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The Leaving Season: A Memoir

By: Kelly McMasters

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“One of the most beautifully written books I've ever read. Kelly McMasters is a literary giant.”—Zibby Owens, Good Morning America A memoir in intimate essays navigating marriage and motherhood, art and ambition, grief and nostalgia, and the elusive concept of home. Kelly McMasters found herself in her midthirties living her fantasy: she’d moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rainboots and diapers. The pastoral landscape and the bookshop they opened were restorative at first, for her and her marriage. But soon, she was quietly plotting her escape. In The Leaving Season, McMasters chronicles the heady rush of falling in love and carving out a life in the city, the slow dissolution of her relationship in an isolated farmhouse, and the complexities of making a new home for herself and her children as a single parent. She delves into the tricky and often devastating balance between seeing and being seen; loss and longing; desire and doubt; and the paradox of leaving what you love in order to survive. Whether considering masculinity in the countryside through the life of a freemartin calf, the vulnerability of new motherhood in the wake of a car crash, or the power of community pulsing through an independent bookshop, The Leaving Season finds in every ending a new beginning.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393541061

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9780393541069

Welcome to Shirley

A Memoir from an Atomic Town

By: Kelly McMasters

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Welcome to Shirley

A Memoir from an Atomic Town

By: Kelly McMasters

Shirley seemed to be doomed from the beginning. Founded by a Vaudevillian huckster who touted it as a seaside haven despite the sand bar that blocks access to the shore, the town has been plagued by one disaster after another—a UFO, a childhood cancer cluster, and a mysterious federal nuclear laboratory in nearby Brookhaven that leaked toxic nuclear and chemical waste into the aquifer from which the residents unknowingly drew their well water. This is Kelly McMasters' account of growing up in a cursed town and loving it anyway, and of a girl's awakening to tragedy and to a sense of mission. Told in a deliciously engaging voice, Welcome to Shirley balances the bitter with the sweet, the funny with the infuriating, in an unforgettable story of working class Long Island.

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1586486535

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The Leaving Season: A Memoir

By: Kelly McMasters

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Advances in Surgery 2016

By: John L. Cameron,Timothy G. Buchman,K. Craig Kent,Keith Lillemoe,Kelly M. McMasters,Mark Talamini,Charles J. Yeo

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Advances in Surgery 2016

By: John L. Cameron,Timothy G. Buchman,K. Craig Kent,Keith Lillemoe,Kelly M. McMasters,Mark Talamini,Charles J. Yeo

Each year, Advances in Surgery reviews the most current practices in general surgery. A distinguished editorial board, headed by Dr. John Cameron, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews in general surgery bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323446833

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Advances in Surgery 2017

By: John L. Cameron,Timothy G. Buchman,K. Craig Kent,Keith D. Lillemoe,Kelly M. McMasters,Mark A. Talamini,Charles J. Yeo

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Advances in Surgery 2017

By: John L. Cameron,Timothy G. Buchman,K. Craig Kent,Keith D. Lillemoe,Kelly M. McMasters,Mark A. Talamini,Charles J. Yeo

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Welcome to Shirley

A Memoir from an Atomic Town

By: Kelly McMasters

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A Taste for Speed

By: Dorien Kelly

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A Taste for Speed

By: Dorien Kelly

Retired NASCAR champion Steve Clayton is no stranger to risk. Still at the top of his game, the world-renowned wine grower is willing to take chances—in everything but love. Then he meets Sarah Stanton. The fiercely independent college professor is totally different from the women he usually dates. Yet he can't get her out of his mind…. Sarah has given up on finding the right man to share her life and give her the child she yearns for. The former racecar driver and paparazzi-loving playboy is wrong for her in every way. So why is Steve pursuing her as if this were the most important race of his life?

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Harlequin

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1426840713

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9781426840715

Superhero Encyclopedia

By: Christa Kelly

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Superhero Encyclopedia

By: Christa Kelly

This title introduces readers to some of the most popular and influential superheroes in history. In addition to learning about characters' stories, readers will learn about their special powers, their archnemeses, and the various formats in which their stories have been told. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Encyclopedias is an imprint of Abdo Reference, a division of ABDO.

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ABDO

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9798384910947

Financial Serial Killers

Inside the World of Wall Street Money Hustlers, Swindlers, and Con Men

By: Tom Ajamie,Bruce Kelly

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Financial Serial Killers

Inside the World of Wall Street Money Hustlers, Swindlers, and Con Men

By: Tom Ajamie,Bruce Kelly

By using true tales of thieves, swindlers, and fraudsters at work, Financial Serial Killers illustrates how these perpetrators get their hooks into investors' wallets, savings accounts, and portfolios—and never let go. The worst financial crisis since the great depression revealed that thousands of mom and pop investors had lost millions to so-called Mini-Madoffs. They are the thieves and conmen who had used phony financial acumen to steal investors' money, wipe out savings, and damage lives. Financial Serial Killers reveals the cons—from the grand to picayune—advisers cultivate with their victims—relationships that are essential to the fraud. Take the story of Lillian, the little old lady who invested with Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world. After her husband died, she thought her family's treasure of $24 million in stock controlled by Buffett was safe. It was—until a family relative introduced the eighty-nine-year-old grandmother to a pair of unscrupulous insurance agents who convinced her to reinvest her savings in life insurance—decimating her nest egg while padding the agents' pockets. Lillian's story, as well as other accounts of deceit and fraud, is the core of Financial Serial Killers. Readers will learn how to better protect their family's wealth and savings after reading this book.

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Skyhorse

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1629149497

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Over the Wall

By: Dorien Kelly

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Over the Wall

By: Dorien Kelly

When his father's sudden death forces Nathan Cargill to take over his family's racing team, he's determined to ratchet up their performance. That's why he's just hired fitness trainer Stacy Evans, who's tempting the Cargill Motors interim manager to break his cardinal rule: never mix business with pleasure. Coaching Nathan's over-the-wall crew is Stacy's chance to be part of the racing world. Falling for her handsome boss could derail all her plans. But with Nathan under suspicion and a scandal brewing that could blow the NASCAR world wide open, Stacy is determined to fight for her future with the man she loves….

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1426832257

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9781426832253

Hell under the Rising Sun

Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway

By: Kelly E. Crager

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Hell under the Rising Sun

Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway

By: Kelly E. Crager

Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and almost all of them were eager to face any challenge. Just over a year later, these carefree young Texans would be confronted by horrors they could never have imagined. The battalion was en route to bolster the Allied defense of the Philippines when they received news of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. Soon, they found themselves ashore on Java, with orders to assist the Dutch, British, and Australian defense of the island against imminent Japanese invasion. When war came to Java in March 1942, the Japanese forces overwhelmed the numerically inferior Allied defenders in little more than a week. For more than three years, the Texans, along with the sailors and marines who survived the sinking of the USS Houston, were prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army. Beginning in late 1942, these prisoners-of-war were shipped to Burma to accelerate completion of the Burma-Thailand railway. These men labored alongside other Allied prisoners and Asian conscript laborers to build more than 260 miles of railroad for their Japanese taskmasters. They suffered abscessed wounds, near-starvation, daily beatings, and debilitating disease, and 89 of the original 534 Texans taken prisoner died in the infested, malarial jungles. The survivors received a hero’s welcome from Gov. Coke Stevenson, who declared October 29, 1945, as “Lost Battalion Day” when they finally returned to Texas. Kelly E. Crager consulted official documentary sources of the National Archives and the U.S. Army and mined the personal memoirs and oral history interviews of the “Lost Battalion” members. He focuses on the treatment the men received in their captivity and surmises that a main factor in the battalion’s comparatively high survival rate (84 percent of the 2nd Battalion) was the comraderie of the Texans and their commitment to care for each other. This narrative is grueling, yet ultimately inspiring. Hell under the Rising Sun will be a valuable addition to the collections of World War II historians and interested general readers alike.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585446351

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9781585446353

Hepatocellular Carcinoma:

Targeted Therapy and Multidisciplinary Care

By: Kelly M. McMasters

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Hepatocellular Carcinoma:

Targeted Therapy and Multidisciplinary Care

By: Kelly M. McMasters

Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Targeted Therapy provides a detailed repository of the latest information regarding HCC epidemiology, diagnosis, imaging, pathology, staging, and treatment options. This volume also provides an up-to-date guide for treatment that explores not only traditional treatments, but newer investigational treatment options including, surgical resection, liver transplantation, ablation (radiofrequency, microwave), percutaneous ethanol or acetic acid injection, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), intra-arterial radiation therapy, and systemic chemotherapy. Heptocellular Carcinoma: Targeted Therapy will be of great value to all health care professionals and trainees worldwide who have an interest in the diagnosis and treatment of HCC, including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, and pathologists.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1603275223

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9781603275224

Advances in Surgery 2016

By: John L. Cameron,Timothy G. Buchman,K. Craig Kent,Keith Lillemoe,Kelly M. McMasters,Mark Talamini,Charles J. Yeo

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Advances in Surgery 2016

By: John L. Cameron,Timothy G. Buchman,K. Craig Kent,Keith Lillemoe,Kelly M. McMasters,Mark Talamini,Charles J. Yeo

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323446833

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Advances in Surgery 2017

By: John L. Cameron,Timothy G. Buchman,K. Craig Kent,Keith D. Lillemoe,Kelly M. McMasters,Mark A. Talamini,Charles J. Yeo

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Advances in Surgery 2017

By: John L. Cameron,Timothy G. Buchman,K. Craig Kent,Keith D. Lillemoe,Kelly M. McMasters,Mark A. Talamini,Charles J. Yeo

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Book's by Kelly McMasters

The Leaving Season: A Memoir

The Leaving Season: A Memoir

Welcome to Shirley

Welcome to Shirley

The Leaving Season: A Memoir

The Leaving Season: A Memoir

Advances in Surgery 2016

Advances in Surgery 2016

Advances in Surgery 2017

Advances in Surgery 2017

Welcome to Shirley

Welcome to Shirley

A Taste for Speed

A Taste for Speed

Superhero Encyclopedia

Superhero Encyclopedia

Financial Serial Killers

Financial Serial Killers

Over the Wall

Over the Wall

Hell under the Rising Sun

Hell under the Rising Sun

Hepatocellular Carcinoma:

Hepatocellular Carcinoma:

Advances in Surgery 2016

Advances in Surgery 2016

Advances in Surgery 2017

Advances in Surgery 2017

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