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Research Can Be Murder

By: Caryl Janis

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Emma Streyt hated to admit she was bored. But her newly retired brother puts an end to that by dropping a stash of old family memorabilia on her doorstep. Cheered on by her best friend, Emma enthusiastically dives into these boxes of antique treasures. But some faded diary pages convince her that century-old jewel thefts— and maybe something worse—are tied in with their past. Eager to dig deeper into this mysterious puzzle by doing some serious research, she settles into a neglected New York City archive with an eccentric cast of characters. But more sinister matters than history soon unfold there when a fellow researcher is murdered. And Emma’s determination to solve the case makes her a dead-center target for the killer.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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150925448X

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9781509254484

To Sketch a Killer

By: Caryl Janis

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To Sketch a Killer

By: Caryl Janis

Sarah Quinlee needed a change. She sublet a tiny Manhattan apartment, took a new job, and rekindled her passion for sketching. But after accidentally stumbling on a murder victim outside the church next to her workplace, change proved far riskier than she'd anticipated, even for the crime-ridden 1970s. Sarah is quickly pulled into a tangle of neighborhood secrets involving an enigmatic homeless woman, a menacing street punk, a quirky assortment of locals, and coworkers with a past. Her perceptive sketches of them raise some serious questions—and some serious danger. Unable to resist playing sleuth, despite the profound concern of a very attractive police detective, Sarah is soon up against a killer desperate to hide the crime at all costs.

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275

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509251936

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9781509251933

Antiquing in North Texas

A Guide to Antique Shops, Malls, and Flea Markets

By: Ron McAdoo,Caryl McAdoo

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Antiquing in North Texas

A Guide to Antique Shops, Malls, and Flea Markets

By: Ron McAdoo,Caryl McAdoo

Whether you're seaching for something special to add to your home decor, a treasured item from your childhood, or just out for the fun of it, antiquing can be a relaxing and rewarding experience.

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345

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Taylor Trade Publishing

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0585292108

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9780585292106

Teaching Mysteries 101

By: Caryl Dierksen

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Teaching Mysteries 101

By: Caryl Dierksen

TEACHING MYSTERIES 101 It is the fall of 1970, and Andrea Jackson is beginning her career as a high school English teacher in a small, northern Illinois town. Her challenges begin during the first class of the first day, when her Mystery Stories students come in expecting to learn to be detectives rather than study English. Andrea shares the ups and downs of first-year teaching with her fellow rookie English teachers, Chrissie and Bud. All of them are unsure how to deal with their stern department chairman, Susan, who advises and evaluates them. A few weeks into the school year, one of Andrea’s students falls victim to a crime committed at the high school. To her dismay, the list of suspects includes another of her students and more than one staff member. Andrea’s efforts to navigate first-year teaching, along with her growing curiosity about the crime, fill her days and keep her awake nights. Her life and work become increasingly complicated when the Mystery Stories students insist on investigating the crime — with or without her cooperation. Their efforts, along with her involvement, eventually put all of them in jeopardy.

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210

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450079717

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9781450079716

A New World Order

Essays

By: Caryl Phillips

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A New World Order

Essays

By: Caryl Phillips

The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer Caryl Phillips’ profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society. At once deeply reflective and coolly prescient, A New World Order charts the psychological frontiers of our ever-changing world. Through personal and literary encounters, Phillips probes the meaning of cultural dislocation, measuring the distinguishing features of our identities–geographic, racial, national, religious–against the amalgamating effects of globalization. In the work of writers such as V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, and Zadie Smith, cultural figures such as Steven Spielberg, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and Marvin Gaye, and in his own experiences, Phillips detects the erosion of cultural boundaries and amasses startling and poignant insights on whether there can be an answer anymore to the question “Where are you from?” The result is an illuminating–and powerfully relevant–account of identity from an exceedingly perceptive citizen of the world.

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330

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Vintage

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0307488721

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9780307488725

Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind

Tampering with Myths

By: Caryl Flinn

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Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind

Tampering with Myths

By: Caryl Flinn

Despite a career spanning over forty years, filmmaker Alan Rudolph has flown largely under the radar of independent film scholars and enthusiasts, often remembered as Robert Altman’s protégé. Through a reading of his 1985 film Trouble in Mind, Caryl Flinn demonstrates that Rudolph is long overdue for critical re-evaluation. Exploring Trouble in Mind’s influence on indie filmmaking, Rudolph’s dream-like style, and the external political influences of the Reagan era, Flinn effectively conveys the originality of Rudolph’s work through this multifaceted film. Utilizing archival materials and interviews with Rudolph himself and his collaborators, Flinn argues for this career-defining film’s relevance to American independent cinema and the decade of the 1980s. Amply illustrated with frame enlargements and set photographs, this book uncovers new production stories and reception contexts of a film that Flinn argues deserves a place in the limelight.

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173

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University of Michigan Press

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0472903780

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9780472903788

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing

By: Caryl Pagel

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Out of Nowhere Into Nothing

By: Caryl Pagel

Essays on the apparitional, the incomprehensible, and the paranormal in conversation with art, travel, and storytelling The ghosts—literal and figurative—that drive our deepest impulses, disturb our most precious memories, and haunt the passages of our daily lives are present in this collection of sublime meditations on the unbelievable, the coincidental, and the apparitional. Often containing reflections on the art of storytelling, Caryl Pagel’s essays blend memoir, research, and reflection, and are driven by a desire to observe connections between the visual and the invisible. The narrator of Pagel’s essays explores each enigma or encounter (a football coach’s faked death, the faces of women walking, historical accounts of hallucinations, a city’s public celebration gone wrong) as an intellectual detective ascending a labyrinthine tower of clues in pursuit of a solution to an unreachable problem: always curious, and with a sense of profound wonder. Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a sprawling, highly associative consideration of the ways in which the observed material world recalls us to larger narrative and aesthetic truths. Interspersed with documentary-style photographs, Pagel’s first collection of prose is a radiant, obsessive investigation into the mysteries at the center of our seemingly mundane lives.

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165

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Fiction Collective 2

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1573661864

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9781573661867

Great Firehouse Cooks of Texas

By: Ron McAdoo,Caryl McAdoo

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Great Firehouse Cooks of Texas

By: Ron McAdoo,Caryl McAdoo

The McAdoos' chatty, folksy style gives us an endearing glimpse into the lives of some of Texas's courageous firefighters and a peek into firehouse kitchens across the state.

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209

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Taylor Trade Publishing

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1461732808

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9781461732808

The New German Cinema

Music, History, and the Matter of Style

By: Caryl Flinn

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The New German Cinema

Music, History, and the Matter of Style

By: Caryl Flinn

This study of New German cinema identifies different styles of historical remembrance in which music participates. It concentrates on how listeners are urged to interact with difference - including Germany's difficult past - rather than try to 'master' or 'get past' it.

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331

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Univ of California Press

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0520228952

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9780520228955

Strange Fruit

By: Caryl Phillips

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Strange Fruit

By: Caryl Phillips

I go half way round the world and back thinking I'd made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies." Alvin and Errol can't picture much of a future for themselves. They're young, Black and living in England in the 1980s, with an entire country and political system set against them. Instead they focus firmly on their past – the sunny Caribbean and heroic father they left behind when their mother brought them to England twenty years ago. But when Alvin returns home from his grandfather's funeral a new version of their past emerges, and the two brothers are caught in a desperate struggle to unearth the truth about their existence. Powerful and compelling, Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) is the story of a family caught between two cultures, and the uncrossable no man's land that can come between parents and their children.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786827875

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9781786827876

Brass Diva

The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman

By: Caryl Flinn

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Brass Diva

The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman

By: Caryl Flinn

A comprehensive biography of the life and career of American star of stage and film musicals, Ethel Merman, that chronicles her childhood, family, early film appearances, and success in the entertainment industry.

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0520260228

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9780520260221

Research Can Be Murder

By: Caryl Janis

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Research Can Be Murder

By: Caryl Janis

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Economics

The Definitive Exam Preparation Kit

By: Caryl Greyling,Janis Powell

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Economics

The Definitive Exam Preparation Kit

By: Caryl Greyling,Janis Powell

Top quality exam guides for serious students. Suitable for matric candidates in all provinces (including IEB). Step-by-step revision questions and solutions. Revision timetable.

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063604968X

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Research Can Be Murder

Research Can Be Murder

To Sketch a Killer

To Sketch a Killer

Antiquing in North Texas

Antiquing in North Texas

Teaching Mysteries 101

Teaching Mysteries 101

A New World Order

A New World Order

Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind

Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing

Great Firehouse Cooks of Texas

Great Firehouse Cooks of Texas

The New German Cinema

The New German Cinema

Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit

Brass Diva

Brass Diva

Research Can Be Murder

Research Can Be Murder

Economics

Economics

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