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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor...
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DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL BOOK. THIS IS A SUMMARY & IT DOES NOT ACCOMPANY THE OFFICIAL.
In "Tom Lake" by Ann Patchett, readers delve into a stirring narrative exploring familial bonds, love, and the complex nature of relationships. Set against the backdrop of the spring of 2020 in a family orchard in Northern Michigan, the story unravels as Lara's three daughters seek to learn about their mother's past relationship with Peter Duke, a renowned...
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For childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948, until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends.
The rich and prominent "Old House" families of Chicago banded together to protect their own, the driver, who was drunk, was the son of a local doctor. There was a cover-up and a vicious...
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Stuart Woods, the best-selling author of L.A. Times and Heat, has created a haunting thriller full of ghostly images, murder and old family secrets. Part detective story, part ghost story, part Southern gothic-this absorbing novel will fascinate listeners as a small town's present, past and future converge.
7) Mainspring
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Jay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and sees the track of the heavens, the wheels of the Moon, and the great Equatorial gears of the Earth itself.
Mainspring is the story of a young clockmaker's apprentice,...
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Most pastors say that the need to identify and develop leaders is critical to the health and growth of their church. Yet, most churches do not have an intentional plan for doing this. In this book, Mac Lake reveals a practical strategy for addressing this problem.
How do you develop leaders in a church setting-good leaders, qualified leaders, leaders who are committed, who possess the DNA of the church, and leaders who produce results? The majority...
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A mysterious white horse, a quirky parrot, a haunted house, an ancient curse, something frightening in the attic… A summer holiday turns into a nightmare when the Mallory family rents a shabby cottage in a remote corner of Ontario's Rideau Lakes. Seventeen-year-old Chip Mallory and his sixteen-year-old sister Lee are persuaded to go along on "one last family vacation" with their parents before they get caught up in their own lives again. But when...
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Packed with facts, figures, biographies, recipes, poems and lists, this is an entertaining and informative ramble through the Lake District. Discover the area's best fells, walks, views, food and pubs, all chosen by people in the know. Learn the lingo of Cumbrian sheepdog trials and wrestling, and uncover the secrets of cooking sticky toffee pudding and Kendal mint cake. The Lake District Miscellany has everything you need to know about this much-loved...
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Boat Smart Chronicles contains true cases of boating emergencies on and around Lake Michigan, and what can be, learned from these, mishaps. It reads like a great ship's log on recreational boating spanning over two decades. As a long-time Coast Guard responder, Tom Rau has meticulously recorded firsthand accounts of boating and water-related mishaps.
These accounts include valuable feedback from those rescued and their ordeals. This wealth of boating...
12) Endurance
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Green Universe volume 2
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Courtesan and trained assassin Green returns to Copper Downs where she must defend the gods from the Godslayers, magicians dedicated to the destruction of all deities, by tracking them down and removing the threat
13) Kalimpura
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Green Universe volume 3
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Green returns to her service under the Lily Goddess in the city of Kalimpura, where she is hounded by gods that would render her a conduit for the supernatural while she attempts to rescue two Bittern Court hostages
14) Deer hunting
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Explains the equipment, skills, and techniques needed for deer hunting. Vibrant photographs and clear text help readers understand and imagine this fascinating way to explore the outdoors.
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Lake offers a frank inquiry into the causes leading to our current global peril and provides a deep well of hope and profound insight. She regales us with many stories of her adventures in nature including taking inner city young people to the desert where, for the first time in their lives, they experienced the full measure of the night sky filled with stars.
16) Taking Woodstock
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Taking Woodstock is the funny, touching, and true story of Elliot Tiber, the man who was instrumental in arranging the site for the original Woodstock Concert. Elliot, whose parents owned an upstate New York motel, was working in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1969. He socialized with the likes of Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and yet somehow managed to keep his gay life a secret from his family. Then...
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"The new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager in which a recently fired Broadway star flees to a remote Vermont lake house, only to find out that the area has a history of missing women"--
It looks like a familiar story: A woman reeling from a great loss with too much time on her hands and too much booze in her glass watches her neighbors, sees things she shouldn't see, and starts to suspect the worst. But looks can be deceiving....
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The untold story of Point Frederick, where early nineteenth-century Canadians built warships that stopped invasion and brought peace.
“Warriors and Warships” brings to life a much-neglected part of Canada's military history, covering the warships and the people who built them at Point Frederick from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. Opposite Kingston, Point Frederick was the 1789 dockyard home of the Provincial Marine...
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Luna Lake volume 1
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USA Today bestselling author Cathy Clamp reboots the Sazi shapeshifter universe in Forbidden, a tightly-paced, high-tension urban fantasy thriller.
Ten-years have passed since the war that destroyed the Sazi Council and inflicted a horrible "cure" on thousands of Sazi, robbing them of their ability to shapeshift. Luna Lake, isolated in Washington State, started as a refugee camp for Sazi orphans. Now it's a small town and those refugees are young...
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What kind of life can you find in lakes and ponds? Imagine the smooth, glasslike surface of a pond, the water mirroring a bright moon or a crystal blue sky. The water appears perfectly calm and still. What's going on underneath the surface? Lakes and Ponds! With 25 Science Projects for Kids invites kids ages 7 through 10 to investigate the bodies of water that might look calm from the shore but which are teeming with life and activity! Through fun...
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