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The Child's Child

By: Barbara Vine

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The Child's Child is the new crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine, pen-name for the late bestselling author Ruth Rendell What sort of betrayal would drive a brother and sister apart? When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house, they surprise few people by deciding to move in together. But they've always got on well and the London house is large enough to split down the middle. There's just one thing they've not taken into account though. What if one of them wants to bring a lover to the house? When Andrew's partner James moves in, and immediately picks a fight about the treatment of gay men, the balance is altered - with almost fatal consequences. Barbara Vine's is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and The Child's Child is the first book she has published under that name since The Birthday Present in 2008. It's an intriguing examination of betrayal in families, and of those two once-unmentionable subjects, illegitimacy and homosexuality. A taut, thrilling read, it will be enjoyed by readers of P.D. James and Ian Rankin. 'The Rendell/Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin 'She deploys her peerless skills in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the murky impulses of desire and greed. Ruth rendall has published fourteen novels under the Vine name, two of which, Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet, won the prestigious Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Also available in Penguin by Barbara Vine: The Minotaur, The Blood Doctor, Grasshopper, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, The Brimstone Wedding, No Night is Too Long, Asta's Book, King Solomon's Carpet, Gallowglass, The House of Stairs, A Dark-Adapted Eye.

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0241963591

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9780241963593

Grasshopper

By: Barbara Vine

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Grasshopper

By: Barbara Vine

“They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon.” When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon--one of the great electrified structures that dot the English countryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppers--Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there--and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307426092

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9780307426093

A Fatal Inversion

By: Ruth Rendell,Barbara Vine

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A Fatal Inversion

By: Ruth Rendell,Barbara Vine

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[Middlesex, England] : Viking

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0670809772

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9780670809776

The Birthday Present

By: Barbara Vine

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The Birthday Present

By: Barbara Vine

Writing under the pen name Barbara Vine, the international bestselling author Ruth Rendell--the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world ("Time")--has created an unrelentingly riveting novel of mystery and suspense.

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Viking Adult

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0670917621

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King Solomon's Carpet

By: Barbara Vine

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King Solomon's Carpet

By: Barbara Vine

King Solomon's Carpet - a prize-winning crime classic from bestselling author Barbara Vine Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award 'The tension grows ... an overwhelming sense of foreboding ... when the unravelling takes place, it is brilliantly unexpected and original' The Times Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London's Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube; and mysterious Axel, whose dark secret later casts a shadow over all of their lives. Dispossessed and outcast, those who come to inhabit Jarvis's schoolhouse are gradually brought closer together in violent and unforeseen ways by London's forbidding and dangerous Undergound . . . 'I longed to know what would happen next. Towards the end the tension fairly gets you by the throat' Sunday Express 'Vine arouses a genuine fear that all that is normal is in danger of being lost' Sunday Times King Solomon's Carpet is a modern masterpiece of the crime genre and will leave you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy the novels of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow, you will love this book. Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.

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Penguin UK

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0141932457

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The Birthday Present

A Novel

By: Barbara Vine

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The Birthday Present

A Novel

By: Barbara Vine

A deft, insightful, and compulsively readable exploration of obsessive desire--and the dark twists of fate that can shake the lives of even those most insulated by privilege, sophistication, and power. Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter--a beautiful, leggy, married woman named Hebe--the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers like to call “adventure sex.” It’s the dress-up and role-play that inspire Ivor to create a surprise birthday present for his beloved that involves a curbside kidnapping. It’s all intended as mock-dangerous foreplay, but then things take a dark turn. After things go horribly wrong, Ivor begins to receive anonymous letters that reveal astonishingly speciﬁc details about the affair and its aftermath. Somehow he must keep his role from being uncovered--and his political future from being destroyed by scandal. Like a heretic on the inquisitor’s rack, Ivor is not to be spared the exquisitely slow and tortuous unfolding of events, as hints, nuances, and small revelations lay his darkest secrets hideously bare for all the world to see.

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Crown

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0307451992

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9780307451996

The House of Stairs

By: Barbara Vine

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The House of Stairs

By: Barbara Vine

An old and quaint house is the setting for murder when it becomes populated by a number of people.

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Onyx Books

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0451402111

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The Blood Doctor

A Novel

By: Barbara Vine

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The Blood Doctor

A Novel

By: Barbara Vine

Sometimes it’s best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria’s favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancée. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated—and horrified—he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he’s done “monstrous, quite appalling things”? Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) deftly weaves this story of an eminent Victorian with a modern yarn about the embattled biographer, who is watching the House of Lords prepare to annul membership for hereditary peers and thus strip him of his position. Themes of fate and family snake throughout this teasing psychological suspense, a typically chilling tale from a master of the genre.

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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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0307428184

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The Garden Primer

By: Barbara Damrosch

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The Garden Primer

By: Barbara Damrosch

Offers advice on buying and growing different kinds of plants with an emphasis on the use of native plant species and the techniques of organic gardening.

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Workman Publishing

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0761148566

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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

A Novel

By: Barbara Vine

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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

A Novel

By: Barbara Vine

An unforgettable tale of mystery and obsession by Barbara Vine (pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement) This is the utterly absorbing story of best-selling novelist Gerald Candless, whose sudden death from a heart attack leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, one of his daughters, Sarah, decides to write a biography of her internationally celebrated father. Within hours of beginning her research, Sarah comes across the first of what will be many shocking revelations. As her life is slowly torn apart, a terrible logic finally emerges to explain her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself in his work, and a long-forgotten London murder.

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0307801152

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Embroidered Histories

Indian Textiles for the Portuguese Market During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Barbara Karl

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Embroidered Histories

Indian Textiles for the Portuguese Market During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By: Barbara Karl

Early modern India was an economic core region producing manifold textiles for export. During the sixteenth century a new customer entered the stage and expanded its influence from the city of Goa — Portugal. From early times, the Portuguese had bought and commissioned textiles, among them large embroideries from Bengal and Gujarat, which are the focus of this study. By providing European prints as models for the professional local embroiderers they created a novel product that was successful in Portugal and beyond throughout the seventeenth century. The textiles were deemed valuable and rare enough to be included in different travel accounts, letters and inventories, enabling us to trace their place of production, their transportation to Europe and their reception. Their intricate iconographies reflect political problematics of the time and shed light onto the intercultural circumstances of Portuguese colonial life. Barbara Karl is Curator of Textiles and Carpets at the MAK — Museum für Angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst in Vienna.

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Böhlau Verlag Wien

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3205202090

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Pearls and Pig Fodder

A Study of Jesus's Parables

By: Barbara Elsworth

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Pearls and Pig Fodder

A Study of Jesus's Parables

By: Barbara Elsworth

You've probably heard of the Parable of the Good Samaritan, but have you heard of the parables of The Persistent Widow, The Ungrateful Slave, The Shrewd Manager or The Ten Virgins? This book examines every one of Jesus' parables from the greatest to the smallest and clearly explains the meaning of these wonderful stories Jesus told. Jesus's parables are about subjects as diverse as camels and coins, wineskins and weeds, and pearls and pig fodder. They tell of judges and widows, fathers and sons, and kings and slaves. They speak of wedding feasts and grand dinners. They explain truths about God's great love for mankind and how people should treat each other with love and compassion. The parables also explain why Jesus of Nazareth was crucified and how all of us can enjoy eternal life in the kingdom of heaven. They show us the path to experiencing lives that are full of joy, peace, hope, and love. Above all, the parables reveal to us the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven and provide the answer to the perplexity of our existence. Invite the Lord into the beautiful mess of your life and grow in your love for Him as you examine the Pearls and Pig Fodder .

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Tate Publishing

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1620247232

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9781620247235

Wari

By: Daniel L. Everett,Barbara Kern

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Wari

By: Daniel L. Everett,Barbara Kern

This is the first major study of any Chapakuran language and makes an important contribution to linguistic theory. This study is especially timely as the Chapakuran languages of Western Brazil and Eastern Bolivia are endangered, and less than 2,000 known speakers of Wari and its related dialects are left in existence.

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Routledge

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113498409X

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9781134984091

Deckscaping

Gardening and Landscaping on and Around Your Deck

By: Barbara W. Ellis

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Deckscaping

Gardening and Landscaping on and Around Your Deck

By: Barbara W. Ellis

When surrounded by shrubs and small trees, perennials and annuals, ornamental grasses and vines, your deck becomes an appealing link between your home and yard. In this book, you'll find everything you need to know to create your dream deck environment. Barbara Ellis offers dozens of creative ideas and fail=proof techniques.--COVER.

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Storey Publishing

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1580174086

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9781580174084

Chain Mail & Wire Reimagined

By: Karen Rakoski,Barbara DeYoung

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Chain Mail & Wire Reimagined

By: Karen Rakoski,Barbara DeYoung

Chain Mail & Wire Reimagined unites chain mail and wire techniques to create jewelry with an entirely new look! Jewelry makers will first learn how to shape wire motifs into diamonds, ovals, twists, and more. These wire shapes will then act as decorative links, connecting traditional chain mail weaves. The resulting jewelry is both glamorous and wearable for all occasions. The 25+ elegant projects include necklaces, pendants, and bracelets. The instructions are broken down step-by-step with process photos and illustrations, using common tools, wire, and jump rings. Anyone who enjoys wirework or chain mail will be able to pick up this book and make the projects with success.

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Kalmbach Books

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1627001867

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9781627001861

Become One with God

How to Get Reconnected to God

By: Barbara Carden

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Become One with God

How to Get Reconnected to God

By: Barbara Carden

This book is based on my pursuit to become one with God. This pursuit involved how I tried to incorporate the word of God in my life, as well as how I realized how it works and how long it took to come into my life. God has been talking to me since I was a little child, and I had no idea who he was. I am not saying to anyone who reads this book that what happened to me will happen to you. Let it be according to your own belief. To give you an idea, one of my prayers took seven years to answer!

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WestBow Press

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1490833501

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Moments With You

Daily Connections for Couples

By: Dennis Rainey,Barbara Rainey

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Moments With You

Daily Connections for Couples

By: Dennis Rainey,Barbara Rainey

What is the true secret to spiritual growth for couples? Dennis and Barbara Rainey know from experience that the secret is more moments together. When you are lifting up your relationship and the rest of your life together to God, you won’t be able to keep the spiritual growth from happening. In the pages of Moments with You, the Raineys offer just what couples need to get started or to continue growing in their quiet times together. These short but poignant biblical devotions are enjoyable and easy to use, providing a daily discussion point, prayer and Scripture reference. Married couples desiring a deeper spiritual connection with God and their spouse will come to treasure their time spent over Moments with You. For married couples of all ages and at all stages of life.

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Gospel Light Publications

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0830743855

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Confessions of a Godly Woman

By: Barbara Geer

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Confessions of a Godly Woman

By: Barbara Geer

This book of Bible studies can be a benefit if you study it by yourself; however, you will also be blessed if you study with a few friends and share thoughts and experiences as you study God's Word. Be sure to always include a time of prayer when you get together with your sisters. In this way, you are inviting Jesus into the group and building unity. These studies are designed to help you grow deeper in your relationship with Jesus Christ, using different areas such as confidence, self-esteem, faith, grace, and friendship with your sisters in Christ. My hope and prayer is that you use this book of studies to draw closer to the One who redeemed you to walk in victory and that you don't just know Him in your head, but in your heart as well. Living on planet Earth is all about preparation for Heaven. You will be blessed when you journey through this short earthly life with sisters!

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1490854509

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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

By: Barbara Vine

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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

By: Barbara Vine

As Sarah researches her famous father's past for her memoir, shocking secrets come to light and threaten her world.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416531939

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Easy Practical Pruning

Techniques for Training Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and Roses

By: Barbara Ellis

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Easy Practical Pruning

Techniques for Training Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and Roses

By: Barbara Ellis

Using photographs, how-to drawings, and clear, concise explanations, the author shows you how, why and when to prune practically every type of plant.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395815916

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Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath

The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America

By: Barbara Alice Mann

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Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath

The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America

By: Barbara Alice Mann

Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, necessary and good. Western anthropologists typically shorthand the Twinned Cosmos as "Sky and Earth" but this erroneously saddles it with Christian baggage and, worse, imposes a hierarchy that puts sky quite literally above earth. None of this Western ideology legitimately applies to traditional Indigenous American thought, which is about equal cooperation and the continual recreation of reality. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath examines traditional historical concepts of spirituality among North American Indians both at and, to the extent it can be determined, before contact. In doing so, Barbara Alice Mann rescues the authentically indigenous ideas from Western, and especially missionary, interpretations. In addition to early European source material, she uses Indian oral traditions, traced as much as possible to their earliest versions and sources, and Indian records, including pictographs, petroglyphs, bark books, and wampum. Moreover, Mann respects each Indigenous culture as a discrete unit, rather than generalizing them as is often done in Western anthropology. To this end, she collates material in accordance with actual historical, linguistic, and traditional linkages among the groups at hand, with traditions clearly identified by group and, where recorded, by speaker. In this way she provides specialists and non-specialists alike a window into the purportedly lost, and often caricatured, world of Indigenous American thought.

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Oxford University Press

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0190456477

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Vaquero Turned Vintner

The Ontiveros Border Story

By: Barbara Booth Keiller

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Vaquero Turned Vintner

The Ontiveros Border Story

By: Barbara Booth Keiller

Keiller's quest for stories and images that both animate and illuminate the U.S.-Mexico border landscape leads the author to California's Santa Maria Valley. Border writer Keiller follows her intuition to the genius loci of the Santa Maria River Valley. She reads about an old adobe located at the Bien Nacido Vineyard and intuits the location matches the landscape that calls to her. She meets vintner James Ontiveros and the story of early Californios begins to emerge. James Ontiveros, a ninth-generation Californio, introduces Keiller to the story of his ancestors traveling north into Alta California with the 1781 Pobladore Expedition to establish Los Angeles and the Santa Barbara Presidio. Images of diseños, ranchos, horses, long-horned cattle, reatas, trails, missions, and wine embellish the tapestry of relationships interwoven throughout Vaquero Turned Vintner: The Ontiveros Border Story. The author's love of the Mexico-United States border landscape energizes her experiences exploring the story. Barbara delves into the layers of the story using her skills as a therapist … listening to storytellers, asking questions, and researching the archives. Lures, cues, dreams, and intuitions lead the way. Keiller describes her evolving relationships with people, the landscapes, and the wildlife throughout her odyssey that covers more than a decade from California, Baja California, Mexico, Arizona, Spain, France, Argentina, and Chile. She reports details in the form of a diary, much like the early explorers reported the day-to-day experiences on their expeditions into Alta California.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1627876642

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How to Prune Trees & Shrubs

Easy Techniques for Timely Trimming. A Storey BASICS® Title

By: Barbara W. Ellis

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How to Prune Trees & Shrubs

Easy Techniques for Timely Trimming. A Storey BASICS® Title

By: Barbara W. Ellis

Help your trees, shrubs, and vines look and yield their best by making the right cut every time. Whether you are hoping for more flowers or fruit, trying to create a dense screen, or struggling to manage out-of-control growth, there is a pruning technique to achieve your goals. Expert gardener Barbara Ellis explains how a plant responds to pruning, how and when to use basic cuts, and what tools to use. Her plant-by-plant guide will give you the confidence you need to make that first cut.

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1612125816

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The Life We Long For

Learning Love in the Gospel of John

By: Barbara Fuller

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The Life We Long For

Learning Love in the Gospel of John

By: Barbara Fuller

In the second installment of her study on the Gospel of John, Barbara Fuller engages her readers in an examination of Jesus’ last days on earth, beginning with his final hours with his disciples and ending with his victorious resurrection and subsequent appearances. Readers follow this beautiful story of love by entering into discussion, chapter by chapter, about who Jesus is, who we are, and how we can live the life we long for by trusting and following him. Designed for either group or individual use, this study provides an insightful examination of the life-changing events witnessed and recorded by “the beloved disciple.” Theological and personal, it will draw participants into a deeper understanding of and relationship with Christ, bringing God’s Word alive in their hearts in a new and refreshing way.

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FriesenPress

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1525542176

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Discourse Analysis

By: Barbara Johnstone

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Discourse Analysis

By: Barbara Johnstone

Revised and updated, this third edition of Barbara Johnstone’s Discourse Analysis encourages students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended set of techniques. Exploring a variety of approaches, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, social semiotics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods, the book balances its comprehensive coverage with extensive practical examples, making it the ideal introductory text for students new to the subject. This new edition reflects the increased importance within the field of new media discourse, multi-modal discourse and the analysis of large corpora of discourse data. Updated material expands the discussion of stancetaking, whilst new material addresses recontextualization, precontextualization, and language and the body. Pedagogical features have been refreshed, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects, with suggested supplementary readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further discovery. Chapters in this book are self-contained, so they can be handled in any order Suggested supplementary readings are featured at the end of every chapter Book is written specifically for a non-specialist, interdisciplinary audience Examples of computer-aided corpus analysis (reflecting the improvements made to theories and tools) supplement every chapter Discussion questions and ideas for small research projects are interspersed throughout The combination of breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly pedagogical features ensures Discourse Analysis remains the ideal textbook for students taking their first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.

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1119257697

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Attracting Birds and Butterflies

By: Barbara Ellis

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Attracting Birds and Butterflies

By: Barbara Ellis

A quick-reference guide to attracting birds and butterflies for gardeners with little experience and time. In the eye of a bird or butterfly, the typical suburban landscape resembles an unfriendly desert. Closely mowed lawns, tightly clipped shrubs, raked-up borders, and deadheaded flowers mean no place to nest, no food to eat, and nowhere to hide. To the humans who live there, this means no bird songs, no colorful butterflies, no dazzling hummingbirds, no night-sparkling fireflies. Creating a garden that welcomes these creatures may seem like a confusing and complicated task, but the principles involved are relatively simple. Essentially, wildlife needs food, water, and shelter, just like we do, and this lavishly illustrated guide shows which plants attract which creatures, and how to plant and care for them.

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Harvest

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0358106427

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Form and Reform in Renaissance England

Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

By: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

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Form and Reform in Renaissance England

Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

By: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Written by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, they reexamine the categories which have shaped recent studies of early modern culture and literature, such as what constitutes the category of author or reader, what demarcates a particular literary form, and how its discursive shape might influence, and in turn be influenced by, contemporary political practices."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874136911

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Container Gardening for All Seasons

Enjoy Year-Round Color with 101 Designs

By: Barbara Wise

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Container Gardening for All Seasons

Enjoy Year-Round Color with 101 Designs

By: Barbara Wise

Presents the basic principles of container gardening and provides designs and diagrams for plantings that are specific for each season of the year.

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1591865263

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The Spare-Time Gardener

Tips and Tricks for Those on the Go

By: Barbara Hill Freeman

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The Spare-Time Gardener

Tips and Tricks for Those on the Go

By: Barbara Hill Freeman

Offering tips on finding your own gardening style, choosing climate-appropriate plants, creating low-maintenance landscaping and hardscaping, and weeding efficiently and effectively, Freeman understands that there's no room for scolding, but there is a real need for encouragement and good humor.

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146170944X

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Exploring Heavenly Places - Volume 7 - Discernment Encyclopedia for God's Spiritual Creation

By: Paul Cox,Barbara Parker

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Exploring Heavenly Places - Volume 7 - Discernment Encyclopedia for God's Spiritual Creation

By: Paul Cox,Barbara Parker

This is perhaps one of the most unusual books in the world! Taking over twenty-six years to develop, it documents the spiritual realities of the heavenly places as mentioned in the Bible. In a stunning departure from traditional and commonly accepted theological views, the authors acknowledge what the Word of God so clearly articulates; just as the physical world contains a wide variety of beings and other created things, so does the spiritual world. Within the pages of this book you will find over 100 entries that clearly identify multiple aspects of the Holy Trinity, as well as diverse and unique spiritual beings, entities and places. This resource will help you learn how to discern each entry by observing how others are able to sense each spiritual reality with the five physical senses; it is a tool that will train you to know what the Father is doing in the heavenly places so you can model Jesus' life on earth.

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Lulu.com

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1513619888

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Savor

By: Barbara Ellen Brink

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Savor

By: Barbara Ellen Brink

Savor the moment, cause it just might be your last...Newly married and trying to keep the romance flowing along with the wine, Billie and Handel find themselves knee-deep in another mystery. Defending a wealthy San Francisco businessman against capital murder, Handel soon discovers that media attention brings more than fame and fortune. When Billie's life is threatened and someone starts vandalizing winery property, he believes it's connected to the case.Across the vineyard, Margaret has problems of her own. Davy's Italian grandfather comes to town and starts right in where his son left off. Throwing the weight of his money around, and using the rash of vandalism as a weapon, he tries to prove that Davy would be safer and better off living with him in Italy.Romance is in the air at the Fredrickson Winery this summer. Sip a glass of Sangria and fall in love with the characters all over again.

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Barbara Ellen Brink

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1301547557

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Celia, a Slave

By: Barbara Seyda

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Celia, a Slave

By: Barbara Seyda

The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, former Associate Director of London’s Royal Court. Barbara Seyda’s stunningly theatrical Celia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival records. Powerful, poetic, and stylistically bold, this work foregrounds twenty-three diverse characters to recall the events that led to the hanging of nineteen-year-old Celia, an African American slave convicted in a Missouri court of murdering her master, the prosperous landowner Robert Newsom, in 1855. Excavating actual trial transcripts and court records, Seyda bears witness to racial and sexual violence in U.S. history, illuminating the brutal realities of female slave life in the pre–Civil War South while exploring the intersection of rape, morality, economics, and gender politics that continue to resonate today.

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