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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, has been alone since her caretaker disappeared. She turns to Raymond for help, and as he tries to track Luis down, a deep and unexpected friendship blossoms between the two."--Provided...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The author explains the first nine days of a program to optimize personal and professional satisfaction. "Optimal questions" are included to optimize your personal and business success and "optimal affirmations" are also included to prepare you to optimize your personal and business success.
9624) Kinning
Author
Series
Everfair volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against each other.
9627) Generation like
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Explores how the perennial teen quest for identity and connection has migrated to social media, and exposes the game of cat-and-mouse that corporations are playing with these young consumers. Here is a powerful examination of the evolving and complicated relationship between teens and the companies that are increasingly working to target them. A follow-up to FRONTLINE's 2001 documentary The merchants of cool.
9629) Nocebo
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino nanny who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
9630) Lecciones de juventud
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education . . . Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling . . . One day after the school's annual Halloween event, a student lies in the hospital, her system poisoned by dangerous...
9632) The underwater welder
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. Then one night, deep in the icy solitude of the ocean floor, something unexplainable happens. Jack has a mysterious and supernatural...
9633) Secrets of the mind
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Follows neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran as he investigates four mysterious psychological cases involving blindness and sight, phantom limbs and pain, and delusional thinking, and delivers his astounding conclusions.
9634) Pelo malo: Bad hair
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother."--IMDb
9635) Prophet's daughter: my life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet inside the Church Universal and Triumphant
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
9637) America the beautiful
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Every year Americans spend an average of $12.4 billion on cosmetic surgery procedures. Why are we being conditioned not to like the way we look? Award-winning filmmaker Darryl Roberts goes on a five-year journey to unearth the origins and deadly risks of our nation's quest for physical perfection.
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