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Having barely escaped her first encounter with Ken, a powerful fellow psychic, Mel and her two friends must regroup and determine their next course of action to continue their search for the missing Julie. The smart thing to do would be to lay low, but caution has never been Mel''s strong suit - especially when there is a case to be solved!

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Swim in the ocean of adventure with our very own Jumping Dolphin This inspiring and rhyming childrens book describes the journey that anadventurous young dolphin embarks on new friends, new sights, andnewlocations. Read how The Jumping Dolphin teaches children to relate toeverything they see in real life and to use these lessons wisely Remember,You can accomplish and succeed in whatever youbelieve.

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Admired for his trompe l’oeil style, American painter William Harnett (1848–1892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was technically skilled. The first scholarly monograph on the artist, William Harnett’s Curious Objects details Harnett’s career-long effort to position still life as a serious art. Nika Elder elevates the significance of Harnett’s academic training and questions his apparent turn away from it. Reading his still lifes in relation to wartime visual culture, literary realism, museum display, and industrial design, she shows how Harnett experimented with inanimate objects and pictorial techniques to represent the human condition without depicting the human body. His paintings illustrate late nineteenth-century American material culture, but they also represent Reconstruction, interiority, death and life, and the imagination. By engaging such lofty themes, Harnett reimagined history painting for the modern era. His work thus locates Gilded Age art and culture in the long shadow of the Civil War and its politics.

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When Daisha''s boyfriend, Raekwan, takes his violent, jealous antics to the next level, a mysterious stranger intervenes, taking Daisha to his place to nurse her wounds. In time, she will realise that he has a strong grip on her emotionally, and she has no control. Tyreek, AKA Pistol, witnesses Daisha''s assault and suddenly finds himself caring about a stranger. There''s a street war brewing, but Pistol and Daisha are fighting a battle in their hearts. Will they make it out alive to pursue the prospect of a real hood love, or will it all be consumed by the fate of the streets?

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When Yankee gyal Kadijah visits the beautiful island of Jamaica with her friends, she does not expect the events that follow. After a nasty breakup with her two-timing ex and her graduation from culinary arts school, all she wants to do is unwind. However, when she meets Omari, the sexy rude boy turned DJ, things heat up quickly. Once Omari locks eyes with Kadijah, his life will never be the same and he knows it. He is feeling the feisty American beauty, but his wife, the beautiful but fiery Angela, is having no part of it. She will stop at nothing to make sure that no woman takes her husband away - especially not some Yankee.

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Two lonely hearts will find each other even in the darkest circumstances. . . .When Daisha''s boyfriend, Raekwan, elevates his violent, jealous antics to the next level, a mysterious stranger intervenes, taking Daisha to his place to nurse her wounds. Even though she sneaks out the next morning, Daisha can''t stop thinking about him; but with her history of bad relationships with men and with her estranged mother, she knows that she should be concerned only with her own survival. In time, she realizes that he has a strong emotional grip on her, and she has no control.Tyreek, aka Pistol, witnesses Daisha''s assault and suddenly finds himself caring about a stranger. His life of crime has toughened him, but his thoughts are consumed with her safety. On the run from the feds, he knows that trust and loyalty are rarely given in the streets. After fleeing to Atlanta, he pulls off a murder that sets off a domino effect of events he never sees coming. There''s a street

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Winner of the 2015 Arno Reinfrank Literaturpreis"Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911, and listens." Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk, son of the wainwright, child of a sleepy village in Germany's north, where life is both simple and harsh. Ruven, though, is neither. He has the ability to see sounds, leading him to discover an uncanny gift for the violin. When he meets a talented teacher in the city's Jewish quarter, Ruven falls under the spell of a prodigious future. But as the twentieth century looms, Ruven's pursuit of his craft takes a turn. In The Last Country, Svenja Leiber spins a tale that moves from the mansions of a disappearing aristocracy to a communist rebellion, from a joyous village wedding to a Nazi official's threats, from the First World War to the Second. As the world Ruven knows disappears, the gifted musician must grapple with an important question: to what end has he devoted himself to his art?

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Women once saw living single as a transitional period--singles marked time till they found “the one.” But now marriage is the transitional stage, connecting one unmarried period of life to another. In I Didn’t Work This Hard Just to Get Married, through lively and revealing interviews with women from various walks of life, Nika C. Beamon explores the challenges facing single black women who defy expectations. They candidly discuss aging without a man and reevaluate dating, single homeownership, career, children, and caring for aged parents. The book speaks directly to the black woman’s experience, addressing challenges such as income discrepancies between genders, the high rate of male incarceration, and the Baby Mama Syndrome. Written in the best tradition of women talking to women, and girlfriend to girlfriend, the book delivers tales of lessons learned, hard times and good times, told by women who found ways to achieve their dreams by defying convention.

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From the basics to insider practical tips on the latest trends and products, readers will learn what it takes to create a home that makes life easier.

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