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1) Crossings
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Crossings was Betty Lambert's only novel; published by Pulp Press in 1979, it was revolutionary for its frank and unsettling portrayal of Vicky, a female writer in Vancouver in the early 1960s, an educated and intelligent woman who struggles to come to terms with herself as she navigates an emotionally abusive relationship with Mik, a violent logger and ex-con. Their physical, often violent affair offers an honest and unflinching look at relationships...
2) Crossings
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Blue Mesa Arizona police chief, Les Poole is unexpectedly called first to a nearby Apache Indian reservation to be informed that a meth lab was discovered on a remote part of their land. A white man was seen leaving the area by tribal members and is likely a Blue Mesa resident. Tribal chairman, Charlie Yellow Horse also alerts Les that Mexican drug runners have been crossing the reservation under cover of darkness. Between meth and cocaine, Les becomes...
3) CROSSings
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When on a fact-finding mission for the UN, an Inca gold figurine is discovered at the bottom of a crevice inside a glacier. A curious associate's interest in what that figurine represents, a jealous husband with a temper, and a man desperate enough to commit murder to prevent the discovery of his mismanagement of the family's vast investments are all part of the CROSSings' deadly story.
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Jazzline Chicand must do more than make a trip to Scotland to plan her wedding. Alex and Tucker's tombstones reveal all she needs to know of what happens to them if she doesn't find a way to cross. But who will be waiting for her through time? Would it be Seth or Uncle Colin to claim her as their own? Jazzline has to take that chance in 1745. Will she save them and make her way back home? And if she does, what love, loss, and truth will be waiting...
5) Crossings
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This quartet of over-layering stories introduces four strangers. The only thing they have in common is their dull English town and the unusual heatwave that broils its lack-lustre streets and wilting parks. They and their separate stories are drawn violently together when a young boy pulls them into the maelstrom of his fate. Each is at a crossroads. Matt must leap the gulf between adolescence and adulthood. Megan needs to find her way out of troubled...
6) Crossings
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Bishop Steel is still missing, so AB'Gale must follow the map continuing the search for her papa. Her quest leads Abby down dangerous paths that threaten to get her captured by the System. Danger lurks at every turn of the road, on every doorstep and every train. Finding it difficult to know who to trust when she discovers she is now wanted for crimes against the System, Abby travels under the guise of a young boy. Conflicted with the desire to rid...
7) Crossings
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How could they have known?
Four young school friends encounter a new teacher who is warm and wise but whom they feel is strangely out of place. Intrigued, they sense she is trying to prepare them for something, but none could imagine what God had in store.
When the friends awaken one morning in a strange place and time at the foot of a looming mountain, which has been appearing in their dreams, they are lonely and frightened but know that this could...
8) Crossings
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With his upcoming marriage to Clayton, he felt, somewhat ironically, that he would be free. He no longer thought about the real reason he had originally come to Miami. It was his home now and he was no longer afraid. Besides, it all happened a long time ago, and he felt no need to tell anyone about it, not even his beloved Clayton. He thought of Christy Sharps and wondered what became of her. But the past was the past, right? One must simply move...
9) Crossings
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What is the meaning of existence? What if life and death of are a series of cosmic events without a true beginning or an end? Why are we here? The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi
10) Crossings
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Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut-a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes.
On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according...
11) Crossings
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Engaging, profound, beautifully narrated, these stories explore the hope and sorrow wrapped in the challenge of finding our way home.
Story 1: "The Long Drive Home"
Story 2: "Crossing Over"
Story 3: "The Farm"
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Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
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[2020]
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"A non-fiction exploration of animal crossings built by animal lovers around the world to help animals cross over, under, around, and through human construction"--
How did the elephant cross the road? In Kenya, there is an elephant underpass. How did the red crab cross the road? In Australia they use a special bridge that leads to the Indian Ocean. All over the world people help animals by building special places where animals can pass over, under,...
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"An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment...
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"Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut-a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according...
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