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The Last Word

By: Gerri Lewis

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An obituary writer finds one of her neighbors dead before her time in this debut cozy mystery perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Eva Gates. Obituary writer Winter Snow is no stranger to grief, and writing obituaries for the citizens of Ridgefield, Connecticut, is her way of providing comfort to those who have been in her shoes. But funerals and eulogies are meant for the dead, so when the very much alive Leocadia Arlington requests her own obituary by the end of the week, Winter’s curiosity is piqued. Even more so when she finds Mrs. Arlington dead soon after. Officer Kip Michaels and his relentless partner Tom Bellini make it clear that Winter is under suspicion for the death. Drafting an obituary for someone who hadn’t died yet certainly looks bad, but Winter knows that it wasn’t her, and she becomes obsessed with trying to figure out the real killer. She dives headfirst into the investigation to give Mrs. Arlington and herself some peace. When Winter realizes Mrs. Arlington was working on a revealing memoir that has now gone missing, Winter begins to wonder if the death wasn’t exactly random–accident or otherwise. With the help of her foodie Uncle Richard, her wise octogenarian neighbor Horace, her best friend Scoop, and Diva, the Great Pyrenees puppy she inherited from Mrs. Arlington, Winter must uncover the killer before the next obituary written is her own.

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Crooked Lane Books

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1639106324

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The Last Word

By: Gerri Lewis

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The Last Word

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Katherine Mansfield

The View from France

By: Gerri Kimber

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Katherine Mansfield

The View from France

By: Gerri Kimber

This book assesses the reason why Katherine Mansfield's reputation in France has always been greater than in England. It examines the ways in which the French reception of Mansfield has idealised her persona to the extent of crafting a hagiography. Mansfield is placed within the general literary context of her era, exploring French literary tendencies at the time and juxtaposing them with the main literary trends in England. The author determines the motives behind the French critics' desire to put Mansfield on a pedestal, discusses how the three years she spent on French soil influenced her writing and whether the translations of her work collude in the myth surrounding her personality. This book is the first sustained attempt to establish interconnections between her own French influences (literary and otherwise) and the myth-making of the French critics and translators. The book also follows the critical appraisal of Mansfield's life and work in France from her death up to the present day, by closely analysing the differing French critical responses. The author reveals how these various strands combine to create a legend which has little basis in fact, thereby demonstrating how reception and translation determine the importance of an author's reputation in the literary world.

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Peter Lang

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3039113925

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9783039113927

Turnback Ridge

By: Gerri Brightwell

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Turnback Ridge

By: Gerri Brightwell

A literary thriller set in a near-future Alaska in which global warming and immigration policy are wreaking havoc on lives and land. In the wake of his wife's mysterious disappearance, Nash Preston is trying to hold his family together. As the Alaska summer heats up, he ignores his expired visa—and now immigration bounty hunters are after him as he flees for the border with his sons. Their already fraught journey takes an alarming turn when his youngest, Robbie, picks up a mysterious fossil that makes him sick. When his boys are snatched and taken to a sinister detention facility, he must find a way to save them. Turnback Ridge engages with current and complex issues such as changes to immigration policy and attitudes, climate crisis, and the danger of the potential monetization of climate solutions. Fast-paced and thought-provoking, it expands upon the growing trend of literary fiction that embraces the tropes of genre fiction to examine climate change—such as Alex DiFrancesco's All City or Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Crusted Snow.

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Torrey House Press

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1948814668

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9781948814669

Alice Walker

A Critical Companion

By: Gerri Bates

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Alice Walker

A Critical Companion

By: Gerri Bates

Alice Walker, born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944, overcame a disadvantaged sharecropping background, blindness in one eye, and the tense times of the Civil Rights Movement to become one of the world's most respected African American writers. While attending both Spelman and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, Walker began to draw on both her personal tragedies and those of her community to write poetry, essays, short stories, and novels that would tell the virtually untold stories of oppressed African and African American women, providing readers with hope and inspiring activisim. Perhaps best known for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and became a controversial film three years later, Walker has introduced and developed womanist theory, criticism and practice, and continues to champion the causes of women of color by encouraging their strength and liberation in her life and her writings. Literary works analyzed in this volume: The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy, By the Light of My Father's Smile, The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart, Now is the Time to Open Your Heart.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313069093

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9780313069093

When a Loved One Falls Ill

How to Be an Effective Patient Advocate

By: Brian Monaghan,Gerri Monaghan

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When a Loved One Falls Ill

How to Be an Effective Patient Advocate

By: Brian Monaghan,Gerri Monaghan

The much-needed book for anyone with a loved one facing a serious illness. It is the book that’s a bible for how to make the potentially life-or-death decisions that every medical advocate, and every patient, must grapple with—especially now, as health care becomes ever more complicated. It is the practical blueprint for how to be a successful medical advocate. When Gerri Monaghan’s husband, Brian, then a fifty-nine-year-old lawyer at the top of his game, got the news that all of us dread—a diagnosis of brain tumors caused by Stage IV melanoma with a prognosis of three to six months to live—she knew that this was a challenge the two of them would fight together. Brian brought his enormous courage, attitude, and reserves of humor, and Gerri, with dogged determination, stood up again and again for what they needed—tirelessly researching options, reaching out to friends, family, and anyone who could help, resisting the status quo, and always thinking in terms of “we.” Together they tell their story, back and forth, punctuated throughout by Gerri’s top 50 tips for how to be an advocate: #1 Trust your intuition. #6 Create a battle plan. #15 Get copies of records. #26 Make doctors speak in a language that you understand. #33 Don’t schedule surgery during the holidays. #49 Remember, this is not a dress rehearsal.

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Workman Publishing Company

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152350739X

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9781523507399

Not Pretty Enough

The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

By: Gerri Hirshey

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Not Pretty Enough

The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

By: Gerri Hirshey

Brown's life story-- a classic American rags-to-riches tale-- is just as juicy as her controversial books. In this...biography, the writer and reporter Gerri Hirshey traces Brown's path from deep in the Arkansas Ozarks to her wild single years in Los Angeles, from the New York magazine world to her Hollywood adventures with her film producer husband. Along the way she became the highest-paid female ad copywriter on the West Coast, and transformed Hearst's failing literary magazine, Cosmopolitan, into the female-oriented global juggernaut it is today."--

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Macmillan

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0374169179

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9780374169176

Where to Wear London

By: Jill Fairchild,Gerri Gallagher

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Where to Wear London

By: Jill Fairchild,Gerri Gallagher

Any fashion follower knows that London is a style mecca and home to some of the most fresh and artistic designers in the world. The 2006 edition of Where to Wear shows visitors where to begin and Londoners where to go next. We describe over 600 different clothing and accessories stores, ranging from the global celebrity names of Bond Street and Sloane Street to out-of-the-way treasure house that only the locals know about. You'll find the best British designers, including Paul Smith, Nicole Farhi and Betty Jackson, along with a host of brilliant vintage stores, and coverage of funky neighbourhood markets. Cool Britannia.

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Where to Wear International Ltd

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0976687747

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9780976687740

Katherine Mansfield - The Early Years

By: Gerri Kimber

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Katherine Mansfield - The Early Years

By: Gerri Kimber

The first biography of Katherine Mansfields early years since 1933Focusing on the first nineteen years of Katherine Mansfields life, from her birth in 1888 to her arrival in London in 1908 to be a writer, this new biography sheds new light on Mansfields childhood and teenage years as well as on her development as a writer.The biography draws extensively on previously unused archive material, including the research papers assembled by Ruth Elvish Mantz for her 1933 biography of Mansfield, detailed reminiscences of former school friends and acquaintances, Mansfields autograph book, birthday book, her early letters, notebooks and family papers. Using this rich seam of material, Gerri Kimber explores Mansfields home life and school days, her friendships, first infatuations and sexual experimentation both with young men and young women and her travels through the volcanic North Island of New Zealand and examines her earliest published stories which appeared in school magazines. What emerges is a picture of a feisty, mischievous, young girl and an expressive, non-conformist teenager: the unruly Kass Beauchamp who became Katherine Mansfield, the famous modernist writer.Key Features Brings to light a period of Mansfields life previously of little interest to biographersPresents a new image of Mansfield as a child and young womanReveals how her youthful experiences fashioned both her later personality and the content of much of her acclaimed adult writingDiscussion of the biographical elements present in Mansfields New Zealand stories

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748681469

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9780748681464

Love Potion

A Novel

By: Gerri Brooks

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Love Potion

A Novel

By: Gerri Brooks

In the backcountry of North Carolina in 1927, 13-year-old Harriet, motherless since birth and rejected by Joshua, her father, and ignored by Ida, her jealous stepmother, has no expectations that she will ever be loved. When she encounters Spider, a man of deception, whose own childhood experiences are despicable, she is like a dirt dauber's nest with the dirt still wet, not yet secure in its foundation, its edges raw, unpolished and easily uprooted. She has never before met a man who calls himself Spider, but she knows spiders -the many legged kind. She knows how they weave webs to trap unsuspecting victims. But she believes Spider offers her the love no one else has, and her need is like that of someone in a dry desert with parched lips. His entrapment of her and the consequences she endures come long before a conjure woman, a painter, an old Indian man and a host of other unlikely characters change her expectations.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412230144

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We Gotta Get Out of This Place

The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

By: Gerri Hirshey

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We Gotta Get Out of This Place

The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock

By: Gerri Hirshey

Called "a kind of female Cameron Crowe" by the "Chicago Tribune, " Hirshey's narrative is based on original interviews, as she serves up a tasty platter of girl groups and soul queens, acoustic goddesses and priestesses of the avant-garde, punk grrrls, glamazons, and innovators of hip-hop and neo-soul. Photos.

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Grove Press

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0802138993

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9780802138996

Diaries of Katherine Mansfield

By: Gerri Kimber

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Diaries of Katherine Mansfield

By: Gerri Kimber

Resituates Katherine Mansfield as an observant diarist, chronicler of her times and erudite reader of English and European literatures

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748685073

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9780748685073

Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story

By: Gerri Kimber

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Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story

By: Gerri Kimber

This volume offers an introductory overview to the short stories of Katherine Mansfield, discussing a wide range of her most famous stories from different viewpoints. The book elaborates on Mansfield's themes and techniques, thereby guiding the reader - via close textual analysis - to an understanding of the author's modernist techniques.

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Springer

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1137483881

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9781137483881

No Strings

By: Gerri Hill

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No Strings

By: Gerri Hill

One mistake leads to a year of exile... Used to the busy playground of Winter Park, police chief Reese Daniels is shipped off to sleepy Lake City, Colorado. She takes the job of sheriff seriously, but makes it clear to one and all: this year is just a blip in her life. When it's done, she's gone. Forest Ranger M. Z. Morgan has lived in Lake City long enough to be considered a local. The pace, the quiet and the many friends make life there well worth the lack of dating material. A girlfriend would still be nice, and the new sheriff is easy on the eyes. It's entirely natural for Morgan and Reese to be friendly, but Reese's repeated reminders that she's not sticking around make it impossible for anything more between them. That is, until they strike a no strings bargain. Some guaranteed exchange of heat as the long winter sets in seems just what they need to pass the time. So what if it's the best sex they've ever had? It's still only temporary. They won't mistake sex for more, even if it only gets better—month after month. After month. No Strings—it seemed like a good idea at the time.

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Bella Books

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1594937486

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9781594937484

Mapping the Private Geography

Autobiography, Identity, and America

By: Gerri Reaves

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Mapping the Private Geography

Autobiography, Identity, and America

By: Gerri Reaves

This study of autobiographical writing and its reflection of personal and national identity analyzes the different ways in which these authors balance individual American identity with collective identities and reinvent their familial, cultural, and national engenderings. In each of the works discussed, a private geography - a psychological map, a myth, an ideology, or a fiction - is posited, while its author explores claims to the ownership of memory, history, and the self.

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McFarland

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0786450681

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9780786450688

Stitching A Life in Persimmon Hollow

Persimmon Hollow Legacy Book 2

By: Gerri Bauer

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Stitching A Life in Persimmon Hollow

Persimmon Hollow Legacy Book 2

By: Gerri Bauer

Spinning dreams of glamour, a seamstress uncovers a greater truth. In the second novel in the Persimmon Hollow Legacy series, we meet starry-eyed seamstress Josefa Gomez. Living and working with her aunt and uncle at a citrus grove in Persimmon Hollow, Josefa longs for the glamorous life of a sophisticated fashion designer. Her dreams alarm her Tía Lupita, who fears such ambitions are unrealistic for a 19th century woman. She decides Josefa should live with distant relatives and prepare for an arranged marriage. The headstrong Josefa rebels. Without telling her aunt, she accepts an apprenticeship with the town’s dressmaker and continues to see two suitors. She’s dazzled by the wealth and charm of one but feels more relaxed and open with the other. She’s also unaware of the wealthier man’s dangerous motives. Will she choose the man who could give her the outward trappings? Or the man who has fewer material goods but a bigger heart?

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Spiranthes Press

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9798986660004

The Retrial of Lillian S. Raizen

A Life Avenged

By: Gerri L. Schaffer

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The Retrial of Lillian S. Raizen

A Life Avenged

By: Gerri L. Schaffer

The Retrial of Lillian S. Raizen: A Life Avenged By: Gerri L. Schaffer I was in my thirties when I discovered there was a murderess in my family; a well-hidden secret for so many years. What would drive my great-aunt to commit the ultimate crime, to take a life, a soul of another? In 1921, Lillian S. Raizen killed the family physician, Abraham Glickstein. She was indicted by a Grand Jury on December 14, 1921, arraigned the same day, and tried on February 17, 1923. Her lawyers entered a plea of insanity, but the all-male jury convicted her of second-degree murder, issuing a sentence of twenty years to life. After studying this case for decades, interviewing primary sources, and examining the implications of the law where it pertains to a plea of insanity, Gerri L. Schaffer decided to write her great-aunt’s story as a retrial, explaining the motives and events leading up to the killing from Lillian’s own point of view.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1685371469

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9781685371463

Tales from the San Diego Chargers Sideline

A Collection of the Greatest Chargers Stories Ever Told

By: Sid Brooks,Gerri Brooks

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Tales from the San Diego Chargers Sideline

A Collection of the Greatest Chargers Stories Ever Told

By: Sid Brooks,Gerri Brooks

During his 27-year tenure with the San Diego Chargers, equipment manager Sid Brooks kept over 5,000 football players from appearing naked before their cheering fans. The first African American to hold the job of equipment manager in the NFL, Brooks’ job was to see that each player left the locker room in uniform. But the means to that end was far more complicated—and outrageous—than one would believe. This reissue of Tales from the Chargers Locker Room takes the reader aboard the elevator to B2, the basement of Qualcomm Stadium, where the Chargers locker room is housed. In that basement, the equipment department and trainers, affectionately known as "dungeon rats," ran the Chargers locker room. There, Sid Brooks became caretaker for all who crossed its threshold. In this book, Sid recounts stories unique to a life spent working behind the scenes in the Chargers locker room. He features stories about Chargers greats like Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, Kellen Winslow, Louie Kelcher, John Jefferson, Rodney Harrison, and Junior Seau. With an eye for detail, he recounts tales of spies sent out to capture the opposing team’s playbooks; the night the lights went out on Don Shula; wild cab rides with Fouts, Joiner, and Winslow; the zany pre-game rituals and idiosyncrasies of Russ Washington, Wilbur Young, Pat Curran, Woodrow Lowe, and others; rivalries born not on the playing field, but at the dominoes table; and plenty of pranks and good-natured ribbing. Rarely does a book offer more than a passing glance at what makes a football team a family. But Sid Brooks not only introduces the family here—he also invites the reader over for dinner. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Simon and Schuster

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1613217498

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9781613217498

The Parent's Guide to Children's Congenital Heart Defects

What They Are, how to Treat Them, how to Cope with Them

By: Gerri Freid Kramer,Shari Maurer

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The Parent's Guide to Children's Congenital Heart Defects

What They Are, how to Treat Them, how to Cope with Them

By: Gerri Freid Kramer,Shari Maurer

Provides answers to parents' concerns about congenital heart defects, discussing the various types of problems, their causes and long-term prognoses, the treatment options available, and what parents can do to help their children.

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Three Rivers Press (CA)

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0609807757

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9780609807750

Where to Wear New York Shopping Guide

By: Jill Fairchild,Gerri Gallagher,Julie Craik

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Where to Wear New York Shopping Guide

By: Jill Fairchild,Gerri Gallagher,Julie Craik

Slick, cool and unforgettable, New York City does fashion with sophistication. Confidence is not lacking in this 'city that never sleeps', so don't miss out - especially on a chance to shop. Our New York guide, the first of the series, is as up to date as ever with shopping tips. Whether you're heading to Madison Avenue or over to SoHo you'll discover something new in this shopper's bible. The quirky vintage dress, the perfect leather jacket.there's no better source for where it's at. New York, New York . Need we say more?

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Where to Wear International Ltd

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0976687704

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9780976687702

Toys and Games for Children to Make

By: Gerri Jenny,Sherrie Gould

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Toys and Games for Children to Make

By: Gerri Jenny,Sherrie Gould

Contains 32 projects for making toys, games, puppets, and activities.

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Murdoch Books (PA)

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187876781X

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9781878767813

Grills & Greens

Easy Recipes for Salads and Sandwiches

By: Linda Zimmerman,Gerri Gilliland

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Grills & Greens

Easy Recipes for Salads and Sandwiches

By: Linda Zimmerman,Gerri Gilliland

This one-of-a-kind book features over 70 imaginative recipes for salads and sandwiches that combine warm grilled vegetables, seafood, meat, or poultry with fresh greens and herbs. These easy-to-prepare, delicious recipes suit today's healthier way of eating. 30 full-color photos.

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Clarkson Potter Publishers

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0517585898

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9780517585894

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