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Inspired by Victor Hugo's classic, Les Miserables, A Little in Love beautifully conveys the heartbreaking story of street girl Eponine.
Paris, 1832A girl lies alone in the darkness, clutching a letter to her heart. Eponine remembers being a child: her swing and the peach tree, and the baby brother she loved. But mostly she remembers being miserable. Taught to lie and cheat, and to hate the one girl, Cosette, who might have been her friend. Now,...
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Arriving in Rio de Janeiro shaken to the core yet cautiously optimistic, Randall, a stubble-obsessed, gym-groomed Singaporean in his early thirties, is fleeing the emotional fallout from a tragic misadventure whilst wrestling with numbness over the end of a romantic relationship.
When he befriends two locals Marcelo and Felipe – both alluringly attractive in their own ways but could hardly be more different in temperament and their ability to...
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"Who wouldn't want Ms Higgins as their Latin mistress? From a deep acquaintance with both Roman poets…and television soaps…she has worked out "how to get laid, Roman-style." - The Times (London)
"Engaging, and sometimes very funny. . . . Hilarious." - The Guardian
"Latin Love Lessons is written with a light touch and a sense of humour that make it a delight to read. It's as useful to an A-level Latin scholar as it is to anyone who has ever fallen...
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The author considers this book as a guide, and not a Do It Yourself Manual. He has attempted to eliminate jargon, and to simplify what can be a very complex, and stressful time of life. You will find a common sense approach to dating again, sex, marriage, and many other problems confronting seniors, male, or female, who find themselves single once more. Hopefully, you will also find some laughs.
Don is now eighty-seven and a graduate of the University...
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In this sweet novella from the "Love in Little Tree" series, a new girl in town brings a little spirit to Paul's life.
Mariah's gap year before college included a move to Montana, but she isn't sure there's anything for her in horse country...until she meets Paul working at the haunted house fundraiser. Her attraction to him is immediate. As a sensitive, she's compelled to discover if there's an actual spirit in residence, but she'll have to hurry,...
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In 1997, almost by accident, John Richardson found himself sharing a hotel with more than a thousand dwarfs. Over the course of a single week, he begins relationships with some of the people at a convention that evolve into an affecting two-year-and-beyond odyssey into the little world.
He introduces us to characters like a saintly but obsessed doctor and a mother who sacrifices her family to save her dwarf daughter. He follows two dwarf lovers from...
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This captivating and heartwarming narrative unfolds around a young girl as she embarks on the journey of being introduced to her newfound adopted siblings. As the plot delves into the depths of her emotions, the narrative skillfully navigates through the poignant layers of loneliness and sadness that envelop her. However, as the tale progresses, a powerful theme emerges-the transformative power of acceptance and the beauty that lies within the embrace...
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2012
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The Believer magazine presents a compendium of advice from producers, writers, and actors of The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, Late Show with David Letterman, The Hangover, and The Colbert Report, along with other musicians, cartoonists, New Yorker writers, and those similarly unqualified to offer guidance.
Here Amy Sedaris describes the perfect murder for...
Here Amy Sedaris describes the perfect murder for...
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Driven by the conviction that things can change and that he can change them, Tony Macaulay takes up a job running a youth club in the staunchly nationalist New Lodge, in an area known as Murder Mile, where youth unemployment is at 90 per cent. Challenge enough you might think, but it's also a requirement of the job that Tony, a Protestant from the Shankill Road, and his wife Lesley live in the local community.
Inspiring, heart-breaking, and often...
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In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Emyrald Sinclaire offers up easy-to-digest bite-sized pieces of sage advice, easy exercises and self love guiding you to:
> Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from being in the relationship of your dreams.
> Love and accept yourself. Truly, madly deeply. Once and for all.
> Create the love life you have been desiring for years… in the next 8 weeks!
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Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham has always been too occupied with her love of math and frequent battles with anxiety to want to date. Besides, she's always found the idea of kissing to be kind of weird. But by senior year, thanks to therapy and her friends, she's feeling braver than before. Maybe even brave enough to enter the national math and physics competition or flirt back with the new boy. Meanwhile, Evie's best friend, Caleb Covic, has always...
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She was perfect. She smelled of toothpaste, talc, and something sweeter than lilacs. And in that crazy season of autumn, when Cincinnati was ablaze in the blood-red color of fall, Kate Davis made Harry Stoner feel old, and a little in love too. But for Harry Stoner those were only two more reasons that Kate shouldn't have anything more to do with this case. Because what had started with a twisted act of vandalism in the local library had led Kate...
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