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Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
2) Blind Side
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Beauty Kurtzwilde, the manager at the Company, sent her on a goose chase only to have the goose chase Ms. Hump. An angry goose; a mean goose set free to do more damage under the cover of night. The Sisters of Light were not prepared for the fallout of what was coming from this Collector of misfit toys. In a back alley, where she thought she gotten free, a sharp pain seared through her side. Up close and personal the goose came at her, brandishing...
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Geoffrey Barnett is a photographer. Due to a mysterious trauma in his past, he has for many years been unable to photograph people. When Kimberly Yates suddenly enters his life, Geoffrey's world is turned upside down. She nurtures him back to life-emotionally, mentally and sexually. Eventually he is able to photograph her.Then she disappears.Like a puff of smoke, as if she were just a dream, a vision that Geoffrey has conjured up.As he begins to search...
4) Blind Sided
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When the world comes crashing down around you, it's important to believe in something…
After four years of living in a post-apocalyptic world, one thing Mike and Sarah know is that nothing ever stays the same. Just when life had begun to settle down-and all their immediate needs met-a threat comes at them from a totally unexpected source. Not England or roaming bands of thugs, not the US or even the Middle East. This time it's the land itself-the...
5) Blind Sided
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Lost in a forest, stumbling her way through a swirling void of white, Chrissy tries to find her way home. She's running, but she can't remember who is chasing her or why.Found by mythical creatures, Chrissy is convinced that she's merely dreaming. Shifters, fauns, and fairies… Oh my! Creatures out of mythology surround her, helping her to retrieve her memory, but at what cost?Fenric is inexorably drawn to Chrissy; her scent, her laugh, and the feather...
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Its a good problem to have: more business than they can comfortably handle on their own.
But with resources already overstretched, the last thing former DSS agents and newbie security consultants Will Brandt and Taylor MacAllister need is another clientand the last thing Will needs is for that client to turn out to be an old boyfriend of Taylors.
Sure, Will has always known Taylor had a wild past, but he was kind of hoping hed never have to...
7) Blind Sided
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Cade Patterson and Kara Knight have known each other since they were kids. But a boy from the wrong side of the tracks has little in common with the homecoming queen, so they never acted on their mutual feelings. After a stint in the Marines, Cade has returned to his hometown older and wiser, and now works for the sheriff's department. When he responds to a break-in call at the Delos Home School Foundation, the last person he expects to see there...
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Who killed Ross Craddock? Inspector Ernest Lamb will sift through multiple clues and suspects to find out in this golden age mystery from the author of the acclaimed Miss Silver Mysteries Lucy Craddock has lived at No. 7 Craddock House for years. But now she's about to be turned out of her home-by her own nephew. She was at his christening, for mercy's sake! Greed is what drives Ross Craddock, who inherited the once-magnificent family home built...
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About the Book The Blind Side of Racism uncovers truths about racist societies that are unidentified and unacknowledged in many discussions about racial discrimination, so we may learn how not to characterize individuals because of their race. About the Author Gina B. is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. Her family is the most important thing to her.
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In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up...
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up...
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From the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Brother's Blood, comes a haunting story about an Irish housekeeper who must discover the truth when her friend, the parish priest, is accused of horrible crimes.
Maggie Quinn has had her share of misfortune: Having grown up poor and fatherless in Galway, she was forced to quit school early and find work to support her ailing mother and her own child. But when a tragedy of her own making strikes,...
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The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller.
Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness
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Inside this moving true story, John Furniss, more famously known today as "The Blind Woodsman," along with his wife, inspiration, and fellow artist Anni share their amazing story with the mission to help and inspire others to pursue their own creative passions, regardless of the challenges they may face.
Despite being blind, John is now a highly skilled woodworker creating incredible pieces of art in complete darkness, inspiring millions of...
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