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Gary Richardson is a graduate student in physics who is on the spectrum and has a history of mental disorders. Cherie Chandler is an undergraduate theater major taking time off from school to be an intern on the 'Superstar' television talent show. When Gary auditions as a magician on the show, Cherie sees the discrepancy between his unbelievable tricks and his absolute lack of communication skills and stage presence. He needs help and she needs something...
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When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia. To any family, the diagnosis would have been upending, but to the Handlers, whose youngest daughter, Sarah, had been born with a rare, fatal blood disorder, it was an unimaginable verdict. Struck by the unlikelihood of siblings sick with diametrically opposed illnesses, the medical community labeled the Handlers' situation a bizarre coincidence. By the...
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A re-imagining of a true story, The Invisible Mile is a novel about the capacity of the human mind and body when stretched to their absolute limits, written in prose that calls to mind the works of Marilynne Robinson and John Banville, as well as Colson Whiteheads National Book Award-winning novel The Underground Railroad. In 1928, the Ravat-Wonder cycling team became the first English-speaking peloton to compete in the Tour de France. The riders,...
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A vengeful scientist uses his brilliant discovery to unleash terror on the world in this timeless science fiction classic from an early-twentieth-century master The scientific community has always shunned William Carpenter. A strange, hulking giant, a talented biochemical investigator, and the self-styled "greatest mind in the western world," he has locked himself inside a house with no windows, in the most desolate reaches of New Jersey, where he...
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My deepest wish is that reading this book will inspire you to take a look at your human experience and see it for the beautiful, painful blessing that it is. Whether you face illness and pain or you want to build a scalable business, you have the power to do it no matter what life throws at you by doing it your perfectly imperfect way, with your perfectly imperfect body and mind. Flic Manning has lived a life that is anything but traditional. With...
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With a new baby around, Jasmine feels invisible-until a foal needs her help Jasmine is thrilled about becoming a big sister. She's even been practicing with a doll her parents gave her. But when baby Sophie comes, her parents seem to forget all about Jasmine. Pine Hollow Stables has also welcomed a new baby-an adorable foal with sweet eyes and soft hair, who needs a ton of love and attention. And Jasmine is up to the challenge.
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Richard Gilpin shares his ongoing journey with his 'black dog' shedding light on this often misunderstood subject-and explores how the art and practice of mindfulness can help to train and mind that faithful companion. The book also includes short contributions from internationally recognized experts in the field of mindfulness. Though we may feel as though we have to win an invisible fight against our own black dogs, Richard Gilpin shows that compassion,...
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The author of The Haunted Boonslick proves the Show Me State isn't shy about its ghostly heritage-especially in the beautiful college town at its center. According to Columbia ghost lore, the city's dead only dabble with departure. The specter of Broadway legend Maude Adams checks in on classes at Stephens College, while ragtime pioneer John William Boone returns to trail invisible fingers along his grand piano. Some linger from love, like the spirit...
10) Going Gets Hot
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Amber Myers is book smart and people stupid, and she's tired of being invisible and dateless. Luckily her sister is a hairdresser and works at a beauty salon-in Sapphire Falls.Chad Powers would rather look into a microscope than approach the only woman he's ever crushed on.He follows her to Sapphire Falls, and his farm boy cousins turn him into a hunk in time for the Summer Festival.The going gets hot when both Amber and Chad get more attention than...
11) Harpy Thyme
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It's harpy hour in the New York Times–bestselling series, as a one-of-a-kind Xanth woman searches for her happy ever after.
Though Gloha loves every inch of Xanth-from Lake Ogre-Chobee to the Ever Glades-being the only harpy-goblin cross in existence has her feeling a bit lonely. Now that she's old enough to enter into the Adult Conspiracy, she has to face reality: There are no males of her kind to mate with. Her only chance at love is to seek...
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When the Brazilian military overthrew President João Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a "100 percent Brazilian movement." It has since become apparent, largely through government documents declassified during the course of research for this book, that the United States had an invisible but pervasive part in the coup.
Relying principally on documents from the Johnson and Kennedy presidential libraries, Phyllis Parker...
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The powerful and prophetic story of a talented young African American and his struggles to overcome deep-rooted racism and intolerance in post–World War II America Ambitious and well-educated, US Army officer Steve Hill leaves California for the East Coast and his slice of the American Dream when he takes a job as publicity director at a vanity press. But mid-twentieth-century New York City harbors its own particular brand of prejudice, more secretive...
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Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans. From Ebola and bird flu to swine flu and MERS, zoonotic viruses are killing animals and wreaking havoc on the people living near them. Given this clear correlation between animals and viral infection, why are animals largely invisible in social science accounts of pandemics, and why do they remain marginal in critiques...
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Your school is a lot more than a center of student learning-it represents a self-contained culture with traditions and expectations that reflect its unique mission and demographics.
In School Culture Rewired, education experts Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker offer strategies and advice for defining, assessing, and transforming your school's culture into one that is positive, productive, and actively working to enrich students' lives.
Drawing from...
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Almost exactly 400 years ago, an English woman completed an astonishing walk to Rome. An English Catholic, Mary Ward had already defied the authorities in England. In 1621 she walked across Europe to ask the Pope to allow her to set up schools for girls. 'There is no such difference between men and women that women may not do great things,' she said. But Mary's vision of equality between men and women angered the Catholic Church and the Pope threw...
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An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world.
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo's Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific instrument, all in a few years. In transcending the...
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She sews runway masterpieces … but who will mend her damaged heart?Tragic loss has made Melinda Myers invisible. She hides as a nondescript waitress at an average diner during the day. But each night, she sews runway masterpieces that she wears only once before putting them into a box forever.Peter Surati, an aspiring photographer, can't help but notice beautiful, sad Melinda. He makes it his mission to help her find her smile again. But his meddling...
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Zack Bradford's ego is so big that it can barely be contained in the stadium where he plays professional football. The quarterback previously named Rookie of the Year and deemed the Sexiest Man Alive is on top of the world. Or at least he was until he gets hit by a scandal that could end his career. To keep his multi-million dollar contract with the family-oriented Wildcats, Zack has to improve his playboy image, starting with settling down with one...
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