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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother won't do for her children? Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood-their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. Their children, though, disrupt their plans when an unsettling medical condition begins to go around the Little Academy...
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Language
English
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When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
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English
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, they are bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine. Marion flees his homeland fresh out of medical school when he and his brother fall in love with the same woman. He goes to work in...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful...
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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Romantic comedy about a handsome, self-centered ex-ice hockey player and a figure skater with a prima donna attitude who dislike each other intensely, but they team up because to each other they represent a last resort for their prospective careers in the rink.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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"Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child, forcing him to disrupt the life he loves. Allie, one half of a two-mom family, can't stop imagining ditching...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Language
English
Description
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal human tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement-the impulse to develop and refine the ego when the ego is, by nature, essentially empty.
Author
Series
Sisterhood diaries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jane thinks nothing can make her lose her cool But the princess of propriety blows a gasket the night she meets the contractor restoring the Wolcott mansion. Devlin Kavanagh's rugged sex appeal may buckle her knees, but the man is out of control! Jane had to deal with theatrics growing up - she won't tolerate them in someone hired to work on the house she and her two best friends have just inherited. Dev could renovate the mansion in his sleep....
10) Cutting It
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Amanda Holden stars in this drama about two rival Manchester hairdressing salons.
11) Cutting Class
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
After spending time at a mental institution, troubled student Brian Woods returns to class following his father's death, amid a swirl of rumors about his emotional state. Brian competes for the affections of Paula Carson with her boyfriend -- the school's resident rebel, Dwight Ingalls (Brad Pitt). When students begin disappearing at an alarming rate, Brian is the obvious suspect, but the real threat may be coming from an unexpected source.
12) Cord cutting
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Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Are you one of those people who have 500 television channels to choose from and you can never find anything to watch? Maybe it's time to cut the cable cord and take full control of what's on your television. All you need to get started with this popular money saving strategy is an Internet connection, a device to stream to, and the advice in this book.
13) Cutting edge
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Trey DeBolt is a young man at the crest of life. His role as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Alaska offers him a rewarding job and limitless adventure. Then a tragic accident alters his life: during a harrowing rescue, his helicopter goes down. Severely injured, DeBolt awakens in a seaside cabin in Maine, thousands of miles from where the accident occurred. His lone nurse lets slip that he has been officially declared dead, lost in the crash. Back...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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This is a city that seduces dreamers . . . then eats their dreams.
Matthew Scudder understands the futility of his search for a longtime missing Midwestern innocent who wanted to be an actress in the vast meat-grinder called New York City. But her frantic father heard that Schudder is the best—and now the ex-cop-turned-p.i. is scouring the hell called Hell's Kitchen looking for anything that might resemble a lead. And in this neighborhood
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Series
Maeve Kerrigan novels volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Rumours… Everyone’s heard the rumours about elite gentlemen’s clubs, where the champagne flows freely, the parties are outrageous…and what goes on behind closed doors is darker than you could possibly imagine. Paige Hargreaves was a young journalist working on a story about a club for the most privileged men in London. She was on the brink of exposing a shocking scandal. Then she disappeared. DS Maeve Kerrigan must immerse herself in the club’s...
18) Cutting It: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Amanda Holden and Sarah Parish sharpen their scissors as they battle it out to be the best hairdressing salon in Manchester. Allie and her husband Gavin are celebrating the tenth anniversary of their salon and are keen to expand the business by buying an empty shop across the street. However, their dreams are shattered by one of Allie's clients, the unscrupulous Mia and her husband Finn who outbid them and set up a rival salon.
19) Cutting It: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Having chosen Finn over Gavin at the end of the first series, Allie finds herself far from welcome at her former salon and besides, Gavin seems to be taking to his new found freedom a little too well. Allie might be estranged from her family and friends but she is a fighter. She persuades Finn to give her Bladerunner, and sets up a competition with Gavin and her sisters. The Manchester hairdressing wars have only just begun.
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