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My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!)

By: Alison DeCamp

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My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!)

By: Alison DeCamp

For history lovers and journal fans comes a “hilarious and heartbreaking . . . 99–100% fantastic” (A Fuse #8 Production, School Library Journal) story about a boy on a mission to find his long-lost father in the logging camps of Michigan. There are many things that 11-year-old Stanley Slater would like to have in life—most of all, a father. But what if Stan’s missing dad isn’t “dearly departed” after all? Armed with his stupendous scrapbook, full of black-and-white 19th-century advertisements and photos, Stan’s attempt to locate his long-lost hero/cowboy/outlaw dad is a near-death adventure fraught with pesky relatives, killer lumberjacks, and poisonous pies! His tale will leave readers in stitches, but not the kind that require medical attention. Praise for My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!) “A knee-slapper of a debut featuring a narrator who is rather less than 99 percent reliable but 100 percent engaging.” —Kirkus Reviews “[An] exuberant first novel.” —Publishers Weekly “Stan’s story is full of his hilarious misunderstandings and overactive imagination. Interspersed throughout are pictures and news clippings embellished with wisecrack remarks, speech bubbles, and the occasional mustache.” —Booklist

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0385390475

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History of Europe During the French Revolution

By: Archibald Alison

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History of Europe During the French Revolution

By: Archibald Alison

This bestselling history, published between 1833 and 1842, interpreted the French Revolution as a warning about the dangers of democracy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108025412

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9781108025416

History of Europe During the French Revolution (From 1789 to 1815).

Vol. III

By: Archibald Alison

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History of Europe During the French Revolution (From 1789 to 1815).

Vol. III

By: Archibald Alison

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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3385120772

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9783385120778

Louis XVI and the French Revolution

By: Alison Johnson

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Louis XVI and the French Revolution

By: Alison Johnson

Louis XVI was a gentle and unassuming man who did not want to be king but attempted to work for the welfare of his people--until his government was engulfed by the violent upheavals of the French Revolution. Facing the rapidly changing desires of his subjects, he gave way to the policies they demanded. Few rulers have acquiesced to such startling changes of government within such a brief span of time. Louis XVI lacked the charisma of Marie Antoinette, but he is remarkable for the courage he exhibited when facing violent armed men only a few feet away. The quiet dignity with which he approached his execution has been praised by countless people, including Albert Camus and Victor Hugo. This biography traces the painfully exciting events involving Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their two children. The royal family was first taken by a violent mob from Versailles to Paris. They attempted an escape but it failed when they had almost reached safety. A year later the king and queen were guillotined.

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McFarland

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1476602433

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My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!)

By: Alison DeCamp

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Lonely Planet Western USA

By: Lonely Planet,Hugh McNaughtan,Brett Atkinson,Greg Benchwick,Andrew Bender,Sara Benson,Alison Bing,Cristian Bonetto,Celeste Brash,Nate Cavalieri

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Lonely Planet Western USA

By: Lonely Planet,Hugh McNaughtan,Brett Atkinson,Greg Benchwick,Andrew Bender,Sara Benson,Alison Bing,Cristian Bonetto,Celeste Brash,Nate Cavalieri

Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Western USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Spot geysers and grizzlies in Yellowstone National Park, wander the diverse neighborhoods of San Francisco, or take a road trip along the iconic Pacific Coast Highway; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of ‘the West’ and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Western USA Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience – history, Native American culture, arts, architecture, environment, wildlife Covers California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pacific Northwest, Washington, Oregon, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, Southwest, Las Vegas, Arizona and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Western USA, our most comprehensive guide to Western USA, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You’ll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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1787019594

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Tenderness

By: Alison MacLeod

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Tenderness

By: Alison MacLeod

Powerful, moving, brilliant . . . an utterly captivating read, and I came away from it with this astonished thought: There's nothing this writer can't do." --Elizabeth Gilbert For readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution. On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in exile races to complete his final novel. Lady Chatterley's Lover is a sexually bold love story, a searing indictment of class distinctions, and a study in sensuality. But the author, D.H. Lawrence, knows it will be censored. He publishes it privately, loses his copies to customs, and dies bereft. Booker Prize-longlisted author Alison MacLeod brilliantly recreates the novel's origins and boldly imagines its journey to freedom through the story of Jackie Kennedy, who was known to be an admirer. In MacLeod's telling, Jackie-in her last days before becoming first lady-learns that publishers are trying to bring D.H. Lawrence's long-censored novel to American and British readers in its full form. The U.S. government has responded by targeting the postal service for distributing obscene material. Enjoying what anonymity she has left, determined to honor a novel she loves, Jackie attends the hearing incognito. But there she is quickly recognized, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover takes note of her interest and her outrage. Through the story of Lawrence's writing of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the historic obscenity trial that sought to suppress it in the United Kingdom, and the men and women who fought for its worldwide publication, Alison MacLeod captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century from war and censorship to sensuality and freedom. Exquisite, evocative, and grounded in history, Tenderness is a testament to the transformative power of fiction.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1635576113

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9781635576115

Night+Day Paris

By: Alison Culliford

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Night+Day Paris

By: Alison Culliford

Paris is many things to many people. While some come to experience its sleek sophistication, others indulge in the neo-bohemian scene, and still others flock here to enjoy the pinnacle of romance. No matter what you seek, Night+Day will show you how to make every minute in the City of Lights a memorable one. Today's savvy travelers rely on NIGHT+DAY Paris -- with its opinionated listings, insightful descriptions, and witty, intelligent writing -- to get the sophisticated edge in travel. From the trendiest tables, hippest hotels, top shops and galleries to the hottest nightspots and coolest attractions, NIGHT+DAY Paris is packed with expert recommendations and insider tips. For discerning travelers, it's the details that make the difference. Night+Day signature sections include the "99 Best" of the city, three unique "Perfect Plan" itineraries, a "Cheat Sheet" of city essentials, a concise "Black Book" index, maps, and more.

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ASDavis Media Group

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0976601389

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9780976601388

The Very Thought of You

A Novel

By: Rosie Alison

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The Very Thought of You

A Novel

By: Rosie Alison

“One of those books you’re likely to remember all your life.” —Alexandra Shulman, Vogue (UK) For readers of The Orphan Train and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes “not just a story of love but a story of loss, one whose voice will touch even the coldest of hearts.” —BookPage England, 31st August 1939: The world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate which has been opened up to evacuees by Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, an enigmatic, childless couple. Soon Anna gets drawn into their unraveling relationship, seeing things that are not meant for her eyes and finding herself part-witness and part-accomplice to a love affair with unforeseen consequences. A story of longing, loss, and complicated loyalties, combining a sweeping narrative with subtle psychological observation, The Very Thought of You is not just a love story but a story about love.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451613989

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9781451613988

The Gardener and the Carpenter

What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

By: Alison Gopnik

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The Gardener and the Carpenter

What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

By: Alison Gopnik

Alison Gopnik, a ... developmental psychologist, [examines] the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--

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Macmillan

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0374229708

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9780374229702

Descriptosaurus Personal Writing

The Writing Process in Action

By: Alison Wilcox

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Descriptosaurus Personal Writing

The Writing Process in Action

By: Alison Wilcox

Descriptosaurus Personal Writing provides young writers with an opportunity to link their personal lives and school experiences, and gives writing a meaningful and personal context. It is a resource that will guide and scaffold students to produce vivid, powerful, descriptive and meaningful personal texts, and, acting as a springboard for other genres, will dramatically improve the quality of their writing in all areas. It provides a detailed step-by-step guide through the writing process by using personal narratives to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding of writing a text. It demonstrates different techniques, and provides useful tips and suggestions on how to revise a text and transform it into a powerful, descriptive personal narrative. With prompts, plans, methods and models for poetry and prose, this book helps tackle each stage of the writing process from planning and writing a first draft to revising and editing. Descriptosaurus Personal Writing is an ideal vehicle for welcoming and celebrating different cultures, experiences and stories into the writing curriculum: an invaluable resource to dramatically improve children’s writing for all KS2 primary and KS3 secondary English teachers, literacy coordinators and parents.

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Routledge

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1000518175

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9781000518177

The acrolect in Jamaica

The architecture of phonological variation

By: G. Alison Irvine-Sobers

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The acrolect in Jamaica

The architecture of phonological variation

By: G. Alison Irvine-Sobers

An ability to speak Jamaican Standard English is the stated requirement for any managerial or frontline position in corporate Jamaica. This research looks at the phonological variation that occurs in the formal speech of this type of employee, and focuses on the specific cohort chosen to represent Jamaica in interactions with local and international clients. The variation that does emerge, shows both the presence of some features traditionally characterized as Creole and a clear avoidance of other features found in basilectal and mesolectal Jamaican. Some phonological items are prerequisites for “good English” - variables that define the user as someone who speaks English - even if other Creole variants are present. The ideologies of language and language use that Jamaican speakers hold about “good English” clearly reflect the centuries-old coexistence of English and Creole, and suggest local norms must be our starting point for discussing the acrolect.

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Language Science Press

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3961101140

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9783961101146

The Man Who Didn't Go To Newcastle

By: Alison Clink

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The Man Who Didn't Go To Newcastle

By: Alison Clink

“In June 2007 whilst out walking my dog, I opened a text from my brother saying: Am in St Georges – Rodney Smith Ward. Ring me. A.” Alison’s brother Adrian had been admitted to St. George’s Hospital in Tooting with a cut hand and low blood pressure. Tests had led to more serious concerns and he was calling on Alison to be with him when the consultant brought results of a biopsy on his lung. Alison heeded his call and took the train up to London the next day, only to find that the results weren’t available. She then went back to Somerset, with no idea of what the next few months would hold for them both. Whilst juggling her home life – at a time when her four children still lived at home – with long-distance hospital visiting, Alison tried her best to cope and make plans when Adrian eventually told her that, following the results, he’d been given a year to live. She had no idea then that he wasn’t being entirely truthful… The Man Who Didn’t Go To Newcastle is a unique combination of pathos, humour and an insight into what happens when ordinary lives are faced with the extraordinary. Much of the book details the relationship between Alison and her brother and how it was tested as he deteriorated. It is a book for anyone who has lost someone they’ve cared about – or come into contact with the hospital superbug, C.diff., which, along with a heart attack, killed Adrian before the cancer could.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1784622354

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9781784622350

Tree of strings

Crann nan teud: a history of the harp in Scotland

By: Keith Sanger,Alison Kinnaird

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Crann nan teud: a history of the harp in Scotland

By: Keith Sanger,Alison Kinnaird

This is the first history of the harp in Scotland to be published. It sets out to trace the development of the instrument from its earliest appearance on the Pictish stones of the 8th century, to the present day. Describing the different harps played in the Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland, the authors examine the literary and physical evidence for their use within the Royal Courts and "big houses" by professional harpers and aristocratic amateurs. They vividly follow the decline of the wire-strung clarsach from its links with the hereditary bards of the Highland chieftains to its disappearance in the 18th century, and the subsequent attempts at the revival of the small harp during the 19th and 20th centuries. The music played on the harp, and its links with the great families of Scotland are described. The authors present, in this book, material which has never before been brought to light, from unpublished documents, family papers and original manuscripts. They also make suggestions, based on their research, about the development and dissemination of the early Celtic harps and their music. This book, therefore, should be of great interest, not only to harp players but to historians, to all musicians in the fields of traditional and early music, and to any reader who recognises the importance of these beautiful instruments, and their music, throughout a thousand years of Scottish culture.

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1317300904

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Earth to Climate Change

Chronology of Climate and the Ancestors

By: Nya Alison Murray

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Chronology of Climate and the Ancestors

By: Nya Alison Murray

Earth to Climate Change' traces the effects of climate change on our past, present and future adaptations to social, political and climate factors since the last glaciation. Deeply simple solutions to climate change are available. We already have a blueprint for the clean technology future. Responding to the threats of extreme weather events, the risks of disaster, and the associated large-scale migration of populations is as close as our family tree. The past provides the clues as to how global temperature rises are going to affect us all. Earth, the beautiful blue planet, is constantly balancing the biosphere. We can all work collaboratively and proactively to address climate change.

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Good Beach Reads

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0645942308

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9780645942309

Bed 12

By: Alison Murdoch

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Bed 12

By: Alison Murdoch

What do you do when the most important person in your life is about to die?Who can help you?How do you keep going?When Alison Murdoch's husband catches viral encephalitis and falls into a life-threatening coma, everything changes. 'Bed 12' is a survival guide to the world of acute medicine, and a poignant and darkly comic account of what it's like to fight for someone's life.Over the course of a summer, machines beep and clatter, medical staff come and go, and family and friends of varying beliefs offer well-intentioned advice. For someone unfamiliar with hospitals, death and dying, the insights of Buddhism assume a greater relevance than ever before. This book is an astute, profound and uplifting insight into how to cope with despair, heartache and the unknown.'The object of my concern-or rather the entire focus of my current existence-is now lying in Bed 12.''Riveting!'Dr Bob Grove, former Chief Executive, the Centre for Mental HealthREVIEWS''Bed 12' is a love letter to the NHS, and the everyday acts of kindness that keep it afloat ... this is a precious gem of a book.'Dr Phil Hammond, NHS doctor, writer, broadcaster and comedian 'A powerfully moving book revealing the healing power that resides within the minds and hearts of each one of us.'Thupten Jinpa, principal English translator to the Dalai Lama'A fascinating and inspiring read for anyone who has experienced the serious illness of a friend or relative, or who wonders about their own mortality.'Professor Clare Gerada MBE'This is a miraculous story told with great humanity.'The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Richard Chartres KCVO DD FSA, Bishop of London (1995-2017)'A remarkable achievement. Bed 12 contains so much from which those of us providing intensive care could and should learn.'Richard Beale, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Guys's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust'It should be on the reading list for all nurses and doctors.'Dr Bob Grove, former Chief Executive, the Centre for Mental Health

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My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!)

My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!)

History of Europe During the French Revolution

History of Europe During the French Revolution

History of Europe During the French Revolution (From 1789 to 1815).

History of Europe During the French Revolution (From 1789 to 1815).

Louis XVI and the French Revolution

Louis XVI and the French Revolution

My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!)

My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!)

Lonely Planet Western USA

Lonely Planet Western USA

Tenderness

Tenderness

Night+Day Paris

Night+Day Paris

The Very Thought of You

The Very Thought of You

The Gardener and the Carpenter

The Gardener and the Carpenter

Descriptosaurus Personal Writing

Descriptosaurus Personal Writing

The acrolect in Jamaica

The acrolect in Jamaica

The Man Who Didn't Go To Newcastle

The Man Who Didn't Go To Newcastle

Tree of strings

Tree of strings

Earth to Climate Change

Earth to Climate Change

Bed 12

Bed 12

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