Barbara Caruso
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An autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood by the acclaimed author details her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief.
""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory...
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Life and excitement lie waiting for 10 year-old Winnie Foster on the other side of the iron fence that separates her from Treegap wood. One day she discovers a magic spring that promises eternal life, and meets a strange and wonderful family named Tuck. But wherever there is adventure, there is often trouble too.
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Incarnations of immortality volume 5
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English
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Orb had a rare gift--the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But she knew that greater magic lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things. The quest for the Llano occupied Orb's life. Until she met Natasha, handsome and charming, and an even finer musician. But her mother Niobe came as an Aspect of Fire, with the news that Orb had been chosen for the role of Incarnation of Nature--The...
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Henry Huggins volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow.
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A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she...