Sarah Blake
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English
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"A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used to run the world." And when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton appear to have everything--perfect children, good looks, a love everyone...
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"In a near-future world where tree pollen has made outdoor air unbreathable, a woman's safe but tedious life is thrown into turmoil when she witnesses a murder and her young daughter starts sleep-talking about the killer"--
The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn't the temperature climbing or the waters rising. It was the trees. The world became overgrown, creating enough pollen to render the air unbreathable. In the decade...
4) Grange House
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English
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Un joven autista muy especial. Su regreso a casa luego de diez años de desaparecido. Un detective y una terapeuta que intentarán descubrir el misterio de su pasado.
Cansada de la falta de compañerismo de sus colegas en el trabajo y afectada por una dolorosa ruptura de pareja, Lydia Chen, terapeuta para personas con necesidades especiales, deja su puesto en la Universidad de Emory y decide mudarse a las afueras de Savannah, un pequeño poblado en...
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Navigating conflict is hard, it often takes up too much time and money, it reduces innovation and productively and impacts relationships and reputations. So, we avoid it.
In late 2019, COVID emerged, bringing with it a whole new set of problems, conflicts and confusion that we all had to deal with. For leaders across disciplines, it required a different sort of response, they have had to develop the capacity to rise above the crisis and provide safe...
6) Naamah
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Revisits the story of the Ark that rescued life on earth, and rediscovers the agonizing burdens endured by the woman at the heart of the story. Naamah is a parable for our time: a fable of body, spirit, and resilience"--
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Since the beginnings of darkest silence the people of a mythical island have spent their days tying the ancient knot that binds them to their ancestors. To tie this knot they must dig a hole; to dig a hole they first must have a fire; and to make a fire that is hot enough for hole digging, this knot that they have been tying for countless generations must finally be tied. From silence to mud to rope to knot to wood to words to fire, the Old People...