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The Communication Scarcity in Agriculture

By: Jessica Eise,Whitney Hodde

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The Communication Scarcity in Agriculture

By: Jessica Eise,Whitney Hodde

Today, the general public craves information on food and agriculture with an unprecedented passion. But the agricultural sector, unaccustomed to an interested and inquisitive society, has largely failed to respond to the public’s demands for information. Instead, corporations, time-pressed journalists, bloggers, media celebrities, film-makers, authors and concerned consumers jumped in to fill the void. Food is emotional, and these players - some well-intentioned and others not - got a lot of traction playing off consumer fears of the unknown. This critical and timely book explains how changing demographics, cultural shifts, technological advances and agriculture’s silence all combined to create the perfect storm – a great chasm between those who know, and those who don’t know, agriculture. The ramifications of a poorly-informed consumer base are now becoming clear in our policy debates and consumer-driven business decisions. There is a lot of common ground between the agricultural sector and their consumer base, but each group largely fails to appreciate it, and the consequences of such a divide grow increasingly dire. Drawing on a wide-range of expertise, from leading agricultural researchers to major agribusiness leaders to consumer advocates, Eise and Hodde lay out exactly why communication is so urgently critical to our modern-day agricultural system. They outline the major themes affecting agricultural communication – perception, emotion, technology, science - and what we can do now to improve the debate and safeguard our future food supply for generations to come.This book is suitable for those who study agriculture, environmental economics and mass media and communication.

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Routledge

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1317231295

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The Gourmet Girl Mysteries Volume One

Steamed, Simmer Down, and Turn Up the Heat

By: Jessica Conant-Park,Susan Conant

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The Gourmet Girl Mysteries Volume One

Steamed, Simmer Down, and Turn Up the Heat

By: Jessica Conant-Park,Susan Conant

Bostonian foodie Chloe Carter is after the perfect meal and the perfect man—but death keeps finding her at the dinner table—in these three mysteries. Grad student and food connoisseur Chloe Carter has had more success navigating the gastronomic treasures of Boston than finding love. And when murders are linked to upscale restaurants, she must use all her culinary and investigative expertise to solve the cases. Steamed: Chloe meets Eric, her online match, at a five-star restaurant. But before dessert is even served he’s found dead in the men’s room. Suddenly, Chloe is plunged into the cutthroat world of trendy restaurants and murder investigations. Along the way she connects with a sexy chef—but is he Eric’s killer? Simmer Down: Chloe’s dishy boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, has just landed his dream job as executive chef at the new restaurant Simmer. As he preps for a New Year’s Eve grand opening, Chloe hooks him up with Food for Thought, an annual charity fundraiser. Everything is going perfectly—until murder makes a late addition to the menu. Turn Up the Heat: Having an executive chef boyfriend guarantees Chloe the best table at Simmer, Boston’s hottest new restaurant, any night of the week. So when the body of one of Simmer’s waitresses is found dead in a seafood delivery truck and expensive cooking equipment goes missing, Chloe is on the case.

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Open Road Media

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1504047079

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Something in the Way: The Complete Collection

By: Jessica Hawkins

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Something in the Way: The Complete Collection

By: Jessica Hawkins

“A tale of forbidden love in epic proportion…Brilliant”—New York Times bestselling author Corinne Michaels Lake Kaplan falls for a handsome older man—but then her sister sets her sights on him too. Includes the complete, USA TODAY bestselling forbidden series: Something in the Way, Somebody Else’s Sky, Move the Stars, and Lake + Manning. It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents’ house. Under the sweat and dirt, Manning Sutter was as handsome as the sun was bright. He was older, darker, experienced. I had never even been kissed. We found something in each other that would link us in ways that couldn’t be broken…no matter how hard we tried. Because even though I saw Manning first, my older sister saw him next.

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518 Books, Inc.

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0998815551

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9780998815558

Simmer Down

By: Jessica Conant-Park,Susan Conant

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Simmer Down

By: Jessica Conant-Park,Susan Conant

An “appealing heroine” and her chef boyfriend take on a case of murder by food processor in this Boston-set culinary mystery. Includes recipes! (Publishers Weekly) After months between gigs, Chloe Carter’s dishy boyfriend, Josh Driscoll, has just landed his dream job: executive chef at Simmer, Boston’s soon-to-be hottest new restaurant. As Josh preps for a New Year’s Eve grand opening, Chloe, on winter break from grad school, hooks him up with Food for Thought, an annual charity fundraiser. It seems like a win-win—Simmer will give the dining public a tantalizing taste of things to come, and Josh will showcase his culinary talents—until murder makes a late addition to the menu. It’s not the kind of publicity Chloe was looking for. Now wealthy club owner Oliver Kipper is dead, bludgeoned to death. The murder weapon is a state-of-the-art professional-grade food processor that, unfortunately, belongs to Josh. By opening night, the list of suspects, including Josh’s ex-girlfriends, is almost as long as the line to get into Simmer. Suddenly, Chloe’s risking her life to unmask a killer in a town where murder is becoming an acquired taste. This ebook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime. Simmer Down is the 2nd book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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150402639X

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Turn Up the Heat

By: Jessica Conant-Park,Susan Conant

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Turn Up the Heat

By: Jessica Conant-Park,Susan Conant

Foodie and sometimes sleuth Chloe Carter smells something fishy when a waitress from a popular new Boston restaurant turns up dead in a seafood delivery truck Having an executive chef boyfriend guarantees Chloe Carter the best table at Simmer, Boston’s hottest new restaurant, any night of the week. But the Back Bay foodie’s incredible comped dinners are usually enjoyed without Josh, whose pressure-cooker job has taken over his life. The same can’t be said of Leandra, the pretty blond Simmer server whose body was just found in a seafood delivery truck. The truck belongs to Owen, the fiancé of Chloe’s best friend, Adrianna. And Owen has no alibi for the night Leandra was strangled with her apron strings and dumped in his truck. But Chloe is sure he didn’t do it. There are plenty of other people with motive to off the unpleasant waitress, starting with Leandra’s lover—and Simmer’s owner—Gavin Seymour. And now some expensive cooking equipment is missing, including a mandolin slicer, an eight-inch chinois, and Josh’s favorite knife. If Chloe isn’t careful while trying to clear Owen’s name, the amateur sleuth could be next to sleep with the fishes! This ebook features mouth-watering recipes sure to satisfy more than just your appetite for crime. Turn Up the Heat is the 3rd book in the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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1504026403

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Tulsa Christmas Parade

By: Jessica Gullo

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Tulsa Christmas Parade

By: Jessica Gullo

Since 1926, the Tulsa Christmas Parade has entertained thousands of children and adults year after year as it winds through the historic streets of downtown Tulsa. In its early days, when Tulsa was a new town booming with rapid growth from the recent discovery of oil, the Christmas parade quickly became an annual tradition that has continued to be a favorite event for the past 90 years. Throughout part of its history, the parade has been held at night, and Tulsa and the surrounding communities have come together to put on elaborate, twinkling displays--full of sparkling lights--including floats, marching bands, and large balloons, culminating each year with the guest of honor, Santa himself, making a special trip from the North Pole all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma. This book explores the grandeur and excitement of Tulsa Christmas Parade's history against the backdrop of one of the largest collections of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

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1467127655

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The Laws of Brand Storytelling: Win—and Keep—Your Customers’ Hearts and Minds

Win—and Keep—Your Customers’ Hearts and Minds

By: Ekaterina Walter,Jessica Gioglio

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The Laws of Brand Storytelling: Win—and Keep—Your Customers’ Hearts and Minds

Win—and Keep—Your Customers’ Hearts and Minds

By: Ekaterina Walter,Jessica Gioglio

From the bestselling authors of The Power of Visual Storytelling comes the highly anticipated follow-up, The Laws of Brand Storytelling―the definitive quick-reading rulebook for how to use the power of storytelling to win over customers’ hearts, minds, and long-term loyalty We have been sharing stories from the beginning of human civilization―for good reason. Stories captivate our attention and build communities by bringing ideas, emotions, and experiences to life in a memorable way. This is proving to be an increasingly potent strategy in the era of the connected digital consumer. With consumers more empowered than ever before, your brand isn’t what you say it is anymore, it is what consumers say it is. As a result, capturing customers’ hearts and minds today requires businesses to prioritize emotional connections with customers, to be in the moment, having authentic conversations, to share relevant, inspiring stories that move and motivate people to take action. How?By following these laws:•The Protagonist Laws: Know Who You Are•The Strategy Laws: Understand Your Goals•The Discovery Laws: Find Your Story•The Story-Making Laws: Craft Your Story•The Channel Laws: Share Your Story•The Laws of Engagement: Engage with Your CommunitiesPacked with inspiring tips, strategies, and stories from two leading marketing innovators, The Laws of Brand Storytelling shows business leaders and marketing professionals the power storytelling has to positively impact and differentiate your business, attract new customers, and inspire new levels of brand advocacy. The authors lay down the law―literally―for readers through a compelling step-by-step process of defining who you are as a brand, setting a clear strategy, sourcing the best stories for your business, and crafting and delivering compelling narratives for maximum effect. Win your customers’ hearts and minds, and you win their business and their loyalty.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1260440206

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The Donut Shop Collection, Books 1-3

Glazed Murder; Fatally Frosted; Sinister Sprinkles

By: Jessica Beck

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The Donut Shop Collection, Books 1-3

Glazed Murder; Fatally Frosted; Sinister Sprinkles

By: Jessica Beck

In this New York Times bestselling series by Jessica Beck, Suzanne Hart, owner and operator of Donut Hearts in April Springs, North Carolina, combines her passion for pastries with her skill for solving crimes. Recipes included! Welcome to Donut Hearts, where the coffee is hot, the donuts are fresh, and the toppings are criminally good. . . Glazed Murder When Suzanne finds a dead body on her doorstep, her cozy little shop becomes a crime scene. Everyone in town is dropping by for some glazed donuts and gruesome details, and Suzanne—who finds snooping as irresistible as donuts—is poking holes in everyone's alibis. Fatally Frosted A local busybody dies after eating one of Suzanne's famous treats. With a forensic team sifting through her kitchen, Suzanne hopes to clear her good name before another bad donut is fatally frosted. Sinister Sprinkles Suzanne's ex-husband, Max, is the prime suspect when his current girlfriend gets iced. If she can't sprinkle evidence on her half-baked theories of whodunit, Max is as good as fried.

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1466887931

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Glazed Murder

A Donut Shop Mystery

By: Jessica Beck

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Glazed Murder

A Donut Shop Mystery

By: Jessica Beck

Meet Suzanne Hart, owner and operator of Donut Hearts coffee shop in April Springs, North Carolina. After her divorce from Max, an out-of-work actor she's dubbed "The Great Impersonator," Suzanne decided to pursue her one true passion in life: donuts. So she cashed in her settlement and opened up shop in the heart of her beloved hometown. But when a dead body is dumped on her doorstep like a sack of flour, Suzanne's cozy little shop becomes an all-out crime scene. Now, everyone in town is dropping by for glazed donuts and gruesome details. The retired sheriff warns her to be careful—and they're all suspects. Soon Suzanne—who finds snooping as irresistible as donuts—is poking holes in everyone's alibis...

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1429935464

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The Proactive Caregiver: Stop Reacting to Life, Start Living Proactivly

By: Jessica Lizel Cannon

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The Proactive Caregiver: Stop Reacting to Life, Start Living Proactivly

By: Jessica Lizel Cannon

The Proactive Caregiver book will inspire caregivers surrounded by the darkness of fear, anxiety, and overwhelm with the light of acceptance and empowerment. It will encourage you to be a healthier caregiver and teach you to appreciate the role model you have become as a caregiver for your children, causing a cultural shift. This book is for caregivers of all ages, with loved ones living with Dementia or suspecting behavioral changes. Jessica shares her journey of caring for her mother, who lives with mixed Dementia, including FTD coupled with Bipolar Manic Depression Disorder. Behind their denial and avoidance, the Spirit waited patiently to begin transforming both of them. Throughout Jessica’s transformation, she discovered the reactive pitfalls many caregivers experience. With Spiritual guidance, Jessica’s transformation resulted in becoming The Proactive Caregiver. You, too, can learn to be proactive rather than reactive as you join her on this journey. Stop reacting to life and start creating a better quality of life while living guilt-free and shame-free. The Proactive Caregiver book will inform, educate, and encourage you to embrace the emotional challenges by allowing personal growth to transform and enrich your life. When your loved ones begin to lose time and memories or become combative, you must be prepared to step into their world with non-threatening and graceful manners. Your relationship with your loved one may prevent this from happening. So what do we do? How do we begin to dig into our lives to promote positive change and become healthier caregivers throughout the process? Jessica wasted so much energy trying to be strong for the family by hiding pain and suffering, which inevitably made her sick and depressed. Find out how to listen to the gentle whispers of guidance and become a Proactive Caregiver too.

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Cannon Light Media, LLC.

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Seriously Delish

150 Recipes for People Who Totally Love Food

By: Jessica Merchant

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Seriously Delish

150 Recipes for People Who Totally Love Food

By: Jessica Merchant

“Her recipes lure you in to the point that you’ll start making your grocery list immediately. I’ll say it again: This is a glorious cookbook!”—Ree Drummond, “The Pioneer Woman” Jessica Merchant, creator of the popular food blog How Sweet Eats, has now created her first cookbook, Seriously Delish. Her playfulness jumps off the page in her inventive and incredibly delicious recipes, such as Amaretto–Butternut Squash Soup with Cinnamon Toast Croutons, Mini Crab Cakes with Sweet Corn and Blueberry Salsa, and Fleur de Sel Caramel Bourbon Brownie Milk Shakes. Her sense of humor, which brings millions of visitors to her site, shows through in chapter titles like “Breakfast (. . . for Dinner?)” and “Salad, Soups, and Vegetable-like Things (Ugh, if We Must).” Merchant makes food that people get excited about, nothing run-of-the-mill or expected. As an added bonus, all of the photographs in the book were taken by Merchant herself, giving her cookbook the personal touch that her fans love and newcomers will appreciate. Seriously Delish features imaginative recipes that are tasty and original and bring readers to a place where cooking becomes adventurous and food becomes fun. “My new dream food bible. It is fresh and easy—but more importantly it’s fun and exciting; a celebration of how yummy life can be, three times a day.”—Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author “I’ve always had the biggest blog crush on Jessica from How Sweet Eats. She’s hilarious, a creative genius in the kitchen, and reading her book makes you feel like you're cooking with your BFF.”—Gina Homolka, creator of Skinnytaste.com

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0544176537

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9780544176539

The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions

A Teaching Casebook

By: Jessica K Heriot,Eileen J Polinger

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The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions

A Teaching Casebook

By: Jessica K Heriot,Eileen J Polinger

Use these fascinating first-person accounts to bring real-world problems into the classroom!The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions: A Teaching Casebook is a collection of personal narratives, short stories, and poetry about mental illness and other life-affecting problems, mostly in the context of family life. Each selection is accompanied by questions for discussion; selected reading lists are provided with each chapter. Beginning with problems related to childhood, the stories range through adolescence, adulthood, and old age. This unique book provides students and educators in psychology, social work, and counseling with an in-depth understanding of various mental illnesses and psychosocial problems through the life cycle. Its stories and narratives give students the unique opportunity to experience “from the inside” what it is like to live with an eating disorder or struggle with a compulsion phobia. The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions is more than a teaching tool. These stories are more than thought provoking, more than simply insightful. They are truly fascinating--each a candid, no-holds-barred glimpse into the personal reality of its narrator--and will inspire the kind of discussions that the best courses and instructors are remembered for. Your students will most likely have finished the book before the class has finished discussing the first chapter! With The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions, your students will explore: family relationships under various types of stress how families cope with physical illness what happens to the family when a loved one struggles with mental illness the impact of racial issues the effects of sexual abuse and domestic violence the process of healing from childhood trauma . . . and much more! The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions provides first-hand knowledge of what the loss of a parent to death, mental illness, or alcoholism feels like to the child; of how ”coming out” as a lesbian affects one's life; of the love and frustration of having a mentally handicapped sibling; of what it's like to lose one's memory in old age. No academic description can convey the feelings, meaning, and effects on the individual or family of mental illness or other psychosocial stressors. Only narratives and stories based on direct experience--exactly what you'll find in The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions--can offer this perspective.

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Routledge

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1317789288

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Dead Ringer

By: Jessica Marting

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Dead Ringer

By: Jessica Marting

Livvy didn’t know her entire life was a lie until she ran away from the only place she ever knew, chased by fire and weapons-toting brutes she once considered friends. Broke, banished from his home city, and reduced to living in a dilapidated house in the Arizona desert, Asher is stunned when the doppelgänger of a notorious singer breaks into his home. Even more incredible is her claim of escaping an underground compound just a few miles away, full of lookalikes of the world’s rich and famous. Livvy doesn't want to trust anyone, but life on the surface is as frightening as it is fascinating, and turning down Asher's help isn't an option. Someone wants Livvy back and will stop at nothing to find her.

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Shadow Press

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0993922201

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9780993922206

Murder, She Wrote: Three Strikes and You're Dead

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain

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Murder, She Wrote: Three Strikes and You're Dead

By: Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain

Score a Home Run with the USA Today Bestselling series-over 3.5 million copies in print Visiting her old friends the Duffys in Arizona, Jessica watches their foster son Ty hit the winning run in an AA league playoff game. She and the Duffys are thrilled, but team owner Harrison Bennett is not-his son Junior and Ty are bitter rivals. Then Junior Bennett is found dead, his head caved in with a baseball bat. He and Ty were last seen fighting outside a bar, and Ty can't remember the rest of the night. Jessica finds it hard to believe such a fine young man would wreck his life in a moment of anger. And when she starts looking into the case, she finds that for some people, baseball is more than just a game...

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Penguin

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0451222008

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Shine

By: Jessica Jung

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Shine

By: Jessica Jung

Seventeen-year-old Rachel Kim confronts the dark underbelly of the K-pop world as she strives to become a K-pop star.

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Simon and Schuster

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153446252X

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9781534462526

The Favorite Sister

By: Jessica Knoll

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The Favorite Sister

By: Jessica Knoll

From the author of Luckiest Girl Alive—now a Netflix film—comes the “engrossing” (People) New York Times bestseller starring two sisters who join the cast of a reality TV series…and only one will make it out alive. Brett and Kelly have always toed the line between supportive sisters and bitter rivals. Growing up, Brett was the problem child, living in the shadow of the brilliant and beautiful Kelly. In adulthood, all that has changed. Kelly is a struggling single mother and Brett has skyrocketed to meteoric success that has been chronicled on a reality TV show called Goal Diggers. When Kelly manipulates her way onto the show and into Brett’s world, Brett is wildly threatened. Kelly, and only Kelly, knows her younger sister’s appalling secret, one that could ruin her. Still, when the truth comes out in the explosive final weekend of filming, neither of them ever expected that the season would end in murder.

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1501153218

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The Thin in 10 Weight-Loss Plan

Transform Your Body (and Life!) in Minutes a Day

By: Jessica Smith,Liz Neporent

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The Thin in 10 Weight-Loss Plan

Transform Your Body (and Life!) in Minutes a Day

By: Jessica Smith,Liz Neporent

Best-selling exercise DVD star and certified fitness and lifestyle expert Jessica Smith, along with award-winning health and fitness writer Liz Neporent, break down weight loss into 10-minute, easy-to-follow workouts that fit your busy schedule. Step-by-step photos and instructions, along with an exciting, fast-paced DVD with six 10-minute workouts, make this a simple, fun, and sustainable program for anyone, whether you're just starting out or have been at it for a while. The Thin In 10 Weight-Loss Plan proves once and for all that you have time to work out. Getting fit, feeling good, and losing weight doesn't mean laboring for hours in a gym or spending hundreds of dollars on bulky high-tech equipment. High- and low-intensity fat-burning and muscle-building exercises, along with healthful, easy (and quick) recipes, numerous tips and tricks to burning more calories throughout the day make this the essential fitness and weight-loss kit! This edition does not contain the bonus DVD video that's included with the paperback version of the book.

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Sunrise River Press

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1934716359

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9781934716359

Pressing Onward

The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers

By: Jessica P. Cerdeña

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Pressing Onward

The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers

By: Jessica P. Cerdeña

Pressing Onward centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, engaging cognitive and social strategies to resist racial, economic, and gender-based oppression to seguir adelante, or press onward. Both a contemporary view of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on racially minoritized populations and a timeless account of the ways immigration enforcement and healthcare inequality affect migrant mothers, Pressing Onward uses ethnography to tell a greater story of persistence amid long-standing structural violence.

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0520394038

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All Dogs Go to Kevin

Everything Three Dogs Taught Me (That I Didn't Learn in Veterinary School)

By: Jessica Vogelsang

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All Dogs Go to Kevin

Everything Three Dogs Taught Me (That I Didn't Learn in Veterinary School)

By: Jessica Vogelsang

All Dogs Go to Kevin is a humorous and touching memoir that will appeal to anyone who has ever loved an animal or lost hours in James Herriot's classic veterinary stories. You can't always count on people, but you can always count on your dog. No one knows that better than veterinarian Jessica Vogelsang. With the help of three dogs, Jessica is buoyed through adolescence, veterinary school, and the early years of motherhood. Taffy, the fearsome Lhasa; Emmett, the devil-may-care Golden; and Kekoa, the neurotic senior Labrador, are always by her side, educating her in empathy and understanding for all the oddballs and misfits who come through the vet clinic doors. Also beside her is Kevin, a human friend who lives with the joie de vivre most people only dream of having. From the clueless canine who inadvertently reveals a boyfriend's wandering ways to the companion who sees through a new mother's smiling facade, Jessica's stories from the clinic and life show how her love for canines lifts her up and grounds her, too. Above all, this book reminds us, with gentle humor and honesty, why we put up with the pee on the carpet, the chewed-up shoes, and the late-night trips to the vet: because the animals we love so much can, in fact, change our lives.

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1455554928

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Curtains

By: Jessica Estevao

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Curtains

By: Jessica Estevao

I ask: Who opens and closes their own curtain of life with absolute peace of mind? My curtains may be closed for a few days, As I write a sad sonnet. One that tells of a bird with a spatula for a left wing. Next week my curtain may be open at dawn. Whipping out my spatula to make French crepes. To welcome the police that I am about to call. My pills ran out. It’s my sonnet. It’s my spatula. You don’t see me burning down your curtains because I can’t deal with your mood. Create your own peace, sew your own curtain of style, and take your own pill. Ahh, Jessica, you twitchy rascal. It has been a pleasure. CHAU!

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The Presents

By: Jessica Flynn

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The Presents

By: Jessica Flynn

The Presents a compilation of poems, images and writings about the gift of life, a joie de vivere, -- much appreciated -- and its many inspirations that pique my mind to write. It is a depiction of events and people all of which bring joy, some reflective nostalgia, with some emotional highs and lows. It is mostly gratuitous and hopeful, an inner feeling of love that lives within me. It is also a tribute to lasting memories, beauty, music, laughter, warmth of people, animals, nature -- and even a wonderment of some iciness that exists. It is a range of lifes circles, emotions and elixirs. It honors a lost love -- a hero no longer here but somewhere out there. Sometimes words are all we have left. Words become treasures. This is my gift of gratitude for the power of love -- a beacon of light which radiates forever in my heart . Its fire cannot be quelled. That is the greatest love of all.

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The Chaos of Standing Still

By: Jessica Brody

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The Chaos of Standing Still

By: Jessica Brody

“I fell hard for this story of love, loss, friendship, and bad airport food. I loved it!” —Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Everything Over the course of one chaotic night stranded at the Denver airport, Ryn confronts her shattered past thanks to the charm of romance, the uniqueness of strangers, and the magic of ordinary places in this “laugh-out-loud funny, deeply stirring” (Julie Buxbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things) novel from the author of Boys of Summer. Ryn has one unread text message on her phone. And it’s been there for almost a year. She hasn’t tried to read it. She can’t. She won’t. Because that one message is the last thing her best friend ever said to her before she died. But as Ryn finds herself trapped in the Denver International Airport on New Year’s Eve thanks to a never-ending blizzard on the one-year anniversary of her best friend’s death, fate literally runs into her. And his name is Xander. When the two accidentally swap phones, Ryn and Xander are thrust into the chaos of an unforgettable all-night adventure, filled with charming and mysterious strangers, a secret New Year’s Eve bash, and a possible Illuminati conspiracy hidden within the Denver airport. But as the bizarre night continues, all Ryn can think about is that one unread text message. It follows her wherever she goes, because Ryn can’t get her brilliantly wild and free-spirited best friend out of her head. Ryn can’t move on. But tonight, for the first time ever, she’s trying. And maybe that’s a start. As moving as it is funny, The Chaos of Standing Still is a heartwarming story about the earth-shattering challenges life throws at us—and the unexpected strangers who help us along the way.

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Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

By: Jessica Raya

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Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit

By: Jessica Raya

In the tradition of Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness, Mona Awad's 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, and Marjorie Celona's Y, and set against the shadow of the Vietnam War and the changing social mores of 1970s America, a sharply comic novel that follows the tumultuous coming of age of both a mother and daughter, at a time when womanhood itself was coming of age. We're all just one bad decision away from disaster. For as long as 14-year-old Robin Fisher can remember, she has lived by her insurance salesman father's credo, happy to live the American Dream and catalogue everyday calamities under "Bad Things that Happen to Other People." But life in 1970s Golden, California, doesn't prove so golden after her father deserts the family, setting in motion a series of events that results in Robin accidentally setting fire to an abandoned party house. Seemingly overnight, she discovers that earthquakes or the possibility of electrocution are nothing compared to the hazards of high school or coming home to a family that is suddenly one member short. As Robin struggles to keep an eye on her fixation with Bic lighters and her newly independent mother's own growing pains, she is drawn into the orbit of Carol "Jesus Freak" Closter, a vulnerable yet charismatic classmate whose friendship will challenge Robin in ways she could never have imagined. When Carol finally crosses a dangerous line, it's Robin who must make a heartbreaking decision of her own. Hilarious, insightful, and deeply moving, Please Proceed to the Nearest Exit illuminates those unforgettable moments in life when everything changes, whether we want it to or not.

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McClelland & Stewart

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Beautiful Days

By: Jessica Harman

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Beautiful Days

By: Jessica Harman

In this enchanted, lucidly written novel, a love story unfolds between an older woman (who is slightly insane) and a young man who believes in raw diets and human kindness. The woman believes she is the disease; he is the cure. They both seem to know this, and be fine with it. Her life since knowing the young man is happier, although she has inner struggles about the meaning of life, and the meaning of love, and who she is, and who she could be.In a friendship or any relationship, what is it to open, or close, or remain open? How can love transform us? Take a journey with these two unusual, unsuspecting and unexpected people, and be surprised and enthralled by what they experience, what they want from each other, and what they strive for, through each other.

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1312140976

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Birthright

The Legacy Series: Book One

By: Jessica Ruddick

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Birthright

The Legacy Series: Book One

By: Jessica Ruddick

Ava Parks would have killed for an iPod for her sixteenth birthday. Anything would have been better than coming into her birthright of being a seeker for the Grim Reaper, an arrangement made by her fallen angel ancestor in exchange for his re-admittance to heaven. And she isn’t just any seeker—she finds souls that have the potential for becoming angels and sentences them to death. A year and two souls into her role as a seeker with her conscience overflowing with guilt, Ava comes up with a plan to thwart the system. When it goes awry, she is forced to submit the name of a classmate, Cole Fowler, an ornery, rough around the edges guy who always seems to come to her rescue, whether she likes it or not. Her feelings for Cole prompt her to intervene, and she saves him from death, upsetting the Grim Reaper’s agenda. While Ava schemes to find a way to save Cole, she learns he has some secrets of his own. She lets him believe he is protecting her, and not the other way around, until a final showdown with the Grim Reaper forces Ava to make choices Cole may never forgive.

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1946164003

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The Space Between Us

By: Jessica Martinez

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The Space Between Us

By: Jessica Martinez

Seventeen-year-old Amelia feels like her life might be getting back on track after a bad break-up when her younger sister's pregnancy gets them both banished to Canada, where new relationships are forged, giving Amelia a new perspective.

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1442420553

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The Legacy Series: The Complete Series

By: Jessica Ruddick

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The Legacy Series: The Complete Series

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Jessica Ruddick’s award-winning Legacy series is now available in one set! “A thrilling roller coaster ride of suspense and emotion.” -Amazon reviewer “I was held captive by the words on the page.” -Exposure Book Blog “Highly addictive book, once you sink your teeth in you won't let it go until the last page.” -Amazon reviewer How do you live with yourself when you decide who dies? Book One: Birthright Ava Parks would have killed for an iPhone for her sixteenth birthday. Anything would have been better than coming into her birthright of being a seeker for the Grim Reaper, an arrangement made by her fallen angel ancestor in exchange for his re-admittance to heaven. And she isn’t just any seeker—she finds souls that have the potential for becoming angels and sentences them to death. A year and two souls into her role as a seeker with her conscience overflowing with guilt, Ava comes up with a plan to thwart the system. When it goes awry, she is forced to submit the name of a classmate, Cole Fowler, an ornery, rough around the edges guy who always seems to come to her rescue, whether she likes it or not. Her feelings for Cole prompt her to intervene, and she saves him from death, upsetting the Grim Reaper’s agenda. While Ava schemes to find a way to save Cole, she learns he has some secrets of his own. She lets him believe he is protecting her, and not the other way around, until a final showdown with the Grim Reaper forces Ava to make choices Cole may never forgive. Book Two: Retribution Ava Parks’ job as a seeker for the Grim Reaper is one she wouldn’t wish on anyone. It’s her responsibility to find souls with the potential to become angels. Last fall she learned the hard way that bucking the system has its own set of consequences, as her choices nearly killed the two people she cares about most—her mother and the boy she’s come to love, Cole. Now, Ava’s mother is fading fast. Her former handler—and the root of her problems—seems set on revenge. And Ava must confess to Cole the price he has to pay for her saving his life—a decision he may never forgive her for. Ava’s path to retribution is filled with twists, turns, and a whole heap of heartache. As problems mount and push her to the breaking point, she’s forced into the unthinkable, making her question everything she thought she knew about life, loyalty, and love. Book Three: Sacrifice Still reeling from a recent debilitating loss, Ava is convinced she has nothing left to lose. She is proven wrong when she’s forced to cut herself off from the love of her life, Cole, in order to keep his new role as a seeker a secret. Without him by her side, Ava sets out to find other seekers and they help her embrace her new reality and better understand the system she’s entrenched in. As time passes though, nothing quells her need for vengeance against Xavier, her rogue former handler, who’s gone into hiding. Independence isn’t easy and tough choices await Ava at every turn. She must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice to change her destiny—if she can change it at all. Book Four: Redemption Since coming into her birthright of being a seeker for the Grim Reaper, Ava has made countless missteps trying to protect her loved ones, only to have it all backfire. Now she finally has the chance to settle the score with Xavier, the source of much of her misery, but sometimes revenge isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Will she allow herself to take the vengeance she has thirsted for? Can she forgive herself if she doesn’t? Even worse, her enemies are after Cole, who hasn’t forgiven her leaving, and they’ll stop at nothing to find him. Ava is tired of the corruption and lies. Most of all, she’s done hiding. This time, she’s ready to rid herself—and the world—of the twisted handler-seeker system... for good.

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1946164127

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Hess

The Last Oil Baron

By: Tina Davis,Jessica Resnick-Ault

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Hess

The Last Oil Baron

By: Tina Davis,Jessica Resnick-Ault

A glimpse of the savvy that built a global corporation from scratch Hess: The Last Oil Baron profiles a titan of the oil industry, mapping the journey of the quintessential American dream. The story of Leon Hess follows an immigrant kosher butcher's son as he builds an oil dynasty that may never be matched. The multinational, multi-billion-dollar company began with a single second-hand delivery truck and the Rockefeller-caliber business acumen of one young man. Interviews with former employees, beneficiaries, and even his high school sweetheart provide an insider's perspective on the man behind the legacy, allowing today's aspiring entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn from one of the nation's most inspiring success stories. Leon Hess built a global empire from the ground up. Along the way, he fought in a war, did business with Muammar Qaddafi, won a Super Bowl as the owner of the Jets, was involved in Watergate, and introduced the Hess toy truck that became a holiday tradition for millions of Americans. More than just a book of business strategy, Hess tells the story of a life fascinatingly lived, and the legacy he left behind. Discover the man behind the company, the Jets football team, and the iconic toy truck Learn how the actions of Leon Hess affected the modern push toward energy independence Study the strategy that turned a single-truck operation into a major integrated company Consider the challenges Hess Corp. faces to its family legacy today, and the solutions being implemented Leon Hess' strategies and techniques can be emulated and imitated, but his entrepreneurial fire is something altogether more rare. Hess provides readers with a glimpse of the man whose unrivaled ambition changed an industry and a nation.

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1118923448

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Memory-Making Mom

Building Traditions That Breathe Life Into Your Home

By: Jessica Smartt

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Memory-Making Mom

Building Traditions That Breathe Life Into Your Home

By: Jessica Smartt

What will your children remember of their childhood? Calling all moms who want to break out of monotony, distraction, and busyness to a life of making lasting memories with your kids and drawing your family closer to one another and to God! What’s the solution to gaining the balanced, meaningful life you desire with your family? Create traditions that bring joy and significance! Popular "Smartter Each Day" blogger and mom of three, Jessica Smartt explains why memory-making is the puzzle piece that today’s families are longing for. As Jessica shares her ideas, traditions, and beautiful insights on parenting in this well-written resource guide, she highlights the tradition-gifts kids need most with 300+ unique traditions including: Food: memories that stick to your ribs Holidays: fall bucket lists, crooked Christmas trees, and lingering over Lent Spontaneity: going on adventures Faith: why you need the puzzle box Memory-Making Mom is jam-packed with her own favorite childhood traditions, those she has started with her own children, traditions tied to the Christian faith, and additional ideas that you can take and tailor to suit your needs. Jessica also offers spiritual guidance and practical encouragement to modern parents to keep on adventuring—even when they are fighting distractions, are on a budget, and exhausted.

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Thomas Nelson

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0785221182

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Fat in Four Cultures

A Global Ethnography of Weight

By: Cindi SturtzSreetharan,Alexandra Brewis,Jessica Hardin,Sarah Trainer,Amber Wutich

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Fat in Four Cultures

A Global Ethnography of Weight

By: Cindi SturtzSreetharan,Alexandra Brewis,Jessica Hardin,Sarah Trainer,Amber Wutich

This unique comparative ethnography uses a systematic and nuanced approach to delve into the myriad meanings of being fat within and across different global sites.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487525621

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Perfect Life: A Novel

By: Jessica Shattuck

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Perfect Life: A Novel

By: Jessica Shattuck

“Jessica Shattuck’s engrossing, deceptively ambitious novel explores a wide range of subjects . . . with a shrewd and sympathetic eye.”—Tom Perrotta “In this smart and engaging follow-up to her well-received debut, The Hazards of Good Breeding, Shattuck focuses on three privileged Gen X college roommates who are now grown up, coupled up, and raising kids in pre-recession Boston. The cracks in their ‘perfect lives’ begin to show when the most precocious of the trio, a gorgeous striver named Jenny whose husband is infertile, makes the unconventional decision to have a baby with a sperm donation from Neil, her brainy, slacker ex-boyfriend from Harvard. . . . Stylish storytelling and sharp social commentary . . . make Perfect Life both topical and eminently readable.”—People

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0393071502

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9780393071504

Sports Marketing

Creating Long Term Value

By: John A. Davis,Jessica Zutz Hilbert

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Sports Marketing

Creating Long Term Value

By: John A. Davis,Jessica Zutz Hilbert

This textbook provides a truly international approach to the emerging field of sports marketing and provides the reader with the best practices of over 200 companies and sports clubs around the world. Sports Marketing explores the latest sports

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1782549277

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