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Poster Boy

By: Dede Crane

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Sixteen-year-old Gray Fallon's life is looking pretty good. His easygoing parents -- a university science professor and silkscreen artist -- are happy for him to entertain his friends in his suburban basement. A part-time job at the Cineplex, the occasional beer or joint, a smart, funny best friend, a hot new girlfriend -- things couldn't really be any better. Then Gray's twelve-year-old science nerd sister, Maggie, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Gray learns that the cancer may have environmental causes and sets out to uncover the cause and make Maggie better. His research reveals that silkscreen chemicals may be responsible for Maggie's illness. His mother's subsequent breakdown and father's anger finally drive him to quit school and seek haven at an organic farm. However, there is no escaping the reality of Maggie's illness, and the climax, written with wisdom, compassion and a complete lack of easy sentimentality, is a tour de force.

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Groundwood Books Ltd

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1554982200

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9781554982202

Every Happy Family

By: Dede Crane

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Every Happy Family

By: Dede Crane

A family is only as functional as its parts. Humorous and heartbreaking, wise and demented, Every Happy Family explores the colourful n and sometimes repurposed n fabric of the Wright family. The stories mark turning points in the lives of the individual family members, as well as in their relationships with each other. Married parents Jill and Les are the warp of the Wright family tapestry n Jill beginning to lose her mother to Alzheimer's, Les diagnosed with a cancer he initially keeps secret from their children. Each family member's thread unravels from the others, as older son Quinn finds a dangerous way to combat shyness, younger son Beau seeks success and closure at boarding school, and adopted daughter Pema explores her roots. But past and present weave back together and towards the future, as everyone is called home for Les's elife celebration' n his eliving wake'. Alone and together, the Wrights crash along, unable to give up on themselves or each otherOhard as they might try.

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Coteau Books

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1550505483

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9781550505481

The Cult of Quick Repair

By: Dede Crane

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The Cult of Quick Repair

By: Dede Crane

A sassy collection of vivid and moving stores portraying edgy modern lives in highly-charged relationships. Not for the faint of heart, Crane's humour has a dark, almost sinister, edge. However, her tired pessimism is tempered with grace and frequent avenues of hope. A profusion of sex delivers surprises, not all of them pleasant. A new father, shopping for groceries with his baby and a hangover, worries that the child may not actually be his. An ultrasound technician, envious of her co-worker's sex life, has an unexpected second encounter with a creepy male patient. The wife of a hockey player is faced with his ambiguous sexuality. A young woman waits her turn at an abortion clinic, harbouring the secret that the baby's father might not be the boyfriend sitting beside her. These wonderfully-drawn characters sweep the reader into their anxious and often funny lives. Sophisticated story-telling makes the most complicated situations crystal clear and a pleasure to read. Crane's male points of view are as effective as the female. Her endings are just right and satisfying. Joint the Cult of Quick Repair and prepare to see another side of all-too-familiar contemporary life, in all its fraught and aching glory.

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210

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Coteau Books

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1550504347

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9781550504347

The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines

By: Dede Crane

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The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines

By: Dede Crane

Over the summer Kennedy Baines, 15 years old, finds the courage to ask the right questions and to see truth for what it is. By summers end, she's learned about trust, love and the power that comes from not holding back.

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252

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Global Professional Publishi

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1551929791

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9781551929798

Christmas Cooking For Dummies

By: Dede Wilson

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Christmas Cooking For Dummies

By: Dede Wilson

Look no further for tips and recipes for whipping up a dazzling array of delicious holiday meals — without stress! Christmas is the biggest holiday of the year -- and Americans traditionally love to celebrate the season with food, food, and more food. This easy guide shows cooks of every generation how to plan and prepare scrumptious seasonal treats. It includes: 100 delicious recipes for hassle-free holiday meals, including Warm White Bean Dip, Four-Cheese Spinach Lasagne, and Chocolate Truffle Tart Tips, checklists, and charts, plus step-by-step guides and shopping lists for special holiday meals, including a Christmas Tree-Trimming Party A special section on Christmas decorating and food gifts from the kitchen 16 pages of color photos featuring holiday meal recipes and kitchen-made gifts and decorations

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390

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118069706

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9781118069707

The Indictment

Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes against America, China, and the World

By: Frank Gaffney,Dede Laugesen

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The Indictment

Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes against America, China, and the World

By: Frank Gaffney,Dede Laugesen

A generation ago, Ronald Reagan mapped out and executed a strategy for taking down the last totalitarian communist regime that sought America’s destruction: the Soviet Union’s “evil empire.” We can settle for no less with respect to our time’s “existential threat to freedom.” The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can and must be thwarted in its determined bid to crush liberty, destroy our country, and institute what Xi Jinping calls “global governance, directed and enforced from Beijing. This book represents the fruits of a comprehensive effort to develop and champion a Reaganesque strategy for our time. It draws upon a comprehensive program of some seventy webinars conducted by the Committee on the Present Danger: China addressing: 1) the CCP’s decades-long self-described “Unrestricted Warfare” against America; and 2) the role America’s elites have played in helping the Chinese Communists win. Drawing upon all this content, The Indictment identifies nine criminal “charges” that can and must be brought and prosecuted, at least in the court of public opinion, against the Chinese Communist Party and its American enablers. If, moreover, the CCP is designated as the Transnational Criminal Organization it is, actual criminal prosecutions of the Party and its friends should also be possible. The Indictment also enumerates twenty specific actions that are required to punish the perpetrators of war crimes against America and humanity—and defeat those likely in the offing. The Indictment is intended to inspire and equip congressional investigators, patriotic executive branch officials, journalists, and the public at large to review these charges and recommended actions for a surpassingly important and extremely urgent purpose: Bringing to justice and taking down the Chinese Communist Party for its horrific criminal conduct—past, present, and that which is in the works—against its own people and countless others, including ours.

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260

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Simon and Schuster

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1648210031

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9781648210037

Mathematical Modelling of the Human Cardiovascular System

Data, Numerical Approximation, Clinical Applications

By: Alfio Quarteroni,Luca Dede',Andrea Manzoni,Christian Vergara

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Mathematical Modelling of the Human Cardiovascular System

Data, Numerical Approximation, Clinical Applications

By: Alfio Quarteroni,Luca Dede',Andrea Manzoni,Christian Vergara

Addresses the mathematical and numerical modelling of the human cardiovascular system, from patient data to clinical applications.

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Cambridge University Press

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110848039X

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9781108480390

A Life Unknown

By: DeDe Ramey

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A Life Unknown

By: DeDe Ramey

Socialite April Westerman has it all, or so it seems. Jaded from betrayal, blackmail and devastating losses, she has sworn off love. But Joe Cortez is making her question that decision. He's a beast of a man, intimidating, protective and yet, sweet. He is everything she wants, and every reason she needs to stay away. Joe chips away at the walls April erected until she finally lets him in. But when her past comes back to haunt her, she once more pushes him out of her life. Suspecting she's in trouble, Joe steals her away to the mountains, hoping to save her. When tragedy puts Joe's survival in April's hands, secrets of the past threaten to ruin any chance of love.

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509237275

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9781509237272

Traffic of the Mind

Determining and Acting Upon the Driving Forces of Our Lives

By: Dede Weldon Casad

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Traffic of the Mind

Determining and Acting Upon the Driving Forces of Our Lives

By: Dede Weldon Casad

From birth to death, we are on a journey with the destination clearly marked, and along the way we have to make decisions: How long do we have to get there and what is the best route? Underneath these are a million life questions, such as: How will I know? Is what I know enough? Where do I go to learn? We live in a world of impatient drivers and a lot of changing lanes, and it's hard to fully understand this journey called life. In Traffic of the Mind: Determining the Driving Forces of Our Lives, author Dede Casad offers answers in a collection of essays that lead to one large question: What is your driving force? You might call your driving force a passion, a calling, or just natural talent. Whatever it is, it's safe to say that each person possesses an individual driving force footprint unlike any other that is the core of his or her personality. Is it for recognition, power, or service? Is it a desire to comfort, listen, or teach? Whatever it is, get behind the wheel and, along with Dede, traverse the highways and byways of intriguing social, political, and spiritual demands that call and challenge every person into life's most congested Traffic of the Mind.

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148

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Tate Publishing

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1616630426

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9781616630423

Poster Boy

By: Dede Crane

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Poster Boy

By: Dede Crane

Sixteen-year-old Gray Fallon's easy life as a popular teen with cool parents changes when his younger sister Maggie is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and his investigations prove that chemicals were the cause of it.

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Groundwood Books Ltd

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0888998554

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9780888998552

Great Expectations

Twenty-Four True Stories about Childbirth

By: Dede Crane,Lisa Moore

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Great Expectations

Twenty-Four True Stories about Childbirth

By: Dede Crane,Lisa Moore

Edited by master storyteller Dede Crane and award-winning author Lisa Moore, both of whom contribute their own stories, Great Expectations is a must-have collection for parents and parents-to-be. Uniquely honest and transformative, Great Expectations takes the reader on an emotional and physical journey like no other: Lynn Coady relates the painful memory of her teenage pregnancy and the anguish of having to give up her newborn for adoption; Peter Behrens expresses a father's feeling of utter helplessness and incomparable joy during the birth of his first child; Christy Ann Conlin describes pregnancy at age forty; Afua Cooper reflects upon the immigrant's experience of three pregnancies and childbirths in a new land with evolving customs; Anne Fleming chooses a male donor with her same-sex partner; and Jaclyn Moriarty transcribes her grandmother's and her mother's birth stories, along with her own, to create a tender oral history spanning three generations.

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House of Anansi

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0887848605

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9780887848605

Sympathy

By: Dede Crane

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Sympathy

By: Dede Crane

Framed around the seven distinct phases of Myatt's radical s̥ympathy-based ̲therapy, in which the doctor tries to take on the actual physical feelings of the patient, the book explores the permeable boundaries between self and others. A colorful supporting cast of five lost souls adds poignancy and earthy humor to the story of Kerry's gradual return to consciousness and long-suppressed grief.

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360

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Raincoast Books

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1551927810

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9781551927817

The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines

By: Dede Crane

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The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines

By: Dede Crane

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Global Professional Publishi

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1551929791

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9781551929798

The Adventures of Lucky Duck

Lucky Duck and Friends' Jeep Adventures

By: DeDe Gale

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The Adventures of Lucky Duck

Lucky Duck and Friends' Jeep Adventures

By: DeDe Gale

Lucky Duck could not believe his fortune when he landed on the dash of Rebecca's ruby-red Rubicon! This first book in the series is about how Lucky Duck became the leader of his flock of friends that roams around the country in their Jeep Wrangler, experiencing all sorts of fun adventures! What a blessing it would be to discover that our destiny in life is fulfilled in our ability to make others smile!

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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Book's by Dede Crane

Poster Boy

Poster Boy

Every Happy Family

Every Happy Family

The Cult of Quick Repair

The Cult of Quick Repair

The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines

The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines

Christmas Cooking For Dummies

Christmas Cooking For Dummies

The Indictment

The Indictment

Mathematical Modelling of the Human Cardiovascular System

Mathematical Modelling of the Human Cardiovascular System

A Life Unknown

A Life Unknown

Traffic of the Mind

Traffic of the Mind

Poster Boy

Poster Boy

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Sympathy

Sympathy

The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines

The 25 Pains of Kennedy Baines

The Adventures of Lucky Duck

The Adventures of Lucky Duck

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