Cynthia Owen's Books

Living with Evil

By: Cynthia Owen

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Cynthia Owen grew up in Ireland, went to the local convent school, said her prayers and took her first communion with all the other girls in her class. But behind the façade of respectability lurked a hideous reality. Cynthia was just eight years old when she was sexually abused by her father amongst others. Shortly before her eleventh birthday she was made pregnant and, minutes after giving birth to the baby, Cynthia watched in horror as her own mother murdered the tiny infant, named Noleen, by repeatedly stabbing her with a knitting needle. Cynthia's mother then wrapped the baby girl in a plastic bag, dumped her in an alleyway and made her daughter go back to school and pretend nothing had ever happened. After enduring many more years of rape and violence, Cynthia came forward and reported her abuse and Noleen's death. Finally, in 2007, after a fifteen-year legal fight to have her baby girl formally identified, the jury at the 'Dun Laoghaire Baby' inquest declared that the baby found dead in an alleyway thirty-four years previously was Noleen Murphy, the daughter of Cynthia Owen. Cynthia's is a horrific story of brutality and loss, but ultimately, it is an account of love, immense bravery and her fight for justice in Noleen's name.

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0755319044

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Firefly Nights

A Clean Romance

By: Cynthia Thomason

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Firefly Nights

A Clean Romance

By: Cynthia Thomason

The road she's meant to be on Hoping for a fresh start, Kitty Galloway packs up her son and a few bare necessities and hits the road. Only now they're stranded in the Blue Ridge Mountains and at the mercy of small-town justice. But it's the temporary gig she gets caring for an injured pilot that makes her start believing in second chances. After completing his tour of duty, Campbell Oakes came home a hero to his North Carolina town. Until a freak accident forces the decorated soldier to accept the help of the down-on-her-luck single mother. Quirky and far too appealing, Kitty—along with her sassy kid—is making Campbell trust in the future again. Except it turns out that Kitty isn't the woman he thought she was…

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146038167X

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Harlequin Heartwarming September 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Cynthia Reese,Anna Adams,Cerella Sechrist,Loree Lough

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Harlequin Heartwarming September 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Cynthia Reese,Anna Adams,Cerella Sechrist,Loree Lough

Harlequin Heartwarming brings you four new wholesome reads for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: OUT OF THE ASHES The Georgia Monroes • by Cynthia Reese Kari Hendrix needs a good man like Rob Monroe in her corner, but the arson investigator is torn when he discovers she’s keeping dangerous secrets about her past…and his. OWEN’S BEST INTENTIONS Smoky Mountains, Tennessee • by Anna Adams Now that Owen’s found Lilah Bantry again—and the son he never knew he’d fathered—he’s not going to let her go without a fight. But he’s got a lot to make up for, and he’s got to prove he’s not the man he once was. #109 HARPER’S WISH A Findlay Roads Story • by Cerella Sechrist Harper Worth’s scathing review destroyed Connor Callahan’s first restaurant. Now she’s desperate for a job, and he’s her last hope. But can he trust the woman who nearly ruined him? SWEET MOUNTAIN RANCHER Those Marshall Boys • by Loree Lough After an accident ends his baseball career, Nate Marshall returns home to Colorado and throws himself into ranch chores. But when headstrong psychologist Eden Quinn visits the ranch with a gaggle of at-risk boys, Nate sees that life might prove more challenging—and joyful—than he ever imagined. Look for four new tender stories every month from Harlequin Heartwarming!

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146039433X

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Come Back To Me

By: Cynthia Eden

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Come Back To Me

By: Cynthia Eden

Sadie Townsend’s lover is dead. She buried him. She mourned him. So…how in the sweet hell is Liam “Sully” Sullivan standing across the bar from her? He isn’t dead. He’s undead. When Sully was turned into a vampire, he had no choice but to leave his beautiful Sadie. He didn’t think that she’d ever want a monster in her bed. But now Sadie is in front of him, reminding him of everything that he lost…and he’s never wanted another woman more. There’s a whole lot more to Sadie than meets the eye. Sadie isn’t afraid because her ex-lover is a vamp. Surprise time…she’s a leopard shifter, and she’s more than able to handle any threat that comes her way. An FBI agent, she’s hunting a supernatural killer, and she’s not going to let anyone or anything get in her way. Certainly not an extremely sexy, extremely unforgettable, and extremely frustrating vamp. One taste, and he can’t let go. Sully didn’t think he had a chance with Sadie, but now that he knows the truth about her, all bets are off. He’ll join her on this hunt, he’ll prove his worth to her, and he’ll convince the only woman he’s ever loved that he’s one vamp who intends to stay by her side…forever. Author’s Note: Ready to slip over to the supernatural side? COME BACK TO ME was originally released in the “Belong to the Night” anthology (published in 2010), and, back then, the novella had the title of IN THE DARK. I’ve updated the sexy tale (this story contains 31,000 words), and now Sully and Sadie are ready to hunt…for love and for a killer. Thrills, chills, and paranormal romance are waiting!

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1952824117

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9781952824111

Harlequin Intrigue March 2017 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Delores Fossen,Cynthia Eden,Paula Graves

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Harlequin Intrigue March 2017 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Delores Fossen,Cynthia Eden,Paula Graves

Harlequin® Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. HOLDEN The Lawmen of Silver Creek Ranch by Delores Fossen Marshal Holden Ryland needs answers when his ex-flame, Nicky Hart, steals files from the Conceptions Fertility Clinic—but he never expected uncovering a black-market baby ring or risking it all for Nicky and her stolen nephew. ABDUCTION Killer Instinct by Cynthia Eden FBI Special Agent Jillian West returns home to the Florida coast after working too many tragic cases, but her former lover, navy SEAL Hayden Black, isn't the only man awaiting her return… FUGITIVE BRIDE Campbell Cove Academy by Paula Graves Security experts Owen Stiles and Tara Bentley are best friends, but their race for survival against terrorists forces them to confront the true depth of their relationship—the passion simmering just below the surface. Look for Harlequin Intrigue's March 2017 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue!

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1488016011

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A World Divided

The Fairy Princess Chronicles - Book 1

By: Cynthia A. Sears

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A World Divided

The Fairy Princess Chronicles - Book 1

By: Cynthia A. Sears

Elizabeth's sixteenth birthday was fast approaching and for the daughter of the King and Queen of Elnara, kingdom of the fairies and elves, that meant that she would have to attempt the magical transformation that would change her from Lady Elizabeth into Princess Elizabeth, the Fairy Princess of Elnara and the most powerful fairy alive. As if that isn't enough, Elizabeth discovers she is expected to select her future husband, the future king of Elnara, from amongst the eligible young lords attending her birthday celebration. During the celebration, she meets Lord Edric, from remote Castle North, who has more on his mind then just meeting the enchanting Fairy Princess. Put off at first by his casual, unorthodox personality, Elizabeth finds herself drawn to the charming, handsome Lord Edric. The pair is soon plunged into a mystery that will take them over the great mountains to the north and beyond, braving deadly dragons and more. Nevertheless, they must find the answers they seek no matter what the risk, or the Fairy race will be doomed to extinction....

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1460205146

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9781460205143

Rogue of the Moors

By: Cynthia Breeding

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Rogue of the Moors

By: Cynthia Breeding

Bridget MacLeod needs some space from her well-intentioned but overbearing family who’ve been crowding around her since her husband’s death. How can she keep her late husband’s secret and explain to them that her arranged marriage was pleasant but passionless, that she lost a friend but not a lover. Seeking a change of scenery, she arrives in Arisaig only to find she has no place to stay, unless she accepts the offer from a family friend. Alasdair MacDonald remembers Bridget well from when she stitched a wound in his leg last spring. Her touch was light and gentle, but she was a married woman. She may not be married now, but her husband’s passing is too recent for the honorable Alasdair to do more than invite her to stay with his boisterous family. But someone notices the way Alasdair looks at Bridget, someone who will stop at nothing to make Alasdair her own.

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1640630317

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The Fairy Queen

The Fairy Princess Chronicles - Book 5

By: Cynthia A Sears

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The Fairy Queen

The Fairy Princess Chronicles - Book 5

By: Cynthia A Sears

The Abandoned Kingdom Lord Akir was tired of fighting senseless wars for a bloodthirsty, greedy king. He dreamed of starting a kingdom where his men could live in peace and benefit from their loyalty and hard work. This dream seemed unlikely until Lord Akir was approached by a wizard claiming to have had a vision of an abandoned kingdom far to the unexplored north. Lord Akir was a practical man who thought that all wizards were charlatans, but there was something different about this wizard. Deciding to take a chance, Lord Akir sails north with several ships and discovers a lush kingdom which is indeed abandoned as the wizard predicted. Now the wizard suggests that they sail farther north where he maintains lies the Fairy Kingdom, claiming the legendary fairies would help Lord Akir establish his new kingdom. Lord Akir is no fool. He knows that the wizard has his own reasons for wishing to visit the Fairy Kingdom and as soon as their interests no longer aligned, there would be trouble....

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1460295552

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Women of Fire and Spirit

History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya

By: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

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Women of Fire and Spirit

History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya

By: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Looking at the African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, in Western Kenya, this book uses oral histories and life narratives to provide a counterweight to existing historical literature, and also brings to the fore the role of women in the evolution and expansion of the Church.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195097904

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Scent of Murder

By: Cynthia G. Alwyn

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Scent of Murder

By: Cynthia G. Alwyn

Brenna Scott is the founder of a volunteer search team in Sacramento, California, a group of people with their specially trained dogs ready when needed. When a series of children go missing, however, the team is pitted against an especially clever and deeply evil opponent. Brenna is horrified when the kidnapper makes contact with her via email. As the disturbing game escalates in intensity, children continue to disappear, and the search dogs keep their noses to the ground. Everyone hopes the canine crime fighters will turn up a clue before it's too late. These amazing animals proceed with loyalty and dedication and their training and talents prove instrumental in solving these horrendous crimes.

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1429970219

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Harlequin Heartwarming January 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Kate James,Cynthia Thomason,Pamela Tracy,Amie Denman

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Harlequin Heartwarming January 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Kate James,Cynthia Thomason,Pamela Tracy,Amie Denman

Harlequin Heartwarming brings you four new wholesome reads for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: WHEN LOVE MATTERS MOST The K-9 Trilogy • by Kate James Could their backgrounds be any more different? Rick Vasquez, a K-9 unit cop in San Diego, fled drug-related violence as a boy. Madison Long, who recently became primary veterinarian to the K-9 dogs, lived a privileged life as the daughter of a judge. Now the growing love between Rick and Madison is threatened by the dangers of his job, and the risks he's determined to take… A BOY TO REMEMBER The Daughters of Dancing Falls • by Cynthia ThomasonAlexis Pope is moving beyond old hurts only to be reunited with the source of all her troubles: Daniel Chandler. Clinging to her secret, Alexis hopes she can keep her life and his future intact, but what she can't do is keep away from Daniel… THE MISSING TWIN Scorpion Ridge, Arizona • by Pamela TracyAngela Taylor and her sister gave up everything for justice. Now her sister's missing, and the only one Angela can turn to is forest ranger Jake Farraday. But with their lives in the balance, can Angela trust him? UNDER THE BOARDWALK Starlight Point Stories • by Amie DenmanTo save his family's amusement park, Starlight Point, Jack Hamilton has to balance the books, but baker Augusta Murphy won't let him raise her rent…not without a fight! Look for four new tender stories every month from Harlequin Heartwarming!

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1459294521

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9781459294523

The Dental Hygienist's Guide to Nutritional Care - E-Book

By: Cynthia A. Stegeman,Judi Ratliff Davis

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The Dental Hygienist's Guide to Nutritional Care - E-Book

By: Cynthia A. Stegeman,Judi Ratliff Davis

NEW information on relevant cultural issues, such as: Pros and cons of popular high-protein diets Vitamin D deficiency in the United States Vitamin/mineral supplements Information on bottled water, energy drinks, and sports drinks UPDATED content addresses the newly released MyPyramid dietary guidelines! FULL-COLOR design better illustrates concepts, especially the effects vitamin deficiency can have on the oral cavity.

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0323291643

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The Legend of Elizabeth

The Fairy Princess Chronicles - Book 8

By: Cynthia A Sears

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The Legend of Elizabeth

The Fairy Princess Chronicles - Book 8

By: Cynthia A Sears

Vanished Lady Eve has disappeared without a trace. A group of rescuers heads south, thinking her kidnapped by the hostile Kingdom of Vrotus. However, when a mysterious fae appears at Dragon Hill, Elizabeth realizes that what’s at stake is not just her mother’s fate, but the fate of all the kingdoms.

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1525587269

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A. Philip Randolph

The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader

By: Cynthia Taylor

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A. Philip Randolph

The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader

By: Cynthia Taylor

Scholarship has portrayed A. Philip Randolph, an African American trade unionist as an atheist and anti-religious. Taylor places him within the context of American religious history and uncovers his complex relationship to African American religion.

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0814782876

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9780814782873

The Templar's Woman

By: Cynthia Breeding

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The Templar's Woman

By: Cynthia Breeding

Adrian de Soules, exiled Templar in clandestine service to Robert the Bruce, finds himself drawn to flame-haired Kendra Claremont—niece of the Earl of Pembroke and granddaughter of an arch-enemy of the secret Templar Brotherhood—and knows she’s trouble. Finding she hates Templars, blaming them for her father’s suicide, increases the incentive to keep his distance. But, like a sailor at sea, he hears the ancient siren call. Kendra is intrigued by Adrian, the French knight so unlike the foppish couriers her aunt wants her to marry. She can’t deny his striking eyes send tingles through her, but she senses something secretive about him. Is he really just an envoy from Scotland as he says? A dark current runs deep within him, and she’s determined to find it out. Yet, when she does, where will her loyalty lie?

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1509243410

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Rogue of the High Seas

By: Cynthia Breeding

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Rogue of the High Seas

By: Cynthia Breeding

Surrounded by Highlander brothers and cousins, Shauna MacLeod is used to big and burly men thinking they’re in charge. The visiting American ship captain is a breath of fresh air and a welcome distraction from her daily duties at the MacLeod dock office, even if his past seems to hold more secrets than the sea. Captain Robert Henderson has his share of complications waiting for him when he returns to New Orleans, so he knows he needs to stay away from Shauna until he’s managed to uncomplicate his life, no matter how tempting she is. Her overprotective family certainly helps him keep his distance. But when Shauna’s abducted and thrown aboard a ship bound for the Barbary slave trade, Robert races the four winds to find her before she’s lost to him forever.

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1640630309

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9781640630307

The Founding

The Morland Dynasty, Book 1

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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The Founding

The Morland Dynasty, Book 1

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Brilliant, a definite page turner. They combine real historical events with fascinating fictional characters. The twenty-three volumes of the Morland Dynasty series has been completely repackaged in the most elegant style, using contemporaneous artwork for each period. This wonderful series opens with the back drop of the Wars of the Roses with the marriage between Eleanor Morland and a scion of the influential house of Beaufort. It is a union which establishes the powerful Morland dynasty and in the succeeding volumes of this rich tapestry of English life, we follow their fortunes through war and peace, political upheaval and social revolution, times of pestilence and periods of plenty, and through the vicissitudes which afflict every family - love and passion, envy and betrayal, birth and death, great fortune and miserable penury... The Morland Dynasty is entertainment of the most addictive kind.

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0748132880

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Appetites and Anxieties

Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation

By: Cynthia Baron,Diane Carson,Mark Bernard

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Appetites and Anxieties

Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation

By: Cynthia Baron,Diane Carson,Mark Bernard

Employs the foodways paradigm to analyze the ideological dimensions of food imagery and food behavior in fiction and documentary films. Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation,authors Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, and Mark Bernard use a foodways paradigm, drawn from the fields of folklore and cultural anthropology, to illuminate film's cultural and material politics. In looking at how films do and do not represent food procurement, preparation, presentation, consumption, clean-up, and disposal, the authors bring the pleasures, dangers, and implications of consumption to center stage. In nine chapters, Baron, Carson, and Bernard consider food in fiction films and documentaries-from both American and international cinema. The first chapter examines film practice from the foodways perspective, supplying a foundation for the collection of case studies that follow. Chapter 2 takes a political economy approach as it examines the food industry and the film industry's policies that determine representations of food in film. In chapter 3, the authors explore food and food interactions as a means for creating community in Bagdad Café, while in chapter 4 they take a close look at 301/302,in which food is used to mount social critique. Chapter 5 focuses on cannibal films, showing how the foodways paradigm unlocks the implications of films that dramatize one of society's greatest food taboos. In chapter 6, the authors demonstrate ways that insights generated by the foodways lens can enrich genre and auteur studies. Chapter 7 considers documentaries about food and water resources, while chapter 8 examines food documentaries that slip through the cracks of film censorship by going into exhibition without an MPAA rating. Finally, in chapter 9, the authors study films from several national cinemas to explore the intersection of food, gender, and ethnicity. Four appendices provide insights from a food stylist, a selected filmography of fiction films and a filmography of documentaries that feature foodways components, and a list of selected works in food and cultural studies. Scholars of film studies and food studies will enjoy the thought-provoking analysis of Appetites and Anxieties.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814338054

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No Silent Witness

The Eliot Parsonage Women and Their Unitarian World

By: Cynthia Grant Tucker

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No Silent Witness

The Eliot Parsonage Women and Their Unitarian World

By: Cynthia Grant Tucker

This group biography follows three generations of ministers' daughters and wives in a famed American Unitarian family. Cynthia Tucker examines the Eliots, their religious tradition, and the Eliot women's largely neglected female vocation. Spanning 150 years from the early 19th century forward, the narrative is shaped into a series of stories. Each of six chapters takes up a different woman's experience, from the deaths of numerous children and the anguish of infertility to the suffocation of small parish life with its chronic loneliness, doubt, and resentment.

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0199780145

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Women Writers in the United States

A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History

By: Cynthia J. Davis,Kathryn West

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Women Writers in the United States

A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History

By: Cynthia J. Davis,Kathryn West

Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work - written and social, tangible and intangible - produced by American women. Furthering their work in The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, Davis and West document the variety and volume of women's work in the United States in a clear and accessible timeline format. They present information on the full spectrum of women's writing - including fiction, poetry, biography, political manifestos, essays, advice columns, and cookbooks - alongside a chronology of developments in social and cultural history that are especially pertinent to women's lives. This extensive chronology illustrates the diversity of women who have lived and written in the United States and creates a sense of the full trajectory of individual careers. A valuable and rich source of information on women's studies, literature, and history, Women Writers in the United States will enable readers to locate familiar and unfamiliar women's texts and to place them in the context out of which they emerged.

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0195090535

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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

By: Cynthia Barnett

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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

By: Cynthia Barnett

A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review). Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom—and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.

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0393651452

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Pieces of the Heart

By: Cynthia Aguiar

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Pieces of the Heart

By: Cynthia Aguiar

In the dark of the night, Rachel O'Leary stalks her unsuspecting prey, keeping to the shadows and watching for the men she sees only as untamed beasts who have taken the life she knew and propelled her down a path of unwavering vengeance. As she waits, Rachel remembers the night those same men robbed her of her family and her future. With her life now changed forever, the only thing Rachel knows for certain is that she will send every last one of them to their graves. With the skill of an expert swordswoman, Rachel swiftly kills the men. As her journey to vengeance comes to an end, the injured Rachel decides to return to her childhood home at Castle Redgrave to reclaim what life she has left-until Lord Roland Quinn finds her unconscious in his stables. Captivated by the auburn-haired beauty, Roland tends to her wound. He witnesses her tormented slumber and, feeling strangely drawn to her, decides to see her safely home. But Rachel has no interest in his assistance-or does she? In this poignant tale, a young woman and her self-appointed escort embark on a journey through her painful past to an unforeseen future neither could have ever imagined.

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1475993692

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Signal

By: Cynthia DeFelice

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Signal

By: Cynthia DeFelice

One day while running on the trail near his house in upstate New York, Owen McGuire meets a girl with startling green eyes and bloody cuts all over her body who seems to be utterly alone. Her name is Campion, after the wildflower that is an alien species in the area—alien meaning "from someplace else"—and Campion claims to come from someplace else entirely, a planet called Home. She plans to signal her parents to come pick her up in their spaceship. Owen agrees to help, and as he does, he feels happier than he has in a long time: his mother died a year and a half ago, and now he and his workaholic father live together like two planets on separate orbits, in a new house far from his friends. What will he do when Campion asks him to come with her into outer space, away from his lonely life on Earth? In this moving novel, two friendless kids search the night sky for something to believe in—but discover that they've found what they need right here on Earth.

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142994708X

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Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries

Modern Lessons from Historical Themes

By: Cynthia Williams Resor

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Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries

Modern Lessons from Historical Themes

By: Cynthia Williams Resor

Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries: Modern Lessons from Historical Themes explores two enduring issues – our age-old pursuit of better lives and how the media impacts our choices. In this unique approach to social history, each chapter opens with essential questions asking the reader to consider these issues in historical and modern life. The histories of fake cures, imaginary and real utopias, cemeteries, tombstones, and scrapbooks are explored from ancient times through the transformations caused by the Industrial Revolution into the twentieth century. Historical images, excerpts from primary source documents, and activities adaptable to learners of all ages are included to illustrate the role of historical media. Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries, the third in the daily life series by Cynthia Resor, is an ideal book for history enthusiasts, especially social studies teachers, education or humanities professors, museum educators, and anyone wanting to know about the lives of average people in the past.

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1475832060

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature

By: Cynthia Sugars

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature

By: Cynthia Sugars

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and theoretical positions that constitute the field of Canadian literary criticism across a range of genres and historical periods. The volume provides a dynamic introduction to current areas of critical interest, including (1) attention to the links between the literary and the public sphere, encompassing such topics as neoliberalism, trauma and memory, citizenship, material culture, literary prizes, disability studies, literature and history, digital cultures, globalization studies, and environmentalism or ecocriticism; (2) interest in Indigenous literatures and settler-Indigenous relations; (3) attention to multiple diasporic and postcolonial contexts within Canada; (4) interest in the institutionalization of Canadian literature as a discipline; (5) a turn towards book history and literary history, with a renewed interest in early Canadian literature; (6) a growing interest in articulating the affective character of the "literary" - including an interest in affect theory, mourning, melancholy, haunting, memory, and autobiography. The book represents a diverse array of interests -- from the revival of early Canadian writing, to the continued interest in Indigenous, regional, and diasporic traditions, to more recent discussions of globalization, market forces, and neoliberalism. It includes a distinct section dedicated to Indigenous literatures and traditions, as well as a section that reflects on the discipline of Canadian literature as a whole.

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Oxford University Press

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019049400X

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High Adventure

Tales of Exploration, Escape, and Intrigue

By: Cynthia Manson

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Tales of Exploration, Escape, and Intrigue

By: Cynthia Manson

Tales of exploration, escape and intrigue.

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610

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088029826X

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In the Fullness of Life

A Biography of Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U.

By: Cynthia Glavac

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In the Fullness of Life

A Biography of Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U.

By: Cynthia Glavac

This book is a moving and detailed record of Dorothy Kazel's life and death and offers an in-depth analysis of her character, spirituality and ministry.

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087193289X

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