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Ada Val's for the Tears of Lori Jones

By: Ada Val

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Ada Val's for the Tears of Lori Jones

By: Ada Val

Jonathan Jones is a father. After losing his wife to cancer he is now a single father. Jonathan is a police officer, a man sworn to uphold the law. But he has a dark secret. He preys on his young children Lori and Dominick, he abusive them in such horrible and unspeakable ways. Lori and Dominick try to cope with the abuse with drugs. When both children tries to break free of their father's hold but it ends with deadly results.

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0557199808

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9780557199808

Ada Valâs Notre Monstre de la Famille

By: Ada Valerie

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Ada Valâs Notre Monstre de la Famille

By: Ada Valerie

Julie Valerie is Ada Valentina Valerie's troubled and some time's crazy older sister. Julie has always been the odd one in the family, the black sheep. Julie is over 400 pounds; she uses drugs, she is out all hours of night, either getting drugs or getting men or women. Julie never spends time with her three kids who she always leaves with Ada. Ada wants to finish college while dealing with deaths of her best friends,and an unexpected illness of Ada and Julie's mother and 9/11. It does not tame Julie's wildness not one bit.Ada doesn't want to spend all of her time cleaning up after Julie's mistakes caused by her deadbeat friends, and snowballing problems and clashes with the case workers from the Administration of Children's Services. Ada does not wish to see her young nieces and nephew without a mother. Ada wants Julie to do what's right, get her life together before the Administration of Children's Services steps in and then it will be out of everyone's hands.

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0557197155

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9780557197156

ADA Val's Notre Monstre de La Famille

By: Ada Valerie

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ADA Val's Notre Monstre de La Famille

By: Ada Valerie

Julie is Ada Val's troubled and some time's crazy older sister. Julie has always been the odd one in the family, the black sheep. Julie is over 400 pounds; she uses drugs, she is out all hours of night, either getting drugs or getting men. Julie never spends time with her three kids who she always leaves with Ada. Ada spends most of her free time with the kids making sure they are all right. Ada wants to finish college while dealing with deaths of her best friends Lillian Booth Kincaid and Lori Jones. But Ada doesn't want to spend all of her time cleaning up after Julie. Nor does she wish to see her young nieces and nephew without a mother. Ada wants Julie to do what's right before ACS steps in and it will be out of everyone's hands.

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0557158575

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9780557158577

The Masquerade of Lillian Booth Kincaid

By: Ada Val

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The Masquerade of Lillian Booth Kincaid

By: Ada Val

Lillian often finds herself asking the question: Why me?I was Lillian booth kincaid. I was the daughter of Ramon Luzon-Kincaid and Stella booth. Two people who never really could love each other. But got together long enough to make me. My masquerade dance is over. I had to take it off my mask to revile my sadness, my grief, my shame, my pain, my lost hope, and dreams. I had to watch as my last bit of happiness got sucked down the drain.This story takes a close look at Lillian's most awkward years. It reads more like a group of snapshots then the story of Lillian's life. It explores her complex and often combative home life with her mother Stella and her equally abusive relationship with her boyfriend Xavier how it pushes her to the edge.

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0557059232

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Too Like the Lightning

Book One of Terra Ignota

By: Ada Palmer

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Too Like the Lightning

Book One of Terra Ignota

By: Ada Palmer

From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originality Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away. The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labelling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life. And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destablize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life... Terra Ignota 1. Too Like the Lightning 2. Seven Surrenders 3. The Will to Battle At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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1466858745

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9781466858749

Love, Amalia

By: Alma Flor Ada,Gabriel M. Zubizarreta

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Love, Amalia

By: Alma Flor Ada,Gabriel M. Zubizarreta

Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.

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Simon and Schuster

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1442424036

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9781442424036

African Women Under Fire

Literary Discourses in War and Conflict

By: Pauline Ada Uwakweh

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African Women Under Fire

Literary Discourses in War and Conflict

By: Pauline Ada Uwakweh

African writers and literary critics must account for the changing political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The aftermath of wars and conflicts initiates new forms of violence and related gender challenges. The contributors establish compelling evidence for the significance of gender in the analyses of contemporary warfare and conflict. Articulating war's consequences for women and children remains a major challenge for critics, policy makers, and human rights organizations. There is a need for deeper understanding of the new sources of violence and male aggression on women, the gendered challenges of reintegration in the aftermath, and the future consequences of gendered violence for the African continent. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers, instructors, students of literature in the humanities, women's studies, liberal studies, African studies, etc. at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It also offers interdisciplinary utility for readers interested in literary representations of women's experience in war and conflict.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498529194

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9781498529198

Why We Can't Sleep

Women's New Midlife Crisis

By: Ada Calhoun

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Why We Can't Sleep

Women's New Midlife Crisis

By: Ada Calhoun

The acclaimed author explores the hidden crises of Gen X women in this “engaging hybrid of first-person confession, reportage [and] pop culture analysis” (The New Republic). Ada Calhoun was married with children and a good career—and yet she was miserable. She thought she had no right to complain until she realized how many other Generation X women felt the same way. What could be behind this troubling trend? To find out, Calhoun delved into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw that Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age—problems that were being largely overlooked. Calhoun spoke with women across America who were part of the generation raised to “have it all.” She found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. And instead of being heard, they were being told to lean in, take “me-time,” or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament. She offers practical advice on how to ourselves out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.

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Grove Press

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0802147860

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9780802147868

Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet

By: Tim Gunn,Ada Calhoun

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Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible

The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet

By: Tim Gunn,Ada Calhoun

In the beginning there was the fig leaf... and the toga. Crinolines and ruffs. Chain mailand corsets. What do these antiquated items have to do with the oh-so-twenty-first-century skinny jeans, graphic tee, and sexy pumps you slipped into this morning? Everything! Fashion begets fashion, and life—from economics to politics, weather to warfare, practicality to the utterly impractical—is reflected in the styles of any given era, evolving into the threads you buy and wear today. With the candidness, intelligence, and charm that made him a household name on Project Runway, Tim Gunn reveals the fascinating story behind each article of clothing dating back to ancient times, in a book that reads like a walking tour from museum to closet with Tim at your side. From Cleopatra’s crown to Helen of Troy’s sandals, from Queen Victoria’s corset to Madonna’s cone bra, Dynasty’s power suits to Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits, Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible takes you on a runway-ready journey through the highs and lows of fashion history. Drawing from his exhaustive knowledge and intensive research to offer cutting-edge insights into modern style, Tim explains how the 1960s ruined American underwear, how Beau Brummell created the look men have worn for more than a century, why cargo capri pants are a plague on our nation, and much more. He will make you see your wardrobe in a whole new way. Prepare to be inspired as you change your thinking about the past, present, and future of fashion!

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Simon and Schuster

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145164387X

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9781451643879

Kierkegaard After the Genome

Science, Existence and Belief in This World

By: Ada S. Jaarsma

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Kierkegaard After the Genome

Science, Existence and Belief in This World

By: Ada S. Jaarsma

This book brings Søren Kierkegaard’s nineteenth-century existentialist project into our contemporary age, applying his understanding of “freedom” and “despair” to science and science studies, queer, decolonial and critical race theory, and disability studies. The book draws out the materialist dimensions of belief, examining the existential dynamics of phenomena like placebos, epigenetics, pedagogy, and scientific inquiry itself. Each chapter dramatizes the ways in which abstractions like “race” or “genes” and even “belief” are sites of contested practices with pressing political significance. Focusing on the existential dangers posed by neo-liberal and finance capitalist systems, the book brings to life the resources for resistance found within science studies and critical approaches to race, secularity, and disability. Throughout the book, Kierkegaard becomes an ally with ecological and developmental evolutionary theorists, as well as with science studies, critical race, and crip theorists who foreground the relational and impassioned nature of existence.

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Springer

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3319579819

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9783319579818

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street

By: Ada Calhoun

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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street

By: Ada Calhoun

A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street’s apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant’s pear orchard to today’s hipster playground—organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared “St. Marks is dead.” In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants’ haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kids—but it has always been a place that outsiders call home. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393249794

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9780393249798

The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, Third Edition

By: Ronald Manual Doctor,Ada P. Kahn,Christine A. Adamec

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The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, Third Edition

By: Ronald Manual Doctor,Ada P. Kahn,Christine A. Adamec

Explains the meaning of terms and concepts related to specific phobias, forms of therapy, and medicines, and identifies key researchers.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438120982

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9781438120980

Making a Difference

My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice

By: Ada Deer,Theda Perdue

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Making a Difference

My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice

By: Ada Deer,Theda Perdue

2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, “I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have lived.” She proceeds to narrate the first eighty-three years of her life, which are characterized by her tireless campaigns to reverse the forced termination of the Menominee tribe and to ensure sovereignty and self-determination for all tribes. Deer grew up in poverty on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, but with the encouragement of her mother and teachers, she earned degrees in social work from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Columbia University. Armed with a first-rate education, an iron will, and a commitment to justice, she went from being a social worker in Minneapolis to leading the struggle for the restoration of the Menominees’ tribal status and trust lands. Having accomplished that goal, she moved on to teach American Indian Studies at UW–Madison, to hold a fellowship at Harvard, to work for the Native American Rights Fund, to run unsuccessfully for Congress, and to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs in the Clinton administration. Now in her eighties, Deer remains as committed as ever to human rights, especially the rights of American Indians. A deeply personal story, written with humor and honesty, this book is a testimony to the ability of one individual to change the course of history through hard work, perseverance, and an unwavering commitment to social justice.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806165952

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9780806165950

British Comment on the United States

A Chronological Bibliography, 1832–1899

By: Ada B. Nisbet

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British Comment on the United States

A Chronological Bibliography, 1832–1899

By: Ada B. Nisbet

This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.

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Univ of California Press

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0520098110

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9780520098114

Up Your Score Sat

The Underground Guide, 2015 Edition

By: Larry Berger,Michael Colton,Manek Mistry,Paul Rossi,Ada Throckmorton

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Up Your Score Sat

The Underground Guide, 2015 Edition

By: Larry Berger,Michael Colton,Manek Mistry,Paul Rossi,Ada Throckmorton

The only SAT guide written by students for students includes everything beleaguered high-school students need to ace the most important test of their lives, with helpful tips on how to prepare for the math, critical reading and essay sections of the exam. Original.

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Workman Publishing

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0761179763

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9780761179764

The Encyclopedia of Work-related Illnesses, Injuries, and Health Issues

By: Ada P. Kahn

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The Encyclopedia of Work-related Illnesses, Injuries, and Health Issues

By: Ada P. Kahn

Presents articles on health in the workplace including injuries, physical and mental illnesses, worker's compensation, and social issues.

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Infobase Publishing

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0816066280

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9780816066285

The Encyclopedia of Stress and Stress-Related Diseases, Second Edition

By: Ada P. Kahn

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The Encyclopedia of Stress and Stress-Related Diseases, Second Edition

By: Ada P. Kahn

Presents information on stresses in the environment, their causes, effects, and possible ways to minimize or eliminate them.

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081606993X

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9780816069934

Eagle

By: City of Eagle,Eagle (Ada County, Idaho)

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Eagle

By: City of Eagle,Eagle (Ada County, Idaho)

Eagle may be the only city in the arid American West that was first settled on an island. Four young miners left Idaho's gold fields in 1863 to farm what is today called Eagle Island, between the Boise River's north and south channels. Not easily accessed by Indian raiding parties, the island also allowed ready irrigation of the first croplands. It was an island farming couple, Tom and Mary Aiken, that founded the village of Eagle on the north "mainland" starting in 1895. An interurban trolley in 1907 greatly stimulated the growth of the township, which became a service and food processing center for a large, rural hinterland. Nevertheless, Eagle was still a small farming town when it finally incorporated in 1971. During subsequent decades, though, it was transformed by explosive growth and upscale development into one of the wealthiest communities in the Pacific Northwest. Golf courses, hobby farms, a preoccupation with the arts, and foothill vineyards all attest to Eagle's modern affluence. However, this history largely focuses on Eagle's modest agricultural yesteryear.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738595373

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9780738595375

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