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J.K. Rowlings world of harry potter is fantstic!!! She took everything we know about fantasia composição literária and bended it into a oposite realitiy called harry potter. We all know stories of werwolves, but professer lupin, a teacher at Hogwarts, is a freindly one with a background of mystery. J.K. Rowling made it clear that he is a character to like. All of her characters are eteremly likeable, even the vilanous lucsious malfoy. With seven books in all for the harry potter series, each one better than the last, we all wish she would continue the story of frendship, hardship, and fantasia that is harry potter. leitura the series is a must. No mater how many times you have read the series, ejoyment comes with each encounter. READ HARRY POTTER!!!
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Kevin McMurray
March 2009
256 pages

The True Story of a Beautiful Girl, Her Teenage Sweetheart, and the amor That Ended in Murder

SYNOPSIS

An Innocent Girl Playing por Heart

Early one November morning, Kara Borden, a pretty fourteen ano old, was caught por her parents as she snuck into their Lancaster County, Pennsylvania home. She confessed to spending the night with eighteen-year-old David Ludwig, and her parents—evangelicals who had home-schooled their daughter—were beside themselves with anger. They summoned David to talk immediately. But David arrived to the house with another plan in mind…...
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JETT
por KRISTEN BIERS

My name's Lisa.I'm 17.My mom died two years atrás from cancer and my dad's somewhere in the world of wonders.
I ran away from início three months after my mom pasted.My dad changed after his wife died.He got mais violent and wasn't as friendly.I grew tired of his crap.So my simple solution was to run away.Be free.
I found a house in the woods of Colorado and decided to call it mine.It was all boarded up.But i fixed it up with the money I took before I left.
Of course the money wouldn't last forever so i got a job at the closest SPCA.A job that i wouldn't have to go to college to have.Walking the dogs.I figured that would pay enough,at least for now.
Then my adventure started.An adventure so big to last ones life.The one who changed my view of life.
Jett.
Norman Doidge, m.d.
2007
427 pages


The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries. In this revolutionary look at the brain, bestselling author, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., introduces both the brilliant scientists championing this new science of neuroplasticity and the astonishing progress of the people whose lives they’ve transformed

Introducing principles we canal use as well as a riveting collection of case histories – stroke patients...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

I am por no means a great votary of any kind of "Best" lists and find them too subjective and at times highfalutin. But this list of the 100 most influential & mind-expanding books ever written seemed quite apposite and all-encompassing. British literary critic & historian Seymour-Smith's survey of what he considers the 100 most influential books is a searching inquiry into major thinkers, writers and philosophers. Seymour-Smith finds most modernist techniques already...
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 The Vampire Game trilogy
The Vampire Game trilogy
I was recently asked por a collegue what my favorito read of the ano was--I review a hell of a lot of new material every year. Matter-of-factly, I blurted out my answer without a segundo thought, "The Vampire Game por Les Bailey," I told him. "In fact, I loved the entire trilogy, It was extremely well written and the composição literária pulled me into another world away from my own. And the way I see it, that's exactly what a good novel is supposed to do!" I told him.

When I first came across Bailey's novel, he was a first-time published author. New to the world of publishing, or so I was told por his agent,...
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 The Vampire Game; Discovery
The Vampire Game; Discovery
As promised last year, author Les Bailey has released his initial literary offing, The Vampire Game: Discovery, in paperback.

First published solely through Kindle Books, the story hit the ground running, causing quite the stir in literary and social media circles. Fanpop.com contributor, known only as Fanmaven2015, (our boss!) had this to say about Bailey's story:

“This debut novel is not only one of the finest tales of the undead in my recent memory, it has brought me back to the vampire genre which was growing stale for me, sadly. Thank you, Mr. Bailey.”

Fanmaven goes on the say, “Passionate...
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Seth wasn’t trying to pretend things were all right.
“I don’t know what happened between you two before tonight but I can probably guess…”
The look Keenan gave him confirmed Seth’s fears.
“Right. Here’s the thing. If she chooses to give you mais than her friendship, it’ll suck for me. Probably how you feel now.”
Keenan was motionless, but it was much the same way that caged lions became motionless – sizing you up for weakness. For all their feigning humanity, faeries were something Other. Aislinn was Other, and the longer she was with them, the further away from mortal normalcy...
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My name—my True Name—is Ashallayn’darkmyr Tallyn.
I am the last remaining son of Mab, queen of the Unseelie Court. And I am dead to her.
My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl…
The fourth book in the Iron Fey series is easily my favorito and I’m sure I won’t be alone in thinking that. At the end of the third book, Meghan banished Ash from the Iron Realm, knowing he would stay por her side despite how harmful living in the Iron Realm would be to his health. But before he left, Ash made an oath that he would find a way to be with her. The Iron Knight tells the story of Ash’s...
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I never really planned leitura Hush Hush. In bookstores, I just passed por the books, seeing Hush Hush in a display. I know its about Fallen anjos but the cover didn't buy me. I didn't study it too well...until I read it.

I borrowed the book from my classmate who's an ultimate bookworm. I started leitura it since she handed it to me. I finished it just today. =)

For me, Patch was bad-ass, sense of humor, sweet and caring. I liked the way he did to Nora when they were making tacos in the cozinha then she was sat up on the counter and Patch started beijar her jaw. Also another one especially the...
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Daniel Goleman, 2006, 334 pages

Goleman in his groundbreaking book reveals that neural linkages between humans influence the brain and the body. These invisible bridges give us the ability to change people's moods, emotions, and health - as these people can do to us. Relationships not only shape emotional states and general psychological experience, but also the very physiological matter that makes our body. Our interactions with people influences our immune system, circulation, hormones, and breathing for example.

Social Intelligence expands from the one-person psychology within an individual...
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The Adoration of Jenna raposa is a tale about a teenage girl finding her identity. Even though it's a young adult book, I would reccomend it to anyone.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Jenna raposa has just awoken from a year-long coma-so she's been told-and she is still recovering from the terrible accident that caused it. But what happened before that? She's been given início filmes chronicling her entire life, which spark memories to surface. But are the memories really hers? And why won't anyone in her family talk about the accident? Jenna is becoming mais curious. But she is also afraid of what she...
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Ellen DeGeneres Bio
Celebrity biographer and composição literária coach, Randy Jernigan, this week admitted to a national radio audience that he has recently suffered total kidney failure, resulting in weekly dialysis and a drastic change in his life and schedule.

The 'Losing to Win!' author has been forced to postpone a number of professional commitments this month, explaining that his life was "turned upside down" when two coração attacks and renal failure cause him to be placed on weekly kidney dialysis for his survival

"This ano has been a rough one for me,": the author confessed to his radio audience. "The good news is I'm...
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 Randy with author Les Bailey (photo permission pending)
Randy with author Les Bailey (photo permission pending)
Celebrity biographer and composição literária coach, Randy Jernigan, was forced to cancelar a number of professional commitments this mês when gout pain and blood pressure issues became so extreme, the writer had to seek medical attention.

Randy was diagnosed "years ago" as suffering with the condition that causes intense pain, usually in the feet, ankles and knees, and is experienced por only two percent of the American population.

Randy tells Fanpop.com, "I was in the middle of this terrible pain in my knees and ankles. Because of the condition being so severe, I had developed tumors in my legs related to...
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