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1) Confidence
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When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town, Anna and Fin find themselves at the center of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman silver casket. One day after Lisa vanishes that casket gets...
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This is model, actress, and Black pop culture icon Garcelle Beauvais' smart, inspiring, and raw memoir - an entertaining and unforgettable emotional rollercoaster ride that moves from her birth and early childhood in Haiti to her adolescence in Boston and the many ups, downs, and then more ups, both personal and professional, she experienced in her three-decade acting career. Beauvais dishes too - offering juicy behind-the-scenes stories from movie...
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Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is “paralysed by triviality,” measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties—routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town; their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford; and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant, and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself.--
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"In this third installment of the Theology of Home series, Carrie Gress and Noelle Mering turn their attention to the role of the sea in our memories and imaginations. Drawing from literature, mythology, and scripture, At the Sea pulls out the rich connections between the sea and mystery, recreation, yearning, and joyful reunions, with themes of home and womanhood woven throughout. This edition of Theology of Home includes the characteristically beautiful...