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The Death of Deception

By: Abigail Starr

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Evangeline Alarie returns to Gwynedd, a place she joyfully now calls home. Expecting to renew friendships and romantic interests, as well as continue to raise some of the fastest race horses in England, she arrives home instead to find that murder has once again struck her little paradise. Never one to turn down a mystery, Evangeline looks to team up with the handsome Inspector Bixby as the investigation draws them into depths unknown. Deceit and trickery run deep as someone tries to subdue their efforts. Their inquires may draw them closer to answers, but their strong personalities and pride could be the undoing of the forceful pair. Will they be able to push through the deception to find truth? Can they put aside their own feelings and prejudices as they hunt for the killer? Or will all their hopes for the future and finding the guilty come undone before time runs out for another victim? Join them and find out on this exciting new journey of The Death of Deception!

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1664290338

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The Death of Darkness

By: Abigail Starr

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The Death of Darkness

By: Abigail Starr

Return to Gwynedd for another exciting adventure with Evangeline Alarie, business woman extraordinaire and talented amateur sleuth! Evangeline Alarie adores her life in Gwynedd, enjoying the forthcoming Christmas season and the air of happiness that surrounds her in the quiet hamlet. Following the excitement of her prior adventure that August and the devastating result of murder and mayhem, everyone desires to enjoy the festivities and seek peace on earth. Yet even as love blossoms in the air, danger lurks behind every shadow. Another murder occurs, and the suspects are few and far between. Accidents and oddities join in the chaos, and the joy of Christmas is darkened by the threat of death. Luther and Evangeline join to hunt for the killer while trying to maneuver the ups and downs of their courtship. Unexpected detours happen at every turn, and the two must rely on one another and faithful friends to survive the upheavals. Yet when the darkness stalks Evangeline, Luther must put his faith in God to find the killer before he loses the love of his life. Will they catch the killer before the bells toll on Christmas Day? Or will the darkness separate them forever? Dive into this exciting adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat from the beginning to the end!

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San Francisco's Potrero Hill

By: Peter Linenthal,Abigail Johnston

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San Francisco's Potrero Hill

By: Peter Linenthal,Abigail Johnston

In the early 1800s, it was called the Potrero Nuevo, or "new pasture." Gold-rush squatters soon put the squeeze on Mission Dolores's grazing cattle, and when the fog lifted, Potrero Hill became the first industrial zone in San Francisco, with iron-smelting plants, butcheries, and shipbuilding dominating the waterfront during the late 19th century. The Hill has been home to immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, China, Russia, Mexico, and from everywhere in between. These days, many of the factories and warehouses have been converted into housing and offices for techies. And for the record, the crookedest street in San Francisco is not Lombard--it's Vermont, between 20th and 22nd.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738529370

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The International Relations of Middle-earth

Learning from The Lord of the Rings

By: Patrick James,Abigail E. Ruane

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The International Relations of Middle-earth

Learning from The Lord of the Rings

By: Patrick James,Abigail E. Ruane

Based on their successful undergraduate course at the University of Southern California, Abigail E. Ruane and Patrick James provide an introduction to International Relations using J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastically popular trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Because Tolkien's major themes---such as good versus evil and human agency versus determinism---are perennially relevant to International Relations, The Lord of the Rings is well suited for application to the study of politics in our own world. This innovative combination of social science and humanities approaches to illustrate key concepts engages students and stimulates critical thinking in new and exciting ways.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472028596

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9780472028597

#identity

Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation

By: Abigail De Kosnik,Keith Feldman

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#identity

Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation

By: Abigail De Kosnik,Keith Feldman

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented perspectives, and form community. It has also spread hashtags that have been used to bully and silence women, people of color, and LGBTQ people. #identity is among the first scholarly books to address the positive and negative effects of Twitter on our contemporary world. Hailing from diverse scholarly fields, all contributors are affiliated with The Color of New Media, a scholarly collective based at the University of California, Berkeley. The Color of New Media explores the intersections of new media studies, critical race theory, gender and women’s studies, and postcolonial studies. The essays in #identity consider topics such as the social justice movements organized through #BlackLivesMatter, #Ferguson, and #SayHerName; the controversies around #WhyIStayed and #CancelColbert; Twitter use in India and Africa; the integration of hashtags such as #nohomo and #onfleek that have become part of everyday online vernacular; and other ways in which Twitter has been used by, for, and against women, people of color, LGBTQ, and Global South communities. Collectively, the essays in this volume offer a critically interdisciplinary view of how and why social media has been at the heart of US and global political discourse for over a decade.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472125273

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Joy

Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis

By: Abigail Santamaria

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Joy

Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis

By: Abigail Santamaria

“A lush Narnia tale for grownups”: The first comprehensive biography of the rebel thinker who married C. S. Lewis (Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize winner). If Joy Davidman is known at all, it’s as the wife of C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia. On her own, she was a poet and radical, a contributor to the communist journal New Masses, and an active member of New York literary circles of the 1930s and ’40s. Growing up in a family of Jewish immigrants in the Bronx, she became an atheist, then a practitioner of Dianetics, and finally a Christian convert after experiencing a moment of transcendent grace. She was also a mother, a novelist, a screenwriter, and an intelligent, difficult, and determined woman. In 1952 she set off for England to pursue C. S. Lewis, the man she considered her spiritual guide and her intellectual mentor. Out of a deep friendship grounded in faith, poetry, and a passion for writing grew a timeless love story, and an unforgettable marriage of equals—one that would be immortalized in the film Shadowlands and Lewis’s memoir, A Grief Observed. “Plumbing the depths of unpublished documents, Santamaria reveals the vision and writing of a young woman whose coming of age in the turbulent thirties is both distinctive and emblematic of her time” (Susan Hertog, author of Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life). Finally, Joy Davidman is brought out of her husband’s shadow to secure a place in literary history that is both a long-time coming and well-deserved. “This book gives Davidman her life back. . . . Ms. Santamaria succeeds in de-mythologizing Davidman’s story.” —The Wall Street Journal “Compelling . . . clear, unsentimental.” — The New York Times Book Review

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HMH

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0547843704

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9780547843704

'Rock On': Women, Ageing and Popular Music

By: Abigail Gardner

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'Rock On': Women, Ageing and Popular Music

By: Abigail Gardner

For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges. Taking a broadly feminist perspective, 'Rock On': women, ageing and popular music shifts popular music studies in a new direction. Focussing on British, American and Latina women performers and ageing, the collection investigates the cultural work performed by artists such as Shirley Bassey, Petula Clark, Madonna, Celia Cruz, Grace Jones and Courtney Love. The study crosses generations of performers and audiences enabling an examination of changing socio-historical contexts and an exploration of the relationships at play between performance strategies, star persona and the popular music press. For instance, the strategies employed by Madonna and Grace Jones to engage with the processes and issues related to public ageing are not the same as those employed by Courtney Love or Celia Cruz. The essays in this insightful collection reflect on the ways that artists and fans destabilise both the linear trajectories and the compelling weight of expectations regarding ageing by employing different modalities of resistance through persona re-invention, nostalgia, postmodern intertextuality and even early death as the ultimate denial of age.

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Routledge

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1317189094

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9781317189091

Shakespeare for Young People

Productions, Versions and Adaptations

By: Abigail Rokison-Woodall

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Shakespeare for Young People

Productions, Versions and Adaptations

By: Abigail Rokison-Woodall

The search to find engaging and inspiring ways to introduce children and young adults to Shakespeare has resulted in a rich variety of approaches to producing and adapting Shakespeare's plays and the stories and characters at their heart. Shakespeare for Young People is the only comprehensive overview of such productions and adaptations, and engages with a wide range of genres, including both British and American examples. Abigail Rokison covers stage and screen productions, shortened versions, prose narratives and picture books (including Manga), animations and original novels. The book combines an informative guide to these interpretations of Shakespeare, discussed with critical analysis of their relative strengths. It also includes extensive interviews with directors, actors and writers involved in the projects discussed'.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441175296

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9781441175298

Is God Still at the Bedside?

The Medical, Ethical, and Pastoral Issues of Death and Dying

By: Abigail Rian Evans

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Is God Still at the Bedside?

The Medical, Ethical, and Pastoral Issues of Death and Dying

By: Abigail Rian Evans

Is God Still at the Bedside? by Abigail Rian Evans offers an expert interdisciplinary Christian perspective on the complex web of issues surrounding death and dying. Evans here combines first-person stories and interviews with research gathered from the medical, theological, legal, ethical, and pastoral disciplines. Her comprehensive, insightful work will not only benefit families struggling with difficult end-of-life decisions but also inform the doctors, nurses, and pastors who serve them. Book jacket.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802827233

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9780802827234

Practical Form

Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics

By: Abigail Zitin

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Practical Form

Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics

By: Abigail Zitin

A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Her account substitutes women and artisans for the proverbial man of taste, asserting them as central figures in the rise of aesthetics as a field of philosophical inquiry in eighteenth-century Europe. She shows how the idea of formal abstraction so central to conceptions of beauty in this period emerges from the way practitioners think about craft and skill across the domestic, industrial, and so-called high arts. Zitin elegantly maps the complex connections among aesthetics, form, and formalism, drawing out the understated presence of practice in the writings of major eighteenth-century thinkers including Locke, Addison, Burke, and Kant. This new take on an old story ultimately challenges readers to reconsider form and why it matters.

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Yale University Press

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0300255713

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9780300255713

Empress San Francisco

The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

By: Abigail M. Markwyn

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Empress San Francisco

The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

By: Abigail M. Markwyn

When the more than eighteen million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco, California, and the United States at the world’s fair. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition encapsulated the social and political tensions and conflicts of pre–World War I California and presaged the emergence of San Francisco as a cosmopolitan cultural and economic center of the Pacific Rim. Empress San Francisco offers a fresh examination of this, one of the largest and most influential world’s fairs, by considering the local social and political climate of Progressive Era San Francisco. Focusing on the influence exerted by women, Asians and Asian Americans, and working-class labor unions, among others, Abigail M. Markwyn offers a unique analysis both of this world’s fair and the social construction of pre–World War I America and the West.

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University of Nebraska Press

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1496224906

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9781496224903

Beyond the Color Line

New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

By: Abigail Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom

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Beyond the Color Line

New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America

By: Abigail Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom

Twenty-five essays covering a range of areas from religion and immigration to family structure and crime examine America's changing racial and ethnic scene. They clearly show that old civil rights strategies will not solve today's problems and offer a bold new civil rights agenda based on today's realities.

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Hoover Institution Press

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081799873X

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9780817998738

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner

By: Abigail Rokison-Woodall

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Nicholas Hytner

By: Abigail Rokison-Woodall

Part of the series Shakespeare in the Theatre, this book examines the work of renowned theatre director Nicholas Hytner (Artistic Director of the National Theatre from 2003-2015). Featuring case studies of Hytner's Shakespeare productions and interviews with actors, designers, directors and other practitioners with whom Hytner has worked, it explores Hytner's own productions of Shakespeare's plays within their respective socio-cultural contexts and the context of Hytner's other directing work, and examines his working practices and the impact of his Artistic directorship on the centrality of Shakespeare within the repertoire of the National Theatre.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472581628

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9781472581624

Making Good Neighbors

Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia

By: Abigail Perkiss

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Making Good Neighbors

Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia

By: Abigail Perkiss

In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia’s West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together around a community-wide mission toward intentional integration. As West Mount Airy experienced transition, homeowners fought economic and legal policies that encouraged white flight and threatened the quality of local schools, seeking to find an alternative to racial separation without knowing what they would create in its place. In Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable story of West Mount Airy, drawing on archival research and her oral history interviews with residents to trace their efforts, which began in the years following World War II and continued through the turn of the twenty-first century. The organizing principles of neighborhood groups like the West Mount Airy Neighbors Association (WMAN) were fundamentally liberal and emphasized democracy, equality, and justice; the social, cultural, and economic values of these groups were also decidedly grounded in middle-class ideals and white-collar professionalism. As Perkiss shows, this liberal, middle-class framework would ultimately become contested by more militant black activists and from within WMAN itself, as community leaders worked to adapt and respond to the changing racial landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. The West Mount Airy case stands apart from other experiments in integration because of the intentional, organized, and long-term commitment on the part of WMAN to biracial integration and, in time, multiracial and multiethnic diversity. The efforts of residents in the 1950s and 1960s helped to define the neighborhood as it exists today.

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Cornell University Press

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0801470854

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9780801470851

Pass The Pandowdy, Please: Chewing on History with Famous Folks and Their Fabulous Foods

By: Abigail Zelz

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Pass The Pandowdy, Please: Chewing on History with Famous Folks and Their Fabulous Foods

By: Abigail Zelz

*CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book* What do Napoleon, Cleopatra, George Washington, Gandhi, Queen Victoria, Columbus, Neil Armstrong, Montezuma, Paul Revere, Babe Ruth, Abraham Lincoln, Sacagawea, and Katsushika Hokusai have in common? They are all among the historical figures portrayed in this delightful book by writer Abby Ewing Zelz and cartoonist Eric Zelz. Just like us, the great movers and shakers of history had to eat, and their favorite foods turn out to be a highly entertaining thread to follow through the history of our small planet. History and biography have never been this tasty! Includes do it yourself historic Pandowdy recipe Includes backmatter with brief bios of featured historic figures Fountas & Pinnell Level W

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Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing

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0884485382

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9780884485384

Golden Boy

A Novel

By: Abigail Tarttelin

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Golden Boy

A Novel

By: Abigail Tarttelin

This is a gripping and fully-realized novel." —Emily St. John Mandel, National Book Award-nominated author of Station Eleven 2014 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2014 ALEX AWARD BOOKLIST TOP 10 FIRST NOVEL OF 2013 SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 Max Walker is a golden boy. Attractive, intelligent, and athletic, he’s the perfect son, the perfect friend, and the perfect crush for the girls in his school. He’s even really nice to his little brother. Karen, Max’s mother, is determined to maintain the façade of effortless excellence she has constructed through the years, but now that the boys are getting older, she worries that the façade might soon begin to crumble. Adding to the tension, her husband Steve has chosen this moment to stand for election to Parliament. The spotlight of the media is about to encircle their lives. The Walkers are hiding something, you see. Max is special. Max is different. Max is intersex. When an enigmatic childhood friend named Hunter steps out of his past and abuses his trust in the worst possible way, Max is forced to consider the nature of his well-kept secret. Why won’t his parents talk about it? What else are they hiding from Max about his condition and from each other? The deeper Max goes, the more questions emerge about where it all leaves him and what his future holds, especially now that he’s starting to fall head over heels for someone for the first time in his life. Will his friends accept him if he is no longer the Golden Boy? Will anyone ever want him—desire him—once they know? And the biggest one of all, the question he has to look inside himself to answer: Who is Max Walker, really? Golden Boy is a novel you’ll read in one sitting but will never forget; at once a riveting tale of a family in crisis, a fascinating exploration of identity, and a coming-of-age story like no other.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476705836

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9781476705835

Feminisms in the Academy

By: Domna C. Stanton,Abigail J. Stewart

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Feminisms in the Academy

By: Domna C. Stanton,Abigail J. Stewart

Brings together essays by leading scholars to explore the profound impact of feminist scholarship on the major academic disciplines.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472065661

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9780472065660

America in Black and White

One Nation, Indivisible

By: Stephan Thernstrom,Abigail Thernstrom

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America in Black and White

One Nation, Indivisible

By: Stephan Thernstrom,Abigail Thernstrom

This wide-reaching survey of race relations in America over the past 50 years takes a controversial stance: that the perception of serious race divisions in this country is outdated--and dangerous.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684844974

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9780684844978

The Death of Revenge

By: Abigail Starr

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The Death of Revenge

By: Abigail Starr

In the year 1887, a young woman with a mysterious past returns to the village of Gwynedd, England. It is the one place she has spent the past 6 years trying to forget. Her reason for returning now? Revenge. Her veiled arrival at Belleville Manor and news of the accomplishments her racehorses have achieved across continents, places her at the center of local curiosity and gossip from resident citizens, nobility, and constables alike. She soon finds herself entangled in the local Inspector’s investigation as poison and murder threaten to undo all that she has planned, making her question whether revenge is still what is most important to her? As darkness and chaos continue to unfold, she wonders if there might still be a path to redemption through it all. Can God’s voice still reach her in the darkness? Will the faith inspired Inspector Bixby she meets at every turn see through the façade she portrays? Can she forgive the past and choose God’s redemption to abandon revenge and accept the peace she has so long sought? Join these characters as they race to solve not only a murder, but the fate of a soul lost in darkness.

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WestBow Press

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1664225617

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9781664225619

Potrero Hill

By: Peter Linenthal,Abigail Johnston

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Potrero Hill

By: Peter Linenthal,Abigail Johnston

A neighborhood in the southeast corner of San Francisco, Potrero Hill enjoys some of the citys finest weather and most spectacular views. Once pastureland and home to immigrants working in the shipbuilding industries, Potrero Hill was long ignored by guidebooks. Now The Hill is regenerating, and these pages highlight what is gone and what remains on these sunny slopes.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738559660

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