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Future Tense

by Kelly Grace Thomas ...

Reckoning with infertility, adoption, and love under pressure, Kelly Grace Thomas’s Future Tense is a searing memoir-in-verse about a woman’s fight to become a mother while losing her own.Thomas spends three years trying for a child who never arrives. As she struggles with infertility, her mother is dying of Stage IV uterine cancer, and the desire for a child turns urgent—a countdown. As her ... Read more

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Reckoning with infertility, adoption, and love under pressure, Kelly Grace Thomas’s Future Tense is a searing memoir-in-verse about a woman’s fight to become a mother while losing her own.Thomas spends three years trying for a child who never arrives. As she struggles with infertility, her mother is dying of Stage IV uterine cancer, and the desire for a child turns urgent—a countdown. As her
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Families and Poverty

Everyday Life on a Low Income

by Mary Daly, Grace Kelly ...

Series series Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
The recent radical cutbacks of the welfare state in the UK have meant that poverty and income management continue to be of great importance for intellectual, public and policy discourse. Written by leading authors in the field, the central interest of this innovative book is the role and significance of family in a context of poverty and low-income. Based on a micro-level study carried out in 2011 ... Read more

$46.79 USD

The recent radical cutbacks of the welfare state in the UK have meant that poverty and income management continue to be of great importance for intellectual, public and policy discourse. Written by leading authors in the field, the central interest of this innovative book is the role and significance of family in a context of poverty and low-income. Based on a micro-level study carried out in 2011
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Melting Stones

by Tamora Pierce ...

Narrated by Grace Kelly ...

Unabridged

8 hours 30 min

New York Times Bestselling Author Tamora Pierce has done something unprecedented for an author of her stature—written the newest novel in her Circle of Magic universe to go directly to audio. There will be no print version for at least a year! It’s the story of Evvy, the young stone mage introduced in Pierce’s bestselling Street Magic, who accompanies her guardian Rosethorn on a mission to Starns ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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New York Times Bestselling Author Tamora Pierce has done something unprecedented for an author of her stature—written the newest novel in her Circle of Magic universe to go directly to audio. There will be no print version for at least a year! It’s the story of Evvy, the young stone mage introduced in Pierce’s bestselling Street Magic, who accompanies her guardian Rosethorn on a mission to Starns
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Love Under a Western Sky

A Western Romance

by Abigail Stone ...

Narrated by Grace Kelly ...

Unabridged

34 min

When Emily Harper arrives in the quiet frontier town of Prairie Junction, she expects little more than a teaching post, a small room above the mercantile, and long evenings beneath the wide prairie sky. What she does not expect is Drew Callahan—a steady rancher with quiet eyes, a guarded past, and a reputation for keeping to himself.Drew has spent years building his ranch and avoiding anything ... Read more

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When Emily Harper arrives in the quiet frontier town of Prairie Junction, she expects little more than a teaching post, a small room above the mercantile, and long evenings beneath the wide prairie sky. What she does not expect is Drew Callahan—a steady rancher with quiet eyes, a guarded past, and a reputation for keeping to himself.Drew has spent years building his ranch and avoiding anything
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What I Call Life

by Jill Wolfson ...

Narrated by Grace Kelly ...

Unabridged

6 hours 36 min

When Cal Lavender’s mother has an “unfortunate episode” at the library, Cal is taken to a group care home run by a strange old woman called “The Knitting Lady.” Cal is clear that this is not her real life, just a temporary detour. But even detours can take you where you need to be. A charming, funny, and insightful first novel. ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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When Cal Lavender’s mother has an “unfortunate episode” at the library, Cal is taken to a group care home run by a strange old woman called “The Knitting Lady.” Cal is clear that this is not her real life, just a temporary detour. But even detours can take you where you need to be. A charming, funny, and insightful first novel.
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Magic Steps

by Tamora Pierce ...

Narrated by Tamora Pierce ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Circle Opens
Unabridged

7 hours 21 min

Sandrilene fa Toren has moved to the palace of her uncle, Duke Vedris, to care for him after his recent heart attack. While the two are out riding Sandry sees a boy named Pasco dance out a magic spell. To her dismay she soon learns that since she discovered Pasco, she must handle his magical education until a proper teacher can be found. At 14, Sandry feels she is too young for this. Even worse, ... Read more

$21.99 USD

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Sandrilene fa Toren has moved to the palace of her uncle, Duke Vedris, to care for him after his recent heart attack. While the two are out riding Sandry sees a boy named Pasco dance out a magic spell. To her dismay she soon learns that since she discovered Pasco, she must handle his magical education until a proper teacher can be found. At 14, Sandry feels she is too young for this. Even worse,
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Lady Knight

Book 4 of the Protector of the Small Quartet

by Tamora Pierce ...

Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Protector of the Small
Unabridged

11 hours 10 min

The stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling series from the fantasy author who is a legend herself: TAMORA PIERCE.Victory is not always what it seems.Keladry of Mindelan has finally achieved her lifelong dream of becoming a knight—but it’s not quite what she imagined. In the midst of a brutal war, Kel has been assigned to oversee a refugee camp. She’s sure it’s because Lord Wyldon ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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The stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling series from the fantasy author who is a legend herself: TAMORA PIERCE.Victory is not always what it seems.Keladry of Mindelan has finally achieved her lifelong dream of becoming a knight—but it’s not quite what she imagined. In the midst of a brutal war, Kel has been assigned to oversee a refugee camp. She’s sure it’s because Lord Wyldon
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Trickster's Choice

by Tamora Pierce ...

Narrated by Trini Alvarado ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Trickster's Duet
Unabridged

11 hours 54 min

Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled ... Read more

$15.00 USD

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Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled
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Squire

Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet

by Tamora Pierce ...

Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Protector of the Small
Unabridged

10 hours 49 min

When Keladry of Mindelan is chosen by the legendary Lord Raoul to be his squire, the conservatives of the realm hardly think she’s up to the job. Kel quickly proves her ability as a jouster, warrior, and guardian of a fiery griffin, ultimately earning respect and admiration among the men, as well as the affection of a fellow squire. In addition to coping with the challenges of a new romance and a ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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When Keladry of Mindelan is chosen by the legendary Lord Raoul to be his squire, the conservatives of the realm hardly think she’s up to the job. Kel quickly proves her ability as a jouster, warrior, and guardian of a fiery griffin, ultimately earning respect and admiration among the men, as well as the affection of a fellow squire. In addition to coping with the challenges of a new romance and a
... Read more

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Terrier

The Legend of Beka Cooper #1

by Tamora Pierce ...

Narrated by Susan Denaker ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Beka Cooper
Unabridged

15 hours 3 min

Hundreds of years before Alanna first drew her sword in Tamora Pierce’s memorable debut, Alanna: The First Adventure, Tortall had a heroine named Beka Cooper–a fierce young woman who fights crime in a world of magic. This is the beginning of her story, her legend, and her legacy. . . .Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost’s Guard, commonly known as “the Provost’s Dogs.” To the ... Read more

$27.00 USD

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Hundreds of years before Alanna first drew her sword in Tamora Pierce’s memorable debut, Alanna: The First Adventure, Tortall had a heroine named Beka Cooper–a fierce young woman who fights crime in a world of magic. This is the beginning of her story, her legend, and her legacy. . . .Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost’s Guard, commonly known as “the Provost’s Dogs.” To the
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A Confusion of Princes

by Garth Nix ...

Narrated by Michael Goldstrom ...

Unabridged

9 hours 44 min

You’d think being a Prince in a vast intergalactic empire would be about as good as it gets. Particularly when Princes are faster, smarter, and stronger than normal humans. Not to mention being mostly immortal.But it isn’t as great as it sounds. Princes need to be hard to kill—as Khemri learns the minute he becomes one—for they are always in danger. Their greatest threat? Other Princes. Every ... Read more

$24.00 USD

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You’d think being a Prince in a vast intergalactic empire would be about as good as it gets. Particularly when Princes are faster, smarter, and stronger than normal humans. Not to mention being mostly immortal.But it isn’t as great as it sounds. Princes need to be hard to kill—as Khemri learns the minute he becomes one—for they are always in danger. Their greatest threat? Other Princes. Every
... Read more

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Same Kind of Different As Me

A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

by Ron Hall, Lynn Vincent ...

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.An upscale art dealer accustomed to the worldof Armani and Chanel.A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana. . . and a... ... Read more

$10.99 USD

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.An upscale art dealer accustomed to the worldof Armani and Chanel.A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana. . . and a...
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