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The Captive Heart

Book Three

By: Jessica Stirling

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World War One ended well for the Franklins, prosperous Clydeside shipbuilders. But trouble is brewing behind their respectable facade... Rebellious teenager Maeve McCulloch has arrived from Ireland to stay with the Franklins, much to the dismay of her aunt Lindsay. Maeve's mother caused nothing but grief and heartache for Lindsay and it seems that Maeve may do the same. Meanwhile, Lindsay's husband has been swept off his feet by the wealthy and manipulative Stella Pickering. And Lindsay herself is torn between love and loyalty when handsome navy hero Geoffrey Paget unexpectedly walks back into her life. As the slump of the 1920s begins to bite on Clydeside, troubles both financial and personal invade all their lives. Once again Jessica Stirling has evoked a whole world at the moment when - for better or worse - it is about to change forever.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444717596

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Aristotle on the Apparent Good

Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire

By: Jessica Moss

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Aristotle on the Apparent Good

Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire

By: Jessica Moss

Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us - a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for something to appear good? This text argues that the notion of the apparent good is crucial to understanding both Aristotle's psychological theory and his ethics.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0199656347

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The Paradise Waltz

By: Jessica Stirling

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The Paradise Waltz

By: Jessica Stirling

A wonderful story of love, intrigue and snobbery set in Ayrshire in the 1930s. Christine Summers is a pretty young teacher in a country school and the apple of more than one man's eye. But Christine has no intention of sacrificing her independence to marry anyone, least of all Charley Noonan, the rough-tongued young farmer who has been pursuing her for years. When she meets lonely widower Alan Kelso, however, Christine finds herself falling in love. Alan has also caught the eye of pony breeder Beatty McCall. Passionate, experienced and unscrupulous, Beatty is willing to offer him more, it seems, than Christine can ever hope to match. But sometimes all it takes to fall in love is dancing to the Paradise Waltz... Rich in tangled affections and intriguing characters, in THE PARADISE WALTZ Jessica Stirling captures all the pain and humour of life in a small, gossip-ridden village in the time between two world wars when wireless and the cinema were changing everyone's ideas about romance.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1848945590

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Our Home in Myanmar

Four years in Yangon

By: Jessica Mudditt

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Our Home in Myanmar

Four years in Yangon

By: Jessica Mudditt

Myanmar – shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century. After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 – just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement. Jessica joins a small team of old-hand expat editors at The Myanmar Times, whose Burmese editor is still languishing in prison. Whether she is covering a speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, getting dangerously close to cobras, directing cover shoots with Burmese models, or scaling Bagan’s thousand-year-old temples, Jessica is entranced and challenged by a country undergoing rapid change. But as the historic elections of 2015 draw near, it becomes evident that the road to democracy is full of twists, turns and false starts. The couple is blindsided when a rise in militant Buddhism takes a personal turn and challenges their belief that they have found a home in Myanmar.

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Jessica Mudditt

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0648914232

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9780648914235

Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

By: Jessica Howell

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Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

By: Jessica Howell

Study of malaria in literature and culture illuminates the legacies of nineteenth-century colonial medicine within narratives of illness.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108484689

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Founders at Work

Stories of Startups' Early Days

By: Jessica Livingston

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Founders at Work

Stories of Startups' Early Days

By: Jessica Livingston

Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businesses do—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.

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Apress

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143021077X

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9781430210771

Dream Jungle

By: Jessica Hagedorn

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Dream Jungle

By: Jessica Hagedorn

One of Jessica Hagedorn's most daring novels—“a deft and complex tale of corruption, fealty, and integrity” (The Baltimore Sun) In a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, two seemingly unrelated events occur: the discovery of an ancient lost tribe living in a remote mountainous area and the arrival of a celebrity-studded, American film crew, there to make an epic Vietnam War movie. But the lost tribe may be a clever hoax and the Hollywood movie seems doomed as the cast and crew continue to self-destruct in a cloud of drugs and ego. As the consequences of these events play out, four unforgettable characters—a wealthy, iconoclastic playboy; a woman ensnared in the sex industry; a Filipino-American writer; and a jaded actor—find themselves drawn irrevocably together in this lavish, sensual portrait of a nation in crisis.

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Penguin

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0142001090

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9780142001097

Mines, Communities, and States

The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa

By: Jessica Steinberg

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Mines, Communities, and States

The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa

By: Jessica Steinberg

Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108476937

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Social Psychology

By: John D. DeLamater,Jessica L. Collett,Steven Hitlin

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Social Psychology

By: John D. DeLamater,Jessica L. Collett,Steven Hitlin

The new, tenth edition of Social Psychology is a fully revised and sweeping look into the social forces that make us who we are. Real-life examples and the results from a wide range of empirical research contribute to the book’s coverage of such subjects as the self, attitudes, socialization, communication, interpersonal attraction and relationships, and personality and social structure. It thoroughly addresses intrapsychic processes and comprehensively explores social interactions and group processes, as well as larger-scale phenomena, such as intergroup conflict and the effects of COVID-19. Providing rare, balanced coverage of both psychological and sociological perspectives, as well as historical and contemporary works, the tenth edition of this classic textbook is an ideal companion for introductory social psychology courses.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040045014

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Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women, Volume 2 (1953-1957)

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Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women, Volume 2 (1953-1957)

Women write science fiction. They always have. Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1953-1957) offers, quite simply, some of the best science fiction ever written: 20 amazing pieces, most of which haven't been reprinted for decades...but should have been. Whether you are a long-time fan or new to the genre, you are in for a treat. Dig in. Enjoy these newly-rediscovered delicacies a few at a time...or binge them all at once!

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Journey Press

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1951320190

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A/AS Level History for AQA The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499 Student Book

By: Jessica Lutkin

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A/AS Level History for AQA The Wars of the Roses, 1450–1499 Student Book

By: Jessica Lutkin

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A/AS Level History. Written for the AQA A/AS Level History specifications for first teaching from 2015, this print Student Book covers The Wars of the Roses, 1450-1499 Depth component. Completely matched to the new AQA specification, this full-colour Student Book provides valuable background information to contextualise the period of study. Supporting students in developing their critical thinking, research and written communication skills, it also encourages them to make links between different time periods, topics and historical themes.

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1316504379

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Asking for a Friend

Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed

By: Jessica Weisberg

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Asking for a Friend

Three Centuries of Advice on Life, Love, Money, and Other Burning Questions from a Nation Obsessed

By: Jessica Weisberg

A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice -- from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners Americans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves and our circumstances in life, we ask for guidance constantly. And this has been true since our nation's earliest days: from the colonial era on, there have always been people eager to step up and offer advice, some of it lousy, some of it thoughtful, but all of it read and debated by generations of Americans. Jessica Weisberg takes readers on a tour of the advice-givers who have made their names, and sometimes their fortunes, by telling Americans what to do. You probably don't want to follow all the advice they proffered. Eating graham crackers will not make you a better person, and wearing blue to work won't guarantee a promotion. But for all that has changed in American life, it's a comfort to know that our hang-ups, fears, and hopes have not. We've always loved seeking advice -- so long as it's anonymous, and as long as it's clear that we're not asking for ourselves; we're just asking for a friend.

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1568585357

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Surrender

Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness

By: Jessica Restaino

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Surrender

Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness

By: Jessica Restaino

Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award, 2020 One of Library Journal's Top 20 Best-Selling Language Titles of 2019 In an ethnographic study spanning the last years of research collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Maute’s life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intimacy demand a methodological break from accepted genres and established practices of knowledge making. Restaino searches their experiences—recorded in interviews, informal writings, and correspondence—to discover a rhetoric of love and illness. She encourages a synthesis of methods and the acceptance of a reversal of roles—researcher and researched, writer and written-about—and emphasizes the relevancy of methodological diversity, the necessity of the personal, and the analytical richness of unpredictability and risk in being who we are in our scholarship at any given moment. Bringing together critical analysis, qualitative-style research methods, close reading, Surrender: Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics inLove and Illness resists traditional ideas about academic writing and invites others to pursue collaborations that subvert accepted approaches to representation, textual production, and subjectivity. Restaino demonstrates a way of writing—the rendering of the academic text itself—that suggests how we do our work has resonance for what we produce. She offers framing questions for use by others interested in doing similar kinds of scholarship that may frighten, overwhelm, or confound. This book deepens our understanding of subjectivity and the gains made by feminist resistance to conventional concepts of objectivity in research collaborations.

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Southern Illinois University Press

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0809337142

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9780809337149

Falling for her Convenient Husband

By: Jessica Steele

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Falling for her Convenient Husband

By: Jessica Steele

Nathan Mallory hasn't set eyes on Phelix Bradbury since they conveniently wed. When they meet at an international business conference eight years on, Nathan is intrigued when he sees that Phelix is still wearing her wedding ring…. Now a successful lawyer with the independence she's always craved, Phelix is not the same shy, mousy teenager Nathan knew, but a confident and stylish woman. And her transformation certainly hasn't escaped the English tycoon's notice….

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Harlequin

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1426829884

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9781426829888

The Darkness Within

By: Jessica Major

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The Darkness Within

By: Jessica Major

You can run from your past, but it will eventually catch up. The organizations top assassin and tracker, Sage Taylor, is about to find that out firsthand when one of her toughest cases yet unearths the horrors of her past that she has tried so hard to bury. She will have to seek help from an unconventional partner in order to stop the biggest, baddest monster shes ever faced. Has she finally met her match?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524514306

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The History of the Kentucky Derby in 75 Objects

By: Kentucky Derby Museum,Jessica K. Whitehead

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The History of the Kentucky Derby in 75 Objects

By: Kentucky Derby Museum,Jessica K. Whitehead

To understand the Kentucky Derby is to understand the contemporary American spirit." One hundred and fifty years have passed since the Thoroughbreds of the inaugural Kentucky Derby sprang from the starting gate to race beneath the iconic Twin Spires of Churchill Downs. But the story of the greatest two minutes in sports is more than the pageantry of the horses and thrill of the people who love and celebrate the event. Through the decades, the Derby, like the state that founded it, has experienced profound moments of social, economic, and cultural change. As one of Kentucky's flagship cultural and economic institutions, the Thoroughbred racing industry must constantly reconcile with its past and think critically about the stories that have traditionally made it into the winner's circle. In the right hands, artifacts of material culture related to the Derby have the power to inspire nuanced stories of the past and shed light on marginalized voices in the industry's history. In The History of the Kentucky Derby in 75 Objects, Jessica K. Whitehead sets out to recover the accurate history of America's longest continuously held sporting event and establish a balance between well-known narratives and those that are less widely shared. Whitehead, curator of collections at the Kentucky Derby Museum, gives readers a personal tour of 75 objects from the museum. Her selections place Black, Latin American, and female riders, owners, and trainers closer to the center of the Derby story, spotlighting the contributions and achievements of groups that have played an increasingly important role in shaping the legacy of the Run for the Roses.

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University Press of Kentucky

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1985900475

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9781985900479

South African Anthropology in Conversation

An Intergenerational Interview on the History and Future of Social Anthropology i

By: Dickson, Jessica L.,Spiegel, Andrew D.

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South African Anthropology in Conversation

An Intergenerational Interview on the History and Future of Social Anthropology i

By: Dickson, Jessica L.,Spiegel, Andrew D.

In the 1980s, the University of Cape Town's social anthropology department was predominantly oriented by an 'exposé' style of critical scholarship. The enemy was the apartheid state, the ethical imperative was clear and a combative metaphor for doing research motivated the department. Andrew David Spiegel, known affectionately as 'Mugsy' by his students and colleagues, has been a central, if understated, figure of this history and helped to frame the theoretical charge of a generation of students looking to counter apartheid from 'inside'. In a series of interviews between the senior professor and one of his students - Jessica Dickson - Spiegel offers a unique perspective from the centre of anthropology's recent history in South Africa.

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Langaa RPCIG

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995679239X

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9789956792399

The Report

A Novel

By: Jessica Francis Kane

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The Report

A Novel

By: Jessica Francis Kane

A stunning first novel that is an evocative reimagining of a World War II civilian disaster On a March night in 1943, on the steps of London's Bethnal Green tube station, 173 people die in a crowd seeking shelter from what seemed to be another air raid. When the devastated neighborhood demands an inquiry, the job falls to magistrate Laurence Dunne. In this beautifully crafted novel, Jessica Francis Kane paints a vivid portrait of London at war. As Dunne investigates, he finds the truth to be precarious, even damaging. When he is forced to reflect on his report several decades later, he must consider whether the course he chose was the right one. The Report is a provocative commentary on the way all tragedies are remembered and endured.

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Graywolf Press

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1555970109

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9781555970109

War Crimes

Causes, Excuses, and Blame

By: Matthew Talbert,Jessica Wolfendale

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War Crimes

Causes, Excuses, and Blame

By: Matthew Talbert,Jessica Wolfendale

In 2005, US Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, including several children. How should we assess the perpetrators of this and other war crimes? Is it unfair to blame the Marines because they were subject to situational pressures such as combat stress (and had lost one of their own in combat)? Or should they be held responsible for their actions, since they intentionally chose to kill civilians? In this book, Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale take up these moral questions and propose an original theory of the causes of war crimes and the responsibility of war crimes perpetrators. In the first half of the book, they challenge accounts that explain war crimes by reference to the situational pressures endured by military personnel, including peer pressure, combat stress, and propaganda. The authors propose an alternative theory that explains how military personnel make sense of their participation in war crimes through their self-conceptions, goals, and values. In the second half of the book, the authors consider and reject theories of responsibility that excuse perpetrators on the grounds that situational pressures often encourage them to believe that their behavior is permissible. Such theories of responsibility are unacceptably exculpatory, implying it is unreasonable for victims of war crimes to blame their attackers. By contrast, Talbert and Wolfendale argue that perpetrators of war crimes may be blameworthy if their actions express objectionable attitudes towards their victims, even if they sincerely believe that what they are doing is right.

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Oxford University Press

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0190675888

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Sweet Holiday Romance Sampler

A Cold Creek Christmas Story\Her Mistletoe Cowboy\A Ranger for the Holidays\Into the Storm\Proposal at the Winter Ball\A Savannah Christmas Wish

By: RaeAnne Thayne,Marie Ferrarella,Allie Pleiter,Helen DePrima,Jessica Gilmore,Nan Dixon

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Sweet Holiday Romance Sampler

A Cold Creek Christmas Story\Her Mistletoe Cowboy\A Ranger for the Holidays\Into the Storm\Proposal at the Winter Ball\A Savannah Christmas Wish

By: RaeAnne Thayne,Marie Ferrarella,Allie Pleiter,Helen DePrima,Jessica Gilmore,Nan Dixon

Discover our home and family romance stories from Harlequin® Special Edition, Harlequin® American Romance, Love Inspired®, Harlequin® Heartwarming™, Harlequin® Romance, and Harlequin® Superromance®. This free sampler includes six excerpts that will warm your heart and is perfect for snuggling up to this holiday! Harlequin® Special Edition A COLD CREEK CHRISTMAS STORY Cowboys of Cold Creek • by New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne When librarian Celeste Nichols’s children’s book becomes a success, she’s stunned. Enter Flynn Delaney, her childhood crush, and his young daughter, who could use some of Celeste’s storytelling magic since her mother passed away. With the help of Cupid and Santa, this trio might just have the best Christmas yet! Harlequin® American Romance® HER MISTLETOE COWBOY Forever, Texas • by USA TODAY bestselling author Marie Ferrarella When journalist Kimberly Lee is injured while working on a story on The Healing Ranch, Garrett White Eagle takes her in. But the rancher and the writer soon find that wounds old and new might just heal in time for Christmas… Love Inspired® A RANGER FOR THE HOLIDAYS Lone Star Cowboy League • by Allie Pleiter Ranger Finn Brannigan wakes up in a hospital with no clue who he is. But this Chris™as, with philanthropist Amelia Klondike by his side, he’ll recover more than his memory—he’ll find a love to last a lifetime. Harlequin® Heartwarming™ INTO THE STORM Cameron's Pride • Helen DePrima Horse trainer Shelby Doucette goes from one job to the next, never stopping long enough to put down roots or get close to anyone. But when she meets widowed rancher Jake Cameron, she has to decide whether it’s time to stop running and face her past. Harlequin® Romance PROPOSAL AT THE WINTER BALL by Jessica Gilmore When one Chris™as kiss between best friends Alex Fitzgerald and Flora Buckingham unleashes the feelings Alex has kept hidden for years, he must make a decision—step back and protect their friendship, or risk everything by going down on one knee… Harlequin® Superromance® A SAVANNAH CHRISTMAS WISH Fitzgerald House • by Nan Dixon Bess Fitzgerald never forgot her one night with Daniel Forester. Now they’re working together converting a mansion into a B and B, and the sparks between them are very much alive. But can she open her heart again to a man who sees her as his biggest mistake?

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1459295749

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The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

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The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

The Rough Guide to Film is a bold new guide to cinema. Arranged by director, it covers the top moguls, mavericks and studio stalwarts of every era, genre and region, in addition to lots of lesser-known names. With each film placed in the context of its director’s career, the guide reviews thousands of the greatest movies ever made, with lists highlighting where to start, arranged by genre and by region. You’ll find profiles of over eight hundred directors, from Hollywood legends Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to contemporary favourites like Steven Soderbergh and Martin Scorsese and cult names such as David Lynch and Richard Linklater. The guide is packed with great cinema from around the globe, including French New Wave, German giants, Iranian innovators and the best of East Asia, from Akira Kurosawa to Wong Kar-Wai and John Woo. With overviews of all major movements and genres, feature boxes on partnerships between directors and key actors, and cinematographers and composers, this is your essential guide to a world of cinema.

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Penguin

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1405384980

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Grey Eagle's Bride

By: Jessica Wulf

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Grey Eagle's Bride

By: Jessica Wulf

Desperate to escape a brutal cavalry officer, Diana runs blindly into the forest of Laramie Mountains and into the arms of Cheyenne warrior Grey Eagle who takes her captive. As Diana spends time with among his people, the passion between woman and warrior grows. But a rengeful rival for the warrior's heart will stop at nothing to get what she wants, forcing Diana and Grey Eagle to discover the depths of their courage and their love.

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Zebra Books

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0821760041

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The Rejection That Changed My Life

25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up at Work

By: Jessica Bacal

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The Rejection That Changed My Life

25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up at Work

By: Jessica Bacal

From the groundbreaking author of Mistakes I Made at Work, comes the perfect book for anyone who needs inspiration after dealing with rejection, failure, or is searching for a new beginning in the workplace. Featuring fascinating interviews with more than twenty-five women, including Keri Smith, Angela Duckworth, and Roz Chast, The Rejection That Changed My Life provides an exciting new way to think about career challenges, changes, and triumphs. Rejections don't go on your résumé, but they are part of every successful person's career. All of us will apply for jobs that we don't get and have ambitions that aren't fulfilled, because that is part of being a working person, part of pushing oneself to the next step professionally. While everyone deserves feel-better stories, women are more likely to ruminate, more likely to overthink rejection until it becomes even more painful—a situation that the women in this collection are determined to change, and in so doing, normalize rejection and encourage others to talk about it. Empowering and full of heart, the stories in this collection are diverse in every sense, by top women from many cultural backgrounds and in a wide variety of fields; many of their hard-earned lessons are universal. There are stories from engineers, entrepreneurs, activists, comedians, professors, lawyers, chefs, and more on how they coped with rejection and even experienced it as a catalyst for their own personal professional growth. Powerful, motivating, and endlessly quotable and shareable, The Rejection That Changed My Life will become the go-to book for women at any stage of their career learning to navigate the workforce.

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0593187652

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Ghostly Tales of Pennsylvania

By: Jessica Freeburg,Natalie Fowler

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Ghostly Tales of Pennsylvania

By: Jessica Freeburg,Natalie Fowler

Read 27 chilling ghost stories, from two paranormal investigators, about reportedly true encounters with the supernatural in Pennsylvania. The ghost of a notorious gangster roams the halls of Eastern State Penitentiary. Echoed cries from the past emanate from the long-ago home of a famous figure in US history. Pennsylvania is among the most haunted states in America. This collection of ghost stories presents the creepiest, most surprising tales of the Keystone State! Authors Jessica Freeburg and Natalie Fowler are active paranormal investigators with a shared fascination for things that go bump in the night. The professional writers spent countless hours combing the region for the strangest and scariest run-ins with the unexplained. Horror fans and history buffs will delight in these 27 terrifying tales. They’re based on reportedly true accounts, proving that Pennsylvania is the setting for some of the most compelling ghostly tales ever told. The short stories are ideal for quick reading, and they are sure to captivate anyone who enjoys a good scare. Share them with friends around a campfire, or try them alone at home—if you dare.

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Adventure Publications

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1647554691

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Social Psychology

By: John DeLamater,Daniel Myers,Jessica Collett

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Social Psychology

By: John DeLamater,Daniel Myers,Jessica Collett

This comprehensive introduction to social psychology explores self, attitudes, socialization, communication, interpersonal attraction and relationships, and personality and social structure.

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Westview Press

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0813349508

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Luckiest Girl Alive

A Novel

By: Jessica Knoll

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Luckiest Girl Alive

A Novel

By: Jessica Knoll

*NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING MILA KUNIS* Fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will thrill at this “perfect page-turner” (People)—that Reese Witherspoon describes as “one of those reads you just can’t put down!” This instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel follows an unforgettable young woman striving to create the perfect life—until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret. HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a secret. There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything. With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that's bigger than it first appears. The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for—or, will it at long last, set Ani free?

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Simon and Schuster

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1476789649

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9781476789644

Nobody Has to Know

By: Jessica Marie Ross

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Nobody Has to Know

By: Jessica Marie Ross

When Jamie and Summer first started dating, they were the perfect couple. They got married and did their honeymoon in Europe. When the honeymoon was over, Summer quickly got bored with the settled-down life. When Summer became boss to an old fling, she was faced with temptations that could have the worst of consequences that couldn’t be undone. Would she risk everything for a moment of bliss? The story is fun, quirky and filled with lies and unexpected consequences mixed with passion and true love. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, “Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”

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1546263608

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9781546263609

Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism

By: Jessica Bomarito

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Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism

By: Jessica Bomarito

Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.

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Nineteenth-Century Literature

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0787686379

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9780787686376

Building Community through Hospitality

Insights from Ethiopia for America's Loneliness Epidemic

By: Jessica A. Udall

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Building Community through Hospitality

Insights from Ethiopia for America's Loneliness Epidemic

By: Jessica A. Udall

Loneliness plagues the West, and members of American Protestant churches are not immune. This book examines potential causes for the loneliness epidemic and considers biblical teaching and insights from a non-Western context—specifically Ethiopia—in search of antidotes and an alternative way of living that can lead to a greater sense of community and belonging for the generations to come. Ethiopia is a country known for its hospitality and has been deeply influenced by both Judaism and Christianity for many centuries, making it a fascinating example of what the ancient biblical practice of hospitality can look like in the present day. Based on a presupposition of the interconnected interdependence of all of life, the Ethiopian way of building community through hospitality goes beyond inviting friends to dinner on a weekend. It is a lifestyle of valuing connection with God and with others as his image bearers. Learning from this perspective has great potential to help American Christians cultivate connectedness and belonging in their congregations and wider communities.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666782556

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9781666782554

Violence

Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention

By: Sean Byrne,Jessica Senehi

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Violence

Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention

By: Sean Byrne,Jessica Senehi

In a world desperate to comprehend and address what appears to be an ever-enlarging explosion of violence, this book provides important insights into crucial contemporary issues, with violence providing the lens. Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention provides a multidisciplinary approachto the analysis and resolution of violent conflicts. In particular, the book discusses ecologies of violence, and micro-macro linkages at the local, national, and international levels as well as intervention and prevention processes critical to constructive conflict transformation. The causes of violence are complex and demand a deep multidimensional analysis if we are to fully understand its driving forces. Yet in the aftermath of such destruction there is hope in the resiliency, knowledge, and creativity of communities, organizations, leaders, and international agencies to transform the conditions that lead to such violence.

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Ohio University Press

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089680481X

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The Wild Rose

By: Jessica Wulf,Jessica Wolf

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The Wild Rose

By: Jessica Wulf,Jessica Wolf

Jennifer Mainwaring can't wait to exchange the stifling conventions of 19th-century Philadelphia for the thrills of theunknown West. But at her godfather's sprawling ranch, her privileged, lonely life changes far more than she expects - especailly when she meets John Cantrell, her godfather's illegitimate half-caste son ...

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Zebra Books

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0821751034

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