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She must return to the place that twice brought her shame. She’ll have one final chance to save someone else. Tennessee, 1982. Wildflower McAllister thought she’d put the past behind her. But when she learns her mother is dying, she digs deep and returns to the small mountain town that stole her innocence and cast her out. And she has no choice but to pull her thirteen-year-old granddaughter Daisy right back into the ghosts of her painful history.

Coldly dismissed from her relationship and her home in Arizona, Poppy Marsh leaves her past behind and finds a remote ranch house for rent. All she wants to do is finish her thesis and pull the pieces of her broken life back together. After Colton Gunnerson's search for rodeo fame crashes to the ground, saving his family ranch is the only future he has left. If he fails, he could lose more than his home and his family. He could lose the only woman he's ever cared for.

Eighty-year-old Southern aristocrat Iris Temple's health may be failing, but her wit is as sharp as ever. Before she joins her ancestral ghosts, she must pick an heir to take over her sprawling estate—and the book of secrets that's kept her family in power for generations. But between her scheming son, her estranged daughter who abandoned Savannah years ago, and her illegitimate half sister, she's working with slim pickings.

This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biography of one of the greatest English novelists. It illustrates not only the character and opinions of an unusually perceptive and gifted woman, but also the social life amonst the county gentry of Georgian England. Outside her writing, Jane Austen's main interest was her large and affectionate family and their circle of friends.

Fifteen-year-old Reuben Cole is about to learn about the viciousness of the lawless West. After he comes to the aid of a fleeing Native American pursued by a murderous gang, Reuben accidentally kills one of them and puts his own life in danger. A whirlwind of danger ensues as Reuben is pursued by a band of ruthless killers.

Le hasard sème parfois un peu de poudre d'étoiles pour aller au bout de nos rêves. Quand le destin s'est acharné sur lui, le Facteur Cheval aurait pu sombrer dans la douleur et le désespoir. Il a plutôt choisi de se lancer dans un pari insensé : construire de ses propres mains son Palais Idéal. Mais une étrange rencontre lors de ses tournées va donner un tout autre sens à son rêve. Parce que la passion est la seule chose qui peut nous sauver.

What is the purpose of life? There is none. I exist so I find purpose. We exist so we find purpose. Kanon is forced to reevaluate his purpose when he suffers a loss. He decides to leave everything he has ever known behind and becomes homeless. Should he continue northbound, away from the life he left behind, or go back? Kanon will have to face reality either way.

Un bizzarro e coinvolgente viaggio sentimentale: sedici anni dopo le tragicomiche peripezie raccontate in "Stupore e tremori" e in "Né di Eva né di Adamo", Amélie Nothomb torna in Giappone. È l'occasione per rivedere i luoghi e le persone amati dopo lo spaventoso terremoto di Fukushima del 2011.

Maximus never thought his life would change so dramatically. Orphaned from a horrible accident caused by unicorns, the youngster is adopted by the Royal family who just lost their own son the same night. The love Maximus receives from the ruler of Forestrial, King Drummond, is exactly what he needs the most. Queen Zelebeth, on the other hand, has a closed heart and wants nothing to do with Maximus. She despises him.

About a Boy stars a guy called Will, who doesn't really want any children. He wonders why it bothers people that he lives so happily alone in his fashionable, Lego-free flat, with massive speakers, and an expensive cream-colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on. Then Will meets Angie. He has never been out with a mom before. And it has to be said that Angie's long blond hair and big blue eyes are not irrelevant to his sudden reassessment of his attitude toward children. She is truly beautiful.

Rev. Dr. Steve Burt, the Congregational minister known as The Christmas Story Pastor, has been sharing his emotional holiday stories - modern parables revealing the true meaning of Christmas - for 40 years in print and in read-aloud programs. Millions have heard him read his stories on radio and television, with millions more seeing them in Family Circle or the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

They're a Weird Mob chronicles the hilarious attempts of an English-speaking Italian migrant coming to grips with the Australian way of life. It is also an insight into the importance of idiomatic language to the Australian people.

This is the story of Jalena Mathesin. Hurt over losses in her young life, she turns to the street for comfort and solace. Her devastating actions place her family in a dangerous situation causing her abandonment. While dealing with past hurts, addiction and the loss of her father, she ends up doing a lot of things against her upbringing, but finds that reconciliation is always a prayer away.

新刊ラジオ パーソナリティ矢島雅弘の朗読シリーズ第１弾。
“シリーズ”と言いつつ次があるかどうかは分からない。とはいえ、矢島雅弘の朗
読です。

夏目漱石の『夢十夜」はとても不思議な御話です。

『こんな夢を見た。』から始まる書き出しはあまりにも有名ですが、
そこから広がる夢物語は、死ぬ間際の女に戯けた頼まれごとをされたり、豚の大
群に襲われたり”。

良くいえば幻想的、誤解を恐れずに言えばワケがわからない。
他人の夢なんてそんなものなのかもしれません。

最後までごゆっくりお楽しみ下さい。

Here is poetry looking at life. A particular perspective on life which will be alien to many and yet I know through performing these poems in their music form they speak to the hearts and minds of so many others who share my distaste for a treadmill kind of existence. This is my most personal poetry collection to date, here we have quite literally my life’s work or I suppose more accurately it encompasses the story of my journey of personal growth at the point of penning these poems and creating the music album using the poetry as my lyrics.

A new audio edition of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Set in 1940s Appalachia, The Secret Sense of Wildflower tells the story of Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister whose life has been shaped around the recent death of her beloved father in a sawmill accident. While her mother hardens in her grief, Wildflower and her three sisters must cope with their loss themselves, as well as with the demands of daily survival. Despite these hardships, Wildflower has a resilience that is forged with humor, a love of the land, and an endless supply of questions to God.

This, the first book in the series, Adum’s Kronicles, is a historically based, theological fantasy, that follows Adum, Reyna, and Frederick, purveyors of the Truth, as they march through time planting seeds and notions into the minds of some of the most influential people to ever walk the Earth. However, this thought provoking adventure is really about the love, passion, and romance between one man, and one woman, whose love is so profoundly deep, it spans eons.

Living a very humdrum existence, Charlie McGuire feels confined by the overwhelming pressures of life. In an effort to maintain a tranquil existence on the home front, he works hard running a successful bakery, caters to his wife's materialistic values, and struggles to keep his spoiled children at bay. He dreams of escaping the boundaries of his mundane world but gets more than he bargained for when he awakes on a desolate island in the middle of nowhere.

Sara Summers Stanton has raised three children and works as a high school teacher at the same school she attended growing up. Her 25-year marriage is showing cracks in the facade and now she's dealing with breast cancer. In a rare moment of taking care of herself instead of everyone else, Sara takes a sabbatical and goes on the trip to Italy she has always dreamed of taking. This search for a more authentic life leads to Julia, a friend she hasn't seen since they were inseparable as girls, nearly 30 years earlier. They reunite in Florence and their friendship continues where they left off, resulting in an unexpected attraction....