Kathryn Lay's Books

Reconsidering Catholic Lay Womanhood

Pious Transgressors in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England

By: Kathryn G. Lamontagne

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Reconsidering Catholic Lay Womanhood

Pious Transgressors in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England

By: Kathryn G. Lamontagne

This book offers a new perspective on the often-overlooked lives of lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church. It explores how over a century ago in England some exceptional Catholic lay women – Margaret Fletcher, Maude Petre, Radclyffe Hall, and Mabel Batten - negotiated non-traditional family lives and were actively practicing their faith, while not adhering to perceived structures of femininity, power, and sexuality. Focusing on c. 1880-1930, a time of dynamism and change in both England and the Church, these remarkable women represent a rethinking of what it meant to be a lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church. Their pious transgressions demonstrate the multiplicity of ways lay women powerfully asserted aspects of their faith while contravening boundaries traditionally assumed for them in an ostensibly patriarchal religion. In fact, the Church could be a place for expressions of unconventional religiosity and reinterpretations of womanhood and domesticity. Connecting together the lives of these women for the first time, this work fills a lacuna in the scholarship of modern Catholic and gender history. Drawing from private collections and numerous archives, it illustrates the surprising range of modes of Lived Catholicism and devotion to faith. Students and scholars of Catholicism, gender, and LGBTQIA+ studies will find significant merit in a book that assigns lay women a more prominent role in the English Catholic Church and offers examples of the flexibility of Roman Catholicism.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000906027

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9781000906028

The Judicial System of Russia

By: Kathryn Hendley,Peter H. Solomon, Jr.

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The Judicial System of Russia

By: Kathryn Hendley,Peter H. Solomon, Jr.

This book paints a portrait of the courts of the Russian Federation under Putin. It stresses the dual nature of a judicial system where ordinary cases are handled fairly, but where cases of interest to powerful persons are subject to influence. A must read for those with an interest in Russia's judicial systems.

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Oxford University Press

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0192895354

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Bounded Wilderness

Land and Reform at the Hermitage of Fonte Avellana, ca. 1035-1072

By: Kathryn Jasper

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Bounded Wilderness

Land and Reform at the Hermitage of Fonte Avellana, ca. 1035-1072

By: Kathryn Jasper

In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072). The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that led to new ways of managing property and relations among clergy, nobles, and the laity. Jasper charts how Damian's notion of monastic reform took advantage of the surrounding topography and geography to amplify the sensory aspects of ascetic experiences. By focusing on monastic landscapes and land ownership, Jasper demonstrates that reform extended beyond abstract ideas. Rather, reform circulated locally through monastic networks and addressed practical concerns such as property boundaries and rights over water, orchards, pastures, and mills. Putting new sources, both documentary and archaeological, into conversation with monastic charters and Damian's letters, Bounded Wilderness reveals the interrelationship of economic practices, religious traditions, and the natural environment in the idea and implementation of reform.

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Cornell University Press

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1501777629

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9781501777622

Maternal Child Nursing Care - E-Book

By: Shannon E. Perry,Marilyn J. Hockenberry,Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk,David Wilson,Kathryn Rhodes Alden,Kitty Cashion

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Maternal Child Nursing Care - E-Book

By: Shannon E. Perry,Marilyn J. Hockenberry,Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk,David Wilson,Kathryn Rhodes Alden,Kitty Cashion

Maternal Child Nursing Care - E-Book

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323479219

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The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry

By: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

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The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry

By: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses class, meritocracy, the gig economy, precarity, and the breaking of intellectual elites, speaking to both past and present employment urgencies.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812252632

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9780812252637

Piety in Pieces

How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts

By: Kathryn M. Rudy

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Piety in Pieces

How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts

By: Kathryn M. Rudy

Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts—that they were custom-made luxury items—even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?

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Open Book Publishers

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1783742364

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Women's Work

An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

By: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp,Kathryn Lofton

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Women's Work

An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

By: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp,Kathryn Lofton

Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians. Although few participated in the academic study of history until the mid-twentieth century, women labored as teachers of history and historical interpreters. Within African-American communities, women began to write histories in the years after the American Revolution. Distributed through churches, seminaries, public schools, and auxiliary societies, their stories of the past translated ancient Africa, religion, slavery, and ongoing American social reform as historical subjects to popular audiences North and South. This book surveys the creative ways in which African-American women harnessed the power of print to share their historical revisions with a broader public. Their speeches, textbooks, poems, and polemics did more than just recount the past. They also protested their present status in the United States through their reclamation of that past. Bringing together work by more familiar writers in black America-such as Maria Stewart, Francis E. W. Harper, and Anna Julia Cooper-as well as lesser-known mothers and teachers who educated their families and their communities, this documentary collection gathers a variety of primary texts from the antebellum era to the Harlem Renaissance, some of which have never been anthologized. Together with a substantial introduction to black women's historical writings, this volume presents a unique perspective on the past and imagined future of the race in the United States.

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Oxford University Press

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0199779716

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9780199779710

Quiverfull

Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement

By: Kathryn Joyce

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Quiverfull

Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement

By: Kathryn Joyce

Kathryn Joyce's fascinating introduction to the world of the patriarchy movement and Quiverfull families examines the twenty-first-century women and men who proclaim self-sacrifice and submission as model virtues of womanhood—and as modes of warfare on behalf of Christ. Here, women live within stringently enforced doctrines of wifely submission and male headship, and live by the Quiverfull philosophy of letting God give them as many children as possible so as to win the religion and culture wars through demographic means.

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Beacon Press

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0807096229

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The Kathryn Hughes Collection

THE LETTER, THE SECRET and THE KEY

By: Kathryn Hughes

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The Kathryn Hughes Collection

THE LETTER, THE SECRET and THE KEY

By: Kathryn Hughes

Available together for the first time in ebook, discover the heartrending novels from the No.1 bestselling author Kathryn Hughes. ** PRE-ORDER THE MEMORY BOX, THE NEW NOVEL FROM KATHRYN HUGHES COMING SOON *** 'A wonderful, uplifting story' Lesley Pearse on The Letter 'Gripping' Good Housekeeping on The Secret 'A heartbreakingly powerful read' The Sun on The Key One decision can alter the course of your life for ever... THE LETTER Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. When she comes across an old letter in the pocket of a second-hand suit, her decision to read it will alter the course of her life for ever... Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool, but hopes he can put things right. The letter he sits down to write on 4th September 1939 will change his future in more ways than he can ever imagine... THE SECRET Mary has been nursing a secret. Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear. Beth is searching for answers. When she finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She must go back to where it all began to unlock... The Secret. THE KEY 1956: It's Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate Hospital. When she meets a young woman admitted by her father, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change both their lives for ever... 2006: When Sarah discovers a suitcase belonging to a patient who entered the now abandoned Ambergate fifty years earlier, the shocking contents will lead Sarah to unravel a forgotten story of tragedy and lost love, and the chance to make an old wrong right . . . Readers adore the unputdownable stories of Kathryn Hughes 'This is one of the BEST BOOKS I have ever read' 'I cried buckets of tears reading it' 'An amazing, heartwrenching, unforgettable story' 'A tale of love and hope with lots of twists and turns. A great story!

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1472277279

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Ravishing Maidens

Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law

By: Kathryn Gravdal

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Ravishing Maidens

Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law

By: Kathryn Gravdal

In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through which medieval discourse made rape acceptable: sometimes through humor and aestheticization, sometimes through the use of social and political themes, but especially through the romanticism of rape scenes.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812213157

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Ringleaders of Redemption

How Medieval Dance Became Sacred

By: Kathryn Dickason

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Ringleaders of Redemption

How Medieval Dance Became Sacred

By: Kathryn Dickason

In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages. Throughout the medieval era, the Latin Church denounced and prohibited dancing in religious and secular realms, often aligning it with demonic intervention, lust, pride, and sacrilege. Historical sources, however, suggest that medieval dance was a complex and ambivalent phenomenon. During the High and Late Middle Ages, Western theologians, liturgists, and mystics not only tolerated dance; they transformed it into a dynamic component of religious thought and practice. This book investigates how dance became a legitimate form of devotion in Christian culture. Sacred dance functioned to gloss scripture, frame spiritual experience, and imagine the afterlife. Invoking numerous manuscript and visual sources (biblical commentaries, sermons, saints' lives, ecclesiastical statutes, mystical treatises, vernacular literature, and iconography), this book highlights how medieval dance helped shape religious identity and social stratification. Moreover, this book shows the political dimension of dance, which worked in the service of Christendom, conversion, and social cohesion. In Ringleaders of Redemption, Kathryn Dickason reveals a long tradition of sacred dance in Christianity, one that the professionalization and secularization of Renaissance dance obscured, and one that the Reformation silenced and suppressed.

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Oxford University Press

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0197527299

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9780197527290

Equine Exercise Physiology

By: David Marlin,Kathryn J. Nankervis

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Equine Exercise Physiology

By: David Marlin,Kathryn J. Nankervis

Equine exercise physiology is an area that has been subject tomajor scientific advances over the last 30 years, largely due tothe increased availability of high-speed treadmills and techniquesfor recording physiological function during exercise. Despite thescientific advances, many riders and trainers are still usinglittle more than experience and intuition to train their horses. The aim of this book is to sort the fact from the fiction forthe benefit of those involved in training, managing or working withhorses, and to provide an up-to-date summary of the state of playin equine exercise physiology. Scientific theories are explainedfrom first principles, with the assumption that the reader has noprevious scientific background. The book is designed to savecompetitors and trainers a lot of time and effort trying to extractinformation in piecemeal fashion from a host of reference sources.For the first time, everything you need to know about exercisingand training horses is here in one text.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118693299

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9781118693292

Long Live the King

The Mysterious Fate of Edward II

By: Kathryn Warner

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Long Live the King

The Mysterious Fate of Edward II

By: Kathryn Warner

Edward II’s murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to an Italian hermitage. In Long Live the King, medieval historian Kathryn Warner explores in detail Edward’s downfall and forced abdication in 1326/27, the role possibly played by his wife Isabella of France, the wide variation in chronicle accounts of his murder at Berkeley Castle and the fascinating possibility that Edward lived on in Italy for many years after his official funeral was held in Gloucester in December 1327.

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The History Press

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0750983272

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The Crisis Reader

Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine

By: Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson

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The Crisis Reader

Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine

By: Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson

After its start in 1910, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals. In 1920, Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was published in The Crisis and W. E. B. Du Bois, the magazine's editor, wrote about the coming "renaissance of American Negro literature," beginning what is now known as the Harlem Renaissance. The Crisis Reader is a collection of poems, short stories, plays, and essays from this great literary period and includes, in addition to four previously unpublished poems by James Weldon Johnson, work by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, Charles Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke.

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Modern Library

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0375752315

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9780375752315

The Genetic Lottery

Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

By: Kathryn Paige Harden

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The Genetic Lottery

Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

By: Kathryn Paige Harden

A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health—and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society. Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery.

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Princeton University Press

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0691242100

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Demon - Book Two Of The Carmody Chronicles

By: Kathryn Deans

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Demon - Book Two Of The Carmody Chronicles

By: Kathryn Deans

Pear Tree Hill Farm has always possessed an eerie reputation. No-one would willingly spend time there. Years ago the Cresswell family was destroyed in a terrible tragedy - now it's as if an evil presence hangs over the place waiting for something, or someone. Luisa and Ruben get drawn into a terrifying, haunted world where nothing is as it seems. Who will survive an evil that can live on forever? - 41400 words.

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Kate Harper

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1466144440

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Private Entrance

By: Kathryn Harvey

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Private Entrance

By: Kathryn Harvey

BOOK THREE OF THE BUTTERFLY TRILOGY New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Harvey captivates again in this sensual tale of murder, corruption, and passion. Abby Tyler is a woman on a mission. For more than thirty years, Abby has been desperately searching for her child—an infant stolen at birth before she even had a chance to see it. To locate her child and end years of heartache, Abby formulates a plan that will bring her face to face with a past she has tried to forget. Elsewhere, three strangers receive word that they’ve each won a contest that, oddly, they don’t recall entering. None of them are prepared for the luxurious and erotic prize that awaits them—a week at The Grove, an exclusive anything-goes, no-questions-asked resort in the Southern California desert. Amid the glamour of movie stars and the super-rich, the three strangers—Coco, Sissy, and Ophelia—find themselves embroiled in a baffling mystery involving the reclusive spa owner, Abby Tyler. As a deadly sandstorm approaches the resort, a murderer stalks the trapped guests. Someone will die, someone will find love, and all three women will come to astonishing realizations about themselves. From the sensual heat of the desert to the corrupt underworld of Las Vegas, author Kathryn Harvey delivers a stimulating tale with Private Entrance.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1596528761

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Flickers

By: Kathryn Jordan

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Flickers

By: Kathryn Jordan

Set in the dynamic years leading up to the Roaring Twenties, Flickers turns its lens on California’s glamorous silent film era, as Victorian civilities are swept away by a bold new century . . . Violet Winters is the daughter of one of California’s wealthy robber barons. Jack Sutter is the gardener’s son. In their youth, the two were inseparable. But in 1913 everything is changing, and despite their feelings for each other, adulthood has come between them. Their vastly different social positions leads Violet to marry the aloof but socially perfect Maury Rediston. Jack vows to win Violet back while carving out a new life for himself in the burgeoning motion picture industry. Tip Rediston, Violet’s brother-in-law, also gets drawn into the bohemian world of the flickers. As handsome as he is troubled, Tip starts his climb to stardom despite his family’s disapproval. But as social changes, political upheaval, and war change the world around them, Violet, Jack, and Tip learn that things are never as easy as they seem on the silver screen. . . Praise for Kathryn Jordan (writing as Katharine Kerr) “Kerr’s latest novel, set in her fantasy world of Deverry, weaves together two distinct stories of love and magic in a richly detailed, intricately plotted tale. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal on A Time of Exile “No one does real, live, gritty Celtic fantasy better than Katharine Kerr.” —Judith Tarr “Breakneck plotting, punning, and romance make for a mostly fast, fun read."—Publishers Weekly on Water to Burn “The world of Deverry is richly detailed, and Kerr's characters are genuinely appealing.”—Library Journal on A Time of Omens

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Lyrical Press

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1601834985

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All the Broken Things

By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

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All the Broken Things

By: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

A novel of exceptional heart and imagination about the ties that bind us to each other, broken and whole, from one of the most exciting voices in Canadian fiction. September, 1983. Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in a small house in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto with his mother, Thao, and his four-year-old sister, who was born severely disfigured from the effects of Agent Orange. Named Orange, she is the family secret; Thao keeps her hidden away, and when Bo's not at school or getting into fights on the street, he cares for her. One day a carnival worker and bear trainer, Gerry, sees Bo in a streetfight, and recruits him for the bear wrestling circuit, eventually giving him his own cub to train. This opens up a new world for Bo--but then Gerry's boss, Max, begins pursuing Thao with an eye on Orange for his travelling freak show. When Bo wakes up one night to find the house empty, he knows he and his cub, Bear, are truly alone. Together they set off on an extraordinary journey through the streets of Toronto and High Park. Awake at night, boy and bear form a unique and powerful bond. When Bo emerges from the park to search for his sister, he discovers a new way of seeing Orange, himself and the world around them. All the Broken Things is a spellbinding novel, at once melancholy and hopeful, about the peculiarities that divide us and bring us together, and the human capacity for love and acceptance.

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Random House Canada

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0345813545

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9780345813541

The Language of Whiggism

Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830

By: Kathryn Chittick

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The Language of Whiggism

Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830

By: Kathryn Chittick

The premise of Chittick's study is that the national discourse found in British periodical literature of 1802-30 is crucial to an understanding of the literary language of the era.

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Routledge

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1317316428

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Harriet Martineau's Writing on British History and Military Reform, vol 3

By: Deborah Logan,Kathryn Sklar

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Harriet Martineau's Writing on British History and Military Reform, vol 3

By: Deborah Logan,Kathryn Sklar

This volume contains Harriet Martineau's writings on the history of England and its efforts and negotiations to promote peace between 1826 and 1834, providing a detailed account of the political revolutions and democratic and military reforms that shaped England's history.

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1000161730

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Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts

Volume 2: Social Encounters with the Book

By: Kathryn M. Rudy

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Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts

Volume 2: Social Encounters with the Book

By: Kathryn M. Rudy

In the late middle ages (ca. 1200-1520), both religious and secular people used manuscripts, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of their use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, public reading, and memorializing the dead, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment. This second volume, Social Encounters with the Book, delves into the physical interaction with books in various social settings, including education, courtly assemblies, and confraternal gatherings. Looking at acts such as pointing, scratching, and ‘wet-touching’, the author zooms in on smudges and abrasions on medieval manuscripts as testimonials of readers’ interaction with the book and its contents. In so doing, she dissects the function of books in oaths, confraternal groups, education, and courtly settings, illuminating how books were used as teaching aids and tools for conveying political messages. The narrative paints a vivid picture of medieval reading, emphasizing bodily engagement, from page-turning to the intimate act of kissing pages. Overall, this text offers a captivating exploration of the tactile and social dimensions of book use in late medieval Europe broadening our perspective on the role of objects in rituals during the middle ages. Social Encounters with the Book provides a fundamental resource to anybody interested in medieval history and book materiality more widely.

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Open Book Publishers

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1805111671

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The Gunslinger and the Heiress

By: Kathryn Albright

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The Gunslinger and the Heiress

By: Kathryn Albright

Category: historical"--P. [4] of cover.

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Harlequin

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0373298153

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Blue Ridge Commons

Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina

By: Kathryn Newfont

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Blue Ridge Commons

Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina

By: Kathryn Newfont

In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while launching aggressive initiatives of their own. Kathryn Newfont provides context for those events by examining the environmental history of this region over the course of three hundred years, identifying what she calls commons environmentalism--a cultural strain of conservation in American history that has gone largely unexplored. Efforts in the 1970s to expand federal wilderness areas in the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests generated strong opposition. For many mountain residents the idea of unspoiled wilderness seemed economically unsound, historically dishonest, and elitist. Newfont shows that local people's sense of commons environmentalism required access to the forests that they viewed as semipublic places for hunting, fishing, and working. Policies that removed large tracts from use were perceived as 'enclosure' and resisted. Incorporating deep archival work and years of interviews and conversations with Appalachian residents, Blue Ridge Commons reveals a tradition of people building robust forest protection movements on their own terms."--p. [4] of cover.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820341258

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Women Heroes of World War II

26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue

By: Kathryn J. Atwood

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Women Heroes of World War II

26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue

By: Kathryn J. Atwood

Twenty-six stories of women heroes from World War II.

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1556529619

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Texas Temptation

10 Lone Star State Love Stories

By: Kathryn Brocato,Kristina Knight,Tami Lund,Nicole Flockton,Leslie P García,Monica Tillery,Nancy C Weeks,Pema Donyo,Winter Austin,Beverly A Rogers

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Texas Temptation

10 Lone Star State Love Stories

By: Kathryn Brocato,Kristina Knight,Tami Lund,Nicole Flockton,Leslie P García,Monica Tillery,Nancy C Weeks,Pema Donyo,Winter Austin,Beverly A Rogers

Can’t get enough of sexy cowboys? Check out these ten tales of bold, funny, take-charge couples who team up to wrangle a love as big as the Texas sky! The Texas Takedown: Berry Challoner’s going undercover as a secretary to solve her brother’s murder. Surely accountant Tyler Reid, his best friend, can help her follow the money to the killer. But when she’s targeted next, can meek Tyler save the girl who’s captured his heart? What a Texas Girl Wants: The last thing Jackson Taylor wants is a down-to-earth girl like Kathleen Witte, so why did he wake up on a Mexican beach with a ring on his finger? Once they’re back in Texas, this all-business marriage might turn into an all-consuming love. Delicious Deception: Artist Emily Kate Boudreaux runs a restaurant on a Texas bayou because it’s what her family expects. Then sexy chef Connor Rikeland walks into her life and turns her business—and her bed—into one hot adventure. But Connor isn’t who he seems to be, and Emily Kate questions what’s real, what’s a lie, and what’s worth risking her heart over. Sweet Texas Fire: When Gage Cooper’s business nemesis, environmental analyst Charlotte Wilkinson, inherits oil-rich family property, he’ll do anything to reverse this fortune, including eloping to Vegas. But surprising chemistry blossoms and Gage must choose between the land he’s always coveted or a future with Charlotte. A Love Beyond: Convinced her sister’s abusive marriage led to her suicide, A.J. Owens travels to her brother-in-law’s Texas ranch to unearth his secrets. Chance Landin, his head of security, knows there’s something fishy about this gorgeous blonde. Can love triumph over revenge? The Election Connection: War widow Lily Ashton’s heart is closed to love, so she’s the perfect choice to play fiancée to help secure a re-election for her pal, Texas congressman Ford Richardson. Soon, their not-quite engagement starts to feel much more real than either is ready to admit. In the Shadow of Pride: When Lexie Trevena’s matchmaking friends accidentally place her smack in the path of a terrorist in Austin who intends to use her as his pawn, the only person who can help her is Special Agent-in-Charge Luke “Mac” McNeil—the man she holds responsible for her husband’s death. One Last Letter: Jesse Greenwood can only admit his true feelings for heartbreaker Evelyn Lancaster via unsigned letters left on her porch…until another man comes forward to lay claim. Will one final note give them the courage to say yes to love again on the wild Texas plains? Relentless: Battling his partner, his attraction to cowgirl Cody, and the demons of his past, Dallas detective Remy LeBeau must risk it all to catch a serial killer. But it could cost him everything—including Cody’s life. Broken Wings, Soaring Hearts: Hailey Holman is set on keeping her dad’s dream of reopening their small-town Texas base station alive. Jack Stinson wants to escape the pressures of his own family’s airplane manufacturing business. Only with each other’s help, can these two focused pilots have enough faith to soar together.

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1507203535

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What's Wrong With My Fruit Garden?

100% Organic Solutions for Berries, Trees, Nuts, Vines, and Tropicals

By: David Deardorff,Kathryn Wadsworth

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What's Wrong With My Fruit Garden?

100% Organic Solutions for Berries, Trees, Nuts, Vines, and Tropicals

By: David Deardorff,Kathryn Wadsworth

This guide is a must-have for any food gardener looking to grow scrumptious and problem-free fruit! What’s Wrong With My Fruit Garden? offers a path toward a healthy garden packed with fresh fruit. In addition to learning how to diagnose a plant problem through clear visual keys, you will also learn the most effective organic solutions for every problem. Detailed plant portraits include information on growth, season, planting techniques, and temperature, light, and soil requirements. The 37 plants profiles cover everything from almonds to watermelons.

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Timber Press

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1604693584

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Composition in Black and White

The Life of Philippa Schuyler

By: Kathryn Talalay

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Composition in Black and White

The Life of Philippa Schuyler

By: Kathryn Talalay

George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter, Philippa Duke Schuyler, became the embodiment of this theory, and they hoped she would prove that interracial children represented the final solution to America's race problems. Able to read and write at the age of two and a half, a pianist at four, and a composer by five, Philippa was often compared to Mozart. During the 1930s and 40s she graced the pages of Time and Look magazines, the New York Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. Philippa grew up under the adoring and inquisitive eyes of an entire nation and soon became the role model and inspiration for a generation of African-American children. But as an adult she mysteriously dropped out of sight, leaving America to wonder what had happened to the "little Harlem genius." Suffering the double sting of racism and gender bias, Philippa had been rejected by the elite classical music milieu in the United States and forced to find an audience abroad, where she flourished as a world-class performer and composer. She traveled throughout South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia performing for kings, queens, and presidents. By then Philippa had added a second career as an author and foreign correspondent reporting on events around the globe--from Albert Schweitzer's leper colony in Lamberéné to the turbulent Asian theater of the 1960s. She would give a command performance for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium one day, and hide from the Viet Cong among the ancient graves of the Annam kings another. But behind the scrim of adventure, glamour, and intrigue was an American outcast, a woman constantly searching for home and self. "I am a beauty--but I'm half colored...so I'm always destined to be an outsider," she wrote in her diary. Philippa tried to define herself through love affairs, but found only disappointment and scandal. In a last attempt to reclaim an identity, she began to "pass" as Caucasian. Adopting an Iberian-American heritage, she reinvented herself as Felipa Monterro, an ultra-right conservative who wrote and lectured for the John Birch Society. Her experiment failed, as had her parents' dream of smashing America's racial barriers. But at the age of thirty five, Philippa finally began to embark on a racial catharsis: She was just beginning to find herself when on May 9, 1967, while on an unauthorized mission of mercy, her life was cut short in a helicopter crash over the waters of war-torn Vietnam. The first authorized biography of Philippa Schuyler, Composition in Black and White draws on previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal an extraordinary and complex personality. Extensive research and personal interviews from around the world make this book not only the definitive chronicle of Schuyler's restless and haunting life, but also a vivid history of the tumultuous times she lived through, from the Great Depression, through the Civil Rights movement, to the Vietnam war. Talalay has created a highly perceptive and provocative portrait of a fascinating woman.

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Oxford University Press

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0190283297

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Manville a History Enduring

By: Kathryn Quick

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Manville a History Enduring

By: Kathryn Quick

When we embarked on this project to write a book about Manville, we were met with an enthusiastic response. Our appeal to the people of this town for photos, stories and relics of this community's past was met with an outpouring of material. Residents were generous with the photos of their family and friends engaged in clubs and activities, working at businesses and at their homes. They brought us wonderful stories about the history of the town and its evolution. We sincerely thank them for their contributions. This book is for you and we hope that you will find your stories and memories well represented. The original motivation to embark on the project was John Shutack, who unfortunately is not here to see its completion. We have many others to thanks for their contributions including Ruth Bielanski for all of her assistance, George Jakelsky for his extensive knowledge of the people, places, clubs and activities of Manville and Rudy Nowak for recommending, Kathryn Quick, who compiled the history for the book. We sincerely thank Kathryn Quick, a town resident and author, who graciously contributed so much time and energy to this project. This is an on-going project with new history being written each day. We look forward to the next volume and encourage all of our community to save their memories and photos to share with the people of Manville in the future. A. Sandy Filipinni

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1450024289

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You're the First One I've Told

The Faces of HIV in the Deep South

By: Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein,Brian Wells Pence

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You're the First One I've Told

The Faces of HIV in the Deep South

By: Kathryn Whetten-Goldstein,Brian Wells Pence

The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease’s continued spread in the region—ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance to behavioral changes—remain unaddressed by policymakers. In this extensively revised second edition, Kathryn Whetten and Brian Wells Pence present a rich discussion of twenty-five ethnographic life stories of people living with HIV in the South. Most importantly, they incorporate research from their recent quantitative study, “Coping with HIV/AIDS in the Southeast” (CHASE), which includes 611 HIV-positive patients from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. This new edition continues to bring the participants’ voices to life while highlighting how the CHASE study confirmed many of the themes that originally emerged from the life histories. This is the first cohesive compilation of up-to-date evidence on the unique and difficult aspects of living with HIV in the Deep South.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813554543

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The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968

Lutherans and Race in the Civil Rights Era

By: Kathryn M. Galchutt

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The Career of Andrew Schulze, 1924-1968

Lutherans and Race in the Civil Rights Era

By: Kathryn M. Galchutt

Andrew Schulze was a white pastor of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod who spent his early ministry serving black mission churches in Springfield, Illinois (1924-1928); St. Louis, Missouri (1928-1947); and Chicago, Illinois (1947-1954). He was an early proponent of integration during these years, fighting continual battles to get black students admitted to Lutheran schools. In the 1930s, he began to lobby to end the mission status of black churches and black schools, a goal which was finally realized in 1947. In 1941 he wrote a treatise on race relations in the church,

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Mercer University Press

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086554946X

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Training Wheels: How My MS Led to Plan B

By: Kathryn Spira

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Training Wheels: How My MS Led to Plan B

By: Kathryn Spira

Those who read Kathryn's first book, In Kathryn's Korner, know she used to double date with Julia Roberts, work with Michael Chikliss, Anthony Bourdain and Edie Falco and spend Saturday afternoons with Dennis Hopper. This book isn't about that. This book is about life after "Hollyweird," as she calls it--dealing with a life-changing diagnosis of MS and - surprise! - still looking forward to each day! For each lemon life has thrown at her she has made lemonade.

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138760435X

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Shadow Wolf (Wolves of the Beyond #2)

By: Kathryn Lasky

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Shadow Wolf (Wolves of the Beyond #2)

By: Kathryn Lasky

The second installment in bestselling author Kathryn Lasky's staggering WOLVES OF THE BEYOND series, a spinoff of the legendary Guardians of Ga'Hoole books.The wolf pup Faolan was born with a twisted paw, a slight defect that caused his wolf clan to abandon him in the forest to die. But Faolan, with the help of the grizzly bear who raised him as her own, survived.Now he's made it back to his clan as a gnaw wolf, the lowest ranking pack member. And the hardships are just beginning. Another gnaw wolf, Heep, is jealous of Faolan and sets him up for failure. As if these humiliations are not enough, Faolon is framed for the murder of a wolf pup. Faolan must catch the culprit in time and prove he deserves to be a full member of the clan.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545328888

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham & Chadwell Heath

By: Kathryn Abnett,Linda Rhodes

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham & Chadwell Heath

By: Kathryn Abnett,Linda Rhodes

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham and Chadwell Heath takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way murderous husbands and lovers, cut-throats, police-killers, highwaymen, Gunpowder Plotters and even a Nazi collaborator sentenced to death for High Treason. Luckless individuals who came to cruel or unjust ends are also recalled, from martyrs and witches to the fishermen who perished in the Great Storm of 1863 and the passengers who lost their lives when the pleasure steamer the Princess Alice sank in the Thames in 1878. There is no shortage of harrowing and revealing tales of accident and evil to recount from the history of this part of Essex to the east of London. The human dramas the authors describe are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. Their grisly chronicle of the hidden history of Barking, Dagenham and Chadwell Heath will be compelling reading for anyone interested in the dark side of human nature.

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1783037326

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