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1) Hold Still
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Esen has spent his entire life an outcast, and he threw out his last chance at fitting in when he broke the engagement his family worked so hard to arrange. Sent to the royal palace to fulfill one last duty, he counts the hours until he is literally left homeless and destitute.
But hiding away in the royal garden, he accidentally overhears a private conversation and meets the mysterious Queen's Man...
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A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she...
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Hold Still Fast is a collection of 200 short vignettes of 50 words and under, prose snapshots of a wide range of colorful characters. Moments of reckoning and realizations of loss, sensual celebrations of the physical world, and mysteries whose answers lie barely out of reach, these stories are complete in their telling yet rich in implication. They are the stories we tell when we see more than we say, when we feel more than we know. Immediate. Intimate....
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#1 I want to give my kids the confidence to dream out loud. I want to show them that ridiculously good things do happen, even if they seem completely unbelievable. I was given the opportunity to do something with my creativity and passion, and I want to give that to my kids as well.
#2 When you articulate a new dream, you should receive a response similar to Philip's....
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"Why the gender gap persists and how we can close it Women have made up roughly half of the college-educated workforce for years, and before the onset of the economic crisis of 2020, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the labor force was the lowest on record. But women remain underrepresented in positions of power and status. The gender pay gap, for example, shows little movement, largely because high-paying jobs...
6) Buy and Hold is Still Dead (Again): The Case for Active Portfolio Management in Dangerous Markets
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Status quo investing is dead, and a growing number of investors want to take advantage of the risk-reduction features of active management. In this second, expanded edition of his prophetic 2009 classic, Ken Solow reveals the secrets of the successful active manager as he walks you through the proprietary methods of his own firm. A provocative and thoughtful critique of the current state of the money management industry, "Buy and Hold is Dead (AGAIN)"...
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A dazzling portrait of twenty-somethings who grew up on text-messaging and the war on terror. In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of the Millennial Generation the twenty-five-year olds who grew up on anti-anxiety meds, text-messaging each other truncated emotional reactions, unsure of what's public and what's private. Holding Still explores an unusual love triangle involving...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn't play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he's been emailing, will be compromised. With some...
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Beloved Robert Munsch stories with text adapted for beginner readers, including a note from the author, reading tips, and reading activities.
Tyya is grocery shopping with her dad, but he's not letting her pick any of the good stuff like cookies, ice cream, or candies. When she holds still and is mistaken for the best, most lifelike doll in the supermarket, an argument at the till leads her dad to buy something good after all.
This high -interest...
10) Something Good
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Tyya is grocery shopping with her dad, but he's not letting her pick any of the good stuff like cookies, ice cream, or candies. When she holds still and is mistaken for the best, most lifelike doll in the supermarket, an argument at the till leads her dad to buy something good after all.
A newly designed Classic Munsch picture book introduces this tale of mistaken merchandise to a new generation of young readers.
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Pap dug the nineteenth buckshot out of my shoulder and said, 'Pigs is more disturbin' to the peace of a community than scandal, divorce, and corn licker put together. And,' says pap, pausing to strop his bowie on my scalp where the hair was all burnt off, 'when the pig is a razorback hawg, and is mixed up with a lady schoolteacher, a English tenderfoot, and a passle of bloodthirsty relatives, the result is appallin' for a peaceable man to behold....
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From Rachel M. Wilson, author of Don't Touch, comes an eerie and utterly compelling short story about best friends Leslie and Evy, whose friendship changes when the enigmatic Marsh brothers move to town. Nina LaCour, author of Everything Leads to You, Hold Still, and The Disenchantments, called Rachel M. Wilson's debut novel, Don't Touch, "a tender love story about the beauty and the risk of showing someone who you really are," while Tim Wynne-Jones,...
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The Accidental Writer: A Memoir. Didn't know rules of grammar; became a writer. Had a vasectomy; became a dad. Liked cats; became a dog love. rI'd like to call this a "no-holds-barred" memoir, but I must confess to barring a few holds. Still, in addition to how I accidently became a writer, dad and dog lover (even though I don't know the rules of grammar...had a vasectomy in my twenties...and grew up loving cats), The Accidental Writer has sex, violence...
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#1 I liked it when my mother included me in the family activities. I would mix drinks for my mother and her boyfriends and bring them over on a small metal tray.
#2 When I was almost seven, my mother began dating Johnny, a man who would eventually become my predator. I didn't like him, and I didn't want to know him better. I would pretend not to hear him when he tried...
15) She Transcends
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Layla and Manus are thrown together in a fight for everything. This isn't the first time they've been here, but it's the first time they'll fight together.
When Ignis tears up the realm of oaths to defeat Manus and steal Layla's force, she'll have to find out her past, once and for all. But Ignis won't end there — Earth and all above and below will be under his sway. Unless she can convince Manus to finally let go of something and move on.
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Alice twirled a strand hair around her finger. "Little boys jump, but they do not know where. Into the mouth of the demon lair. Hold still and you will see, in his hand is the key. Fire and brimstone. Brimstone and fire. Your ally is clever. a thief and a liar. All is not lost. You can turn it around. But, for a moment all will be well." She sighed dramatically. "Peaceful and sound."
The third book in the children's fantasy series - Max Hamby
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17) I, Gracie
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A young woman must find her way in the world again after years of nursing her ailing mother in this novel by the bestselling author of Once in a Blue Moon
I, Gracie, survived . . .
When Mama announced to our family that she had dementia, my brother and sisters insisted they couldn't help. They had their own lives elsewhere, after all. So, I gave up my dreams and spent the next nine years caring for Mama alone, losing her bit by bit, and nearly...
18) Mama Said, What?
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Welcome to reality. Reality, you say? Yes. That time when it hits you that you're getting older and not younger. That time hasn't stood still for you or for anyone, for that matter. That moment you look into the mirror and see that gray hair, wrinkle, or stretch mark and ask yourself, "Now when did that happen?" Life is ever-moving, never-standing still. That realization that father time doesn't wait for anyone. In fact, your, "Wait! Hold still!"...
19) River
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River is the second novel in this seriesHe wipes blood from his mouth with his bare arms. "I need you to hold still so I don't feel the need to chase and conquer. Do you understand?"I feel his breath on my skin. "My chances if I run?""None."I had wondered if I would be strong enough to love Ryder, my stranger from the woods. I learned that I was-still am. But now Ryder, Gunner and I have a young together, Rain, the Princess go the Guardian Warriors....
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Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti are co-hosts of Rising at The Hill TV, one of the fastest growing political shows in America. Theirs is the only book that fuses the populist right and populist left to explain the rise of the Trump and Sanders movements. The authors curate an essential collection of their biting commentary, stunning predictions, media critiques, and reveal their vision for a working class centered politics. No establishment media or...