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Un dimanche de ses dix ans, à la dérobée, Annie apprend qu'elle n'est pas enfant unique. Avant sa naissance, ses parents ont perdu une première fille, emportée par la diphtérie. Plus jamais Annie n'entendra un mot sur cette sœur inconnue dont elle ne semble être que la remplaçante, voire le négatif. Comment percer le mystère de cette petite sainte dont l'identité redéfinit la place d'Annie dans le trio familial ?

Event planner Sydney Winters needs a break from her bustling city life. So when she’s asked to organize a Christmas wedding at Aspen Peaks Ski Lodge, she jumps at the chance. But when she arrives, she discovers the lodge is owned by Mason Donovan, her first love and the one who got away.

Never fear an ending. For every end is a beginning, too. Even the darkest night is broken by the dawn.... Jade Crow faces her biggest challenges yet, and the consequences just might be world-ending....

Charlotte Ramsey is the new girl again. After causing the biggest cafeteria blunder in history, Charlotte's assigned lunch partners - the very stylish Katani, irrepressible Avery, and super-friendly Maeve - can't wait to dump her. Can it get any worse? Absolutely! Nobody is talking, and Katani wants out of the group. What a mess! Can the girls become true friends or will they remain worst enemies forever?

Annie Moore Martin is trying to hold it together, keeping up with a 60-hour+ work week in a solo veterinary practice, on-call 24/7, cooking, cleaning for her family, and attending all soccer practices, piano lessons, gymnastic meets, and school plays. Almost at the end of her frazzled leash, she hears God calling her to Ethiopia. Is it God, or is she hallucinating from exhaustion? Annie leaves the U.S., assuming she will treat large animals in the African bush.

Mail-order brides find true love, entitled sisters meet heroes who bring out their best, orphans find forever homes, and so much more. The people of Cutter's Creek, Montana, struggle through hard times but thrive in spite of it. A little mystery, faith, hope, and so much love is packed into these stories! You'll come to love this quirky little Western town along with the people who built it up.

Née le 1er septembre 1940 à Lillebonne, en Seine-Maritime, Annie Ernaux a grandi à Yvetot, en Normandie, où ses parents tenaient un café-épicerie. Issue d'un milieu modeste, elle poursuit cependant des études supérieures et devient agrégée de lettres. Elle enseignera à Annecy, puis au Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance. Son premier roman, Les armoires vides (1974), met en scène Denise Lesur, sorte de double de l'auteur, héroïne confrontée à un avortement.

Discover a transformative journey through the scriptures with Annie Weber's captivating book, "Astounding Truths of the Bible." Whether you're a newcomer to the pages of the Bible or have grown up immersed in its teachings, Annie Weber's insightful exploration will inspire your quest to unravel the profound truths that lie within. Annie's refreshing approach combines a love for wordplay, nods to pop culture, humor, and personal anecdotes to illuminate the teachings of Jesus and His character.

Fun, bright, and playful, power pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the '70s and '80s to its resurgence in the '90s and '00s, power pop has meant many things to many people. In Go All the Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain power pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Whether they love or hate it, Go All the Way is a dive into the Beatles-inspired pop rock of the last five decades.

Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences, happily wears Cammy’s expensive cast off clothes, and is transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she returns a changed person.

Stavros Stavros Mavrakis, Greek immigrant and proud owner of the Gala Diner in New Jersey, believes he has just 10 days left to live. He sends a scathing email to his estranged ex-wife and three grown daughters, outlining his wishes for how they each might better their lives. He then prepares for his final hours and wonders why he is alone.

SpongeBob is invited to have tea with a new karate-chopping lady friend, Sandy Cheeks. But when he finds out that Sandy lives in a dome filled with air, SpongeBob's plan for a new friend might "run dry"!

If it's not her death-dealing father, her back-from-the-dead mother, or her ghost grandfather, it's her long-lost siblings and their bid for power. With the ABI radio silent and her siblings to find, Darby's got a major problem on her hands - especially when the local coven figures out that her father is no longer bound.

CeCe Gowdie. Historian, rational, scorns the paranormal. When her boss orders her to convert her Welsh castle tours to ghost walks, she thinks that's the worst that can happen. It is, until one midnight in the castle tower she meets Patrick-handsome, passionate, dead since 1761.

Caroline O'Connor never dreamed she'd be back home in Cold River, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain town where everyone is "up your business"; they mean well as they drive you crazy. She thought she'd left town for good, but now she's back, helping to care for her New York-born mother - struck with Alzheimer's and prone to saying and doing anything - and her father, the beloved local doctor frustrated he can't cure his own wife.

If you are going through hell... keep going... Wounded, defeated, and flung across the wilderness, Jade Crow and her peeps faced their worst enemy and not all have escaped....or survived. Separated from her friends, their fates unknown, and without her magic, Jade must discover her own heritage and unlock her true powers....or else her next fight with Samir will be her last. For Jade, life has come down to two choices....Level up. Or die.

Die Weltklasse-Pokerspielerin Annie Duke zeigt, wie Sie sich mit Unsicherheiten anfreunden und dadurch bessere Entscheidungen treffen können. Manchmal entscheidet der Zufall, manchmal Geschicklichkeit das gilt nicht nur für den Erfolg beim Pokern, sondern auch im Leben: Die besten Entscheidungen führen nicht immer zum besten Ergebnis, denn es gibt immer ein Element des Glücks, das man nicht kontrollieren, und Informationen, die man nicht wissen kann.

Big time adventure awaits the Beacon Street Girls and the rest of the seventh grade. The class is heading to Lake Rescue in New Hampshire for outdoor adventure. Will Nick's attention to Isabel make Charlotte wonder about her own feelings? And will the physical challenges of this outdoor adventure prove too much for one overweight seventh-grade girl?

Livro que lançou a autora à fama, O lugar, inédito no Brasil, estabelece as bases para o projeto literário que Ernaux levaria adiante por três décadas de consagração crítica e sucesso de público. Nesta autosociobiografia, uma das mais importantes escritoras vivas da França se debruça sobre a vida do próprio pai para esmiuçar relações familiares e de classe, numa mistura entre história pessoal e sociologia que décadas mais tarde serviria de inspiração declarada a expoentes da autoficção mundial e grandes nomes da literatura francesa como Édouard Louis e Didier Eribon.

Elle a trente ans, elle est professeur, mariée à un "cadre", mère de deux enfants. Elle habite un appartement agréable. Pourtant, c'est une femme gelée. C'est-à-dire que, comme des milliers d'autres femmes, elle a senti l'élan, la curiosité, toute une force heureuse présente en elle se figer au fil des jours entre les courses, le dîner à préparer, le bain des enfants, son travail d'enseignante. Tout ce que l'on dit être la condition "normale" d'une femme.