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Everyone has endured the endless traffic light, the queue that goes nowhere, the elevator music piped through the phone line. But what of those periods in your life when everything seems on hold? When you can't do the next thing in your professional or personal life because you can't get to it?
Waiting - be it for health, a life partner, a child, a job - can be an agony, and hope can be exhausting. A firm no in response to the thing you're waiting...
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"We wait you. Why did you take so long?" –Taryn Hutchison was asked this poignant question after her lecture on democracy to a class in Bucharest, Romania. Communism had just fallen. "We waited forty- five years for the Americans to come and set us free. We used to say that even if you were coming in a wheelbarrow, you should be here by now." – The Americans had come at last, but it was to offer a different kind of freedom- freedom that lasts...
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Autumn's choices left her misunderstood and isolated. She walked with oblivion. She found herself talking to only herself. The burden of knowing and seeing too much at a young age defined her stillness.
As I wander my way through the years. Sometimes searching to avoid my mind. Sometimes lost from promises and lies. Sometimes waiting to save me from myself.
The restrictions between my solitude life, my inconsistent creativity and my graphic implementation...
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A delightful book of short stories for both children and adults. Follow the little witch on her journey to see what happens.
A book of metaphorical, magical stories.
Allow yourself to be immersed, contemplative and see what emerges.
Or just enjoy them!
For readers aged 8-108.
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This novel covers the quiet traumas some women mend in silence. When society looks at them, they see beauty, intelligence, maybe even grace. What isn't shown on their faces are the wounds that love, life, and betrayal can leave. Lacerations that permeate the skin and coil around the heart and soul of the prey. The saying, "Show me a beautiful woman, and I'll show you a man who is tired of screwing her", has been repeated thousands of times by men...
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Much like the setting and the character, the use or lack of violence, and the amount and intensity depicted, can provide more clarity into the mystery you’re trying to solve. And, much like the guidelines about using clues in suspense writing, there are so many exceptions to the rules of using violence that the rules themselves may need to be called into question.
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You Are Not Alone. From the moment you cradled your first baby doll, you imagined yourself a mom. Now here you are, a member of the club no one wants to join-the ten percent of women who struggle to fulfill their motherhood dreams because of infertility.
Meghann Bowman knows what it's like to be part of that club. Along with best-selling author Crystal Bowman, Meghann has compiled 30 hope-filled stories of women who received the same diagnosis...
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A CD recording the scariest hell appeared in the hands of 17 - year - old female college student Wan Suier classmate Xu Youyou. Meanwhile, Wan Suier met a man in white. He told Wan Suier that her new boyfriend Lang Ma had only 21 days to live and he would go to hell. Indeed, Rumah died on that date.
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Kate by Claudia Joseph, is a true-life fairy tale: the biography of Kate Middleton, Princess-in-Waiting, who is quite possibly poised to be the next Queen of England. The extraordinary Cinderella story of the beautiful, charming, sophisticated young woman who has snagged Britain's most eligible bachelor, Prince William, Kate is a must-read for all the many followers of the lives, loves, and remarkable turns of the royal family of Great Britain.
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When waiting on God stretches for months or years, we might begin to doubt His promises. Did I hear You correctly, God? Do You see what I'm going through? Why does this have to be so hard?
In Wait and See, Wendy Pope draws on the life of King David to help us:
• focus on the Person of our faith rather than the object of our wait;
• prepare for the future by participating in God's work in the present;
• view God's pauses as opportunities to...
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A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in a dark conspiracy of kidnapping, politics, scandal, and murder Britain's beloved Princess Louise is a grown woman now, married to commoner Piers Chandler and enchanted by their infant son, Davy. While visiting a certain Mrs. Walsh-a mysterious old woman claiming to be a royal relation, a Romanov who...
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Just when she thought she had everything she wished for…
Sara is content with living her life as a lady-in-waiting to a princess until an unexpected encounter with Arlen, a charming viscount, turns her life upside down. Except that he's not just any viscount: he's the former fiancé of the princess she works for.
Amid the backdrop of royal parties and holiday festivities at the European principality she calls home, Sara begins a friendship with...
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A fan favorite from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery, originally published as The Sheik and the Princess in Waiting in 2004.
Emma is shocked when Reyhan, the love of her college life, claims that she is his wife. And suddenly he's claiming to be a desert prince, too. Sure, they'd had a "pretend" ceremony and honeymoon in the Caribbean. But it was pretend, wasn't it?
Prince Reyhan's father, the king, has decided it was time...
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Summer of 1985 – The year of Bruce Springsteen. This is it, the moment Josie Martin has been waiting for. Bruce Springsteen is coming to town and she must get tickets to see her favorite singer. But what happens when the ticketing system goes down? Will she be able to score the hottest tickets of the year? One thing's for sure, she's willing to risk it all to make it happen. Follow Josie and her friends as they live their glory days in, Waiting...
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Are you holding on to a past hurt? Do you have a hard time forgiving people? Are you in search of your purpose in life? Most people spend a lifetime trying to find a resolution to these situations. Sara Porter is one of those people. Sara had a life changing tragedy occur when she was 10 years old. The story made headlines all across the United States. It was not the kind of incident that most people would bounce back from. It was the kind of event...
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I wrote this book to ask a girl to marry me. It contains instructions on how to build a strange drug-taking device called a blackcurrant bath bong, and features a talking fanny...and she still said yes. 5-star reviews on Amazon. This book made me miss Victoria tube station by 3 clear stations on my way home last night. Top work, a really exciting read. Reminded me a little of Alex Garland's 'The Beach' crossed with Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot'......
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