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City of God

A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York

By: Beverly Swerling

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City of God

A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York

By: Beverly Swerling

City of God, the latest installment in Beverly Swerling's gripping saga of old New York, takes readers to Manhattan's clamorous streets as the nation struggles to find a compromise between slave and free, but hears the drums of war. This is New York when one synagogue is no longer adequate for thousands of Jewish immigrants, when New Evangelicals rouse complacent Protestants with the promise of born-again salvation, and when it first sees Catholic nuns and calls them whores of Satan. It is New York when ships bring the fabulous wealth of nations to its wharves and auction houses, while a short distance away rival gangs fight to the death with broken bottles and teeth filed to points. Into this churning cauldron comes young Dr. Nicholas Turner. Nick knows that the discoveries of antisepsis and anesthesia promise medical miracles beyond the dreams of ages. He learns that to make such progress reality he must battle the city's corrupt politics and survive the snake pit that is Bellevue Hospital, all while resisting his love for the beautiful Carolina Devrey, his cousin's wife. Sam Devrey, head of the shipping company that bears his name and a visionary who believes the future will be ushered in by mighty clipper ships spreading acres of sail, battles demons of his own. The life he lives with Carolina in the elegant brownstone on newly fashionable Fifth Avenue is a charade meant to disguise his heart's true home, the secret downtown apartment of the exquisite Mei-hua, his Chinese child-bride. The worlds of all four are imperiled when Sam must rely on Nick's skills to save the woman he loves, and only Nick's honor guards Sam's secret. On a night when promises of hellfire seem to become reality and the city nearly burns to the ground, Carolina and Mei-hua confront the truth of their duplicitous marriages. Rage and revenge join love and passion as driving forces in a story played out against the background of the glittering New York that rises from the ashes, where Delmonico's and the Astor House host bejeweled women and top-hatted men, both with the din of commerce in their ears and the glint of gold in their eyes. As always, Swerling has conjured a dazzling cast of characters to people her city. Among those seeking born-again salvation are Addie Bellingham, befriended by the widow Manon Turner but willing to betray her, and Lilac Langton, who confesses her sins but avoids mentioning that she's a skilled abortionist in a city that has recently made abortion a crime. Ben Klein, a brilliant young physician, must balance devotion to his mentor and dedication to research with duty to the Jewish community. Wilbur Randolf, Carolina's father, indulges her in everything but fails her when she needs him most. Jenny Worthington, Wilbur's longtime mistress, is driven by avarice to make common cause with Fearless Flannagan, a member of a New York police force as corrupt as the city it serves. Ah Chee, Mei-hua's devoted servant, struggles through Manhattan's streets on bound feet and burns incense to the kitchen god in this place of foreign devils. They are all here, heroines and saints, villains and victims, and a vanished New York made to live again in an intricate tale of old debts and new rivalries.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416594442

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9781416594444

City of Dreams

A Novel of Early Manhattan

By: Beverly Swerling

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City of Dreams

A Novel of Early Manhattan

By: Beverly Swerling

A sweeping epic of two families—one Dutch, one English—from the time when New Amsterdam was a raw and rowdy settlement, to the triumph of the Revolution, when New York became a new nation’s city of dreams. In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, they aim to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam; but soon lust, betrayal, and murder will make them mortal enemies. In their struggle to survive in the New World, Lucas and Sally make choices that will burden their descendants with a legacy of secrets and retribution, and create a heritage that sets cousin against cousin, physician against surgeon, and, ultimately, patriot against Tory. In what will be the greatest city in the New World, the fortunes of these two families are inextricably entwined by blood and fire in an unforgettable American saga of pride and ambition, love and hate, and the becoming of the dream that is New York City.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743218450

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9780743218450

From Preachers to Suffragists

Woman's Rights and Religious Conviction in the Lives of Three Nineteenth-century American Clergywomen

By: Beverly Ann Zink-Sawyer

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From Preachers to Suffragists

Woman's Rights and Religious Conviction in the Lives of Three Nineteenth-century American Clergywomen

By: Beverly Ann Zink-Sawyer

Examines the lives and writings of three nineteenth-century clergywomen including Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Olympia Brown, and Anna Howard Shaw, who viewed the suffrage movement as an extension of their ministries, citing their pivotal contributions to women's rights. Original.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664226159

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9780664226152

City of Promise

A Novel of New York's Gilded Age

By: Beverly Swerling

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City of Promise

A Novel of New York's Gilded Age

By: Beverly Swerling

A “vivid tableau of 1870s Manhattan” (Entertainment Weekly), City of Promise continues Beverly Swerling’s acclaimed epic saga as New York emerges from the Civil War into the Gilded Age—a city marked by soaring expansion and dazzling glamour. Beverly Swerling’s epic saga continues as New York emerges from the Civil War into the Gilded Age—a city marked by soaring expansion and teeming with unbridled ambition and dazzling glamour. Joshua Turner returns home from the war with only one leg yet determined to make his fortune. He aspires to build the city’s first apartment houses for Everyman, a daring vision that will make him the city’s first real estate titan but attracts the attention of a shadowy figure from his past. Mollie Brannigan, raised by her Auntie Eileen in the toniest bordello in town, is resigned at age twenty-two to spinsterhood. Then Joshua finds her at Macy’s, the city’s largest emporium, and takes her coaching in Central Park. In his love Mollie finds a world of possibilities, but a secret Eileen thought left behind in Ireland will force Mollie to employ all her wits to protect not just her chance at happiness but her life. Vividly imagined and awash in period detail, City of Promise delivers not only suspense and intrigue, daring plot twists and bitter rivalries, but also the captivating love story of two people struggling to forge their own destiny.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439156700

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City of Glory

A Novel of War and Desire in Old Manhattan

By: Beverly Swerling

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City of Glory

A Novel of War and Desire in Old Manhattan

By: Beverly Swerling

In New York during the War of 1812, a fleet owner, a merchant prince, and the women who love them struggle between patriotism and betrayal while their nation battles against the invading forces of a foreign power.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743269217

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9780743269216

Gender Talk

The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities

By: Johnnetta B. Cole,Beverly Guy-Sheftall

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Gender Talk

The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities

By: Johnnetta B. Cole,Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation’s leading African American intellectuals offer a resounding and far-reaching answer to a question that has been ignored for far too long. Hard-hitting and brilliant in its analysis of culture and sexual politics, Gender Talk asserts boldly that gender matters are critical to the Black community in the twenty-first century. In the Black community, rape, violence against women, and sexual harassment are as much the legacy of slavery as is racism. Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall argue powerfully that the only way to defeat this legacy is to focus on the intersection of race and gender. Gender Talk examines why the “race problem” has become so male-centered and how this has opened a deep divide between Black women and men. The authors turn to their own lives, offering intimate accounts of their experiences as daughters, wives, and leaders. They examine pivotal moments in African American history when race and gender issues collided with explosive results—from the struggle for women’s suffrage in the nineteenth century to women’s attempts to gain a voice in the Black Baptist movement and on into the 1960s, when the Civil Rights movement and the upsurge of Black Power transformed the Black community while sidelining women. Along the way, they present the testimonies of a large and influential group of Black women and men, including bell hooks, Faye Wattleton, Byllye Avery, Cornell West, Robin DG Kelley, Michael Eric Dyson, Marcia Gillispie, and Dorothy Height. Provding searching analysis into the present, Cole and Guy-Sheftall uncover the cultural assumptions and attitudes in hip-hop and rap, in the O.J. Simpson and Mike Tyson trials, in the Million Men and Million Women Marches, and in the battle over Clarence Thomas’s appointment to the Supreme Court. Fearless and eye-opening, Gender Talk is required reading for anyone concerned with the future of African American women—and men.

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One World

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0307527689

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9780307527684

Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain

A Step-by-Step Guide

By: Beverly E. Thorn

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Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain

A Step-by-Step Guide

By: Beverly E. Thorn

This go-to manual--now revised and significantly expanded with more than 50% new material--has enabled thousands of clinicians to effectively treat clients with chronic pain. In the face of today's growing opioid crisis, pain self-management techniques are needed now more than ever. The volume shows how to implement 10 treatment modules that draw on proven cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies. In a convenient large-size format, it includes 58 reproducible client handouts and assessment tools that purchasers can photocopy from the book or download and print from the companion website. The website also offers access to downloadable audio recordings of relaxation exercises narrated by the author, plus supplemental resources for treating clients with lower levels of literacy. New to This Edition *Incorporates over a decade of important advances in pain research and clinical practice. *Treatment modules that allow clients to enter a group at any point after an introductory session. *Expanded with motivational enhancement, relaxation, and mindfulness techniques. *Many new handouts, assessment tools, and therapist scripts, as well as audio downloads. *Orients and engages clients using state-of-the-art research on how the brain processes pain.

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Guilford Publications

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1462534759

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9781462534753

Lake House Reunion

Friendship, Felony and Flip Flops

By: Beverly J. Hamilton

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Lake House Reunion

Friendship, Felony and Flip Flops

By: Beverly J. Hamilton

Kate receives an invitation to attend a sixty year reunion with five lifelong friends. In her preparation and journey, she reflects on past interactions with each of these women en route to the lake house destination. Upon arrival at the lake house, she encounters new revelations about women she thought she knew well as they share their darkest confessions. The festivity she anticipates is abruptly interrupted by mysterious guests, and unexpected murder lies ahead, prematurely concluding the week.

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489709959

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9781489709950

Behind Her Smile: The Adventures of a Tall Girl from WVA and Her Life as a Stewardess

By: Beverly Golden Cuevas

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Behind Her Smile: The Adventures of a Tall Girl from WVA and Her Life as a Stewardess

By: Beverly Golden Cuevas

Being raised in Parkersburg, WVA, Janie didn't have big aspirations for her life. Tired of her dead-end job at the phone company her best friend suggested she interview to become a Stewardess. Fearful she would be rejected because of her height; she was shocked when she was accepted. A whole new world opened up to her. Seeing places she had only read about, spending time with politicians, movie stars and professional athletes. One special athlete, a professional basketball player named Wendell Ladner stole her heart with his southern charm. An extraordinary 'connection' with Elvis Presley allowed her the unique experience to spend 'one on one' time with him and remain in touch until his passing. You'll share with her the challenges of marrying someone so different from her upbringing and coping with attempts to try and fit in. Behind Her Smile reveals a devastating event that deeply affected Beverly and made her reexamine her life and what she truly wanted out of it

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394

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Lulu.com

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148345875X

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9781483458755

The Rhetoric of Risk

Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments

By: Beverly A. Sauer

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The Rhetoric of Risk

Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments

By: Beverly A. Sauer

This volume examines rhetorical practices relating to situations of risk, and how documents and communication succeed or fail in these contexts. For scholars in technical communication, rhetoric, and related areas.

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385

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Taylor & Francis

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1135654875

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9781135654870

Harriet Tubman

Imagining a Life

By: Beverly Lowry

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Harriet Tubman

Imagining a Life

By: Beverly Lowry

From the award-winning novelist and biographer Beverly Lowry comes an astonishing re-imagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman, the “Moses of Her People.” Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. In Harriet Tubman, Lowry creates a portrait enriched with lively imagined vignettes that transform the legendary icon into flesh and blood. We travel with Tubman on slave-freeing raids in the heart of the Confederacy, along the treacherous route of the Underground Railroad, and onto the battlefields of the Civil War. Integrating extensive research and interviews with scholars and historians into a rich and mesmerizing chronicle, Lowry brings an American hero to life as never before.

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Anchor

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0385721773

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9780385721776

Practice OSCEs in Obstetrics & Gynaecology

A Guide for the Medical Student and MRANZCOG exams

By: Gareth Weston,Beverly Vollenhoven,Jane McNeilage

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Practice OSCEs in Obstetrics & Gynaecology

A Guide for the Medical Student and MRANZCOG exams

By: Gareth Weston,Beverly Vollenhoven,Jane McNeilage

OSCE examinations are compulsory for Medical students and specialist trainees. The student is led through a clinical scenario and then assessed on examination, history taking, investigation, diagnosis and management. Some students are able to practice OSCEs with a teacher acting as the patient, however not all candidates have equal/sufficient access to teachers as such a resource. This often leads to examination candidates not being prepared for the OSCE exam format, performing poorly compared with written paper examinations. The proposed book will cover an approach to passing the OSCE as well as 60 practice questions. Each case will have a sample marking scheme. After the marking scheme there will be a discussion and key points/pitfalls section

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249

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729578674

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9780729578677

Tales for a New Millennium

By: Beverly R. Sherringham

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Tales for a New Millennium

By: Beverly R. Sherringham

Tales for a New Millennium brings Ovid's Metamorphoses to life on the streets of New York, Rome, and London. The modern gods and goddesses are emblematic of the same blinding forces of power, lust, and hubris that plagued their illustrious predecessors of yore. Each Ovidian transformation reminds readers that they are on the same trajectory as Phaeton as he attempts to steer an uncontrollable, thunderous chariot, which mirrors the pulsating rhythms of life within The Twenty-First Century.

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iUniverse

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1475915241

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9781475915242

Benicia

By: Julia Bussinger,Beverly Phelan

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Benicia

By: Julia Bussinger,Beverly Phelan

A special Bay light falls on beautiful Benicia, on the north shore of the Carquinez Strait. Two U.S. citizens, Robert Semple and Thomas Larkin, bought the land from Mexican Army General Mariano Vallejo for $100 and the promise to name it for Vallejo's wife in 1847. The next year a customer at Von Pfister's Benicia waterfront store let slip the secret of the gold discovery at Sutter's Mill. Benicia's deep water harbor attracted Pacific Mail and Steamship Company, the first major California industry, the famous Matthew Turner shipyards, tanneries, and the Central Pacific Railroad, which made Benicia its transcontinental terminus. State legislators made the town their third state capital in 1853. That oldest surviving capitol building still stands along with many historic buildings, including the stately structures of a U.S. military base that began with the Benicia Barracks in 1849 and continued to serve until 1964.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738529338

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9780738529332

The Quest for Equity in Higher Education

Toward New Paradigms in an Evolving Affirmative Action Era

By: Beverly Lindsay,Manuel J. Justiz

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The Quest for Equity in Higher Education

Toward New Paradigms in an Evolving Affirmative Action Era

By: Beverly Lindsay,Manuel J. Justiz

A critical examination of current sociopolitical issues surrounding equity and diversity and their impact on higher education.

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SUNY Press

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0791450627

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9780791450628

With Love, Bev

A Courageous Journey of Healing

By: Beverly Crudo

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With Love, Bev

A Courageous Journey of Healing

By: Beverly Crudo

This autobiography tells of the horror of being in an automobile crash and the obstacles that seriously-injured patients must overcome to survive. Crudo writes from her heart, convinced that, with love, miracles will happen.

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Balboa Press

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1982279249

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9781982279240

The Afterlife of "Little Women"

By: Beverly Lyon Clark

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The Afterlife of "Little Women"

By: Beverly Lyon Clark

“Superb, scrupulously researched . . . a comprehensive narrative for understanding the changing reception of Little Women.” —Gregory Eiselein, coeditor of The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia The hit Broadway show of 1912. The lost film of 1919. Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor’s 1933 movie. Mark English’s shimmering 1967 illustrations. Jo—this time played by Sutton Foster—belting “I'll be / astonishing” in the 2004 Broadway musical flop. These are only some of the markers of the afterlife of Little Women. There’s also the nineteenth-century child who wrote, “If you do not ...make Laurie marry Beth, I will never read another of your books as long as I live.” Not to mention Miss Manners, a Little Women devotee, who announced that the book taught her an important life lesson: “Although it’s very nice to have two clean gloves, it’s even more important to have a little ink on your fingers.” In The Afterlife of Little Women, Beverly Lyon Clark, a leading authority on children’s literature, maps the reception of Louisa May Alcott’s timeless novel, first published in 1868. Clark divides her discussion into four historical periods. The first covers the novel’s publication and massive popularity in the late nineteenth century. In the second era—the first three decades of the twentieth century—the novel becomes a nostalgic icon of the domesticity of a previous century, while losing status among the literary and scholarly elite. In its mid-century afterlife, from 1930-1960, Little Women reaches a low in terms of its critical reputation but remains a well-known piece of Americana within popular culture. The book concludes with a long chapter on Little Women’s afterlife from the 1960s to the present, a period in which the reading of the book seems to decline, while scholarly attention expands dramatically and popular echoes continue to proliferate. Drawing on letters and library records as well as reviews, plays, operas, film and television adaptations, spinoff novels, translations, Alcott biographies, and illustrations, Clark demonstrates how the novel resonates with both conservative family values and progressive feminist ones. She grounds her story in criticism of children’s literature, book history, cultural studies, feminist criticism, and adaptation studies—in a book that is “fascinating, cover-to-cover, for the many readers of Little Women still out there, whether scholar or generally interested fan” (Studies in the Novel).

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Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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1421415593

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9781421415598

My Life

By: Beverly R. Nichols

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My Life

By: Beverly R. Nichols

This is her story of how she conquered the masses and came to be involved in one of the best guarded portals of American society, Capitol Hill.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477152458

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9781477152454

The Price of Love

By: Beverly Clark

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The Price of Love

By: Beverly Clark

Brenda Davis is trying to come to terms with a painful past when Gil Jackson strolls into her life. Gil is overbearing but charming and Brenda finds herself ill-prepared for the overwhelming attraction she feels for him. He displays all the male characteristics she detests and, worst of all, he's a lawyer - a member of a profession that Brenda has every reason to detest.

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Genesis Press (MS)

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1885478615

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9781885478610

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