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So I Was Told

By: Brenda L. Waters

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So I Was Told

By: Brenda L. Waters

No one told you to get pregant and have that..." "Aunt Helen, you want the baby and me to go where?" She would die before she let them know what happened in her house. NO WAY, NO WAY in "HELL

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145209473X

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Madaris Family Saga Volume 2

An Anthology

By: Brenda Jackson

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The Madaris men are about to meet their matches… Don’t miss a single reader-beloved story in this unforgettable collection from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson! Fire and Desire Two years ago, geologist Corinthians Avery had brazenly set out to seduce the man she thought she loved, but to her mortification, a different person stepped out of the shower! To make matters worse the man she’s on a business trip two years later is the same smug person she’d humiliated herself in front of. If only his broad shoulders and wickedly sexy smile didn’t send her senses into flames. But when disaster strikes, they’re forced to depend on each other, and one sultry night of passion will change their lives forever…. Secret Love Celebrity actress Diamond Swain needs a peaceful place to hide out from the news-hungry paparazzi—a place like Whispering Pines. And yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, Diamond finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jake Madaris—a man who challenges her to care about more than making it to the top. True Love Corporate executive Shayla Kirkland has landed her dream job with one of Chicago’s top new firms, Chenault Electronics. Now she’s in a perfect position to destroy the company for unjustly ruining her mother’s career. But she never expected that handsome CEO Nicholas Chenault would spark a passion that challenges her resolve—and makes her surrender to the most irresistible desire…. Titles originally published in 1999, 2000, and 2000

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HQN Books

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1488039496

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9781488039492

Home Plate

The Culinary Road Trip of Cooperstown

By: Brenda Berstler

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Home Plate

The Culinary Road Trip of Cooperstown

By: Brenda Berstler

This book is a "handbook of the Cooperstown viciniy, offering three-dimensional insights to restaurants, accommodations, attractions, baseball celebrities, local farmers and food purveyors. All are paired with a favorite recipe using New York ingredients" - p. [vii].

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Savor New York

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0979680204

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9780979680205

The Heretic's Wife

A Novel

By: Brenda Rickman Vantrease

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The Heretic's Wife

A Novel

By: Brenda Rickman Vantrease

From the bestselling author of The Illuminator comes a magnificent tale about the power of love and the perils of faith Tudor England is a perilous place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who sell forbidden translations of the Bible. Caught between warring factions—English Catholics opposed to the Lutheran reformation, and Henry VIII's growing impatience with the Pope's refusal to sanction his marriage to Anne Boleyn—Kate embarks on a daring adventure that will lead her into a dangerous marriage and a web of intrigue that pits her against powerful enemies. From the king's lavish banquet halls to secret dungeons and the inner sanctums of Thomas More, Brenda Rickman Vantrease's glorious new novel illuminates the public pageantry and the private passions of men and women of conscience in treacherous times.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429936142

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9781429936149

Restoring Safe School Communities

By: Brenda Morrison

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Restoring Safe School Communities

By: Brenda Morrison

Restoring Safe School Communities: a whole school response to bullying,violence and alienation introduces a whole school approach to addressing the problems of bullying and violence in schools. Author Brenda Morrison proposes a continuum of responsive and restorative practices for building safe school communities. The first, most proactive, level of practices aims to develop all students' social and emotional competencies, to enable students to resolve their differences in caring and respectful ways. The second level of practices widens the circle of care around the participants. Typically this level of response occurs when the problem has become more protracted or has involved (and affected) a larger number of people, and involves other members of the school community stepping in to assist in the resolution of the conflict or concern. The third and final level of practices involves the participation of an even wider cross-section of the school community, including parents, guardians, social workers, and others who have been affected. This tertiary level of intervention is normally only used for serious incidents within the school. Morrison explains the thinking behind the suggested responses and shows how they can be implemented by practices such as a responsible citizen program and restorative justice circles and conferences.

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Federation Press

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1862874778

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9781862874770

Disrupted Lives

By: Brenda Youngerman

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Disrupted Lives

By: Brenda Youngerman

A name does not make a person, a person makes a name. Such is the theme of Disrupted Lives, the story of how one adopted child touches and intersects with many lives, but ends up destroying one family name, while building another family’s legacy. Darren and Amelia Kane were high school sweethearts torn apart by war. They reunite and discover that they both must put their nightmares behind them to build a life together. Betrayed by her parents, Amelia was earlier forced to give up their child. Fiona Porter and Sterling Lake are thrown together as part of a business proposition. They end up surprising both their families by enriching the Lake empire and family name. The Lakes become synonymous with society, power and money, and their children must carry that torch forward at all cost. When an adopted grandchild is brought into the family, he questions the definition of “family.” From 1920 to present-day Georgia, this saga of family secrets and old Southern prejudices are explored in the explosive novel Disrupted Lives.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1612046851

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9781612046853

Change Leadership in Emerging Markets

The Ten Enablers Model

By: Caren Brenda Scheepers,Sonja Swart

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Change Leadership in Emerging Markets

The Ten Enablers Model

By: Caren Brenda Scheepers,Sonja Swart

Based on neuroscience research, this book presents and demonstrates a 'Ten Enablers' model as a framework to help change leaders successfully lead and manage change. It focuses on the execution of change processes within volatile and challenging emerging markets with high growth potential. The book first presents the organizational development and change research on which the model is based, and discusses the basic neuroscience principles. It then introduces a systematic model of the ten enablers, taking readers through the process of change, from considering the ethos prior to embarking on it, including engagement of stakeholders, up to the final phase, where change leaders exit the process or the organization. It highlights this circular process through several step-by-step illustrations, supported by examples from emerging markets. Further, it includes neuroscience research and principles to help leaders understand and manage change in themselves and others. This well-researched and practical book is a valuable resource for students and professionals alike.

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Springer Nature

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3030408469

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9783030408466

Fire and Desire

By: Brenda Jackson

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Fire and Desire

By: Brenda Jackson

There’s nothing more sensual than seduction…until the wrong man shows up! Don’t miss this reader favorite from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson. Two years ago, geologist Corinthians Avery had brazenly sneaked into a hotel room to seduce Dex Madaris, head of Madaris Explorations and the longtime object of her affection. But the man who emerged from the shower to find Corinthians clad in next to nothing was handsome foreman Trevor Grant. When a smug Trevor informed her that Dex was not only absent from the trip, but at home happily married, Corinthians was mortified. Now, stuck in South America on a business trip with Trevor, Corinthians tries to avoid him at all costs. If only his broad shoulders and wickedly sexy smile didn’t send her senses into flames. But when their hotel falls under terrorist attack, Corinthians has no choice but to place her trust in Trevor. As the two make a daring escape, fear for their lives suddenly turns to feverish desire, as they both give in to the hottest danger of all. What neither of them realizes is that one sultry night of passion will change their lives forever…. Title originally published in 1999

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1488038732

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9781488038730

A Most Dangerous Woman: A Novel

By: Brenda Clough

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A Most Dangerous Woman: A Novel

By: Brenda Clough

An exciting Victorian-era murder mystery, populated by characters from Wilkie Collins’s beloved The Woman in White. Marian Halcolmbe finds and marries her true love, Theo Camlet. But when Theo’s first wife, who everyone believed to be dead, reappears, Marian and her brother in law Walter must delve into the darkest and most dangerous corners of London to save Theo from accusations of bigamy and murder, as well as the hangman’s noose. Victorian literature's most exciting heroine, Marian Halcombe, stars in Brenda Clough’s thrilling and romantic sequel to Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White. Praise for A Most Dangerous Woman: "Blending seamlessly with the end of Wilkie Collins's beloved The Woman in White, Brenda Clough's A Most Dangerous Woman takes one of the most fascinating female characters in Victorian literature and gives her the life she deserves." —Sherwood Smith, author of the Sartorias-deles series

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1682105369

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A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions

Intertwining networks

By: Maria Brenda,Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska

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A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions

Intertwining networks

By: Maria Brenda,Jolanta Mazurkiewicz-Sokołowska

A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к. Regarding these prepositions as path-prepositions, the authors show that the prepositional semantic structures are conceptually grounded in the PATH and the MOTION-EVENT frames and explain that prepositional senses emerge as a result of the PATH image schema transformations and metaphorical mappings related to the EVENT STRUCTURE metaphor. Based on their findings, the authors show how senso-motoric functioning, life experience, individual knowledge, imagery and different ways in which people conceptualize the world influence the relation between language and conceptualization.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027257434

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9789027257437

Aunt Melanie and the Family Secret

By: Brenda Dee

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Aunt Melanie and the Family Secret

By: Brenda Dee

Aunt Melanie and the Family Secret It is the summer of 1951 in Tucson Arizona. Thirteen-year-old Kaitlyn has just lost her mother. She is being sent to a small rural town in South Carolina to live with an elderly aunt that she has never met. Her mother was the only family she ever knew. She is being torn from the only home she ever knew and loved. While grieving the loss of her mother, Kaitlyn attempts to cope with her new strange surroundings and culture shock. She is frightened and lonely in the isolated old house with her elderly aunt. Kaitlyn eventually becomes interested in her family roots. She is aware there is a mystery regarding her ancestors. Over time, she unravels the well-kept family secret with the help of her cousin, Rose. Her desire to unravel the final part of the mystery takes Kaitlyn on an adventure to Philadelphia. A serendipitous encounter while on her quest for the final part of the mystery changes her life yet again.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1646700562

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9781646700561

Becoming Wollstonecraft

The Interconnection of Her Life and Works

By: Brenda Ayres

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Becoming Wollstonecraft

The Interconnection of Her Life and Works

By: Brenda Ayres

Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Becoming Wollstonecraft will be more fully developed than previous works, with added information that has not previously been associated with Wollstonecraft, such as the story of Reverend Mr. Joshua Waterhouse. Although there are over fifty book-length biographies published on Wollstonecraft, very few agree on much about Wollstonecraft. She seems to have become an “everywoman,” or a figure unfixed in time and protean. Deemed the Mother of Feminism, like feminism itself, she is what people have wanted her to be and is by no means an immutable or universal personage. A study of her life as evident by her works and vice versa, this monograph intends to refocus the image of Wollstonecraft for students and scholars, informed by biographical texts on Wollstonecraft and on those people in Wollstonecraft’s life and acquaintance, historical context, and exposition from her works.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040007791

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9781040007792

Harlequin Special Edition March 2018 Box Set 2 of 2

By: Brenda Harlen,Stacy Connelly,Laurel Greer

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Harlequin Special Edition March 2018 Box Set 2 of 2

By: Brenda Harlen,Stacy Connelly,Laurel Greer

Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: THE SHERIFF’S NINE-MONTH SURPRISE Match Made in Haven by Brenda Harlen After a weekend of shared passion, Katelyn Gilmore doesn’t expect to see Reid Davidson again—until she meets Haven’s new sheriff! But she has a surprise, too—scheduled to arrive in nine months... THE BEST MAN TAKES A BRIDE Hillcrest House by Stacy Connelly Best man Jamison Porter doesn’t believe in a love of a lifetime. But will his daughter’s adoration of sweet—and sexy—wedding planner Rory McClaren change this cynical lawyer’s mind about finding a new happily-ever-after? FROM EXES TO EXPECTING Sutter Creek, Montana by Laurel Greer When Tavish Fitzgerald, a globe-trotting photojournalist, gets stuck in Montana for a family wedding, one last night with Lauren Dawson, his hometown doctor ex-wife, leads them from exes to expecting—and finally tempts him to stay put!

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1488094349

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9781488094347

Cyberpl@y

Communicating Online

By: Brenda Danet

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Cyberpl@y

Communicating Online

By: Brenda Danet

The Internet is changing the way we communicate. As a cross between letter-writing and conversation, email has altered traditional letter-writing conventions. Websites and chat rooms have made visual aspects of written communication of greater importance, arguably, than ever before. New communication codes continue to evolve with unprecedented speed. This book explores playfulness and artfulness in digital writing and communication and anwers penetrating questions about this new medium. Under what conditions do old letter-writing norms continue to be important, even in email? Digital greetings are changing the way we celebrate special occasions and public holidays, but will they take the place of paper postcards and greeting cards? The author also looks at how new art forms, such as virtual theatre, ASCII art, and digital folk art on IRC, are flourishing, and how many people collect and display digital fonts on handsome Websites, or even design their own. Intended as a time capsule documenting developments online in the mid- to late 1990s, when the Internet became a mass medium, this book treats the computer as an expressive instrument fostering new forms of creativity and popular culture.

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Routledge

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1000184102

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9781000184105

Stoughton in the 20th Century

By: David Allen Lambert,Brenda Lea Lambert

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Stoughton in the 20th Century

By: David Allen Lambert,Brenda Lea Lambert

The town of Stoughton has seen many changes since its incorporation in 1726. Stoughton families and fortunes were transformed in the mid-19th century as they prospered from the production of shoes, boots, wooden shoe lasts, and rubber goods. Farming dwindled, and industry was in full swing by the opening decades of the 20th century. Immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, and the Azores changed the cultural community as they started their own businesses and became a driving part of the workforce. The town also saw its share of tragedy, mourning the loss of resident George Quincy Clifford, who perished on the RMS Titanic, and sending its residents from the farms and the factories to World Wars I and II. Stoughton would celebrate its bicentennial in 1926 as a community united in building a better town, a vision still carried out by residents today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439649707

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9781439649701

Conducting Research in Long-Term Care Settings

By: Brenda Lewis Cleary, PhD, RN, FAAN

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Conducting Research in Long-Term Care Settings

By: Brenda Lewis Cleary, PhD, RN, FAAN

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award! Nursing homes are rich repositories of data, yet are underutilized for controlled research studies. This book is a hands-on guide to conducting long-term care research in both nursing homes and home care settings. It offers an overview of possible research in the field along with practical information on how to gain access to and work with complex institutions that may not welcome change. The author also suggests the most effective research methodology for long-term care settings, and how to implement and disseminate successful research.

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826118968

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Silent Voices

Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers

By: Brenda Ayres

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Silent Voices

Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers

By: Brenda Ayres

Some of the greatest English novels were written during the Victorian era, and many are still widely read and taught today. But many others written during that period have been neglected by scholars and modern readers alike. A number of these novels were written by women and were popular when published. Moreover, they reveal perspectives of 19th-century British culture not present in canonized works and therefore revise our understanding of Victorian life and attitudes. With the increasing interest in revising Victorian history and gender scholarship, especially through the rediscovery of lost texts written by women, this book is a timely and much needed study. The expert contributors to this volume argue the value of novels by such Victorian women writers as Grace Aguilar, Catherine Crowe, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Annie E. Holdsworth, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Flora Annie Steel, Anne Thackeray, Sarah Grand, Marie Corelli, and others. Most of the chapters address numerous works by a particular writer. Each focuses on different social issues as well, though most of them share an interest in gender politics. Topics discussed include a 19th-century Jewish novelist's navigation through Protestant spirituality, the relationship of noncanonical governess novels to class and gender issues, and forgotten works by women crime writers. Other chapters analyze how women writers impelled social reform and subverted patriarchally defined religious issues.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313039313

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9780313039317

Corruption of Justice

By: Brenda English

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Corruption of Justice

By: Brenda English

It’s summertime in the nation’s capital, and everyone seems to have fled the capital and its suburbs to escape the heat. Washington News reporter Sutton McPhee is struggling to find a decent story on her Fairfax County police beat. Even Sutton isn’t prepared, however, when the young police officer who took her on a less-than-exciting ride-along is found shot to death in his apartment. The subsequent discovery of a body in a public park, where they had responded to a public drunkenness call, sets off Sutton’s alarms and sends her looking for connections between the two murders. Her search for answers will take her from the corridors of power in Washington to her long-ago life as a reporter and wife in Florida. It also puts Sutton in the killer’s crosshairs – someplace she has been before – but this time she isn’t there alone. This time police detective Noah Lansing, her new romantic interest, is targeted right along with her, and it’s up to Sutton to see to it that his 5-year-old son doesn’t become an orphan.

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Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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1625670036

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9781625670038

My Accidental Career

By: Brenda Niall

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My Accidental Career

By: Brenda Niall

Australia’s leading biographer Brenda Niall, now in her nineties, turns the spotlight on her own story in this fascinating memoir of a remarkable life and career

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Text Publishing

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1922459488

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9781922459480

When Winter Robeson Came

By: Brenda Woods

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When Winter Robeson Came

By: Brenda Woods

The whole world seems to transform during the summer of 1965, when Eden’s cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in L.A. just as the Watts Riots erupt, in this stirring new novel by Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods. When Eden’s cousin Winter comes for a visit, it turns out he’s not just there to sightsee. He wants to figure out what happened to his dad, who disappeared ten years earlier from the Watts area of L.A. So the cousins set out to investigate together, and what they discover brings them joy—and heartache. It also opens up a whole new understanding of their world, just as the area they’ve got their sights on explodes in a clash between the police and the Black residents. For six days Watts is like a war zone, and Eden and Winter become heroes in their own part of the drama. Eden hopes to be a composer someday, and the only way she can describe that summer is a song with an unexpected ending, full of changes in tempo and mood--totally unforgettable.

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Penguin

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1524741582

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Her Name Was Rebekah

By: Brenda Knight Graham

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Her Name Was Rebekah

By: Brenda Knight Graham

Rebekah believes her husband married her for her name - that Rebekah went with his Isaac as a crazy sign from God. Now she regrets saying "I do" and wants only to reclaim her family's property from the bankers. At the time, marriage seemed better than homelessness. But now, as the wife of a traveling dentist who treats her like a guest in his wagon house, she longs for something more. Rebekah would do almost anything to regain her former life. Isaac Aden Robards lives his life to serve God and His people. He wants Rebekah to return his affection and to know his Lord. But will she stay long enough to do either? Or will her obsession with "home" destroy her chances for real love?

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Barbour Publishing

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1620298295

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The Circus and Victorian Society

By: Brenda Assael

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The Circus and Victorian Society

By: Brenda Assael

This conflict informs us not only of the complicated role that the circus played in Victorian society but provides a unique view into a collective psyche fraught by contradiction and anxiety.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813923409

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Weatherford

The Early Years

By: Jonelle Ryan Bartoli,Brenda S. McClurkin

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Weatherford

The Early Years

By: Jonelle Ryan Bartoli,Brenda S. McClurkin

The early years of Weatherford yield stories of trials and triumphs as a rowdy frontier town that matured and became known as the "City of Churches" and the "City Beautiful." Created in 1856 as the county seat of newly formed Parker County, Weatherford was lush with grasslands, timber, and fertile soils. In 1858, the two-story brick courthouse was surrounded by log cabins, frame buildings, and tents. For nearly two decades, the town was the principal supply center for points west and a safe haven for settlers seeking refuge from Indian raids. Stalwart men and women nurtured the development of religious, educational, and cultural refinements. But when the Texas & Pacific Railway arrived in 1880, it spurred Weatherford's stature as an agricultural, banking, and commercial center and opened national markets to local cotton and prize-winning watermelons. The historic City Beautiful is still evident today in Weatherford's picturesque courthouse square and quaint tree-lined residential districts.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738585491

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Gen?t

A Biography of Janet Flanner

By: Brenda Wineapple

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Gen?t

A Biography of Janet Flanner

By: Brenda Wineapple

The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few yearsøbefore she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Gen?t. For half a century she described life on the Continent with matchless elegance.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803297408

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To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race

The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II

By: Brenda L. Moore

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To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race

The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II

By: Brenda L. Moore

I would have climbed up a mountain to get on the list [to serve overseas]. We were going to do our duty. Despite all the bad things that happened, America was our home. This is where I was born. It was where my mother and father were. There was a feeling of wanting to do your part. --Gladys Carter, member of the 6888th To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed of African-American women to serve overseas. While African-American men and white women were invited, if belatedly, to serve their country abroad, African-American women were excluded for overseas duty throughout most of WWII. Under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the black press, and even President Roosevelt, the U.S. War Department was forced to deploy African-American women to the European theater in 1945. African-American women, having succeeded, through their own activism and political ties, in their quest to shape their own lives, answered the call from all over the country, from every socioeconomic stratum. Stationed in France and England at the end of World War II, the 6888th brought together women like Mary Daniel Williams, a cook in the 6888th who signed up for the Army to escape the slums of Cleveland and to improve her ninth-grade education, and Margaret Barnes Jones, a public relations officer of the 6888th, who grew up in a comfortable household with a politically active mother who encouraged her to challenge the system. Despite the social, political, and economic restrictions imposed upon these African-American women in their own country, they were eager to serve, not only out of patriotism but out of a desire to uplift their race and dispell bigoted preconceptions about their abilities. Elaine Bennett, a First Sergeant in the 6888th, joined because "I wanted to prove to myself and maybe to the world that we would give what we had back to the United States as a confirmation that we were full- fledged citizens." Filled with compelling personal testimony based on extensive interviews, To Serve My Country is the first book to document the lives of these courageous pioneers. It reveals how their Army experience affected them for the rest of their lives and how they, in turn, transformed the U.S. military forever.

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NYU Press

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0814755879

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Once Upon a Playground

A Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1920-1975

By: Biondo, Brenda

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Once Upon a Playground

A Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1920-1975

By: Biondo, Brenda

Before today's safety-minded structures of wood and plastic, America's playgrounds were full of tottering seesaws, dizzying merry-go-rounds, and towering metal slides. Documenting the evolution of American playgrounds between 1920 and 1975, Once Upon a Playground is a visual tribute to these iconic structures, celebrating their place in our culture and the collective memories of generations. In it, contemporary photos of vintage pieces of playground equipment are juxtaposed with images of the very same pieces as they were shown in classic catalogs, postcards, and photographs. The result is a haunting time capsule showing a rapidly vanishing part of our country's cultural heritage. Whatever the playgrounds of your childhood looked like, the gorgeous photographs in this book will transport you back in time and remind you of just how important play can really be.

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Suspense on the Edge of Romance Collection

An Anthology

By: Heather Graham,J.T. Ellison,Carla Neggers,Brenda Novak

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An Anthology

By: Heather Graham,J.T. Ellison,Carla Neggers,Brenda Novak

All your romantic suspense reading in one collection! Four thrilling stories by bestselling authors together in a valuable box set! Flawless by Heather Graham New York’s Diamond District has been hit by a rash of robberies. No one’s been killed—until now. Special Agent Craig Frasier meets psychologist Kieran Finnegan in the middle of a heist, when she’s trying to “unsteal” a flawless stone taken by her youngest brother as an act of vengeance. But the police and FBI begin to wonder if there are two gangs, the original thieves and a copycat group of killers—who seem to think their scheme is as flawless as the stones they steal. Thrown together by circumstance, drawn together by attraction, Kieran and Craig are both assigned to the case. But there’s more and more evidence that, somehow, the Finnegan family pub is involved. Because everyone goes to Finnegan’s… All the Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison Nashville Homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson is working to catch a serial rapist after a local girl falls prey to a sadistic killer. The Southern Strangler is slaughtering his way through the Southeast, leaving a gruesome memento at each crime scene—the prior victim’s severed hand. Taylor finds herself in a joint investigation with her lover, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, as they pursue the vicious murderer. Battling an old injury and her own demons, Taylor is desperate to quell the rising tide of bodies. But as the killer spirals out of control, everyone involved must face a horrible truth—the purest evil is born of private lies. Saint’s Gate by Carla Neggers Emma Sharpe is summoned to a convent on the Maine coast to shed some light on a mysterious painting of Irish lore. But when the nun who contacted her is murdered, it seems legend is becoming deadly reality. Deep cover FBI agent Colin Donovan is back home in Maine when he is presented with an intrigue of murder, international art heists and a convent’s long-held secrets that is too tempting to resist. As the danger spirals ever closer, Colin is certain of only one thing—the very interesting Emma Sharpe is at the center of it all. A ruthless killer has Emma and Colin in the crosshairs, plunging them into a race against time and drawing them deeper into a twisted legacy of betrayal and deceit. The Secret Sister by Brenda Novak After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to Fairham, the small island off the South Carolina coast where she grew up. She goes there to heal—and to help her brother, Keith, a deeply troubled man who’s asked her to come home. The last person she wants to see is the wealthy, controlling mother she escaped years ago. Then something disturbing happens. She discovers a box of photographs that evoke distant memories of a little girl, a child Keith remembers, too. Maisey believes the girl must’ve been their sister, but their mother claims there was no other sibling. Maisey is convinced that child existed. So where is she now?

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Brookfield

By: Brenda Metterville,Kate Simpson,Andrea Faugno

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Brookfield

By: Brenda Metterville,Kate Simpson,Andrea Faugno

Incorporated in 1673, the town of Brookfield was part of the original Quaboag Plantation land grant of 1660 and is situated at a crossroads of the Boston Post Road that connected New York and Boston. Brookfield grew from a farming community to an industrial town, with early factories producing shoes, boots, bricks, and paper. When the factories were in full swing in 1880, Brookfield was one of the wealthiest and most populated towns in the area. The town has since returned to a quiet state, and today residents and visitors enjoy the pastoral atmosphere while remembering some of Brookfield's more noteworthy characters: Bathsheba Spooner, who was found guilty after a sensationalized 18th-century trial of conspiring to murder her husband; author Mary Jane Holmes, whose books about daily life sold more than two million copies; and Borden Company's bovine mascot, Elsie the Cow, who was raised on Elm Hill Farm and made her way to Hollywood.

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Silk and Empire

By: Brenda M. King

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Silk and Empire

By: Brenda M. King

King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. She presents a new picture of the trade, where the strong links between Indian designs, the English silk industry and prominent members of the English arts and crafts movement led to the production of beautiful and luxurious textiles.

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The Social Problem Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 3

By: Brenda Ayres,Christine Sutphin,Douglas Murray,Priti Joshi,Ann-Barbara Graff

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The Social Problem Novels of Frances Trollope Vol 3

By: Brenda Ayres,Christine Sutphin,Douglas Murray,Priti Joshi,Ann-Barbara Graff

Frances Milton Trollope (1779-1863) was a prolific, provocative and hugely successful novelist. She greatly influenced the generation of Victorian novelists who came after her such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell. This book features Trollope's social problem novels.

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Taylor & Francis

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The Great Fashion Designers

By: Brenda Polan,Roger Tredre

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The Great Fashion Designers

By: Brenda Polan,Roger Tredre

From Charles Frederick Worth to Nicolas Ghesquière, designers have propelled fashion from an elite craft into a cornerstone of contemporary popular culture. This brilliantly written analysis of the achievements of the 50 greatest names in international fashion explores their lives, both personal and professional, drawing on the latest academic research and on the best of fashion journalism, including the authors' own interviews with designers spanning a 30-year period.The designers' working methods and career highlights are outlined in detailed and wittily written entries that capture the spirit of their times. From Poiret and Patou to Gernreich and Galliano, the sometimes provocative selection of 50 names poses stimulating questions about the definition of a fashion designer in the modern era. A ground-breaking book, this is a definitive introduction to fashion designers that is essential reading for both students and general readers alike.

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Berg

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1847882277

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Building Continuing Bonds for Grieving and Bereaved Children

A Guide for Counsellors and Practitioners

By: Brenda Mallon

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Building Continuing Bonds for Grieving and Bereaved Children

A Guide for Counsellors and Practitioners

By: Brenda Mallon

The period following the death of a friend or loved one can be tumultuous for anyone, but can be especially difficult for children, with lasting effects if the loss is not acknowledged or supported. This book emphasises the importance of listening to children and helping them to create positive bonds that can sustain them as they go through their lives. It provides practical, creative approaches to support children in their time of bereavement and to those whose loved one is dying. By recognising feelings of pain, anger, and confusion through open and positive discussions, a child is able to build emotional resilience and create enduring memories of the person they have lost. The author explains the importance of developing continuing bonds between children and loved ones in times of bereavement and offers practical ways in which these bonds may be nurtured through creative activities, memory making, and personal storytelling.

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1784504653

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Psychiatry Disrupted

Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution

By: Bonnie Burstow,Brenda A. LeFrançois,Shaindl Diamond

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Psychiatry Disrupted

Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution

By: Bonnie Burstow,Brenda A. LeFrançois,Shaindl Diamond

There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it. Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad activism, antiracist, critical, and radical disability studies, as well as feminist, Marxist, and anarchist thought. The editors and contributors are activists and academics - adult education and social work professors, psychologists, prominent leaders in the psychiatric survivor movement, and artists - from across Canada, England, and the United States. From chapters discussing feminist opposition to the medicalization of human experience, to the links between psychiatry and neo-liberalism, to internal tensions within the various movements and different identities from which people organize, the collection theorizes psychiatry while contributing to a range of scholarship and presenting a comprehensive overview of resistance to psychiatry in the academy and in the community. Contributors include Simon Adam (University of Toronto), Rosemary Barnes University of Toronto, Peter Beresford (Brunel University), Bonnie Burstow (University of Toronto), Chris Chapman (York University), Mark Cresswell (Durham University), Shaindl Diamond (York University), Chava Finkler (Memorial University), Ambrose Kirby (therapist in private practice, Brenda A. LeFrançois (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Mick McKeown (University of Central Lancashire), Robert Menzies (Simon Fraser University), China Mills (Oxford University), Tina Minkowitz (World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry), Ian Parker (University of Leicester), Susan Schellenberg, Helen Spandler (University of Central Lancashire), and AJ Withers (York University). A courageous anthology, Psychiatry Disrupted is a timely work that asks compelling activist questions that no other book in the field touches.

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The Impeachers

The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple

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The Impeachers

The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple

When Lincoln was assassinated and Andrew Johnson became President, a fraught time in America became perilous. Congress was divided over how Reconstruction should be accomplished and the question of black suffrage. The South roiled with violence, lawlessness, and efforts to preserve the pre-Civil War society. Andrew Johnson ... had no interest in following Lincoln's agenda. With the unchecked power of executive orders, Johnson pardoned the rebel states and their leaders, opposed black suffrage, and called Reconstruction unnecessary. Congress decided to take action against a President who acted like a king"--

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Strong is the New Sexy

A Heartthrob Heroes Collection

By: Lori Foster,Gena Showalter,Brenda Jackson

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Strong is the New Sexy

A Heartthrob Heroes Collection

By: Lori Foster,Gena Showalter,Brenda Jackson

Under Pressure by Lori Foster Leese Phelps’s road hasn’t been an easy one, but it’s brought him to the perfect job—working for the elite Body Armor security agency. And what his newest assignment lacks in size, she makes up for in fire and backbone. But being drawn to Catalina Nicholson is a dangerous complication. Originally published in 2017. Can’t Let Go by Gena Showalter Ryanne Wade has sworn off men. Then Jude Laurent walks into her bar, and all bets are off. The former army ranger has suffered unimaginably, first being maimed in battle then losing his wife and daughters to a drunk driver. Making the brooding widower smile is priority one. Resisting him? Impossible. Originally published in 2017. Seized by Seduction by Brenda Jackson From the moment his eyes meet hers across the crime-scene tape, ex-con turned bodyguard Quasar Patterson knows he has to see the mysterious Dr. Randi Fuller again. She’s a renowned psychic investigator who can foresee danger for others, but not for herself. That makes Quasar doubly determined to watch over her—the closer, the better—as she’s drawn into a dangerous gang rivalry. Originally published in 2017.

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1488037590

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