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The Book of Beasts

By: Bernice Friesen

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In 1965, James, a half-English, half-Irish boy, is taken by his mother on a visit home to her Irish village after years of alienation from her family. She is physically and emotionally scarred from a car accident in which James’ little sister was killed. Once home, she decides to leave her husband and stay there. At first traumatized, James finally resigns himself to living there, eventually becoming close to his uncle and his grandmother. His grandmother decides that James should become a priest, and he enters private school and then university to do so, only to lose his faith as he enters adulthood. Through it all, James is deeply embittered at his father’s apparent abandonment. Then, as a young man, he visits his father and discovers that the man has been writing and sending gifts all along and has even paid for James’ education. All of which his mother kept from him. Now furious at both parents, he must try and make sense of his life on his own terms. The story of Seamus (James) Wilberforce Young, is beautifully told, and speaks to the isolation and loss of so many children who find themselves in broken families and must struggle to find their way back to wholeness and hope.

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386

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Coteau Books

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ISBN 10

1550504185

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9781550504187

The New Medicines

How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold

By: Bernice Z. Schacter

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The New Medicines

How Drugs are Created, Approved, Marketed, and Sold

By: Bernice Z. Schacter

Today, most people use prescription medications. Every year, the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry produces new medicines that treat everything from arthritis to AIDS, from high cholesterol to depression. But, despite recent controversies regarding the safety of drugs, consumers know little about the medications that they ingest and inject. How are these new medicines invented? How do consumers know that drugs are safe and effective? How are they tested? Who regulates their production - and who watches the regulators? How do drug companies produce the vast quantities needed for the marketplace, and why do they market their drugs as they do? The New Medicines leads the reader through the maze of the modern drug industry - from bench to bedside - and provides consumers with a step-by-step understanding of how new medicines are created, approved, marketed, and sold. In addition to explaining how drugs reach the medicine cabinet, the author - an experienced researcher and teacher - provides the scientific and business background for understanding the current controversial issues surrounding new medicines, such as: The rise and fall of the COX-2 inhibitors, Vioxx and Celebrex, and the process by which they were invented, approved, and re-evaluated. The saga of the cancer drug Erbitux and its creator, the company Imclone, made famous as the centerpiece of the Martha Stewart insider-trading scandal. The strengths and weaknesses of the approval process of the Food and Drug Administration. The controversial new marketing techniques of the pharmaceutical industry. A balanced work that provides readers with an unbiased look at the drug industry, The New Medicines will answer the questions of anyone who has ever looked at a bottle of their prescription pills and wondered, how did that get here?

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281

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 10

0313083258

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9780313083259

Passion and Reason

Making Sense of Our Emotions

By: Richard S. Lazarus,Bernice N. Lazarus

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Passion and Reason

Making Sense of Our Emotions

By: Richard S. Lazarus,Bernice N. Lazarus

Passion and Reason describes how readers can interpret what lies behind their own emotions and those of their families, friends, and co-workers, and provides useful ideas about how to manage our emotions more effectively.

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340

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Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN 10

0195104617

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9780195104615

Honeymoon Hotels

By: Bernice Crown Teifeld

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Honeymoon Hotels

By: Bernice Crown Teifeld

HONEYMOON HOTELS is a collection of vignettes detailing many coincidences, adventures, humor and surprises. With photographs taken by her husband Roy.

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314

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FriesenPress

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1770971297

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9781770971295

The Seasons are Horses

By: Bernice Friesen

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The Seasons are Horses

By: Bernice Friesen

A collection of short stories set in Grassbank, a small fictional prairie community and microcosm for issues that its protagonists, 14 to 18 year olds, encounter.

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150

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Saskatoon : Thistledown Press

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1895449405

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9781895449402

Sex, Death and Naked Men

By: Bernice Friesen

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Sex, Death and Naked Men

By: Bernice Friesen

Sex, death, religion -- Bernice Friesen takes on the big issues in sassy, ribald, in-your-face broadsides, or tender and thoughtful lyrics. She explores the division between our private and public selves, between what we desire and what we fear.

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Regina : Coteau Books

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1550501402

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9781550501407

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Sex, Death and Naked Men

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