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Playing Dead

A Novel

By: Julia Heaberlin

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“A compelling family mystery that kept me turning the pages. Highly recommended.”—Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author of Three Day Town “Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?” The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s death. The woman who wrote it claims that Tommie is her daughter—and that she was kidnapped as a baby thirty-one years ago. Tommie wants to believe it’s all a hoax, but suddenly a girl who grew up on a Texas ranch finds herself linked to a horrific past: the slaughter of a family in Chicago, the murder of an Oklahoma beauty queen, and the kidnapping of a little girl named Adriana. Tommie races along a twisting, nightmarish path while an unseen stalker is determined to keep old secrets locked inside the dementia-battered brain of the woman who Tommie always thought was her real mother. With everything she has ever believed in question, and no one she can trust, Tommie must discover the truth about the girl who vanished—and the very real threats that still remain. “[Julia Heaberlin’s] voice is pitch perfect, and her story of one woman’s fierce struggle to reconcile her past with her present is gripping and powerful. An outstanding debut.”—Carla Buckley, author of Invisible

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Ballantine Books

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034552702X

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Harlequin Historical October 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Julia Justiss,Elisabeth Hobbes,Eva Shepherd

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Harlequin Historical October 2019 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Julia Justiss,Elisabeth Hobbes,Eva Shepherd

Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders, muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! THE AWAKENING OF MISS HENLEY The Cinderella Spinsters by Julia Justiss Destined never to marry, Miss Henley is tempted by rakish Lord Theo. Perhaps he could even show her the pleasures of the marriage bed… A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT’S KISS by Elisabeth Hobbes (Medieval) When Rowenna sees childhood friend Robbie again, he’s begun claiming his knighthood. Despite their newly awakened connection, Robbie’s promised to another—could a kiss change everything? BEGUILING THE DUKE by Eva Shepherd (Victorian) To save her friend from marriage, Rosie Smith poses as the heiress to try and dissuade the duke! Falling for him herself would be disastrous… Look for Harlequin® Historical’s October 2019 Box set 1 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!

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1488049718

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9781488049712

Jesus Land

A Memoir

By: Julia Scheeres

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Jesus Land

A Memoir

By: Julia Scheeres

One of the most compelling, page-turning memoirs to come along in years-by turns jarring, shocking, and funny-a keenly moving ode to the dream of perfect family Sinners go to: HELL. Rightchuss go to: HEAVEN. The end is near: REPENT. This here is: JESUS LAND. Julia Scheeres stumbles across these signs along the side of a cornfield while out biking with her adopted brother, David. It's the mid-1980s, they're sixteen years old and have just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees and trailer parks-and a racism neither of them is prepared for. While Julia is white, her close relationship with David, who is black, makes them both outcasts. At home, a distant mother-more involved with her church's missionaries than with her own children-and a violent father only compound their problems. When the day comes that high-school hormones, bullying, and a deep-seated restlessness prove too much to bear, the parents send Julia and David to the Dominican Republic-to a reform school there. In this riveting memoir, first-time author Scheeres takes us with her from the Midwest to a place beyond our imagining. Surrounded by natural beauty, the Escuela Caribe is governed by a disciplinary regime that demands its teens repent for their sins under boot-camp conditions. Julia and David's determination to make it through with heart and soul intact is told here with immediacy, candor, sparkling humor, and not a note of malice.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458772543

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The Farmer's Office

Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business

By: Julia Shanks

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The Farmer's Office

Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business

By: Julia Shanks

A practical, how-to guide for farmers who want to achieve and maintain financial sustainability in their businesses When you decided to become a farmer, you also became an entrepreneur and business person. In order to be ecologically and financially sustainable, you must understand the basics of accounting and bookkeeping, and learn how to manage a growing business. Author Julia Shanks distills years of teaching and business consulting with farmers into this comprehensive, accessible guide. She covers all aspects of launching, running and growing a successful farm business through effective bookkeeping and business management, providing tools to make managerial decisions, apply for a loan or other financing, and offering general business and strategy advice for growing a business. Whether you've been farming for many years or just getting started, The Farmer's Office gives you the tools needed to think like an entrepreneur and thoughtfully manage your business for success.

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New Society Publishers

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1550926101

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Bette Davis Black and White

By: Julia A. Stern

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Bette Davis Black and White

By: Julia A. Stern

Bette Davis’s career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations. Bette Davis was not only one of Hollywood’s brightest stars, but also one of its most outspoken advocates on matters of race. In Bette Davis Black and White, Julia A. Stern explores this largely untold facet of Davis’s brilliant career. Bette Davis Black and White analyzes four of Davis’s best-known pictures—Jezebel (1938), The Little Foxes (1941), In This Our Life (1942), and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)—against the history of American race relations. Stern also weaves in memories of her own experiences as a young viewer, coming into racial consciousness watching Davis’s films on television in an all-white suburb of Chicago. Davis’s egalitarian politics and unique collaborations with her Black costars offer Stern a window into midcentury American racial fantasy and the efforts of Black performers to disrupt it. This book incorporates testimony from Davis’s Black contemporaries, including James Baldwin and C. L. R. James, as well as the African American fans who penned letters to Warner Brothers praising Davis’s work. A unique combination of history, star study, and memoir, Bette Davis Black and White allows us to contemplate cross-racial spectatorship in new ways.

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University of Chicago Press

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022681372X

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Harlequin Historical February 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Bronwyn Scott,Julia Justiss,Lucy Morris

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Harlequin Historical February 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Bronwyn Scott,Julia Justiss,Lucy Morris

Step back in time and experience the grandeur and romance of a previous era as Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! HIS INHERITED DUCHESS (Victorian) Daring Rogues • by Bronwyn Scott With his promotion to duke, carefree Logan must bear the responsibility of a new household…and its widowed duchess, Olivia. Unraveling Olivia is a challenge Logan never anticipated…but cannot resist! A SEASON OF FLIRTATION (1830s) by Julia Justiss When Laura offers to tutor her friend in flirtation, she doesn’t expect that she’ll have to put her own lessons to use—on one Miles Rochdale no less! BEGUILING HER ENEMY WARRIOR (Viking) Shieldmaiden Sisters • by Lucy Morris Captured by a Welsh prince intent on revenge against her family, Helga must keep her wits about her. Easier said than done when she desires him rather than fears him!

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036973047X

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Food Lovers' Guide to® Pittsburgh

The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings

By: Sarah Sudar,Julia Gongaware,Amanda Mcfadden,Laura Zorch

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Food Lovers' Guide to® Pittsburgh

The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings

By: Sarah Sudar,Julia Gongaware,Amanda Mcfadden,Laura Zorch

Food Lover's Guide to Pittsburgh is the ultimate guide to the city's food scene and provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local foodies, this guide is a one-stop resource for residents and visitors alike to find producers and pureyors of tasty local specialities, as well as a rich array of other, indispensible food-related information including: One-of-a-kind restaurants and landmark eateries Speciality food shops The city's best bakeries Local drink scene Food festivals and culinary events Recipes from top Pittsburgh chefs

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493014080

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Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology

An Anthology

By: Julia C. Lin

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Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology

An Anthology

By: Julia C. Lin

Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. Despite the brutal wars and political upheavals that ravaged twentieth-century China, the ranks of women in the literary world increased dramatically. This anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It spans the early 1920s and the era of Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century. The collection includes 245 poems by forty poets in elegant English translations, as well as an extensive introduction that surveys the history of contemporary Chinese women's poetry. Brief biographical head notes introduce each poet, from Bin Xin, China's preeminent woman poet in the early Republican period, to Rongzi, a leading poet of modern Taiwan. The selections are startling, moving, and wide-ranging in mood and tone. Together they present an enticing palette of delightful, elegant, playful, lyric, and tragic poetry.

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Routledge

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1317453190

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Introduction to Ecological Psychology

A Lawful Approach to Perceiving, Acting, and Cognizing

By: Julia J. C. Blau,Jeffrey B. Wagman

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Introduction to Ecological Psychology

A Lawful Approach to Perceiving, Acting, and Cognizing

By: Julia J. C. Blau,Jeffrey B. Wagman

Introduction to Ecological Psychology is a highly accessible book that offers an overview of the fundamental theoretical foundations of Ecological Psychology. The authors, Julia J.C. Blau and Jeffrey B. Wagman, provide a broad coverage of the topic, including discussion of perception-action as well as development, cognition, social interaction, and application to real world problems. Concepts are presented in the book using a conversational writing style and everyday examples that introduce novice readers to the problems of perception and action and demonstrate the application of the ecological approach theories to broader philosophical questions. Blau and Wagman explain how ecological psychology might be pertinent to both classic and newer issues in psychology. The authors move beyond the traditional scope of the discipline to effectively illustrate concepts of dynamics, evolution, self-organization, and physical intelligence in ecological psychology. This book is an essential guide to the basics for students and professionals in ecological psychology, sensation and perception, cognition, and development. It is also indispensable reading for anyone interested in ecological and developmental studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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100061901X

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The Smell of Spring. And other stories

By: Julia Frauental

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The Smell of Spring. And other stories

By: Julia Frauental

The book includes several short stories. All of them are about love – from the first naive teenage infatuation, youthful unrequited and painful yearning to mature – unexpected, mutual, impossible...

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5044439169

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Open Strategy

Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite

By: Christian Stadler,Julia Hautz,Kurt Matzler,Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen

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Open Strategy

Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite

By: Christian Stadler,Julia Hautz,Kurt Matzler,Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen

How smart companies are opening up strategic initiatives to involve front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors. Why are some of the world’s most successful companies able to stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies, while others struggle? It’s not because they hire a new CEO or expensive consultants but rather because these pioneering companies have adopted a new way of strategizing. Instead of keeping strategic deliberations within the C-Suite, they open up strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders—front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors. Open Strategy presents a new philosophy, key tools, step-by-step advice, and fascinating case studies—from companies that range from Barclays to Adidas—to guide business leaders in this groundbreaking approach to strategy. The authors—business-strategy experts from both academia and management consulting—introduce tools for each of the three stages of strategy-making: idea generation, plan formulation, and implementation. These are digital tools (including strategy contests), which allow the widest participation; hybrid digital/in-person tools (including a “nightmare competitor challenge”); a workshop tool that gamifies the business model development process; and tools that help companies implement and sustain open strategy efforts. Open strategy has an astonishing track record: a survey of 200 business leaders shows that although open-strategy techniques were deployed for only 30 percent of their initiatives, those same initiatives generated 50 percent of their revenues and profits. This book offers a roadmap for this kind of success.

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MIT Press

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0262046113

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Backbone

History, Traditions, and Leadership Lessons of Marine Corps NCOs

By: Julia Dye

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Backbone

History, Traditions, and Leadership Lessons of Marine Corps NCOs

By: Julia Dye

Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) are the backbone of the US Marine Corps. They execute orders and lead their fellow Marines into battle. NCOs are an important part of America's military heritage and history, and their traditions are deeply entwined with the history of the United States. Marine NCOs are heroes and leaders who, despite their varied leadership styles, share a number of important attributes. Part history, part biography, part leadership guide, this unique book takes a close look at the U.S. Marine Corps, at the NCOs who serve as the bedrock of the service. This book provides a unique insight into the history of the culture Marine NCOs as well as important leadership lessons that readers can apply to their own lives.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849088977

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Black-eyed Susans

A Novel of Suspense

By: Julia Heaberlin

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Black-eyed Susans

A Novel of Suspense

By: Julia Heaberlin

Rendered famous as the only survivor of a serial killer twenty years earlier, Tessa discovers clues that the wrong person was convicted and that the true killer is preparing to finish what he started.

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0804177996

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A House Among the Trees

A Novel

By: Julia Glass

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A House Among the Trees

A Novel

By: Julia Glass

From the National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes, a richly imagined novel that begins just after the sudden death of world-renowned children’s book author Mort Lear, who leaves behind a wholly unexpected will, an idyllic country house, and difficult secrets about a childhood far darker than those of the beloved characters he created for young readers of all ages. Left to grapple with the consequences of his final wishes are Tommy Daulair, his longtime live-in assistant; Merry Galarza, a museum curator betrayed by those wishes; and Nick Greene, a beguiling actor preparing to play Lear in a movie. When Nick pays a visit to Lear’s home, he and Tommy confront what it means to be entrusted with the great writer’s legacy and reputation. Tommy realizes that despite his generous bequest, the man to whom she devoted decades of her life has left her with grave doubts about her past as well as her future. Vivid and gripping, filled with insight and humor, A House Among the Trees is an unforgettable story about friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of fame, and the sacrifices made by those who serve the demands of a creative genius.

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1101873590

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My Breakfast with The King

By: Julia Shannon

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My Breakfast with The King

By: Julia Shannon

My Breakfast with The King is a heart-to-heart conversation with God. It is laying out all of the worries, fears, and concerns of this life and placing them at the foot of the cross. It is opening your heart to the realization of His plan in your life. As you add your part to this journal, you will find God molding you into the person He created you to be. You will be able to reflect on all that you have gone through and see His footprints carrying you. God uses even the difficult circumstances in our lives to teach us new things. This book encourages you to spend that quality time with your Savior. It is so priceless and precious. The time you spend with the King is going to transform your life. God will use this time to weave our heartstrings into the beautiful creation He created us to be. Your heart and mind will be transformed. Just try it for thirty days! Pancakes, eggs, bacon, Bible, and "My Breakfast with The King" are just a few necessities to start your day right. Feel free to substitute your own favorite breakfast goodies. So have your "breakfast with the King" and see all the great things God will do through you!

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098003659

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9781098003654

The Good Spy Wife

By: Julia Allcut

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The Good Spy Wife

By: Julia Allcut

The Good Spy Wife is a story of aging FBI agent, Gunter Martini, as told by his wife, Bootsie. The saga begins with her suspicions that the next-door neighbor, Alexander, is a Russian agent. The reader is drawn into the drama as the story explodes along with the cigarette boat when Gunter dares to venture out for a boat ride to Bomb Island on the 50,000 acres Lake Murray on the night of a impending hurricane. His drowning is dubious, as no body floats to the surface. The wife trusts in God and believes that he is alive. When he reappears later in the Soviet Union he invites his wife to join him as he works toward an assignment involving the elimination of the American president, as the Soviet country believes the President of the United States and his democratic ideals stand in the way of progress for the Soviet Union. He must die, as the current leadership in America is an affront for growth of the new Russia. Set during the Cold War in the late 1980s, Bootsie and Gunter struggle with separation during difficult times in their own marriage. Bootsie grows spiritually through the unexplained meeting of strangers who appear to her as angels, and through drawing on her own strengths when alone. Ultimately, after many twists and turns of the story, the couple realizes that God is the only help for the frailty of their lives, and each makes plans to rebuild his or her life around their new beliefs. However, will this turn out to be the happy conclusion? One can only discover this knowledge through reading the book.

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1491845686

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009

Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

By: Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal

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Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009

Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

By: Julia Listengarten,Cindy Rosenthal

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius (2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003), Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee: Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350024759

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9781350024755

Outside Passage

A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood

By: Julia Scully

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Outside Passage

A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood

By: Julia Scully

A memoir in which Julia Scully recalls the time she spent living in an orphanage with her sister following her father's suicide, and discusses how her life changed when her mother leased a roadhouse and moved them to the tiny settlement of Taylor, Alaska, which quickly became a boomtown when thousands of American troops were sent there following the outbreak of World War II.

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University of Alaska Press

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160223129X

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The Artist's Way for Retirement

It's Never Too Late to Discover Creativity and Meaning

By: Julia Cameron

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The Artist's Way for Retirement

It's Never Too Late to Discover Creativity and Meaning

By: Julia Cameron

‘Most of us have no idea of our real creative height. We are much more gifted than we know. My tools help to nurture those gifts.’ The Artist's Way movement began more than two decades ago and has now helped millions of people around the world to discover - and recover - their creativity. Whether you want to work on a large artistic project or simply wish to experience more creativity in your life, The Artist's Way for Retirement is the perfect guide to help anyone wanting to live a more creative and vital life. Packed with engaging, thought-provoking exercises and useful tools designed to help unlock your creative energy, this book will enable you to pursue creative activities with confidence, realize the creative dreams you have been harbouring and enjoy the freedom and independence that retirement offers. Using a range of artistic forms and styles, and devised to address and support the emotional upheaval that retirement can bring, this book will take you on remarkable and transformative creative adventures.

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178180687X

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