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Ignatius Rising

The Life of John Kennedy Toole

By: René Pol Nevils,Deborah George Hardy

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Ignatius Rising

The Life of John Kennedy Toole

By: René Pol Nevils,Deborah George Hardy

The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, is now legendary, a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life, imagination, and demise of the writer responsible for one of American literature's most memorable characters -- Ignatius J. Reilly. In Ignatius Rising, René Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy present the first biography of Toole, drawing upon scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of his influencing mother, Thelma, as well as unpublished letters, documents, and photographs. Frank yet sympathetic, Ignatius Rising deftly describes a life that is dark, tragic, bizarre, and amazing -- but luminous with the gift of laughter, a life not unlike those of Toole's beloved characters, now loved the world over.

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LSU Press

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0807130591

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9780807130599

Ignatius Rising

The Life of John Kennedy Toole

By: René Pol Nevils,Deborah George Hardy

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The Life of John Kennedy Toole

By: René Pol Nevils,Deborah George Hardy

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George Eliot and Schiller

Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse

By: Deborah Guth

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George Eliot and Schiller

Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse

By: Deborah Guth

This title was first published in 2003. Though Friedrich Schiller enjoyed prominent literary standing and great popularity in nineteenth century literary England, his influence has been largely neglected in recent scholarship on the period. With George Eliot and Schiller: Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse, Deborah Guth explores the substantial evidence of the importance of the playwright and philosopher's thought to Eliot's novelistic art. Guth demonstrates the relationship of Schiller's work to Eliot's plotting of moral vision, the tensions in her work between realism and idealism (which an understanding of Schiller redefines substantially), and her aesthetics. The specific focus of the study is the Schillerian subtext of George Eliot's work and a resultant reassessment of her realism. However, the intertextual methodology, applications of Iser's thinking on the translatability of cultures, and a placement of Eliot in a German context serve as a gateway for reconsidering Eliot's contributions in these areas, as well. While recent scholarship on Eliot has focused on gender analysis, New Historicism and cultural materialism, the frame remains largely English. Guth contends that the immense continental underpinnings of Eliot's writing should lead us to re-situate her beyond national boundaries, and view her as a major European, as well as English, writer.

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224

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Routledge

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135175548X

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9781351755481

Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture

By: Deborah Lutz

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Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture

By: Deborah Lutz

This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107077443

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9781107077447

Thomas Hardy and His God

A Liturgy of Unbelief

By: Deborah Collins

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Thomas Hardy and His God

A Liturgy of Unbelief

By: Deborah Collins

Through a study of his verse and fiction the author attempts to present Hardy's seemingly conflicting views about the nature of God and His relationship with man. Also included is an assimilation of the philosophical influences on Hardy's writing, including Schopenhauer and Comte.

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196

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Springer

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1349113654

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9781349113651

Clara Collet, 1860-1948

An Educated Working Woman

By: Deborah Mcdonald

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Clara Collet, 1860-1948

An Educated Working Woman

By: Deborah Mcdonald

This absorbing account of the life and work of Clara Collet, a leading economist, statistician and champion of women's employment, is the first biography of this remarkable woman and reveals through Collet's diaries her fascinating personal life. An early female university graduate (1880), then teacher, she campaigned for the secondary education provision of girls at a time when it was negligible. Her other major contribution was in raising the status of working-class women, becoming a Commissioner for the Royal Commission on Labour (1892). She was close to the family of Karl Marx, particularly with Eleanor Marx, and with Beatrice Webb. Her enduring friendship with the cult Victorian author George Gissing deeply influenced his writing. Her working relationships with Charles Booth, Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill are also celebrated

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Routledge

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1135782970

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9781135782979

Jewish Presences in English Literature

By: Derek Cohen,Deborah Heller

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Jewish Presences in English Literature

By: Derek Cohen,Deborah Heller

The image of the Jew in English literature, as in the Western imagination, has at its base the figure of the Christ-killer. All representations of the Jew in Christian culture are constructed in the light of this irreducible definition." -- from the introduction In a collection of insightful critical essays, Derek Cohen, Deborah Heller, and the contributing authors explore the different ways in which writers of English literature have amplified, varied, or denied this archetypical perception. While the authors approach this subject from diverse perspectives, the essays are unified by an awareness of the common tradition out of which representations of Jews have developed and illustrate the tradition's continuity and modifications. Studying the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Joyce, and a selection of texts from the ninth to the sixteenth century, the essays show how constructs of Jewishness fit into a writer's pre-existing concerns and patterns of representation and how even later, more favourable depictions are over-simplified reactions to this attitude. Some of the authors directly address the question of what constitutes anti-semitism in a literary work. All take into account the social and historical contexts in which the individual works took shape. Their main concern, however, is not to produce a social history but to illustrate how even the greatest writers draw on stereotypes embedded in the popular imagination and to focus on the internal dynamics of individual works, thereby recuperating classical portrayals within a contemporary critical perspective.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773562621

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9780773562622

Different White People

Radical Activism for Aboriginal Rights 1946-1972

By: Deborah M. Wilson

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Different White People

Radical Activism for Aboriginal Rights 1946-1972

By: Deborah M. Wilson

A trilogy of remarkable stories about campaigns for Aboriginal rights. But the most curious thing about this book is that the central characters in this book are not Aborigines. Some of the 'different white people' you will meet in these pages are well known Australians, but many are not. But they all had one crucial common characteristic: a single-minded determination to support and protect the rights of Aboriginal people.

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400

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Apollo Books

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1742586651

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9781742586656

Machu Picchu

By: Deborah Kops

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Machu Picchu

By: Deborah Kops

Describes the discovery and excavation of Machu Picchu, an ancient city of the Incan Empire.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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0822575841

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9780822575849

Literary Sisterhoods

Imagining Women Artists

By: Deborah Heller

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Literary Sisterhoods

Imagining Women Artists

By: Deborah Heller

In literary works by women authors ranging from Mme de Stael, George Eliot, and Anna Banti, to contemporary writers Alice Munro and Grace Paley, Deborah Heller examines how women writers over the past two centuries have represented the challenges of being both a woman and an artist. Literary Sisterhoods examines the untold connections between the woman author and her subject, between woman authors, and among women artists the world over. Heller teases out a convincing assertion of sisterhoods for a diverse range of authors and works despite the differences of the cultures and eras they represent. Heller's book builds on feminist criticism and scholarship that has helped make us aware of the distinctive perspectives on female experience revealed in women's writing. Literary Sisterhoods explores how women authors construct their female protagonists' quests for creative self-expression. Situating these narrative journeys in their own times and cultures, Heller shows how they contribute to a common tradition that speaks to readers today.

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204

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773529098

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9780773529090

A Companion to the Brontës

By: Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse

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A Companion to the Brontës

By: Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse

A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the family’s continuing influence Features in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world Addresses topics such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches, the influence of religion, and political and legal questions of the day – from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform Incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies

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632

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118405498

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9781118405499

Rickets, Race and Reproduction

Contracted Pelvis and the American Way of Birth

By: Deborah Kuhn McGregor,Robert Kuhn McGregor

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Rickets, Race and Reproduction

Contracted Pelvis and the American Way of Birth

By: Deborah Kuhn McGregor,Robert Kuhn McGregor

This book outlines the history of rickets, a disease commonly associated with childhood, and studies its association with race and its long-reaching effects on childbirth. For centuries, the condition was poorly understood. For females, rickets could pose a double jeopardy: suffering in childhood and severe danger in adulthood when giving birth. The disease could result in a contracted pelvis that obstructs the birth canal. Medical researchers were faced with two distinct challenges: unravelling the etiology of rickets and ensuring the safety of women giving birth--both proved especially difficult. Thought variously to be a disease of industrial cities and children of the poor, grounded in lack of exercise or sunlight, or the of product racial difference, the condition defied analysis until the discovery of vitamin D early in the 20th century. The dangers of rickets radically diminished. Medical intervention in childbirth continued, and childbirth increasingly shifted from the home to the hospital. Medical practitioners justified intervention by emphasizing the dangers of pelvic disproportion, continually enlarging the definition to gain full control of birth. Often conditioned by racial assumptions, surgical experimentation promoted common use of anesthesia and a radical increase in caesarean sections, and birth became a colder, more clinical experience.

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307

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McFarland

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1476693714

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9781476693712

Speak it Louder

Asian Americans Making Music

By: Deborah Wong

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Speak it Louder

Asian Americans Making Music

By: Deborah Wong

Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music documents the variety of musics-from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop-that have been created by Asian Americans. This book is not about "Asian American music" but rather about Asian Americans making music. This key distinction allows the author to track a wide range of musical genres. Wong covers an astonishing variety of music, ethnically as well as stylistically: Laotian song, Cambodian music drama, karaoke, Vietnamese pop, Japanese American taiko, Asian American hip hop, and panethnic Asian American improvisational music (encompassing jazz and avant-garde classical styles). In Wong's hands these diverse styles coalesce brilliantly around a coherent and consistent set of questions about what it means for Asian Americans to make music in environments of inter-ethnic contact, about the role of performativity in shaping social identities, and about the ways in which commercially and technologically mediated cultural production and reception transform individual perceptions of time, space, and society. Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music encompasses ethnomusicology, oral history, Asian American studies, and cultural performance studies. It promises to set a new standard for writing in these fields, and will raise new questions for scholars to tackle for many years to come.

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400

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Routledge

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1135878242

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9781135878245

The Red River Trails

Oxcart Routes Between St. Paul and the Selkirk Settlement, 1820-1870

By: Rhoda R. Gilman,Carolyn Gilman,Deborah L. Miller

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The Red River Trails

Oxcart Routes Between St. Paul and the Selkirk Settlement, 1820-1870

By: Rhoda R. Gilman,Carolyn Gilman,Deborah L. Miller

The many difficulties and occasional rewards of early travel and transportation in Minnesota are highlighted in this book, along with the state's relations with what became western Canada and insights into the development of business in Minnesota. The meeting of Indian and European cultures is vividly manifested by the mixed-blood Mtis who became the mainstay of the Red River trade.

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124

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873511336

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9780873511339

The Politics of Vaccination

Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1874

By: Deborah Brunton

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The Politics of Vaccination

Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1874

By: Deborah Brunton

A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland during the nineteenth century.

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272

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University Rochester Press

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1580460364

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9781580460361

Technical Editor's Handbook

A Desk Guide for All Processors of Scientific Or Engineering Copy

By: George Freedman,Deborah A. Freedman

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Technical Editor's Handbook

A Desk Guide for All Processors of Scientific Or Engineering Copy

By: George Freedman,Deborah A. Freedman

Clear coverage of technical editing addresses basics and advanced topics, with chapters on notation, techniques, and accurate representation of terminology of mathematics, computers, physics, chemistry, and electronics. Extensive editorial aids.

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596

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Courier Corporation

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0486280098

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9780486280097

Canadian Scholars Bundle

Lucille Teasdale / Robertson Davies / George Grant / Marshall McLuhan

By: Nicholas Maes,Judith Fitzgerald,T.F. Rigelhof,Deborah Cowley

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Canadian Scholars Bundle

Lucille Teasdale / Robertson Davies / George Grant / Marshall McLuhan

By: Nicholas Maes,Judith Fitzgerald,T.F. Rigelhof,Deborah Cowley

Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent people in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich academic and philosophical history through the fascinating lives of some of its most influential figures. Profiled are: prescient media guru Marshall McLuhan, physician Lucille Teasdale, political philosopher George Grant, and novelist and literary theorist Robertson Davies. Includes George Grant Lucille Teasdale Marshall McLuhan Robertson Davies

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515

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Dundurn

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1459727940

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9781459727946

The Official Guide to American Historic Bed & Breakfast Inns and Guesthouses

By: Deborah Edwards Sakach,Timothy J. Sakach

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The Official Guide to American Historic Bed & Breakfast Inns and Guesthouses

By: Deborah Edwards Sakach,Timothy J. Sakach

Deborah Edwards Sakach shares with readers her passion for history, travel, and beds & breakfasts.

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292

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0961548134

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9780961548131

Reforming Trollope

Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope

By: Deborah Denenholz Morse

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Reforming Trollope

Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope

By: Deborah Denenholz Morse

Trollope the reformer and the reformation of Trollope scholarship in relation to gender, race, and genre are the intertwined subjects of eminent Trollopian Deborah Denenholz Morse’s radical rethinking of Anthony Trollope. Beginning with a history of Trollope’s critical reception, Morse traces the ways in which Trollope’s responses to the political and social upheavals of the 1860s and 1870s are reflected in his novels. She argues that as Trollope’s ideas about gender and race evolved over those two crucial decades, his politics became more liberal. The first section of the book analyzes these changes in terms of genre. As Morse shows, the novelist subverts and modernizes the quintessential English genre of the pastoral in the wake of Darwin in the early 1860s novel The Small House at Allington. Following the Second Reform Act, he reimagines the marriage plot along new class lines in the early 1870s in Lady Anna. The second section focuses upon gender. In the wake of the Second Reform Bill and the agitations for women's rights in the 1860s and 1870s, Trollope reveals the tragedy of primogeniture and male privilege in Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite and the viciousness of the marriage market in Ayala's Angel. The final section of Reforming Trollope centers upon race. Trollope's response to the Jamaica Rebellion and the ensuing Governor Eyre Controversy in England is revealed in the tragic marriage of a quintessential English gentleman to a dark beauty from the Empire's dominions. The American Civil War and its aftermath led to Trollope's insistence that English identity include the history of English complicity in the black Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, a history Trollope encodes in the creole discourses of the late novel Dr. Wortle's School. Reforming Trollope is a transformative examination of an author too long identified as the epitome of the complacent English gentleman.

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240

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Routledge

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1317069420

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9781317069423

The Crimean War

By: Deborah Bachrach

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The Crimean War

By: Deborah Bachrach

A historical overview of the events leading up to, during, and after the Crimean War.

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120

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1560063157

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9781560063155

Reflections of a Stranger

By: Deborah Dulworth,Linda Hanna

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Reflections of a Stranger

By: Deborah Dulworth,Linda Hanna

Cora and her husband, PGA golf pro Steady Eddie Timms, live in a safe gated community, so when Cora witnesses a murder, she's shocked and frightened. But without a body, murder weapon, or evidence of a crime, Cora's sanity is called into question—especially when it comes to light that Cora's not been dealing well with the stress and grief of losing a daughter, and her memory of late hasn't been all it should be. Determined to prove her sanity, Cora bursts into a flurry of danger and unanswered questions as she sets out to find evidence of foul play. With the help of a bumbling security guard, a loyal best friend, and a neighbor's yappy dog, pieces finally fall into place. By all appearance, the mystery is solved... until Cora is kidnapped and implicated in a case of hidden identity and an old embezzlement scheme. It will take more than the national attention garnered from Steady Eddie's status to clear Cora's name, rescue her from the kidnappers, and help find her way back to the peace and sanity found only in God's loving arms.

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Pelican Ventures Book Group

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1611161894

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9781611161892

British Socialist Fiction, 1884-1914

By: Deborah Mutch

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British Socialist Fiction, 1884-1914

By: Deborah Mutch

Socialism in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain was a highly literate movement. Every socialist group produced some form of written text through which their particular brand of politics could be promoted. This edition collects serialized fiction and short stories that have not been published since their original appearance.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040156185

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9781040156186

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