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This is a collection of flash/short stories by Lorraine Neby ranging from science fiction advance galactical secrecy to a dramatic near-death transformation that will stretch your imagination.."The Six Dimension" is a secret Interstellar mind reprogramming project is underway to advance humanity to perfection. Trouble is introduced when the next subject isn't so willing to participate. With a disruption of plans against the system, it creates a fight...
2) I am Alone
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"I Am Alone" is a poignant collection of stories that delves into the intricate world of female solitude, celebrating the strength, vulnerability, and resilience of women who navigate life's challenges alone. From the quiet whispers of unspoken desires in "Solitude's Silent Whispers" to the shared laughter in "Aching for Silent Laughter," each story paints a vivid portrait of the diverse experiences of women embracing their aloneness.Throughout the...
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This novel is the third in the A Plane Tree in Provence Series. The women have arrive back home ready to assume life for the better.Sarah Stafford, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is a famed artist whose paintings hang in galleries as well as prestigious homes throughout the country. Her days are spent painting at the beach or in her home studio. Although she rarely contributes to housework, preparing meals, or taking care of her teen-age sons, it is a...
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The most fascinating creatures on the planet earth are the Women. Isn't it amazing to watch them shift their gears effortlessly into the roles they are given to play – a daughter, a wife, a mother, a friend? The most amazing part is that she can be all this one by one or all at the same time! But where is "she" an individual with a world of her own? This collection of short stories is about such women. She is spontaneous. She has a mind of her own...
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In Wyn Morrison's world a 5 A.M. phone call is rarely good news. It usually means equipment trouble at her bakery or a first shift employee calling in sick-something annoying but mundane, fixable. But the news she receives on a warm July morning is anything but mundane. Or fixable.Mac, her ex-husband, is dead.He's not just in a different house with another woman, but actually, physically gone. Ineligible for widowhood, Wyn is nonetheless shaken to...
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Life's Resurrection (MOD Life's Epic Saga, Vol 13)Dr. Raina Markum has always had the undeniable powers of not only feeling the dead, but raising the dead. She never thought, though, in a million years, that this one person would rise again and be part of her life again.As she learns about the history, more and more secrets get revealed. She tries to hid her secret from her family, as she is determined to make amends for her mistakes of the past....
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For anyone who's ever needed a second chance, to find love, to find the right path in life…Des Moines, 1892. After losing their promised inheritance, the Arthur family's luck finally changes. An extraordinary woman, Violet Pendergrass, provides refuge for them to rebuild their broken lives. Or has she?Handsome fifteen-year-old Tommy Arthur has one foot in manhood and the other dragging up the rear of his boyhood years. He strives to protect and...
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Vernie Olander, is an author. She wasn't always an author. For over fifteen years, she was the executive director of the Portland, Maine Symphony Orchestra before retiring to pursue a career as a novelist. Her days quickly changed from board meetings, pitching sponsors, and unraveling complicated budgets, to hours of writing, attending creative writing classes, and dreaming up plots for fiction novels. Energy flowed, and after completing her first...
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Tamar never made any secret that her goal is to break her mother's heart, now that she has sufficiently ruined her mother's life.Joyce knows Tamar is damaged, and Hollis tells her she should cut Tamar loose and stop letting Tamar torment her. But Joyce has her own secrets.Will the baby Tamar's carrying bring mother and daughter together or only drive them farther apart?
10) In the Depths
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the water is deepand though I can seecrystal-clearin the depthsthe water is deepand I'm not ableto swimA poetry anthology of mental health, mental illness, trying to cope, and persevering despite the difficulties.You are not alone, and there is always hope.
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My most impossible ambition has always been to understand human nature. So when I discovered poetry at 17, it naturally evolved into a way to express my puzzling findings. Granted that it is often myself I end up studying (the easiest and nearest subject), the focus has always been to observe and report the quaint, illogical, stubborn and silly things we continually do. The journey has included explorations into odd corners: child abuse, addiction,...
12) Forced to Run
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What are the odds of survival, when you can no longer run? As winter descends on Edinburgh, Carly is tired of the cold, tired of her aching body and tired of animals suffering. She's the tech genius who, together with loose cannon Gemma, heads up the vigilantes known as the Covert Animal Team. When Carly comes across a curious ad online, the team's inquiries lead them to Helen Payton – wife of local dog-racing tycoon Oliver Payton, who has recently...
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Liu's poetry collection offers a poignant exploration of childhood experiences, intricately woven with nostalgic, introspective verses. From the streets of New York to the corridors of the mind, Liu's keen eye illuminates the ordinary moments of life with extraordinary depth and insight. Through her lyrical compositions, readers are invited to embark on a journey of remembrance and reflection, where each poem becomes a mirror reflecting the myriad...
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A landmark definitive edition of one of our most innovative and beloved poets
The landmark oeuvre of Marianne Moore, one of the major inventors of poetic modernism, has had no straight path from beginning to end; until now, there has been no good vantage point from which to see the body of her remarkable work as a whole. Throughout her life Moore arranged and rearranged, visited and revisited, a large majority of her existing poetry, always adding...
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Evie Dupont, a twenty-something interior designer has it all. A prominent last name, a hundred-million-dollar trust fund, and a man or two who love her. But she doesn't want any of it. She adds an 'E' at the end of her name to throw internet searchers off the scent-a conceit her twin brother, Michael, finds hilarious. And in order not to dip into the family till, she needs to rely on the one-percenters she's been trying to purge from her life in order...
17) Mine
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He was my secret.He never knew my lies.I was all he ever wanted.He was the only thing I had.She takes everything and leaves nothing.I won't share him.I'd die before I let her take him.Because I'm his and he's mine.
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Set in the early days of the Trump presidency, A Symmetry of Husbands probes the inner workings of marriage and long friendship. As she grieves the death of her friend, Megan, Abigail struggles with complicated feelings of lingering desire for Megan's husband, and guilt over their affair. Abigail also entertains a growing suspicion of the circumstances of Megan's death, and her own possible complicity.
19) The Funeral
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Janice Althorpe is mourning the death of her employer, and fiance, publishing magnate Charles Fallmont. Today she is at Charles' funeral, sitting alone, watching the proceedings from afar in the church. While Charles' daughter Maureen welcomes Janice's presence at the funeral, son Jackson resents Janice, seeing her as a gold digging opportunist who used his father. Janice faithfully attends the funeral until the casket is placed in the hearse, but...
20) Emily's Darkness
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Have you heard of the jingle ghost?In a world of skepticism, Emily Bernhart's gift as a medium is doubted. But when Ryan Blake finds himself haunted by explainable events, their paths intertwine in a chilling dance of deception and danger. As Emily uncovers a connection between Ryan's experiences and a murdered man's ghost, the truth becomes an enigma.She can sing to get spirits to come out, then convince them to leave, but the jingle ghost, as locals...
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