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Normalites

The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States

By: Kelly Ann Kolodny

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Normalites

The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States

By: Kelly Ann Kolodny

Normalites: The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States is a new original work which explores the experiences of three women, Lydia Stow, Mary Swift and Louisa Harris, who were pioneers in the movement in teacher education as members of the first class of the nation's first state normal school established in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1839. The book is biographical, offering new insights derived from exceptional research into the development of the normal school movement from the perspectives of the students. While studies have provided analysis of the movement as a whole, as well as some of the leaders of the initiative, such as Horace Mann and Henry Barnard, there is a lack of rich, published information about the first groups of students. Understanding their accounts and experiences, however, provides a critical foreground to comprehending not only the complexity of the nineteenth century normal school movement but, more broadly, educational reform during this period. Arranged chronologically and in four parts, this book explores the experiences of Lydia Stow, Mary Swift and Louisa Harris during their normal school studies, their entrance into the world and commencement of their careers, the transitions in their personal and professional lives, and the building of their life work. Throughout these periods, their formal educational experiences, as well as broader moments of transformation, are considered and how life paths were shaped. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty connected to teacher preparation programs. More than 100,000 students are currently awarded baccalaureate degrees each year in Education. Over 80,000 of these students are women. Their experiences are rooted in the pioneering efforts of Lydia Stow, Mary Swift, and Louisa Harris at our nation's first state normal school. It is a particularly fitting time to share their experiences as the 175th anniversary of the start of formal, state sponsored teacher education, the normal school movement, will be celebrated in 2014.

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1623966906

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Once a Cigar Maker

Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919

By: Patricia Ann Cooper

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Once a Cigar Maker

Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919

By: Patricia Ann Cooper

Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competition, conflict, and camaraderie among American cigar makers during the two decades that preceded mechanization of their work. In the process, she reconstructs the work culture, traditions, and daily lives of the male cigar makers who were members of the Cigar Makers' International Union of America (CMIU) and of the nonunion women who made cigars under a division of labor called the "team system." But Cooper not only examines the work lives of these men and women, she also analyzes their relationship to each other and to their employers during these critical years of the industry's transition from hand craft to mass production.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252013336

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Conflict in Early Stuart England

Studies in Religion and Politics 1603-1642

By: Richard Cust,Ann Hughes

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Conflict in Early Stuart England

Studies in Religion and Politics 1603-1642

By: Richard Cust,Ann Hughes

This important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the civil war.

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1317885023

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Harlequin Love Inspired November 2020 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Jo Ann Brown,Allie Pleiter,Renee Ryan

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Harlequin Love Inspired November 2020 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Jo Ann Brown,Allie Pleiter,Renee Ryan

Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: AN AMISH HOLIDAY FAMILY (A Green Mountain Blessings novel) By Jo Ann Brown When Mennonite midwife Beth Ann Overholt went to Evergreen Corners to help rebuild after a flood, she never expected to take in three abandoned children—especially with an Amish bachelor by her side. But this temporary family with Robert Yoder might just turn out to be the perfect Christmas gift… HIS CHRISTMAS WISH (A Wander Canyon novel) By Allie Pleiter Still reeling from his sister’s death, Jake Sanders intends to give his orphaned nephew the best Christmas ever. So when little Cole’s preschool teacher, Emma Mullins, offers to help him care for the boy, he’s grateful for her guidance. But can their blossoming love survive the dark truth Emma’s hiding? SURPRISE CHRISTMAS FAMILY (A Thunder Ridge novel) By Renee Ryan Armed with custody papers, Hope Jeffries heads to a small Colorado town to convince her nieces’ father to give her full guardianship. But Walker Evans is the wrong twin—the girls’ uncle. As they track down his brother, can Walker and Hope join forces to give their little nieces a traditional family Christmas? For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired November 2020 Box Set—1 of 2

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1488060827

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Theoretical Issues in Stuttering

By: Ann Packman,Joseph S. Attanasio

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Theoretical Issues in Stuttering

By: Ann Packman,Joseph S. Attanasio

Despite decades of research into the nature and treatment of stuttering, the causes and underlying mechanisms of it are still not well understood. In this unique and comprehensive overview of the numerous theories and models which seek to understand and explain stuttering, the authors of Theoretical Issues in Stuttering provide an invaluable account. Covering an impressive range of topics including past and current theories of stuttering, this edition provides the reader with an updated evaluation of the literature on the subject of stuttering alongside exploring the evolution of new theories. Placing each within the relevant historical context, the authors explore the contribution of theory to both understanding and managing stuttering. Theoretical Issues in Stuttering is a critical account of the models and theories which surround the subject of stuttering, aiming to act as a key resource for students of speech-language pathology as well as lecturers, clinicians and researchers within the field.

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1317265378

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Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England

Reading 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'

By: Mary Ann Lund

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Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England

Reading 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'

By: Mary Ann Lund

Lund demonstrates the significance of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy within early modern literary culture, covering religious and medical issues.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521190509

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Dirty Work

Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction

By: Ann Mattis

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Dirty Work

Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction

By: Ann Mattis

Dirty Work sheds light on the complex relationships between women employers and their household help in the early twentieth century through their representations in literature, including women’s magazines, conduct manuals, and particularly female-authored fiction. Domestic service brought together women from different classes, races, and ethnicities, and with it, a degree of social anxiety as upwardly mobile young women struggled to construct their identities in a changing world. The book focuses on the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Anzia Yezierska, and Fannie Hurst and their various depictions of the maid/mistress relationship, revealing “a feminized and racialized brand of class hegemony.” Modern servants became configured as racial, hygienic, and social threats to the emergent ideal of the nuclear family, and played critical rhetorical roles in first-wave feminism and the New Negro movements. Ann Mattis reveals how U.S. domestic service was the political unconscious of cultural narratives that attempted to define modern domesticity and progressive femininity in monolithic terms.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472125079

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The Old Rogue of Limehouse

Inspector Ben Ross Mystery 9

By: Ann Granger

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The Old Rogue of Limehouse

Inspector Ben Ross Mystery 9

By: Ann Granger

Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie return in Ann Granger's gripping ninth Victorian mystery. It is the summer of 1871 when Scotland Yard's Inspector Ben Ross pays a visit to Jacob Jacobus, the old rogue of Limehouse: infamous antiquarian, friend to villains and informer to the police. Ben hopes to glean information about any burglaries that might take place now that the wealthiest echelons of society are back in London for the Season. Little does he realise that an audacious theft has already occurred - a priceless family heirloom, the Roxby emerald necklace, has been stolen from a dressing table in the Roxby residence, and the widowed Mrs Roxby is demanding its immediate return. Ben's day gets worse when he and his wife Lizzie are interrupted that evening by the news that Jacob Jacobus has been found dead in his room with his throat slit from ear to ear ... Surely the two crimes cannot be connected? But with Ben's meticulous investigative skills and Lizzie's relentless curiosity, it is only a matter of time before the tragic truth is revealed . . .

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Kristy and the Snobs: Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #11)

By: Ann M. Martin

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Kristy and the Snobs: Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #11)

By: Ann M. Martin

The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! After Kristy's mom got married, her family moved to Watson's house in a new neighborhood. But the kids there aren't very friendly--in fact, they're total snobs! They criticize Kristy's clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club. . . and worst of all, they laugh at Louie, Kristy's pet collie, who's going blind. Nobody does that and gets away with it!Kristy's fighting mad, and she's not going to put up with a Snob Attack any longer--and neither is the BSC!The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545532574

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The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism

A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence

By: Ann Kibbey

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The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism

A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence

By: Ann Kibbey

Examines the variety of ways in which early Protestants responded to material shapes: icons, acoustic shapes of speech, material objects and the physical shapes of humans. Reveals how reactions to material shapes took violent forms as evidenced in the development of prejudice from Calvin and Luther to the Puritan immigrants of Massachusetts Bay.

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0521265096

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Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States

Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Normalization of Creativity

By: Mary Ann Stankiewicz

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Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States

Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Normalization of Creativity

By: Mary Ann Stankiewicz

This book examines how Massachusetts Normal Art School became the alma mater par excellence for generations of art educators, designers, and artists. The founding myth of American art education is the story of Walter Smith, the school’s first principal. This historical case study argues that Smith’s students formed the professional network to disperse art education across the United States, establishing college art departments and supervising school art for industrial cities. As administrative progressives they created institutions and set norms for the growing field of art education. Nineteenth-century artists argued that anyone could learn to draw; by the 1920s, every child was an artist whose creativity waited to be awakened. Arguments for systematic art instruction under careful direction gave way to charismatic artist-teachers who sought to release artistic spirits. The task for art education had been redefined in terms of living the good life within a consumer culture of work and leisure.

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Springer

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113754449X

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Daughters of America: Or, Women of the Century

By: Phebe Ann Hanaford

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Daughters of America: Or, Women of the Century

By: Phebe Ann Hanaford

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385324599

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Women, Peace and Welfare

A Suppressed History of Social Reform, 1880-1920

By: Oakley, Ann

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Women, Peace and Welfare

A Suppressed History of Social Reform, 1880-1920

By: Oakley, Ann

Between 1880 and 1920 many women researched the conditions of social and economic life in Western countries. They were driven by a vision of a society based on welfare and altruism, rather than warfare and competition. Ann Oakley, a leading sociologist, undertook extensive research to uncover this previously hidden cast of forgotten characters. She uses the women’s stories to bring together the histories of social reform, social science, welfare and pacifism. Her fascinating account reveals how their efforts, connected through thriving transnational networks, lie behind many features of modern welfare states and reminds us of their powerful vision of a more humane way of living – a vision that remains relevant today.

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Policy Press

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1447332628

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Karen's Nanny (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #105)

By: Ann M. Martin

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Karen's Nanny (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #105)

By: Ann M. Martin

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Karen’s family needs a special helper.Mommy is starting a new job. She is looking for someone to take care of Karen and Andrew when she is not home. Karen and Andrew will help her. But finding a nanny is hard work. Lots of people come to try out. The first nanny is too nice. The second one is too strict. Will the third one be just right?

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1338060767

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A Male President for Mount Holyoke College

The Failed Fight to Maintain Female Leadership, 1934-1937

By: Ann Karus Meeropol

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A Male President for Mount Holyoke College

The Failed Fight to Maintain Female Leadership, 1934-1937

By: Ann Karus Meeropol

A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937. Over her 36-year tenure, Woolley had transformed Mount Holyoke into an elite women's college in which leadership in the administration and faculty was almost exclusively female. Beginning in 1933, a group of male trustees determined to change the college. This book tells the story of how this group dominated the search process and ultimately convinced the majority of the trustees to offer the presidency to Roswell Gray Ham, an associate professor of English at Yale University.

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McFarland

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0786471336

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Logan Likes Mary Anne! Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #10)

By: Ann M. Martin

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Logan Likes Mary Anne! Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #10)

By: Ann M. Martin

The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! Mary Anne used to have to wear her hair in braids, keep her room painted pink, and ask her dad before she did anything. But not anymore. Mary Anne's been growing up . . . and the Baby-sitters Club members aren't the only ones who have noticed.Logan Bruno likes Mary Anne! He has a dreamy southern accent, he's awfully cute--and he wants to join the Baby-sitters Club.The Baby-sitters aren't sure Logan will make a good club member. And Mary Anne thinks she's too shy for Logan. Life in the BSC has never been this complicated--or this fun!The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

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0545532566

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Rougarou

By: Judith Ann McDowell

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Rougarou

By: Judith Ann McDowell

Jonathan Hindel has a dark secret. Although his beautiful Angelia has been dead for centuries, his love for her has never died. With the help of a voodoo priestess, young girls in the bayous are brought forth to house Angelia's spirit, thus allowing Jonathan to still take to his bed the woman he loves. Jonathan Hindel has another dark secret. Will the town be able to survive it?

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World Castle Publishing, LLC

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1955086044

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Claudia and the New Girl: Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #12)

By: Ann M. Martin

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Claudia and the New Girl: Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #12)

By: Ann M. Martin

The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! Claudia has always been the most outrageous girl in her class . . . until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different--she dresses in hippie clothes, wears six earrings and work boots, and is the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met.Ashley says Claudia has artistic talent, too, but thinks Claudia should spend more time on her "calling" and stop wasting time on the Baby-sitters Club.The Baby-sitters are sick of Ashley Wyeth, and they feel like Claudia is a traitor. Claudia has to decide: either the BSC or the new girl--one of them's got to go!The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545532590

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Claudia and the Great Search (The Baby-Sitters Club #33)

By: Ann M. Martin

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Claudia and the Great Search (The Baby-Sitters Club #33)

By: Ann M. Martin

Claudia, who has always been very different from her sister, comes to the conclusion that she must be adopted.

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0545633125

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Women of the Century

By: Phebe Ann Hanaford

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Women of the Century

By: Phebe Ann Hanaford

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385548284

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A Rage To Kill And Other True Cases:

Anne Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 6

By: Ann Rule

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A Rage To Kill And Other True Cases:

Anne Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 6

By: Ann Rule

New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule brings several riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out in this installment of her Crime Files. Ann Rule dives into one of Seattle’s most infamous crimes: a city bus ride that turned into mayhem and murder at the hands of a gunman. With her signature “devastatingly accurate insight” (The New York Times Book Review), she unmasks the forces that drove quiet, clean-cut Silas Cool to shoot the driver, causing the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartment building. Included here are nine other cases that illuminate Rule’s unique and authoritative view of the human psyche gone temporarily berserk. In A Rage to Kill, Ann Rule frighteningly shows that none of us are truly protected from the flashes of irrational violence that can erupt from the killers among us.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743424042

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Tomboys

A Literary and Cultural History

By: Michelle Ann Abate

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Tomboys

A Literary and Cultural History

By: Michelle Ann Abate

Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the “girl power” movement of the 1990’s, Tomboys is the first full-length critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. Michelle Abate uncovers the origins, charts the trajectory, and traces the literary and cultural transformations that the concept of “tomboy” has undergone in the United States. Abate focuses on literature including Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding and films such as Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon and Jon Avnet's Fried Green Tomatoes. She also draws onlesser-known texts like E.D.E.N. Southworth's once wildly popular 1859 novel The Hidden Hand, Cold War lesbian pulp fiction, and New Queer Cinema from the 1990s. Tomboys also explores the gender and sexual dynamics of tomboyism, and offers intriguing discussions of race and ethnicity's role in the construction of the enduring cultural archetype. Abate’s insightful analysis provides useful, thought-provoking connections between different literary works and eras. The result demystifies this cultural phenomenon and challenges readers to consider tomboys in a whole new light.

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Temple University Press

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1592137245

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Is America She Gone?

By: Beverley-Ann Scott

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Is America She Gone?

By: Beverley-Ann Scott

When Sandra, a single mother of two decides go to Brooklyn and work illegally for six months as a caregiver, she really believes that she will be able to make a lot of money in a short space of time. Encouraged by her cousin Patsy who lives in Brooklyn, Sandra leaves her children Antonio and Andrea behind in the hope that she will be able to make a better life for them. In the diverse community of Brooklyn with its large West Indian population, she feels very much at home. However after a few unfortunate encounters, Sandra soon realizes that America is not quite the place that she naively imagined it to be. She questions the wisdom of her decision many times but in her desire to send barrels home to her children, she loses sight of what is truly important - family. Andrea and Antonio face many challenges, as they struggle to cope with their mother's absence. Their father, who has started a new family, does not offer much parental support. Soon they fall prey to bad company and it is only a matter of time before their lives become irreversibly changed. When Sandra eventually returns to Trinidad having achieved her financial goals, she learns the hard way that money cannot take the place of a parent's love and the price she must pay in the end for her decision is higher than she had ever imagined it would be. From the Author of The Stolen Cascadura - Winner of Trinidad and Tobago NALIS One Book One Community Award 2012

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1477282777

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Rougarou II

By: Judith Ann McDowell

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Rougarou II

By: Judith Ann McDowell

A powerful vendetta is brought forth against the people of Saint Anthony Parish, Louisiana. Detectives Donavan Hays and Jack Olivier’ find themselves pitted against an evil that has walked this plane for over two centuries and who has now taken up residency in the Hindel Mansion. Evil doesn’t forget: Especially when that evil comes in the form of a werewolf.

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World Castle Publishing, LLC

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1955086230

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New Woman Strategies

Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, and Mona Caird

By: Ann Heilman

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New Woman Strategies

Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, and Mona Caird

By: Ann Heilman

Recent years have seen a rennaissance of scholarly interest in the fin-de-siécle fiction of the New Woman. New Woman Strategies offers a new approach to the subject by focusing on the discursive strategies and revisionist aesthetics of the genre in the writings of three of its key exponents: Sarah Grand (1854-1943), Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and Mona Caird (1854-1932). The study explores how each writer drew on, mimicked, feminized and ultimately transformed traditional literary and cultural tropes and paradigms: feminity, allegory and mythology.

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Manchester University Press

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0719057590

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The Seeker

A Novel

By: Ann H. Gabhart

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The Seeker

A Novel

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Charlotte Vance is a young woman who knows what she wants. But when the man she planned to marry joins the Shakers--a religious group that does not marry--she is left dumbfounded. And when her father brings home a new wife who is young enough to be Charlotte's sister, it is more than she can bear. With the country--and her own household--on the brink of civil war, this pampered gentlewoman hatches a plan to avoid her new stepmother and win back her man by joining the Shaker community at Harmony Hill. Little does she know that this decision will lead her down a road toward unforeseen peace--and a very unexpected love. Ann H. Gabhart brings alive the strikingly different worlds of the Southern gentry, the simple Shakers, and the ravages of war to weave a touching story of love, freedom, and forgiveness that sticks with readers long after they have turned the last page.

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1441211845

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9781441211842

The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling

By: Ann McCutchan

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The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling

By: Ann McCutchan

A comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the beloved classic The Yearling. Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida child and his pet fawn—much less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large. Rawlings was a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused the conventions of her early-twentieth-century upbringing. Determined to forge a literary career beyond those limitations, she found her voice in the remote, hardscrabble life of Cross Creek, Florida. There, Rawlings purchased a commercial orange grove and discovered a fascinating world out of which to write—and a dialect of the poor, swampland community that the literary world had yet to hear. She employed her sensitive eye, sharp ear for dialogue, and philosophical spirit to bring to life this unknown corner of America in vivid, tender detail, a feat that earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. Her accomplishments came at a price: a failed first marriage, financial instability, a contentious libel suit, alcoholism, and physical and emotional upheaval. With intimate access to Rawlings’s correspondence and revealing early writings, Ann McCutchan uncovers a larger-than-life woman who writes passionately and with verve, whose emotions change on a dime, and who drinks to excess, smokes, swears, and even occasionally joins in on an alligator hunt. The Life She Wished to Live paints a lively portrait of Rawlings, her contemporaries—including her legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins, and friends Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—and the Florida landscape and people that inspired her.

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0393353508

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Hello, Mallory: Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #14)

By: Ann M. Martin

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Hello, Mallory: Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #14)

By: Ann M. Martin

The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! Mallory Pike has always wanted to be a member of the Baby-sitters Club--they're so much fun to be around, and she's practically a baby-sitter already. Now the club members have invited Mallory to a meeting. This might be her big chance!But the BSC isn't making it easy--they make Mal feel like a baby on a job, and make her take an impossible written test. Mallory's beginning to think she doesn't want to be a part of the BSC . . . or maybe she and her new friend Jessi should start a club of their own. It's time to show those Baby-sitters what a couple of new girls can do!The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

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113

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545533899

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9780545533898

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