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"Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two children that they're all connected by an invisible string. "That's impossible!" the children insist, but still they want to know more: "What kind of string?" The answer is the simple truth that binds...
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The Paths of Our Invisible Strings follows the emotional journey of a conflicted teenage girl. Leaving her boyfriend behind, Madelyn moves with her family from Arizona to begin a new life in Connecticut where she discovers new friendships, experiences, and even falling for someone.
As a tennis star, Madelyn struggles to balance her relationships-battling a friend for an athletic college scholarship and a secret attraction to an unlikely crush-along...
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Fans of the Invisible String will love this story about a grandmother and granddaughter who must find different ways to stay connected even when they are far apart.
A little girl is moving far away from Grandma. Neither wants to say goodbye. But when Grandma brings the girl into her sewing room, she shows her that they have the longest, strongest thread in the whole world to keep them connected. Full of hope and heart, this book reminds kids that...
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"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Dust jacket flap.
6) Heart string
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"Follow the thread of this reassuring story to see how, even in a world as vast as ours, there is always a bond that connects us to the ones we love-and to the world we share"--
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In 1900, sleek steamliners bridged the vast distance between the Far East and North America. On the West Coast, they brought rare goods and news to cities that still held elements of the rough and tumble frontier. Creating a perfect breeding ground for confidence men and smugglers. A challenge from a lethal gangster pits John Granville and Emily Turner against a shadowy villain who lurks behind the scenes. One who may have pulled invisible strings...
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Yellow hospital socks on my mom's feet,
Yellow buildings surrounding me in Milan,
Yellow backpack slung across my back,
Yellow roses from my first love,
Yellow...
Who knew that one color could be the invisible string that ties your whole life together?
In this dazzling memoir, Liz Irons brings to life the multitude of emotions she went through when faced with the hardships of her mother's colon cancer diagnosis and the death of her distant father....
9) Frostfall
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From the author of Exodus and Rift comes an epic fantasy of vast scope, in which compassion and honor clash with deadly schemes and betrayal. Ever Vigilant. Those are the words of House Frost, rulers of one of the northernmost territories that owe allegiance to the United Kingdom of Aborea. There, Richard Frost of Northguard rules in King Vincent Montcassel's name. The United Kingdom fiercely protects its borders from incursions from the world beyond...
10) Womanese 101
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One moment she's OBSESSED with you.
The next moment she's turned COLD.
One moment she treats you like the LOVER you are.
The next moment, she treats you like a STRANGER.
One day she is PHYSICALLY ATTRACTED TO YOU.
The next day she wants to be JUST FRIENDS.
Do you ever feel like you want to... BANG YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL, and RIP YOUR HAIR OUT because you can't understand what the hell is going on in a woman's mind?
Are you tired of constantly...
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Janna Levin is an Advanced Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked previously at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity? In startling and beautiful...
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Davis Sterling, scion of Houston's leading newspaper family, was enjoying the playboy life until his father challenges him to make something of himself. Always a talented writer, his rebellious streak leads him to sports writing, a craft without the status in the 1940s that it has today, and one he, knew would drive his farther crazy. With the help of the Houston Star's elevator man, he finds a team worth covering. But, he never thought it would lead...
13) Unsolved
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Invisible volume 2
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FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests. But a shocking new case--unfolding across the country--has left her utterly baffled. The victims all appear to have died by accident, and have seemingly nothing in common. But this many deaths can't be coincidence. And the killer is somehow one step ahead of every move Dockery...
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"A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today's best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington. From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to navigating Highclere Castle's complex Labrador policies, to bizarre Hollywood encounters, Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screen. What is it like working with Judi Dench and Julia Roberts,...
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"Earthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of Odysseus from Ithaca. In between, Troy Jollimore's distinguished new collection ranges widely, with cinematic and adventurous poems that often concern artistic creation and its place in the world. A great many center on films, from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. The title poem reflects on Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly...