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My Cousin Caroline

The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series The Pemberley Chronicles Book 6

By: Rebecca Collins

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My Cousin Caroline

The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series The Pemberley Chronicles Book 6

By: Rebecca Collins

Sixth in the bestselling Jane Austen sequel series from Australia In this installment of The Pemberley Chronicles series, Mr. Darcy's cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth's cousin Caroline Gardiner take center stage. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Caroline develops from a pretty young girl into a woman of intelligence and passion, embodying some of Austen's own values. Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth, Jane, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, and the Wickhams all move through the story as Caroline falls in love, marries, and raises her children. Caroline rejects the role of a compliant Victorian wife and mother, instead becoming a spirited and outspoken advocate of reformist causes in spite of the danger of scandal. Caroline's advocacy of reform, undaunted by criticism, demonstrates strength in a time when a woman's role was severely restricted.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402228333

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9781402228339

Blake's Human Form Divine

By: Ann K. Mellor

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Blake's Human Form Divine

By: Ann K. Mellor

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

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0520313291

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9780520313293

Pleading Rapture

Brides of Prophecy Book 5

By: Brooklyn Ann

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Pleading Rapture

Brides of Prophecy Book 5

By: Brooklyn Ann

Infamous metal band, Rage of Angels have returned at last, and it’s not just their fans who have been waiting for them. Aurora Lee is in triple trouble as she has to handle a lawsuit against her band, cope with excruciating attraction to their hot vampire lawyer, Tony Salazar, and recruit an army to fight an impending war. To make matters worse, Tony’s old enemies lurk in the shadows, threatening everyone they hold dear.

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Brooklyn Ann

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1548284793

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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II vol 6

By: Ann R Hawkins,Stephanie Eckroth

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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II vol 6

By: Ann R Hawkins,Stephanie Eckroth

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

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Routledge

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1000748537

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Managing Effective Learning and Teaching

By: Ann R J Briggs,Daniela Sommefeldt

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Managing Effective Learning and Teaching

By: Ann R J Briggs,Daniela Sommefeldt

Presenting the theory underlying management of teaching and learning, as well as discussion of good practice in schools and colleges, the authors of this volume discuss the rationale for learning and teaching though a consideration of curriculum design. This is linked to models of learning and teaching, and the management of contexts for learning, together with the roles and responsibilities of curriculum managers. Examples are drawn from international settings as well as from the United Kingdom, encouraging the reader to explore the context of managing learning and teaching within his/her own institution. The authors provide self-study material, with extensive links to other key texts in the field. This book is a valuable source book for curriculum managers at all levels in schools and colleges, as well as a course book for Masters′ level study in educational management

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SAGE

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1412931487

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9781412931489

The Church of England and Divorce in the Twentieth Century

Legalism and Grace

By: Ann Sumner Holmes

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The Church of England and Divorce in the Twentieth Century

Legalism and Grace

By: Ann Sumner Holmes

Attitudes towards divorce have changed considerably over the past two centuries. As society has moved away from a Biblical definition of marriage as an indissoluble union, to that of an individual and personal relationship, secular laws have evolved as well. Using unpublished sources and previously inaccessible private collections, Holmes explores the significant role the Church of England has played in these changes, as well as the impact this has had on ecclesiastical policies. This timely study will be relevant to ongoing debates about the meaning and nature of marriage, including the theological doctrines and ecclesiastical policies underlying current debates on same-sex marriage.

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Routledge

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1315408481

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9781315408484

Brainstorm

Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions

By: Eric Maisel, PhD,Ann Maisel

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Brainstorm

Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions

By: Eric Maisel, PhD,Ann Maisel

It’s true: a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Yet that’s what we do when we spend our weekend — and neurons — reliving a workplace squabble, spend a family visit chewing over childhood issues, or spend hours beating ourselves up when someone brings one of our own long-held (but never worked on) ideas to fruition. This kind of obsessing gets us, like a hamster on a wheel, nowhere. But as noted creativity expert Eric Maisel asserts, obsessing productively leads to fulfillment rather than frustration. A productive obsession, whether an idea for a novel, a business, or a vaccine, is chosen deliberately and pursued with determination. In this provocative, practical guide, Maisel coaches you to use the tendency to obsess to your creative advantage, fulfilling both your promise and your promises to yourself.

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New World Library

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1577319621

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9781577319627

Postscript from Pemberley

The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series The Pemberley Chronicles Book 7

By: Rebecca Collins

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Postscript from Pemberley

The acclaimed Pride and Prejudice sequel series The Pemberley Chronicles Book 7

By: Rebecca Collins

A lovely complementary novel... Austen would surely give her smile of approval." —Beverly Wong, author of PRIDE & PREJUDICE PRUDENCE An unconventional newcomer brings the threat of scandal to Pemberley Kate O'Hare is not a typical Victorian woman. Her intelligence, vivacity, and beauty captivate all those around her, including the young and handsome Darcy Gardiner. But she cares more about science than about dresses, and her unusual behavior makes her a fresh and interesting addition to the Pemberley estate. Until her association with scientific controversies of the day and dark secrets from her past put her and all her newfound friends in harm's way. Will Kate's involvement in the public world, where many believe a woman doesn't belong, bring scandal to Pemberley? Or will her charm and wit be enough to banish the shadows of her past and hold on to Darcy Gardiner? "Inventive plot lines, credible characters, and an engaging style. Add to this an enviable knowledge of the history and culture of the period and a sensitive appreciation of the values and traditions that underlie the novels of Jane Austen, and it is not difficult to understand the popularity of her work." Book News "Truly a masterpiece that any Austen fan would enjoy." Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence This is the seventh in the bestselling Jane Austen sequel series The Pemberley Chronicles from Rebecca Ann Collins.

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140222835X

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9781402228353

The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 1

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

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The Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 1

By: Brenda Ayres,Ann-Barbara Graff,Abigail Burnham Bloom,Tamara S Wagner,Elsie B Michie

The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040243061

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9781040243060

Replacement Girl

By: Ann Beaglehole

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Replacement Girl

By: Ann Beaglehole

Set in 1950s to 1970s New Zealand, this novel vividly brings the Jewish immigrant experience to life. Nazi persecution and oppression behind the Iron Curtain haunt the adults in this powerful novel as they struggle to adjust in a strange land. Their children, however, expand into the bright, open landscape of their adopted country. Eva and her group of four friends, all immigrant children and 'different', have to make their own adjustments and choices to survive and thrive in 1950s Wellington. They just want to leave their parents' past behind and live the carefree life of their schoolmates. With sensitivity and humour, Ann Beaglehole takes the reader inside the immigrant experience of mid-century New Zealand, exploring the tensions and love between generations and cultures. 'I found this book almost painfully gripping to read, both because of the vividness of the style, but also because it so closely paralleled my own life experience as an immigrant of the 1950s, and my search for identity and a sense of belonging.' - Sue Edmonds, Waikato Times

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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1775532631

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Lessons in Love (Ebook Shorts)

A Sincerely Yours Novella

By: Ann Shorey

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Lessons in Love (Ebook Shorts)

A Sincerely Yours Novella

By: Ann Shorey

Marigold Montgomery Bentley writes marriage advice for Kipler's Home Weekly even though she is single. Everyone assumes from the initials that "M. M." is a man. When the editor asks to meet Mr. Bentley, can Merrie come up with a ruse to keep her writing job?

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Revell

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1441219528

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Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

By: Ann Rosalind Jones,Peter Stallybrass

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Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

By: Ann Rosalind Jones,Peter Stallybrass

This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521786630

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Mortal Danger

By: Ann Rule

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Mortal Danger

By: Ann Rule

Only Ann Rule, the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling true-crime author, could lend her sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted--but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can kill. Original.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982197765

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9781982197766

Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel

The Senses in Social Context

By: Ann Jessie van Sant

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Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel

The Senses in Social Context

By: Ann Jessie van Sant

This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with more scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation as they were applied to repentant prostitutes and children of the vagrant and criminal poor. The book goes on to explore the novel's location of psychological responses to suffering in physical forms. Van Sant invokes eighteenth-century debates about the relative status of sight and touch in epistemology and psychology, as a context for discussing the 'man of feeling' (notably in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey) - a spectator who registers his sensibility by physical means.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521604583

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Being Human during COVID

By: Kristin Ann Hass

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Being Human during COVID

By: Kristin Ann Hass

Science has taken center stage during the COVID-19 crisis; scientists named and diagnosed the virus, traced its spread, and worked together to create a vaccine in record time. But while science made the headlines, the arts and humanities were critical in people’s daily lives. As the world went into lockdown, literature, music, and media became crucial means of connection, and historians reminded us of the resonance of the past as many of us heard for the first time about the 1918 influenza pandemic. As the twindemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice tore through the United States, a contested presidential race unfolded, which one candidate described as “a battle for the soul of the nation." Being Human during COVID documents the first year of the pandemic in real time, bringing together humanities scholars from the University of Michigan to address what it feels like to be human during the COVID-19 crisis. Over the course of the pandemic, the questions that occupy the humanities—about grieving and publics, the social contract and individual rights, racial formation and xenophobia, ideas of home and conceptions of gender, narrative and representations and power—have become shared life-or-death questions about how human societies work and how culture determines our collective fate. The contributors in this collection draw on scholarly expertise and lived experience to try to make sense of the unfamiliar present in works that range from traditional scholarly essays, to personal essays, to visual art projects. The resulting book is shot through with fear, dread, frustration, and prejudice, and, on a few occasions, with a thrilling sense of hope.

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0472902504

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Aphra Behn

An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

By: Mary Ann O'Donnell

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Aphra Behn

An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources

By: Mary Ann O'Donnell

This annotated bibliography constitutes a thoroughly revised and more easily readable study of Behn's publications, of those edited or translated by her, of publications that included her works, and of writings ascribed to her, along with an annotated bibliography of over 1600 works about her from 1671 to 2001, with an unannotated update covering 2002. The augmented primary bibliography describes all known editions and issues of her works to 1702, and adds a catalogue of editions to 2002, including on-line sources. The secondary bibliography adds close to 1000 items published since 1984 to the original 600 of the first edition along with about 175 more from 1671 to 1984, with attention to materials not in English. New appendices include a list of dedicatees, actors, recent productions (with reviews), and provenances. This volume will be invaluable for book dealers, collectors and librarians, as well as students and scholars of Aphra Behn and of Restoration literature.

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Routledge

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1351957791

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Sleeper Agent

The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away

By: Ann Hagedorn

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Sleeper Agent

The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away

By: Ann Hagedorn

The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--

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1501173952

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Bodies of Thought

Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment

By: Ann Thomson

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Bodies of Thought

Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment

By: Ann Thomson

`The church in danger' : latitudinarians, socinians, and hobbists -- Animal spirits and living fibres -- Mortalists and materialists -- Journalism, exile, and clandestinity -- Mid-eighteenth-century materialism -- Epilogue: Some consequences.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199236194

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Epiphany and Her Friends

Intuitive Realizations That Have Changed Women's Lives

By: Jo Ann Brown-Scott

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Epiphany and Her Friends

Intuitive Realizations That Have Changed Women's Lives

By: Jo Ann Brown-Scott

As women, we are constantly reinventing ourselves through the various roles we experience in the decades of our lives. Our struggle is to truly know ourselves; to define ourselves at the core of our being, and make choices that accurately represent our intention to be productive human beings who make positive differences in the world. EPIPHANY AND HER FRIENDS will awaken your heart and mind to the simple truth that listening to the inner voice of your higher self, in startling moments of intuitive realization, is an infallible guide for living your authentic life. Powerful, true stories, told by women of all ages, provide inspirational support, as if in casual, candid conversation among friends. You will meet the lonely, the lost, the attacked, the betrayed, the recovering, the grieving, the enlightened, the gifted, the giving, the poor and the privileged. As their epiphanies are revealed, you will learn to recognize your own. Book dimensions are: 6' X 9'.

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1419665294

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A Reconciled Heart

By: Jo Ann Snapp

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A Reconciled Heart

By: Jo Ann Snapp

Forgiveness doesn't come from only the mouth, but from the soul and 'A Reconciled Heart.

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Tate Publishing

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1598861735

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Rose House

A Novel

By: Tina Ann Forkner

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Rose House

A Novel

By: Tina Ann Forkner

“A story nestled in a masterful weaving of secrets, betrayals, hope, and healing.” –Allison Pittman, author of Stealing Home and Saturdays with Stella A vivid story of a private grief, a secret painting, and one woman’s search for hope Still mourning the loss of her family in a tragic accident, Lillian Diamon finds herself drawn back to the Rose House, a quiet cottage where four years earlier she had poured out her anguish among its fragrant blossoms. She returns to the rolling hills and lush vineyards of the Sonoma Valley in search of something she can’t quite name. But then Lillian stumbles onto an unexpected discovery: displayed in the La Rosaleda Gallery is a painting that captures every detail of her most private moment of misery, from the sorrow etched across her face to the sandals on her feet. What kind of artist would dare to intrude on such a personal scene, and how did he happen to witness Lillian’s pain? As the mystery surrounding the portrait becomes entangled with the accident that claimed the lives of her husband and children, Lillian is forced to rethink her assumptions about what really happened that day. A captivating novel rich with detail, Rose House explores how the brushstrokes of pain can illuminate the true beauty of life.

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WaterBrook

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0307457931

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The Secret of Sarah Revere

By: Ann Rinaldi

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The Secret of Sarah Revere

By: Ann Rinaldi

The daughter of Paul Revere tells of her father’s secret—and her own: “A lively, exciting picture of Boston going to war…excellent.”—VOYA Thirteen-year-old Sarah Revere knows her father is a Patriot hero, a champion of the Colonies against the British. But she also knows that Paul Revere guards a secret about the start of the Revolutionary War that he will tell no one—not his new wife, not his best friend, not even his trusted daughter. It seems everyone in her family has secrets. Sarah’s even got one of her own—and it's tearing her apart…. This is a “beautifully crafted” novel of a young girl growing up—and a country’s battle for independence (School Library Journal). “As usual, Rinaldi has done her homework; the book is solidly researched and extremely well written. Readers will not soon forget these characters…Vivid in the best sense of the word.”—Kirkus Reviews A New York Public Library “Book for the Teen Age” Includes a reader's guide

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547351070

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Magpies Minutes Mysteries

By: Barbara Ann (Myers) Van Sant

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Magpies Minutes Mysteries

By: Barbara Ann (Myers) Van Sant

My stories are a conglomeration of different fictitious people and events put together with the intent of giving its owners a source of enjoyment and relaxation. Propping your feet up every day for half an hour is very good for blood pressure. Hopefully, my words give you a chuckle, a new thought, maybe nostalgia, and not too long to give you boredom. As a child I would read when the stories were short. I was born with a case of boredom.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514426196

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Sincerely Yours

A Novella Collection

By: Jane Kirkpatrick,Ann Shorey,Laurie Alice Eakes,Amanda Cabot

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Sincerely Yours

A Novella Collection

By: Jane Kirkpatrick,Ann Shorey,Laurie Alice Eakes,Amanda Cabot

In this collection of brand-new historical novellas from four outstanding storytellers, four young women find their lives altered after each receives a letter that sets her on a new path toward a changed life--and perhaps lifelong love. From a Hudson River steamboat to a lush drawing room, from a carousel carver's workshop to a remote and controversial hospital, readers will love being swept into the lives of four young women who are making their way in the world and finding love where they least expect it.

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Revell

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1441245332

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9781441245335

Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part III

By: Ann R Hawkins

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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part III

By: Ann R Hawkins

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

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1000743772

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A Fine Day for a Hanging

The Real Ruth Ellis Story

By: Carol Ann Lee

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A Fine Day for a Hanging

The Real Ruth Ellis Story

By: Carol Ann Lee

In 1955, former nightclub manageress Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. Following a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. She became the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and her execution is the most notorious of hangman Albert Pierrepoint's 'duties'. Despite Ruth's infamy, the story of her life has never been fully told. Often wilfully misinterpreted, the reality behind the headlines was buried by an avalanche of hearsay. But now, through new interviews and comprehensive research into previously unpublished sources, Carol Ann Lee examines the facts without agenda or sensation. A portrait of the era and an evocation of 1950s club life in all its seedy glamour, A Fine Day for a Hanging sets Ruth's gripping story firmly in its historical context in order to tell the truth about both her timeless crime and a punishment that was very much of its time.

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Random House

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1780573693

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It's Odd, The Things One Remembers

By: Nina Ann Smith

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It's Odd, The Things One Remembers

By: Nina Ann Smith

It's Odd, The Thing's One Remembers' traces the life of Nina Ann Bentley (later Nina Ann Smith) from an idyllic childhood in 1920s England, through her service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, and on into the far more challenging decades of the second-half of the twentieth century in Canada, America, and Mexico. While her life parallels that of many thousands of women who moved across the Atlantic in search of a better life after the Second World War, there are a few extra angles – ‘the darts which fate aimed at me and adventures on which I was led’ – including the birth of two disabled children, and the struggles to deal with new countries and ways of life. There is the excitement, and frustration, of living in Washington during the Kennedy years; and the sustained tension of being on the front lines of the cold war with a husband serving on the Defence Research Staff. There is the unexpected joy of a third stage of life in the mountains and coastal villages of Mexico; followed by the challenges of caring for a paralyzed husband and an ageing disabled daughter. And woven throughout, is the story of a young love that shadows her the rest of her life.

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FriesenPress

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1525567381

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9781525567384

Victorians in the Mountains

Sinking the Sublime

By: Ann C. Colley

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Victorians in the Mountains

Sinking the Sublime

By: Ann C. Colley

In her compelling book, Ann C. Colley examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the less reverential perspective from which the Victorians regarded mountain landscapes. And what a multifaceted perspective it was, as unprecedented numbers of the Victorian middle and professional classes took themselves off on mountaineering holidays so commonplace that the editors of Punch sarcastically reported that the route to the summit of Mont Blanc was to be carpeted. In Part One, Colley mines diaries and letters to interrogate how everyday tourists and climbers both responded to and undercut ideas about the sublime, showing how technological advances like the telescope transformed mountains into theatrical spaces where tourists thrilled to the sight of struggling climbers; almost inevitably, these distant performances were eventually reenacted at exhibitions and on the London stage. Colley's examination of the Alpine Club archives, periodicals, and other primary resources offers a more complicated and inclusive picture of female mountaineering as she documents the strong presence of women on successful expeditions in the latter half of the century. In Part Two, Colley turns to John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson, whose writings about the Alps reflect their feelings about their Romantic heritage and shed light on their ideas about perception, metaphor, and literary style. Colley concludes by offering insights into the ways in which expeditions to the Himalayas affected people's sense of the sublime, arguing that these individuals were motivated as much by the glory of Empire as by aesthetic sensibility. Her ambitious book is an astute exploration of nationalism, as well as theories of gender, spectacle, and the technicalities of glacial movement that were intruding on what before had seemed inviolable.

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1317001990

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9781317001997

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