different continents in a time where there were no computers, Internet, or cell phones to connect them. Miracle on Julia Street is the story of their relationship, as told through their correspondence and the author's journals. Spanning more than a decade and two continents, their story is one of faith, discernment, trying to navigate cultural differences, and ultimately trusting a good God for the outcome of their lives. Is it a friendship? Sometimes. Is it a romance? Sometimes. Could it ever become a marriage? Miracle on Julia Street will keep you guessing to the end.

This book is written in the fashion of a "chronicle" as a timeline of events regarding the development of chattel slavery from ancient times up to the adoption of the 14th amendment of the American Constitution. It also addresses "Lincoln's War". It is constructed based on the teachings of an 8th grade English teacher at Charleston High School in the late 1950's. She taught that in writing articles for the high school newspaper one should address five facts. They are "what happened, when did it happen, where did it happen, who was involved and who said what".

Through the Hibiscus Hedge tells of children who veer off course into sticky situations and amuse themselves by pushing boundaries, and the adults who outwit and surprise them. Set in the beautiful Jamaican countryside where trees grow in all shades of green, roosters crow fiercely and youngsters can fly over mountain ranges, this collection of short stories by Paulette A. Ramsay is woven together by themes of discovery, loss and the coming-of-age. Written in lyrical prose, Through the Hibiscus Hedge affirms the personhood of children that is observed in their refreshing curiosity and boldness.

In It Is Your Time To Follow Me, Thomas Samuel describes his gut-wrenching conversion experience from radical Salafi Islam to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ.From a young age, Thomas was a devout Muslim who memorized the entire Quran, led prayer in the mosque, and dreamed of jihad and martyrdom. However, his life was turned radically upside down when Jesus came to him in a series of dreams, setting in motion a chain of events that would ultimately cause him to rebel and leave Islam while searching for truth in various world religions, none of which brought peace to his tormented soul. Thomas offers a window deep into the daily life, faith, and worldview of the Salafi community. He also outlines the moral, historical, and philosophical problems he found in the Quran and the earliest biography of Muhammad. These inconsistencies caused him to leave Islam and run for his life to Jesus. It Is Your Time To Follow Me is an incredible story of a man desperate for truth who finds forgiveness and spiritual freedom through Jesus Christ while investigating the historical reliability of the Christian faith."I could not put this book down. In fact, I kept interrupting my wife to share with her about Thomas's story! This is one of the most compelling conversion stories I have heard in a long time. It is honest, interesting, and thought-provoking." - Sean McDowell"God used his Muslim background, his doubts, his rebellion, his visions of Jesus, and Christian apologetics to bring him to where he is today. I pray that God will use Thomas's story to point many to Christ..." - Paul Copan"When I first met Thomas Samuel, I could see that this was a man who had met Jesus. In subsequent conversations with him, I became keenly aware that God intended to use him for kingdom work. I wholeheartedly commend this book to those who want to understand Islam better and see how the power of Christ can transform committed Muslims into powerful servants of our Savior!" - Mike Licona

In 1960, twelve-year-old Victoria's family leaves Cuba and seeks refuge in Miami, and when Victoria's best friend and cousin Jackie makes the trip alone, the reunited girls attempt to bring the rest of their family to safety.

Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! ?All of Tony Hillerman's Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous.??USA TodayFrom New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time is the eighth novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer.At a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit, a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. Amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places, and Navajo Tribal Policemen Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer. In his breakout novel, Hillerman paints a stunning portrait of the psychology of murder?and offers a heart-rending example of love and forgiveness.

An Englisch doctor comes to an Amish town to help out during a flu outbreak...Not looking to find romance, he can't help but see a kindred spirit in the beautiful Caitlyn and he becomes drawn to her religious beliefs as much as her pretty face.But despite being rich and successful, the good doctor doesn't think he's good enough for Caitlyn. And some of his fellow suitors agree. Meanwhile, Caitlyn is being forced to choose between a few men that her mother has chosen for her while secretly pining for the freedom in the Englisch world that the doctor represents. Will they overcome the obstacles and follow their hearts?

Michael is now a Sheriff and he returns to the Amish town of his birth to search for an escaped felon. Once there, he once again meets the acquaintance of his childhood sweetheart, Lovina. They had vowed to be best friends forever until circumstances split them apart. Now they are reunited but can their young love be rekindled after life has hit them with so many slings and arrows?

Emily is a woman in her thirties who had left the Amish community years ago because of a pregnancy outside of marriage. Now divorced, she seeks to once again enter the community that has shunned her in the past and make peace with James, the man that she once betrayed.

Mary is an Amish young woman who has her entire life planned out: she was going to marry Mark and they were going to be happily ever after. But then life throws her a curve ball, Mark decides to marry someone else. Mary is more than just heart broken, she feels as if she should give up on romance altogether. It is only a short time, however, when she starts to receive attention from Luke, a new arrival in the community. He's handsome and polite...but will he be just another man like Mark?

After six years of living as an Englischer, David Schmidt finally returned home to Bird-in-Hand, hoping to reconcile with his estranged family. He had made some pretty bad choices in life, and one of them had been Kate. He knew all too well he would not be welcomed with open arms, but he was willing to do what needed to be done to find forgiveness.And it was Mary Weber, the Bishop's daughter who made the biggest difference of all. She stood up for him when no one else was willing and she showed him that there is redemption to be found. With a few weeks to Christmas, their relationship started to grow stronger, but he was still not sure how he truly felt about her. Was this a friendship, or was it something more, and then Kate shows up a day before Christmas...

Malachi Williams and Garcia Blanka may have taught Nikki Gunz how to be an apex predator, but now the student has surpassed the masters. Nikki lives by one rule and one rule only --- if you don't stand on loyalty you die --- as she leads the new cartel she forged in the streets of New York. However, in the pursuit of power she crosses the line by thinking she is untouchable. Nikki tries to acquire too much at one time and draws the attention of three different criminal organizations who demanded her blood. She finds herself stuck in an untenable situation and the only way out is death. Someone's.With the authorities close to dismantling her cartel and putting her behind bars, Nikki is forced to use every ounce of her street smarts to go toe to toe with them, but the question is will that be enough to keep her out of cuffs? History has proven that no matter who you are you can be killed. Do those who oppose Nikki have enough cunning to kill her and take down the BLACK DIAMOND CARTEL once and for all? Or will Nikki Bandz prove that she truly can't be touched.

Sarah has been in love with a visiting Englischer named Aden ever since she saw him in church over a year ago. Problem is that her best friend Martha has told her that she has an unrequited crush on him as well. When Aden starts to pursue her, Sarah finds herself in a quandary. Should she return the interest of the young man who seems so kind and thoughtful or does she spurn his advances in order to spare the feelings of her friend?

An Amish teenage boy meets a young girl who stays with his family while her father is away sick. Her father is abusive but she doesn't say anything...The boy and girl start to develop feelings for one another until her father returns home and takes the girl back. The girl doesn't really want to go, the boy's family had so much love to give...But then tragedy strikes in the worst way. Will their young romance recover?

Rachel decided to leave her Amish community to go to college as she has aspirations of being a medical doctor in the Englisch world. But she always planned to return in order to marry Luke. But when she returns, she expects things to have been the way the were before. She's matured and Luke seems different. Will they be able to rekindle the love they had in their innocent teen years?

Shunned from her Amish town, Anna runs away with her daughter in a fit of sadness. Lost, she finds shelter at the home of a blacksmith who is a widow. Going against his better judgment, he takes the mother and daughter in. She begins to help around the home and an attraction builds to a mutual love for one another. But when Anna reveals the secret of her past will it be too much for the budding romance to overcome?

Julianne considers her Amish life boring. She's also resigned herself to being a spinster for the rest of her life. There are no men in town she's even remotely interested in even though every single man is pining for her attention.This all changes when a handsome stranger moves into the Amish town. His name is James and he is a former baseball star whose fame and fortune have fizzled out. He comes to the Amish town to get away from all the media but he doesn't count on the Amish people being quite nosy...Particularly when a romance between he and Julianne blossoms.But when an incident from his past life becomes newsworthy, their budding love is put to the test immediately. Can it withstand all of the gossip from the town and the media?

From award-winning author Alison Hong Nguyen Lihalakha comes a charming and unique dual-language English and Arabic picture book that is sure to delight readers with its vibrant illustrations of the many treasures to be discovered across the Arabian Peninsula. From C for camel to R for Ramadan, this fresh alphabet book takes readers on a colorful journey to discover the people, landmarks, animals, and objects that make the Arabian Peninsula a very special place. Vibrant illustrations bring to life the beauty, wonder, and diversity of this vast and vibrant region.Did you know? Al-Hasa Oasis in Saudi Arabia is one of the largest producers of dates in the world, with an estimated annual production of over 100,000 tons (90,700,000 kilograms) of dates. This is about the same as the weight of 667 blue whales!Who are the nomadic people of the desert? What is a wadi? What is a shamal? Are there any castles in the Middle East? Find out inside!ABCs of Arabia is a versatile and engaging educational resource suitable for students in Grades 3 to 6. It's also a wonderful addition to any home library and can be enjoyed by children of all ages when read aloud. This book is dual-language English and Arabic.

A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick"A riveting mother-daughter tale." ? Elle"Radiant. ... An intimate account of one family's planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.? ? Washington PostA sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life?a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste?but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng.Back in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann's childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Under the same roof for the first time in years, mother and daughter must face the simmering questions of their past and their uncertain futures, while trying to rebuild their relationship without the one person who's always held them together.Running parallel to this is Minh's story, as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life for her children. And when Ann makes a shocking discovery in the Banyan House's attic, long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life?and beyond.Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.

"... traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating Medgar Evers's assassination as a catalyzing moment in American history."--Provided by publisher.

New York Times bestseller!In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation?queerness, race, gender plurality, and love?become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape...and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms.Whoever controls our memories controls the future.Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborators have crafted a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts?as a means of self-conception?could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether you were human, AI, or other, your life and sentience were dictated by those who'd convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate.That was until Jane 57821 decided to remember and break free.Expanding from that mythos, these stories fully explore what it's like to live in such a totalitarian society . . . and what it takes to get out of it. Building off the tradition of speculative fiction writers such as Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang, Becky Chambers, and Nnedi Okorafor?and filled with powerful themes and Monáe's emblematic artistic vision?The Memory Librarian serves to readers tales that dissect the human trials of identity expression, technology, and love, reaching through to the worlds of memory and time, and the stakes and power that pulse there.

A rollicking, action-packed adventure of laser tag and fierce sibling rivalries, Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena is the first book in a commercial middle grade fantasy series by Julie C. Dao.Clip and Sadie Chu couldn't be more different. Popular, athletic Clip wants to become his school's first seventh-grade soccer captain, while brainy star student Sadie is determined to prove that she can do anything her boastful brother can.They have just one thing in common: they love laser tag. Like, really love it.When the Blackwood Gaming Arena comes to town, bringing virtual reality headsets and state-of-the-art courses, they couldn't be more excited-or competitive. But then a mysterious figure appears and claims to be a part of the game, forcing the Chus and their friends to save themselves from a sinister force lurking inside the simulation. Together, they must fight their way through epic battlegrounds that will test their speed, skills, and smarts . . . but will Clip and Sadie learn that they're far better off working together than competing for the ultimate victory?A 2023 CBC Teacher and Librarians Favorite

A historical portrait of one woman's quest for happiness amid a lifetime of bad men. There Are Victories is a proto-feminist, anti-Bildungsroman that explores the intersections of misogyny, class, religion, and prejudice within upper class Anglo-Montreal and New York City society before, during, and after WWI. Originally published in 1933, There Are Victories takes up the catastrophe of the home front and the ways in which the life--and happiness--of the novel's protagonist, Ruth Courtney, is continually undermined by the bad behaviour of men. This new edition features a foreword by Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud.

"Some portions of this work originally appeared in Brick, The Wire, and Virginia Quarterly Review"--Copyright page.

"Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym--aimer, to love--resonates on every page, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit and intelligence of Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnamese-Canadians and other Vietnamese former refugees who go on to build some of the most powerful small business empires in the world. Em is a poetic story steeped in history, about those most impacted by the violence and their later accomplishments. In many ways, Em is perhaps Kim Thâuy's most personal book, the one in which she trusts her readers enough to share with them not only the pervasive love she feels but also the rage and the horror at what she and so many other children of the Vietnam War had to live through. Written in Kim Thâuy's trademark style, near to prose poetry, Em reveals her fascination with connection. Through the linked destinies of characters connected by birth and destiny, the novel zigzags between the rubber plantations of Indochina; daily life in Saigon during the war as people find ways to survive and help each other; Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War; and today's global nail polish and nail salon industry, largely driven by former Vietnamese refugees--and everything in between. Here are human lives shaped both by unspeakable trauma and also the beautiful sacrifices of those who made sure at least some of these children survived"--