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The Neighbor's Secret

A Novel

By: L. Alison Heller

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“Addictive, suspenseful and masterfully written...will delight fans of Big Little Lies.” —Michele Campbell “[A] witty, hyperlocal mystery...With a light, Liane Moriarty-esque touch...” —New York Times L. Alison Heller, whose work has been praised by Liane Moriarty as "warm, witty...refreshingly true to life,” explores the ultimate sacrifices of parenting in The Neighbor’s Secret, a propulsive and juicy novel filled with gripping twists and instantly recognizable characters. How well do you really know your neighbors? With its sprawling yards and excellent schools, Cottonwood Estates is the perfect place to raise children. The Cottonwood Book Club serves as the subdivision’s eyes and ears, meeting once a month for discussion, gossip, and cocktails. If their selections trend toward twisty thrillers and salacious murder mysteries, it’s only because the members feel secure that such evil has no place in their own cul-de-sacs. Or does it? What happened to Lena’s family fifteen years ago was a tragic accident, and she will never admit otherwise. Devoted wife and mother Annie refuses to acknowledge—even to herself—the weight of a past shame. And new resident Jen wants friends, but as always, worry about her troubled son gets in the way. When late-night acts of vandalism target the women of the book club in increasingly violent and personal ways, they will be forced to decide how far to go to keep their secrets. At least they all agree on what’s most important: protecting their children at any cost—even if it means someone has to die.

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Flatiron Books

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1250205824

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9781250205827

A State of Secrecy

Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance

By: Alison Lewis

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A State of Secrecy

Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance

By: Alison Lewis

Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual state of secrecy. This is the first study of its kind to explore this secret surveillance society, its arcane rituals, and the secret lives it fostered. Through a series of interlocking, in-depth case studies of informers in literature and the arts, A State of Secrecy seeks answers to the question of how the collusion of the East German intelligentsia with the Stasi was possible and sustainable. It draws on extensive original archive research conducted in the BStU (Stasi Records Agency), as well as eyewitness testimony, literature, and film, and uses a broad array of methods from biography, sociology, cultural studies, and literary history to political science and surveillance and intelligence studies. In teasing out the various kinds of entanglements of intellectuals with power during the Cold War, Lewis presents a microhistory of the covert activities of those writers who colluded with the secret police.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640124853

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9781640124851

The Economics of the Trade Union

By: Alison L. Booth

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The Economics of the Trade Union

By: Alison L. Booth

This book analyses the crucial features of unionised labour markets. The models in the book refer to labour contracts between unions and management, but the method of analysis is also applicable to non-union labour markets where workers have some market power. In this book, Alison Booth, a researcher in the field, emphasises the connection between theoretical and empirical approaches to studying unionised labour markets. She also highlights the importance of taking into account institutional differences between countries and sectors when constructing models of the unionised labour market. While the focus of the book is on the US and British unionised labour markets, the models and analytical methods are applicable to other industrialised countries with appropriate modifications.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521468396

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9780521468398

Secret Vancouver 2010

The Unique Guidebook to Vancouver's Hidden Sites, Sounds and Tastes

By: Alison Appelbe

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Secret Vancouver 2010

The Unique Guidebook to Vancouver's Hidden Sites, Sounds and Tastes

By: Alison Appelbe

In 1963, Jimmy Wynn was the second most famous man in America. The comedian's uncanny impression of the President made him a star. But when the genuine article died in a hail of bullets on a sunny afternoon in New Orleans, Jimmy's career met a fate almost as grisly. What happened to the funny man afterward was a mystery no one cared to solve. Nearly 25 years later, Nathan Grant, an ambitious young journalist, discovers the trail Jimmy cut through the entertainment netherworld. He soon realizes this forgotten court jester may have played a very serious part in the country's favorite conspiracy theory. Grant's strange and increasingly dangerous odyssey takes him from a dingy New York record store to the showrooms of Las Vegas, a ghost town in the Mojave Desert, and even a dinner theatre in Niagara Falls. A dark comedy about the cost of fame, Jason Anderson's "Showbiz" is the story of a man who became a punchline and a writer who is desperate to find out how the rest of the joke goes.

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ECW Press

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1554905648

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9781554905645

Subjects of Deceit

A Phenomenology of Lying

By: Alison Leigh Brown

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Subjects of Deceit

A Phenomenology of Lying

By: Alison Leigh Brown

Explores the connection between epistemological and moral "lying," interspersing a phenomenology of deceit with a continuing dialogue between the phenomenologist and one of her students.

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SUNY Press

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079143673X

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9780791436738

Sooper Secrets and Boomerang Bloopers

By: Alison Wilgus

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Sooper Secrets and Boomerang Bloopers

By: Alison Wilgus

A guide to the best and worst schemes in the kids next door history and the top ten capers ever.

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Scholastic Paperbacks

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0439829623

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9780439829625

Jacques Rivette

By: Douglas Morrey,Alison Smith

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Jacques Rivette

By: Douglas Morrey,Alison Smith

Jacques Rivette is perhaps the best-kept secret of French cinema. A founding figure in the New Wave, and at the centre of the Cahiers du cinéma team, he developed into one of the most unusual and adventurous French directors of the last sixty years, yet his work remains little-known in comparison with his contemporaries, and this study is the first in English to look at the full span of his career. Starting with his decisively influential film criticism of the 1950s, it moves from the New Wave through the complex, experimental films of the 1970s to the challenging, playful dramas which ensured his visibility during the following two decades, and ends in the present, including Rivette’s most recent films, Histoire de Marie et Julien (2003) and Ne touchez pas la hache (2007). The book takes a thematic approach, offering detailed discussion of key elements of Rivette’s film world, including games, conspiracy and jealousy, as well as a study of what Rivette’s cinema adds to our understanding of key theoretical concepts in Film Studies such as narrative, space and adaptation. There are many close analyses of sequences from Rivette’s films including Paris nous appartient (1961), Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974) and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).

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Manchester University Press

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1526141507

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9781526141507

National Theatre Connections 2020

Plays for Young People

By: Mojisola Adebayo,Chris Bush,Alison Carr,John Donnelly,Vivienne Franzmann,Hattie Naylor,Andrew Muir,Frances Poet,Silva Semerciyan,Chris Thompson

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National Theatre Connections 2020

Plays for Young People

By: Mojisola Adebayo,Chris Bush,Alison Carr,John Donnelly,Vivienne Franzmann,Hattie Naylor,Andrew Muir,Frances Poet,Silva Semerciyan,Chris Thompson

National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to stage management and marketing campaigns. NT Connections have published over 150 original plays and regularly works with 500 theatre companies and 10,000 young people each year. This anthology brings together 9 new plays by some of the UK's most prolific and current writers and artists alongside notes on each of the texts exploring performance for schools and youth groups. Wind / Rush Generation(s) by Mojisola Adebayo Tuesday by Alison Carr A series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John Donnelly THE IT by Vivienne Franzmann The Marxist in Heaven by Hattie Naylor Look Up by Andrew Muir Crusaders by Frances Poet Witches Can't Be Burned by Silva Semerciyan Dungeness by Chris Thompson .

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350161012

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9781350161016

EU Competition Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Alison Jones,Brenda Sufrin

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EU Competition Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Alison Jones,Brenda Sufrin

A stand-alone guide to competition law, providing extracts from key cases, academic works, and legislation, along with incisive critique and commentary from two experts in the field.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199660328

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9780199660322

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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3385120764

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9783385120761

Human Rights and Criminal Justice

By: Ben Emmerson,Andrew Ashworth,Alison Macdonald,Mark A. Summers

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Human Rights and Criminal Justice

By: Ben Emmerson,Andrew Ashworth,Alison Macdonald,Mark A. Summers

A survey of Czech business law, tax and accounting regulations. The political, legal and economic systems of the Republic are outlined.

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Sweet & Maxwell

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1847039111

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9781847039118

May We Suggest

Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion

By: Alison Pearlman

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May We Suggest

Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion

By: Alison Pearlman

An art expert takes a critical look at restaurant menus—from style and layout to content, pricing and more—to reveal the hidden influence of menu design. We’ve all ordered from a restaurant menu. But have you ever wondered to what extent the menu is ordering you? In May We Suggest, art historian and gastronome Alison Pearlman focuses her discerning eye on the humble menu to reveal a captivating tale of persuasion and profit. Studying restaurant menus through the lenses of art history, experience design and behavioral economics, Pearlman reveals how they are intended to influence our dining experiences and choices. Then she goes on a mission to find out if, when, and how a menu might sway her decisions at more than sixty restaurants across the greater Los Angeles area. What emerges is a captivating, thought-provoking study of one of the most often read but rarely analyzed narrative works around.

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Agate Publishing

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1572848227

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9781572848221

Democracy and Democratization

Post-Communist Europe in Comparative Perspective

By: John D Nagle,Alison Mahr

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Democracy and Democratization

Post-Communist Europe in Comparative Perspective

By: John D Nagle,Alison Mahr

This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions in East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context. The authors begin with a introduction to the concept and theories of democracy and then examine the emerging politics of the new democracies to set the post-Communist transitions in longer-term comparative perspective with earlier and existing processes of democratization in Southern Europe, Latin America, and East and Southeast Asia. Finally the politics of EU accession are introduced to place the transitions within the wider context of European integration. Concluding with a summary of recent critiques of modern democracy and looking toward future theories, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to what will remain the key contemporary issue for all students of political science.

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SAGE

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0857026232

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9780857026231

A Season of Secrets

By: Alison Cragin Herzig,Jane Lawrence Mali

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A Season of Secrets

By: Alison Cragin Herzig,Jane Lawrence Mali

Brooke worries about her little brother's mysterious fainting spells, which her parents will not explain, and has difficulty at first understanding his fondness for a pet bat named Lucifur.

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Scholastic Paperbacks

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0590328182

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9780590328180

How to Analyze Handwriting to Reveal the Innermost Secrets of Personality!

By: Alison Bell

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How to Analyze Handwriting to Reveal the Innermost Secrets of Personality!

By: Alison Bell

Provides a brief history of the science of graphology and shows how to tell what people are really like by analyzing their handwriting.

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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067987089X

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9780679870890

The Protestant Whore

Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750

By: Alison Margaret Conway

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The Protestant Whore

Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750

By: Alison Margaret Conway

After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress, stood apart by virtue of her Protestant loyalty. In 1681, Gwyn, her carriage surrounded by an angry anti-Catholic mob, famously declared 'I am the protestant whore.' Her self-branding invites an investigation into the alignment between sex and politics during this period, and in this study, Alison Conway relates courtesan narrative to cultural and religious anxieties. In new readings of canonical works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Richardson, Conway argues that authors engaged the same questions about identity, nation, authority, literature, and politics as those pursued by Restoration polemicists. Her study reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442641371

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9781442641372

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EU Competition Law

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How to Analyze Handwriting to Reveal the Innermost Secrets of Personality!

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