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A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.
When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she’s born. But as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can’t do it alone.
Fortunately, he has a competent, caring
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After losing his twin brother to drowning and his wife to divorce, Ezekiel Cooper decides to escape his pain. Throwing his copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his dead brother's ancient dog into his truck, Zeke heads east. He leaves behind two young daughters and his estranged mother, who reveals her own conflicting view of the Cooper family story. Finding refuge with cousins in Virginia horse country, Zeke is led to a crossroads.
3) Return to me
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A lawyer determined to take back custody of his son after the boy's biological mother gives him up for adoption must change his plans after he gets to know his son's adoptive mother, a beautiful and brilliant widow devoted to the boy.
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"Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves' guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets. Aaron is Thren's son, trained to be heir to his father's criminal empire. He's cold, ruthless--everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest's daughter from his own guild, he glimpses a world beyond pistons,...
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"A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest (and funniest) novels. of his generation" (Lorin Stein, The New York Review of Books), "a work so luminously original in style and form as to seem like a premonition, a comet from the future" (Geoff Dyer, The Observer). Now, his second novel departs from...
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"Holiday novella about a man who sacrificed his family in the single-minded pursuit of success and the courageous little girl fighting for her life who crosses his path. It all begins with a father telling a story to his son on Christmas Eve. But this isn't your typical Christmas story. The father admits to his son that he's taken a life but he won't say whose--not yet. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl...
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"Charlie Goldwyn's life hasn't exactly gone according to plan. Widowerhood at thirty-three and twelve-hour workdays have left a gap in his relationship with his quirky five-year-old son, Caleb, whose obsession with natural disasters and penchant for girls' clothing have made him something of a loner at his preschool. The only thing Charlie has going for him is his job at a prestigious law firm, where he is finally close to becoming a partner. But...
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"This is the incredible story of an ex-con turned world-saving Super Hero. In Look Out for the Little Guy, Scott Lang shares with the world a bracingly honest account of his struggles and triumphs, from serving time to being a divorced dad to becoming Ant-Man and joining The Avengers. These are stories of epic battles won and lost, as this everyman turned Super Hero finally tells all--from the official account of what really happened between The Avengers...
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"Cuatro hombres. Un llamado: Servir y Proteger. Como agentes del orden, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes y sus compañeros ponen todo su empeño en hacer frente a lo peor que el mundo puede ofrecer. Sin embargo, cuando llega el final del día, aún tienen que encarar un desafío para el que ninguno de ellos está verdaderamente preparado: la paternidad..."--P. [4] of cover.