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The Year of Living Famously

By: Laura Caldwell

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Some girls seek fame, others have it thrust upon them…. Clothing designer Kyra Felis has never been one to worship celebrities—she’d rather read a good book or make a blouse out of an old tablecloth. She marries Hollywood up-and-comer Declan McKenna for love, with no inkling of how his newfound notoriety will send her life spinning out of control. But once Kyra reluctantly becomes a celebrity by association there‘s no turning back. And even though she has all the trappings of success, she can’t do the things that make her happy—throw a party; drink a glass of wine (or four) at a quiet café; confide in her friends. When Declan‘s fame literally endangers Kyra’s life, she starts to wonder, can she survive more than a year of living famously?

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1459246365

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The Night I Got Lucky

By: Laura Caldwell

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The Night I Got Lucky

By: Laura Caldwell

When Billy Rendell suddenly gets everything she wants, it turns out to be the last thing she needs… A long-awaited promotion. Freedom from emotional baggage. A newly—ahem—amorous husband. What’s wrong with this picture? Well…everything. For starters, Billy hasn’t actually earned any of it. Instead, like some character in a fairy tale, this stuck-in-a-rut publicist had all her wishes granted overnight—which feels great, at first. But soon Billy’s brand-new success starts to unravel—who’d have thought becoming a VP would be so Very Painful? Or that a harmless crush on a co-worker would turn not-so-harmless now that he’s crushing back? It’ll take a surreal, rollicking, high-stakes journey for Billy to realize what she really wants out of life…before it’s too late.

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1459246357

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9781459246355

Red Hot Lies

By: Laura Caldwell

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Red Hot Lies

By: Laura Caldwell

They say bad things happen in threes. When her fiancé, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago attorney Izzy McNeil starts counting. But trouble keeps coming. Sam is implicated in the client's death, her apartment is broken into and it's not just the authorities who are following her. Now, to find Sam and uncover her client's murderer, Izzy will have to push past limits she never imagined. Lucky for her she's always thrived under pressure, because her world is falling apart. Fast. And the trail of half-truths and lies is red-hot.

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Harlequin

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1460305833

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9781460305836

Look Closely

By: Laura Caldwell

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Look Closely

By: Laura Caldwell

Look Closely That’s all the anonymous letter said, but attorney Hailey Sutter understands the meaning behind the well-chosen words. Someone wants her to investigate what happened to her mother, who died when Hailey was only seven. The death was ruled accidental, but Hailey begins having flashbacks that tell a different story: a pounding at the door…her mother struggling to stand…a man with a gold ring that flashed in the night as he held her mother’s lifeless body. Obsessed with uncovering the truth, Hailey can’t trust anyone, especially her father, whose secrecy both unnerves and protects her. Desperate to remember that fatal night, she seeks out the brother and sister who left home after their mother’s death. But they have disappeared. It’s soon clear to Hailey that the answer is right in front of her—all she has to do is find the courage to look closely….

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1460305817

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The Good Liar

By: Laura Caldwell

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The Good Liar

By: Laura Caldwell

Kate Livingston and Liza Kingsley have been best friends since their childhood in the suburbs of Chicago. They know everything about each other. Or do they? When Liza sets up the newly divorced Kate with Michael Waller, an elegant man sixteen years her senior, neither woman expects Kate to fall for him so soon. The relationship is a whirlwind that enthralls Kate...and frightens Liza. Because Liza knows she may have introduced Kate to more than her dream man; she may have unwittingly introduced her to a dangerous world of secrets. And yet Kate marries Michael and follows him to a French-Canadian town called St. Marabel, where she begins to suspect that Michael isn't exactly who he seems. As each new suspicion arises, Kate finds herself investigating her husband, but what she doesn't know is that she's about to steer her friendship with Liza on a collision course that will race from the U.S. to Russia and from Canada to Brazil, and the betrayals she uncovers could cause the end of all of them.

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146030585X

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False Impressions

By: Laura Caldwell

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False Impressions

By: Laura Caldwell

The newest book in Caldwell's ongoing The Chicago Files series, following "Question of Trust," and featuring sassy and successful redheaded Chicago lawyer Izzy McNeil. Original.

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MIRA

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0778313735

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Red, White & Dead

By: Laura Caldwell

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Red, White & Dead

By: Laura Caldwell

Izzy McNeil is hot on the trail of one of Chicago's most notorious gangsters. Not that he realizes the crimson-tressed enchantress, a self-proclaimed "lapsed lawyer," is moonlighting as a private investigator. But when an unexpected run-in trashes Izzy's cover, she's swept into an evil underworld where she is definitely not safe. That is until Izzy receives help from an unlikely source: the ultimate guardian angel. And the last person she ever dreamed she'd see again. Now Izzy is racing from Chicago to Rome, all the while battling personal demons, Mafiosi killers and red hot emergency desires.... This enriched edition of Red, White & Dead contains bonus content by author Laura Caldwell, an eBook exclusive!

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1460305841

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Question of Trust

By: Laura Caldwell

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Question of Trust

By: Laura Caldwell

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But what if you can't tell which is which? When attorney Izzy McNeil's home is broken into, right after her boyfriend, Theo, moves in, she ignores the coincidence. When Theo is arrested on charges of fraud, she wants to believe he's innocent. But when a neighbor is found dead, she can't ignore that something is very, very wrong. Izzy also can't forget how Theo was inexplicably turned down for a mortgage. Or his recent moody silences. Or how a stranger warned her that Theo needs to "accept responsibility…" Thrust into Theo's case, Izzy must walk the line between attorney and lover to prove that Theo is innocent. But only Izzy can decide whether trusting Theo will keep her safe…or throw her into unimaginable danger.

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1459222806

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Red Blooded Murder

By: Laura Caldwell

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Red Blooded Murder

By: Laura Caldwell

Chicago is the Windy City, and these days the winds of change are whipping Izzy McNeil's life all over the map. A high-profile job on Trial TV lands her in the hot seat. After a shocking end to her engagement, she finds herself juggling not only her ex-fiancé, but a guy she never expected. And a moonlighting undercover gig has her digging deep into worlds she barely knew existed. But all of this takes a backseat when Izzy's friend winds up brutally murdered. Suddenly, Izzy must balance the demands of a voracious media and the knowledge that she didn't know her friend as well as she thought.

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1460305825

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The Dog Park

By: Laura Caldwell

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The Dog Park

By: Laura Caldwell

www.LauraCaldwell.com A couple's best friend? Stylist Jessica Champlin knows it takes more than a darling goldendoodle to save a marriage. She and her ex-husband, investigative journalist Sebastian Hess, had too many irreconcilable differences for even their beloved dog, Baxter, to heal. So they've agreed to joint custody, and life has settled into a prickly normalcy. But when Baxter heroically rescues a child and the video footage goes viral, Jess and Sebastian are thrown together again, and her life takes some very unexpected twists. The line of dogwear she creates becomes wildly successful, and suddenly she's in the spotlight with everyone watching--the press, the new guy she's seeing, Sebastian and the past she never imagined she would face again. Soon there's only one person by her side--and it's the person she least expected. She's willing to open up to a new normal...just as long as Baxter approves.

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0778317145

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The Rome Affair

By: Laura Caldwell

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The Rome Affair

By: Laura Caldwell

It was an affair...to regret. Rachel Blakely's charmed life is significantly tarnished after her husband Nick's infidelity, but she wants to give her marriage a second chance. Then a business trip to sun-drenched Rome with her best girlfriend Kit leads to a night of passion with a stranger — a one-night stand meant to signify the end of a painful chapter in her life. Rachel returns home determined to put the past behind her, and at first life seems golden again. Nick is more loving than ever, and following his promotion to senior partner in a prestigious plastic surgery practice, the couple is welcomed into Chicago's high society, where beautiful people live beautiful lives. But there is a dark side...one that sends Rachel's life spiraling into a nightmare. It's clear everyone is guilty of something. But whose secrets will lead to murder?

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1460305868

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Claim of Innocence

By: Laura Caldwell

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Claim of Innocence

By: Laura Caldwell

Forbidden relationships are the most tempting. And the most dangerous. It was a crime of passion—or so the police say. Valerie Solara has been charged with poisoning her best friend. The prosecution claims she's always been secretly attracted to Amanda's husband…and with Amanda gone, she planned to make her move. Attorney Izzy McNeil left the legal world a year ago, but a friend's request pulls her into the murder trial. Izzy knows how passion can turn your life upside down. She thought she had it once with her ex-fiancé, Sam. Now she wonders if that's all she has in common with her criminally gorgeous younger boyfriend, Theo. It's Izzy's job to present the facts that will exonerate her client—whether or not she's innocent. But when she suspects Valerie is hiding something, she begins investigating—and uncovers a web of secret passions and dark motives, where seemingly innocent relationships can prove poisonous…

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All the Truth

By: Laura Brodie

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All the Truth

By: Laura Brodie

One night can alter a life forever… Emma Greene enjoys living in rural solitude with her husband and five-year-old daughter, Maggie, far away from her college students in Jackson, Virginia. But late one night, with her husband away and her daughter upstairs in bed, some of Emma’s students trespass on her property. The ensuing confrontation changes Emma and Maggie’s life forever. Nine years later, still plagued by nightmares from that evening, Maggie is living with her father in the same small town, and entering her first year of high school. She develops problems in class when her math teacher, a strange and lonely woman, begins to exhibit an odd interest in her. In order to let go of the past, Maggie begins to piece together all the truth of what happened that night—and discovers a story of anger, guilt, and redemption.

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1101581026

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Love Inspired Suspense March 2024 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Laura Scott,Amity Steffen,Sommer Smith

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Love Inspired Suspense March 2024 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Laura Scott,Amity Steffen,Sommer Smith

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: KIDNAPPING COLD CASE by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Laura Scott Ten years ago, forensic artist Jacy Urban escaped her abductor with no memory of that night. Now the kidnapper has returned, and Detective Cash Rawson is there to rescue her—again. Can Cash help her remember what she’s forgotten…before the assailant succeeds in taking their lives? MISSING IN MONTANA by Amity Steffen Forced off the road while biking, forensic accountant Holly Nichols is sure of one thing: someone wants her dead. She has no choice but to accept help from her high school sweetheart, but even Seth Montgomery’s family ranch doesn’t stand a chance against criminals who will stop at nothing to remain hidden… DEADLY TREASURE HUNT by Sommer Smith Sheriff Caldwell Thorpe is investigating his wife’s homicide when her cousin, Jayde Cambrey, arrives on the island of Deadman’s Cay—drawing the predator’s deadly attention. Believing it’s the same person who killed his wife, Caldwell vows to protect Jayde. But can they find the truth before time runs out? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense March 2024 Box Set – 1 of 2

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0369741889

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School-Linked Services

Promoting Equity for Children, Families, and Communities

By: Laura R. Bronstein,Susan E. Mason

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School-Linked Services

Promoting Equity for Children, Families, and Communities

By: Laura R. Bronstein,Susan E. Mason

The evidence-based strategies in this volume close the achievement gap among students from all sociological backgrounds. Designed according to local needs assessments, they provide the services, programs, initiatives, and relationships that are crucial for children's success in school and life. These practices and programs include afterschool and summer sessions, early-childhood education, school-linked health and mental health services, family engagement, and youth leadership opportunities. This book addresses the policy and funding requirements that help these partnerships thrive and offers effective counterarguments against those who would question their value. The text describes strategies that work in both rural and urban contexts and includes a chapter evaluating school-community partnerships across the world. Because it involves collaborations across professions and organizations, the book's interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those in social work, education, psychology, public health, counseling, nursing, and public policy.

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Columbia University Press

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0231541775

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American Home Landscapes

A Design Guide to Creating Period Garden Styles

By: Denise Wiles Adams,Laura L. S. Burchfield

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American Home Landscapes

A Design Guide to Creating Period Garden Styles

By: Denise Wiles Adams,Laura L. S. Burchfield

While there’s no shortage of information on restoring and maintaining the historical integrity of period homes, until now there has been no authoritative reference that provides comparable information for landscapes. American Home Landscapes is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to recreating nearly 400 years of historical landscape design and adapting them to modern needs. You will first learn how to research design elements for a particular property. Each of the following chapters focuses on the design characteristics of six well-defined historical periods, beginning with the Colonial period and ending with the last decades of the twentieth century. Each section features the most prominent landscape features of each era, such as paths, driveways, fences, hedges, seating, and accessories. Extensive bibliographic resources and historically accurate plant lists round out the text. Whether the goal is to create a meticulously accurate period landscape or simply to evoke the look of a bygone era, you’ll find the tools you need in American Home Landscapes.

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1604690402

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The Deception

By: Laura Gallier

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The Deception

By: Laura Gallier

A year and a half after the horrific Masonville High mass shooting, Owen is determined to uncover why the Creepers have converged on his land and the school--a necessary step toward his ultimate mission to drive evil forces out of Masonville.

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Wander

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1496433920

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The Delusion Series Books 1-3: The Delusion / The Deception / The Defiance

By: Laura Gallier

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The Delusion Series Books 1-3: The Delusion / The Deception / The Defiance

By: Laura Gallier

This 2018 Christy Award-winning series follows Owen Edmonds in a coming-of-age paranormal thriller as he gains supernatural vision and discovers that his high school is the center of demonic war. Readers will be drawn to the suspenseful story, supernatural & mysterious elements, and the relevant mental health and societal themes like suicide, school shootings, and addictions. Despite the heavy themes, the power of faithful prayer and the ability of light to triumph over darkness are themes throughout and imbue the novel with a sense of hope. This set includes the three books in The Delusion Series: The Delusion: By March of Owen Edmonds’s senior year, eleven students at Masonville High School have committed suicide. He thinks it is a coincidence, but then a near-death experience allows him to see the demons plaguing his school. Owen’s heart-pounding journey will force him to reconsider everything he believes in as the dangers loom too large to ignore. The Deception: After surviving a deadly school shooting, Owen Edmonds has devoted his life to God and to saving the town of Masonville from the dark demon Molek and the unearthly creatures who carry out his sinister bidding. Will his supernatural sight root out the source of evil in his town? The Defiance: After the demonic ruler Molek was dragged off by angelic forces, the spiritual battle in Masonville, Texas, is once again intensifying. Under relentless spiritual attack, Owen and Ray Anne must come face-to-face with their own failures and choose whether they will turn towards God.

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Tyndale House Publishers

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1496473019

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9781496473011

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 7

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 7

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 7 of 8, pages 4043 to 4739. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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1312620366

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The Major's Bride

By: Laura Jeffries

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The Major's Bride

By: Laura Jeffries

In 1814, Major Evan Caldwell, half- brother to the Marquess of Thornbourgh, and his friend and associate, Captain Robert Roberts, are attached to the office of the home secretary. They are trying to break up a spy ring that is attempting to restore Napoleon as emperor of France. Evan, meanwhile, is under orders from his brother to marry in order to produce a male heir for the family, although he is reluctant to fulfill that duty and give up the career he loves in order to take his place among the nobility. Penelope Branston, a young widow of the Peninsular War, has no thoughts of remarrying and is content to live with another war widow, Sarah Fitzwilliam, and their two small children. All their lives are thrown into turmoil, however, when Evan and Robert chance upon the attempted abduction of Penelope. They must keep the ladies safe from further abductionsor worsewhile at the same time tracking down the traitors who would restore Napoleon to his empire. Romance complicates the issue, especially when Evans sister-in-law, the marchioness, decides to play matchmaker. Set in Regency England shortly before the Battle of Waterloo, this novel brings together two unlikely lovers in a tale of adventure, mystery, and romance.

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1496943953

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The Baby Matrix

By: Laura Carroll

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The Baby Matrix

By: Laura Carroll

In the movie The Matrix, the character Morpheus offers two pills to Neo—if he takes the blue pill, he will go on with life as he has before, believing what he has always believed. If he takes the red pill, he will find out what the “matrix” really is, and many of his earlier beliefs will be shattered. When it comes to taking a hard look at a specific set of beliefs about parenthood and reproduction that has driven our society for generations, The Baby Matrix is the red pill. The Baby Matrix looks at long-held beliefs about parenthood and reproduction, and unravels why we believe what we believe. It lays out:We commonly think our desire to have children boils down to our biological wiring, but author Laura Carroll says it’s much more than that. Unlike other books on parenthood, The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World takes a serious look at powerful social and cultural influences that drive the desire for the parenthood experience, and lays out why we need to be very aware of these influences to make the most informed decisions about parenthood. -the historical origins of beliefs about parenthood and reproduction -why many of these beliefs no longer work for society or were never true in the first place -why we continue to believe them anyway -the prices society pays as a result The Baby Matrix shows us how we got here, brings to light what is true, which includes knowing about the powerful influence of “pronatalism,” and explains why society can no longer afford to leave pronatalism unquestioned. “This is not a book about convincing people not to have children,” says Carroll. “I want people to be very aware of the long-held social and cultural pressures, and be able to free themselves from those pressures when making parenthood choices. This will result in more people making the best decisions for themselves, will foster a society in which those who are best suited to become parents are the ones who have children and one that knows what it means to bring a child into the world today.” This book will make you examine your own intentions and beliefs, will rile you, and might just change your mind. Whether you are already a parent, want to become a parent, are still making up your mind, or know you don’t want children, you’ll never think about parenthood in the same way. The Baby Matrix is a must-read for anyone interested in psychology, sociology, anthropology, parenting issues, environmentalism, and social justice. But most of all, it’s for anyone, parent or not, who reveres the truth and wants the best for themselves, their families, and our world.

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Laura Carroll

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0615617328

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Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

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Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence

An Active Learning Approach

By: Laura E. Levine,Joyce Munsch

This exciting chronological introduction to child development employs the lauded active learning approach of Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch’s successful topical text, inviting students to forge a personal connection to the latest topics shaping the field, including neuroscience, diversity, culture, play, and media. Using innovative pedagogy, Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach reveals a wide range of real-world applications for research and theory, creating an engaging learning experience that equips students with tools they can use long after the class ends.

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1483324451

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Crook Chronicles: The Descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook - Volume 1

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Crook Chronicles: The Descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook - Volume 1

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

A genealogical compilation of the descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook and their seven children. The couple was married circa 1812 in South Carolina and by 1828 could be found in Rankin County, Mississippi. Many of the descendants are traced to the present, including biographies and photographs when available.

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0359370497

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Freedom's Empire

Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940

By: Laura Doyle

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Freedom's Empire

Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940

By: Laura Doyle

In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying a recurring freedom plot organized around an Atlantic Ocean crossing, Doyle shows how this plot structures the texts of both African-Atlantic and Anglo-Atlantic writers and how it takes shape by way of submerged intertextual exchanges between the two traditions. For Anglo-Atlantic writers, Doyle locates the origins of this narrative in the seventeenth century. She argues that members of Parliament, religious refugees, and new Atlantic merchants together generated a racial rhetoric by which the English fashioned themselves as a “native,” “freedom-loving,” “Anglo-Saxon” people struggling against a tyrannical foreign king. Stories of a near ruinous yet triumphant Atlantic passage to freedom came to provide the narrative expression of this heroic Anglo-Saxon identity—in novels, memoirs, pamphlets, and national histories. At the same time, as Doyle traces through figures such as Friday in Robinson Crusoe, and through gothic and seduction narratives of ruin and captivity, these texts covertly register, distort, or appropriate the black Atlantic experience. African-Atlantic authors seize back the freedom plot, placing their agency at the origin of both their own and whites’ survival on the Atlantic. They also shrewdly expose the ways that their narratives have been “framed” by the Anglo-Atlantic tradition, even though their labor has provided the enabling condition for that tradition. Doyle brings together authors often separated by nation, race, and period, including Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Olaudah Equiano, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, George Eliot, and Nella Larsen. In so doing, she reassesses the strategies of early women novelists, reinterprets the significance of rape and incest in the novel, and measures the power of race in the modern English-language imagination.

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Duke University Press

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0822388731

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Whisper of Warning

By: Laura Griffin

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Whisper of Warning

By: Laura Griffin

From the New York Times bestselling author who "excels at detailing the mystery and the chase" (Publishers Weekly) comes a tense thriller that combines action, danger, and passion. Will he help prove her innocence…or lead a killer to her door? Courtney Glass has been in trouble all her life, but nothing tops being an up-close witness to a brutal murder. Until she’s accused of the crime. Every scrap of evidence points to her guilt, and only Courtney knows what really happened. Now she must prove that she’s not a murderer…but is one of the killer’s intended victims. As police investigators hammer her for answers, Courtney knows she has two choices: run, or trust the brooding, sexy detective who’s made it clear she’s his prime suspect. Will Hodges doesn’t need Special Forces training to know that, despite Courtney’s killer looks and razor-sharp tongue, her tough-girl act hides a vulnerable woman with a deadly secret. As the body count rises, Will realizes that a lethal enemy has Courtney in his crosshairs. The killer is waiting, watching her every move—and he won’t stop until her fear has grown from a whisper to a scream…

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Simon and Schuster

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1416570756

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 3

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 3

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 3 of 8, 1213-1918. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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1312620080

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Civil Defense Begins at Home

Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties

By: Laura McEnaney

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Civil Defense Begins at Home

Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties

By: Laura McEnaney

Dad built a bomb shelter in the backyard, Mom stocked the survival kit in the basement, and the kids practiced ducking under their desks at school. This was family life in the new era of the A-bomb. This was civil defense. In this provocative work of social and political history, Laura McEnaney takes us into the secretive world of defense planners and the homes of ordinary citizens to explore how postwar civil defense turned the front lawn into the front line. The reliance on atomic weaponry as a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy cast a mushroom cloud over everyday life. American citizens now had to imagine a new kind of war, one in which they were both combatants and targets. It was the Federal Civil Defense Administration's job to encourage citizens to adapt to their nuclear present and future. As McEnaney demonstrates, the creation of a civil defense program produced new dilemmas about the degree to which civilian society should be militarized to defend itself against internal and external threats. Conflicts arose about the relative responsibilities of state and citizen to fund and implement a home-front security program. The defense establishment's resolution was to popularize and privatize military preparedness. The doctrine of "self-help" defense demanded that citizens become autonomous rather than rely on the federal government for protection. Families would reconstitute themselves as paramilitary units that could quash subversion from within and absorb attack from without. Because it solicited an unprecedented degree of popular involvement, the FCDA offers a unique opportunity to explore how average citizens, community leaders, and elected officials both participated in and resisted the creation of the national security state. Drawing on a wide variety of archival sources, McEnaney uncovers the broad range of responses to this militarization of daily life and reveals how government planners and ordinary people negotiated their way at the dawn of the atomic age. Her work sheds new light on the important postwar debate about what total military preparedness would actually mean for American society.

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1400843553

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Daughters of the Great Depression

Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s

By: Laura Hapke

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Daughters of the Great Depression

Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s

By: Laura Hapke

Daughters of the Great Depression is a reinterpretation of more than fifty well-known and rediscovered works of Depression-era fiction that illuminate one of the decade's central conflicts: whether to include women in the hard-pressed workforce or relegate them to a literal or figurative home sphere. Laura Hapke argues that working women, from industrial wage earners to business professionals, were the literary and cultural scapegoats of the 1930s. In locating these key texts in the "don't steal a job from a man" furor of the time, she draws on a wealth of material not usually considered by literary scholars, including articles on gender and the job controversy; Labor Department Women's Bureau statistics; "true romance" stories and "fallen woman" films; studies of African American women's wage earning; and Fortune magazine pronouncements on white-collar womanhood. A valuable revisionist study, Daughters of the Great Depression shows how fiction's working heroines--so often cast as earth mothers, flawed mothers, lesser comrades, harlots, martyrs, love slaves, and manly or apologetic professionals--joined their real-life counterparts to negotiate the misogynistic labor climate of the 1930s.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820319082

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Women in Medicine

An Encyclopedia

By: Laura Windsor

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Women in Medicine

An Encyclopedia

By: Laura Windsor

The definitive compilation of the inspiring and educational stories of women in medicine through the ages and around the world. Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia tells the hidden history of healing practitioners. Since ancient times, and in every human society, women have played a critical, if unheralded, role in the practice and progress of the medical arts and sciences. From the 11th century German nun Hildegarde of Bingen to early 20th century radiology pioneer Marie Curie to controversial Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders, Women in Medicine portrays the struggles, the skills, the science, and the inspiring stories of more than 200 of history's great women physicians and medical researchers. Not just a biographical compendium, Women in Medicine also includes entries on the key universities, institutes, and foundations of this illustrious history. Chock full of unique illustrations and complete with extensive bibliography and index, this one volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and accessible reference work on the history of women in medicine. A must buy for any library looking to round out its women's history or history of science reference shelf.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576073939

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Ecoviolence and the Law: Supranational Normative Foundation of Ecocrime

By: Laura Westra

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Ecoviolence and the Law: Supranational Normative Foundation of Ecocrime

By: Laura Westra

Exploring such acts of environmental violence as "ecocrimes," the author builds the case that the international law principles of jus cogens and erga omnes justify characterizing ecocrime as a "just crime" requiring action to curb their occurrence and punishment to deter them. The book discusses the obstacles that defining environmental assaults as "ecocrimes" will face both in national and international circumstances. The author concludes by proposing the creation of an International Environmental Court that would adjudicate "ecocrime" issues. This forward thinking work will be of great interest to all involved in the human rights issues of environmental threats. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

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BRILL

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9004480641

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9789004480643

Civvies

Middle–class men on the English Home Front, 1914–18

By: Laura Ugolini

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Civvies

Middle–class men on the English Home Front, 1914–18

By: Laura Ugolini

The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who – or so it seems – volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses on those middle-class English men who did not join up, not because of moral objections to war, but for other (much more common) reasons, notably age, family responsibilities or physical unfitness. In particular, Civvies questions whether, if serviceman were the apex of manliness, were middle-class civilian men inevitably condemned to second-class, ‘unmanly’ status?

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Manchester University Press

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1526110741

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EEO Law and Personnel Practices

By: Arthur Gutman,Laura L. Koppes,Stephen J. Vodanovich

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EEO Law and Personnel Practices

By: Arthur Gutman,Laura L. Koppes,Stephen J. Vodanovich

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0805864733

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9780805864731

Bloody British History: Plymouth

By: Laura Quigley

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Bloody British History: Plymouth

By: Laura Quigley

Bread riots and bodysnatchers! Pirates and privateers! Hell holes for Boney! The disgusting true story of Plymouth's Napoleonic prison ships! 'A very daughter of Hell!' In 1675, a poisonous nursemaid was hanged on Prince Rock – but was she innocent of the crime? Find out inside! Death aboard the Titanic! Blitz, bombs and Plymouth men's battles on Omaha Beach! Plymouth has one of the darkest and most dreadful histories on record. Beginning with the discovery of the bones of cave men and rushing through French attacks, outbreaks of leprosy and the plague, Civil War sieges and deadly Spanish ships, disasters, demolitions and the enormous death tolls of the Plymouth Blitz, it will change the way you see the city forever!

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The History Press

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0752481916

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9780752481913

Broken Trust (An Ivy Pane Suspense Thriller—Book 3)

By: Laura Rise

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Broken Trust (An Ivy Pane Suspense Thriller—Book 3)

By: Laura Rise

When victims with prosthetic limbs fall prey to an insidious killer, former FBI agent-turned-small town police officer Ivy Pane must take action. Against all odds and her own disability, can she stop the killer before another life is lost? BROKEN TRUST (An Ivy Pane Suspense Thriller—Book 3) is the third novel in a new series by mystery and suspense author Laura Rise. The series begins with BROKEN LIFE (Book 1). A captivating and harrowing crime thriller series featuring a complex and tormented female protagonist, the Ivy Pane series will keep you on the edge of your seat with constant action, suspense, surprise twists, and a relentless pace that will have you staying up all night to find out what happens next. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Robert Dugoni, and Rachel Caine are sure to fall in love. Future books in the series are also available!

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Laura Rise

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1094384283

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Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies

Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines

By: Laura Wilder

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Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies

Teaching and Writing in the Disciplines

By: Laura Wilder

Laura Wilder fills a gap in the scholarship on writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum with this thorough study of the intersections between scholarly literary criticism and undergraduate writing in introductory literature courses. Rhetorical Strategies and Genre Conventions in Literary Studies is the first examination of rhetorical practice in the research and teaching of literary study and a detailed assessment of the ethics and efficacy of explicit instruction in the rhetorical strategies and genre conventions of the discipline. Using rhetorical analysis, ethnographic observation, and individual interviews, Wilder demonstrates how rhetorical conventions play a central, although largely tacit, role in the teaching of literature and the evaluation of student writing. Wilder follows a group of literature majors and details their experiences. Some students received experimental, explicit instruction in the special topoi, while others received more traditional, implicit instruction. Arguing explicit instruction in disciplinary conventions has the potential to help underprepared students, Wilder explores how this kind of instruction may be incorporated into literature courses without being overly reductive. Taking into consideration student perspectives, Wilder makes a bold case for expanding the focus of research in writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum in order to grasp the full complexity of disciplinary discourse.

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SIU Press

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0809330946

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"Wilderness Into Civilized Shapes"

Reading the Postcolonial Environment

By: Laura Wright

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"Wilderness Into Civilized Shapes"

Reading the Postcolonial Environment

By: Laura Wright

This study examines how postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues are represented in fiction. Wright creates a provocative discourse in which the fields of postcolonial theory and ecocriticism are brought together. Laura Wright explores the changes brought by colonialism and globalization as depicted in an array of international works of fiction in four thematically arranged chapters. She looks first at two traditional oral histories retold in modern novels, Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (South Africa) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood (Kenya), that deal with the potentially devastating effects of development, particularly through deforestation and the replacement of native flora with European varieties. Wright then uses J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (South Africa), Yann Martel's Life of Pi (India and Canada), and Joy Williams's The Quick and the Dead (United States) to explore the use of animals as metaphors for subjugated groups of individuals. The third chapter deals with India's water crisis via Arundhati Roy's activism and her novel, The God of Small Things. Finally, Wright looks at three novels--Flora Nwapa's Efuru (Nigeria), Keri Hulme's The Bone People (New Zealand), and Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother (South Africa)--that depict women's relationships to the land from which they have been dispossessed. Throughout Wilderness into Civilized Shapes, Wright rearticulates questions about the role of the writer of fiction as environmental activist and spokesperson, the connections between animal ethics and environmental responsibility, and the potential perpetuation of a neocolonial framework founded on western commodification and resource-based imperialism.

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0820333964

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