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The Freedom Maze

By: Delia Sherman

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Multilayered, compassionate, and thought-provoking." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Thirteen-year-old Sophie isn’t happy about spending the summer of 1960 at her grandmother’s old house in the bayou. Bored and lonely, she can’t resist exploring the house’s maze, or making an impulsive wish for a fantasy-book adventure with herself as the heroine. What she gets instead is a real adventure: a trip back in time to 1860 and the race-haunted world of her family’s Louisiana sugar plantation. Here, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is still two years in the future and passage of the Thirteenth Amendment is almost four years away. And here, Sophie is mistaken, by her own ancestors, for a slave.

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Candlewick Press

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0763669806

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9780763669805

Secrets on the Lake

By: Delia Dibble

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Secrets on the Lake

By: Delia Dibble

Secrets on the Lake is the poignant story of the struggles and successes of two remarkable sisters, Laura and Libby. Defying all odds the girls grow up battling their way through life with the support and love of their grandmother, who rescued them from their alcohol and drug addicted parents and instilled in them the values and character to overcome adversity and look beyond their world. Laura, the older sister, the main protagonist of this novel, pursues her dream of becoming an international lawyer working for the United Nations. Her relentless fight for justice and the elimination of poverty is heart fully inspired by her own troubled childhood. With origins in Louisiana encapsulating the romance of Portugal and the power of New York, this is an intriguing story of hardship, family bonds & challenges, heartbreak, and ultimately a celebration of the human spirit which will capture your imagination and renew your faith in love and in humanity.

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Australian Self Publishing Group

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1922327182

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9781922327185

A Place Called Trinity

A Novel

By: Delia Parr

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A Place Called Trinity

A Novel

By: Delia Parr

The latest novel by Parr represents a new artistic stretch and will surely please her fans. The first volume in a planned series, this novel is set in the early 1800s and follows the adventures of midwife and widow, Martha Cade.

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Macmillan

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0312310056

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9780312310059

The Fall of The Kings

By: Ellen Kushner,Delia Sherman

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The Fall of The Kings

By: Ellen Kushner,Delia Sherman

This stunning follow-up to Ellen Kushner’s cult-classic novel, Swordspoint, is set in the same world of labyrinthine intrigue, where sharp swords and even sharper wits rule. Against a rich tapestry of artists and aristocrats, students, strumpets, and spies, a gentleman and a scholar will find themselves playing out an ancient drama destined to explode their society’s smug view of itself–and reveal that sometimes the best price of uncovering history is being forced to repeat it…. The Fall of the Kings Generations ago the last king fell, taking with him the final truths about a race of wizards who ruled at his side. But the blood of the kings runs deep in the land and its people, waiting for the coming together of two unusual men, Theron Campion, a young nobleman of royal lineage, is heir to an ancient house and a modern scandal. Tormented by his twin duties to his family and his own bright spirit, he seeks solace in the University. There he meets Basil St. Cloud, a brilliant and charismatic teacher ruled by a passion for knowledge–and a passion for the ancient kings. Of course, everyone now knows that the wizards were charlatans and the kings their dupes and puppets. Only Basil ins not convinced–nor is he convinced that the city has seen its last king…

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Bantam

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0307418464

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9780307418463

A New Beginning

In A Life of Greater Balance, Harmony and Fulfillment

By: Delia Trujillo

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A New Beginning

In A Life of Greater Balance, Harmony and Fulfillment

By: Delia Trujillo

Our body has the amazing ability to repel disease and constantly renew and repair itself if we are living in a state of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual equilibrium. However, the challenge arises for us in that everything we eat, say, think, do, see, and feel affects our state of equilibrium. In addition, those of us who live in the “more advanced” cultures of the world’s industrialized nations are almost totally disconnected from nature, from our natural rhythms and from our instinctual awareness. With the information in this book you will be able to nurture your spiritual connection in order to receive wisdom and healing from your innermost core of being, which is immune to aging and sickness. This connection allows us to make the gradual transition to a lifestyle that promotes radiant health and slows down and begins to reverse our biological clock, and also helps us attain a more profound inner peace, optimism, and true happiness.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514451735

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9781514451731

The Transformation of (Y)Our World

Finding Optimism and Serenity During These Difficult Times

By: Delia M. Trujillo

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The Transformation of (Y)Our World

Finding Optimism and Serenity During These Difficult Times

By: Delia M. Trujillo

The Transformation of (Y)our WorldFinding Optimism & Serenity During These Difficult Times may be read and apprehended on two different levels. On one level this comprehensive guidebook shows how to clear out old patterns and perspectives that block fulfillment and success in many facets of our life. On a higher and more spiritual level these guidelines allow one to be in more profound alignment with the global awakening and shift to higher consciousness that is currently taking place on our earth. The resulting inner peace, strength and optimism will allow one to be in a better position to discern the contribution each one of us is being called to make during this critical time in earths history.

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1469116111

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9781469116112

The Midwife's Dilemma (At Home in Trinity Book #3)

By: Delia Parr

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The Midwife's Dilemma (At Home in Trinity Book #3)

By: Delia Parr

Delia Parr's Delightful Midwife Series Concludes Midwife Martha Cade has decided. When he returns in February, she is going to marry Mayor Thomas Dillon. That is the only decision in life in which she feels confident these days. Everything else around her feels like it's changing too fast, from her daughter's obvious affection for the town's young doctor to Martha realizing she's ready to pass on her role as midwife to someone younger. Even her beloved town of Trinity is changing. The 1830s Pennsylvania town, having mushroomed in size and population, is becoming an important agricultural and economic center for the region, and soon a canal will connect it even more to the outside world. It is a season that will set the course for the rest of her life. Martha will need every ounce of confidence, courage, and faith she possesses to overcome the obstacles that will make her life far more challenging and difficult than she can dare to imagine.

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Baker Books

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1441229442

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You Are Mine

To Love and to Hold

By: Delia King

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You Are Mine

To Love and to Hold

By: Delia King

Millionaire Marcelo Sanchez (the youngest son of Laura and Rodrigo Sanchez) and his wife, Jessica, did not want a child of their own while they’re living an aristocrat lifestyle. Unexpectedly, Jessica fell pregnant and had Alicia raised by her nanny. A few years later, Alicia realized she was an unwanted child and longed to be loved. Moreover, at fifteen, she met Christian. Both fell in love, but they split up. Alicia was too young, and Christian wanted to focus on his studies in another island (Davao City, Philippines). Alicia moved on, and later, she found love from Josef after their friendship developed into that of lovers and got engaged to be married. As their grand wedding was fast approaching, Christian returned after four years to rebuild his relationship with Alicia. This put Alicia in a difficult situation to decide between her two lovers.

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1543494005

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me, Me, ME. Oops! Why not?

By: Theira Añez Ferrer,Theira,Delia Añez Ferrer

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me, Me, ME. Oops! Why not?

By: Theira Añez Ferrer,Theira,Delia Añez Ferrer

Life is a strategy at all levels and your life is your personal project, and what a nice one it is! If you dont take the risk to search and find answers, if you never dare yourself to do anything that feels uncomfortable, you will never know, ever The things you didnt do because you labelled them crazy or ridiculous, all the unreachable goals you created in your mind, those are the things you will regret, all the what ifs of your life You can change all that, you now have that one chance to shout out loud: Oh, yes I can!! Thats the stuff that shapes your future, the stuff that makes history, the stuff that brings nothing but satisfaction. I did it! I transformed my life, it wasnt always easy but I wouldnt have it any other waythe tears, the pain, the fun!! It is never too late to have a sexy, glamorous and fun filled life while being effective, productive and practical. By following my rules youll see that they actually complement each other very well indeed. So here they are: My sexy little secrets. The sexy rules. Theira Añez: Author of Cadenas Invisibles Email: sexyliferules@yahoo.com Also available online

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Bubok

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8468626317

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9788468626314

Daughters of Suburbia

Growing Up White, Middle Class, and Female

By: Lorraine Delia Kenny

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Daughters of Suburbia

Growing Up White, Middle Class, and Female

By: Lorraine Delia Kenny

Part ethnography, part cultural study, this text examines the lives of teenage girls from the world of the Long Island, New York, middle school in order to explore how standards of normalcy define gender, exercise power, and reinforce the cultural practices of whiteness.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813528534

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Whitehall: A Novel (Part 1)

By: Liz Duffy Adams,Delia Sherman,Barbara Samuel,Madeleine Robins,Mary Robinette Kowal,Sarah Smith

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Whitehall: A Novel (Part 1)

By: Liz Duffy Adams,Delia Sherman,Barbara Samuel,Madeleine Robins,Mary Robinette Kowal,Sarah Smith

She who would be queen must win the love of a king—and a country. Whitehall is a royal tale full of true history and sensual intrigue, from Serial Box Publishing. Set in the 17th century court of King Charles II and his queen, Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza. Her journey to find her place as the foreign wife in a court riddled with political and religious intrigue -- not to mention the many mistresses of Charles the “Merry Monarch” -- is a tale of perseverance only a true queen could endure. Love mingles with betrayal before a sensual renaissance of art, culture, and sex in this lush historical serial. Whitehall is written by Liz Duffy Adams, Delia Sherman, Barbara Samuel, Mary Robinette Kowal, Madeleine Robins, and Sarah Smith. Originally presented serially in 13 episodes, this omnibus collects installments 1 through 7 of Whitehall Season One into one edition.

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1682101231

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Perfect Secrets

Four Romantic Novellas

By: Brenda Joyce,Kathleen Kane,Judith O'Brien,Delia Parr

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Perfect Secrets

Four Romantic Novellas

By: Brenda Joyce,Kathleen Kane,Judith O'Brien,Delia Parr

From the foothills of east Texas to the moss-draped riverbanks of Savannah, from a small town in upstate New York to the sun-baked terrain of the Old West, four spectacular authors deliver romantic and unforgettable tales of scandals, deception and perfect secrets. Illusions will be shattered, lives will be changed--and nothing will ever be the same once they're revealed. Perfect Secrets includes: - When Dreams Won't Die by Brenda Joyce - Across a Crowded Room by Judith O'Brien - The Return of Travis Dean by Kathleen Kane - Redemption by Delia Parr

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St. Martin's Paperbacks

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1466886773

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From Paris to Tlön

Surrealism as World Literature

By: Delia Ungureanu

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From Paris to Tlön

Surrealism as World Literature

By: Delia Ungureanu

Best International Debut in 2017 (awarded by Romanian General and Comparative Literature Association) Most Prestigious Publication in the Humanities (awarded by the Senate of the University of Bucharest) Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact worldwide in fiction-including in major world writers who denied any connection to surrealism at all. At the heart of this book are discoveries Delia Ungureanu has made in the archives of Harvard's Widener and Houghton libraries, where she has found that Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov were greatly indebted to surrealism for the creation of the pivotal characters who brought them world fame: Pierre Menard and Lolita. In From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature, Ungureanu explores the networks of transmission and transformation that turned an avant-garde Parisian movement into a global literary phenomenon. From Paris to Tlön gives a fresh account of surrealism's surprising success, exploring the process of artistic transfer by which the surrealist object rapidly evolved from a purely poetic conception to a mainstay of surrealist visual art and then a key element in late modernist and postmodern fiction, from Borges and Nabokov to such disparate writers as Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, and Orhan Pamuk in the 21st century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501333208

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9781501333200

Kunim

Raise Me Up

By: Delia J. Nzekwu

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Kunim

Raise Me Up

By: Delia J. Nzekwu

Set within the cultural and geographical framework of Nigeria, Kunim: Raise Me Up is a collection of not-so-short stories that examine universal themes, such as discrimination and familial discord, as well as culturally specific biases, beliefs, and traditions, as it takes its readers on three very distinct but equally enlightening journeys. In “Fate,” two young, motherless sisters are forced to navigate the often-tumultuous waters of intra-cultural stereotyping and discrimination while their father is away on business. “Shadows” tells the story of a young Nigerian businessman, currently living in the United States, who returns to his home village and falls for a beautiful young woman whose mysterious nature has him rethinking everything he’d thought he understood about himself, the world, and the nature of the supernatural. And finally, in “Eyes that Speak,” a young girl whose parents perpetually keep themselves too busy to even notice her, let alone the unravelling of their own marriage, is feeling disconnected, alone, and fed up with the world until an unexpected kindness from a supposed adversary changes absolutely everything (though perhaps not for the better). Whether the Nigerian culture is your own, familiar to your own, or nothing like your own, the heart of this collection is the universality of the themes, shining a light into the depth of mankind’s complicated nature and how we cope with living as disparate collections of individuals among the larger multitudes, juggling cultural traditions, expectations, and our own instinctive need to belong.

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FriesenPress

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1039181864

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Siracusa

By: Delia Ephron

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Siracusa

By: Delia Ephron

An electrifying New York Times bestselling novel about marriage and deceit that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. With her inimitable psychological astuteness and uncanny understanding of the human heart, Ephron delivers a powerful meditation on marriage, friendship, and the meaning of travel. Set on the sun-drenched coast of the Ionian Sea, Siracusa unfolds with the pacing of a psychological thriller and delivers an unexpected final act that none will see coming. One of People Magazine’s Top 10 Books • A Washington Post Bestseller • A Los Angeles Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • One of Vulture’s 100 Greatest Beach Books Ever • A People Magazine Summer Reading Pick • One of Elle, InStyle, and Marie Claire’s Best of July • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 (Fiction)

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0735212325

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Our Hope Alone (Whitehall Season 1 Episode 10)

By: Liz Duffy Adams,Delia Sherman,Barbara Samuel,Madeleine Robins,Mary Robinette Kowal,Sarah Smith

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Our Hope Alone (Whitehall Season 1 Episode 10)

By: Liz Duffy Adams,Delia Sherman,Barbara Samuel,Madeleine Robins,Mary Robinette Kowal,Sarah Smith

Whispers behind closed doors carry substantial weight in the tenth installment of Whitehall, an episodic royal tale full of true history and sensual intrigue, new from Serial Box Publishing. Matters of national import become the purview of closed-door conferences as one plot is exposed while another is reconsidered. Meanwhile Jenny gets a surprising offer, and Catherine learns that being queen means little when it comes to certain womanly woes. This episode is brought to you Liz Duffy Adams and Delia Sherman who know exactly what power lies in the private conversations of women.

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1682100774

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You Matter

The Human Solution

By: Delia Smith

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You Matter

The Human Solution

By: Delia Smith

We know science is awesome, as are its achievements. Yet so far scientists have managed to sidestep the most awesome reality of all, the true nature of human life, the source of their own genius. How is it that in the overwhelming immensity of the cosmos, on microscopic earth, human beings exist? We have not yet looked reality in the face and perceived the nobility and grandeur of who we are, each of us having a responsibility in the universe and being part of a vast and continuing process, which can only emerge from the shadows and darkest corners of our thought when we step aside away from all the noise. 'You Matter' encourages people to think more deeply about the phenomenon of existence, what it means to be a unique human person, and how in unity with one another we can build a future in these uncertain times.

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1912914344

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Whitehall: A Novel (Part 2)

By: Liz Duffy Adams,Delia Sherman,Barbara Samuel,Madeleine Robins,Mary Robinette Kowal,Sarah Smith

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Whitehall: A Novel (Part 2)

By: Liz Duffy Adams,Delia Sherman,Barbara Samuel,Madeleine Robins,Mary Robinette Kowal,Sarah Smith

She who would be queen must win the love of a king—and a country. Whitehall is a royal tale full of true history and sensual intrigue, from Serial Box Publishing. Set in the 17th century court of King Charles II and his queen, Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza. Her journey to find her place as the foreign wife in a court riddled with political and religious intrigue -- not to mention the many mistresses of Charles the “Merry Monarch” -- is a tale of perseverance only a true queen could endure. Love mingles with betrayal before a sensual renaissance of art, culture, and sex in this lush historical serial. Whitehall is written by Liz Duffy Adams, Delia Sherman, Barbara Samuel, Mary Robinette Kowal, Madeleine Robins, and Sarah Smith. Originally presented serially in 13 episodes, this omnibus collects installments 8 through 13 of Whitehall Season One into one edition.

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168210124X

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Defusing Democracy

Central Bank Autonomy and the Transition from Authoritarian Rule

By: Delia Margaret Boylan

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Defusing Democracy

Central Bank Autonomy and the Transition from Authoritarian Rule

By: Delia Margaret Boylan

Many of today's new democracies are constrained by institutional forms designed by previous authoritarian rulers. In this timely and provocative study, Delia M. Boylan traces the emergence of these vestigial governance structures to strategic behavior by outgoing elites seeking to protect their interests from the vicissitudes of democratic rule. One important outgrowth of this political insulation strategy--and the empirical centerpiece of Boylan's analysis--is the existence of new, highly independent central banks in countries throughout the developing world. This represents a striking transformation, for not only does central bank autonomy remove a key aspect of economic decision making from democratic control; in practice it has also kept many of the would-be expansionist governments that hold power today from overturning the neoliberal policies favored by authoritarian predecessors. To illustrate these points, Defusing Democracy takes a fresh look at two transitional polities in Latin America--Chile and Mexico--where variation in the proximity of the democratic "threat" correspondingly yielded different levels of central bank autonomy. Boylan concludes by extending her analysis to institutional contexts beyond Latin America and to insulation strategies other than central bank autonomy. Defusing Democracy will be of interest to anyone--political scientists, economists, and policymakers alike--concerned about the genesis and consolidation of democracy around the globe. Delia M. Boylan is Assistant Professor, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472026836

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9780472026838

A New Beginning

In A Life of Greater Fulfillment, Abundance and Inner Peace

By: Delia M. Trujillo

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A New Beginning

In A Life of Greater Fulfillment, Abundance and Inner Peace

By: Delia M. Trujillo

The edifying insights in A New Beginning will help you attain a personal transformation as you begin to manifest the deepest longings of your soul. The delightful and inspiring narratives in this book illustrate how it is possible allow more peace, fulfillment, and abundance into our life. Even though the characters and settings of these stories are fictional, the stories themselves are autobiographical in nature and depict different stages in the author's life and her spiritual journey. The book also provides guidelines for an abundant and harmonious life that will allow you to make a difference for the earth and for humanity during these pivotal and challenging times in earth's history.

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1453521623

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A Hearth in Candlewood (Candlewood Trilogy Book #1)

By: Delia Parr

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A Hearth in Candlewood (Candlewood Trilogy Book #1)

By: Delia Parr

The engaging village of Candlewood in 1840s New York provides a glimpse into the past that will inspire and uplift today's readers. Fifty-one-year-old Emma Garrett runs Hill House, a boardinghouse on a hill at the edge of town. Emma ministers to her guests, both the transient and those who call Hill House home. Gifted with an uncanny ability to see the unique strengths of her guests, Emma serves and challenges them with homespun wisdom and absolute faith in God. When eighty-year-old Widow Leonard shows up at Hill House to escape a heated land dispute between her two sons, Emma welcomes her and tries to help her heal the family feud. But tragedy soon hits closer to home when Emma's very ownership of Hill House is called into question!

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Baker Books

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1441208445

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Young Woman in a Garden

Stories

By: Delia Sherman

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Young Woman in a Garden

Stories

By: Delia Sherman

In her vivid and sly, gentle and wise, long-anticipated first collection, Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailors—the light out a window, the two strokes it takes to turn a small boat—and finds the ghosts haunting them, the magic surrounding them. Here are the lives that make up larger histories, here are tricksters and gardeners, faeries and musicians, all glittering and sparkling, finding beauty and hope and always unexpected, a touch of wild magic. Praise for Delia Sherman's previous books: "Multilayered, compassionate, and thought-provoking."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Fantastic in every sense of the word, Sherman's second novel (Through a Brazen Mirror) is a skillfully crafted fairy tale that owes as much to E.T.A. Hoffman as to Charles Perrault. . . . The Porcelain Dove is no dainty vertu but a seductive, sinister bird with razored feathers."—Publishers Weekly Delia Sherman was born in Japan and raised in New York City. Her work has appeared most recently in the anthologies Naked City, Steampunk!, and Queen Victoria's Book of Spells. She is the author of six novels including The Porcelain Dove (a New York Times Notable Book), The Freedom Maze, and Changeling, and has received the Mythopoeic and Norton awards. She lives in New York City.

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Small Beer Press

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1618730924

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Signs and Wonders

Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss

By: Delia Falconer

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Signs and Wonders

Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss

By: Delia Falconer

Winner of the 2022 Nib Literary Awards. Chosen as a 2021 ‘Book of the Year’ in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Book Review. The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that make us who we are – have already been transformed. In Signs and Wonders, Falconer explores how it feels to live as a reader, a writer, a lover of nature and a mother of small children in an era of profound ecological change. Building on Falconer’s two acclaimed essays, ‘Signs and Wonders’ and the Walkley Award-winning ‘The Opposite of Glamour’, Signs and Wonders is a pioneering examination of how we are changing our culture, language and imaginations along with our climate. Is a mammoth emerging from the permafrost beautiful or terrifying? How is our imagination affected when something that used to be ordinary – like a car windscreen smeared with insects – becomes unimaginable? What can the disappearance of the paragraph from much contemporary writing tell us about what’s happening in the modern mind? Scientists write about a 'great acceleration' in human impact on the natural world. Signs and Wonders shows that we are also in a period of profound cultural acceleration, which is just as dynamic, strange, extreme and, sometimes, beautiful. Ranging from an ‘unnatural’ history of coal to the effect of a large fur seal turning up in the park below her apartment, this book is a searching and poetic examination of the ways we are thinking about how, and why, to live now. ‘Only the finest of writers can hope to convey the mercurial nature of the times we are living though: the sense of slippage; of terror and beauty. Falconer is such a writer. Signs and Wonders is an essential collection.’ Sophie Cunningham, author of City of Trees ‘Delia Falconer is one of the best writers working today, and in Signs and Wonders she demonstrates everything that makes her writing so necessary. Brave, beautiful, and breathtaking in its elegance and intelligence, it is, quite simply, a marvel.’ James Bradley ‘Scintillating. Delia Falconer is at the peak of her powers as a critic, and as an observer of the natural world. Signs and Wonders looks outward from Sydney, and from literature, to trace the contours of our environmental moment.’ Rebecca Giggs, author of Fathoms ‘Exquisite … From reflections on feeding birds, analyses of literary trends, to Falconer’s Covid and fire diaries, the essays are complex, ambitious, rewarding … Delia Falconer’s mesmerising Signs and Wonders helps us to process the disorienting complexity of living in this time of great beauty and loss.’ Jonica Newby, Australian Book Review

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Simon and Schuster

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1760857831

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Left on Tenth

A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir

By: Delia Ephron

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Left on Tenth

A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir

By: Delia Ephron

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone). Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life—she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love. But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia. In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves. A "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" by TIME, Bustle, Parade, Publishers Weekly, Boston.com A "Best Memoir of 2022" by Marie Claire A "Best Memoir of April" by Vanity Fair

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Little, Brown

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0316268879

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9780316268875

The Art of Intentional Living

A Comprehensive Guide for Finding Inner Peace;

By: Delia Delia

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The Art of Intentional Living

A Comprehensive Guide for Finding Inner Peace;

By: Delia Delia

The Art of Intentional Living explains how our life is the creation of our mind. We have knowingly or unknowingly created all the outcomes and circumstances of our life, and frequently many of them are not what we would have chosen because we ourselves have created the blockages that keep us disconnected from abundance, peace, love, joy, and fulfillment in so many areas of our life. The goal of this book is to promote the healing and integration of your body, mind, emotions, and spirit, which is an essential element of intentional living. You will learn how to attain a balanced mind and calm emotions, how to transition to a healthy, balanced lifestyle in harmony with the rhythms of nature, and how to nurture your spiritual connection in order to receive greater wisdom and inner strength. Furthermore, the healing of our world begins with peace, harmony, and wisdom in our own heart. Therefore, when we have made our transition to intentional living and have allowed our present reality to be transformed, we will at the same time be contributing to the healing and transformation of the earth and all her inhabitants.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514437848

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9781514437841

The Ingenious Simpleton

Upending Imposed Ideologies through Brief Comic Theatre

By: Delia Méndez Montesinos

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The Ingenious Simpleton

Upending Imposed Ideologies through Brief Comic Theatre

By: Delia Méndez Montesinos

This book analyzes the role of the theatrical simpleton in the pasos of the sixteenth-century playwright Lupe de Rueda, in Mario Moreno’s character “Cantinflas,” and in the esquirol of the 1960s Actos of the Teatro Campesino. Spanning multiple regions and time periods, this book fills an important void in Spanish and theatrical studies.

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University Press of America

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076186279X

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9780761862796

Dance and Movement Sessions for Older People

A Handbook for Activity Coordinators and Carers

By: Delia Silvester

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Dance and Movement Sessions for Older People

A Handbook for Activity Coordinators and Carers

By: Delia Silvester

This practical handbook will empower activity coordinators and carers to run safe, rewarding and health-giving dance and movement sessions with older people, including with those who are frail, who have limited mobility or who are living with dementia. The authors describe the many benefits of dance and movement for older people, and address important practical considerations such as carrying out risk assessments, safety issues, adaptations for specific health conditions and disabilities and how to select appropriate props and music. Step-by-step instructions for 20 dances and movements drawn from a wide range of eras, cultures and traditions are then provided. Ranging from Can Can and Charleston to hand jive, morris dancing, sea shanties and traditional hymns with movements, there is something to suit every mood and occasion. This is an essential resource for activity coordinators and carers working with older people in care homes and day centres.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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0857008463

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9780857008466

From Paris to Tl�n

Surrealism as World Literature

By: Delia Ungureanu

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From Paris to Tl�n

Surrealism as World Literature

By: Delia Ungureanu

Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact worldwide in fiction-including in major world writers who denied any connection to surrealism at all. At the heart of this book are discoveries Delia Ungureanu has made in the archives of Harvard's Widener and Houghton libraries, where she has found that Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov were greatly indebted to surrealism for the creation of the pivotal characters who brought them world fame: Pierre Menard and Lolita. In From Paris to Tl�n: Surrealism as World Literature, Ungureanu explores the networks of transmission and transformation that turned an avant-garde Parisian movement into a global literary phenomenon. From Paris to Tl�n gives a fresh account of surrealism's surprising success, exploring the process of artistic transfer by which the surrealist object rapidly evolved from a purely poetic conception to a mainstay of surrealist visual art and then a key element in late modernist and postmodern fiction, from Borges and Nabokov to such disparate writers as Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez, Haruki Murakami, and Orhan Pamuk in the 21st century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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150134109X

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9781501341090

George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture

By: Delia da Sousa Correa

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George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture

By: Delia da Sousa Correa

George Eliot was passionate about music and her writing is steeped in musical allusion. This book explores musical reference in her work and investigates contexts such as Eliot's friendship with Wagner, the legacy of Romanticism, music's role in scientific theory, and the ambivalent status of female musicality. The book establishes how intensely Eliot's musical allusions are informed by her contemporary culture and offers a fresh view of the experimental writing through which she took literary realism into previously uncharted regions.

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Springer

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0230598013

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9780230598010

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