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Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light

The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821

By: Gloria Fraser Giffords

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Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light

The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821

By: Gloria Fraser Giffords

Over nearly three centuries, Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries built a network of churches throughout the “new world” of New Spain. Since the early twentieth century, scholars have studied the colonial architecture of southern New Spain, but they have largely ignored the architecture of the north. However, as this book clearly demonstrates, the colonial architecture of Northern New Spain—an area that encompasses most of the southwestern United States and much of northern Mexico—is strikingly beautiful and rich with meaning. After more than two decades of research, both in the field and in archives around the world, Gloria Fraser Giffords has authored the definitive book on this architecture. Giffords has a remarkable eye for detail and for images both grand and diminutive. Because so many of the buildings she examines have been destroyed, she sleuthed through historical records in several countries, and she discovered that the architecture and material culture of northern New Spain reveal the influences of five continents. As she examines objects as large as churches or as small as ornamental ceramic tile she illuminates the sometimes subtle, sometimes striking influences of the religious, social, and artistic traditions of Europe (from the beginning of the Christian era through the nineteenth century), of the Muslim countries ringing the Mediterranean (from the seventh through the fifteenth centuries), and of Northern New Spain’s indigenous peoples (whose art influenced the designs of occupying Europeans). Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light is a pathbreaking book, featuring 200 stunning photographs and over 300 illustrations ranging from ceremonial garments to detailed floor plans of the churches.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816550565

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9780816550562

The Novels of Gloria Naylor

Mama Day, Linden Hills, and Bailey's Cafe

By: Gloria Naylor

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The Novels of Gloria Naylor

Mama Day, Linden Hills, and Bailey's Cafe

By: Gloria Naylor

Three lyrical and unforgettable novels from the National Book Award–winning author of The Women of Brewster Place. After winning both the National Book Award and the American Book Award for her now iconic debut novel, The Women of Brewster Place, which was later made into a TV miniseries starring Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Naylor continued to garner acclaim as one of the most original voices in twentieth-century American literature with novels such as Mama Day, Linden Hills, and Bailey’s Cafe. Mama Day: On Willow Springs, an island off the coast between Georgia and South Carolina, superstition is more potent than any trappings of the modern world. Here, the formidable Mama Day uses her powers to heal. But her great-niece, Cocoa, can’t wait to escape to New York City. When Cocoa returns to the island with her husband, George, darker forces challenge the couple—and their only hope may be the mystical matriarch. Steeped in the folklore of the South and inspired by Shakespeare, Mama Day is one of Naylor’s “richest and most complex” novels (Providence Journal). “[A] wonderful novel, full of spirit and sass and wisdom, and completely realized.” —The Washington Post Linden Hills: For its wealthy African American residents, the exclusive neighborhood of Linden Hills is a symbol of making it. But what happens when the dream of material success turns out to be an empty promise? Using Dante’s Inferno as a model, Naylor reveals the true cost of success for the lost souls of Linden Hills—a hell of their own making. “Every page contains a brilliant insight, a fine description, some petty and human, some grandiloquent.” —Chicago Tribune Bailey’s Cafe: This “moving and memorable” national bestseller is set in post–World War II Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, where Bailey’s Cafe serves as a crossroads for a broad range of patrons, a place of limbo for tortured souls before they move on—or check out (Boston Globe). “A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humor.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Open Road Media

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1504052749

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9781504052740

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Remodeling Your Kitchen : Illustrated

By: Gloria Graham Brunk,Sue Kovach

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Remodeling Your Kitchen : Illustrated

By: Gloria Graham Brunk,Sue Kovach

Both an idea guide and a hands-on remodeling book, this illustrated volume takes readers step-by-step through the process of designing, planning, and executing the remodeling of their kitchens. 300+ photos & illustrations.

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Penguin

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1592571298

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Art Maps and Cities

Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces

By: Gloria Lanci

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Art Maps and Cities

Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces

By: Gloria Lanci

This book presents an original study on how contemporary artists are exploring urban spaces through mapping. Despite a long history of representations of cities in maps, and the relationships that can be envisaged between art maps and cities in the contemporary world, little research is dedicated to investigating how artists intervene in the realm of urban cartography. The research examines a century-old history of art maps and draws on academic debates challenging traditional notions of maps as scientific artefacts produced through accurate measurement and surveying. The potential of art maps to construct personal narratives, through contestation, embodiment and play, is analysed in the city context, where spaces are shaped by urban planning and design, political ideologies and socio-economic forces. Adopting an exploratory and interpretative research approach that investigates the confluence of theories originated in different domains, this book conducts the reader to discover what artistic practices can bring into a more creative, while inquisitive, understanding of cities. A series of semi-structured interviews with visual artists, enquiring how they apprehend, process and re-create urban spaces in artworks, explores cartographic process and methods in visual art practices in the twenty first century, which incorporates digital technologies and critical thinking.

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Springer Nature

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3031133064

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9783031133060

Romanesque & Gothic

By: Gloria Fossi

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Romanesque & Gothic

By: Gloria Fossi

Too often overshadowed by the Renaissance, the High Middle Ages were a time of vibrant innovation and incredible achievement in European art and architecture. Gloria Fossi provides comprehensive surveys of the period's two major art movements or styles, highlighting the diversity of expression that both movements accommodated.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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140275924X

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9781402759246

Free Stuff for Home Decor on the Internet

By: Judy Heim,Gloria Hansen

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Free Stuff for Home Decor on the Internet

By: Judy Heim,Gloria Hansen

Newlyweds, retired folks, house restorers, apartment renovators, interior decorators and others wanting to spruce up a residence can find all the free guidance they need on the Internet. Internet leads found in this guide include: guidance for windows, floors and furniture; special interest; and many projects, tips and general discussion groups. 150 illustrations.

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C&T Publishing Inc

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1571201092

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9781571201096

Children's Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays, Jump-Rope and Bounce-Ball Chants and Other Rhythms

A Comprehensive English-Language Reference

By: Gloria T. Delamar

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Children's Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays, Jump-Rope and Bounce-Ball Chants and Other Rhythms

A Comprehensive English-Language Reference

By: Gloria T. Delamar

Do you have a childhood memory of playing with other children and jumping rope or counting to those age-old funny rhymes? This impressive compilation includes all the old traditional favorites (and some new) and is useful to anyone who works with children--parents, teachers, librarians, group leaders, camp counselors, day-care people, anyone. Infants' finger and toe-counting games, choose-up-sides and you-are-it rhymes, ball-bouncing chants, tongue twisters, staircase tales, narrative act-out singsong tales and others--children have been enthralled by these rhymes and rhythms for ages. Also included are author, title, first line, and subject indexes.

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McFarland

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1476607613

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9781476607610

Free Stuff for Home Repair on the Internet

By: Judy Heim,Gloria Hansen

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Free Stuff for Home Repair on the Internet

By: Judy Heim,Gloria Hansen

Whatever the category of home repair, the authors have found Web sites with pertinent information. The sites include help on kitchens, bathrooms, floors, and roofs; guide to electrical, plumbing, and heating repairs; and projects for decks, yards, and grounds. 150 illustrations.

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C&T Publishing Inc

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1571201238

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Shattered Sense of Innocence

The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children

By: Richard C Lindberg,Gloria Jean Sykes

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Shattered Sense of Innocence

The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children

By: Richard C Lindberg,Gloria Jean Sykes

In October 1955, three Chicago boys were found murdered, their bodies naked and dumped in a ditch in Robinson Woods on the city’s Northwest Side. A community and a nation were shocked. In a time when such crimes against children were rare, the public was transfixed as local television stations aired stark footage of the first hours of the investigation. Life and Newsweek magazines published exclusive stories the following week. When Kenneth Hansen was convicted and sentenced for the murders, the case was considered solved—until questions were raised about Hansen’s presumed guilt. Shattered Sense of Innocence: The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children tells the gripping story of the three murdered boys—thirteen-year-old John Schuessler, his eleven-year-old brother, Anton, and thirteen-year-old Bobby Peterson—and the quest to find and bring to justice their killer. Authors Richard C. Lindberg and Gloria Jean Sykes recount the bungled 1955 police investigation, the failures of multiple law enforcement agencies, and the subsequent convictions of Kenneth Hansen, in 1995 and 2002, and present new information concerning two suspects overlooked by police for five decades. The authors deftly examine all sides of this tragic story, drawing on exclusive interviews with law enforcement agents, with horse trainers affiliated with the so-called horse mafia, and with the man convicted of the murders, Kenneth Hansen. This intensely intimate account offers a rare glimpse into one community and examines how these atrocious crimes altered public perceptions nationwide. Shattered Sense of Innocence, which is also a story of political controversy, a determined federal agent’s quest for justice, and a community’s loss of innocence, includes fifty illustrations.

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SIU Press

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0809388197

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9780809388196

Mama Day

A Novel

By: Gloria Naylor

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Mama Day

A Novel

By: Gloria Naylor

A “wonderful novel” steeped in the folklore of the South from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Women of Brewster Place (The Washington Post Book World). On an island off the coast of Georgia, there’s a place where superstition is more potent than any trappings of the modern world. In Willow Springs, the formidable Mama Day uses her powers to heal. But her great niece, Cocoa, can’t wait to get away. In New York City, Cocoa meets George. They fall in love and marry quickly. But when she finally brings him home to Willow Springs, the island’s darker forces come into play. As their connection is challenged, Cocoa and George must rely on Mama Day’s mysticism. Told from multiple perspectives, Mama Day is equal parts star-crossed love story, generational saga, and exploration of the supernatural. Hailed as Gloria Naylor’s “richest and most complex” novel, it is the kind of book that stays with you long after the final page (Providence Journal).

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Open Road Media

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1504043154

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9781504043151

Once Upon A Time

By: Gloria Glendale

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Once Upon A Time

By: Gloria Glendale

Here are a few stories that will stretch your imagination. A story about a young mink trying to find his way. Things get a little mixed up when he tries to solve his problems on his own. A story about a little girl finding out that letting her light shine is a good thing. But the love for her brother is most important. A story about a quiet man who's good deeds let people know he has a big heart, but situations change his life in ways he never dreamed were possible. A story about a mother who learns that getting to know the past is important for her future and the future of her children. A story about a girl who gets to know her family in ways she didn't know she could. She learns that the stories her grandmother told her are more than just stories. There is also a couple of tall tails just for fun.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490722467

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Devil Cholla

Volume Three of the Arizona Trilogy

By: Gloria H. Giroux

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Devil Cholla

Volume Three of the Arizona Trilogy

By: Gloria H. Giroux

In Tucson, Arizona, the Union Jack team joins the police and FBI to investigate the facts behind the conviction and death sentence of a supposedly innocent young man. Mystifying clues stymie their efforts, and when new murders of children and prostitutes begin to multiply, the hunt heats up. Quint, Deliverance, Wilde, and Victor find themselves in a deadly quagmire of misdirection, secrets, and pure evil. But this time around, their teenage children are drawn into the Union Jack circle. Approaching adulthood with smarts, daring, and determination, two daughters choose vocations that relate to crime investigation, while a son takes a path into the dark recesses of the mind. As a pair of siblings insinuate themselves into the lives of the team, their fates all hinge on the mystery. Can they put an end to the ferocious threat that challenges their future, or will this villain prove to be superior and cause their downfall? The clock ticks as the source of evil becomes clear ... and shocking.

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742

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iUniverse

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153206814X

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9781532068140

Wildflowers of Houston and Southeast Texas

By: John Tveten,Gloria Tveten

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Wildflowers of Houston and Southeast Texas

By: John Tveten,Gloria Tveten

Originally published: Wild flowers of Houston. Houston, Tex.: Rice University Press, c1993.

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University of Texas Press

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0292781512

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9780292781511

Our Life With Birds

A Nature Trails Book

By: Gloria A. Tveten

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Our Life With Birds

A Nature Trails Book

By: Gloria A. Tveten

For over 25 years the Tvetens wrote a weekly column for the Houston Chronicle called Nature Trails. This is the best of their writings on birds.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585443808

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9781585443802

Shadow of the Wolf

By: Gloria Whelan

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Shadow of the Wolf

By: Gloria Whelan

Libby Mitchell can’t believe her luck! In 1841, her pioneer family decides to move north—near her best friend, Fawn, who lives with the Ottawa tribe. But the girls’ happiness at reuniting is short-lived. Greedy men want to cheat Fawn’s people out of their land and put all of the forest in danger. Now Libby and Fawn must think of a way to stop them—before the woods that they call home are lost forever. History Stepping Stones now feature updated content that emphasizes Common Core and today’s renewed interest in nonfiction. Perfect for home, school, and library bookshelves!

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0307559599

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9780307559593

See What I See

By: Gloria Whelan

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See What I See

By: Gloria Whelan

Kate Tapert sees her life in paintings. She makes sense of the world around her by relating it to what she adores—art. Armed with a suitcase, some canvases, and a scholarship to art school in Detroit, Kate is ready to leave home and fully immerse herself in painting. Sounds like heaven. All Kate needs is a place to stay. That place is the home of her father, famous and reclusive artist Dalton Quinn, a father she hasn't seen or heard from in nearly ten years. When Kate knocks on his door out of the blue, little does she realize what a life-altering move that will turn out to be. But Kate has a dream, and she will work her way into Dalton's life, into his mind, into his heart . . . whether he likes it or not.

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Harper Collins

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0062039717

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9780062039712

An Uneasy Peace

By: Gloria Anne Barrett

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An Uneasy Peace

By: Gloria Anne Barrett

A board of trustees under the direction of King George offers debtors a choice, prison, or freedom. The selected group travels to Georgia to claim their promised land, and find a wilderness inhabited by native Indians. Strong passions, personality disorders and addictions drive the characters, Chief Justice Charles; Sheriff Hamilton; Katheryne, Mother, and Anna; Glomeister, the Director of Indian Affairs; and Bright Sun, the Medicine Man; as they actively work against each other while experiencing life in a small agricultural village. They share cultural and religious differences; love and death, a power struggle leads to conspiracy and murder. A killer turns serial and they temporarily set aside their differences to find the killer. Bonded by oppression and deception, they fight for their independence from the British Crown.

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Xlibris Corporation

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149314961X

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9781493149612

Peoples of a Spacious Land

Families and Cultures in Colonial New England

By: Gloria L. Main

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Peoples of a Spacious Land

Families and Cultures in Colonial New England

By: Gloria L. Main

In this book about families--those of the various native peoples of southern New England and those of the English settlers and their descendants--Gloria Main compares the ways in which the two cultures went about solving common human problems. Using original sources--diaries, inventories, wills, court records--as well as the findings of demographers, ethnologists, and cultural anthropologists, she compares the family life of the English colonists with the lives of comparable groups remaining in England and of native Americans. She looks at social organization, patterns of work, gender relations, sexual practices, childbearing and childrearing, demographic changes, and ways of dealing with sickness and death. Main finds that the transplanted English family system produced descendants who were unusually healthy for the times and spectacularly fecund. Large families and steady population growth led to the creation of new towns and the enlargement of old ones with inevitably adverse consequences for the native Americans in the area. Main follows the two cultures into the eighteenth century and makes clear how the promise of perpetual accessions of new land eventually extended Puritan family culture across much of the North American continent.

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Harvard University Press

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0674040465

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9780674040465

Weeping Willows Dance

By: Gloria Mallette

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Weeping Willows Dance

By: Gloria Mallette

National commentators and social researchers have made Spitzer's The Politics of Gun Control a standard source for understanding America's gun control debate. The book has been widely heralded for its wide-ranging and fair-minded coverage of the national gun culture, the history and meaning of the Second Amendment, the criminological consequences of guns, the interest groups involved, public opinion, and the policy making roles of Congress, the presidency, and the bureaucracy. In the final chapter Spitzer convincingly proposes an innovative framework based on international relations and arms control to suggest a new way to proceed toward political accommodation on the gun control issue. New to the third edition of The Politics of Gun Control is coverage of the proliferation of concealed-carry laws in cities and counties. The book covers the debate and data on the effect of these laws on crime rates, homicide rates, gun-related violence and accidental deaths. School violence-including the shooting at Columbine High and other schools around the country's also explored including: the congressional response in the aftermath of these episodes; the Senate's passing of a historic juvenile justice bill requiring background checks for gun show purchases; tougher penalties for sale to juveniles or to felons; mandatory gun locks on new handguns; and a ban on import of high-capacity ammunition clips. Also new to this edition are discussions of the liability lawsuits filed against gun manufacturers by cities and counties; NRA political funding of Republicans in the 2000 election campaign and lobbying successes with the Bush administration; new activism by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (formerly Handgun Control); the Million Mom March (May 2000); and the expiration of 5-day waiting period for gun purchases in 1998; and the FBI's new computerized background check system.

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Gloria Mallette

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0967878918

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9780967878911

Seek and Ye Shall Find

By: Gloria Black

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Seek and Ye Shall Find

By: Gloria Black

These words by Johnson, 1807-1966, inspired me to write, SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND. "To hold one's self in harmony with one's race while working out one's personal gift with freedom and conviction is to combine the highest results of inheritance and personal endeavor. The significance of this book is to preserve for all time these books of humanity.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426934297

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9781426934292

The Early Years Curriculum

A View from Outdoors

By: Gloria Callaway

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The Early Years Curriculum

A View from Outdoors

By: Gloria Callaway

Based on an account of Cornwall's Education Action Zone project, this book explores how to plan, implement and assess a rigorous outdoor early years curriculum that complements classroom-based learning and meets the Early Learning Goals.

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Routledge

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1136753915

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9781136753916

Corpse Flower

A Cornwall and Redfern Mystery

By: Gloria Ferris

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Corpse Flower

A Cornwall and Redfern Mystery

By: Gloria Ferris

2010 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner Bliss’s life becomes anything but blissful when she encounters the world of rural pot cultivation. From country club to trailer park ... Swindled out of a fair divorce settlement, former socialite Bliss Moonbeam Cornwall works a number of part-time jobs to pay the rent on a rundown trailer and keep her motorcycle on the road. House cleaner, yoga teacher, library assistant, cemetery groundskeeper, drudge for her agoraphobic cousin – the work never ends. But Bliss still can’t save enough money for another day in court. So, when her cousin offers her a generous fee to find a pollinating mate for his giant jungle plant, she agrees to help. How hard can it be? That’s when she discovers that her neighbours, employers, and even her cousin are involved in a string of illegal activities – including grow-ops and suspicious deaths. Police Chief Neil Redfern’s persistent scrutiny is interfering with her goal, and Bliss suspects he himself may be up to his badge in the crimes he’s "investigating." With no one to back her up, Bliss must make a decision: she can give up on her dream, or she can start fighting dirty. Either way, she risks becoming another murder victim.

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Dundurn

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1459707141

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9781459707146

She Took Justice

The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969

By: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

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She Took Justice

The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969

By: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power – 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the invasion of Africa into the Colonial period and the Civil Rights Movement. The Black Woman reveals power, from Queen Nzingha to Shirley Chisholm. In She Took Justice, we see centuries of courage in the face of racial prejudice and gender oppression. We gain insight into American history through The Black Woman's fight against race laws, especially criminal injustice. She became an organizer, leader, activist, lawyer, and judge – a fighter in her own advancement. These engaging true stories show that, for most of American history, the law was an enemy to The Black Woman. Using perseverance, tenacity, intelligence, and faith, she turned the law into a weapon to combat discrimination, a prestigious occupation, and a platform from which she could lift others as she rose. This is a book for every reader.

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Routledge

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1000283550

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9781000283556

A Time to Keep Silent

By: Gloria Whelan

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A Time to Keep Silent

By: Gloria Whelan

When thirteen-year-old Clair's relationship with her minister father changes after her mother's death, she stops speaking, and the subsequent events change both their lives.

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Eerdmans Young Readers

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0802852556

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9780802852557

The Road

By: Gloria Harrell

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The Road

By: Gloria Harrell

A child raised by a couple who show her no love or affection, her only friends are forest animals whom she loves dearly. She live in a broken down car with people she calls ma and pa. A child raised by a couple who showed her no love or affection. Her only friends are forest animals whom she loves dearly. She lives in a broken-down car with people she calls Ma and Pa. As a child, she knows no other way of life until one night a hand clamps over her mouth and foul breath whispers in her ear, "Run, get out of here. There are plans for you that shouldn't happen to a dog." Alone in the night, a young child races through the woods in terror until, bang! Knocking herself out and awakes to a whole new world. White walls, sounds, and smells, and they all comfort her. If only she can keep a secret, maybe she can keep her new life.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1685176410

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9781685176419

A Clearing in the Forest

By: Gloria Whelan

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A Clearing in the Forest

By: Gloria Whelan

An elderly woman and a young boy team up to save the countryside Old Frances Crawford is looking for wild mushrooms when she hears the gunshot. A few minutes later, the teenage hunter blunders into her clearing, two dead rabbits over his shoulder. As an apology for hunting on her land, Wilson offers her one of the rabbits, and Frances is happy to take it. She hasn’t been able to afford meat for some time. He is handing it over when she falls at his feet in a dead faint. Wilson carries Frances home and the two get to talking—about fossils, about the woods, about the best way to cook rabbit with wild mushrooms. Soon this tough old lady is teaching Wilson everything she knows about the forests of Northern Michigan. When an oil company threatens to destroy the natural landscape, these unlikely friends will work to save the woods that brought them together.

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Open Road Media

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1497673909

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9781497673908

The Book of Iris

A Life of Robin Hyde

By: Derek Challis,Gloria Rawlinson

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The Book of Iris

A Life of Robin Hyde

By: Derek Challis,Gloria Rawlinson

Brilliant, beautiful, difficult and doomed, Iris Wilkinson (known as the writer Robin Hyde) led a short, tumultuous and incredibly productive life. Here her story is told for the first time in a dramatic and deeply moving narrative. Researched by both authors from 1965 to 1971, it was written in a first draft by Iris Wilkinson's friend, Gloria Rawlinson; since Rawlinson's death in 1995 it has been revised and completed by Derek Challis, Wilkinson's son. It includes appalling accounts of hidden pregnancies, harsh experience as a solo mother, dependence on drugs, intimate acquaintance with sexism and poverty, mental breakdown, and a perilous trip to China in wartime. There are deep friendships and hurtful betrayals. Always there is a dedicated and determined commitment to writing. ..."--Jacket.

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Auckland University Press

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1869402677

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9781869402679

Savoring God

Comparative Theopoetics

By: Gloria Maité Hernández

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Savoring God

Comparative Theopoetics

By: Gloria Maité Hernández

Savoring God is a comparative study that examines the creative interaction of poetry and theology in two mystical poems central to the Christian and the Hindu traditions, the sixteenth-century Spanish Cántico espiritual (Spiritual Canticle), by Saint John of the Cross, and the Sanskrit R=asa L=il=a (Dance of Love), which originated in the oral tradition. Alongside the poems, Gloria Maité Hernández examines theological commentaries on the texts: the Comentarios, written by Saint John of the Cross on his own poem, and the foundational commentary on the R=asa L=il=a by 'Sr=idhara Sv=ami as well as commentaries by the sixteenth-century theologian J=iva Gosv=ami, from the Gau.d=iya Vai.s.nava school, and other Gau.d=iya theologians. The phrase "savoring God" conveys the Spanish gustar a Dios (to savor God) and the Sanskrit madhura bhakti rasa (the sweet savor of divine love). In the Christian and Hindu commentaries these two concepts describe a way of approaching the poems that is simultaneously vulnerable to the emotions evoked by the poetical imagery and responsive to its theological demands. While "savoring" does not mean the precisely the same thing to the Christian and the Hindu theologians, Hernández demonstrates that both traditions interpret the term to suggest poetry's power in mediating an encounter with the divine.

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Oxford University Press

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019090738X

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Living Together

By: Gloria Whelan

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Living Together

By: Gloria Whelan

Well known for her writing for young readers, Whelan's stories in Living Together will be a welcome surprise for adults who may be new to her quirky, relatable characters and quietly powerful narrative.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814338976

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The Collins Clan

By: Gloria Linda Lewis Collins

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The Collins Clan

By: Gloria Linda Lewis Collins

Gloria Collins was the fi rst child born in the U.S.A of the Lewis family, immigrants from the small country of Wales. Gloria, at the age of 18 married S/Sgt. George P. Collins, her high school sweetheart who had just returned from fl ying 25 missions over Europe during World War 2. They settled down to raise six children 3 boys and 3 girls- while living a military life. After retirement, Gloria and George,with youngest two children, moved to a small town in Delaware. Although she currently resides with her youngest daughter, Linda and her kids, her heart will always be with all her family, no matter where they are. This is the story of a strong, loving woman whos love is endless. Gloria loves to paint acrylic paintings of her grandchildren, garden scenes and seascapes. She also paints ceramics. She keeps busy and fi t by tidying the house and the yard. She remains devoted to her children and grandchildren.

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1479756903

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9781479756902

Righting Canada's Wrongs: Africville

An African Nova Scotian Community Is Demolished — and Fights Back

By: Gloria Ann Wesley

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Righting Canada's Wrongs: Africville

An African Nova Scotian Community Is Demolished — and Fights Back

By: Gloria Ann Wesley

Beginning in the 18th century, Black men and women arrived from the U.S. and settled in various parts of Nova Scotia. In the 1800s, a small Black community had developed just north of Halifax on the shores of the Bedford Basin. The community became known as Africville and grew to about 400 people. Its residents fished, farmed, operated small retail stores and found work in the city. Jobs for Black people were hard to find, with many occupations blocked by racist practices. Women often worked as domestics and many men were train porters. A school and a church were the community’s key institutions. The City of Halifax located a number of undesirable industries in Africville but refused residents’ demands for basic services such as running water, sewage disposal, paved roads, street lights, a cemetery, public transit, garbage collection and adequate police protection. City planners developed urban renewal plans and city politicians agreed to demolish the community. Residents strongly opposed relocation, but city officials ignored their protests and began to seize and bulldoze the homes. In 1967, the church was demolished — in the middle of the night. This was a blow that signaled the end of Africville. In the 1970s, some community members organized and began working for an apology and compensation. In 2010, Halifax’s mayor made a public apology for the community’s suffering and mistreatment. Some former residents accepted this; others continued to campaign for restitution. This new edition documents the continued fight for compensation by community members and their descendants. The spirit and resilience of Africville lives on in new generations of African Nova Scotians.

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James Lorimer & Company

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1459416511

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Timothy and Mr. Tree

By: Gloria J. McCarthy

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Timothy and Mr. Tree

By: Gloria J. McCarthy

Little Timothy Michael moves from the big city to the country with his parents. In the backyard, at the edge of the forest, Timothy's father hangs a tire swing from a sturdy limb of a tree, but Timothy is too small to move the swing without a push. Will he ever grow big enough to soar into the sky as the other children do? Before Timothy gives in to tears, he hears a voice introducing himself as Mr. Tree. A talking tree! Mr. Tree introduces Timothy to Honey, the brown bear, Mrs. Darlin the deer, her fawn Susan Darlin, and another tree across the forest named Cousin Herman. Through these new friendships with other talking creatures, Timothy learns what makes his forest friends happy and what keeps them healthy.

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Archway Publishing

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1665751223

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AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD

By: Gloria Dank

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AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARD

By: Gloria Dank

Bernard Woodruff should have known better than to expect anything but disaster from a visit to his wife’s indolent but good-natured brother, Snooky. In a cabin in the Vermont woods, the irrepressible Snooky rhapsodizes about the simple pleasures of country living while preparing gourmet meals and falling in love with Sarah Tucker, a young woman whose family life is anything but simple. Bernard’s depression at being away from home only deepens after he meets Sarah’s assortment of relatives. There’s a wealthy widowed aunt with a much younger admirer, an eccentric nature-loving spinster, a young photographer, and a blustering hunter, none of whom Bernard finds at all to his liking. But when Bernard never likes anyone, as his wife, Maya, keeps pointing out in an attempt to save Snooky’s bruised feelings. Bernard is still grumbling when he stumbles on a corpse in the woods. It turns out to be the remains of the young man who had just become engaged to Sarah’s rich aunt, and everyone in the family falls under suspicion. Against his will, Bernard is drawn into the murder investigation. By the end, he and Snooky join forces to track down an elusive and unlikely killer.

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Doubleday

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0307816842

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Anything I Wanna Be

Poems and Stories to Inspire Brown Girls

By: Gloria Clark,Sydni Moore

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Anything I Wanna Be

Poems and Stories to Inspire Brown Girls

By: Gloria Clark,Sydni Moore

It's great to be young, brown and a girl. When you tap into the power of that dynamic combination you can be anything you want to be. When you’re young, energy and excitement propels you forward. When you’re a brown girl, in all our varying shades, you have strength because if you can walk boldly in that golden, God-given skin, you are fearless! Oh yes, no matter what comes your way, sadness or gladness, you can take bad and make it good and you can turn good times into great joys. Inside these pages are powerful poems that will ignite your soul and uplifting stories to motivate you to keep on keeping on. Whatever it is you want to be. . . this fun compilation piece was written to help you shine. Read it, let it motivate and encourage you and guide you on your journey as you discover the greatness in YOU!

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1625176929

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Beyond the Easel

Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930

By: Gloria Lynn Groom,Nicholas Watkins,Jennifer Paoletti,Thérèse Barruel,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Beyond the Easel

Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930

By: Gloria Lynn Groom,Nicholas Watkins,Jennifer Paoletti,Thérèse Barruel,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

The Contributions of Artists Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, and Ker Xavier Roussel to the French avant-garde of the 1890s, as members of the Nabis, are widely recognized. What is less known about these artists' careers is their extraordinary work in decorative painting - work on a large or unusual scale for private interiors. This illustrated book focuses on the many decorative works carried out by the four artists between 1890 and 1930. During these years, they moved beyond the narrow parameters of easel painting and applied their wholly untraditional aesthetic of decoration to a wide range of works for domestic interiors, from wall-size ensembles to folding screens. The cosmopolitan group of patrons who made this work possible ranged from the avant-garde circle of La Revue Blanche to prominent members of the French establishment. An examination of their role and tastes is another fascinating feature of this publication." "The book and accompanying exhibition reunite paintings that have long been dispersed, introducing contemporary viewers to a group of bold and evocative works, which had a wide-ranging, though little-recognized, influence on modern art. As the book's authors argue, the aesthetic embodied by these works indeed helped set the stage for the large, non-narrative paintings by artists as diverse as Rothko and Lichtenstein that came to dominate the avant-garde after World War II."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Yale University Press

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0300089252

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Frame by Frame II

A Filmography of the African American Image, 1978-1994

By: Phyllis Rauch Klotman,Gloria J. Gibson

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Frame by Frame II

A Filmography of the African American Image, 1978-1994

By: Phyllis Rauch Klotman,Gloria J. Gibson

A filmography of Blacks in the film industry

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Indiana University Press

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0253211204

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9780253211200

Poems Short Stories and Things Remembered

By: Gloria G. Blakeney

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Poems Short Stories and Things Remembered

By: Gloria G. Blakeney

This book is a collection of poems short stories and things remembered from the author's years of growing up. The poems were started when, while watching tv, I started writing down stuff about angels. The next thing I knew I had three poems written about angels. Things just kept going from there. The book of Ruth has always been a favorite of mine. Before I got through writing the story about Ruth, I felt led to write the story on Ester. A dear friend who is a retired school teacher, read these poems and stories and encouraged me to continue and put all my writings into a book. Many of the stories are from family experiences, so, one could say they really are true stories. I hope something in this book will touch and change someones life.

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1456738216

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The Wanigan

A Life on the River

By: Gloria Whelan

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The Wanigan

A Life on the River

By: Gloria Whelan

To save his family, a logger goes down the river—and brings along his wife and daughter When Annabel’s father sells their house in Detroit, she is thrilled by the idea of life on a farm. But when they reach their little plot of land, she sees that her daddy has been swindled. The rocky ground is hard and unforgiving, and nothing will grow there. Ruined, her father has no choice but to take the only job he can find: chopping down trees in the lush Michigan forest. For Annabel, life in the camp is dreary—but it is about to get a whole lot worse. When her father is chosen to accompany the year’s load of logs as it floats down the river, Annabel and her mother take up residence in the wanigan, the floating cookshack that follows the men. This rough-hewn one-room cabin will house them for three months. As uncomfortable as it is, Annabel learns that sometimes, a river can be a home.

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Open Road Media

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1497673860

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Lift Up Your Hands

Raise Your Praise and Get Lost in God

By: Gloria P. Pruett

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Lift Up Your Hands

Raise Your Praise and Get Lost in God

By: Gloria P. Pruett

Determined to raise the level of personal prayer among Christians, Minister Pruett helps worshipers uncover personal and plentiful reasons to give God praise and get the most out of daily prayer time.

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0446510890

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9780446510899

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