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Rudolph Valentino The Silent Idol: His Life in Photographs

By: Donna Hill

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Rudolph Valentino The Silent Idol: His Life in Photographs

By: Donna Hill

Newly expanded and revised edition. One of the most alluring, enigmatic, and simply irresistible movie icons of all time, Rudolph Valentino continues to inspire generation after generation of moviegoers. In Rudolph Valentino, The Silent Idol: His Life in Photographs, author Donna Hill retells the story of Valentino's life using a treasure trove of rare photographs. Drawn from the author's extensive collection and those of generous fellow collectors and archives, most of the images in this volume have not been seen since the 1920's; many have never been released publicly until now. Rudolph Valentino was more than the "sheik" of one of his most famous films. He was more than the legendary star who died at a tragically young age. For long-time fans as well as curious newcomers, these remarkable images - candid snapshots at home, traveling, on film sets - reveal the glamour and charm of the man who continues to beguile and inspire movie lovers to this day.

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Lulu.com

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0578472244

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9780578472249

Headstrong

Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury without Losing My Mind

By: Donna Valentino

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Headstrong

Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury without Losing My Mind

By: Donna Valentino

In this inspiring memoir of brain injury and recovery, the author recounts how family, faith, and steadfast determination saved her life. Donna Valentino and her boyfriend Paul were at a resort in Texas when an ATV ride ended in tragedy. Donna crashed into an unmarked, nearly invisible chain. Suddenly their romantic weekend getaway became a nightmare of terrifying injuries—including a severe brain injury. After months of rehabilitation and a courageous battle to regain her life, Donna wrote Headstrong, recounting her remarkable journey of recovery and adaptation. In Headstrong, Donna shares the practical and positive outlook that helped her and her family not only survive, but also grow stronger through the struggle.

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BrownBooks.ORM

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1612541089

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9781612541082

Black Ops Bodyguard

By: Donna Young

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Black Ops Bodyguard

By: Donna Young

It didn't matter where Calvin West laid his head. No country could keep him under its thumb. No woman could pin him down. Cool and unpredictable, Cal had a dangerous side that grew the more missions he took. And this time, his orders were coming from an old flame.… Julia Cutting may have worked for the president, but she faced a dilemma the executive office couldn't solve. So, despite her better instincts, she turned to her ex-lover—the man she knew had grown distant. But with a gun and a plan, Cal was a man she could trust with everything but the true reason for crossing enemy lines. Like the danger she found herself in, this was one bodyguard who would never leave her side,or stray far from her thoughts.…

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Harlequin

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1459214579

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9781459214576

The canzone villanesca alla napolitana

Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts

By: Donna G. Cardamone

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The canzone villanesca alla napolitana

Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts

By: Donna G. Cardamone

The printed debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples. Fifteen anonymous 'rustic songs' were published by Johannes de Colonia in a pocket-sized anthology with a cover featuring three women with hoes tilling the soil. The adjective villanesca (from villano or peasant) in the strict sense of the word means rustic or crude, but in this new context it also intimates that Neapolitan poet-musicians had been affected by the instinctive lyrical traditions of everyday people. The articles in this volume trace the Neapolitan origins of this song form, and its subsequent development as it spread quickly throughout Italy in a succession of editions published in Venice and Rome, providing a diverse repertory of lively songs to amuse the privileged that held and attended academies. Several studies focus on key figures in this process, notably Ferrante Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno, and Orlando di Lasso. At the same time the author relates these developments to the contemporary political context, notably the rivalry of Spain and France for control of the Kingdom of Naples.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000947432

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9781000947434

Urban American Indians

Reclaiming Native Space

By: Donna Martinez,Grace Sage,Azusa Ono

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Urban American Indians

Reclaiming Native Space

By: Donna Martinez,Grace Sage,Azusa Ono

An outstanding resource for contemporary American Indians as well as students and scholars interested in community and ethnicity, this book dispels the myth that all American Indians live on reservations and are plagued with problems, and serves to illustrate a unique, dynamic model of community formation. City-dwelling American Indians are part of both the ongoing ethnic history of American cities in the 20th and 21st centuries and the ancient history of American Indians. Today, more than three-quarters of American Indians live in cities, having migrated to urban areas in the 1950s because of influences such as the Termination and Relocation policy of the federal government, which was designed to end the legal status of tribes, and because of the draw of employment, housing, and educational opportunities. This book documents how North America was home to many ancient urban Indian civilizations and progresses to describing contemporary urban American Indian communities, lifestyles, and organizations. The book concentrates on contemporary urban American Indian communities and the modern-day experiences of the individuals who live within them. The authors outline urban Indian identity, relationships, and communities, drawing connections between ancient urban Indian civilizations hundreds of years ago to the activism of contemporary urban Indians. As a result, readers will gain an in-depth understanding of both ancient and contemporary urban Indian communities; comprehend the differences, similarities, and overlap between reservation and urban American Indian communities; and gain insight into the key role of urban environments in creating ethnic community identities.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216160779

Getting Hers

A Novel

By: Donna Hill

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Getting Hers

A Novel

By: Donna Hill

Tess McDonald is running the show and whatever she wants is less than a phone call away; Nikki Howard has what she thinks is the greatest job in the world because she gets to ride fast cars and carry a gun; Kim Sheppard is at the pinnacle of corporate success, the envy of men and women alike. Then Tess loses her business and everything she's worked for, Nikki is convicted of a crime she didn't commit and Kim is accused of corporate theft, potentially at risk of losing her fortune and her reputation. Then fate truly intercedes when they meet in of all places, their doctor's office. And from that day forward a unique alliance is formed. Not only will they bond together to reclaim what they've lost, but in each other discover what they'd been searching for all along.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429905522

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Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips

By: Lonely Planet,Cristian Bonetto,Duncan Garwood,Paula Hardy,Donna Wheeler,Nicola Williams

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Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips

By: Lonely Planet,Cristian Bonetto,Duncan Garwood,Paula Hardy,Donna Wheeler,Nicola Williams

Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips, your passport to encountering Italy by car. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit on the way. Follow the trail of bohemians and intellectuals from hedonistic beach towns to Renaissance jewels, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to Italy, rent a car, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips : Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-colour route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Detours, Walking Tours and Link Your Trip Covers Turin and the Riviera, Genoa, Venice, Padua, Florence and Tuscany, Rome and Lazio, Naples and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips is perfect for exploring the classic sights of Italy via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Want to have a full-fledged Italian road trip? Check out Lonely Planet Italy's Best Trips for road trip itineraries that will give you a taste of what the whole country has to offer. Or looking to road trip in other Italian regions? Check out Lonely Planet's Amalfi Coast Road Trips, Italian Lakes Road Trips, or Tuscany Road Trips. Planning an Italian trip sans a car? Lonely Planet Italy, our most comprehensive guide to Italy, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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Lonely Planet

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1760341576

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Always in My Heart

By: Donna Valentino

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Always in My Heart

By: Donna Valentino

A modern-day businessman is transported back to the Wild West for a romantic romp with a gun-toting miss.

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0061084808

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Pirate of My Heart

By: Donna Valentino

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Pirate of My Heart

By: Donna Valentino

A smuggler sentenced to die is taken on board a sailing ship carrying unhappily married Analisa to her husband. She is a teacher of deportment for the Dutch East India Company. Convinced of the smuggler's innocence, Analisa helps Michael escape, hoping he will return the favor and bring her freedom.

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Topaz

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0451408233

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9780451408235

Curating Design

Context, Culture and Reflective Practice

By: Donna Loveday

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Curating Design

Context, Culture and Reflective Practice

By: Donna Loveday

Illustrated with contemporary case studies, Curating Design provides a history of and introduction to design curatorial practice both within and outside the museum. Donna Loveday begins by tracing the history of the collecting and display of designed objects in museums and exhibitions from the 19th century 'cabinet of curiosities' to the present day design museum. She then explores the changing role of the curator since the 1980s, with curators becoming much more than just 'keepers' of a collection, with a remit to create narrative and experiential exhibitions as well as develop the museum's role as a space of learning for its visitors. Curating as a practice now describes the production of a number of cultural and creative outputs, ranging from exhibitions to art festivals; shopping environments to health centres; conferences to film programming as well as museums and galleries. Loveday explores how design has come to the fore in curatorial practice, with new design museums opening around the world as well as blockbusting exhibitions of fashion and popular culture. Interviews with leading practitioners from international design and arts museums provide a spotlight on contemporary challenges and best practice in design curatorship.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350162787

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9781350162785

Death at La Fenice

By: Donna Leon

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Death at La Fenice

By: Donna Leon

A conductor succumbs to cyanide at the famed Venice opera house, in the first mystery in the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning series. During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To do so, he calls on his knowledge of Venice, its culture, and its dirty politics. Along the way, he finds the crime may have roots going back decades—and that revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine may play a role. “One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.” —The Washington Post “A brilliant writer . . . an immensely likable police detective who takes every murder to heart.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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0802194133

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9780802194138

A Nightingale Christmas Wish

(Nightingales 5)

By: Donna Douglas

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A Nightingale Christmas Wish

(Nightingales 5)

By: Donna Douglas

As Christmas 1938 approaches, the staff at the Nightingale Hospital have their own wishes for the festive season. Ward sister Frannie Wallace is hoping she won’t have to live through another war like the one that claimed her beloved fiance. But with bomb defences going up all around London, it seems as if her hopes are in vain. Staff Nurse Helen Dawson wants to find happiness again after the death of her husband Charlie. A handsome stranger seems to offer the chance she wants. But is she looking for love in the wrong place? Matron Kathleen Fox struggles to keep up morale amongst her nurses as the hospital faces the threat of evacuation. But while everyone else worries about the future of the Nightingale, it’s for her own future that Kathleen truly fears. As the country prepares itself for war, one thing is for sure – by the time next Christmas comes, nothing at the Nightingale Hospital will be the same again...

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Random House

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1448165032

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9781448165032

The Goldfinch

A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

By: Donna Tartt

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The Goldfinch

A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

By: Donna Tartt

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love — and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

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Little, Brown

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0316248673

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9780316248679

Lonely Planet Italian Lakes Road Trips

By: Lonely Planet,Cristian Bonetto,Belinda Dixon,Duncan Garwood,Paula Hardy,Donna Wheeler

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Lonely Planet Italian Lakes Road Trips

By: Lonely Planet,Cristian Bonetto,Belinda Dixon,Duncan Garwood,Paula Hardy,Donna Wheeler

Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Italian Lakes Road Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering the Italian lakes by car. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, marvel at the region's opulence and natural beauty, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the Italian lakes, rent a car, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet Italian Lakes Road Trips : Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-colour route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Detours, Walking Tours and Link Your Trip Covers Milan, Venice, Lakes Maggiore, Lake Como, Lake Garda, Trentino and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Italian Lakes Road Trips is perfect for exploring the Italian Lakes via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Want to have a full-fledged Italian road trip? Check out Lonely Planet Italy's Best Trips for road trip itineraries that will give you a taste of what the whole country has to offer. Or looking to road trip in other Italian regions? Check out Lonely Planet's Amalfi Coast Road Trips, Tuscany Road Trips, or Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips. Planning an Italian trip sans a car? Lonely Planet Italy, our most comprehensive guide to Italy, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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Lonely Planet

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1760341584

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9781760341589

Italy, the Embracing Circle: Il Circolo

My Past, My Future

By: Donna Marie Ferro

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Italy, the Embracing Circle: Il Circolo

My Past, My Future

By: Donna Marie Ferro

Il Circolo is a reunion story, the rediscovery of family and roots. Its the real dolce vita, lived to the tune of Italian Girls Just Want to Have Fun. If you like laughing, eating, and shopping, youre in for a romp of a read. Magnifico! Mark Greenside, author of Ill Never Be French (No Matter What I Do

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499062915

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9781499062915

Saving All My Lovin'

By: Donna Hill

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Saving All My Lovin'

By: Donna Hill

With a new job at Pause for Men spa and wealthy Sterling Powers in her bed, Ann Marie Dennis is about to realize her goal—the perfect life. Then fate intervenes and her grown daughter moves in, crowding her once-empty nest. Next Ann Marie's ex shows up claiming he wants her back. And just like that Ann Marie's picture-perfect life falls apart. Now she hopes a trip home to Jamaica will help her reconnect with her only child and put her ex-husband out of her life for good. But can she count on the support of her girlfriends and her new beau to make things work out?

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Kimani Press

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1426854080

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9781426854088

Ghosthunting Oregon

By: Donna Stewart

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Ghosthunting Oregon

By: Donna Stewart

As part of the America's Haunted Road Trip series, Ghosthunting Oregon takes readers along on a guided tour of some of the Beaver State's most haunted historic locations. Local author Donna Stewart researched each location thoroughly before visiting, digging up clues for the paranormal aspect of each site. In Ghosthunting Oregon, Stewart takes readers to some of the spookiest haunts across the state including: Oaks Park in Portland, where visitors have reported a ghostly apparition of a child in the 1970s style dress; the O'Kane Building in central Oregon, where people have reported seeing "ghostly smoke" and strange lights; and Pioneer Park in Pendleton, where some have reported apparitions and hearing voices. With a copy of Ghosthunting Oregon in hand, readers can visit some of the spookiest haunts across the state and compare their experiences.

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Clerisy Press

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1578605504

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9781578605507

Inferno

A Dark Kings Novel

By: Donna Grant

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Inferno

A Dark Kings Novel

By: Donna Grant

Inferno is the explosive, most anticipated, final book in Donna Grant's Dark Kings series featuring Con, the King of the Dragon Kings! I knew what I wanted. And nothing was going to stop me. King of Dragon Kings. Driven, ruthless, shrewd. The weight of survival for Constantine and his brethren has pushed him to set aside his own yearnings—for now. He’s the most powerful of all Dragon Kings, and Con will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who dares to threaten his existence. For years, Con has hidden his pain—his desperation—for there is one smoldering beauty that he craves above all else, even if he feels he doesn’t deserve her. However, his enemies are at every corner. There is no one left to trust. But none of that matters anymore: There is only one thing that Con wants. With this one woman by his side, he can fight for the freedom of his fellow men-in-arms. All Con has to do is get her to surrender her heart...and be his for all time.

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St. Martin's Paperbacks

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1250182964

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9781250182968

Top 10 Paris

By: Donna Dailey,Mike Gerrard

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Top 10 Paris

By: Donna Dailey,Mike Gerrard

Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, DK Top 10 Paris uses exciting colorful photography and excellent cartography to provide a reliable and useful travel. Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, as well as insider tips, from avoiding the crowds to finding out the freebies, The DK Top 10 Guides take the work out of planning any trip.

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Penguin

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0756691036

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9780756691035

Great Escapes: Southern California

By: Donna Wares

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Great Escapes: Southern California

By: Donna Wares

Great Escapes: Selective guides for travelers who want to find quick trips and getaways within a specific locale. They take away the drudgery of sifting through online and printed travel info by listing only the most worthwhile events, activities, and places to stay and eat. Great Escapes: Southern California: Make the most of the SoCal experience by veering toward some unexpected, eclectic haunts: Go "Sideways" along the back roads of the Santa Ynez Valley, find solitude while camping on Catalina Island or the Gaviota coastline, check out San Diego's hip Gaslamp District, and revel in a 50s-style lodge in the desert of Palm Springs.

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The Countryman Press

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1581579586

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9781581579581

Bitter Tastes

Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing

By: Donna M. Campbell

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Bitter Tastes

Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing

By: Donna M. Campbell

Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and others and positions their work within the naturalistic canon that arose near the turn of the twentieth century. Campbell further places these women writers in a broader context by tracing their relationship to early film, which, like naturalism, claimed the ability to represent elemental social truths through a documentary method. Women had a significant presence in early film and constituted 40 percent of scenario writers--in many cases they also served as directors and producers. Campbell explores the features of naturalism that assumed special prominence in women's writing and early film and how the work of these early naturalists diverged from that of their male counterparts in important ways.

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University of Georgia Press

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082034172X

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9780820341729

Preparing Teachers to Teach the STEM Disciplines in America’s Urban Schools

By: Cheryl J. Craig,Paige K. Evans,Donna W. Stokes

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Preparing Teachers to Teach the STEM Disciplines in America’s Urban Schools

By: Cheryl J. Craig,Paige K. Evans,Donna W. Stokes

Bridging a gap in the literature by offering a comprehensive look at how STEM teacher education programs evolve over time, this book explores teachHOUSTON, a designer teacher education program that was created to respond to the lack of adequately prepared STEM teachers in Houston and the emerging urban school districts that surround it.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1839094583

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Listening for God's Voice

(Meditations, Memoirs, Personal Essays, and Poetry)

By: Donna Collier Rickman

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Listening for God's Voice

(Meditations, Memoirs, Personal Essays, and Poetry)

By: Donna Collier Rickman

Donna proclaims Jesus Christ as her personal Savior and witnesses to overcoming many trials and tribulations through God’s mercy, power, forgiveness, healings, and saving grace. Since the age of twelve when she first gave herself to God through Jesus Christ at Eighth and Center Street Baptist Church in Hannibal, Missouri (her hometown)... she had sensed His Holy presence in her life. Through the years, God has touched her life in so many ways; literally, “breaking shackles neath a load of guilt and shame” to allow her favor in listening for His guiding voice. She has written a religiously-oriented non-fiction book which contains entries written in Christian meditations, memoirs, personal essays, and selected self-written poems. Meditations have originated from characters, primarily using the King James Version of the Bible and tell how they evolved in their relationships with the Lord as the writer has successfully conveyed to her readers. To the best of her abilities through the workings of the Holy Spirit, she has tried to breathe God’s word into the writing of each of the experiences and challenges faced by herself and characters within the Bible. Hopefully, through such design these themes can aid the readers and soothe their hearts in what they are soulfully seeking in a word from God as they magnify His Holy name.

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WestBow Press

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1664288554

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9781664288553

Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction

By: Donna Kornhaber

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Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction

By: Donna Kornhaber

Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood within the popular imagination. In this brief and readable account, these formative decades come vividly to life. Covering the full scope of the silent era-from the invention of motion pictures to the rise of the Hollywood studios-and touching on films and filmmakers from every corner of the globe, Silent Film: A Very Short Introduction offers a window into film's first years as a worldwide entertainment phenomenon. From groundbreaking early shorts to the masterpieces of the cinema's classical era, from street-corner nickelodeons to grand movie palaces, from slapstick to the avant-garde, the silent era's artistic abundance and global variety are here put on full display. In the story of silent film, we see not just the origins of a new culture industry but also a legacy of imagination and innovation that continues to profoundly influence the cinema even to this day. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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0190852534

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Della's House of Style

Stories

By: Rochelle Alers,Donna Hill,Felicia Mason,Francis Ray

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Della's House of Style

Stories

By: Rochelle Alers,Donna Hill,Felicia Mason,Francis Ray

Specializing in Cuts, Weaves, Manicures, Pedicures. . . and Passion. Rochelle Alers' Sweet Surrender Manicurist Maria Parker can't help but notice when a hunky financial planner brings his niece into Della's for a manicure. And when he starts to frequent the salon himself for manicures from Maria, she's pretty sure he has more than cuticles on his mind... Donna Hill's It Could Happen to You When Della turned Rosie's Curl and Weave into Della's House of Style, a few things managed to slip through the cracks—and now she's under fire by the IRS. When a by-the-book IRS agent comes to investigate, Della is infuriated by his presence in the salon—and reluctant to admit that she's growing more than a little used to it... Felicia Mason's Truly, Honestly High-maintenance investment banker Sheila needs some serious pampering. On a whim, she decides to get a shoulder-length weave at Della's House of Style, and afterwards visits the salon's lounge, where a sexy D.J. has a song in mind for her... Francis Ray's A Matter of Trust Single mother Hope Lassiter, once a critically acclaimed actress, is now a cosmetologist at Della's House of Style. When a handsome director tries to woo her back to the stage, Hope has to wonder if his intentions are more than professional...

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A Nightingale Christmas Collection

By: Donna Douglas

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A Nightingale Christmas Collection

By: Donna Douglas

An exclusive digital Christmas collection from the bestselling author Donna Douglas. Includes A Nightingale Christmas Wish and Nightingales Under the Mistletoe plus two short stories - A Child is Born and Little Girl Lost. A Child is Born: A Nightingales Christmas Story Christmas Eve, 1936 On a foggy December night, a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus and is knocked unconscious. She is rushed to the Nightingale hospital, and a healthy baby is delivered. But the mother claims to have lost her memory, and cannot believe that the child is hers. It seems that the Nightingale nurses may need to perform a Christmas miracle. A Nightingale Christmas Wish It’s Christmas at the Nightingale Hospital ... Sister Blake is revisited by a face from the past. Will buried secrets stop her from being happy? Lonely Helen Dawson has new responsibilities and trials, but is she looking for love in all the wrong places? And Matron puts the Nightingale first, even before her own health. With war looming large, will Matron and the Nightingale survive? With new hardships, new loves and new heartbreak, will anyone get their Christmas wish? A Little Girl Lost It’s Christmas time at The Nightingale Hospital and the children on Parry Ward are waiting eagerly for Father Christmas to arrive. But an unexpected arrival beats him to it and, as one discovery leads to another, the past comes back to confront the present. But will Staff Nurse Rose Chambers be able to forgive and forget? It is Christmas after all ... Nightingales Under the Mistletoe Christmas 1941 and the Nightingale nurses are facing their toughest winter yet. With shortages everywhere, and each news bulletin announcing more defeats and losses, the British people are weary and demoralised and The Nightingale Hospital is suffering too. Millie is recently widowed and dealing with the demands of her family’s estate. It’s not long before her old world of the Nightingale begins to beckon, along with a long-lost love ... Jess would rather be nursing on the front line but finds herself sent to the country. It isn’t long before the East End girl discovers there are battles to be fought on the home front too. Effie finds herself exiled to a quiet village, but the quiet doesn’t last for long as she soon finds excitement in the shape of a smooth-talking GI. As Christmas approaches, even the shelter of the countryside can’t protect the girls from heartache.

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1473539455

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My Journey

By: Donna Karan

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My Journey

By: Donna Karan

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY HARPER’S BAZAAR • In this candid memoir, featuring a foreword by Barbra Streisand, renowned designer Donna Karan shares intimate details about her lonely childhood, her four-plus decades in the fashion industry, her two marriages, motherhood, and her ongoing quest for self-acceptance and spiritual peace. Donna Karan was born into the fashion business—her father was a tailor, and her mother was a showroom model and Seventh Avenue saleswoman—yet Karan dreamed of becoming a dancer like Martha Graham or a singer like Barbra Streisand. Fashion was her destiny, though. My Journey traces Karan’s early days as an intern at Anne Klein, the creation of her Seven Easy Pieces (which forever changed the way working women dressed), and the meteoric rise of her company. Along with juicy industry stories, Karan candidly discusses her difficult mother and traumatic childhood, her turbulent romantic life, all the loved ones she has lost over the years, and the personal awakening that occurred just as she reached the height of professional and financial success. That awakening set Karan down a path of spiritual discovery and self-improvement. From est to Kabbalah, from silent retreats to leech therapy, Karan tried everything to find, as she writes, “calm in the chaos.” But she also reveals how a chaotic life, fueled by endless curiosity and childlike impulses, helped her design seminal collections season after season for global powerhouse brands Donna Karan New York and DKNY. She also details how she has channeled her creativity (and her urge to solve problems and nurture others) into philanthropic work, particularly her early outspoken advocacy for AIDS awareness and research, and the creation of her Urban Zen Foundation, focusing on integrated healthcare and education as well as preservation of culture, which led to her current efforts in Haiti. Karan’s life has been crowded with glamorous characters and adventures around the world. But she sometimes still feels like that awkward teen from Long Island who never fit in—which makes her all the more endearing. Brimming with Karan’s infectious energy, My Journey is about much more than the fashion world: It is the story of a young woman whose vision and hard work made her a role model for women everywhere—a woman who dreamed big, fought to have it all, broke the rules, and loved passionately along the way. Praise for My Journey “By turns moving, insightful, and hilarious, yet always, always heartfelt . . . When you’re a true force of fashion, nothing holds you back.”—Vogue “When Donna Karan stepped down . . . it was the end of an era, so consider this autobiography her parting gift. . . . Expect a holistic view of the woman behind one of the most influential American labels.”—StyleCaster “Donna’s creativity and passion as a committed philanthropist are matched only by her gift for friendship. Whether she’s making the world more beautiful or giving a Haitian artisan the tools to create a sustainable business, Donna has always led with great heart and wonderful humor.”—President Bill Clinton “What we take for granted often comes from the most revolutionary of sources. In New York in the 1980s, no one was more radical than Donna Karan. She created a way of dressing that was womanly, practical, and empowering.”—Anna Wintour “An extraordinary personal, professional, and spiritual life . . . defined by Donna’s incredible resilience, her inward search for calm in the midst of success, and her insistence on always following her heart.”—Arianna Huffington

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1101883502

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9781101883501

Brain Field

By: Donna Magee

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Brain Field

By: Donna Magee

Trivia Questions with blanks to write in your answer. First in a series of trivia books by Donna G. Magee

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1300245530

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Top 10 Paris

By: Mike Gerrard,Donna Dailey

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Top 10 Paris

By: Mike Gerrard,Donna Dailey

Building on the successful Eyewitness Travel Guides series, this new series offers a quick and easy approach to travel that uses expert insights to list the top luxury hotels, economical places to stay or eat, best travel deals, favorite family activities and destinations, popular nightspots, the best things to see and do, local activities, and other insider tips, as well as a handy pull-out map.

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0756669332

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Mexican American Baseball in the San Gabriel Valley

By: Richard A. Santillán, Camila Alva López, James H. Aguirre, Donna Galván, Mark R. Garcia, Foreword by the Hank Aguirre Family

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Mexican American Baseball in the San Gabriel Valley

By: Richard A. Santillán, Camila Alva López, James H. Aguirre, Donna Galván, Mark R. Garcia, Foreword by the Hank Aguirre Family

Mexican American Baseball in the San Gabriel Valley puts on record the resounding and brilliant history of baseball and softball in this vibrant and colorful region. Since the early 1900s, baseball and softball have brought boundless joy and immense honor to their fans, families, and neighborhoods. The rich memories of baseball and softball serve as critical prisms to better understand community history; the struggle for social, educational, and cultural equality; the untold contributions of women; the critical role of immigration and labor movements; economic autonomy; political self-determination; and an unmatched love for sports. These breathtaking images and extraordinary stories shed unparalleled light on baseball and softball in this celebrated area of California."--Page 4 of cover.

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1467129704

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Cozy Case Files, Volume 18

A Cozy Mystery Sampler

By: Meri Allen,Donna Andrews,Olivia Blacke,Vivien Chien,Leonard Goldberg,Carolyn Haines,Olivia Matthews,Allison Montclair,Mindy Quigley,Katharine Schellman,Korina Moss

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Cozy Case Files, Volume 18

A Cozy Mystery Sampler

By: Meri Allen,Donna Andrews,Olivia Blacke,Vivien Chien,Leonard Goldberg,Carolyn Haines,Olivia Matthews,Allison Montclair,Mindy Quigley,Katharine Schellman,Korina Moss

Looking for a new cozy series? In the new edition of Cozy Case Files, Minotaur Books compiles the beginnings of eleven charming cozy mysteries publishing in Spring/Summer 2023 for free for easy sampling. The eighteenth edition of Cozy Case Files features cozies from the following authors: Meri Allen, Donna Andrews, Olivia Blacke, Vivien Chien, Leonard Goldberg, Carolyn Haines, Olivia Matthews, Allison Montclair, Korina Moss, Mindy Quigley, and Katharine Schellman. Bring your appetite as you catch up on what's happening in your favorite eateries in Fatal Fudge Swirl, Curds of Prey, Misfortune Cookie, Hard Dough Homicide, and Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust. Take up birding in Birder, She Wrote. Travel west in A Fatal Groove and Tell-Tale Bones. Want to escape the present? Head to the past in The Wayward Prince, The Lady from Burma, and The Last Drop of Hemlock.

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1250320623

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Soundscapes from the Americas

Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance

By: Donna A. Buchanan

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Soundscapes from the Americas

Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance

By: Donna A. Buchanan

Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis. President of the Society for Ethnomusicology from 1979-81, editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology, from 1974-78, and founder and editor of the trilingual Latin American Music Review from 1980 until his death, Béhague also established the ethnomusicology graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin in 1974, thereby influencing the training and thinking of dozens of the field’s practitioners. Among these are the volume’s eight authors, whose contributions reflect the heritage but also contemporary trajectories of Béhague’s scholarly concerns. Prefaced by an essay outlining key developments in the ethnography of performance paradigm, the volume’s seven case studies portray snapshots of musical life in representative communities of the Americas, including the southwestern and Pacific United States, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Ecuador. Situated in milieus ranging from the indigenous festivals of the Andean highlands, to the competitive public gatherings of poet-singers in post-Pinochet Chile, to the Puerto Rican dance halls of the Hawaiian islands, these studies pose anthropological inquiries into the ontology of performance practice, the social power of poetic performativity, and the experience and embodiment of sound in place.

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Routledge

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1317052390

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Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend

Australian women's war fictions

By: Dr Donna Coates

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Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend

Australian women's war fictions

By: Dr Donna Coates

War is traditionally considered a male experience. By extension, the genre of war literature is a male-dominated field, and the tale of the battlefield remains the privileged (and only canonised) war story. In Australia, although women have written extensively about their wartime experiences, their voices have been distinctively silenced. Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend calls for a re-definition of war literature to include the numerous voices of women writers, and further recommends a re-reading of Australian national literatures, with women’s war writing foregrounded, to break the hold of a male-dominated literary tradition and pass on a vital, but unexplored, women’s tradition. Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend examines the rich body of World Wars I and II and Vietnam War literature by Australian women, providing the critical attention and treatment that they deserve. Donna Coates records the reaction of Australian women writers to these conflicts, illuminating the complex role of gender in the interpretation of war and in the cultural history of twentieth-century Australia. By visiting an astonishing number of unfamiliar, non-canonical texts, Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend profoundly alters our understanding of how Australian women writers have interpreted war, especially in a nation where the experience of colonising a frontier has spawned enduring myths of identity and statehood.

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Sydney University Press

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1743329032

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9781743329030

Mount Vernon Revisited

By: Dr. Larry H. Spruill and Donna M. Jackson

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Mount Vernon Revisited

By: Dr. Larry H. Spruill and Donna M. Jackson

An important gateway suburban community, Mount Vernon was formed around the construction of two commuter rail lines to and from New York City. In the first quarter of the 20th century, its contiguous borders with Greater New York, rapid population growth, automobiles, petroleum, and industrial development set the stage for the encroachment of urban realities on the upwardly mobile founders hopes for a sustained and prosperous suburban lifestyle. Through images that illustrate the power of 20th-century transportation technologies, new energy sources, and dynamic demographic forces on this City of Happy Homes, Mount Vernon Revisited commemorates pivotal milestones of the past 150 years while offering indicators of the city s potential and identity.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467121843

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9781467121842

Angel with a Mission

A Novel

By: Donna Boddy

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Angel with a Mission

A Novel

By: Donna Boddy

As a young and rising opera star in early 1900s Germany, Katharina Ernst basks in the glory of performing on stage. Singing is like breathing to her, and with her career headed for the top, she cant wait to see what the future holds. But fate has something else in store. She meets and falls in love with a rich, handsome aristocrat, Fredric Albers. After a whirlwind courtship, Fredric asks her to marry him, and she accepts on one condition: she is able to continue to perform onstage. Katharina believes her love for this man and the promise of a family will be enough to fill the emptiness in her soul. All is well until the tragic loss of their son. Katharina doesnt understand how God could allow this to happen to her, and her very faith falls into question. When Katharina has the opportunity to return to stage, she seizes it, even though it has disastrous consequences for her marriage. When the threat of war looms on the horizon, Katharina has some hard choices to make, ones that will test her faith and change her life forever From the opulence of Germanys famous opera houses to the bloody hospitals of World War I, Angel with a Mission reveals one womans struggle to find her faith and follow Gods plan for her life.

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1462010598

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9781462010592

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