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1) Freewater
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"Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved...
2) Indelicacy
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"A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles-cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical-that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the cultural confusion of being one person in two places - of having a mother who wants your father and his language to stay on his island but sends you there because you need to know your family. Loudly and joyfully filled with Cousins, Aunts, Grandparents, and budding romances, these stories are...
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Heathers meets The Devil Wears Prada in this “sick and vicious and funny” thriller set in the cut-throat world of fashion (Caroline Kepnes, New York Times–bestselling author of You)
Fashion editor Anya St. Clair is on the verge of greatness. A to-die-for wardrobe. Killer social media numbers. And the path behind her is littered with the bodies of anyone who got in her way. She’s worked...
Fashion editor Anya St. Clair is on the verge of greatness. A to-die-for wardrobe. Killer social media numbers. And the path behind her is littered with the bodies of anyone who got in her way. She’s worked...
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Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life--or she definitely used to. Now she's the subject of a true crime podcast. She's been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she's dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed, and people everywhere are sporting merch that demands "Find Dunia!" In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she's coping with a broken engagement...
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Learn all the basics of the latest version of Scala by building a minimal app that extracts and transforms files.
Scala is a high-level programming language that supports both object-oriented programming and functional programming, and it’s also a key part of many developers’ toolkits. In this course, software engineer Amina Adewusi gives you a thorough introduction to the latest version of Scala, via the process of building an app using GitHub...
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Learn the basics to get up and running with the latest version of the Scala programming language, Scala 3.
Scala has become an increasingly popular programming language ever since it was publicly released in 2004. Designed in part to improve on some of the weaknesses of Java, Scala requires less code and supports both object-oriented programming and functional programming. And while Scala and Java are interoperable, you don’t need any knowledge...
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Descubre la rica herencia cultural del frica Oriental a travs de nuestro curso integral de suajili, diseado para llevar a principiantes completos al nivel CEFR A1. Como uno de los idiomas ms hablados de frica y lengua franca en numerosos pases, el suajili abre puertas para establecer conexiones significativas en Tanzania, Kenia, Uganda y las crecientes comunidades de la dispora africana en todo el mundo. Con su melodiosa fontica y rica tradicin oral,...
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GENOMINEERD VOOR DE HEBBAN DEBUUTPRIJS EN DE JONGE JURY DEBUUTPRIJS 2021!Dombergen, 2032.Het geluid van een geweerschot echoot in Zwarte Vijvers, een beruchte gettobuurt. De dertienjarige Rashad wordt geraakt door een kogel die eigenlijk bedoeld was voor een bendelid. Hij heeft dringend hulp nodig, maar Zwarte Vijvers is recent uitgeroepen tot no-go zone, waar hulpverleners en politieagenten niet meer mogen komen.De zestienjarige Tamara komt meteen...
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In het afgesloten dorp Momuto, wordt elke avond bij het kampvuur het mysterieuze verhaal van Lake Musoro verteld. De kinderen van het dorp zijn bang voor het wezen in het meer, waardoor ze wegblijven van het water. Dan verdwijnt de jonge Lima.Een lange zoektocht levert niets op, maar Safi, Lima's zusje, wil het niet opgeven. Samen met haar beste vriend Romatu trekt ze door het woud om haar zusje te vinden. Zal ze haar tijdig vinden, of vindt het wezen...
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"In Amina Cain's first nonfiction book, a series of essayistic inquiries come together to form a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors-including Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Renee...
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"Attending a retreat in the desert mountains of Sedona, Arizona, at the insistence of socialite wellness guru Marley Dewhurst, lifelong New Yorker Ronnie Khan soon discovers that all is not well in wellness town as Marley's blind ambition turns into madness"-- Provided by publisher.
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The anti-hustle guide to getting what you really want
AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER
Most of us think ambition means doing everything in our power to get what we want. But this approach costs us our health and wellbeing, and ultimately upholds oppressive systems. In The Ambition Trap, leadership coach Amina AlTai shows you how to break the cycle of overwork once and for all—and finally create the greatest, most...
AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER
Most of us think ambition means doing everything in our power to get what we want. But this approach costs us our health and wellbeing, and ultimately upholds oppressive systems. In The Ambition Trap, leadership coach Amina AlTai shows you how to break the cycle of overwork once and for all—and finally create the greatest, most...
14) Chameleon Street
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The improbable but true story of Michigan con man Douglas Street, the titular “chameleon” who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter, an Ivy League student, a respected surgeon, and a corporate lawyer. Elevated by a dexterous performance and daring direction from multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr., the film pins a lens on race, class and performance in American identity,...
15) Mountain Onion
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11-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions with his sister on the border highway of Kazakhstan. One day, he catches his mom having an affair with a trucker. But soon he discovers the powers of Viagra, and goes on a misadventure to get some for his dad.
16) The caller
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Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying way.
17) Sheikh Jackson
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A devout imam starts to question both his faith and his own values upon hearing the news of Michael Jackson’s death. Having discovered the King of Pop at a young age, Ahmad’s teenage years were heavily influenced by Jackson’s music and fashion - much to the chagrin of his conservative father. Now deeply religious, the sheikh discovers that he cannot easily escape the former, more carefree spirit of his youth.Nominated for a People's Choice Award...
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Juliette is a magazine editor who arrives in Cairo to meet her husband Mark, a UN official in Gaza. When he is unavoidably delayed, Mark sends his friend and former security officer Tareq to show Juliette around the city. As she gets used to the customs and rhythm of life in Cairo, she finds herself falling not only for the city's charms, but for Tareq as well.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors--and each other. Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes . . . except the ones he shares with his ex-best friend, Celine. Celine Bangura is conspiracy-theory-obsessed....