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The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer (Large Print 16pt)

By: Edwina Preston

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The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer (Large Print 16pt)

By: Edwina Preston

When brothers Arcadia and Otto Cirque arrive in a fading gold - mining town with their travelling circus, Saturnalia, the town and the life of young Marianne Ward will never be the same. Months later, the flamboyant Arcadia Cirque is found dead, a pregnant Marianne Ward goes missing, and Otto Cirque sets off to find her. These dramatic events echo down the decades to Mrs Ivorie Hammer, who is dealing with her own problems. Pregnant and vexed by recent catastrophic events in her home town, she discovers that her own origins are not as she thought. As the small community of Pitch is scandalised by several mysterious deaths and disappearances, it is Ivorie's secret history that holds the key to the truth. The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer is a truly stunning novel, brimming with charm, droll wit and memorable characters. In Pitch, Edwina Preston has crafted a town that is vivid, real and, at times, quite beautiful - quite unlike anything I've read before in Australian literature.' CHRIS WOMERSLEY.

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1459690001

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9781459690004

The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer

By: Edwina Preston

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The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer

By: Edwina Preston

An enchanting tale of larger-than-life characters and a magnificent, sprawling, historical epic that tips its hat to magical realism, this unique and delightful literary novel brings to life a family saga in the most elegant and restrained fashion. A murder mystery and comedy of manners that is never what it seems, it weaves together a Dickensian sense of mystery with a township at social war with itself. This playful and imaginative narrative announces the arrival of a dynamic new Australian writing talent.

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325

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702248665

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9780702248665

Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

By: Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens

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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

By: Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her mother's proud antebellum heritage. In 1966, weary of Alabama's toxic culture, Marcia and her young family left Birmingham and built a life in North Carolina. Later in life, Herman-Giddens resumed a search to find out what she did not know about her family history. Unloose My Heart interweaves the story of her youth and coming of age in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement together with this quest to understand exactly who and what her maternal ancestors were and her obligations as a white woman within a broader sense of American family. More than a memoir set against the backdrop of Jim Crow and the civil rights struggle, this is the work of a woman of conscience writing in the twenty-first century. Haunted by the past, Unloose My Heart is a journey of exploration and discovery, full of angst, sorrow, and yearning. Unearthing her forebears' centuries-long embrace of plantation slavery, Herman-Giddens dug deeply to parse the arrogance and cruelty necessary to be a slaveholder and the trauma and fear that ripple out in its wake. All this forced her to scrutinize the impact of this legacy in her life, as well as her debt to the enslaved people who suffered and were exploited at her ancestors' hands. But she also discovers lost connections, new cousins and friends, unexpected joys, and, eventually, a measure of peace in the process. With heartbreak, moments of grace, and an enduring sense of love, Unloose My Heart shines a light in the darkness and provides a model for a heartfelt reckoning with American history.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817321454

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9780817321451

Integrated Marketing Communications with Online Study Tools 12 Months

By: Bill Chitty,William Chitty,Edwina Luck,Nigel Barker,Anne-Marie Sassenberg,Terence A. Shimp,J. Craig Andrews

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Integrated Marketing Communications with Online Study Tools 12 Months

By: Bill Chitty,William Chitty,Edwina Luck,Nigel Barker,Anne-Marie Sassenberg,Terence A. Shimp,J. Craig Andrews

Organisations continually use integrated marketing communications to achieve a competitive advantage and meet their marketing objectives. This 5th edition of Integrated Marketing Communications emphasises digital and interactive marketing, the most dynamic and crucial components to a successful IMC campaign today. Incorporating the most up-to-date theories and practice, this text clearly explains and demonstrates how to best select and co-ordinate all of a brand's marketing communications elements to effectively engage the target market. Chapters adopt an integrative approach to examine marketing communications from both a consumer's and marketer's perspective. With a new chapter on digital and social marketing addressing the development of interactive media in IMC and new IMC profiles featuring Australian marketer's, along with a wide range of local and global examples including: Spotify, Pandora, Snapchat, Palace Cinemas, Woolworths, KFC, Old Spice, Telstra, Colgate and QANTAS, this text has never been so relevant for students studying IMC today. Unique to the text, is a series of new student and instructor IMC videos showing students how key objectives in IMC theory are applied by real businesses.

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Cengage AU

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0170386511

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9780170386517

Edwina Currie

Diaries 1987-1992

By: Edwina Currie

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Edwina Currie

Diaries 1987-1992

By: Edwina Currie

After Margaret Thatcher, Edwina Currie was the second most prominent woman in British politics during the 1980s. Indeed, she was often spoken of as a potential Prime Minister. Her outspokenness and her lively, media-friendly personality won her a much higher profile than her status as a junior minister would otherwise have commanded. When she was forced to resign from the government after warning of the danger signs of salmonella infection in eggs, she was already a national figure. Revealing her four-year affair with former Prime Minister John Major, Edwina's diaries caused a media sensation. A decade on, and now with previously unpublished material, the diaries still provide a remarkable insight into politics at the top by a writer with an observant eye and a sharp sense of humour. Edwina Currie's honesty, her frankness and her courage make these unexpurgated diaries an irresistible read.

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Biteback Publishing

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1849544514

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9781849544511

Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate

The Color of Love

By: Edwina Louise Dorch

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Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate

The Color of Love

By: Edwina Louise Dorch

This fast-paced, contemporary, novella, set in Los Angeles reveals the trauma associated with skin colorism by unmasking the lives of three women. Vanilla is a Black woman of Puerto Rican ancestry. She is ‘tall and tan and young and lovely’. Her daddy is rich and her mama is good lookin as the song says. Her brother, Deputy District Attorney, Howard Gray has a massive sandy-colored Afro, olive skin, and green eyes. He is vain and his fate is signaled by Proverbs 16:18 “Pride goeth before destruction.” Cinnamon is a Black woman of American-Indian ancestry. She is ‘gobsmacked’ by Howard and engages in magical thinking about him. Dark Chocolate is a Black woman of Nigerian ancestry. The court system may take her toddler away from her if she continues the life she’s living. Class differences are a backdrop for this tale which has religious overtones that are expressed through modern songs, modern works of art, and ancient biblical passages.

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iUniverse

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1663234043

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9781663234049

Howard Arkley

Not Just a Suburban Boy

By: Edwina Preston

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Howard Arkley

Not Just a Suburban Boy

By: Edwina Preston

Howard Arkley's neon airbrush paintings of Australian suburban houses and their interiors represented this country at the 1999 Venice Biennale. Arkley's work has been compared to a visual equivalent of the monologues of Barry Humphries. Arkley was also a wild man. This concise account describes the artistic breakthroughs, his relationship with Nick Cave and the Birthday Party, and the heroin which killed him soon after his talent was recognised around the world. It is the fascinating story of a highly gifted artist who took suburbia seriously.

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Spotlight Poets

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1875989897

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9781875989898

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The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer (Large Print 16pt)

The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer (Large Print 16pt)

The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer

The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer

Unloose My Heart

Unloose My Heart

Integrated Marketing Communications with Online Study Tools 12 Months

Integrated Marketing Communications with Online Study Tools 12 Months

Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie

Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate

Vanilla, Cinnamon and Dark Chocolate

Howard Arkley

Howard Arkley

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