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4 Ways To Inspire Kids To Turn Off Electronics And Turn On Their Creativity

Children love their electronic devices. Television, video games, cell phones, and laptops keep them occupied for hours, in some cases acting as live-in babysitters while parents finish chores or Read…

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Saving Sandcastles (Lobster Bay Book 1) {Free Ebook}

At age 49, Claire Turner isn’t about to let someone from her past ruin everything she’s worked so hard for.She’s raised her daughter, survived her divorce, and turned her love…

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  Best-selling author Dr. Gregory L. Jantz offers hope and help for parents of teens. Adolescence is a frightening and complicated time – for teens and parents. Keeping the roller…

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    A House on Liberty Street

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    A father. A son. A murder.Meet Tony Valenti. His high-flying corporate law career just cratered. His society marriage blew up in a bitter divorce. He’s returned to the Chicago suburbs to lick his Read more [...]

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    Bedfordshire, 1865.Kate Devlin is young, ambitious . . . and trapped.The eldest of three children, Kate helps her mother run the Devlin plait-school. They supply the material for the famous Luton Read more [...]

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