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1) Glimpsed
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As eighteen-year-old high school Fairy Godmother Charity faces an existential crisis and blackmail from Noah, on whom she has a crush, she learns a great deal about her magic and herself.--
2) Encountering Heaven and the Afterlife: True Stories From People Who Have Glimpsed the World Beyond
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What happens when we die? What is heaven really like? How do spiritual beings--angels and demons--interact with us here and in the hereafter? Real-life, credible stories of near-death experiences and spiritual encounters gathered by the authors of Heaven and the Afterlife paint a clearer, fuller picture of exactly what readers can expect when it's their turn to "cross over." These gripping true stories--written from a solidly biblical perspective...
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Is death the end? Or, to put it another way, do we survive bodily death? Some shrug their shoulders and declare we simply can't know. Others just say "No." And a few, flying their philosophical colors, pretentiously profess to not even understand the question. Curiously, the overwhelming majority of human beings throughout the course of history have taken it for granted that death is not the end, that there is a life after death. This striking and...
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She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando tongue-tied. She iced out Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was madly in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. To her friends, she was witty and regal. To her...
7) Glimpses 2
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Glimpses 2 is the exciting addition to Glimpses. It unravels the mystery of who is attempting to murder Marcella and life's discoveries at the end of the tunnel of passion. The ladies discover what their hearts have been longing to reveal. They continue on the road of fate, unified and strong.
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A New York Times Notable Book: Fourteen exquisitely crafted tales of love, betrayal, loss, and renewal among the upper class. Acclaimed author Roxana Robinson's collection runs the gamut of emotion, with characters facing shifting family dynamics and moments of personal crisis: marriage and remarriage, the delights and struggles of raising children, the lure of illicit romance, and the bitter acrimony of divorce. Robinson draws her characters-including...
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No nightmares about my dad's car crashing or my sister's tiny face vanishing in a window of red. No, not anymore. Now when I sleep I fall into an expanse of frozen wilderness, the other life I've lived...
The one I've lived with him.
Anna experiences vivid dreams from a past-life she lived in the 1800s with her husband Robert and their children in the wilderness of the Michigan Territory. Much like her own mother grieving the man and child she lost,...
10) Glimpse of you
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"I knew I could never be happy if my father was alive."
Bellamy is the daughter of the most notorious mafia capo in Spain; some call him "Don Romano," but Bellamy calls him father. When she's not cleaning up the aftermath of his business deals gone sideways, she's at Sunday services, asking for forgiveness for their sins. There's only one thing Don Romano likes more than making his enemies pay: power, even if that means marrying his daughter off for...
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This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains his most popular. Among the reasons is that here, more than anywhere else, the author most vividly captured a place that so affected him that he stayed for the rest of his life. The modern reader can still, through these pages,...
12) Glimpse
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Gravitas Ventures
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2022.
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Three people are up for the same job. Their lives are turning inside out under the pressure. And someone is watching the whole thing. More than one person, in fact. And someone else is watching them watch. A sorrowful and comedic examination of our fall into the surveillance culture.
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Criminal psychologist Patricia Holmes is now a detective paired with Detective Sergeant Rick McCoy. Together they hunt The Biblical Killer, so named for the quotes left on walls written in the victim's blood. To lure the murderer out they join the Tender Nights internet dating site, openly making themselves targets. Rick and Pat have fought their desire for each other for months. Can they now survive their lust and an insane murderer intent on vengeance?...
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Rick McCoy of the Major Crime Squad is trying to repair his marriage when he is sent to the South of Western Australia. A young girl's body has been found in a cave, with flowers on her chest. A search finds five more bodies. Beautiful criminal psychologist, Patricia Holmes, has recovered from her stab wounds inflicted by the serial killer PPP, and is brought in. Pat believes they are hunting a man who is addicted to beauty. When another school girl...
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Seven women have disappeared from bars only to be found murdered after asking for an Angel Shot. Detective Rick McCoy is handed the case after returning from leave following his wife's horrific ordeal at the hands of the serial killer, PPP. Criminal psychologist Patricia Holmes lost her husband to the same killer and when her current partner makes her life miserable she jumps at the chance to work with Rick again. When they determine a man currently...
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Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels, the last work of fiction from acclaimed author Kevin McIlvoy, showcases his artistic dedication to the irreal, the carnivalesque, to ghost stories, fairy tales and the very short form-writing that thrives in the edges, margins, and borderlands. Is It So? tunnels deep into the recesses of long-life experience. A retired dance instructor battles a flock of dive-bombing crows for control of his garden. A teacher...
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Intent to Seduce by Cara Summers - Dr. MacKenzie Lloyd is determined that no husband of hers will ever leave, so she's learned everything there is to know about the art of pleasing a man. But now it's time to put her knowledge into practice, and when she finds herself alone with seriously sexy CEO Lucas Wainwright, Mac decides to see if practice can make perfect. Lucas had no idea how incredible sex could be, until Mac becomes his every fantasy in...
18) Glimpses
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Glimpses is a collection of poems arising from the author's life-experiences, ranging from early life in a Blitzed Coventry slum, through work in heavy industry, university life and academia, together with musings on family life, bereavement and pastoral care of many as an Anglican priest. It is a collection about doubt and the compensations of faith, family and friends.
19) Glimpses
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Glimpses is about an eye-opening look into three lives: Geneva, Marcella, and Tasha. They are very successful and hardworking women. Their paths in life have many turns, do-overs, stops, and starts. They own up to their actions, no matter the outcome. But whatever happens, they remain in each other's lives, from grade school to present. They are an undivided force. Their challenges are shared and created through people they encounter, decisions made...
20) Glimpses
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Glimpses is a shared collection of intimate thoughts and experiences from a man dying of a rare and aggressive neurological disease Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). He can no longer communicate verbally so this is framed by the narration of his own writing.
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