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Now You Access River Sing Me HomeMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :
Her search begins with an ending....
The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs.Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children--the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the .

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Now You Access Land of Milk and HoneyMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the worldA smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world?s troubles.There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body.In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef?s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate.Sensuous and surprising, joyous and bitingly sharp, told in language as alluring as it is original, Land of Milk and Honey lays provocatively bare the ethics of .Book Details :Author : C Pam Zhang

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Now You Access Next of KinMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Two bickering strangers trying to foster their younger siblings team up to create a stable home, but the chemistry between them threatens to undo their plans.When people-pleasing Chloe learns that her birth mother has unexpectedly had another baby, she doesn?t hesitate to become a next-of-kin guardian. But when she fails to pass Child Protective Services? financial evaluation, she is faced with a see her baby sister placed in foster care or participate in CPS?s new initiative, where two prospective guardians join households to qualify.Enter Warren, a surly mechanic?s apprentice attempting to get custody of his deaf fifteen-year-old brother. From the moment Warren drives up thirty minutes late, blasting music out of his car, Chloe is convinced that this is a very bad idea. The two immediately clash but eventually agree to live together for the sake of their younger siblings.As their lives intertwine, and Chloe adjusts to caring for her newborn sister, she begins to see a new, softer .Book Details :Author : Hannah Bonam-Young

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Now You Access The Wharton PlotMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in the twilight years of the Gilded Age in New York as she tracks a killer.New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage.And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips?a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women?s place in it?is shot to death outside the Princeton Club. Edith herself met the man only once, when the two formed a mutual distaste over tea in the Palm Court of the Belmont hotel. When Phillips is killed, Edith's life takes another turn. His sister is convinced Graham was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which promised to uncover secrets that powerful people would rather stayed hidden. Though .Book Details :Author : Mariah Fredericks

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Now You Access The DelugeMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters?a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as .Book Details :Author : Stephen Markley

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Now You Access After AnnieMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centered their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie?s best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie?s support. It is Annie?s daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to maintain some semblance of their former lives for them all, and who confronts the complicated truths of adulthood.Yet over the course of the next year, while Annie looms large in their memories, all three are able to grow, to change, even to become stronger and more sure of themselves. The enduring power Annie gave to those who loved her is the power to love, and to go on without her.Written in Quindlen?s emotionally resonant voice, and with her deep and generous understanding of people, After Annie is a story that ends with hope, a beautiful novel about how adversity can change us in profound .Book Details :Author : Anna Quindlen

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Now You Access The Soulmate EquationMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. After all, her father was never around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn?t ?father material? before her daughter was even born. Jess holds her loved ones close but working constantly to stay afloat is hard...and lonely. But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that?s predicted to change dating forever. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands. At least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98 percent compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly?s founder, Dr. River Pe?a. This is one number she can?t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Pe?a. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we?ll .Book Details :Author : Christina Lauren

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Now You Access Big SwissMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist?s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues.Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. She spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss, since she?s tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. They both have dark histories, but Big Swiss chooses to remain unattached to her suffering while Greta continues to be tortured by her past.One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss?s voice at the dog park. In a panic, she introduces herself with a fake name and they quickly become enmeshed. Although Big Swiss is unaware of Greta?s true identity, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. Bold, outlandish, and filled with irresistible .Book Details :Author : Jen Beagin

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Now You Access Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)More Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :James and Cordelia must save London?and their marriage?in this conclusion to the Last Hours series from author Cassandra Clare.Chain of Thorns is a Shadowhunters novel.Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her. In only a few short weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter.After fleeing to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city?s glittering nightlife. But reality intrudes when shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped the Adamant Citadel, and London is under new threat by the Prince of Hell, Belial.Cordelia returns to a London riven by chaos and dissent. The long-kept secret that Belial is James and Lucie?s grandfather has been revealed by an unexpected enemy, and the Herondales .Book Details :Author : Cassandra Clare

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Now You Access Prima FacieMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :This is not life, this is law?Tessa Ensler loves her job. She?s worked her up to being a top criminal defense barrister against all the odds, and fights to defend those pleading not guilty. Tessa believes in the law, believes in the system. Her quick-witted cross-examinations and intelligence in the courtroom see her clocking up win after win - including securing freedom for men accuse of rape and sexual assault. Innocence until proven guilty is, after all, the bedrock of a civilized society.But when Tessa is raped by a coworker, she struggles to find the strength to bring him to justice in the face of the barriers and opposition within that same system. Determined to have her day in court, Tessa is forced to confront the stark reality that the law was not written for victims, and that she is the one on trial. She fights on, even as her evidence is manipulated to make her look like a liar, even while she is retraumatized in the stand.Based on the Olivier and Tony Award-winning play, .Book Details :Author : Suzie Miller

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Now You Access The Ladies Rewrite the RulesMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :From the author of Mr. Malcolm's List comes a delightful romantic comedy set in Regency England about a widow who takes high society by storm.Diana Boyle, a wealthy young widow, has no desire to ever marry again. Particularly not to someone who merely wants her for her fortune.?So when she discovers that she?s listed in a directory of rich, single women she is furious, and rightly so. She confronts Maxwell Dean, the man who published the Bachelor?s Directory , and is horrified to find he is far more attractive than his actions have led her to expect.?However, Diana is unmoved by Max?s explanation that he authored the list to assist younger sons like himself who cannot afford to marry unless it?s to a woman of means.?She?gathers the ladies in the directory together to inform them of its existence, so they may circumvent fortune hunters? efforts to trick them into marriage. Though outraged, the women decide to embrace their unique position of power and reverse the usual gender roles by .Book Details :Author : Suzanne Allain

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Now You Access Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He DidMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover the path that leads to a deeper life with God .??One of the most important books I have read in a decade?. . . If we would all follow in this way,?our lives would change and the world would change.??Jennie Allen, author of Get Out of Your Head and Find Your People?We are constantly being formed by the world around us. To be formed by Jesus will require us to become his apprentice.?To live by what the first Christian disciples called a Rule of Life?a set of practices and relational rhythms that slow us down and open up space in our daily lives for God to do what only God can do?transforms the deepest parts of us to become like him.??This introduction to spiritual formation is full of John Mark Comer?s trademark mix of theological substance and cultural insight as well as practical wisdom on developing your own Rule of Life.?These ancient practices have much to offer us. By learning to .Book Details :Author : John Mark Comer

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