Pointless Conversations - The Afterthoughts Collection


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In this latest selection of Pointless Conversations, the previous 12 eBooks and their diverse, eclectic and unequivocally stupid topics are discussed and reassessed once more. Is Superman still a cowardly extraterrestrial? Are Holodecks more of a danger to our bowels than we once thought? Is it wrong to steal Bacon from Liam Neeson, and are some breakfast cereals racist? All these truly essential questions and more are answered...or at least attempted...in Pointless Conversations: The Afterthoughts Collection.




Point-Less


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"An exploration of moving away from traditional letter or number grades as an assessment and as a result producing more thoughtful students whose learning is more authentic"--




A Little Life


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.




Diary of A Teenage Millionaire


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16 year old Corrie Shannon has always made the best of being poor, but when she wins fifty million dollars in a lottery, her life is about to change in a lot of ways! Soon she's going on cruises, shopping sprees, has a maid and a chauffeur, not to mention sudden popularity with guys, including celebrities! This is book 1 in a series.







Pixie's B&B


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Melanie has spent far too much time wallowing in grief, avoiding topics of love, going so far as to tell her second grade class that Valentine's Day no longer exists. A vacation to a relaxing Bed & Breakfast is just what she needs to reset her life. The innkeeper takes it upon herself to push Melanie out of her comfort zone and helps her learn how to find a little bit of happiness, one sugar cube at a time. But the vacation quickly turns from carefree to out of control... A moving tale of taking control of one's life and all that it has to throw in your way. Melanie even learns how to fry an egg, which apparently does not mean deep frying an egg. Pixie's B&B - Where all your woes come to the surface so you can finally conquer your fears.




The Murderer


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The portrait of a dangerous and unknowable lost soul, by “a chronicler nonpareil of 20th-century Guyanese life.” (Margaret Busby, The Guardian) Quiet, reserved, painfully shy, Galton Flood arrives in the Guyanese township of Linden haunted by the death of his domineering mother. There he meets Gemma Burrowes, a vibrant young woman eager to escape the confines of her father’s boarding house. They marry and make a home in the anonymous sprawl of Georgetown, Galton’s native city, where Gemma starts to realize that there is something very wrong with this match, and with Galton himself. On its first publication in 1978, The Murderer was greeted as a landmark in Caribbean literature, acclaimed both for its subtle portrayal of a disturbed anti-hero and for revealing with “uncanny precision . . . the discrepancy between the personal power of a woman within the family and her lack of influence outside it” (Homi Bhabha, Times Literary Supplement).










Harlequin Heartwarming September 2017 Box Set


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Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: SOLDIER’S RESCUE Single Father by Betina Krahn Warmhearted Kate Everly is a veterinarian with a special love for dogs. Florida state trooper Nick Stanton, a struggling single dad, is a military veteran who avoids dogs with a passion. A fateful rescue on a lonely back road brings the veteran and the veterinarian together over a gravely injured dog, and before long, Kate has her hands and heart full with this man coming to terms with his past… DEAL OF A LIFETIME Home to Bear Meadows by T. R. McClure Despite her dreams, Sera Callahan can’t shirk her day-to-day responsibilities in her Pennsylvania hometown. When Manhattan attorney Alex Kimmel offers her a new life with him, she is sorely tempted. Though the future of her family hangs in the balance, is this Sera’s best shot to make her dreams come true? A FATHER’S PLEDGE Songs of the Sea by Eleanor Jones A single dad and the child therapist at his son’s boarding school can’t agree on how to help the nine-year-old cope with big changes in his life. With such a rift between them, they couldn’t possibly be falling in love…could they? FOR LOVE OF A DOG by Janice Carter A soldier, a boy and a dog, not to mention her parents’ farm—independent, globetrotting Kai can hardly believe it when she’s suddenly saddled with so much responsibility. Her nephew has special needs, the dog is a rascal and Kai has no idea how to run a farm. But the soldier… If Kai can get him to share the heavy burdens he seems to carry, maybe he’ll help shoulder hers.