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2024.
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"The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant--right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her...
2) Mind games
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"As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...
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"This is not a parenting book (it's a book for parents), exploring what we bring to the parenting journey and how we can gain confidence in ourselves not just as parents, but as whole human beings. There's always that moment as a parent when you feel likeno matter how hard you're trying, you just can't get it "right." But the fact is, parenting is hard and once we know this and why, we can forgive ourselves for finding it a struggle, and start to...
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2023.
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English
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"Thanks to a nomadic childhood, Revelle Lee is fluent in ten languages, which she puts to use at crime scenes and in courtrooms across London. Being a court interpreter is a stressful job, one that makes her privy to the most personal and often dark details of others' lives. In the meantime, she's close to adopting a six-year-old boy named Elliot from foster care. Revelle is determined to be the mother she never had, and to make up for a terrible...
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"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and...
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Finlay Donovan ; 4
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English
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"Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls' weekend away. They plan a trip to Atlantic City, but odds are-seeing as it's actually a cover story to negotiate a deal with a dangerous loan shark, save Vero's childhood crush Javi, and hunt down a stolen car-it won't be all fun and games. When Finlay's ex-husband Steven and her mother insist on tagging along too, Finlay and Vero suddenly have a few too many meddlesome...
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"When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as a freelance journalist. But she has also been searching for something else--new friends to help her navigate motherhood. She sees them at her son's new playgroup. The other mothers. A group of sleek, sophisticated women who live in a neighborhood of tree-lined avenues and stunning houses. The sort of...
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"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
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"To come to terms with her mother's dementia, writer Suzanne Finnamore's groundbreaking new memoir conceptualizes dementia as an actual, albeit rather magical, place, like the Acropolis or Yonkers...a place where beloved and ancient queens and kings retire, where linear time doesn't exist, and the rules of society are laid aside."--
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Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Luna loves Christmas. Sometimes at Mum's, sometimes at Dad's, she gets two trees, two dinners, two advent calendars to open . . . but this Christmas, Luna's family is doing something different. They're volunteering, and Luna can't wait for them to all be together at the community Christmas dinner!"--
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Stuntboy ; 2
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"Portico Reeves, or Stuntboy the greatest superhero people have never heard of, tries to manage his frets and navigate his new normal with divorced parents, bullies in his building, and a newfound friend."--
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ÉDitions De L'isatis
Pub. Date
2022
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Papa est arrivé de loin. Son avion a atterri.
Il est enfin revenu. Et s'il n'aimait plus jouer au hockey ? S'il n'aimait plus manger des frites ?
Et si... et s'il ne me reconnaissait pas ? Ça fait tellement longtemps...
Un album important sur l'absence qui s'étire, l'attente, la peur et le retour à la maison des militaires qui sont parfois traumatisés et blessés.
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Babies and toddlers will learn to say "Dada!" with this adorable and fun-to-read board book written by an early speech expert!
Each page features:
• Simple words and "Dada" phrases that are easy for little ones to imitate, and can be used and practiced throughout daily routines
• Rhythm and rhyme to encourage repetition and help keep babies engaged, even before they can understand the text
• Real photographs that model correct mouth positions...
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Babies and toddlers will learn to say "Mama!" with this adorable and fun-to-read board book written by an early speech expert!
Each page features:
• Simple words and "Mama" phrases that are easy for little ones to imitate, and can be used and practiced throughout daily routines
• Rhythm and rhyme to encourage repetition and help keep babies engaged, even before they can understand the text
• Real photographs that model correct mouth positions...
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Excerpt: ""Aunt Hester, do you like to make buttonholes?" Ruth asked with interest in her tones. "No," was the answer, "I hate to make them." Aunt Hester bit off her thread fiercely. "I hate them," she repeated, reaching for her spool which had fallen under the chair. Ruth made a scramble for it, picked it up and laid it in Aunt Hester's lap. "If you don't like to make them, what's the reason you do it?" she went on. "I thought grown-up people could...
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«C'était un samedi matin, au grand magasin. Je regardais les manteaux, bien tranquillement. Puis je jette un regard derrière moi, et qu'est-ce que je vois? Maman n'est plus là.»
O se cache-t-elle donc encore? Au rayon de la menuiserie ou à celui de la verrerie ? Au comptoir d'information ou à celui des objets perdus? Décidément, quand on ne surveille pas sa maman, on risque de la chercher longtemps !
19) I Will Love You
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Author of the bestselling Biscuit series, Alyssa Satin Capucilli, tells a magical tale of parental love that every parent will want to share with their little one!
In the very first moment, when you came to be,
I looked at you, and you looked at me.
I whispered these words as I held you near,
for all time, for all space, for the world to hear
I will love you."
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From her nose to her toes,
Our little Princess grows.
But as she gets bigger,
Her mum needs to help her figure.
That bottoms should be hidden
By some pretty pants, maybe with a ribbon.
But our princess is happy,
Young, carefree and a little sassy.
We won't be too hard,
And we love her spirit for disregard.
So celebrate her carefree ways,
And let's embrace our little princess days.
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