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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, Second Nature tells the story of a suburban woman, Robin Moore, who discovers her own free spirit through a stranger she brings home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood. As Robin impulsively draws this beautiful, uncivilized man into her world-meanwhile coping with divorce and a troubled teenage son-she begins to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart, and ultimately she changes...
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Nothing seems right in Amelia’s new life. On the run with new names, her family has finally settled into a lavish life in North Carolina. Her relationship with Nate is strained almost to its breaking point, and she has no friends. As Nate pulls further away, a handsome stranger sweeps into her life.
Then evil comes for her again.
After her brother is kidnapped, they discover someone is draining demons for a deadly
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Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature. With chapter ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn and a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck to reflections on the sexual politics of roses, Pollan captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its...
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When Special Agent Angela Hernandez follows the trail of a savage murder to a small town in Rhode Island, she discovers most of the residents, including her partner, Officer Shawn Cutler, are werewolves. As the investigation goes deeper, corruption and greed are exposed, as they are all hunted by an unknown enemy.
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A compelling, stand-alone lesbian paranormal romance, part one in the award-winning Shape-Shifter series.
For solitary novelist Jorie Price, true love seems as fictional as the shape-shifting creatures she writes about in her paranormal romances. Griffin Westmore doesn't believe in love either, but she's one of those not-so-fictional shape-shifters who secretly live among humans.
When Jorie's writing gets uncomfortably close to the truth, Griffin...
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Leadership can be described as a set of effective characteristics or habits that one exhibits on a daily basis that influences others. Have you ever stopped to think about your habits and how they impact your leadership outcomes? Habits form when behavior is repeated and becomes unconsciously automatic after enacted on continuously. Quality leadership actions will, too, become instinctive when they are repeated multiple times, thus becoming second...
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England, 1888. Fourteen-year-old Indigo Taylor dreams of becoming a detective, which as a young child is what she thought her solicitor father was. A local murder that seems too quickly solved inspires Indigo to do some investigating of her own. The thread she finds leads to a dangerous chain of events. Meanwhile, Indigo is befriended by a group of circus artists who live a refreshingly different way of life than the stifling society in which finds...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 A garden is a place where you can be alone and feel safe. It is where you can first grow something, and it is where you can experience the rush of discovery.
#2 My father was a Bronx boy who had been swept to the suburbs in the postwar migration. He was not much of a gardener, and the yard behind our house was a mess. My mother's father, who lived nearby, was constantly...
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Rewilding is an important environmental movement to restore habitats to their natural state in order to support native species and make room for animals to move freely. In this comprehensive look at rewilding, the authors present examples from around the world where endangered animals have been rehabilitated and returned to their natural habitats. From pandas and peregrine falcons to jaguars and wolves, the story of these animals testifies to the...
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For centuries, we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today, that's all changing. New scientific studies of animal behavior reveal perceptions, intelligences, awareness and social skills that would have been deemed fantasy a generation ago. The implications make our troubled relationship to animals one of the most pressing moral issues of our time.
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Time Out: A Second Look at Nature engages readers with an opportunity to ask, examine, and ponder critical questions which fundamentally challenge conventional thinking and beliefs about God, nature and our very humanness. It is natural to be curious about such questions but we are trained as children that it is forbidden to ask them.
We consider ourselves fortunate to live in the most highly developed technological time that has ever existed. It...
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Sicily Coyne was just thirteen when her father was killed in a school fire that left her face disfigured. Twelve years later, a young surgeon, Eliza Cappadora, offers hope in the form of a revolutionary new surgery that may give Sicily back the grace and function she lost. Raised by a dynamic, tenacious aunt who taught her to lead a normal life, and engaged to a wonderful man who knew her long before the accident, Sicily rejects the offer: She knows...
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Partez à la découverte des surprenants paysages de l'Ouest américain
Dans ce court tableau, Jonathan Raban nous entraîne des profondes forêts du Pacifique à la vaste plaine du fleuve Columbia, à la recherche de ce que ces immenses paysages révèlent du rapport de l'homme à la nature.
Lui, l'écrivain bercé par son enfance dans la douce campage anglaise, est frappé par le rapport qu'entretiennent les Américains avec la nature. « En dépit...
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On the joyful day of her son's birth, Thais Derich never questioned going to the hospital. A week later, she walked out physically, spiritually, and emotionally injured, and fully disabused of the idea that the medical field would ever put her best interests before protocol, money, and legal concerns. The next three years of her life were spent recovering from that day, and preparing herself to do things her way when she became pregnant again. And...
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Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by today's most innovative minds What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of the acclaimed science salon Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"- The Guardian ), presented to 205 of the world's most influential thinkers from across the intellectual spectrum-award-winning physicists, economists, psychologists, philosophers,...
20) Summer pleasures
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Journalist Lee Radcliffe goes on a camping trip with reclusive author Hunter Brown to obtain an interview, and photographer Bryan Mitchell spends her summer on assignment with arrogant photojournalist Shade Colby.
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