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Love and Lies

By: Jeanne Moon Farmer

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Shamrock Beach, Florida wife, mother, and museum curator, Callie McBride, is at a crossroads. With her husband about to retire, will she be able to keep her secrets safe from him and the rest of her precious family? If the truth becomes known, how will Callie and her husband, Judge Charles McBride, handle a lifetime of lies and secrets without their marriage suffering untold damage? How will their adult children react if, and when, they discover their mother isn’t who they think she is? Florida is an ideal location for human trafficking to thrive. Is the town of Shamrock Beach a hotbed for this illegal activity and is the McBride family embroiled in this shadow-side of life? As law enforcement begins to close in on the head of a trafficking ring, will the life of the McBride family change forever? Can secrets and lies ever be justified by love?

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Love and Lies

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The Women of Swenson Farm

By: Jeanne Martz

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The Women of Swenson Farm

By: Jeanne Martz

Something unusual catches Kinley Rankin’s eye as she searches the local paper for work: Farm widower, early fifties, looking for an arranged marriage contract with willing partner. The gentleman in question, Nels Swenson has a lot on his mind these days. After the mysterious death of his first wife, Mary, his wounded, lonely heart is still raw. The effort to keep his farm consumes his every waking minute, leaving little energy for everyday chores and definitely no time for traditional courting. Kinley is also in desperate straits. Now that that her job has moved out of state, she’s out of work and out of luck. Anxious about her future, she decides to respond to the ad. After a brief relationship, she accepts his proposal, which is more of a business transaction than an affair of the heart. As they work together to salvage his once-successful farm, a mutual admiration develops. Inspired by his many admirable qualities, Kinley is no longer satisfied to have just his name—she wants his heart too. Their uncommon union is challenged by Kinley’s unexpected pregnancy and her adult children who come to live with them. The thorn in Nels’ flesh is his brother-in-law, Homer Speers, whose family encamps on Swenson property. Tensions build to a breaking point when death strikes Swenson Farm a second time. All eyes are on Nels when Homer is found dead, and he must prove his innocence—again. As he tries to protect the women of Swenson Farm, his life begins to unravel around him.

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iUniverse

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1491769890

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9781491769898

Jack London's Racial Lives

A Critical Biography

By: Jeanne Campbell Reesman

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Jack London's Racial Lives

A Critical Biography

By: Jeanne Campbell Reesman

Jack London (1876-1916), known for his naturalistic and mythic tales, remains among the most popular and influential American writers in the world. Jack London's Racial Lives offers the first full study of the enormously important issue of race in London's life and diverse works, whether set in the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during the Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight bouts, or the Mexican Revolution. Jeanne Campbell Reesman explores his choices of genre by analyzing racial content and purpose and judges his literary artistry against a standard of racial tolerance. Although he promoted white superiority in novels and nonfiction, London sharply satirized racism and meaningfully portrayed racial others--most often as protagonists--in his short fiction. Why the disparity? For London, racial and class identity were intertwined: his formation as an artist began with the mixed "heritage" of his family. His mother taught him racism, but he learned something different from his African American foster mother, Virginia Prentiss. Childhood poverty, shifting racial allegiances, and a "psychology of want" helped construct the many "houses" of race and identity he imagined. Reesman also examines London's socialism, his study of Darwin and Jung, and the illnesses he suffered in the South Seas. With new readings of The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and many other works, such as the explosive Pacific stories, Reesman reveals that London employed many of the same literary tropes of race used by African American writers of his period: the slave narrative, double-consciousness, the tragic mulatto, and ethnic diaspora. Hawaii seemed to inspire his most memorable visions of a common humanity.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820339709

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9780820339702

James Tiptree, Jr. Award Cumulative List

By: Jeanne Gomoll

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James Tiptree, Jr. Award Cumulative List

By: Jeanne Gomoll

This book lists all the Tiptree Award winners, Tiptree honor lists and Tiptree long lists since the founding of the award in 1990 through 2019, when the awards name was changed to the Otherwise Award. In addition, the Tiptree retrospective awards, presented in 1996 are listed. Also included are ceremony site, art prizes, and songs with which the winners were serenaded during the award ceremonies.

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1794702865

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Ancient Herbs in the J. Paul Getty Museum Gardens

By: Jeanne D'Andrea

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Ancient Herbs in the J. Paul Getty Museum Gardens

By: Jeanne D'Andrea

The Getty Museum building recreates an ancient Roman villa on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, where guests can feel that they are visiting the Villa dei Papiri before it was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The climate of southern California has made it possible to plant the gardens with dozens of herbs, flowers, and fruit trees known to the Greeks and Romans. In classical times they were practical as well as beautiful, providing color, perfume, home medicines, and flavorings for food and drink. Martha Breen Bredemeyer, a San Francisco Bay area artist, was inspired to paint two dozen of the garden's herbs. Her watercolor gouaches combine vibrant color with the fragile delicacy of these short-lived plants while her pen-and-ink drawings share their wiry grace. Jeanne D'Andrea discusses twenty-one of the herbs in detail after presenting their place in myth, medicine, and home in the introduction.

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Getty Publications

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0892360356

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The Wall Behind China's Open Door

Towards Efficient Intercultural Management in China

By: Jeanne Boden

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The Wall Behind China's Open Door

Towards Efficient Intercultural Management in China

By: Jeanne Boden

Exploring Confucianism, communism, Taoism, and a number of other societal influences in the commercial and corporate culture of China today, this handbook serves as a manual for people working with the Chinese and helps businesspeople gain a better understanding of the many aspects of Chinese intercultural interaction and cooperation. This resource offers a comprehensive cultural and historical background on building relationships with China by weaving expert knowledge with practical techniques on how to successfully navigate the Chinese business environment and its rules of etiquette.

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9054874643

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The Exact Same Moon

Fifty Acres and a Family

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

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The Exact Same Moon

Fifty Acres and a Family

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

In Fifty Acres and a Poodle, Jeanne Marie Laskas described how she survived her first hilariously tumultuous year at Sweetwater Farm. Now she returns with a funny, touching, and personal new memoir of what happens after your dream comes true... With a picture-postcard farm, a wonderful marriage, two mules, and a new refrigerator that spits crushed ice, what more can a girl ask for? That’s precisely the question Jeanne Marie asks herself as she and Alex settle into their new life at Sweetwater Farm. Two years ago they left the city behind for a life filled with the practical, often comical, lessons of living close to the land—and they never looked back. Yet when her strong-willed mom is hospitalized with a sudden and mysterious paralysis, Jeanne Marie rushes home to Philadelphia and her extended, sometimes chaotic, but always loving family. It’s there that she realizes what is still missing from her life: a family of her own. Now it’s a matter of bringing up the subject to her husband, Alex, fifteen years older and with adult children of his own, who seems terrified that she’s thinking of adopting a Chihuahua. With warmth, wisdom, and unfailing humor, Laskas tells the poignant story of her search for motherhood—and what happens when a woman risks happily-ever-after for something even more precious. As she tends to her own ailing mother, Jeanne Marie discovers that the challenges and rewards of living with Mother Nature pale in comparison to those awakened by the nature of mothering. The Exact Same Moon is filled with hilarious and heartwarming vignettes of people and a way of life you’ll be glad you met. From "borrowing" sheep to help mow the lawn and sitting in on the racy hay jokes at the Agway Equine Clinic, to befriending the notorious old lady who holds the water rights to their future pond, corrupting the neighbors with satellite TV, and learning the fine art of going a-calling, Laskas proves once again that laughter, love, and wisdom are truly homegrown.

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0307484467

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Hidden America

From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Hidden America

From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

An Oprah.com “Must-Read Book” Award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals “enlightening, entertaining, and often poignant”* profiles of America's working class—the forgotten men and women who make our country run. Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion. That is only one hidden world. Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football. “Jeanne Marie Laskas is a reporting and writing powerhouse. She doesn’t just interview the people who dig our coal and extract our oil, she goes deep into the mines and tundra with them. With beauty, wit, curiosity, and grace, she finds the hidden soul of America. Hidden America is essential reading.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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042526727X

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Fifty Acres and a Poodle

A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Fifty Acres and a Poodle

A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

Jeanne Marie Laskas had dreams of life on a farm that she couldn't get out of her head. A dream of fleeing her otherwise happy urban life for fresh air and open space. A dream she would discover was about something more profound than that. A dream she never ever expected to come true. Until a hot summer afternoon led to a drive in the country, where a place that had existed only in her fantasies turned out to be real--and for sale. Fifty Acres And A Poodle The place is almost too perfect to be believed, but there it is: a pretty-as-a-picture-postcard farm, with an Amish barn, a chestnut grove, and vistas so beautiful, they take her breath away. And in that moment she knows that this is the spot where her future begins. So she drags her boyfriend Alex, a committed urban dweller with zero agricultural awareness who owns a poodle, into her scheme, hoping that love will somehow conquer all. But buying a postcard--fifty acres of scenery--and living on it are two entirely different matters. The questions seem endless: How long before the barn roof collapses? Should they buy sheep? Will the place be good for her writing, and for her relationship with Alex? And is there any way to keep Betty the mutt and Marley the poodle from rolling in mud, leaves, and unidentified smelly remains? In this funny yet tender tale, Laskas shares what happens when you follow your dream--and what happens when it's almost snatched away. Fifty Acres and a Poodle is a charming and surprisingly poignant memoir of Jeanne Marie Laskas's first year on Sweetwater Farm. It is a journey peopled by unforgettable characters: Billy, the local contractor who bulldozes her briars, takes her shopping for tractors, and advises her on buying a mule; Tim, the FedEx driver whose truck becomes Marley's obsession and nearly his downfall; the local hunters who present her with an entire wardrobe of blaze-orange hats; and Bob the cat, whose valiant fight for life gives her the courage to love. Jeanne Marie Laskas writes with exhilarating wit and extraordinary wisdom about life, love, and finding your true self on a farm. It's hard to say how a dream forms. Especially one like mine, which at first seemed so utterly random. It could have been a sailing-a-boat-to-Tahiti dream, a quit-your-job-and-hitchhike-to-Alaska dream. It was a fill-in-the-blank dream, born of an urge, not content. An urge for something new. I was thirty-seven years old. I lived on Eleventh Street, the last house on the right,in South Side, a gentrified old mill town on the banks of the Monongahela River. I rented an office in downtown Pittsburgh, a fifteen-minute bike ride away, which is where I spent my days writing stories and magazine articles. I had a garden. I had a cat. I had a dog. And I had a farm dream, a fantasy swirling around in my head about moving to the country. Where in the world was this coming from? That's what I wondered. It might have made sense if I was a miserable person, sick of my life. But I was not.I had a good life; it had taken me a long time to get it that way. A farm dream would have made sense, I supposed, if I was at least the farm dream type. A person with some deep personal longing to churn butter. A person who had had city life forced upon her and now was determined to go be true to herself and live among the haystacks. A person who wore her hair in long braids, used Ivory soap, and liked to stencil her walls with pictures of little chickens and cows. A person who, at minimum, had a compost pile in her yard where she diligently threw lawn clippings and coffee grounds and eggshells and earned the right to use the word organic a lot. But I was not that person. I was not even sure what hay was, or why anyone would stack it. And if I composted anything, it was only by mistake.

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030787432X

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Quizzes for 220 Great Children's Books

The Quest Motivational Reading Program

By: Polly Jeanne Wickstrom

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Quizzes for 220 Great Children's Books

The Quest Motivational Reading Program

By: Polly Jeanne Wickstrom

Want a quick way to check to see whether a student has read a book? This is it. Quizzes contains objective reproducible tests for well-known children's books, all of which are likely to be found in school and public libraries. Titles include award winners and runners-up; classics; popular books; and books by such children's authors as Cleary, Fox, and Norton. With a new organization and layout, this revised edition offers users an improved and more durable resource. Flexible and convenient, the reproducible tests are great for helping track independent reading programs.

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0313080364

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Growing Girls

The Mother of All Adventures

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Growing Girls

The Mother of All Adventures

By: Jeanne Marie Laskas

Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all…. A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie Laskas in her latest report from Sweetwater Farm, would have bought a house in the suburbs with a cul-de-sac for her kids to ride bikes around instead of a ramshackle house in the middle of nowhere with a rooster. With the wryly observed self-doubt all mothers and mothers-to-be will instantly recognize, Laskas offers a poignant and laugh-out-loud-funny meditation on that greatest–and most impossible–of all life’s journeys: motherhood. What is it, she muses, that’s so exhausting about being a mom? You’d think raising two little girls would be a breeze compared to dealing with the barely controlled anarchy of “attack” roosters, feuding neighbors, and a scheme to turn sheep into lawn mowers on the fifty-acre farm she runs with her bemused husband Alex. But, as any mother knows, you’d be wrong. From struggling with the issues of race and identity as she raises two children adopted from China to taking her daughters to the mall for their first manicures, Jeanne Marie captures those magic moments that make motherhood the most important and rewarding job in the world–even if it’s never been done right. For, as she concludes in one of her three a.m. worry sessions, feeling like a bad mother is the only way to know you’re doing your job. Whether confronting Sasha’s language delay, reflecting on Anna’s devotion to a creepy backwards-running chicken, feeling outclassed by the fabulous homeroom moms, or describing the rich, secret language each family shares, these candid observations from the front lines of parenthood are filled with love and laughter–and radiant with the tough, tender, and timeless wisdom only raising kids can teach us.

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0307420698

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Ruby in the Sky

By: Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo

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Ruby in the Sky

By: Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo

A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club Read Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother won’t be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong. But keeping to herself isn’t easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides he’s her new best friend. Or when she meets “the Bird Lady,” a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Ruby’s house. Before long Ahmad and Abigail have become Ruby’s friends—and she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows. As ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything that’s come to mean so much to her. Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that can happen when we’re brave enough to break free.

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0374309078

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9780374309077

Acadian Passage

By: Jeanne Register

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Acadian Passage

By: Jeanne Register

Acadian Passage, a tale of flight and rendezvous, love and loss, is rich with detail. The story of Acadia and the beauty of the place are vividly drawn as the tale unfolds. Readers will savor this seldom revisited corner of history, now brought to light." -Elizabeth Pomeroy, historian and author of John Muir, A Naturalist in Southern California "An enjoyable blend of history, romance and anthropology. Register brings the idyllic- then brutal- story of the Acadians to life." -Steven A. LeBlanc, author of Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage Jeanne Gleason Register is descended from French Acadians through her mother Marie Daigle. She began writing ACADIAN PASSAGE after she retired from teaching history and eleven years as Head of Mayfield Senior School. She graduated from Wellesley College and lives in Altadena, California.

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1483414515

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Foolproof

By: Barbara D'Amato,Jeanne M. Dams,Mark Richard Zubro

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Foolproof

By: Barbara D'Amato,Jeanne M. Dams,Mark Richard Zubro

A stunning global thriller, "Foolproof" exposes a terrorist plot intended to topple democracies worldwide. D'Amato's stories are hard-hitting, gritty, witty, and wise.--"Booklist.

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0765364425

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The Legend of Fire Horse Woman

By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

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The Legend of Fire Horse Woman

By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Traces the life of Sayo, born under the disastrous sign of the Fire Horse, who comes to America for an arranged marriage and years later is imprisoned with her family in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

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Kensington Books

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0758204558

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9780758204554

The Extraordinary Events of an Ordinary Life

By: Jeanne Chaeley

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The Extraordinary Events of an Ordinary Life

By: Jeanne Chaeley

Wasdale, England. 1966. Vicky is twelve years old, the youngest daughter of a well-to-do farmer, and already dreaming of more. Her inner life is complex – she worships her eldest brother, Chris, and envies her glamorous older sister, Toni. Life breathes promise when you’re young and Vicky’s story starts with that promise.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1803134070

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Seeking Bauls of Bengal

By: Jeanne Openshaw

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Seeking Bauls of Bengal

By: Jeanne Openshaw

The author charts the rise of Bauls to their present iconic status as minstrels and mystics.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521811252

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9780521811255

Juana Briones of Nineteenth-century California

By: Jeanne Farr McDonnell

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Juana Briones of Nineteenth-century California

By: Jeanne Farr McDonnell

Juana Briones de Miranda lived an unusual life, which is wonderfully recounted in this highly accessible biography. She was one of the first residents of what is now San Francisco, then named Yerba Buena (Good Herb), reportedly after a medicinal tea she concocted. She was among the few women in California of her time to own property in her own name, and she proved to be a skilled farmer, rancher, and businesswoman. In retelling her life story, Jeanne Farr McDonnell also retells the history of nineteenth-century California from the unique perspective of this surprising woman. Juana Briones was born in 1802 and spent her early youth in Santa Cruz, a community of retired soldiers who had helped found Spanish California, Native Americans, and settlers from Mexico. In 1820, she married a cavalryman at the San Francisco Presidio, Apolinario Miranda. She raised her seven surviving sons and daughters and adopted an orphaned Native American girl. Drawing on knowledge she gained about herbal medicine and other cures from her family and Native Americans, she became a highly respected curandera, or healer. Juana set up a second home and dairy at the base of then Loma Alta, now Telegraph Hill, the first house in that area. After gaining a church-sanctioned separation from her abusive husband, she expanded her farming and cattle business in 1844 by purchasing a 4,400-acre ranch, where she built her house, located in the present city of Palo Alto. She successfully managed her extensive business interests until her death in 1889. Juana Briones witnessed extraordinary changes during her lifetime. In this fascinating book, readers will see California’s history in a new and revelatory light.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816525862

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9780816525867

One Settler, One Bullet

By: Jeanne Pickers

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One Settler, One Bullet

By: Jeanne Pickers

The heart of Africa is its people. “I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.” ― Nadine Gordimer, “One Settler, One Bullet” is the story of Jeanne Pickers and her husband, Don, intertwined with the history of South Africa. Sandwiched between two warring factions, stands the farm named Bloemendal where the author lived for twenty five years. These were the years from before the dismantling of apartheid until after the release of Mandela from prison and the anticipated birth of the Rainbow Nation. The story recounts tales of how they, and their extended family, loved and cared for each other. They shared their losses, their conflict and their courage and they all hoped that political differences could be addressed with the change in political power. But that wasn’t to be. Their farming life became untenable due to the uncontrollable violence and farm murders all around, as political leaders incited their followers with slogans of “One Settler, One Bullet” and “Kill the farmer, Kill the Boer”. Then Don had an idea which would alter the course of their lives forever, and inexorably allow them an escape route from the increasing danger that escalated alarmingly around them. Jeanne Pickers was born in South Africa and lived there for fifty years. After finishing school, she studied to become a nursing sister, married a farmer and attained a diploma in animal husbandry and artificial insemination at an agricultural college. She built up a small dairy herd and started a yoghurt factory while raising her family, caring for the farm employees and supporting her husband with all his many projects. When her children became weekly boarders at a nearby school, she studied music through the University of South Africa, and taught piano at the small boarding establishment in order to be near them during the week. She has written for magazines and had published many stories, a series of articles on cuisine and a prizewinning article on walking the Annapurna Circuit which she did with her husband, Don. Jeanne is now retired, still writing her memoirs and living in Australia with her husband, two of her children and five of her grandchildren.

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Europa Edizioni

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9791220120586

Creative Writhing

Bits and Pieces

By: Jeanne Sandberg Fuller

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Creative Writhing

Bits and Pieces

By: Jeanne Sandberg Fuller

Jeanne Sandberg Fuller has done it once again. The author of The Day the Bathroom Ceiling Fell, Nice Girls Are the Best Kissers, and Tales of a Closet Belly Dancer presents her new book, Creative Writhing, a compilation of her work that has won awards, been published in newspapers, magazines and those not yet in print. This anthology of stories and adventures is told as only she can in her friendly, down-home voice. Each selection is carefully and cheerfully written with exquisite language and charm. They range from sailing on the new power boat with hubby and the kids (What could possibly go wrong here?) to Snaggletooth, the cat named Pusso (yes, Pussocat). Jeanne plunks them down in front of you just as if you were sitting across from her by the fire. This book is full of stand-alone pieces that fit together like pieces in a puzzle. If you have read Fullers other books, youll know you are in for a treat with this one (Diane Roush, international English teacher).

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1532042132

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9781532042133

The Roommates

By: Vikki L. Jeanne Cleveland

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The Roommates

By: Vikki L. Jeanne Cleveland

Spanning thirty-three years from 1951 to 1984, *The Roommates* weaves the lives of four women into a story of friends who share consequences of love and loyalty, but also betrayal, molestation, and even murder as fate brings them together in the house on Meadow Lane. Will their friendship be strong enough to survive scandal and death in this small college community in downstate Illinois?

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1411650972

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A Stocking Full of Christmas Love

By: Jeanne Lawrence

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A Stocking Full of Christmas Love

By: Jeanne Lawrence

Take a trip down memory lane and find the pleasures of Christmases past. Envelop yourself in the joys of family love, the happiness, hopes and dreams come true. Remember the days when a week to go to Christmas seemed an eternity and sleep refused to come on December 24th because your tummy was all knotted inside. If all these things make you stop and wonder 'Whatever happened to Christmas?' then these sixteen delightfully readable short stories are for you. Or, maybe to stuff in the stocking of someone you love!

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0595290744

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9780595290741

The Path Divided

By: Jeanne Moran

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The Path Divided

By: Jeanne Moran

Every choice has a consequence. When a photo in a magical picture frame reveals choices faced by a naïve Hitler Youth member in 1938 and by her Nazi-devotee brother hiding under an alias in 2005, each sibling realizes they can choose between safety and death. But which choice sets them on which path? In this powerful historical novel, colliding ideals, an impromptu sacrifice, and the need for redemption strains the bonds of family and friendship as the siblings unravel what it truly means to be loyal to themselves and those they love.

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1728729157

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9781728729152

The Books of Ember Omnibus

By: Jeanne DuPrau

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The Books of Ember Omnibus

By: Jeanne DuPrau

With more than 3.5 million copies sold, the City of Ember books are modern-day classics. Lina and Doon's heart-pounding journey to save their people has captivated readers around the world, and the four adventures are bound together here for the very first time! Escape the Dark. Discover the Adventure. The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. But now with terrifying blackouts sweeping through the streets, Lina and Doon know it’s only a matter of time before the lights go out and never come back on again. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she and Doon explore long-forgotten parts of their dying city as they race to solve the mystery. If they succeed, they will have to convince everyone to follow them into danger and an exciting new world. But if they fail? The lights will burn out and the darkness will close in forever. The series begins with the groundbreaking dystopian novel The City of Ember, the story of a girl, a boy, and their beleaguered city. Through the sequel, The People of Sparks, the satisfying conclusion, The Diamond of Darkhold, and the prequel, The Prophet of Yonwood, author Jeanne DuPrau offers a vision of hope that, while sometimes flickering against the darkness, ultimately shines through, like the bright dawning of a new world.

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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044981033X

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9780449810330

Index to the 1820 Census of Kentucky

By: Jeanne Robey Felldin

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Index to the 1820 Census of Kentucky

By: Jeanne Robey Felldin

The 1820 federal census for Kentucky lists 70,000 heads of households at a moment when westward migration was very much a factor in our history. This publication is a reliable index to the 1820 census of Kentucky, providing the researcher with a single alphabetical list of heads of households, further indicating the name of the county of which each head of household was resident and the page number of the original census schedule wherein full data on the household and its occupants may be found.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806309377

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9780806309378

The Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain,Jeanne Willis

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The Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain,Jeanne Willis

Two boys from two different walks of life change places and alter their paths forever in this American classic from Mark Twain London, 1547. Two boys meet by chance and strike up a conversation at the gates of a palace. Tom Canty is a poor young boy with few prospects in life; his new friend happens to be Prince Edward VI, the Prince of Wales. The prince and the pauper could not be more different from one another, except for the small fact that they look identical. When Tom admires the prince's fine garments, he and Prince Edward decide on the spur of the moment to swap clothes. But with cruel irony the prince is mistaken for a poor beggar in Tom's rags and kicked out of his own palace while Tom is taken to be the prince by everyone he meets. Suddenly the prince and the pauper have swapped not only clothes but also their homes, families, lives, and their very identities. While the boys are eager to learn about life in someone else's shoes, they ultimately want to return to their own homes and families. But this proves to be a tall order when nobody believes the prince's claims that he is really a prince despite being clothed in rags. This gripping tale of mistaken identity sees Mark Twain venturing into historical fiction for children while displaying his typical flair for witty dialogue and incisive satire.

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Hesperus Press

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1780943059

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9781780943053

Yours

The Civil War, a Love Triangle, and the Steamboat Sultana

By: Lila Jeanne Elliott Sybesma

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The Civil War, a Love Triangle, and the Steamboat Sultana

By: Lila Jeanne Elliott Sybesma

Sarah Sutton and the Elliott brothers, Gabe and Joseph, grew up together, and, as teenagers, the brothers vie for Sarah's attention. When the Civil War starts, Gabe and Joseph enlist in the Union army. Sarah accompanies her father, a surgeon, and serves as a nurse in battlefield hospitals. They reunite on the Sultana, a steamboat returning thousands of soldiers, many former prisoners of war, home. Tragedy strikes when the boilers explode and the ship sinks in the Mississippi River. What will happen next?

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Indiana Historical Society

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087195432X

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9780871954329

Modest−Witness@Second−Millennium.FemaleMan−Meets−OncoMouse

Feminism and Technoscience

By: Donna Jeanne Haraway

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Feminism and Technoscience

By: Donna Jeanne Haraway

Haraway explores the world of contemporary technoscience through the role of stories, figures, dreams, theories, advertising, scientific advances and politics. Kinship relations among the many cyborg creatures of the 20th century are also discussed.

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Psychology Press

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0415912458

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Albertus C. Van Raalte

Dutch Leader and American Patriot

By: Jeanne M. Jacobson,Elton J. Bruins,Larry J. Wagenaar

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Albertus C. Van Raalte

Dutch Leader and American Patriot

By: Jeanne M. Jacobson,Elton J. Bruins,Larry J. Wagenaar

A biography of A.C. Van Raalte (1811-1876), founder of a major settlement of Dutch immigrants to America. It discusses the causes for emigration, the hardships of travel to and arrival in a new land, and the tensions between Americanization and maintenance of ethnic and religious heritage.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814329675

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9780814329672

The Science of Star Wars

An Astrophysicist's Independent Examination of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets, and Robots as Portrayed in the Star Wars Films and Books

By: Jeanne Cavelos

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The Science of Star Wars

An Astrophysicist's Independent Examination of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets, and Robots as Portrayed in the Star Wars Films and Books

By: Jeanne Cavelos

Could the science fiction of Star Wars be the actual science of tomorrow? -How close are we to creating robots that look and act like R2-D2 and C-3PO? -Can we access a "force" with our minds to move objects and communicate telepathically with each other? -How might spaceships like the Millennium Falcon make the exhilarating jump into hyperspace? -What kind of environment could spawn a Wookiee? -Could a single blast from the Death Star destroy an entire planet? -Could light sabers possibly be built, and if so, how would they work? -Do Star Wars aliens look like "real" aliens might? -What would living on a desert planet like Tatooine be like? -Why does Darth Vader require an artificial respirator? Discover the answers to these and many other fascinating questions of physics, astronomy, biology and more, as a noted scientist and Star Wars enthusiast explores The Science of Star Wars.

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1429971762

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9781429971768

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