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Jack Gance

By: Ward S. Just,Ward Just

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Jack Gance

By: Ward S. Just,Ward Just

Jack Gance is a man on the rise in American politics who takes the reader right inside the political arena, from the wards of Chicago to the Executive Office Building in Washington.

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A Family Trust

By: Ward Just

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A Family Trust

By: Ward Just

Back in print after twenty years, from one of America's preeminent living authors: a resonant novel about a midwestern newspapering family during and after the Korean War.

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Public Affairs

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1586480340

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6 Weeks in Italy

By: Joe Just

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In the future, the concept of traveling through time has been accomplished. The controlling entity of most life in the future is under the programs of the government and the education fields. Both organizations are using this newfound scientific creation to enable the sending of promising students back into any time of their choice for research in their field of endeavor. Robert Youst, a promising young athlete and English literature student, has been chosen to travel back to the year 1594 to settle his persistent quest of the actual life of the characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. His goal is to use the findings to continue his pursuit of becoming a history teacher. On his return to his present real time, the people in charge of the time-travel facility discover that Robert had been sent to the wrong year and the wrong country. Faced with the complete destruction of the facility, the faculty and technicians scramble to find out why and how this happened. With their investigation, a huge secret begins to unfold in Robert's life. This secret can be the complete downfall of the time-travel division and perhaps the government as well. The only saving possibility remains--Robert must have the opportunity to return to the proper time and place originally set in place. The major problem now is whether or not to allow him to travel again, or something much more sinister will have to be considered--only time will tell!

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1645844986

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The Hit List

H.O.T.T.I.E.S. Book 1

By: Just Call Me M

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The Hit List

H.O.T.T.I.E.S. Book 1

By: Just Call Me M

REVENGE CAN GET STICKY... Sicily never considered herself a gullible schlump. Of course she knew Bear was a bit of a bad boy. So how it all went down... Let's just say, if somebody made a gangster movie about her love life, this would be the part where people start dying. She should have seen it coming. When she catches her boyfriend, Bear, with his sticky fingers on another girl’s pastries, she decides it’s high time to bury this rat. Before she can focus on that, though, an unfortunate splash of pine cleaner leads to a rather wicked rash. That rash leads to a sexy Italian doctor. That doctor leads to a bold, and rather inspiring, kiss. Sicily decides to embrace her roots...the made up ones, anyway. After all, her uncle did his best to raise her on all kinds of outrageous lies about his secret life in the mafia. So, I ask you. Who better to serve up an epic revenge scheme than the niece of a (not really) mobster? Add to that a duel with Samuel Adams and her brazen debut at a strip club... and Sicily finds herself with a brand new career: as a relationship hit woman. Life can be funny like that. In a world where lies become truth and the truth can become a lie, sometimes... to start a new life... you gotta end with a dead body. The Hit List is the start of an unconventional, highly outrageous FBI team. If you enjoy off-the-wall heroines, madcap adventures, and a splash of sassy romance, you'll enjoy teaming up with The Hotties on their anything but by-the-book cases. Buy The Hit List and unleash the outrageous today.

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0998441805

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Exiles in the Garden

By: Ward Just

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Exiles in the Garden

By: Ward Just

A “fascinatingly readable” novel that ponders “where the personal becomes the political or if it is possible to maintain a distinction at all” (Miami Herald). In his fifty-four years in the US Senate, Kim Malone made a difference. Emulating FDR, he advocated and agitated, fighting for the ideals in which he believed. His son, Alec, however, was a different story—one Kim thinks on as he lies on his deathbed, with only the prodigal Alec for company. Eschewing his congressional heritage for a career as a newspaper photographer and distancing himself even further from politics by refusing to cover the Vietnam War, Alec has seemed to live a never-ending series of misadventures, complete with a failed marriage and a floundering vocation. So when his long-absent father-in-law, an antifascist commando from Czechoslovakia, appears on his doorstep, Alec finds himself confronting uncomfortable truths about his life, his choices, and the pasts of those surrounding him. Ward Just has been praised as “one of the most astute writers of American fiction,” and Exiles in the Garden stands as one of his most challenging, insightful, and compulsively readable works—an examination of personal morality, American politics, and the universal desires that bind us all (The New York Times Book Review).

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0547394373

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A Dangerous Friend

A Novel

By: Ward Just

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A Dangerous Friend

A Novel

By: Ward Just

Well-meaning American civilians make an attempt at nation-building during the Vietnam War, in this “powerful” novel by a National Book Award finalist (Newsweek). Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time and the Los Angeles Times In this “extraordinary,” beautifully constructed large-canvas novel of Saigon in 1965, Ward Just takes a penetrating look into America’s role in the world (The New York Times). Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left his home and family in an effort to become part of something larger than himself, a foreign aid operation in the South Vietnamese capital. Even before he arrives, he encounters French and Americans who reveal to him the unsettling depths of a conflict he thought he understood—and in Saigon, the Vietnamese add yet another dimension. Before long, the rampant missteps and misplaced ideals trap Parade and others in a moral crossfire. “Emotionally wrenching and always beautifully observant,” this is a story of conscience and its consequences among those for whom Vietnam was neither the right fight nor the wrong fight but the only fight (Entertainment Weekly). The exotic tropical surroundings, coarsening and corrupting effects of a colonial regime, and visionary delusions of the American democratizers all play their part. “A literary triumph that transcends its war story” and a New York Times Notable Book, A Dangerous Friend can be justly compared to Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo or Graham Greene’s The Quiet American—a thrilling narrative roiling with intrigue, mayhem, and betrayal (San Francisco Chronicle). “Makes you want to run screaming into the street to protest retrospectively the war he has so movingly recreated.” —The New York Times

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0547561423

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The American Ambassador

A Novel

By: Ward Just

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The American Ambassador

A Novel

By: Ward Just

“A gripping international thriller” about a Foreign Service officer—and the son who turns to terrorism to spite him (Los Angeles Times). William North Jr. inherited his father’s keen political instincts and passion for justice. But the last time Ambassador North saw his son he seemed like a stranger—and a hostile one at that. Now, just as North prepares to take a new post in Germany, reports emerge that Bill Jr. is aligned with a German terrorist organization. Suddenly, a private conflict between father and son escalates to a matter of national security. North is faced with a terrifying dilemma as loyalty to family and country are directly at odds. The American Ambassador is at once a riveting tale of suspense and a thoughtful meditation on the fragility of Western values in an age of terrorism. “Haunting and persuasive . . . Charged with authenticity . . . A splendid book that is both thoughtful and fast-moving.” —The New York Times “To make out the jagged intersections of ambition and greed, idealism and sell-out in contemporary politics, you need only turn to . . . The American Ambassador.” —Salon.com

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0544326601

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The Immigrante

By: Joe Just

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The Immigrante

By: Joe Just

Faced with a vendetta after her husband is murdered, Rose has to find a way to immigrate to America. What turns out is another type of brutality that has the young family suffering physical abuse. When he can no longer stand the fear and beating, the older son runs away and finds himself in a new and different culture. Eventually the younger brother also leaves to seek his way to become an American. Both have joined the Army in 1917 in the American involvement in the war in Europe. The older boy discovers the friendship of another immigrant, this one from Ireland, and eventually all three men arrive in France at one of the changing point battles of the war. Not all of the men come home. The Immigrante is a story of undying love, sacrifice and courage aEUR" from trying to find a way to escape the sometimes aEUR" horrible lives of our four people to the honor and sacrifice of everyone in the story as they seek to become Americans, despite the sometimes aEUR" difficult wandering to reach that goal. Anyone reading The Immigrante, with relatives that have come to America, will find the characters just like those in their own family.

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1642982989

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In Their Defence

Fighting for Youth Justice One Child at a Time

By: Aika Stephenson (Just for Kids Law)

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In Their Defence

Fighting for Youth Justice One Child at a Time

By: Aika Stephenson (Just for Kids Law)

Using real-life case studies this important book from a leading youth justice expert uncovers the shocking failures in our legal system that are impacting on the lives of so many of our young people.

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Michael O'Mara Books

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1789294894

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Forgetfulness

By: Ward Just

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Forgetfulness

By: Ward Just

Justs most gripping, insightful, and nuanced novel yet shows the corrosive effects of war and its unexpected consequences for the individual conscience.

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Somebody Told Me Wrong or Perhaps I Didn’t Listen…

I Should Browse Through the Instructions

By: Just call me Yo

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Somebody Told Me Wrong or Perhaps I Didn’t Listen…

I Should Browse Through the Instructions

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Somebody Told Me Wrong or Perhaps I Didn’t Listen… by Just call me Yo Even though you can know something about everything, it doesn’t stop life from happening. One is always hurting or being hurt by another, questioning even when giving answers. Whether we want to believe it or not, all experience life in ways that leave them at some point scratching their head and saying, what happened and why me? The author used to think that some people were exempt from certain parts of life, and until she found out that it’s all in the way you play this game called life, for some it’s easy to forget their part in the games people play. Watch your opponents closely; they’re closer than they appear.

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1480925160

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In the City of Fear

By: Ward Just

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In the City of Fear

By: Ward Just

A brilliant, ambitious, and subtle novel about Vietnam." -- David Bradley, Philadelphia Inquirer Ward Just captures the best and the brightest amid the turmoil of the sixties and its repercussions twenty years later through the lives of a good congressman, his good wife, and the good wife's love, an infantry colonel whose memories of the war, and a secret plot concocted by the Washington power brokers to win it, are more than he can bear.

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Here, There, and Everywhere

A Clarification of Reality

By: Just Plain Bill

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A Clarification of Reality

By: Just Plain Bill

Growing up on a farm in the Amish region of central Pennsylvania, Bill would have many conversations with his family on their wraparound front porch—especially with his grandfather, Pap. Pap’s assignment, or at least part of it, was to prepare his grandson for the lessons he’d receive later in life from the Everywhere. As a youngster, Bill sensed the Everywhere, which is like a waterless ocean of all that is. In our current lives, we are part of the whole. Lives now, before, and after sort of happen concurrently, although the only life we currently sense is our present life, which we refer to as “life as we know it.” In Here, There, and Everywhere, Bill reveals the core lessons he learned from his grandfather: family, love, honor, trust, and peace, explaining their significance so that others can benefit from them throughout their journey. Join Bill as he shares life anecdotes and blessings from growing up in a family of “plain people” in this uplifting book of memoirs.

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1982202408

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An Unfinished Season

By: Ward Just

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An Unfinished Season

By: Ward Just

The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago." So begins Ward Just's An Unfinished Season, the winter in question a postwar moment of the 1950s when the modern world lay just over the horizon, a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and government corruption. Even the small-town family could not escape the nationwide suspicion and dread of "the enemy within." In rural Quarterday, on the margins of Chicago's North Shore, nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan watches as his father's life unravels. Teddy Ravan -- gruff, unapproachable, secure in his knowledge of the world -- is confronting a strike and even death threats from union members who work at his printing business. Wilson, in the summer before college, finds himself straddling three worlds when he takes a job at a newspaper: the newsroom where working-class reporters find class struggle at the heart of every issue, the glittering North Shore debutante parties where he spends his nights, and the growing cold war between his parents at home. These worlds collide when he falls in love with the headstrong daughter of a renowned psychiatrist with a frightful past in World War II. Tragedy strikes her family, and the revelation of secrets calls into question everything Wilson once believed. From a distinguished chronicler of American social history and the political world, An Unfinished Season is a brilliant exploration of culture, politics, and the individual conscience.

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The Weather in Berlin

A Novel

By: Ward Just

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The Weather in Berlin

A Novel

By: Ward Just

A New York Times Notable Book: “An elegantly written, strikingly intelligent novel” about wrestling with the past and the future in a reunified Germany (Newsday). Shot in Germany in the late 1960s, Dix Greenwood’s first film, Summer, 1921, is revered as an antiwar classic. Thirty years later and after more than a decade of silence, Dix returns to Berlin on a residency that he hopes will rekindle his genius. He encounters a newly reunited Germany, full of promise yet mired in the past—much like Dix himself. To this day, he is haunted by the mystery of Jana Sorb, the actress who disappeared during the making of Summer, 1921 and has long since been presumed dead. When Jana suddenly reappears in Dix’s life, it sets off a cascade of recollections and realizations that will forever change the way he approaches his art . . . and his life. In this tale of Americans abroad, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ward Just turns his keen eye toward the dark underpinnings of nationalism, fame, and artistic integrity, in “an elegantly written, strikingly intelligent novel, as knowing about movies, the German enigma, and the vagaries of fame as it is about matters of the heart” (Newsday). “Ward Just writes the kind of books they say no one writes anymore: smart, well-crafted narratives—wise to the ways of the world—that use fiction to show us how we live.” —Los Angeles Times “Every so often, a well-established, respected novelist vaults to a new level, demonstrating a mastery of craft that startles even his fans. That’s what Ward Just has done in . . . ‘The Weather in Berlin.’” —Newsweek

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0547710801

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

By: Marci Pliskin,Shari L. Just

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

By: Marci Pliskin,Shari L. Just

Explains how to remember dreams, interpret recurring dreams, recognize messages from the inner psyche, and resolve painful incidents while dreaming, with new sections on lucid dreaming spirit interpretation, and creating an environment conducive to sleep and dreaming. Original.

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1592571468

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Wizard Girl

By: Rick Just

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Wizard Girl

By: Rick Just

Kat believed she would be a wizard someday. She believed in a land called Kimyra where dragons skimmed the skies and wallacatoons whirled along the ground on three legs. She believed it because her father said his stories were true. Then, when Kat was almost a teenager, she began to doubt it all. That's when the ribek showed up.

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1932133313

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9781932133318

Benny Buggles

By: William Just,W. Martin Douglas W. Martin,Doug Martin

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Benny Buggles

By: William Just,W. Martin Douglas W. Martin,Doug Martin

Carpentry was a strong Buggles family tradition. Generation upon generation were skilled workers who contributed to the growth and success of the small colony in Kansas. But Benny Buggles was a termite who wanted something more. Facing long odds, Benny heads out west to California in pursuit of his dream of becoming a student at the renowned art academy Auriana. Along the way he'll confront dangerous predators and his own fears, as well as discover a renewed faith in the goodness of termite nature. To achieve his dream he'll need to prove his mettle in the prestigious art competition known as the "Elimination." But in order to win it, he must first survive the mischief and manipulation of some of Auriana's less savory characters. 'Benny Buggles and the Termite Elimination' is an affirming story of hope and happiness, love and friendship, and the joy and redemption that comes from knowing that one's place doesn't have to be so very far away.

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Kanspira

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0578014513

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9780578014517

D.C. Noir 2

The Classics

By: Edward P. Jones,Marita Golden,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Julian Mayfield,Elizabeth Hand,James Grady,Ward Just

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D.C. Noir 2

The Classics

By: Edward P. Jones,Marita Golden,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Julian Mayfield,Elizabeth Hand,James Grady,Ward Just

In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America’s mighty capital. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city in the book. The original D.C. Noir, a groundbreaking collection of new fiction by sixteen different writers, displayed the curatorial prowess of bestselling author George Pelecanos. In D.C. Noir 2: The Classics, Pelecanos once again assembles an enchanting array of dark and subversive stories, this time selecting the very best of Washington’s historical literary legacy. Classic reprints from: Edward P. Jones, George Pelecanos, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Grady, Julian Mayfield, Marita Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Julian Mazor, Ward Just, Jean Toomer, Roach Brown, Larry Neal, and others. Praise for D.C. Noir 2 “By broadly interpreting what constitutes noir, Pelecanos has been able to include writers as diverse as Langston Hughes and Ward Just in this high-quality reprint anthology. In his introduction, Pelecanos describes his vision of “a century-long overview of D.C. fiction that would focus on issues of race, ethnicity, politics, class, and the attendant struggles and changes that occurred in various eras of our history.” —Publishers Weekly

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1617752142

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If You Could Only See Yourself and other stories

By: Words Just Words

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If You Could Only See Yourself and other stories

By: Words Just Words

Writers from around the world took part in the 2012 Words Just Words Science Fiction short story competition. The winning stories are compiled in this anthology, representing a variety of styles and approaches, from the scientific, to fantastic to realist and employing humour as well as dark drama. Previously-published writers are included as well as several promising newcomers. The Writers: Julian Gyll-Murray, Tom BC Williams, Moya Green, Tuan Ho, Hayley Chewins, Sara-Mae Tuson, Ian Richardson, Callum Henderson, Jude Parsons, Susan May Oke, Dean Waters, Pat Black, Maurice Sketchley, David Penfold, Brian Edginton, Malcolm Bray

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1291055452

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Echo House

By: Ward Just

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Echo House

By: Ward Just

This family saga from a National Book Award finalist is a “brilliantly orchestrated tale of several generations of Washington, D.C., insiders” (Booklist). In this epic and acutely observed novel, three generations of a family of Washington power brokers vie for influence over the fate of the nation. In the 1930s, Sen. Adolph Behl and his wife, Constance, buy historic mansion Echo House with the vision of transforming it into Washington’s greatest salon—an auspicious base camp from which the senator can launch his “final ascent,” and son Axel can prepare his first. Across decades of secrets, betrayals, victories, and humiliations, the Behl family will fight to remain near the center, and behind the scenes, of American political power—from the New Deal to Watergate and beyond. “A fascinating if ultimately painful fairy tale, complete with . . . a family curse . . . The decline of the Behls represents the decline of Washington from the bright dawn of the American century into the gathering shadows of an alien new millennium.” —The Washington Post “Puts the standard run-of-the-mill Washington novel to shame . . . It is Mr. Just’s intimate portrait of the city that makes his book so convincing.” —TheNew York Times “Will be read in a century’s time by anyone seeking to understand how we lived.” —Detroit Free Press “[Ward’s] stories put him in the category reserved for writers who work far beyond the fashions of the times. . . . Masterpieces of balance, focus, and hidden order.” —Chicago Tribune “He has earned a place on the shelf just below Edith Wharton and Henry James.” —Newsweek

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Bitch

A New Statement on Beauty

By: Just Janet

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Bitch

A New Statement on Beauty

By: Just Janet

B.I.T.C.H. Bang! Bestselling Book, by author, Janet Garcia-Burley aka Just Janet, is a well-researched workbook that contains the latest information about inner beauty and self-esteem. Janet's ultimate goal is to show you how to boost your self-esteem. Don't practice this strategy if all you want is help in getting your assistant to type you letters. Or if you want to win back an unfaithful lover. Or if you crave attention from a self-centered boss. The Lessons in this workbook are meant for bigger prizes. They are strategies for getting the things you really want and deserve - The more the merrier. Opportunity, not mere praise. Self-acceptance, not self-denial. Completion, not incompleteness. Happiness, not unhappiness. Surprise, not no Surprise. This workbook is the companion to the book B.I.T.C.H. Bang! "Once you own this, you'll discover just how easy life can be.

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Rodin's Debutante

A Novel

By: Ward Just

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Rodin's Debutante

A Novel

By: Ward Just

A “beguiling and unnerving” novel of a young man haunted by an act of violence, from the award-winning author of An Unfinished Season (Booklist, starred review). As a small-town boy in the early twentieth century, Lee Goodell learned about a brutal crime—and the efforts of his father, a judge, to help cover it up. Lee would go on to attend a private boys’ school, become a sculptor, become familiar with both Chicago’s gritty South Side and its wealthy, intellectual Hyde Park, and get married. But it is his reunion with a girl from his childhood, a victim of a sexual assault she cannot remember, that will spur him to contemplate the event that marked the end of his boyhood and the beginning of his understanding of the world, in this sprawling, powerful novel by “one of the most accomplished and admirable American writers” (The Washington Post Book World). “An achievement . . . [that] fuses the romanticism of the early Kerouac and his mentor, Thomas Wolfe, with the wry humor of Richard Yates.” —The New York Times Book Review “Rodin’s Debutante is a surprising story, never going where you expect it to, and Just’s spare prose packs a solid emotional punch.” —Entertainment Weekly

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