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A Taste of Power

By: Elisabeth Elo

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A tense and atmospheric short story from the author of the brilliant debut NORTH OF BOSTON - a riveting thriller readers of Laura Lipmann, Dennis Lehane and Harlan Coben should be sure not to miss! Desperate to escape Gaston, a New England institution to which troublesome young adults are banished by their wealthy parents, Louisa Chambers is willing to pay any sum for a get-out pass. But then the price for her therapist's backing becomes sexual favours, and Louisa finds herself trapped in a nightmare. Pirio Kasparov's a hair's breadth from freedom herself, but she's won't leave Louisa at the mercy of a man happy to exploit his power over vulnerable young women. But Pirio's plan will have startling consequences...

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1472225368

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North of Boston

A Novel

By: Elisabeth Elo

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North of Boston

A Novel

By: Elisabeth Elo

“A gripping and unorthodox thriller, packed with intriguing characters and unexpected twists.” —Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of Nine Inches Like Smilla’s Sense of Snow combined with the best of Dennis Lehane, North of Boston is a dark and deeply atmospheric thriller with a sharp-witted, tough-talking heroine readers will be clamoring to meet again. Boston-bred Pirio Kasparov is out on her friend Ned’s fishing boat when a freighter rams into them, dumping them both into the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Somehow, she survives nearly four hours before being rescued. Ned is not so lucky. Pirio can’t shake the feeling that what happened was no accident, a suspicion seconded by her cynical Russian-immigrant father. And when Pirio teams up with the unlikeliest of partners, she begins unraveling a terrifying plot that leads to the frozen reaches of the Canadian arctic, where she confronts her ultimate challenge: to trust herself.

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1101631708

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North of Boston

By: Elisabeth Elo

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North of Boston

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When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic. Somehow, she survives nearly four hours in the water before being rescued by the Coast Guard. But the boat's owner and her professional fisherman friend, Ned, is not so lucky. Compelled to look after Noah, the son of the late Ned and her alcoholic prep school friend, Thomasina, Pirio can't shake the lurking suspicion that the boat's sinking - and Ned's death - was no accident. It's a suspicion seconded by her deeply cynical, autocratic Russian father, who tells her that nothing is ever what it seems. Then the navy reaches out to her to participate in research on human survival in dangerously cold temperatures. With the help of a curious journalist named Russell Parnell, Pirio begins unraveling a lethal plot involving the glacial whaling grounds off Baffin Island. In a narrow inlet in the arctic tundra, Pirio confronts her ultimate challenge: to trust herself.

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1472206347

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FINDING KATARINA M.

By: Elisabeth Elo

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FINDING KATARINA M.

By: Elisabeth Elo

Natalie March is a respected surgeon enjoying a busy, productive life in Washington DC. As her demanding career has left little time for friends or romance, her deepest relationship is with her mother, Vera March, a Russian immigrant and MS patient confined to a rehabilitation center. Vera is still haunted by the fact that her Ukrainian parents, innocent of any wrongdoing, were sent to the gulag, Stalin’s notorious network of labor camps, when she was just a baby. All her life she has presumed that they perished there along with millions of other Russian citizens. Natalie would do anything to heal her mother’s psychic pain: it’s the one wound that she, a doctor, cannot mend. When a young Russian dancer named Saldana Tarasova comes to Natalie’s office claiming to be her cousin, and providing details about her grandmother that no stranger could know, Natalie must face a surprising truth: her grandmother, Katarina Melnikova, is still very much alive. She escaped from the labor camp, married a native Siberian, and had another child, Saldana’s mother. Natalie is thrilled to think that her Russian family is reaching out and that Vera may be able to reunite with her mother after so many years. In fact, Saldana has a darker motive for making contact. Suggesting that her family is in grave danger from Putin’s government, she pleads for Natalie’s help to defect. Unwilling to break the law, Natalie puts her off. Then the unthinkable happens, and Natalie is drawn step by step into a web of family secrets that will ultimately pit her against Russian security forces and even her own government. How far will Natalie go to find Katerina M. and satisfy her mother’s deepest wish? How much will she risk to protect her Russian family—and her own country—from a dangerous international threat? Masterfully plotted and beautifully written, FINDING KATARINA M. takes the reader on an extraordinary journey across Siberia—to reindeer herding camps, Russian prisons, Sakha villages, and parties with endless vodka toasts—while it explores what it means to be loyal to one’s family, one’s country, and ultimately to oneself.

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Polis Books

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1940610982

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North of Boston

A Novel

By: Elisabeth Elo

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Figurative Language

Cross-Cultural and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

By: Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Elisabeth Piirainen

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Figurative Language

Cross-Cultural and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

By: Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Elisabeth Piirainen

The book develops a Theory of the Figurative Lexicon. Units of the figurative lexicon (conventional figurative units, CFUs for short) differ from all other elements of the language in two points: Firstly, they are conventionalized. That is, they are elements of the mental lexicon – in contrast to freely created figurative expressions. Secondly, they consist of two conceptual levels: they can be interpreted at the level of their literal reading and at the level of their figurative meaning – which both can be activated simultaneously. New insights into the Theory of Figurative Lexicon relate, on the one hand, to the metaphor theory. Over time, it became increasingly clear that the Conceptual Metaphor Theory in the sense of Lakoff can only partly explain the conventional figurativeness. On the other hand, it became clear that “intertextuality” plays a far greater role in the CFUs of Western cultures than previously assumed. The book’s main target audience will be linguists, researchers in phraseology, paremiology and metaphor, and cultural studies. The data and explanations of the idioms will provide a welcome textbook in courses on linguistics, culture history, phraseology research and phraseodidactics.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110702533

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9783110702538

The Tonadilla in Performance

Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain

By: Elisabeth Le Guin

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The Tonadilla in Performance

Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain

By: Elisabeth Le Guin

The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book, the first major study of the tonadilla in English, examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together and traces the lasting influence this genre has had on the historiography of Spanish music. The tonadillas' careful constructions of musical populism provide a window onto the tensions among Enlightenment modernity, folkloric nationalism, and the politics of representation; their diverse, engaging, and cosmopolitan music is an invitation to reexamine tired old ideas of musical "Spanishness." Perhaps most radically of all, their satirical stance urges us to embrace the labile, paratextual nature of comic performance as central to the construction of history.

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Univ of California Press

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0520276302

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9780520276307

Mojave Lands

Interpretive Planning and the National Preserve

By: Elisabeth M. Hamin

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Mojave Lands

Interpretive Planning and the National Preserve

By: Elisabeth M. Hamin

Introducing the concept of "interpretive planning" - a method that takes into account conflicting views of all interested parties - she offers explicit steps for the planner and policy analyst to use. This book will appeal to scholars and students in environmental studies, planning and landscape architecture, and history, as well as professionals in planning, resource management, the National Park Service, and related conservation organizations, public and private."--BOOK JACKET.

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JHU Press

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0801871212

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Human Rights As Indivisible Rights

The Protection of Socio-economic Demands Under the European Convention on Human Rights

By: Ida Elisabeth Koch

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Human Rights As Indivisible Rights

The Protection of Socio-economic Demands Under the European Convention on Human Rights

By: Ida Elisabeth Koch

The book analyses the legal nation of human rights as indivisible, interrelated and interdependent rights by analysing case law from the European Court of Human Rights. The book concludes that the nation of human rights as indivisible right as a legal content and that aspects of several socio-economic rights are in fact protected by the Convention.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004160515

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9789004160514

British Writers and Paris

1830-1875

By: Elisabeth Jay

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British Writers and Paris

1830-1875

By: Elisabeth Jay

Using a wealth of contemporary sources, this book tells the story of the way in which the turbulent, hedonistic world of mid-nineteenth-century Paris touched the careers and work of a host of Victorian writers, major and minor. It attends both to the way writers actually experienced life in a capital city markedly different from London, and to how they retailed this to a swiftly-growing British readership. En route, it reveals the cosmopolitan world of the salonsand the social life of the British Embassy; demonstrates the risky competitive world of the freelance journalist; traces the developing role of the foreign correspondent, and examines the, sometimescontradictory, prejudices about Paris and the Parisians contained in contemporary fiction.Casting a wide literary net, the first part of this book explores these writers' reaction to the swiftly changing politics and topography of Paris, before considering the nature of their social interactions with the Parisians, through networks provided by institutions such as the British Embassy and the salons. The second part of the book examines the significance of Parisfor mid-nineteenth-century Anglophone journalists, paying particular attention to the ways in which the young Thackeray's exposure to Parisian print culture shaped him as both writer and artist. Thefinal part focuses on fictional representations of Paris, revealing the frequency with which they relied upon previous literary sources, and how the surprisingly narrow palette of subgenres, structures and characters they employed contributed to the characteristic, and sometimes contradictory, prejudices of a swiftly-growing British readership.

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Oxford University Press

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0199655243

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The Woman Downstairs

The psychological suspense thriller that will have you gripped

By: Elisabeth Carpenter

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The Woman Downstairs

The psychological suspense thriller that will have you gripped

By: Elisabeth Carpenter

Carpenter emerges as an addictive new talent' Helen Fields Can you ever really know your neighbours? When human remains are found in a ground floor flat, the residents of Nelson Heights are shocked to learn that there was a dead body in their building for over three years. Sarah lives at the flat above and after the remains are found, she feels threatened by a stranger hanging around the building. Laura has lived in the building for as long as she can remember, caring for her elderly father, though there is more to her story than she is letting on. As the investigation starts to heat up, and the two women become more involved, it's clear that someone isn't telling the truth about what went on all those years ago...

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Orion

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1409181502

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9781409181507

On Death and Dying

What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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On Death and Dying

What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work, are now part of our common understanding of loss. Ideal for all those with an interest in bereavement, this classic text is reissued with a new introduction looking at its influence on contemporary thought and practice.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476775540

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9781476775548

The Barbet Revealed

Getting under the curls of the ancient French water dog

By: Elisabeth Roest Kempemo,Brigitte Waller-Rengelink

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The Barbet Revealed

Getting under the curls of the ancient French water dog

By: Elisabeth Roest Kempemo,Brigitte Waller-Rengelink

Up until the 21st century, the barbet, or French water dog, was a relatively unknown breed outside of France. Water dogs are nowadays gaining popularity in part due to the increasing demand for so-called hypoallergenic dogs. The barbet is now being discovered throughout Europe as well as in the United States and Canada. While reading this book, you’ll be getting under the curls of this age-old breed, to meet the fantastic dog beneath that unique coat. A dog which stands out for its combination of laid back friendliness and endless energy. The barbet is a versatile dog, whose gentle and amiable nature makes him the ideal family companion. He is also suitable for use as a working dog in many different fields. The barbet was originally used for hunting waterfowl but is nowadays also a popular choice as a therapy and assistance dog. This book provides excellent advice for anyone who is considering buying a barbet, in order to determine whether this breed is indeed the right choice. For barbet owners, it offers a practical guide to raising and training. If you continue to stimulate your barbet with fun and challenging activities – and you will find plenty of tips in this book – you and your barbet will be best friends for life! Come along on a fascinating voyage of discovery under the curls of the ancient French water dog – the barbet!

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Dog Eared Pages

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908221881X

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9789082218817

In the Company of Men

Cross-dressed Women Around 1800

By: Elisabeth Krimmer

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In the Company of Men

Cross-dressed Women Around 1800

By: Elisabeth Krimmer

In the wake of the revolutionary wars, the figure of the cross-dressed woman proliferated in novels, plays, popular tales, and real-life accounts that circulated throughout Germany. Sometimes appearing in soldier's garb and engaging in battle like Joan of Arc, other times donning overalls and plying a trade, and female cross-dresser tested the revolutionary ideas of freedom and equality. Perhaps her most provocative challenge, however, was to contemporary notions of what it meant to be a women or a man.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814331459

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9780814331453

Traditional Western Herbal Medicine

As Above So Below

By: Elisabeth Brooke

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Traditional Western Herbal Medicine

As Above So Below

By: Elisabeth Brooke

Responding to the recent revival of interest in herbal medicine, Elisabeth Brooke explores the origins and history of the practice of herbalism and discusses its use in a modern context. This new book will be perfect for anyone interested in the use of herbal medicine, in particular those who have read Brooke's best-selling earlier works including Herbal Therapy for Women . "The thesis of this book is the interconnectedness of all nature, human and plant kingdoms, and the underlying connection of a first principle which unites everything and from which and to which everything returns. We shall go on to discuss the four elements and humours and how the planets weave these differing energies through the vegetable and animal kingdoms which show us how Spirit is expressed in the plant, in the person and in the dis-ease." --from the author

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Aeon Books

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1911597205

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9781911597209

Wanderlust

A Love Affair with Five Continents

By: Elisabeth Eaves

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Wanderlust

A Love Affair with Five Continents

By: Elisabeth Eaves

Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves's insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she crisscrosses five continents and chases the exotic, both in culture and in romance. In the jungles of Papua New Guinea, she loses herself -- literally -- to an Australian tour guide; in Cairo, she reconnects with her high school sweetheart, only to discover the beginning of a pattern that will characterize her life over the long-term: while long-distance relationships work well for her, traditional relationships do not. Wanderlust, however, is more than a chronological conquest of men and countries: at its core, it's a journey of self-discovery. In the course of her travels, Eaves finds herself and the sense of home she's been lacking since childhood -- and she sheds light on a growing culture of young women who have the freedom and inclination to define their own, increasingly global, lifestyles, unfettered by traditional roles and conventions of past generations of women.

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Seal Press

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1580053971

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9781580053976

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