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How long can a man of structure ignore a hoyden who unleashes fires long suppressed he didn't know he possessed?Lady Rebecca Thatcher cares nothing for fashion or societal dictates. Her destiny in life is to fight for those less fortunate, be it woman, child, or animal. And when a young boy appears from the trees, clutching her skirts, addressing her as Mama with a vile villain on his heels, it incites every instinct in her to protect.With all his...
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What do strange creatures such as the Jersey Devil, the Snarly Yow, Bigfoot, Big Red Eye, the Wooo-wooo, the Snallygaster, the Sykesville Monster, Chessie, the Dwayyo, and various others have in common? They can all be found along a route that stretches from Virginia to Atlantic City, New Jersey.This same stretch of highway is dotted with many haunted locations such as the John Brown Raid Headquarters, Rockwood Mansion, Bellevue, the USS Constellation,...
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Dealing with her wounded heart from the sudden disappearance of her mother, seventeen-year-old Raven hopes for a lazy stress-free summer with her three friends, Tyler and twins Sam and Sabina. The detour of her plans arrives when she finds a strange medallion along with a puzzling message promising answers in distant lands, oddly enough, through the constellation of Orion. Frustration breeds foolishness when the four friends are unable to decipher...
4) Bittersweet
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Sometimes love, no matter how true or how complete, is simply…bittersweet.The perfect son of a respectable family, Carter's life is on the fast track to success, destined to replicate his parents' choices and make them proud. Until the detour.Esi Harper.Esi's been an outcast her entire life. When your mom's the local psychic who owns the only new-age shop in town, it just comes with the territory. Guys like Carter don't.But when fate has the two...
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Life is all about how you handle the detours.And for guarded Lyft driver Laney Campbell, her days are usually full of them. But she never expects to have Hollywood's golden boy, Blake Logan, climb into her passenger seat; she never expects to learn that there is more to him than the tabloids let on, and she certainly never expects to fall head over heels for him. So when her private world is turned upside down, and her urge to run comes back to haunt...
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iscover unique destinations and take your vacation plans to the next level with these travel ideas from the official companion to the blockbuster reality show, The Amazing Race.
For more than twenty years, The Amazing Race has introduced viewers to unique travel destinations in ninety-two countries across the globe. Pairing challenges with cultural touchpoints of the locations visited, The Amazing Race averages 10 million viewers per season.
This...
9) Been There
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Ouat Media
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2023.
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Weekend trips, city breaks, a detour into nature or once around the world. Barely a few days off, you're already gone. Never before has the desire to travel been so widespread and visited places so overloaded. What do we get out of it, other than the picture proof that we have been there?
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The Epidavros Project
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2013.
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Spring 2002: Security becomes the national focus. A Border Security Bill must precede immigration reform, but there's a mysterious hold-up in Congress. One Senator is at the bottom of the delay—Appropriations Chairman Robert Byrd, Kennedy’s most feared colleague. Then the White House proposes a small, immigrant-friendly provision be added to the same stalled bill. The unexpected detour creates more trouble every day it lasts. Senator Byrd holds...
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After a long career as a detective in San Diego, Rick "Chase" Chasen has traded in his badge for a change of scenery in the coastal comforts of Devon, England, until a local murder takes him on a deadly detour... Still grieving the death of his long-time partner, Chase reunites with his dear friend and fellow Anglophile Billie Mondreau for a seacoast holiday of historic sightseeing. Assigned a pair of guides from the tour company Wanderers, Chase...
12) 10 hours to go
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Lily needs a ride--a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha. It's getting tense in the car, and it's not just about the past....
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"Emma Townsend can sum up her situationship with hot-as-hell romantic red flag Finn Hughes in one word: almost. They almost dated in high school. They almost hooked up after college. They almost took things too far one magical night. Their whole story is one series of "almosts" and "nearlys," and now they just kind of can't stand each other. Like, at all. But this weekend, one of their mutuals is getting married . . . and Emma and Finn will have to...
14) The bump
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Berkley Romance
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2024.
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"Wyatt Wallace is a type A, plan-following director of TV commercials, and Biz Petterelli is a child-actor-turned-magazine-writer who thrives on spontaneity. Though polar opposites, they are fully committed to their relationship and their life in Brooklyn with their dog, Matilda. They're also about to have a baby together. And they're freaking out. They've both dreamt of becoming parents, but now that it's happening, they're doubting everything. Can...
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With all the current social challenges facing individuals today, it isn't unusual to feel stuck. We long to move toward health, freedom, and life, but we are unsure how to get there. This new edition of Dr. Trent's popular book LifeMapping sees him joined by his daughter, Kari Trent Stageberg. Together, they provide an effective method to help everyday people learn to navigate the many detours and distractions impacting their careers, families, and...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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2024.
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From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel...
17) Tender headed
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Akashic Books
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2023.
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"The irony of transformation often is that we mistake it to have occurred long before it does. Tender Headed takes its time in asserting the realization that growth remains ever ahead of you. Examining the themes of Black identity, accountability, and narration, we encounter a series of revealing snapshots into the role language plays in chiseling possibility and its rigid command of depiction. Olatunde Osinaike's startling debut sorts through the...
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Rowman & Littlefield
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[2024]
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"Baseball's Great Expectations features the fascinating stories of baseball players who were on the cusp of greatness, who everyone expected to be the next superstar, but never quite lived up to the hype-or through tragic circumstances, never had the chance"--
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
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[2023]
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"There is no dispute. The Warner Bros. Cartoons are the funniest animated shorts in all of film history, and its classic cartoon stars Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Sylvester, Porky Pig, The Road Runner, and Wile E. Coyote, to name but a few are the most popular of all time. This second collection of rarely seen gems - all presented here for the first time on Blu-ray - features twenty-five more titles that have been most requested by collectors and connoisseurs....
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2024.
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Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
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