Jenn Lee
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
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1st ed.
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English
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A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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It's hard today to remember how recently cancer was a silent killer, a dreaded disease about which people rarely spoke in public. In hospitals and doctors' offices, conversations about malignancy were hushed and hope was limited. In this deeply researched book, Elaine Schattner reveals a sea change-from before 1900 to the present day-in how ordinary people talk about cancer.
From Whispers to Shouts examines public perception of cancer through stories...
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New Mexico Territory, 1882: She comes to the Klein ranch at sunset, a strange naked pregnant woman dragging a cavalry saber. Annette Klein and her husband have built peace between their marriage and secret relations beyond, but their serenity dies in bloodshed tonight through a cannibalistic demon and a mad preacher.Annette barely escapes the bloodbath to the nearby town of Low' s Bend, where she might find safety with a shotgun-toting barkeep,...
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What is a leader? People who lead do so in a variety of ways, and they aren't always the formal, designated leaders. They often lead by influence-influence acquired by stepping up to offer ideas, role-model values, or to share their knowledge and expertise. They're the informal leaders of our workplaces, and they're the ones organizations should mentor and develop for their next leadership contribution.
Great leaders know that cultivating people...
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A workaholic splits his time between home and hotel rooms until an anonymous cryptic message arrives, setting off a wrinkle in the time continuum and slowly shredding his sanity. Elsewhere, a woman's jealousy over her spouse's connection with their only child boils over, leading her to see monsters everywhere except the mirror. University fraternity brothers discover that a cruel prank has dire consequences but the full extent of their punishment...
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Three years have passed, and Three Willows is on the verge of becoming obsolete. The drought that took hold after the departure of the Founders was one thing, but now the new train line threatens to leave the town in the dust. Jessalyn and Sam are determined to keep that from happening, but they're short on ideas.
Their prayers are answered by the arrival of Bijou Bordeaux, a traveling singer, and her husband, who offer their fame and talent to help...
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Kathryn Bek gets the chance of a lifetime: a job offer right out of college, and in New York City, where adventure lies around every corner. Believing she is recruited for her marketing prowess, she is excited by the prospect of her new job in the intelligence sector; but all is not what it seems. Before long, Kathryn and her new team are thrown into a world of mystery, murder, and magic. As the team rushes around the world, untangling the web of...
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A Historical Novel Of The Perils Of Newlywed Life And All That Comes To Divide Lovers
In 1897 newly married Beryl and Edward Massart travel more than one thousand miles from Quebec to farm a plot of land in Wisconsin that they bought sight-unseen. An almost magical grove of maples on their property inspires them to dream of a real home built within the grove, not the tiny log cabin they've come to live in.
Misunderstandings and tempers get the better...
9) Letting Go
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How long do you hold on?
Cori Elliott likes order. Her schedule, her social life . . . even her GPA is perfect. Then she finds out her high school boyfriend's death wasn't an accident-it was suicide. The devastating revelation is enough to fracture her perfectly structured life, sending Cori in a downward spiral of self-doubt and impulsive decisions.
And right into the arms of Luke Evans.
But Cori's life isn't perfect anymore. In fact, it's all...
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Most people think the reason Prudy Millings married the best-looking preacher in the Carolinas - who inexplicably turned psychotic and mowed her down with the church van - is that she was raised all wrong. So not true.
Prudy's reclamation of her life begins two years after the crime spree that nearly stopped her heart. She packs up her two precocious children and settles in her parents' South Carolina hometown where she deals with a delightful, Proverbs-spewing...
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THE CHICKS ARE BACK! CELEBRATING FEARLESS AND FEARSOME FEMALES WITH ALL-NEW STORIES.
Featuring all-new stories inspired by the classic Chicks in Chainmail series!
A boy and his dog. A girl and her tank. Tropes have been with us throughout all of history. Any girl would gladly trade in her skimpy armor for a tank. While a little bit of chainmail can take a chick far, heavy armor can take one even farther.
Besides, what's not to love about chicks...
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Jessalyn Joy loves her husband, but she can't help the feelings that arose when he volunteered for the Union army. When he comes back to her in a box instead of on his feet, those feelings complicate even more. Jessalyn's mourning period is cut short when something begins to attack the livestock in their small town, and greater dangers begin to threaten their provincial life. Thrown together with the new reverend, one of her own students, and a strange...
13) Queen of Teeth
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Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discovering teeth between her thighs to being hunted by one of the most powerful corporations in America.
She assumes the vagina dentata is a side effect of a rare genetic condition caused by AlphaBeta Pharmaceutical, decades ago, when she and several thousand others were still in the womb.
But, when ABP corporate goons upend her life, she realizes her secondary teeth might be evidence of a...
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Knox Hamilton needs a wife. With his father's recently vacated Senate seat up for grabs, he has to lose his playboy reputation and fast. There's just one problem-there's only one woman he's willing to share his life with...and she wants nothing to do with him.
The last thing Chloe Lochlan needs is her ex crashing her blind date, especially when it's to propose. Knox already crushed her heart once and she has no intention of letting it happen again....
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Three weeks on the Oklahoma Best Sellers list!
Three first place awards at The BookFest® in Women's Historical Fiction, 20th Century Historical Romance, and Women's Historical Romance!
In May 1941, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, hums with talk of spring flowers, fishing derbies, and the growing war in Europe. And for the residents of a quiet neighborhood boarding house, the winds of change are blowing.
Self-proclaimed spinster, Bessie Blackwell,...
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Two friends (who are totally not in love) work together to renovate a school bus into a home.
Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is leading nowhere, and simply put, she's not happy. So after a night out celebrating (drinking) on her birthday, she makes one hell of an impulsive purchase. A giant yellow forty-eight passenger school bus that she intends to make a home.
With little-to-no renovation...
17) In Plain Sight
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2021 Reader's Favorite Award Finalist in the Romantic Suspense Category
There's something sinister happening in Boone County…
Since the debacle involving her friends and her ex, Rayna Nydert has kept to herself. Duped by the rotten bastard, she still feels guilty for her part in it all. With harvest season in full swing, her self-isolation has been easy to keep. But when she finds a beaten and terrified young man in one of her fields, to help him...
18) A Beautiful End
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Will a threat to London's life lead her to love?
London Scott's routine, boring life gets a jolt when her niece discovers a woman's body while out hiking with her boyfriend. It's just her luck, though, that it's Sebastian Archer who investigates the murder. Having known the man since childhood, she's always been the annoying tagalong. Even though she finds him drop-dead sexy, that's a ship that can never sail now that she's guardian to her niece...
19) Wildfire
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Someone is stalking Tara Miller...
All Tara wants is to forget. Home again after years traveling the world, she's determined to put her painful past behind her. Surrounded by her big, loving, loud family, and with the distraction of her new restaurant, she feels like she's finally beginning to heal. Then in walks Jace Travers. With one quirk of his beautiful, full lips, he shoots her carefully constructed life to smithereens. She does her best to...
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Maine cast a good luck spell to save the love of her life from prison, but at what cost?
Magic is controlled by chaos, and with every instance of magically-enhanced good luck comes some corresponding bad luck. Sage is free, but so is the Demon who created the Mantle.
The Demon has escaped from his celestial prison. He is gathering his minions and is gunning for the Mantle.
But the Mantle isn't the only weapon the Demon wants. There are other, more...