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Merlin's Harp

By: Anne Crompton

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When I was yet a very young woman I threw my heart away. Ever since then I have lived heartless, or almost heartless, the way Humans think all Fey live. Among the towering trees of magical Avalon, where humans dare not tread, lives Niviene, daughter of the Lady of the Lake. Her people, the Fey, are folk of the wood and avoid the violence and greed of man. But the strife of King Arthur's realm threatens even the peace of Avalon. And while Merlin the mage has been training Niviene as his apprentice, he now needs her help to thwart the chaos devouring Camelot. Niviene's special talents must help save a kingdom and discover the treachery of men and the beauty of love... "The story glows...a mythical tapestry that is at once completely recognizable yet utterly fresh..." —Publishers Weekly "Like The Mists of Avalon, the Arthurian legend from a woman's point of view." —USA Today "Readers will be enchanted...the characters and strands of the famous legend are skillfully woven together here." —School Library Journal "Take heed: the feminist possibilities of the Arthurian legendary cycle were not exhausted by Marion Zimmer Bradley's bestselling The Mists of Avalon... A riveting good read." —Booklist What readers are saying: "A rather unique look at the legend of King Arthur." "An exquisite addition to Arthurian literature." "The writing is lyrical; the plot twists are original. Great!

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1402246994

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Cinderman

By: Anne Stuart

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Cinderman

By: Anne Stuart

A fun, sexy take on the superhero origin story. Dr. Daniel Crompton is in charge of a topsecret project. Suzanna Molloy wants to know what he’s up to. The physicist is escorting the reporter away from his work when an explosion rocks his lab. This attack transforms Daniel, giving him fantastic new powers—including a fiery gaze that can reduce any object to cinders. But is he hot enough to penetrate Suzanna’s chilly exterior? If they can elude the killers on their trail, they might just have a chance to find out. Previously published.

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1459295439

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East Enders

Family and Community in East London

By: Mumford, Katharine,Power, Anne

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East Enders

Family and Community in East London

By: Mumford, Katharine,Power, Anne

What impact do poor neighbourhood conditions have on family life? Why does 'neighbourhood' matter to low income families? How important is community spirit to people living in deprived areas? Does major regeneration funding improve social conditions?Using an up-to-date account of life in East London, the authors illustrate how cities faced with neighbourhoods in decline are changing. East Enders: gives a bird's eye view of neighbourhood problems and assets;provides policy recommendations based on real life experiences;tackles topical issues such as race relations, mothers and work, urban revival and social disorder through the eyes of families;is authored by leading experts in community studies. - vbTab]- vbTab]- vbTab]- vbTab]- vbTab]Undergraduate and postgraduate students in social policy, sociology, anthropology, urban studies, child development, geography, housing and public administration should all read this book. Policy makers in national and local government, practitioners and community workers in towns and cities and general readers interested in the life and history of urban neighbourhoods will also find this book an invaluable source of information.CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy seriesSeries Editor: John Hills, Director of CASE at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Drawing on the findings of the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion's extensive research programme into communities, poverty and family life in Britain, this fascinating series: Provides a rich and detailed analysis of anti-poverty policy in action.Focuses on the individual and social factors that promote regeneration, recovery and renewal.For other titles in this series, please follow the series link from the main catalogue page.

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Policy Press

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186134497X

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She Howled

Collection of Short Stories

By: Anne Julia

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She Howled

Collection of Short Stories

By: Anne Julia

Walking along the trails and trials of life, there is a story that must come out. In She Howled, author Anne Julia takes a journey woven into the bones of an old Inn in Vermont, to the shores of a lake and the fog of an ocean, all the while writing her experiences of the world around her into a collection of fictional and non-fictional stories.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1649796412

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The Dynamics of Managing Diversity

By: Gill Kirton,Anne-Marie Greene

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The Dynamics of Managing Diversity

By: Gill Kirton,Anne-Marie Greene

This text takes the view that the study of equality needs to consider not only issues of discrimination, but also the needs of people in relation to their diverse cultures and identities. It therefore takes a different approach to the issues of quality and diversity in the world of employment. The Dynamics of Managing Diversity discusses diversity as recognition of the differences and similarities between and among social groups, and how resulting policies must reflect these. This new edition has been extensively revised and up-dated to incorporate new conceptual, theoretical and empirical work now available in this growing subject area.

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Routledge

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1136358250

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The Mercery of London

Trade, Goods and People, 1130–1578

By: Anne F. Sutton

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The Mercery of London

Trade, Goods and People, 1130–1578

By: Anne F. Sutton

Although mercers have long been recognised as one of the most influential trades in medieval London, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the trade from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The variety of mercery goods (linen, silk, worsted and small manufactured items including what is now called haberdashery) gave the mercers of London an edge over all competitors. The sources and production of all these commodities is traced throughout the period covered. It was as the major importers and distributors of linen in England that London mercers were able to take control of the Merchant Adventurers and the export of English cloth to the Low Countries. The development of the Adventurers' Company and its domination by London mercers is described from its first privileges of 1296 to after the fall of Antwerp. This book investigates the earliest itinerant mercers and the artisans who made and sold mercery goods (such as the silkwomen of London, so often mercers' wives), and their origins in counties like Norfolk, the source of linen and worsted. These diverse traders were united by the neighbourhood of the London Mercery on Cheapside and by their need for the privileges of the freedom of London. Extensive use of Netherlandish and French sources puts the London Mercery into the context of European Trade, and literary texts add a more personal image of the merchant and his preoccupation with his social status which rose from that of the despised pedlar to the advisor of princes. After a slow start, the Mercers' Company came to include some of the wealthiest and most powerful men of London and administer a wide range of charitable estates such as that of Richard Whittington. The story of how they survived the vicissitudes inflicted by the wars and religious changes of the sixteenth century concludes this fascinating and wide-ranging study.

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Routledge

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1351885707

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Crossword Lists & Crossword Solver

Over 100,000 potential solutions including technical terms, place names and compound expressions

By: Anne Stibbs Kerr

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Crossword Lists & Crossword Solver

Over 100,000 potential solutions including technical terms, place names and compound expressions

By: Anne Stibbs Kerr

Anyone who regularly tackles challenging crossword puzzles will be familiar with the frustration of unanswered clues blocking the road to completion. Together in one bumper volume, Crossword Lists and Crossword Solver provide the ultimate aid for tracking down those final solutions. The Lists section contains more than 100,000 words and phrases, listed both alphabetically and by number of letters, under category headings such as Volcanoes, Fungi, Gilbert & Sullivan, Clouds, Cheeses, Mottoes, and Archbishops of Canterbury. As intersecting solutions provide letters of the unanswered clue, locating the correct word or phrase becomes quick and easy. The lists are backed up with a comprehensive index, which also guides the puzzler to associated tables - e.g. Film Stars; try Stage and Screen Personalities. The Solver section contains more than 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names, technical terms, compound expressions, abbreviations, and euphemisms.Grouped according to number of letters - up to fifteen - this section is easy to use and suitable for all levels of crossword puzzle. At the end a further 3,000 words are listed by category, along with an index of unusual words.

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A&C Black

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1408102307

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Pick One Intelligent Girl

Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939-1947

By: Jennifer Anne Stephen

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Pick One Intelligent Girl

Employability, Domesticity and the Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939-1947

By: Jennifer Anne Stephen

During the tumultuous formative years of the Canadian welfare state, many women rose through the ranks of the federal civil service to oversee the massive recruitment of Canadian women to aid in the Second World War. Ironically, it became the task of these same female mandarins to encourage women to return to the household once the war was over. Pick One Intelligent Girl reveals the elaborate psychological, economic, and managerial techniques that were used to recruit and train women for wartime military and civilian jobs, and then, at war's end, to move women out of the labour force altogether. Negotiating the fluid boundaries of state, community, industry, and household, and drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Jennifer A. Stephen illustrates how women's relationships to home, work, and nation were profoundly altered during this period. She demonstrates how federal officials enlisted the help of a new generation of 'experts' to entrench a two-tiered training and employment system that would become an enduring feature of the Canadian state. This engaging study not only adds to the debates about the gendered origins of Canada's welfare state, it also makes an important contribution to Canadian social history, labour and gender studies, sociology, and political science.

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University of Toronto Press

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144269128X

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series, of the reign of Elizabeth, 1591-1594

Preserved in her majesty's public record office

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series, of the reign of Elizabeth, 1591-1594

Preserved in her majesty's public record office

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752563699

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series of the Commonwealth, 1656-7

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series of the Commonwealth, 1656-7

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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Nordic Earner-Carer Politics

A Comparative and Historical Analysis

By: Anne Lise Ellingsæter

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Nordic Earner-Carer Politics

A Comparative and Historical Analysis

By: Anne Lise Ellingsæter

This insightful book provides a comprehensive comparative historical analysis of the formation and evolution of Nordic earner-carer policies over five decades. Spanning parental leave, father quotas, daycare services, and cash for childcare allowances, it explores the key roles that ideas and political parties play in the policy reform process.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1802207082

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Professions and Patriarchy

By: Anne Witz

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Professions and Patriarchy

By: Anne Witz

This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power. This is an important addition to the corpus of feminist scholarship... It provides fresh insights into the way in which male power has been used to limit the employment aspirations of women in the middle classes. - Rosemary Crompton, University of Kent

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Routledge

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113491220X

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Gender and Technology at Work

From Workplace Studies to Social Justice in Design

By: Ellen Balka,Ina Wagner,Anne Weibert,Volker Wulf

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Gender and Technology at Work

From Workplace Studies to Social Justice in Design

By: Ellen Balka,Ina Wagner,Anne Weibert,Volker Wulf

Insights about how gender and technology interact at work framed from an ethical-political standpoint, aimed at achieving design justice.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009243713

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Demons of Domesticity

Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939

By: Anne Clendinning

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Demons of Domesticity

Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939

By: Anne Clendinning

Demons of Domesticity offers a social history of the English gas industry from the 1880s to the late 1930s, with an emphasis on the corporations that served London and the Home Counties. It documents the hitherto unexamined role that women played in the development of the industry by considering two major interlocking themes: the expansion of sales occupations for women in the English gas industry, and the parallel growth and diversification of the industry's marketing strategies. During the late-nineteenth century, the home became the focal point for a number of debates concerning female employment and gender roles. As an increasing number of labour saving domestic devices came onto the market women found themselves targeted by manufacturing companies and utility suppliers, both as consumers and advocates. Foremost among these companies were representatives of the gas industry who actively addressed domestic issues. As the promoters, purveyors and consumers of domestic technology, Demons of Domesticity suggests that English female employees and consumers were not the hapless dupes of corporate marketing, but instead had clear ideas about how domestic technology could and should be used to reconfigure the public and private spaces of work and home.

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135194522X

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When Christmas Comes

An Anthology of Childhood Christmases

By: Anne Harvey

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When Christmas Comes

An Anthology of Childhood Christmases

By: Anne Harvey

Anne Harvey recreates the magic and spirit of childhood Christmases through a collection of pieces of poetry, prose and illustration covering the past two centuries, reminding us of the excitement and anticipation felt by children at Christmas time. Their expectations and experiences at Christmas: the food and the presents, the preparation, the enigma of Father Christmas, the knobbly stocking, the magical tree, the sense of wonder as well as those moments of fear and disappointment, are all captured. Extracts from writers and artists including Quentin Blake, Alison Uttley, A.A Milne, and Tolkien vividly remember the excitement of hanging the stockings, making Christmas Puddings, singing carols, and decorating the tree.

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The History Press

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0752494848

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Mapping Paths to Family Justice

Resolving Family Disputes in Neoliberal Times

By: Anne Barlow,Rosemary Hunter,Janet Smithson,Jan Ewing

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Mapping Paths to Family Justice

Resolving Family Disputes in Neoliberal Times

By: Anne Barlow,Rosemary Hunter,Janet Smithson,Jan Ewing

The family justice system in England and Wales has undergone radical change over the past 20 years. A significant part of this shifting landscape has been an increasing emphasis on settling private family disputes out of court, which has been embraced by policy-makers, judges and practitioners alike and is promoted as an unqualified good. Mapping Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Disputes in Neoliberal Times examines the experiences of people taking part in out-of-court family dispute resolution in England and Wales. It addresses questions such as how participants’ experiences match up to the ideal; how recent changes to the legal system have affected people’s ability to access out-of-court dispute resolution; and what kind of outcomes are achieved in family dispute resolution. This book is the first study systematically to compare different forms of family dispute resolution. It explores people’s experiences of solicitor negotiations, mediation and collaborative law empirically by analyzing findings from a nationally representative survey, individual in-depth interviews with parties and practitioners, and recorded family dispute resolution processes. It considers these in the context of ongoing neoliberal reforms to the family justice system, drawing out conclusions and implications for policy and practice.

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1137554053

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series of the Commonwealth, 1659-1660

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series of the Commonwealth, 1659-1660

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

Reprint of the original, first published in 1886.

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3385382203

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Easternization

The Spread of Japanese Management Techniques to Developing Countries

By: Raphael Kaplinsky,Anne Posthuma

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Easternization

The Spread of Japanese Management Techniques to Developing Countries

By: Raphael Kaplinsky,Anne Posthuma

Japanese industry has shown its superiority in a range of traded goods sectors. It was thought that this competitive advantage arose from the use of electronics-based flexible automation technologies, but it is now clear that the major source of this industrial strength is in the development and diffusion of new management techniques such as just-in-time production and total quality management. A number of Western firms have begun to introduce these management techniques and have begun to reap significant benefits, not just in lowering costs but also in improving product variety and quality, and in being able to satisfy customer needs more effectively. This is a practical and relevant book for those involved in the areas of policy and production, as well as being of relevance to those in the teaching and research communities.

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1135781672

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Passages

By: Anne Hamre

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Passages

By: Anne Hamre

This epic family saga transports readers across three continents--Europe, Australia, and North America--chronicling not just the disparate climates and cultures of such far-flung places and the long passages between them, but the lives that are changed by these travels.

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FriesenPress

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1460283902

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A2 English Language for AQA B

By: Ron Norman,Anne Watkiss

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A2 English Language for AQA B

By: Ron Norman,Anne Watkiss

This text provides material that covers the AQA English language specification B syllabus. As well as exam and coursework tips, there is a firm focus on assessment objectives to aid students learn how to achieve maximum results.

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Heinemann

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0435132261

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9780435132262

The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part II vol 5

By: Lynn Botelho,Susannah R Ottaway,Anne Kugler

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The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part II vol 5

By: Lynn Botelho,Susannah R Ottaway,Anne Kugler

What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040234968

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Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642-1651

By: Anne Laurence

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Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642-1651

By: Anne Laurence

A comprehensive study of the careers, qualifications, duties, and activities of chaplains serving in all the various parliamentary armies ... A work of impressive scholarship which will remain an invaluable guide for all future research on the parliamentary armies. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORYAuthor Anne Laurence sets out to determine whether parliamentary army chaplains were responsible for the spread of radicalism in the Parliamentary forces.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0861932161

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9780861932160

Women, Work and Trade Unions

By: Anne Munro

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Women, Work and Trade Unions

By: Anne Munro

This study focuses on working-class women, catering and cleaning workers, and the way their interests were presented in trade unions. It argues that there is an institutional bias within trade unions which precludes the full representation of women's interests. Based on empirical research into two trade unions in the National Health Service, the book stresses the importance of how women's work is structured, in order to investigate the role of trade unions in challenging or reproducing inequalities.

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Routledge

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1317949102

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The Transformation of Miss Ashworth

By: Anne Ashley

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The Transformation of Miss Ashworth

By: Anne Ashley

When a former tomboy blossoms into a beauty, the man who broke her heart is determined to win it in this Regency romance. Spirited tomboy Bethany Ashworth had always adored her childhood friend Philip Stavely. But when he asks for her cousin’s hand in marriage, her innocent dreams are destroyed. Years later, time has changed them both. Finishing school has transformed Bethany into a stunningly beautiful and elegant woman, while tragedy has made Philip society’s most eligible man once again. This time Bethany will protect her heart, but Philip now knows exactly what he wants—and he’s determined to marry the woman he should have swept up the aisle six years ago!

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Harlequin

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1426827911

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Merlin's Harp

By: Anne Eliot Crompton

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Merlin's Harp

By: Anne Eliot Crompton

Experience the magic and wonder of this new retelling of Arthurian legend through the eyes of Nivienne, the Lady of the Lake's daughter and Merlin's apprentice. Isolated in the enchanted world of the Fey--a place of power and mystery where humans dare not venture--Nivienne must soon brave the outside world if Merlin is to save all of Arthur's kingdom. Fine.

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0451455835

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

By: Anne Billson

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

By: Anne Billson

From 1997 to 2003, Buffy the Vampire Slayer single-handedly reinvented the high-school genre, splicing it with action, comedy and the supernatural. Series by series, Anne Billson unravels the magic of Buffy, examining the antecedents, influences and the new twist on the age-old story of the struggle between Good and Evil.

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