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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 16
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September 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he's shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering...
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"In a riveting follow-up to her acclaimed debut novel, Colette Freedman explores the aftermath of infidelity from three different perspectives--husband, wife, and mistress."--from cover, p. [4].
The end of an affair may be only the beginning.... Although Robert has chosen to stay with Kathy, he still has feeling for Stephanie. Then Stephanie discovers she's pregnant, and her resolve to stay away from Robert wavers. Now all three must reckon with...
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"Meet Minnie Panis, a young and talented conceptual artist navigating love affairs, her unexpected success in the art world, and her relationship with an emotionally distant mother. After surviving a near-death experience falling through the ice during her ultimate artwork, Minnie begins to uncover the truth behind her premature birth with the help of the doctor who saves her life -- as it turns out -- twice. Entering into his clinic, whose motto...
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A serial cop killer is on the loose. Detectives Paul Cameron, Dave Andrews, Cathy Edwards and Krista Nolan, now a well-established power team in the Bathville Police Department, must pool their resources with the rest of Massachusetts' finest to try and find the killer before his next murder. With the distraction of special celebrations and personal conflicts, the power team experiences unanticipated dynamic challenges and major changes in their individual...
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""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Muñoz depicts the Mexican and Mexican...
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The Great Courses
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2020.
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Humans have always experienced periods of acute stress, and we have the nervous system to prove it. Explore how the sympathetic nervous system prepares the body for the fight-flight-freeze response, and how the parasympathetic nervous system relaxes the body when the cause of stress has passed. But if the cause of stress becomes chronic, serious long-term health consequences can result.
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"A romantic and luxurious European setting frames a picture-perfect narrative . . . and their love scenes will warm any cold night." -RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
An indecent indiscretion!
Emma Hayes has gone from making hotel magnate Cesare Falconeri's bed to running his household, including handing out expensive parting gifts to his numerous conquests! But each time, it's chipped away at her heart. Until one night, inhibitions lowered, she reaches...
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The changing lives of three women as their men are sent away to fight
Everyone remembered the summer of '39 as golden and strange. Golden because it was the driest on record; strange because people were burrowing holes and roofing them with iron. Waiting for the bombs…
In the Hampshire town of Markham, Georgia Kennedy wakes on her husband's last day in Civvy Street and feels elated. Conventionally married to the pompous Hugh, she discovers liberation...
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The cozy, comfortable and modest little life of a happy couple, Jenny and Clifford Nelson, unravels when Clifford, a 40-something commuter airline pilot, develops heart trouble and loses his job.Something about the harrowing surgery he endures, and his newly acute awareness of mortality, turns the memory of an old girlfriend -- the first girl he ever loved -- into an obsession: he must find out what became of her. When he does learn her fate, the...
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Life is filled with daily choices and subsequent consequences. We live, we learn and we discover, hopefully not too late in life, that our choices bear consequences – there is just no escaping that.God's word has much to say and teach about consequences. Given the opportunity, one can almost be certain that most, if not all the people mentioned in the bible would do things rather differently the second time around. Praise the Lord that we have God's...
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The stories collected in The Consequences of Desire describe a modern urban society in its extraordinary complexity, its often apparent absence of fixed values, and its resistance to easy understanding.
In "Counting Mercedes-Benzes," Marshall is a directionless young man who believes he can escape his parents' Beverly Hills lifestyle by marrying for love. He fails to realize, however, that the woman he thinks he loves, his mother's Hispanic maid...
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Sproul's survey of the ongoing impact of history's most influential philosophies urges readers to take prevailing cultural mind-sets seriously...because ideas do have consequences. The greatest thinkers of all time are impacting us still. From public-policy decisions and current laws to world events, theology, the arts, education, and even conversations between friends, history's most influential philosophies have wrought massive consequences on nearly...
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After the catastrophic events of Sunfall, the people of the world no longer trust the use of amulets, viewing them as weapons of evil – When it comes out that Maple Valley's newly minted "organic superhero" uses these magical artifacts, will they turn their back on her, or will her influence change the masses.
The Lotus Temple is a beacon of good in the dark despair that hangs over the land. Its app gives true democracy to the hands of the people....
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It began with an interview that should have been mundane, and it ended with me becoming a foster mom and my boss demanding I uncover evidence to put a man behind bars-for life.
I believed I was one of the good ones. Incorruptible. I certainly wasn't a member of the Dirty Blue like others I knew.
Then, I met Drago Acerbi. I soon realized nothing could have prepared me for the consequences of falling in love with the enemy-a dangerous criminal whom...
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Fitan (fitnah – turmoil) has many sad consequences, both for the worldly life of a person and for his religion, and for this reason the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said that death is better for a person than fitan. Mahmoud ibn Labid (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "There are two things that the son of Adam hates. He hates death,...
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Marian Valenzuela, a young assistant, tired of her routine life, embarks on a one-night adventure that will change her destiny forever. In an unexpected twist, she discovers that the man she shared the night with is not a stranger but someone close to her unattainable love.
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The Consequences of Humiliation explores the nature of national humiliation and its impact on foreign policy. Joslyn Barnhart demonstrates that Germany's catastrophic reaction to humiliation at the end of World War I is part of a broader pattern: states that experience humiliating events are more likely to engage in international aggression aimed at restoring the state's image in its own eyes and in the eyes of others.
Barnhart shows that these states...
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This anthology examines the role of Loyalism in the American Revolution, building on the pioneering work of historian Robert M. Calhoon.
Calhoon's work on American Loyalists redefined their role in the Revolution, showing them to be dynamic figures adapting to a society in upheaval. In The Consequences of Loyalism, editors Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore shed light on Calhoon's foundational influence and explore the continuing scholarship in...
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John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes' brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both...
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Beyond the ConsequencesBook #5 of the bestselling Consequences seriesFrom New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes more of the suspenseful romantic thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, choices and consequences.Secrets and deceptionAs the pieces of their puzzle come together, Anthony and Claire Rawlings continue to defy the odds. Together they overcame an incomprehensible beginning. Apart they endured unimaginable heartache....
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