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621) Chasing the blues
Publisher
Ammo Content
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare, but cursed, 1930s Blues record. When a series of unfortunate circumstances lands them in jail, the feud festers for over twenty years until they are released from prison and get a second chance at snagging the vinyl, this time from a more formidable foe.
Author
Publisher
Optimism Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Pastor Bruce Deel took over the Mission Church in the 30314 zip code of Atlanta, he had orders to shut it down. The church was old and decrepit, and its neighborhood--known as "Better Leave, You Effing Fool," or "the Bluff," for short--had the highest rates of crime, homelessness, and incarceration in Georgia. Expecting his time there to only last six months, Deel was not prepared for what happened next. One Sunday, he was approached by a woman...
623) Chances are
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Corinne's husband Louie dies unexpectedly. Fortunately, Louie gets a second shot at life when he agrees to be 'recycled' back to earth as the newborn Alex. Twenty-three years later Alex meets Corinne's daughter Miranda, and is suddenly flooded with a wealth of memories that all belong to Louie. Now, as Alex's former existence slowly comes to life, he must confront a wife who thinks he's dead, a daughter who could be his girlfriend and best friend...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches. Launched into space in 1977, these twin probes explored the farthest reaches of the Solar System before venturing on a one-way journey beyond, all the while testing the bounds of science, robotic exploration and our collective imagination. This heavily revised commemorative book takes a comprehensive look at their incredible achievements, future potential and overall legacy. Chronicled...
Author
Publisher
Books & Books Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A brave and vividly rendered memoir: when life and death collide, one young woman discovers how to hold both past and present at once-- ultimately lifting herself by bold living and a second chance at love. Both Sides Now hinges on the day when Nancy Sharp delivered premature twins and learned that her husband's cancer had returned after eighteen months in remission. Set in New York City where the couple lived happily until Brett's shocking diagnosis...
Author
Series
Magnolia Grove volume 2
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Briggs has finally gotten her act together. She's focusing on her own life and helping her hearing-impaired son learn to talk. With her sister married and exploring a new career, Tracy has begun to run the family's magazine business and feels her life is pretty much perfect. That is, until her son's deadbeat dad shows up in Magnolia Grove asking for a second chance. Now that her son is getting the help he needs and a promising new romance with...
627) When we were young
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Three generations of women live and love amidst family secrets and traditions, from Sarah who falls in love with a non-Jewish fisherman in 1942 to Joey in 2019 Florida who considers leaving her fiancé.
"Three generations of women come together in this page-turning debut full of family secrets, heart-wrenching drama, and the promise of second chances. Corfu, 1942: To sixteen-year-old Sarah Batis, the Nazis are a distant danger-of far greater threat...
Author
Publisher
Forbes Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When should you fire someone? The minute you think of it." That was once the wisdom that Dr. Nicole Price espoused in her leadership workshops. Now, several years later, Price is a firm believer in the power of empathy and second chances. In her candid and insightful narrative, Price will push you out of your comfort zone and open your eyes to the critical need for empathetic leadership and all the benefits that result--for you and your organization....
629) Thrasher road
Publisher
Indie Rights
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Stranded on the highway home from broken dreams in Los Angeles, pregnant Chloe and her elderly, incontinent dog find an unwelcome rescue from her dad, Mac. Stuck in a car with thousands of miles ahead and years of estrangement behind, Chloe and Mac take a disastrous detour on the road to second chances.
630) Repeat performance
Author
Series
Black Gat Books volume 33
Publisher
Black Gat Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Barney Page is wandering Manhattan from bar to bar in an alcoholic haze. He's even sunk to sleeping in a Bowery flophouse. He used to be one of Broadway's top actors, the toast of the town. But that was before his wife Sheila took an overdose of sleeping medicine and didn't wake up. That was before he strangled his lover, Fern. That was before he found himself on a lower platform on the Grand Central subway, his options run out, his life completely...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Patience Ibrahim was nineteen, her first husband was murdered by Boko Haram. She fled to the safety of her village and remarried several months later. Having prayed for a child for years, Patience is overjoyed to discover she is pregnant. Soon after, Boko Haram soldiers are at her door. Violently abducted and forced to convert to Islam, she lives in constant terror of what her kidnappers will do. She is alone in the world and fears her life is...
632) Machine gun preacher
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Pennsylvanian biker Sam Childers, who overcame a life of drugs and violence to wage a 13-year war to free enslaved children in South Sudan and Northern Uganda.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
℗2023
Language
English
Description
It happened one week: Smuggler's Inn was a refuge for Amanda Stockenberg when she was sixteen. A place to find solace...and love with Dane Cutter. Now, ten years later, Amanda is back for a corporate retreat. It's her last chance to prove herself, so she doesn't need any complications...like seeing Dane again. Now, Amanda has one week to choose between achieving all her dreams- or reuniting with the man she never stopped loving.
She dreamed of a...
Author
Publisher
FriesenPress
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
"From the first seconds following the Big Bang, to our best guesses for the fate of the universe and humanity, science provides stunning new perspectives about the place of humanity in the cosmos. Humans may live on one planet in one small corner of the Milky Way, itself one of billions of other galaxies, but Earth may be unique in one respect. Earth is teaming with life, one species of which, through chance and natural selection, developed an extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the only player to be banned for life from the NHL, a harrowing tale of addiction, and an astonishing path to recovery. Brantt Myhres wasn't around for the birth of his daughter. Myhres had played for seven different NHL teams, and had made millions. But he'd been suspended four times, all for drug use, and he had partied his way out of the league. By the time his daughter was born, he was penniless, sleeping on a friend's couch. He'd just been...
636) The risen
Author
Series
Two worlds trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Infomages Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Cerys, a Fire sorceress and Lieutenant to Queen Matilda, faces a coming war when the Ice Queen and her Army are awakened after many years of sleep. She seeks out Matilda's friend Theresa Foveae, a sorceress who recently helped save the world by taking on a human as an ally. Theresa agrees to help and brings her human friend Lily along with her for yet another fight. By the end of the battle the Ice Queen's Lieutenant is among the fallen and the young...
Author
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Wilma's Wish by Wanda E. Brunstetter: Wilma Hostetler has been courted by Israel Zook for the last year, and he's recently proposed marriage. But when his sister dies, leaving him to care for five young nephews who openly dislike Wilma, she has second thoughts of starting with a ready-made family and decides to call off the wedding. Can anything be done to restore the relationship, or will Israel seek another wife?" -- Back cover.
"Martha's Miracle...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this funny and gritty debut memoir, Jan Redford grows from a nomadic rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, in a fit of rage toward her father, Jan pits herself against a steep rock face near their cottage. At the top, fired up by the victory, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, ' a nomadic climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Jan...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Reflections of yesterday: Simon Canfield and Angie Robinson were in love at seventeen, but Simon's wealthy parents paid Angie and her father to leave town. Now, twelve years later, Angie's got a fiancé and a successful business of her own. She returns home to Groves Point, South Carolina, to repay the money and reclaim her family pride ... and discovers that her feelings for Simon haven't changed. But Simon is bitter over her betrayal. Can she make...
640) Education for liberation: the politics of promise and reform inside and beyond Americas prisons
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Almost 650,000 men and women, approximately the size of the city of Memphis, TN, return home from prison every year. Oftentimes with some pocket change and a bus ticket, they reenter society and struggle to find work, housing, a supportive social network. Economic barriers, the stigma of a felony conviction, and mental health and addiction challenges make reentry a bleak picture, leading some to return to a life of crime. A Department of Justice...
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