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Three Novels

A Calculated Risk, The Eight, and The Magic Circle

By: Katherine Neville

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Three Novels

A Calculated Risk, The Eight, and The Magic Circle

By: Katherine Neville

A trio of heart-stopping thrillers from the New York Times–bestselling author—including the “vibrant and cerebral” #1 international bestseller, The Eight (Los Angeles Times). People magazine said of Katherine Neville’s debut novel and #1 international bestseller, The Eight: “With alchemical skill, Neville blends modern romance, historical fiction, and medieval mystery . . . and comes up with gold.” Mining a fertile territory of international intrigue, complex conspiracies, history-spanning storylines, and unstoppable female heroines, Neville has arguably struck gold with all three of these thrillers. A Calculated Risk: In this New York Times Notable Book, computer expert Verity Banks is the one of the most powerful women in finance and has a shot at becoming director of security at the Federal Reserve. When her boss sabotages her career ambitions, Verity decides to get revenge by targeting the company’s balance sheet. Her old mentor, Zoltan Tor, will help her, but only if Verity agrees to an outlandish and dangerous wager. To beat both Zoltan and her boss, Verity must risk her professional reputation—and her very life. The Eight: In sweeping parallel stories set in the 1970s and the 1790s, Catherine Velis, a computer expert, and Mireille and Valentine, novices in an abbey during the French Revolution, must prevent a legendary chess set containing secret powers from falling into the wrong hands. With its “combination of historical references, conspiracy theory and action/thriller format,” this #1 international bestseller “may have paved the way for books like The Da Vinci Code” (Publishers Weekly). The Magic Circle: Suddenly in possession of a mysterious cache of medieval manuscripts that have the power to alter the destiny of humankind, nuclear scientist Ariel Behn is swept into the deadly center of international intrigue—and a mystery that dates back to the time of Christ—as she races to prevent a worldwide catastrophe in this USA Today bestseller.

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Open Road Media

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1504052293

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9781504052290

A Portrait of Emily Price

By: Katherine Reay

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A Portrait of Emily Price

By: Katherine Reay

Emily Price learns that not everything broken is meant to be fixed as she follows her heart and finds her joy in the charming Italian countryside. Emily Price--fix-it girl extraordinaire and would-be artist--dreams of having a gallery show of her own. There is no time for distractions, especially not the ultimate distraction of falling in love. But Chef Benito Vassallo's relentless pursuit proves hard to resist. Visiting from Italy, Ben works to breathe new life into his aunt and uncle's faded restaurant, Piccollo. Soon after their first meeting, he works to win Emily as well--inviting her into his world and into his heart. Emily astonishes everyone when she accepts Ben's proposal and follows him home. But instead of allowing the land, culture, and people of Monterello to transform her, Emily interferes with everyone and everything around her, alienating Ben's tightly knit family. Only Ben's father, Lucio, gives Emily the understanding she needs to lay down her guard. Soon, Emily's life and art begin to blossom, and Italy's beauty and rhythm take hold of her spirit. Yet when she unearths long-buried family secrets, Emily wonders if she really fits into Ben's world. Will the joys of Italy become just a memory, or will Emily share in the freedom and grace that her life with Ben has shown her are possible? Contemporary romance set in Italy Full-length novel Includes Discussion Questions

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Thomas Nelson

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0718077903

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9780718077907

The Cupping Glass

By: Katherine Avila

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The Cupping Glass

By: Katherine Avila

Tune in, turn on, drop out-California, l968-the year of our discontent. Civil rights activists, student protesters, antiwar marchers and the feminist movement served to energize protesters and bystanders alike, bringing out the best and worst in otherwise ordinary people. The Irish Malones, a multi-generation family, are caught up in churning forces that are destined to change American life forever. The unsolved murders of John Malone II and Albert Malone test the soul of the seven younger Malone men as they struggle to protect a financial empire from the clutches of the mysterious Phoenix organization. The hope that answers to the mystery will be found outside the family is destroyed by the discovery that the unthinkable was inside their house all along. Family matriarch Cora Malone has overshadowed all with her ruthless betrayal and toxic ambition illegal weapons shipments, conspiracy, murder for corporate power and profit. Can this family purge itself? Will family values and Catholic faith stand fast or succumb to terrifying truth? The verdict hangs by a thread in The Cupping Glass. Follow the saga of the Malones in the sequel entitled Phoenix Rising.

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iUniverse

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0595178952

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9780595178957

Recovering from the Loss of a Loved One to AIDS

By: Katherine Fair Donnelly

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Recovering from the Loss of a Loved One to AIDS

By: Katherine Fair Donnelly

Real voices speak from the heart in a book that offers blessed comfort and practical help for those left behind after the death of a loved one to AIDS. Expert on grief Katherine Fair Donnelly, who has suffered many personal losses, has also gained wisdom and strategies from hundreds of AIDS survivors who share their intimate and rue stories. They tell how they handled the many challenges they faced. This book offers immediate help, both spiritual and practical. Survivors will learn that others have experienced such hurt and have found pathways to recovering.

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0595168604

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The Magic Circle

By: Katherine Neville

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The Magic Circle

By: Katherine Neville

A female scientist races to save the world using prophecies from before Christ’s time in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Eight. In the last week of Jesus’s life, the Emperor Augustus orders the purge of all prophecies that question his divine power. Thus, in the crater of a dormant volcano, the books of the Sibylline oracle are sealed—lost to the world until the nineteenth century when Clio, a brilliant archaeologist, discovers them. The Sibyl’s words remain as potent as ever, having the ability to change the destiny of mankind. But who will be bold enough to harness their power? More than a century after their discovery, some of the secret prophecies fall into the hands of nuclear scientist Ariel Behn when her beloved cousin is assassinated. If Ariel can discover the mystery behind the prophecies, she will be able to prevent a potentially worldwide catastrophe—but in order to do so she must travel to Russia, Vienna, and Paris where too many people are desperate to protect the secrets of these ancient writings. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Katherine Neville including rare images from her life and travels.

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Open Road Media

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1504013697

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Siblings and sociology

By: Katherine Davies

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Siblings and sociology

By: Katherine Davies

Sibling relationships are full of intrigue, yet tend to be overlooked in sociological thinking. This book draws upon innovative qualitative data sources to explore the significance of siblings throughout the life course, demonstrating why sociologists ought to pay attention to siblingship. Focussing on four themes central to the discipline of sociology – self, relationality, imagination and time – the book shows why siblings matter. Grounded in theories of relatedness but spanning theoretical work on generation, life course, emotion, sensory worlds, normativity and identity, Siblings and sociology explores the importance of siblings in everyday life and how they inform wider social processes: the relational construction of identity, the inculcation of capital, experiences of institutions like schools and the meanings of relatedness. Siblings tap into profound questions about who we are and who we can become. This book shows how the intrigue of siblingship renders them an important lens through which to think in new ways about familiar sociological ideas. Siblings and sociology demonstrates why siblings are a fascinating subject for sociologists: a relationship that can influence all aspects of life, as well as an object of scrutiny capable of firing the sociological imagination and directing the analytical gaze.

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Manchester University Press

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1526142198

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9781526142191

Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Job

By: Katherine J. Dell

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Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Job

By: Katherine J. Dell

This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Dell’s introduction to and concise commentary on Job. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers. Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467453668

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9781467453660

The New Economy of Nature

The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable

By: Gretchen Cara Daily,Katherine Ellison

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The New Economy of Nature

The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable

By: Gretchen Cara Daily,Katherine Ellison

Earth's ecosystems - forests, wetlands, coral reefs, and the like - are among humanity's most precious assets, offering such vital services as climate control and water purification. So why are they being rapidly destroyed? A major reason is that protecting them has been seen as largely a charitable venture, and philanthropy isn't up to the job. Increasing numbers of environmentally minded people are therefore trying to harness a more potent force - self-interest - to preserve our environmental endowment. Theirs is the quest portrayed in The New Economy of Nature. In this timely and provocative book, Gretchen Daily, one of the world's leading ecologists, and Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, give us an informative look at a new "new economy" that recognizes the full value of natural systems and the potential profits in protecting them."--BOOK JACKET.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1559631546

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9781559631549

Migration Narratives

Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions

By: Stanton Wortham,Briana Nichols,Katherine Clonan-Roy,Catherine Rhodes

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Migration Narratives

Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions

By: Stanton Wortham,Briana Nichols,Katherine Clonan-Roy,Catherine Rhodes

Migration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. Through interviews with residents, the book focuses on key educational, religious, and civic institutions that shape and are shaped by the realities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on African American, Mexican, Irish and Italian communities, the authors describe how interethnic relations played a central role in newcomers' pathways and draw links between the town's earlier cycles of migration. The town represents similar communities across the USA and around the world that have received large numbers of immigrants in a short time. The purpose of the book is to document the complexities that migrants and hosts experience and to suggest ways in which policy-makers, researchers, educators and communities can respond intelligently to politically-motivated stories that oversimplify migration across the contemporary world. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Boston College.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350181331

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9781350181335

Dreams With A Message

Developing the Gift of Dream Interpretation

By: Deborah Katherine Smith

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Dreams With A Message

Developing the Gift of Dream Interpretation

By: Deborah Katherine Smith

Dreams With A Message by Deborah Katherine Smith __________________________________

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1636309542

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9781636309545

Achilles

Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages

By: Katherine Callen King

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Achilles

Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages

By: Katherine Callen King

The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles presented in Homer's Iliad imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking "soldier" with "hero" in Western culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances in the works of poets, generals, philosophers, priests, and patriots, Katherine Callen King establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues.

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Univ of California Press

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0520074076

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9780520074071

Transforming Scriptures

African American Women Writers and the Bible

By: Katherine Clay Bassard

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Transforming Scriptures

African American Women Writers and the Bible

By: Katherine Clay Bassard

Transforming Scriptures is the first sustained treatment of African American women writers' intellectual, even theological, engagements with the book Northrop Frye referred to as the “great code” of Western civilization. Katherine Clay Bassard discusses how such texts respond as a collective “literary witness” to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination.

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University of Georgia Press

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082033880X

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9780820338804

Undoing Motherhood

Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity

By: Katherine M. Johnson

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Undoing Motherhood

Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity

By: Katherine M. Johnson

In 1978 the world’s first “test-tube baby” was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of the human body has created new opportunities for family building, but also prompted new conflicts about rights to and control over reproductive cells. In collaborative forms of reproduction that build on IVF technologies, such as egg and embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, multiple women may variously contribute to conception, gestation/birth, and the legal and social responsibilities for rearing a child, creating intentionally fragmented maternities. Undoing Motherhood examines the implications of such fragmented maternities in the post-IVF reproductive era for generating maternity uncertainty—an increasing cultural ambiguity about what does and should constitute maternity. Undoing Motherhood explores this uncertainty in the social worlds of reproductive medicine and law.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978808690

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9781978808690

11+ English

A Parent's Tool Kit

By: Katherine Hamlyn

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11+ English

A Parent's Tool Kit

By: Katherine Hamlyn

This toolkit enables parents and children to work together on all aspects of English at the Key Stages Two/Three level (the transition from Year Six to Seven). It is also specifically aimed at children who are going to take entrance examinations at 11+.

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Lucas Publications Ltd

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0953265935

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9780953265930

Twentieth-Century British and American Theatre

A Critical Guide to Archives

By: Christopher Innes,Katherine Carlstrom,Scott Fraser

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Twentieth-Century British and American Theatre

A Critical Guide to Archives

By: Christopher Innes,Katherine Carlstrom,Scott Fraser

First published in 1999, this volume aims to develop the field of theatre studies by promoting the study of performative elements and thus fostering their consideration in the critical interpretation of dramatic literature. The authors additionally suggest ways of approaching and evaluating the work of individual performers, as well as of directors, designers and producers. It is an archival guide which covers manuscript and ephemera, rather than published texts, and attempts to indicate the potential value of the documentary material listed. This unique reference guide provides descriptions and evaluations of archive manuscript materials and ephemera relating to twentieth-century British and American theatre. Over 100 archives across Europe, North America and Britain were examined in the compilation of this volume. The documents include: unpublished playscripts; state and costume designs; directors' books; prompt books; lighting plots; stage photos; correspondence; theatre programmes. One hundred and seventy five entries are arranged alphabetically and cover playwrights, directors, designers and actors. By its nature, theatre is a collaborative enterprise, a facet which is recognised in the comprehensive cross-referencing of entries. The last twenty years has seen a shift in drama studies from text-based criticism to analysis of performance. The materials covered in this book have therefore become essential to future research in the field.

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Routledge

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0429782128

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9780429782121

Ella Fitzgerald

First Lady of Song

By: Katherine E. Krohn

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Ella Fitzgerald

First Lady of Song

By: Katherine E. Krohn

A biography of the celebrated jazz singer, known especially for her scat singing and "songbook" recordings of the works of many major American composers.

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Twenty-First Century Books

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0822549336

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9780822549338

Through the Year with Jesus: Gospel Readings and Reflections for Children

By: Katherine Bogner

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Through the Year with Jesus: Gospel Readings and Reflections for Children

By: Katherine Bogner

The liturgical year invites us to walk with Jesus through the most wonderful story ever told: the Gospel. In Through the Year with Jesus: Gospel Readings and Reflections for Children, catechist and popular blogger Katherine Bogner reveals the rich mystery of the seasons we celebrate in the Church. With Gospel readings for each week of the liturgical year, along with tools for reflection, discussion, and prayer, Through the Year with Jesus offers endless opportunities for discovering who Jesus is and better understanding Catholic teaching about his life and mission. Promote prayer and conversation about the life of Christ with children through Weekly readings from the Gospels Lectio Divina prompts to nurture personal prayer or journaling Sacred art to accompany the Gospel reading Stories of saints and many rich Catholic traditions for the liturgical year The easy-to-use format of Through the Year with Jesus helps adults lead children to an intimate encounter with the heart of Jesus through the rhythm of the liturgical year and the powerful words of Scripture.

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