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"From debut author Karen Winn, a powerful and lyrical coming-of-age novel that examines the complicated bond of sisterhood, the corrosive power of envy, and how the traumas of our youths can shape our identities for a lifetime. July 1985. It's a normal, sweltering New Jersey summer for soon-to-be seventh grader Bee Kocsis. Her thoughts center only on sunny days spent at Deer Chase Lake, on evenings chasing fireflies around her cul-de-sac with the...
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"Florence "Florida" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at the Arizona women's prison-or so her ex-cellmate, Diosmary Sandoval, keeps insinuating. Dios knows the truth about Florida's crimes, understands the truth that Florence hides even from herself: that she wasn't a victim of circumstance, an unlucky bystander misled by a bad man. Dios knows that darkness lives in women too, despite the world's refusal to see it....
3) Greta
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"A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing is what it seems...
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"From New Zealand author Donna Malane, My Brother's Keeper is a dark and twisting mystery that leave no stone -- or page -- unturned. Diane Rowe is a missing persons expert. Ex-con Karen needs Diane's help to track down her fourteen-year-old daughter, Sunny, whom she's lost contact with while she's been in prison. To Diane, this appears at first glance to be a simple case of a mother wanting to reunite with a beloved daughter. Tracking the girl down...
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"Celebrate the joy, wonder, and innocence of being a child with this love letter to the loved ones in your life that encourages them to celebrate their own special qualities now and into the future. Inspired by the endearing qualities she sees in her own son, Linsey Davis, ABC News correspondent and bestselling author of The World Is Awake and One Big Heart, has written another beautiful book that parents and grandparents can share with their little...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Down the rabbit hole away little Alice goes. Follow her at your own peril, but beware of the world you are about to enter. One with a decapitation-crazed queen, an unintelligible duchess, a sleepy dormouse, a chronically late rabbit, a witty Cheshire cat, a blue hookah-smoking caterpillar, a Hatter and a March Hare hosting a mad tea party, and a caucus race so bewildering that the best way to explain it is just to...
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"This conclusive and comprehensive book reveals the psychology behind why innocent men and women, intensely stressed and befuddled by the promises, threats, trickery, and deception of a police interrogation, are duped into confession, no matter how horrific the crime. Featuring riveting case studies, highly original research, work done in tandem with the Innocence Project, and quotes from individuals who confessed to crimes they did not commit, Duped...
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The first graphic novel by rising star Roman Muradov explores the theme of innocence by treating it as a tangible object--something that can be used, lost, mistreated. Roman Muradov's crisp delicate style conjures a world of strange bookstores and absurd conspiracies.
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"Alice Ở Xứ Sở Thần Tiên là cuốn tiểu thuyết dành cho thiếu nhi cu̧a tác giả người Anh Charles Lutwidge Dodgson dưới bút danh Lewis Carroll. Câu chuyện kể về cô bé Alice chui qua một hang thỏ rồi lạc vào thế giới thần tiên với những sinh vật kì lạ. ..." Alice mở cửa và trước mắt cô là lối đi nhỏ, chẳng rộng hơn cái hang chuột là mấy. Cô quỳ xuống và nhìn...
11) Esposa inocente
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Harlequin Bianca volume 1198
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En opinión de Patrizio Trelini, todo parecía indicar que Keira Worthington le estaba siendo infiel . . . y nadie se atrevía a burlarse de un italiano implacable como él. Así pues, Patrizio echó de casa a su esposa y no quiso escuchar sus mentiras. Pero dos meses más tarde Patrizio necesitaba que Keira volviese a su vida . . . y a su cama, aunque seguía convencido de que ella lo había traicionado. Estando de nuevo a su lado, Keira tenía...
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