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Three Moms and the Magical Manny

By: Alison Weaver,Oona Weaver,Allegra Weaver

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Three Moms and the Magical Manny

By: Alison Weaver,Oona Weaver,Allegra Weaver

Freshy Stephy is in second grade. She has a little sister named Rose and another sister they call Lil Nugget whos only two. The sisters live in one of the most exciting cities in the world: New York. Amazingly, they have three moms: Mama, Mommy, and Smom. They had two moms, who divorced, but Mommy remarried, and so they got Smom, short for stepmom. Together the three sister, their friends, and their magical manny go on amazing adventures throughout the city until one day when they lose their magic and get stuck in the solar system. What will happen when the magic goes away? How will they ever get home? A story of courage and imagination, come celebrate families of all different varieties with Stephy and friends.

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Archway Publishing

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1480843776

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For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England

By: Allegra di Bonaventura

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For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England

By: Allegra di Bonaventura

Winner of the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award Winner the Association for the Study of Connecticut History’s Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award “Incomparably vivid . . . as enthralling a portrait of family life [in colonial New England] as we are likely to have.”—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic, A Midwife’s Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America’s most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary—kept from 1711 until 1758—reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned Adam Jackson for over thirty years. In this engrossing narrative of family life and the slave experience in the colonial North, Allegra di Bonaventura describes the complexity of this master/slave relationship and traces the intertwining stories of two families until the eve of the Revolution. Slavery is often left out of our collective memory of New England’s history, but it was hugely impactful on the central unit of colonial life: the family. In every corner, the lines between slavery and freedom were blurred as families across the social spectrum fought to survive. In this enlightening study, a new portrait of an era emerges.

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505

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0871403471

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9780871403476

The Cookbook Collector

A Novel

By: Allegra Goodman

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The Cookbook Collector

A Novel

By: Allegra Goodman

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriends, not so much. National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has written a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.

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417

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Dial Press

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0679603816

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9780679603818

Ladder To The Moon

Women in Search of Spirituality

By: Allegra Taylor

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Ladder To The Moon

Women in Search of Spirituality

By: Allegra Taylor

In many parts of the world there is a gathering groundswell of women seeking to reclaim their own direct experience of spiritual vision. The Goddess has become one of the most potent images of our time. Women are personally and collectively recovering their voices. Ladder to the Moon is a journey of discovery - meetings with women, like the author herself, who are asking, "What happened to the feminine aspect of the Divine? Was it ever there? If it was, can we reclaim it and come in from the cold? How can a woman, discouraged by the misogyny of most religions, begin to find a meaningful path?" The book is warmly personal and anecdotal - an Everywoman's search.

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317

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Random House

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1446490203

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9781446490204

Love Child

A Memoir of Family Lost and Found

By: Allegra Huston

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Love Child

A Memoir of Family Lost and Found

By: Allegra Huston

When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterward, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke -- the legendary film director John Huston -- with the words, "This is your father." So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Huston estate in Ireland to the Long Island suburbs to a hidden paradise in Mexico -- and, at the side of her older sister, Anjelica, into the hilltop retreats of Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, and Marlon Brando. Allegra's is the penetrating gaze of an outsider never quite sure if she belongs in this rarefied world and of a motherless child trying to make sense of her famous, fragmented family. Then, at the age of twelve, Allegra's precarious sense of self was shattered when she was, once more, introduced to her father -- her real one this time, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich. At the heart of Love Child is Allegra's search through the unreliable certainties of memory for the widely adored mother she never knew -- the ghost who shadowed her childhood and left her in a web of awkward and unwelcome truths. With clear-eyed tenderness, Allegra tells of how she forged bonds with both her famous fathers, transforming her mother's difficult legacy into a hard-won blessing. Beautifully written and forensically honest, Love Child is a seductive insight into one of Hollywood's great dynasties and the story of how, in a family that defied convention, one woman found her balance on the shifting sands of conflicting loyalties.

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304

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Simon and Schuster

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1439159262

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9781439159262

The Long Life of Magical Objects

A Study in the Solomonic Tradition

By: Allegra Iafrate

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The Long Life of Magical Objects

A Study in the Solomonic Tradition

By: Allegra Iafrate

This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic manifests itself at a material level. Each chapter focuses on a different Solomonic object: a ring used to control demons; a mysterious set of bottles that constrain evil forces; an endless knot or seal with similar properties; the shamir, known for its supernatural ability to cut through stone; and a flying carpet that can bring the sitter anywhere he desires. Taken together, these chapters constitute a study on the reception of the figure of Solomon, but they are also cultural biographies of these magical objects and their inherent aesthetic, morphological, and technical qualities. Thought-provoking and engaging, Iafrate’s study shows how ancient magic artifacts live on in our imagination, in items such as Sauron’s ring of power, Aladdin’s lamp, and the magic carpet. It will appeal to historians of art, religion, folklore, and literature.

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173

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Penn State Press

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0271085339

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9780271085333

Three Moms and the Magical Manny

By: Alison Weaver,Oona Weaver,Allegra Weaver

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Book's by Allegra Weaver

Three Moms and the Magical Manny

Three Moms and the Magical Manny

For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England

For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in Colonial New England

The Cookbook Collector

The Cookbook Collector

Ladder To The Moon

Ladder To The Moon

Love Child

Love Child

The Long Life of Magical Objects

The Long Life of Magical Objects

Three Moms and the Magical Manny

Three Moms and the Magical Manny

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