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Bestselling author and voice of Australian storytelling Tricia Stringer tackles troubled relationships, ageism, and love old and new in this warm, funny, uplifting story of colleagues and unlikely travel companions thrown together on an astonishing (and revealing) train trip across Australia.
Ketty Clift's couture dressmaking business is thriving but the same can't be said for her staff. Lately, cracks have appeared in the team's harmony, testing...
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Die "Berliner Mauerblume" spielt im Kreuzberger Sozial-Biotop, im Studenten-Milieu und in der West-Berliner Theater-Szene. Lauschen Sie dem nicht enden wollenden Szenen-Applaus und erleben Sie mit, was es heisst, auf den Brettern zu stehen, die die Welt bedeuten. Tauchen Sie ein in dies tödliche Spiel um Macht und Einfluss, zwischen einem Lebenskünstler, einem Transgender und dessen durchtriebenem Vater. Wie fühlt es sich an, im Schatten der Berliner...
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Living with her Babby after her parents' death, ten-year-old Dinah Ash is invited to train at Leningrad's legendary Vaganova Ballet School. In the world of elite dance, she works hard, falls in love, and weathers the Soviet Union's ubiquitous antisemitism, but despite an impressive talent, she quickly learns that dancers of her "profile" don't make prima ballerinas.
Love of Leningrad, ballet, friends, family, and books sustain Dinah until history...
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A breathtaking debut collection of interrelated stories suffused with magical realism
In stories that evoke the haunting beauty and loneliness of New England beaches, Sofia T. Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels her son's fiancée on how to be a good wife to him, with disastrous consequences. A mysterious, commanding cat appears in a young woman's home, as inexplicable as the demise of her...
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Can a fake date fix everything?
On a day Abbey thought would be the best of her life – her boyfriend is surely going to propose tonight, right? – it all falls apart: he tells her he's met someone else. And then to make things worse, she loses her job.
In an act of reimagination, she splurges her wedding savings on renting an apartment in a building she's always dreamed of living in and kits out her wardrobe to match.
But when her family invites...
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