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10 Rules for Resilience

Mental Toughness for Families

By: Joe De Sena,Lara Pence

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10 Rules for Resilience

Mental Toughness for Families

By: Joe De Sena,Lara Pence

10 principles for leading your family to True Resilience, from the bestselling author of Spartan Up and the CEO/founder of Spartan Joe De Sena has spent his life running toward challenge and discomfort. Why? Because how we react to challenging situations defines us and our families. The only tools we have as humans to survive the many peaks and valleys of a full life are preparedness, health, leadership, and most importantly, resilience. Why do so many parents struggle to finish things we start, delay gratification, and protect our health—and why do our kids continue to struggle in every facet of life? Because we haven’t showed them a path to resilience, and we haven’t fought for it ourselves. In 10 Rules for Resilience Joe De Sena outlines his 10 principles for leading your family to True Resilience, a term he uses for a body and mind that have been carved out of hard work, challenge, and failure. It takes True Resilience to approach overwhelming situations with calm and confidence, to not get rattled, anxious, or angry, and even to embrace failure, setbacks, and redirections.

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HarperCollins

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0063063387

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9780063063389

The Devil's Claw

A Jennifer Dorey Mystery

By: Lara Dearman

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The Devil's Claw

A Jennifer Dorey Mystery

By: Lara Dearman

Fans of Ann Cleeves and Elly Griffiths will enjoy this atmospheric British mystery debut—“a perfect novel for a cold night in a dark winter” (Foreword Reviews). The hunt for a serial killer on the Channel Island of Guernsey leads investigators down a trail of local myths and long-kept secrets rooted in the insular community’s dark past . . . Finding a drowned woman’s body on the beach is the last thing journalist Jennifer Dorey’s fragile psyche needs. She left London for her island home of Guernsey, England, in the aftermath of a traumatic incident that shook her to her core. Now, as a local newspaper reporter, it’s Jennifer’s job to prove the woman’s death...but she uncovers something far bigger and more sinister than she ever could have imagined. Jennifer enlists the help of DCI Michael Gilbert to investigate a pattern of similar deaths over the last fifty years. Though he’s looking forward to a comfortable—and imminent—retirement, Gilbert joins the journalist on a dark trail of island myths and folklore that leads to the door of a Nazi soldier’s illegitimate son. But as Jennifer gets closer to learning the killer’s identity—and his painstaking plans for mayhem—she falls ever deeper into his grasp. Sinister deeds unravel in the darkness in The Devil’s Claw, Lara Dearman’s exhilarating debut novel.

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Crooked Lane Books

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1683314573

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9781683314578

My Year In Agony

By: Lara Fox

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My Year In Agony

By: Lara Fox

Sixteen year-old Anya Buxton has been transferred from her fee-paying school to the local comp. Her parent's acrimonious divorce has left them strapped for cash, and Anya is forced to adapt to her new school life. Deciding to keep her head down and her opinions to herself every day, Anya distracts herself from a chaotic home life and warring parents by becoming the school's anonymous Agony Aunt on the newsletter website. Her fabulous powers of observation and perception along with a no-nonsense attitude and sometimes caustic wit, makes a big impact on the pupils who write in with their problems. Miss Understanding tells it like it is, and doesn't pull any punches and on the whole delivers wise, and often hilariously brutal advice, along with a few sage observations about her fellow pupils and the teachers at the Academy. Stirred by her irreverance, the school chucks her off the offical website, but undeterred, Miss Understanding simply sets up her own, along with a regular blog for her readers' entertainment. She is articulate and riveting reading and the problems continue to flood in. But gradually Anya's feelings about her home life, her frustration with her mother and with her father's new wife begin to bias her writing and her responses to problems, and the readers begin to form a picture of who Ms Understanding really is. Consequently, when she inadvertently raises questions and issues of her own in her blog, her readers start to chip in with advice of their own on how she should cope with and adjust to all the changes in her life. All this is executed in a consistently funny and wry narrative, and reveals a unique and strong new character in chick lit genre for teens.

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Hachette Children's

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1844569845

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9781844569847

The Politics of Survival

Peirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism

By: Lara Trout

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The Politics of Survival

Peirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism

By: Lara Trout

This is a brave book, balancing strong scholarship, clear organization, and a provocative-reading Peirce.-Roger Ward, Georgetown College --

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380

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823232956

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9780823232956

The Things I've Seen

Nine Lives of a Foreign Correspondent

By: Lara Marlowe

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The Things I've Seen

Nine Lives of a Foreign Correspondent

By: Lara Marlowe

Lara Marlowe, the Washington correspondent of The Irish Times, has witnessed more than her share of history in three decades as a foreign correspondent. She has reported with clarity and fearlessness on the main conflicts of our era, from the civil war in Lebanon to the break-up of Yugoslavia, the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She has been outspoken in her criticism of the often cruel and misguided actions of the world's leading powers, and invariably seeks out the views of civilians caught up in wars that are not of their making. The human cost of conflict and the absurdity of war come through her work, time and again. In this stunning and moving collection, Lara Marlowe has chosen her finest pieces of writing from her years as a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most troubled countries - notably Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Haiti - as well as the power centers of Paris and Washington. She brings her keen insight to bear on some intractable problems, and shares with the reader the terror of living in a war zone. There are lighter moments too: a wonderful house-warming party in Beirut during a lull in artillery bombardments; meetings with talented celebrities, including Carla Bruni, Isabelle Adjani and Marcel Marceau; the simple delight of the companionship of cats. This is a superb collection from a writer at the height of her powers.

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Liberties Press

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1909718092

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9781909718098

Radical Moves

Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

By: Lara Putnam

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Radical Moves

Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

By: Lara Putnam

In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack immigration laws swept the hemisphere. Facing borders and barriers as never before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiances of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black-internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the twentieth century. From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created--from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom--still echoes in the present.

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UNC Press Books

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0807838136

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9780807838136

The Crimean War and its Afterlife

By: Lara Kriegel

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The Crimean War and its Afterlife

By: Lara Kriegel

Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel demonstrates the centrality of a Victorian war to the making of modern Britain.

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365

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Cambridge University Press

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1108842224

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9781108842228

Theatre and Protest

By: Lara Shalson

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Theatre and Protest

By: Lara Shalson

How does protest engage with theatre? What does theatre have to gain from protest? Theatre and protest are often closely interlinked in the contemporary cultural and political landscape, and the line between protest and performance is often difficult to draw. Yet this relationship is also beset with doubts about theatre's capacity to intervene in the social world. This fresh and insightful text thinks through the intersections and tensions between theatre and protest. Exploring the cross-fertilization of international theatre and protest across the 12th and 21st centuries, Lara Shalson illuminates how and why these two are mutually influencing and enriching forms.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137443103

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9781137443106

Treats

By: Lara Williams

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Treats

By: Lara Williams

Dance like nobody gives a crap. Drink like you don't have a family to go home to. Love because what else is the point." So says one of the characters in Lara Williams' extraordinary debut story collection. Treats is a break-up album of tales covering relationships, the tyranny of choice, and self navigation. This fresh, beguiling new voice paints a portrait of contemporary adulthood, balancing wry humour with a pervading sense of alienation in the digital era. Williams' characters struggle with how to negotiate intimacy within relationships and isolation when single, the pitfalls and indignities of dating, dragged down by dissatisfaction. Meanwhile the dilemmas of life play out, including abortion, depression, extra-marital affairs, infatuation, new baby anxiety, bereavement, hair loss, sexual ethics, cats, and taxidermy. Praise for Treats: 'What a wonderful collection. Very smart and VERY funny. A stunning mix of measured wisdom and raw emotion. There's also a real sense that these stories - beautiful in their own right - belong together. I loved the connection between them, and the way ideas were subtle and steadily developed from beginning to end.' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals 'Maybe you meet someone. Maybe you fall in love. Maybe you break up. Maybe someone writes a book about your life. This is that book. Brilliant stories; awesome debut.' Nicholas Royle, editor of Best British Short Stories 2015 'Funny and witty and sad and painfully self-aware.' Chris Killen, author of The Bird Room and In Real Life '[Treats] is described as a break-up album of tales covering relationships and their aftermath. So far, so Adele - but if the inescapable singer is the beige paint on a crumbling wall, this is more akin to sniffing that paint and seeing every colour in the rainbow.' The Skinny 'Each of these stories blows like a bracing wind - brilliantly written, devastating in parts but an acuity, a sense of the smallness and frailty of human relationships. Stories that make you seek shelter out of their keen urbane gaze.' Helen McClory, author of On The Edges of Vision

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Cargo Publishing

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1910449717

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9781910449714

Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

By: Lara Maiklem

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Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

By: Lara Maiklem

“Engrossing . . . evokes the subculture of the ‘mudlarks,’ who scour the banks for fragments of London’s past.”—The New Yorker The international bestseller that mesmerizingly charts quixotic journeys through London’s past, Mudlark thrills Anglophiles and history lovers alike. Long heralded as a city treasure herself, beloved “Mudlark” Lara Maiklem tirelessly treks along the Thames’ muddy shores, unearthing a myriad of artifacts and their stories—from Roman hairpins and perfectly preserved Tudor shoes to the clay pipes that were smoked in riverside taverns. Seamlessly interweaving reflections from her own life with meditations on the art of wandering, Maiklem ultimately delivers a treatise “as deep and as rich as the Thames and its treasures” (Stanley Tucci).

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Liveright Publishing

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163149497X

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9781631494970

Outbreak Culture

The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue

By: Pardis Sabeti,Lara Salahi

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Outbreak Culture

The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue

By: Pardis Sabeti,Lara Salahi

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year “A critical, poignant postmortem of the epidemic.” —Washington Post “Forceful and instructive...Sabeti and Salahi uncover competition, sabotage, fear, blame, and disorganization bordering on chaos, features that are seen in just about any lethal epidemic.” —Paul Farmer, cofounder of Partners in Health “The central theme of the book...is that common threads of dysfunction run through responses to epidemics...The power of Outbreak Culture is its universality.” —Nature “Sabeti and Salahi present a wealth of evidence supporting the imperative that outbreak response must operate in a coordinated, real-time manner.” —Science As we saw with the Ebola outbreak—and the disastrous early handling of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic—a lack of preparedness, delays, and system-wide problems with the distribution of critical medical supplies can have deadly consequences. Yet after every outbreak, the systems put in place to coordinate emergency responses are generally dismantled. One of America’s top biomedical researchers, Dr. Pardis Sabeti, and her Pulitzer Prize–winning collaborator, Lara Salahi, argue that these problems are built into the ecosystem of our emergency responses. With an understanding of the path of disease and insight into political psychology, they show how secrecy, competition, and poor coordination plague nearly every major public health crisis and reveal how much more could be done to safeguard the well-being of caregivers, patients, and vulnerable communities. A work of fearless integrity and unassailable authority, Outbreak Culture seeks to ensure that we make some urgently needed changes before the next pandemic.

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Harvard University Press

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067426973X

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9780674269736

Les Cleveland

Six Decades : Message from the Exterior

By: Les Cleveland,Lawrence McDonald,Lara Strongman

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Les Cleveland

Six Decades : Message from the Exterior

By: Les Cleveland,Lawrence McDonald,Lara Strongman

Les Cleveland is one of New Zealand's finest photographers... This book surveys six decades of Cleveland's work, with 60 stunning images printed in large-format duotone. His work from the 1950s and 60s documents a way of life in Westland that has now largely disappeared as well as distinctive and culturally important buildings in Wellington.--From book flap.

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Victoria University Press

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0958355495

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9780958355490

Historical Dictionary of New Zealand

By: Janine Hayward,Richard Shaw,Lara Greaves,Claire Timperley

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Historical Dictionary of New Zealand

By: Janine Hayward,Richard Shaw,Lara Greaves,Claire Timperley

The Historical Dictionary of New Zealand, Fourth Edition provides a broad introduction to New Zealand, as well as rich detail about the people, events, laws, concepts, and institutions that have shaped New Zealand history. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New Zealand.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538184699

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9781538184691

Marriage-Hater Matched, The. A comedy by Thomas Durfey

By: Manuel J. Gómez-Lara,María José Mora,Paula de Pando

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Marriage-Hater Matched, The. A comedy by Thomas Durfey

By: Manuel J. Gómez-Lara,María José Mora,Paula de Pando

When young Phoebe asks Sir Philip Freewit, the man who has got her with child, to fulfil his promise and marry her, he replies with shock: “My wife! Then I should never love thee more”. Thomas Durfey’s The Marriage-Hater Matched (1692) pokes fun at the figure of the libertine rake, which had become a favourite dramatic type with Restoration theatregoers, and forces him in the end to make up for his past recklessness. Besides the marriage-hater and the two women that vie for his affections, a remarkable gallery of secondary characters people this amusing comedy: a Frenchified lady fawning on her lap-dog, a fat clownish Dutchman laughing at his own jokes, a impertinent match-making widow obsessed with food, a peevish old-fashioned courtier, a pert lisping ingénue and two rude boobies bearing the names of Greek philosophers. This first modern critical edition offers a fully annotated text in addition to an introduction that situates the comedy in its literary and theatrical contexts. ;The editors discuss at length how Durfey drew upon successful comic modes while at the same complying with the moral values advocated by the new monarchs, William and Mary (1688-1702).

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Edicions Universitat Barcelona

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844753829X

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9788447538294

Harlequin Historical May 2017 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Tatiana March,Blythe Gifford,Lara Temple

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Harlequin Historical May 2017 - Box Set 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Tatiana March,Blythe Gifford,Lara Temple

Harlequin® Historical brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! This box set includes: THE BRIDE LOTTERY The Fairfax Brides by Tatiana March (Western) James Fast Elk Blackburn needs a caretaker for his niece, so he bids on Miranda Fairfax in the town's bridal auction! But could the bounty hunter's convenient marriage be more than he bargained for? RUMORS AT COURT Royal Weddings by Blythe Gifford (Medieval) Widow Valerie of Florham never dreamed of a liaison with handsome Sir Gil Wolford, but then comes a royal decree—they must wed! And the temptations of the marriage bed change everything… Available via Reader Service and online: THE DUKE'S UNEXPECTED BRIDE by Lara Temple (Regency) The Duke of Harcourt must marry, but he needs a more suitable bride than bubbly Sophie Trevelyan. Until Sophie's life is endangered, and Max must rescue her with an unexpected proposal!

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Harlequin

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1488021406

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9781488021404

Libro Bilingue de Rimas, Canciones, Cuentos Y Juegos

By: Pamela Byrne Schiller,Rafael Lara-Alecio,Beverly J. Irby

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Libro Bilingue de Rimas, Canciones, Cuentos Y Juegos

By: Pamela Byrne Schiller,Rafael Lara-Alecio,Beverly J. Irby

Contains over 450 stories, songs, rhymes, and fingerplays for young children, each presented in English and Spanish; arranged by theme in nineteen categories, including animals, make believe, travel, and school days.

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Gryphon House, Inc.

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0876592841

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9780876592847

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10 Rules for Resilience

10 Rules for Resilience

The Devil's Claw

The Devil's Claw

My Year In Agony

My Year In Agony

The Politics of Survival

The Politics of Survival

The Things I've Seen

The Things I've Seen

Radical Moves

Radical Moves

The Crimean War and its Afterlife

The Crimean War and its Afterlife

Theatre and Protest

Theatre and Protest

Treats

Treats

Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames

Outbreak Culture

Outbreak Culture

Les Cleveland

Les Cleveland

Historical Dictionary of New Zealand

Historical Dictionary of New Zealand

Marriage-Hater Matched, The. A comedy by Thomas Durfey

Marriage-Hater Matched, The. A comedy by Thomas Durfey

Harlequin Historical May 2017 - Box Set 2 of 2

Harlequin Historical May 2017 - Box Set 2 of 2

Libro Bilingue de Rimas, Canciones, Cuentos Y Juegos

Libro Bilingue de Rimas, Canciones, Cuentos Y Juegos

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