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    <title>The River Has Roots</title>
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    <author_name>Amal El-Mohtar</author_name>
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    <title>The Lost Story</title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child (Good Grief Series)]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rare Bird: A Memoir of Loss and Love]]></title>
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      <num_pages>240</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Anna Whiston-Donaldson</author_name>
    <isbn>1601425198</isbn>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Secret Life of an Uncool Mom (Tara Gallagher, #1)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Serena Terry</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>You’ve heard of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) but have you ever heard of autism masking?</b> If so, what does the term autism masking mean to you?Your response will undoubtedly be influenced by important factors such you autistic?Do you support or care for somebody diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder?Are you an expert when it comes to understanding ASDs and supporting autistic people?Do you or a family member have a recent ASD diagnosis?Or, do you simply have an interest in learning all about ASDs?Whatever your situation is, when it comes to understanding ASDs there will always be something new to learn. That’s because autism spectrum disorders are complex and unique to each and every individual. Emma Kendall is diagnosed autistic, and holds a first-class degree in Special Education. In addition to this, her qualifications include Counselling, Communication and Personal Skills.Whilst at university, Emma studied and researched the social behaviour which is commonly referred to as autism masking or camouflaging. This required her to interact with and question autistic people to gain a clear understanding of this diverse topic.Emma shares her unique insights and personal experiences describing what autism masking is. She also reveals the intriguing motives for the use of this behaviour. Explaining how autistic people do this and why, and to what extent the mask is relied upon, as well as, uncovering fascinating details concerning the after effects and the long-term impact of autism masking.<b>Other books by Emma </b><b>Perfectly </b> Post Diagnostic Support for Parents of ASD children.<b>Autistic </b> How to Prepare for an Autism Friendly Christmas.<b>The Adele Fox </b>Book 1 - <b>Making Sense of Love</b>Book 2 - <b>A Different Kind of Love</b>Book 3 - <b>Memories Full of Love</b>Find this author on <b>Facebook</b> at <b>Emma Kendall Author.</b>]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Unintentional Time Traveler]]></title>
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    <author_name>Everett Maroon</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. <br /><br />In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. <br /><br />From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant <i>New York Times</i> bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. <br /><br /><i>An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25210408-all-the-light-we-cannot-see" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a></i>]]></book_description>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Routine makes Majella's world small but change is about to make it a whole lot bigger.<p><b>*Stuff Majella knows*</b><br />-God doesn't punish men with baldness for wearing ladies' knickers<br />-Banana-flavoured condoms taste the same as nutrition shakes<br />-Not everyone gets a volley of gunshots over their grave as they are being lowered into the ground</p><p><b>*Stuff Majella doesn't know*</b><br />-That she is autistic<br />-Why her ma drinks<br />-Where her da is</p><p>Other people find Majella odd. She keeps herself to herself, she doesn't like gossip and she isn't interested in knowing her neighbours' business. But suddenly everyone in the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up wants to know all about hers. </p><p>Since her da disappeared during the Troubles, Majella has tried to live a quiet life with her alcoholic mother. She works in the local chip shop (Monday-Saturday, Sunday off), wears the same clothes every day (overalls, too small), has the same dinner each night (fish and chips, nuked in the microwave) and binge watches <i>Dallas</i> (the best show ever aired on TV) from the safety of her single bed. She has no friends and no boyfriend and Majella thinks things are better that way.</p><p> But Majella's safe and predictable existence is shattered when her grandmother dies and as much as she wants things to go back to normal, Majella comes to realise that maybe there is more to life. And it might just be that from tragedy comes Majella's one chance at escape.</p>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Michelle Gallen</author_name>
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                                      author: Michelle Gallen<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.55<br/>
                                      book published: 2020<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:07:24 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Almost Sisters</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of <i>Gods in Alabama</i> pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality - the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.<br /><br />Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs' weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. <br /><br />It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She's having a baby boy - an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old's life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachel's marriage implodes. Worse, she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, is losing her mind, and she's been hiding her dementia with the help of Wattie, her best friend since girlhood.<br /><br />Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmother's affairs in order, clean out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, and tell her family that she's pregnant. Yet just when Leia thinks she's got it all under control, she learns that illness is not the only thing Birchie's been hiding. Tucked in the attic is a dangerous secret with roots that reach all the way back to the Civil War. Its exposure threatens the family's freedom and future, and it will change everything about how Leia sees herself and her sister, her son and his missing father, and the world she thinks she knows.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Joshilyn Jackson</author_name>
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                                      author: Joshilyn Jackson<br/>
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                                      review: <br/>This book made me laugh and cry. I love a book that keeps you thinking after you've finished reading it (or listening to it, in my case). The main character makes poignant observations about race and privilege in the US, particularly in the southern states. She's very likeable as she's witty, whilst also coming to realise how things that happened in her life have affected her. The main plot, in itself, was very engaging, but I also really enjoyed the subplot in which the main character is constantly pondering the graphic novel she is creating.<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 02 Jan 2020 11:54:06 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Loonies</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Smokey Hollow is a quiet town, but all that changes when Brian Keays moves in and discovers a locked steamer trunk in the attic of his home. <br /><br />A suspicious fire destroys a mental asylum, but there is no sign of any of its inhabitants. Victims are found dead with a pillowcase over their heads, the same method used in an unsolved series of murders, committed over fifty years ago.<br /><br />Brian tries to piece together the connection to the trunk and its grisly contents, his investigation aided by anonymous notes. He follows the trail from a ventriloquist firefighter whose dummy knows more than its puppeteer, to a Somnambulist whose pockets contain clues, and to a Knackerman who disposes of animal carcasses but keeps a container with its own mysterious contents.<br /><br />Death is everywhere, but answers are hard to come by.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Gregory Bastianelli</author_name>
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    <title>Rules of Civility</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Amor Towles</author_name>
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    <title>Across a Broken Shore</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[A Winter 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection.<br /><br />American Library Association's 2020 Rise Project for Best Feminist Books in Children's Literature. <br /><br />Gold Medal Winner for Historical Fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards.<br /><br />2020 Gold Medal for YA Historical Fiction - Moonbeam Children's Awards <br /><br /><br />The last thing eighteen-year-old Wilhelmina “Willa” MacCarthy wants is to be a nun. It’s 1936, and as the only daughter amongst four sons, her Irish–Catholic family is counting on her to take her vows—but Willa’s found another calling. Each day she sneaks away to help Doctor Katherine Winston in her medical clinic in San Francisco’s Richmond District.<br /><br />Keeping secrets from her family only becomes more complicated when Willa agrees to help the doctor at a field hospital near the new bridge being built over the Golden Gate. Willa thinks she can handle her new chaotic life, but as she draws closer to a dashing young ironworker and risks grow at the bridge, she discovers that hiding from what she truly wants may be her biggest lie of all.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Amy Trueblood</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Whoe We Are, and Who We Can Be]]></title>
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    <author_name>Dexter Dias</author_name>
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    <title>The Lost Girl</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[A classic Lawrence novel of sensual awakening and the yearning for freedom, and winner of the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.The daughter of well-to-do trades people in the fictional mining town of Woodhouse, Alvina Houghton struggles to find excitement in her provincial surroundings and worries that she is condemned to become an old maid. After plans to elope with her lover to Australia and train as a nurse in London lead to nothing, she joins a traveling theater group and succumbs to the charms of the dark, passionate Italian Ciccio.This edition also contains pictures, personal notes, and other critical primary source material.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>D.H. Lawrence</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[For Lucy Sweeney, motherhood isn't all astanga yoga and Cath Kidston prints. It has been years since the dirty washing pile was less than a metre high, months since Lucy remembered to have sex with her husband, and a week since she last did the school run wearing pyjamas.<br /><br />When Husband on a Short Fuse is no contest for the distractions of Sexy Domesticated Dad; Yummy Mummy No 1 has more cash flow than parenting advice; and Alpha Mum is putting a slur on your questionable domestic habits, it's hard to remember exactly why anyone would give up a career and their sanity for three raucous sons and less than blissful domesticity.<br /><br />Lucy is living in a state of permanent emergency and the white lies to cover up the trail of chaos and illicit desire are about to be exposed ...<br /><br />An irresistible first novel about the dilemmas of motherhood and modern marriage for those who never discovered their domestic goddess within.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b> Why Readers Love Slummy Mummy: </b><br /><br />'This is one of the few books that I can remember ever reading and laughing out loud at the same time.’<br /><br />‘It is laugh out loud funny and keeps you giggling thinking about passages ages after. The characters are great, which is partly why it is so hard to put down.’<br /><br />‘This funny book opened my eyes to this whole new universe of yummy, alpha, slummy and all other mummies....I have since bought it for all my friends who are having a topsy turvy time with motherhood.’<br /><br />‘Beautifully written. Then there's the story itself, crafted cleverly, funny and in the end unashamedly positive.’<br /><br />‘It is achingly funny yet also sad, peppered with nostalgia, it's also thought provoking and desperately romantic (who hasn't had mad notions of illicit affairs in our heads...?)’<br /><br />‘Intelligent, thought provoking and horribly familiar. It pinpoints the insecurities, dreams and realities of women today, whether you're single, horribly attached or happily married. I couldn't put it down.’]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Fiona Neill</author_name>
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                                      author: Fiona Neill<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[With Their Backs to the Mountains]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA["This is a history of a stateless people, the Carpatho-Rusyns, and their historic homeland, Carpathian Rus', located in the heart of central Europe. At the present, when it is fashionable to speak of nationalities as 'imagined communities' or as transnational constructs 'created' by intellectuals\elites who may live in the historic 'national' homeland or in the diaspora, Carpatho-Rusyns provide an ideal example of a people made--or some would say still being made--before our very eyes. The book traces the evolution of Carpathian Rus' from earliest pre-historic times to the present and the complex manner in which a distinct Carpatho-Rusyn people, since the mid-nineteenth century, came into being, disappeared, and then re-appeared in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of Communist rule in central and eastern Europe. The book, while based on the author's four decades of erudition on the subject, eschews scholarly jargon and is written in an accessible reader-friendly style"--Provided by publisher.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Paul Robert Magocsi</author_name>
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    <title>Золотой теленок</title>
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    <author_name>Ilya Ilf</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[I Am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, Volume 1]]></title>
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    <author_name>Marie Bashkirtseff</author_name>
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    <title>The Snows of Yesteryear</title>
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    <author_name>Gregor von Rezzori</author_name>
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    <author_name>Zoa Sherburne</author_name>
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