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A cheeky portrait of an old-fashioned young woman's assimilation into the modern world Set in 1960s New York, this piquant coming-of-age story concerns a teenage girl, Queenie, raised to become a "kept woman" in an exceedingly comfortable and well-adjusted-yet insular and retrograde-household. After enrolling in college, Queenie confronts new understandings, both personal and political, and gradually becomes cognizant of the dated values imparted...
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Captain Michael Drake desperately needs an army to save Earth after a crushing defeat by alien invaders. When his damaged starship docks at a remote prison colony, he discovers Earth's last best hope-an army to replace the one he lost. But, Queenie, the warrior goddess ruling the prison, has other plans for the rugged star ship captain. After imprisoning Drake and seizing his ship, she prepares to lead her outlaw band to freedom before the invaders...
3) Queenie of Norwich: A compelling tale based on the true story of one woman's quest to beat the odds
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2023
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"You're Nellie Westrop and don't you forget it.
We'll see each other one day, but until we do, take good care of yourself.
Live a good life.
Now go, my love."
From the author of Silver Darlings comes LK Wilde's captivating portrayal of the life of Queenie Read.
Heart warming and breaking in equal measure, Queenie of
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Arthur doesn't always remember where he buried his bone, or what he was doing before he started scratching his ear, but he never forgets three important facts:
1) Bacon is delicious
2) He loves his humans, twins Bro and Harmony, with all his heart
3) Queenie the cat is out to destroy him
So when Queenie wins first place in a feline beauty contest at the county fair, Arthur expects her to be snootier than ever. (Even though she barely beat out another...
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Get the Summary of LK Wilde's Queenie of Norwich in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Queenie of Norwich" by LK Wilde tells the story of Ellen, a young girl from a poor family in historical Norwich, who becomes a caretaker for her ailing sister Florrie and later her mother during childbirth. Ellen's resilience is tested as she faces the harsh realities of poverty, the death of a newborn sibling, and the challenges...
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"Dies ist mein zweiter Brief an Dich, Harold, ein ganz anderer diesmal. Keine Lügen. Jetzt werde ich Dir alles gestehen, denn Du hattest recht damals: Es gibt so viel, was Du immer noch nicht weißt. Zwanzig Jahre lang waren meine Geheimnisse in mir vergraben; jetzt müssen sie ans Licht, bev or es zu spät ist." Queenie Hennessy erzählt die ganze Wahrheit. Ein Roman über Aufbruch, Freiheit, Schuld und Hoffnung - und die Frage, ob wir uns gegenseitig...
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2023.
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"Newly single and unemployed Kerry Tolliver needs a second chance. When she moves back home to her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina, she is guilt tripped into helping her brother, Murphy, sell trees in New York City. She begrudgingly agrees, but she isn't happy about sharing a trailer with her brother in the East Village for two months. Plus, it's been years, since before her parents' divorce, that she's been to the city to sell Christmas...
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Queenie Brogan wasn't always an East End matriarch. Many years ago, before she married Fergus, she was Philomena Dooley, a daughter of Irish Travellers, planning to wed her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Mahone. But when tragedy struck and Patrick's narrow-minded sister, Nora, intervened, the lovers were torn apart.
Fate can be cruel, and when Queenie arrives in London she finds that Patrick Mahon is her parish priest, and that the love she had tried...
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The story is basically true about two dogs, Queenie and Gidget, two miniature dachshunds, and their relationship with each other. Queenie and her puppy were taken by persons unknown and she was then abandoned. Her journey trying to return to Gidget was a tremendous struggle but allowed for a wonderful change between the two dogs.
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"Ich bin auf dem Weg. Du musst nur durchhalten. Ich werde Dich retten, Du wirst schon sehen. Ich werde laufen, und Du wirst leben."
Harold Fry will nur kurz einen Brief einwerfen an seine frühere Kollegin Queenie Hennessy, die im Sterben liegt. Doch dann läuft er am Briefkasten vorbei und auch am Postamt, aus der Stadt hinaus und immer weiter, 87 Tage, 1000 Kilometer. Zu Fuß von Südengland bis an die schottische Grenze zu Queenies Hospiz. Eine...
11) Consequences
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Consequences' is a coming of age novel about a young girl. Alexandra loves to quarrel with her younger siblings. But a game taken too far, one evening, results in her sister being injured, and her angry parents vow to send her off to boarding school. It is at the boarding school where she will meet the illustrious Queenie Torrance, a friendship that will turn out to be quite adventurous. For Queenie is a girl far more mature for her age than the average...
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Meet Newt, Tina, Queenie, Jacob, and many more in this comprehensive character guide to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!Following a magical mix-up, British Magizoologist Newt Scamander unwittingly finds himself on a chase around New York City looking for magical beasts. To set things right, Newt has to track down his escaped magical creatures with the help of aspiring baker Jacob Kowalski, as well as Tina and Queenie Goldstein, two witches...
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A dramatic and heartwarming Victorian saga, perfect for fans of Maggie Hope and Anne Bennett.
Shropshire, 1875. Hettie Jones has grown up in Ironbridge. She has never known her father and, since her mother's death, has been brought up by the Malone family, who treat her as one of their own. She works as a pit girl at the local coal mine, alongside her childhood playfellow, Evan - although lately, their friendship seems to be blossoming into something...
15) Celtic Cuisine: Recipes from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Isle of Man, Brittany and Galicia
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This collection of Celtic recipes from Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Galicia covers a range of traditional dishes rooted in the Celtic past together with others that are at the forefront of modern cooking.
Recipes include: • Boxty Potato Pancakes • Cranachan • Haggis • Roast Lamb • Welsh Rarebit • Saffron Cake • Isle of Man Queenies • Poulet au Cidres
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Moving in with Emily, a model and sugar baby, dating rich older men for money, and the other sugar babies, mixed-race 21-year-old Agnes is drawn deeper and deeper into their world of high-paid sex work where she finds herself searching for fulfillment just as desperately as she was before.
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Doctor Who Comics volume 4
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With the Sea Devil invasion prevented, the two Doctors, along with the fam, rebel Skithra 'Queenie', and human resistance leader Rose Tyler, set off to rescue Tesla and Edison from the clutches of the menacing Skithra mothership. But will this be enough to fix the paradox and restore their reality?
18) Shaper
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A boy grieving the loss of his dog meets a man who can transform the lives of animals - and people. Chad Holloway feels estranged from his entire family. His tantrum-throwing older sister, Julia, and baby brother, Sky, drive him crazy. His parents don't understand him at all. And ever since his grandfather shot Chad's dog Shep, they haven't been speaking to each other, even though Jeep says it was a mercy killing. Queenie, the new puppy Jeep bought...
19) Harlem
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Harlem, 1931. In the heart of the Great Depression, invention is the mother of necessity to make ends meet. Stéphanie St. Clair, known as; Queenie', had already understood this when she landed in New York almost twenty years before. Inventiveness when you are a woman and you are black is much more than a necessity. It's a question of survival.In a few years, this young immigrant West Indian servant freed herself from the weight of ancestral servitude....
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When Queenies death brings the Doyle empire crashing down, the sisters grow apart, -- each taking a different path in life. Then Sharon's world is shattered when her husband, Monty, dies in mysterious circumstances. But is it an accident or murder? As the Doyle sisters pull together to find out what really happened to Monty they enter a world of drugs, dirty money and clean guns, risking their own safety to deal out their own brand of justice. Because,...
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