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Mona's perfect world is shattered by sudden and serious illness - leaving her searching her past for answers. Fate has led her from a tough Brooklyn girlhood to a happy marriage with a wonderful man, but what has she forgotten along the way? In this classic New York novel of the 1980s, as Mona struggles to understand her own life story, she uncovers the shocking memory of a murder and traces the shape of her own mortality.

When eight-year-old Vinni Stewart disappears from a Jersey shore town, Maddy, her distraught single mother, begins a desperate search for her daughter. Maddy’s five-year journey leads her to a bakery in Brooklyn, where she stumbles upon something terrifying. Detective John D’Orfini sees more than a kidnapping in the plot-thickening twists of chance surrounding Vinni’s disappearance, but his warnings to stay away from the investigation do not deter Maddy, even when her search puts her in danger.

In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas takes a deep-dive into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people’s neat and tidy version of reality. The book’s argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives—and our societies—could be radically different.

Myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas dives deeply into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people's neat and tidy storybook version of reality. The book's argument is that we willfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives - and our societies - could be radically different. Offering an entirely new lens, Fluke explores how our world really works, driven by strange interactions and apparently random events.

A Christmas romance stained with secrets! In this sweet romance, Ellen has lost her entire support system and those she loves except her two-year-old daughter. As a result, she is lonely and vulnerable. Ellen can’t decide if she deserves happiness again after her dreadful life. David, a fireman on a callout, rushes through the aisles of a grocery store, almost colliding with Ellen. But, when he holds Ellen’s shoulder to prevent her from falling, a sense of protection washes over her like a safety net. And if anybody needs a safety net, she does! Despite David’s expressed interest in ...

These are stories coming from the streets and inside the penitentiary. Raw and unfiltered. For the first time in their lives, our participants will feel free to divulge their secrets and battle their demons while exposing us to genuine perspectives on timely topics of incarceration, recidivism, rehabilitation, and re-entry into society - affecting each one of us regardless of race, color, gender or creed. This is life-altering change like you've never heard before.

She barely has time to attend a wedding, let alone plan one, but Chloe has just caught the bouquet. So has her married mother … and her widowed grandmother. With three generations set to walk down the aisle, each “I do” sounds more improbable than the last. On top of grad school, clinical hours, and part-time work, Chloe is surprised to find a ring on her finger. Sharing the news about the engagement is easy, except with her best friend. Their relationship has always been platonic … so why is Chloe so afraid he is going to object?

As civilization begins to crumble from the pathological effects of Dark Matter, one woman, a drone engineer, cannot trust herself or others, yet must choose whether to use deadly technology against fellow human beings, or risk the destruction of all she cherishes.

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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas https://amzn.to/4b9ff2e Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan comes a provocative challenge to how we think our world works—and why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything, by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas. If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play, would everything turn out the same? Or could making an...