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My Father the Whale

By: Gina Perry

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A vivid, beautifully imagined story about the lengths we'll go in order to belong 'Beautiful writing - tender and engaging. A wonderful novel' FAVEL PARRETT 'Gina Perry has written from the heart to create a story of tenderness, struggle and love' TONY BIRCH 'Paints the relationships between parents and children in all their complexity - the evasions that are practised out of love, or pragmatism, or self-delusion ... A debut novel of rare subtlety and vision' JOCK SERONG For nine-year-old Ruby, travelling the country with her charismatic father Mitch and busking for a living is the only life she's ever known. Mitch has been the centre of Ruby's world since she was a baby, and much as she's curious about her mother who died soon after Ruby was born, talk of her is taboo. When repairs to their ageing Kombi strand them in a small coastal town, Ruby is drawn to the town and its people and gains a glimpse of family life starkly different to her own. But when Mitch is ready to leave, Ruby is caught between her loyalty to her father and the safety of the place that's offered her a taste of normal life, causing a rift between them that will take years to heal. When Mitch sweeps back in town and into Ruby's adult life, his arrival is like a tidal wave, bringing more questions as Ruby grapples with the legacy of her childhood. For her, the only way forward is to confront the past and the secret of a mother Ruby's never known ... and what Mitch was escaping when he set out for a life on the road. Sometimes the family you need is the one you choose. PRAISE 'Beautiful writing - tender and engaging. A wonderful novel' FAVEL PARRETT 'Gina Perry has written from the heart to create a story of tenderness, struggle and love' TONY BIRCH 'My Father the Whale paints the relationships between parents and children all their complexity - the evasions that are practised out of love, or pragmatism, or self-delusion. Perry is especially good on place, even when that place is an endlessly-moving Kombi van that stands in for a childhood home. Not many readers would have grown up the way Ruby does, but every reader will recognise the painful truth that our parents can never achieve the ideals they set for themselves. This is a debut novel of rare subtlety and vision.' JOCK SERONG 'A heartwarming tale about yearning, belonging and finding oneself. Through the eyes of the memorable Ruby, Perry vividly recreates the rich and vibrant world of a child desperate to make sense of the strangeness of her life. With echoes of Sophie Laguna, My Father the Whale is a coming-of-age story, set against the vibrant landscape of childhood, filled with tragedy and joy. This is a novel that stays with you long after the last page is turned' MEREDITH JAFFE 'A standout work of literary fiction. It's understated, heartfelt, and ultimately a profound meditation on loss, love, and familial legacy ... The kind of book in which I could happily lose myself. Indeed, I did just that, and savoured every page' LAURIE STEED

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HarperCollins Australia

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1460714970

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9781460714973

IT TAKES A HERO

By: Gina Wilkins

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IT TAKES A HERO

By: Gina Wilkins

Temptation is delighted to bring you a fun, new miniseries BACHELOR AUCTION And you're invited… Fifty fabulous heroes are up for sale— Including Bachelor #41 Perry Goodman This sexy-as-sin bachelor can handle just about anything—until romance author Kristen Cole buys him for "research." She's facing writer's block and a deadline. He's facing a woman he wants…badly. As the sizzling chemistry threatens to overtake them, Kristen's inspired to write faster and faster. Now all she has to do is convince Perry to be her hero…indefinitely. Bachelor Auction: The man of your fantasies is up for sale!

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Harlequin

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1459257499

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9781459257498

So It Begins

By: Gina Maria

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So It Begins

By: Gina Maria

A holocaust is coming to Earth in the form of a deadly virusone that will bring pandemonium and disaster to all. To survive, a wealthy billionaire named Simion builds a gigantic complex in the side of a mountain. He becomes a modern-day Noah, bringing in two of each living creature and providing protection for all those working on the top-secret project. When the day of reckoning arrives, one of Simions key people, Zack, is home attending to his fathers funeral. Too far away to make it to the complex, Zack has no choice but to stay put and watch the destruction around him. Incredibly, Zack discovers he is immune to the virus. He finds six other survivors, and the small group is determined to stay alive, no matter the obstacles they face. The group begins the long, arduous journey to find the compound, but as the years pass and Zack grows more and more confused as to its exact location, hope begins to run out. Yet before his death, Zack passes on the information to his children; now it is up to them to find Simions complex. Only then will the future of the world be secure. Unique in scope, So It Begins is a riveting tale of how one individuals foresight and intellect becomes mankinds last hope.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426958854

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Scott Turow

A Critical Companion

By: Andrew F. Macdonald,Gina Macdonald

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Scott Turow

A Critical Companion

By: Andrew F. Macdonald,Gina Macdonald

Scott Turow is a novelist, lawyer, and humanist who has fused his two passions, writing and the law, to create challenging novels that raise significant legal issues and test the justice of present laws. In all of his books, Turow reveals the moral ambiguities that afflict both accuser and accused, and challenges his readers to reconsider their preconceived notions of justice. Beginning with One-L, his first published work about the first-year law school experience, Turow continues to capture his readers' imaginations with books such as Presumed Innocent and Burden of Proof.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313014663

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9780313014666

American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

By: Gina Misiroglu

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American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

By: Gina Misiroglu

Counterculture, while commonly used to describe youth-oriented movements during the 1960s, refers to any attempt to challenge or change conventional values and practices or the dominant lifestyles of the day. This fascinating three-volume set explores these movements in America from colonial times to the present in colorful detail. "American Countercultures" is the first reference work to examine the impact of countercultural movements on American social history. It highlights the writings, recordings, and visual works produced by these movements to educate, inspire, and incite action in all eras of the nation's history. A-Z entries provide a wealth of information on personalities, places, events, concepts, beliefs, groups, and practices. The set includes numerous illustrations, a topic finder, primary source documents, a bibliography and a filmography, and an index.

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Routledge

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1317477286

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9781317477280

Improving School Leadership

The Promise of Cohesive Leadership Systems

By: Catherine H. Augustine,Gabriella Gonzalez,Gina Schuyler Ikemoto,Jennifer Russell,Gail L. Zellman

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Improving School Leadership

The Promise of Cohesive Leadership Systems

By: Catherine H. Augustine,Gabriella Gonzalez,Gina Schuyler Ikemoto,Jennifer Russell,Gail L. Zellman

This study documents actions of Wallace Foundation grantees to create more-cohesive policies and initiatives to improve instructional leadership in schools; describes how states and districts have worked together to forge such policies and initiatives; and examines the hypothesis that cohesive systems improve school leadership. Such efforts appear to be a promising approach to developing school principals engaged in improving instruction.

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Rand Corporation

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0833049178

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9780833049179

Shaman or Sherlock?

The Native American Detective

By: Gina Macdonald,Andrew F. Macdonald

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Shaman or Sherlock?

The Native American Detective

By: Gina Macdonald,Andrew F. Macdonald

Fictional depictions of Native American concepts of justice, crime, and the investigation of crime are explored in this original work. Shaman or Sherlock explores depictions created by Native American authors themselves, as well as those created by outsiders with mainstream agendas. The most successful of these writers fuse authentic Native American culture with standard genre conventions, thus providing an appealing, empathetic view of little-understood or underappreciated groups, as well as insight into issues of cross-cultural communication. Dealing with such significant concepts as acculturation, regional diversity, and assimilation, this unique study evaluates over 200 detective stories. Though the crime novel began in Europe as a manifestation of Enlightenment rationality and scientific methodology, the Native American detective story moves into the realm of the spiritual and intuitive, often incorporating depictions of non-material phenomena. Shaman or Sherlock? explores how geographical and tribal differences, degrees of assimilation, and the evolution of age-old cultural patterns shape the Native American detective story.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313075069

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9780313075063

Behind the Shock Machine

The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments

By: Gina Perry

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Behind the Shock Machine

The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments

By: Gina Perry

When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that fully 65 percent of the volunteers had repeatedly administered electric shocks of increasing strength to a man they believed to be in severe pain, even suffering a life-threatening heart condition, simply because an authority figure had told them to do so. Such behavior was linked to atrocities committed by ordinary people under the Nazi regime and immediately gripped the public imagination. The experiments remain a source of controversy and fascination more than fifty years later. In Behind the Shock Machine, psychologist and author Gina Perry unearths for the first time the full story of this controversial experiment and its startling repercussions. Interviewing the original participants—many of whom remain haunted to this day about what they did—and delving deep into Milgram’s personal archive, she pieces together a more complex picture and much more troubling picture of these experiments than was originally presented by Milgram. Uncovering the details of the experiments leads her to question the validity of that 65 percent statistic and the claims that it revealed something essential about human nature. Fleshed out with dramatic transcripts of the tests themselves, the book puts a human face on the unwitting people who faced the moral test of the shock machine and offers a gripping, unforgettable tale of one man’s ambition and an experiment that defined a generation.

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New Press, The

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159558921X

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9781595589217

Arts & Crafts Across the U.S.A. (eBook)

By: Douglas M. Rife,Gina Capaldi

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Arts & Crafts Across the U.S.A. (eBook)

By: Douglas M. Rife,Gina Capaldi

Searching for creative ways to teach about the unique treasures, histories, cultures and people of each state? This book is divided into 51 units, each focusing on state and the District of Columbia. Within that unit, students are given Fun Facts about the state. These include the origins of the state's name, as well, as a list of the items the state has designated to represent: state motto, nickname, bird, tree or flower. Each unit has a craft to be done by individual students or the entire class. Each craft is tailored to teach students something unique about the state’s history, people, geography or culture. Discover fun and fascinating facts about the United States and its people and places. Let the journey begin!

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Lorenz Educational Press

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0787786160

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9780787786168

Discovering Lavalette

By: Gina Simmons

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Discovering Lavalette

By: Gina Simmons

How did a small village get such an unusual name? The answer would reveal the secret to one of the best kept secrets in Appalachian history. The answer had been woven into the fabric of day to day life hiding the invisible threads of humanity and history long passed away. Or had they? Those threads, once illuminated, led back to a transplanted ancient culture left curiously intact, a whirlwind 19th century Caribbean romance and a gifted thinker that reflect the true spirit of a culture known for their independent mind. Discovering Lavalette-Commemorative Village Edition is the multi-dimensional cultural biography of a small southern Appalachian village and its humble people. Introductions include photographs and oral histories from the earliest settlers, their adventures with Colonial America, the American Civil War, the coming of the Industrial Age.

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AuthorHouse

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1438987072

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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

By: Gina Wisker

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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

By: Gina Wisker

Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tale, engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text. It includes discussion of key themes and concepts including: - Representation of women's roles, gender, sexuality and power - Language, style and form - Dystopias and genre fictions - Power, control and religious fundamentalism. Combining helpful guidance on reading Atwood's text with overviews of significant stylistic and thematic issues and an introduction to criticism, this is an ideal companion to reading and studying A Handmaid's Tale.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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144110352X

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9781441103529

Women in World Christianity

Building and Sustaining a Global Movement

By: Gina A Zurlo

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Women in World Christianity

Building and Sustaining a Global Movement

By: Gina A Zurlo

A groundbreaking, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of women’s experiences in World Christianity Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement is the first textbook to focus on women’s experiences in the founding, spread, and continuation of the Christian faith. Integrating historical, theological, and social scientific approaches to World Christianity, this innovative volume centers women’s perspectives to illustrate their key role in Christianity becoming a world religion, including how they sustain the faith in the present and their expanding role in the future. Women in World Christianity features findings from the Women in World Christianity Project, a groundbreaking study that produced the first quantitative dataset on gender in every Christian denomination in every country of the world. Throughout the text, special emphasis is placed on women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the period of Christianity’s shift from the global North to the global South. Easily accessible chapters – organized by continent, tradition, and select topics – introduce students to the wide variety of Christian belief and practice around the world. The book also discusses issues specifically relevant to women in the church: gender-based violence, ecology, theological education, peacebuilding and more. This textbook: Provides a balanced view of women’s involvement in Christianity as a world religion and how they sustain the faith today Introduces students to female theologians around the world whose scholarship is generally overlooked in Western theological education Discusses women’s essential contributions to Christian mission, leadership, education, relief work, healthcare, and other social services of the church Complements the growing body of literature about Christian women from different continental, regional, national, and ecclesiastical perspectives Explores the contributions of contemporary Christian women of all major denominations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania Helps students become more aware of the unique challenges women face worldwide, and what they are doing to overcome them Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement is an excellent primary textbook for introductory courses on World Christianity, History of Christianity, World Religions, Gender in Religion, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses specifically focused on women in World Christianity.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119823773

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9781119823773

Feminist Dialogues on International Law

Successes, Tensions, Futures

By: Gina Heathcote

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Feminist Dialogues on International Law

Successes, Tensions, Futures

By: Gina Heathcote

In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the increased jurisprudence on gender based crimes in armed conflict from the ICTR/Y and the ICC, the creation of UN Women, and Security Council sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict. Contributing to the development of feminist and gender scholarship on international law, Gina Heathcote provides a feminist analysis of the central pillars of international law, noting the advances and limitations of feminist approaches. Through incorporating into mainstream international legal studies specific critical and feminist narratives, this book considers the manner in which feminist thinking has changed international law, and the manner in which international law has remained impervious to key feminist dialogues. It argues for a return to structural bias feminism that engages the foundations of international law and uses gender as a method for challenging post-millennium narratives on fragmentation, the role of international institutions, the nature of legal authority, sovereignty, and the role of international legal experts.

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Oxford University Press

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0191508195

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9780191508196

Gaming the Stage

Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater

By: Gina Bloom

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Gaming the Stage

Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater

By: Gina Bloom

Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not just see a play; they were encouraged to play the play, and knowledge of gaming helped them become better theatergoers. Examining dramas written for these theaters alongside evidence of analog games popular then and today, Bloom argues for games as theatrical media and theater as an interactive gaming technology. Gaming the Stage also introduces a new archive for game studies: scenes of onstage gaming, which appear at climactic moments in dramatic literature. Bloom reveals plays to be systems of information for theater spectators: games of withholding, divulging, speculating, and wagering on knowledge. Her book breaks new ground through examinations of plays such as The Tempest, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and A Game at Chess; the histories of familiar games such as cards, backgammon, and chess; less familiar ones, like Game of the Goose; and even a mixed-reality theater videogame.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472123912

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9780472123919

Moral Courage in Organizations: Doing the Right Thing at Work

By: Debra R. Comer,Gina Vega

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Moral Courage in Organizations: Doing the Right Thing at Work

By: Debra R. Comer,Gina Vega

This book underscores the ethical pitfalls that one can expect to encounter at work and enhances one's ability to do the right thing, despite these organizational pressures. It is a potent tool to foster more ethical

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M.E. Sharpe

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076562768X

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9780765627681

Two Way Teaching and Learning

Toward culturally reflective and relevant education

By: Nola Purdie,Gina Milgate,Hannah Rachel Bell

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Two Way Teaching and Learning

Toward culturally reflective and relevant education

By: Nola Purdie,Gina Milgate,Hannah Rachel Bell

Within the Education Revolution lies another, quieter revolution that attempts to raise the profile and status and learning outcomes of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Two Way Teaching and Learning addresses the interface where two cultures meet.

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ACER Press

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1742866298

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9781742866291

Awaken Your Sleeping Dreams to Fulfillment

By: Gina R. Cayson

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Awaken Your Sleeping Dreams to Fulfillment

By: Gina R. Cayson

Awaken your Sleeping Dreams to Fulfillment was written to encourage people to continue to strive to fulfill their dreams. Almost all of us at one time or another has had dreams, but most definitely a lot of us had them as children growing up. However, often times we let the unexpected changes in our lives rob us of our dreams and goals. We feel hopeless about accomplishing them because we think that they are too far out of our reach. In this book I want to show you how to wake up those dreams and believe again. Its not to late as long as you have life and a mind to do the work-There is Still a Chance.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465371745

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9781465371744

Too Much! Not Enough!

By: Gina Perry

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Too Much! Not Enough!

By: Gina Perry

Move over, Bert and Ernie: there's a new odd couple in town! Exuberant Peanut and steadfast Moe are roommates and best friends . . . most of the time. Peanut is messy. Moe is neat. Peanut is loud. Moe is quiet. Peanut always wants more. Moe always wants a little less. Can these two learn to appreciate their differences? With bright, bold, eye-catching illustrations and two adorable characters, Gina Perry has created a book that will appeal to all the Peanuts and Moes in the world -- whether they think it's too much or not enough!

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Tundra Books

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1101919515

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9781101919514

Write to Publish

Writing Feature Articles for Magazines, Newspapers and Corporate and Community Publications

By: Vin Maskell,Gina Perry

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Writing Feature Articles for Magazines, Newspapers and Corporate and Community Publications

By: Vin Maskell,Gina Perry

A handy guide for freelancers and novice journalists to writing feature articles.

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220

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Allen & Unwin

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1864489987

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9781864489989

Wax

By: Gina Damico

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Wax

By: Gina Damico

Paraffin, Vermont, is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There, seventeen-year-old Poppy finds something dark and unsettling: a room filled with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later, she’s shocked when one of the figures—a teenage boy who doesn’t seem to know what he is—jumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Poppy wants to return him to the factory, but before she can, a fire destroys the mysterious workshop. With the help of the wax boy, who answers to the name Dud, Poppy tries to find out who was behind the fire. Along the way, she discovers that some of the townspeople are starting to look a little . . . waxy. Can they extinguish the evil plot?

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HarperCollins

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0544633180

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