Laurie Frank's Books

Just a Simple Cowboy

By: Laurie Hartman

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Miles circled the date on the calendar for the bull riding benefit that he had agreed to participate in with a sigh. He had already been wondering how long he could continue to make a living riding green-broke horses five days a week and rodeoing weekends, but it was all he knew. He did take heart that he had been able to stash back quite a bit of money lately with a good clientele wanting their horses broke, plus hed been on a winning streak at the rodeos, but, he knew, that could change in a minute. Miles Deroin starts out with one goal for the summer, and that is winning amateur rodeos calf roping championship. He has the talent, the want, and the horse that can get him there, but luck is another matter. Luck, however, can be what you make it, and Miles has always had a knack for making the best of whatever comes his way. But as Miles rodeo season unfolds he finds it a trip peppered with almost as many slumps as there are wins. And, making matters worse, after bumping into an old acquaintance, he comes to discover there is a bit more on the line than just winning a gold buckle. Living a simple life doesnt necessarily mean life is going to be simple. Just ask Miles Deroin.

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iUniverse

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1532028407

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Mirror Images

By: Laurie Norlander

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Mirror Images

By: Laurie Norlander

They say seeing is believing... What if theyre wrong? Thats Maddys dilemma when she sees her volatile ex-boyfriend at his identical twins funeral. Its the first of many surprises as Maddy quickly discovers nothing is as it seems in the close-knit community of Churchill, Wisconsin. Despite lingering feelings for Nic, Maddys skeptical of claims that his millionaire brother committed suicide. Her suspicions turn to horror when Maddy stumbles across evidence the man was murderedand Nic may be responsible. Maddys search for truth plays out against the backdrop of small town politics and a personal struggle with doubt. When a second tragedy tangles Maddy in a web of danger and betrayal, how far will she go to unmask the killer? Mirror Images is a riveting romantic suspense novel woven with insights on friendship, forgiveness, and the power of faith. Laurie Norlanders debut novel, Mirror Images, was named the 2012 Grand Prize winner of the Women of Faith writing contest.

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WestBow Press

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1449799515

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9781449799519

The Unexpected Salami

A Novel

By: Laurie Gwen Shapiro

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The Unexpected Salami

A Novel

By: Laurie Gwen Shapiro

When Rachel Ganelli witnesses the murder of a member of an Australian rock band, she flees home to New York and to her meddling parents

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Algonquin Books

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1565122321

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Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict

By: Laurie Viera Rigler

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Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict

By: Laurie Viera Rigler

Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter in 1813 England, has long wished to escape a life in which career choices are limited to wife or maiden aunt. But awakening one morning in twenty-first-century Los Angeles - in the body of someone called Courtney Stone - is not exactly what she had in mind. Jane must quickly get to grips with a world in which everyone thinks she is Courtney Stone: a dizzying world of horseless metal carriages, unrestricted clothing, tiny apartments, all manner of flirting,and unheard-of liberties for womankind. The only thing Jane appears to have in common with Courtney is a love for the novels of Jane Austen. But are the wise words of her favourite novelist enough to guide her through this bewildering new world? And what is she to make of Courtney's attentive friend Wes, who is as attractive and confusing as the man who broke her heart back home? As Courtney's romantic entanglements become her own, Jane wonders: Would she actually be better off back in Regency England - and will she ever be able to return?

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1408817837

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The Complete Jane Austen Addict

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict; Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict; Pride and Prejudice

By: Laurie Viera Rigler

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The Complete Jane Austen Addict

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict; Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict; Pride and Prejudice

By: Laurie Viera Rigler

In Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict we meet Courtney Stone, a typical, modern LA girl - that is, until she wakes up one morning in Regency England in the body of Jane Mansfield. At first she thinks she must be dreaming - maybe she's read all of Jane Austen's books a few too many times - but as time goes on she finds there is a lot she needs to get to grips with: a new accent, a new body, a wicked new 'mother', and most excitingly, a new man in her life: the dashing, dishy Charles Edgeworth. But is he a Darcy, a Wickham, or merely a confusing distraction? As Courtney trips through the social minefield of life in Jane Austen's England she wonders: Will she ever get her twenty-first century, west-coast life back - and does she even want to? In Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict we get the other side of the story: Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter in 1813 England, has long wished to escape a life in which career choices are limited to wife or maiden aunt. But awakening one morning in twenty-first-century Los Angeles - in the body of someone called Courtney Stone - is not exactly what she had in mind. The only thing Jane appears to have in common with Courtney is a love for the novels of Jane Austen. But are the wise words of her favourite novelist enough to guide her through this bewildering new world? And what is she to make of Courtney's attentive friend Wes, who is as attractive and confusing as the man who broke her heart back home? As Courtney's romantic entanglements become her own, Jane wonders: Would she actually be better off back in Regency England - and will she ever be able to return? These delightfully modern comedies of manners will appeal to Austen fans everywhere who want a great read to curl up with. PLUS enjoy Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice!

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1408819813

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9781408819814

Heart to Heart with Mallory

By: Laurie Friedman

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Heart to Heart with Mallory

By: Laurie Friedman

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Valentine's Day is approaching and everyone seems to be crazed with love—except for Mallory. She's been invited to a Valentine's party next door and rumor has it that her next-door neighbor's dad is going to propose to her best friend's mom. What will it mean if her two best friends become brother and sister? Where will she fit in? And to make matters even more confusing, Mallory is receiving presents from a secret admirer. Who could it be? Mallory feels like everything is changing and she has lots of questions about life, love, and friendship. Since her two best friends are preoccupied, Mallory turns to her diary to find the answers.

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Millbrook Press

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1512457302

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The Archaeology of Mothering

An African-American Midwife's Tale

By: Laurie A. Wilkie

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The Archaeology of Mothering

An African-American Midwife's Tale

By: Laurie A. Wilkie

Using archaeological materials recovered from a housesite in Mobile, Alabama, Laurie Wilkie explores how one extended African-American family engaged with competing and conflicting mothering ideologies in the post-Emancipation South.

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Routledge

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1136755446

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Crave

Sojourn of a Hungry Soul

By: Laurie Jean Cannady

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Crave

Sojourn of a Hungry Soul

By: Laurie Jean Cannady

Crave is a coming-of-age memoir that chronicles a young girl's journey through abuse and impoverishment. The effusive narration descends into the depths of personal and sexual degradation, perpetual hunger for food, safety and survival. While moving through gritty exposés of poverty, abuse, and starvation, Crave renders a continuing search for sustenance that simply will not die. Laurie Jean Cannady is most recognizable through her voice. Lyrical and august, yet strangely intimate, her lucid memory for the texture of daily existence weaves the reader into the fabric of the story. We discover that the most slender threads bind the strongest. It is no surprise this memoir is a narrative about a victim who becomes a survivor. Cannady is assertive, motivational, and unafraid to reach her target audience: women, African Americans, high-school students, college students, survivors of physical and sexual abuse, veterans, people raised by single parents, and folks who are living in or have lived through impoverishment. Laurie Jean Cannady, an associate professor of English at Lock Haven University, spends much of her time encouraging students to realize their true potential. She is a consummate champion of women's issues, veterans' issues, and issues affecting underprivileged youth. Cannady resides in central Pennsylvania with Chico Cannady and their three children.

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Etruscan Press

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0990322149

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Ghost Stories to Scare Your Socks Off!

By: Michael Dahl,Laurie S. Sutton,Benjamin Harper,Megan Atwood

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Ghost Stories to Scare Your Socks Off!

By: Michael Dahl,Laurie S. Sutton,Benjamin Harper,Megan Atwood

A collection of spine-chilling ghost stories.

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1669012530

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Grammar and Beyond Level 3 Student's Book B

By: Laurie Blass,Randi Reppen,Susan Iannuzzi,Alice Savage

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Grammar and Beyond Level 3 Student's Book B

By: Laurie Blass,Randi Reppen,Susan Iannuzzi,Alice Savage

Based on extensive research, Grammar and Beyond ensures that students study accurate information about grammar and apply it in their own speech and writing. This is the second half of Student's Book, Level 3. The Student's Book is the main component of Grammar and Beyond. In each unit, students study the grammar in a realistic text and through charts and notes informed by a billion-word corpus of authentic language. The exercises provide practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, making this a complete course. Students learn to avoid common mistakes, based on an extensive corpus of learner language. Each unit concludes with a Grammar for Writing section, in which students apply the grammar in an extended writing task.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521143195

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9780521143196

Outdriven

By: Laurie Rogers

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Outdriven

By: Laurie Rogers

When Maggie is tragically widowed, she cannot imagine how she will manage without her husband. Then her ninety-nine-year-old golf club suddenly faces collapse in an unprecedented financial crisis and she finds herself cast in the role as saviour. Together with her young Polish lodger, she launches a bold plan to save the club’s centenary.

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1800468377

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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

A Novel

By: Laurie Viera Rigler

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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

A Novel

By: Laurie Viera Rigler

Transported through time to Regency England, heartbroken Jane Austen fan Courtney Stone is forced to live the discouragingly difficult life of a nineteenth-century woman and finds herself experiencing memories that are not her own.

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Penguin

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0525950400

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Lord, Capture My Heart Again

By: Laurie Smith

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Lord, Capture My Heart Again

By: Laurie Smith

Lord, Capture My Heart Again is for anyone who longs for deeper intimacy with the Lord. Laurie Smith sounds a clarion call for the Body of Christ to come alive! Her message is a compelling invitation to anyone who is tired of the same old same old?You can have life more abundantly!*Find out how to seek the Lord with all your heart.*Discover the secret place of intimacy with God.*Learn how to hear the Father's voice.*Have your passion rekindled.*Overcome the fear of man.*Become fully devoted.*Manifest His glory.Uncovering the devil's lies that hold Christians back from the fullness of God, this book takes the reader through the steps of personal freedom and renewal. About the author: Laurie Smith ministers in churches and conferences around the world. Through her ministry as author and speaker, her desire is to see every believer fall passionately in love with Jesus by developing a more intimate relationship with Him. Along with her husband, Jamie, they have been pastors and teachers since 1987. They have learned the importance of yielding to the Holy Spirit so that He may have His way. Besides authoring books, they have put together an exciting CD entitled OutBreak.

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Charisma Media

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0884197883

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9780884197881

The Price of Land in Shelby

By: Laurie Alberts

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The Price of Land in Shelby

By: Laurie Alberts

A rich, multigenerational novel narrates a Vermont family's saga of suffering and survival, of loyalty to the land and escape from it.

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UPNE

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087451844X

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9780874518443

One Two Three

A Novel

By: Laurie Frankel

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One Two Three

A Novel

By: Laurie Frankel

From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again. In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed—tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab’s job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne. For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother’s endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone’s seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they’ve been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you. Three unforgettable narrators join together here to tell a spellbinding story with wit, wonder, and deep affection. As she did in This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel has written a laugh-out-loud-on-one-page-grab-a-tissue-the-next novel, as only she can, about how expanding our notions of normal makes the world a better place for everyone and how when days are darkest, it’s our daughters who will save us all.

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1250236789

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Leading with GRIT

Inspiring Action and Accountability with Generosity, Respect, Integrity, and Truth

By: Laurie Sudbrink

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Leading with GRIT

Inspiring Action and Accountability with Generosity, Respect, Integrity, and Truth

By: Laurie Sudbrink

Improve yourself – and your workplace – withGRIT Leading With GRIT is a practical and proven guide fortransforming the workplace, offering pragmatic insight onvalue-based strategies that improve the individual and thebusiness. Based on the author's proprietary principles of GRIT– Generosity, Respect, Integrity, and Truth – this bookdescribes how working toward individual improvement produces betterorganizational results than traditional approaches that focus oncollective improvement. Readers are introduced to GRIT with aframework that can be applied in any workplace scenario, and areprovided with strategies for applying GRIT to communication andintra-office operations. Each chapter includes activities thatassist with implementation, moving beyond the theoretical frameworkcommonly taught in business school to provide a more practicalapproach to personal development. The principles of GRIT are exactly the sort of instructionleaders are encouraging, and companies worldwide are willing toinvest large sums. The approach stands out for its unique, personalapproach that melds values-based principles with business conceptsto produce spectacular results. This book is the complete guide toGRIT, with an emphasis on practicality. Learn why the principles of GRIT have proven so effective Apply GRIT in communications for better productivity Discover how each person impacts those around them Cultivate a positive, constructive attitude for less stress andmore growth GRIT helps readers make themselves and their workplaces happierand healthier, decreasing stress, sparking personal growth,retaining employees, and developing mindful leaders. In essence,Leading With GRIT is a handbook for improving the bottomline by improving the lives and outlook of those who contribute toit.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118975634

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From There to Here

By: Laurie Thornberry

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From There to Here

By: Laurie Thornberry

From There to Here is a look at the severe abuse one person had received at the hands of her parents. She had four people in her life that helped her through it. She survived and thrived, despite them. She went through college and became someone successful anyone would be proud to be, a survivor. Never to be a victim again.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1662405472

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G.I. Dogs: Judy, Prisoner of War (G.I. Dogs #1)

By: Laurie Calkhoven

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G.I. Dogs: Judy, Prisoner of War (G.I. Dogs #1)

By: Laurie Calkhoven

Go behind enemy lines through the eyes of famous four-legged heroes in history's biggest conflicts. In the first G.I. Dogs book, you'll meet Judy, a loyal canine soldier who became a World War II POW! Meet Judy: an English Pointer and member of her Majesty's Royal Navy who served bravely alongside her crew during World War II. When her ship was sunk by the enemy, Judy became the only canine prisoner of war of the Japanese. Join Judy on her incredible journey from puppy to soldier to POW as she narrates her story of survival and heroism. This "dog's-eye view" takes readers into the heart of the naval action of WWII and will leave you cheering for Judy and her human companions as they overcome countless obstacles and prove time and again why a dog really is man's best friend.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338185241

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Strengths-Based Nursing Care

Health And Healing For Person And Family

By: Laurie N. Gottlieb, PhD, RN

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Strengths-Based Nursing Care

Health And Healing For Person And Family

By: Laurie N. Gottlieb, PhD, RN

This is the first practical guide for nurses on how to incorporate the knowledge, skills, and tools of Strength-Based Nursing Care (SBC) into everyday practice. The text, based on a model developed by the McGill University Nursing Program, signifies a paradigm shift from a deficit-based model to one that focuses on individual, family, and community strengths as a cornerstone of effective nursing care. The book develops the theoretical foundations underlying SBC, promotes the acquisition of fundamental skills needed for SBC practice, and offers specific strategies, techniques, and tools for identifying strengths and harnessing them to facilitate healing and health. The testimony of 46 nurses demonstrates how SBC can be effectively used in multiple settings across the lifespan.

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826195873

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Grammar and Beyond Level 3 Student's Book A

By: Laurie Blass,Susan Iannuzzi,Randi Reppen,Alice Savage

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Grammar and Beyond Level 3 Student's Book A

By: Laurie Blass,Susan Iannuzzi,Randi Reppen,Alice Savage

Based on extensive research, Grammar and Beyond ensures that students study accurate information about grammar and apply it in their own speech and writing. This is the first half of Student's Book, Level 3. The Student's Book is the main component of Grammar and Beyond. In each unit, students study the grammar in a realistic text and through charts and notes informed by a billion-word corpus of authentic language. The exercises provide practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, making this a complete course. Students learn to avoid common mistakes, based on an extensive corpus of learner language. Each unit concludes with a Grammar for Writing section, in which students apply the grammar in an extended writing task.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521143152

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9780521143158

The Year I Followed the Sun

By: Laurie J. Rutherford Pederson

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The Year I Followed the Sun

By: Laurie J. Rutherford Pederson

While many contemplate roaming the world, at 22, Laurie Rutherford Pederson embarked on a solo journey of 365 days, beginning in December 1976. She recorded her many adventures, sublime to horrific, in twenty-seven journals from which this book emerged. The Victoria, B.C. native worked as a travel agent, creating her own itinerary to countries that intrigued her. She explored these exotic locations, each replete with its historic and often perilous political landscapes, using all means of transport: from a luggage rack on a train in India to rickshaws to horseback, even a boat on the Canal du Midi. Family friends in several countries provided respites of gracious hospitality and rollicking entertainment; but, to her credit, Pederson writes with equal appreciation of the many strangerslocals and fellow travellersshe encountered along the way. Her prose sparkles with hilarious interior monologues and a cinematographers attention to detail. From a near-fatal motorcycle accident on Bali to a brush with death at the Israel-Lebanese border, there is adventure, romance, fear and reflection. The author left her secure home in Victoria as a young adventuress; she returned a woman. Pedersons memoir is contemplative yet spontaneous, capturing a time of great change in the world.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426975333

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Straight Life

The Story Of Art Pepper

By: Art Pepper,Laurie Pepper

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Straight Life

The Story Of Art Pepper

By: Art Pepper,Laurie Pepper

Art Pepper (1925-1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book--it is one of the most explosive, yet one of the most lyrical, of all autobiographies. This edition is updated with an extensive afterword by Laurie Pepper covering Art Pepper's last years, and a complete and up-to-date discography by Todd Selbert.

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Hachette Books

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0306837676

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Living Happily Ever After

Couples Talk about Lasting Love

By: Laurie Wagner,David Collier,Stephanie Rausser

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Living Happily Ever After

Couples Talk about Lasting Love

By: Laurie Wagner,David Collier,Stephanie Rausser

Captures the extraordinary companionships of 30 otherwise ordinary couples, together with intimate interviews and both vintage and contemporary photos.

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Chronicle Books

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0811808890

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Grammar and Beyond Level 3 Student's Book

By: Laurie Blass,Susan Iannuzzi,Randi Reppen,Alice Savage

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Grammar and Beyond Level 3 Student's Book

By: Laurie Blass,Susan Iannuzzi,Randi Reppen,Alice Savage

Grammar and Beyond is a four-level North American grammar course informed by a collection of over one billion words of authentic language, ensuring that students learn grammar the way it is used in real spoken and written English. The Class Audio CD includes all of the audio for the exercises in the Student's Book. CEF: B1-B2.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521142989

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Autobiography of a Fat Bride

True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

By: Laurie Notaro

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Autobiography of a Fat Bride

True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

By: Laurie Notaro

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life. In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air-conditioning. Laurie finds grown-up life just as harrowing as her reckless youth, as she meets Mr. Right, moves in, settles down, and crosses the toe-stubbing threshold of matrimony. From her mother's grade-school warning to avoid kids in tie-dyed shirts because their hippie parents spent their food money on drugs and art supplies; to her night-before-the-wedding panic over whether her religion is the one where you step on the glass; to her unfortunate overpreparation for the mandatory drug-screening urine test at work; to her audition as a Playboy centerfold as research for a newspaper story, Autobiography of a Fat Bride has the same zits-and-all candor and outrageous humor that made Idiot Girls an instant cult phenomenon. In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie contemplates family, home improvement, and the horrible tyrannies of cosmetic saleswomen. She finds that life doesn't necessarily get any easier as you get older. But it does get funnier.

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Villard

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1588362442

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9781588362445

Montana Mavericks Books 1-4

An Anthology

By: Diana Palmer,Jackie Merritt,Myrna Temte,Laurie Paige

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Montana Mavericks Books 1-4

An Anthology

By: Diana Palmer,Jackie Merritt,Myrna Temte,Laurie Paige

I don't want kindness—or your kind of woman." Sterling McCallum gave the plain, hard warning to Jessica Larson. The brooding rogue cop had a stone in place of a heart and a past as mysterious as the case that had brought them together. But this time Jessica couldn't back off. Something compelled her to stand her ground and brave the emotions this man had long aroused. Suddenly, their darkest secrets, their deepest desires, shimmered to the surface…about to explode.

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1552547671

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Discrete Choice Modelling and Air Travel Demand

Theory and Applications

By: Laurie A. Garrow

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Discrete Choice Modelling and Air Travel Demand

Theory and Applications

By: Laurie A. Garrow

In recent years, airline practitioners and academics have started to explore new ways to model airline passenger demand using discrete choice methods. This book provides an introduction to discrete choice models and uses extensive examples to illustrate how these models have been used in the airline industry. These examples span network planning, revenue management, and pricing applications. Numerous examples of fundamental logit modeling concepts are covered in the text, including probability calculations, value of time calculations, elasticity calculations, nested and non-nested likelihood ratio tests, etc. The core chapters of the book are written at a level appropriate for airline practitioners and graduate students with operations research or travel demand modeling backgrounds. Given the majority of discrete choice modeling advancements in transportation evolved from urban travel demand studies, the introduction first orients readers from different backgrounds by highlighting major distinctions between aviation and urban travel demand studies. This is followed by an in-depth treatment of two of the most common discrete choice models, namely the multinomial and nested logit models. More advanced discrete choice models are covered, including mixed logit models and generalized extreme value models that belong to the generalized nested logit class and/or the network generalized extreme value class. An emphasis is placed on highlighting open research questions associated with these models that will be of particular interest to operations research students. Practical modeling issues related to data and estimation software are also addressed, and an extensive modeling exercise focused on the interpretation and application of statistical tests used to guide the selection of a preferred model specification is included; the modeling exercise uses itinerary choice data from a major airline. The text concludes with a discussion of on-going customer modeling research in aviation. Discrete Choice Modelling and Air Travel Demand is enriched by a comprehensive set of technical appendices that will be of particular interest to advanced students of discrete choice modeling theory. The appendices also include detailed proofs of the multinomial and nested logit models and derivations of measures used to represent competition among alternatives, namely correlation, direct-elasticities, and cross-elasticities.

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Deflection of Pig-Ponies

By: Joan Laurie Anderson

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Deflection of Pig-Ponies

By: Joan Laurie Anderson

Marlene D. Morl is an emotionally troubled Chinese-American teenage girl growing up in Utopia-Zurich, Switzerland. To avoid her drunk, abusive father, who is the Swiss version of Oscar Wilde and her American mother, a has-been soap opera star, who has no interest in her chubby, slant-eyed daughter, Marlene spends most of her time hiding inside the warehouse, which houses the family business, Morl Theatrical Costumier. Preferring life among mannequins, props and costumes, Marlene has created over the years, a life of make-believe, where her imagination runs rampant. Trouble is, unbeknownst to her, she's also created an alter-ego named Bad Egg who happens to be a 'toon' and who wants to eliminate Marlene's personality all together. And to make things worse, Bad Egg has also created an alter-ego ego in the form of Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Sex and Destruction who plans on murdering Marlene's abusive father. Between these three out of control personalities, not to mention, Marlene's difficult circumstances with both parents, the poor girl ends up in a mental institution. With the help of a Jungian psychologist named Dr. Karin Sommerfeldt, Marlene D. Morl's multiple act of misfits finally become solo again. Deflection of Pig-Ponies is a cross between the films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and American Beauty.

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0595796222

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The Journals of a Victorian Traveller

By: Martin Laurie

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The Journals of a Victorian Traveller

By: Martin Laurie

The Journals of a Victorian Traveller contains the transcribed and edited journals of Julia Biddulph who travelled the world with her husband during the last two decades of the 19th Century. The journals had remained unread since being rescued from the ruins of a bombed house in Canterbury during the Second World War.

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Reading Assessment to Promote Equitable Learning

An Empowering Approach for Grades K-5

By: Laurie Elish-Piper,Mona W. Matthews,Victoria J. Risko

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Reading Assessment to Promote Equitable Learning

An Empowering Approach for Grades K-5

By: Laurie Elish-Piper,Mona W. Matthews,Victoria J. Risko

Many standard reading assessment approaches fail to capture the strengths and needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds. From expert authors, this book guides educators in planning and conducting meaningful, equitable assessments that empower K–5 teachers and students, inform responsive instruction, and help to guard against bias. The book's holistic view of reading encompasses areas from text comprehension and constrained skills to building trusting relationships and promoting students’ agency. Twenty-eight assessment strategies are explained in step-by-step detail, including helpful implementation examples and 32 reproducible forms that teachers can download and print in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

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Guilford Publications

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1462549977

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The Night in Question

By: Laurie Graham

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The Night in Question

By: Laurie Graham

From the “delightfully smart” bestselling author, childhood friends find different fates in nineteenth-century London—one a life on the stage, the other poverty and danger (The Sunday Times). What Dot Allbones lacks in beauty, she makes up for with the riches of her large Midland family and her comedic talent. The queen of London’s music hall stage, Dot’s life is filled with friendship, pleasurable male company, and enough money to maintain her independence. Dot’s childhood friend, Kate Eddowes, did not fare as well. Orphaned and beautiful, Kate gambled on a better future by taking a well-heeled husband, only to find herself alone and impoverished in London. A chance meeting with her friend Dot will change things for her—or at least she hopes it will. Only Kate is a little too drawn to the drink, a dangerous habit on the streets of Whitechapel in 1888, where a mysterious killer called Jack the Ripper is destroying the most downtrodden of women, one brutalized body at a time. With her inimitable sharpness and wry wit, Laurie Graham brings to life the bustling pleasures and not-so-hidden dangers of urban life in a city where the extremes of poverty and wealth can truly determine a woman’s fortune. Praise for Laurie Graham “Laurie Graham has a wonderfully light, deft touch.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls “Why is Laurie Graham not carried on people’s shoulders through cheering crowds? Her books are brilliant!” —Marian Keyes, international bestselling author of Again, Rachel and Grown Ups

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1504095057

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Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

A Dust Bowl Mystery

By: Laurie Loewenstein

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Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

A Dust Bowl Mystery

By: Laurie Loewenstein

Finalist for the 2019 Oklahoma Book Awards, Fiction "The murder investigation allows Loewenstein to probe into the lives of proud people who would never expose their troubles to strangers. People like John Hodge, the town's most respected lawyer, who knocks his wife around, and kindhearted Etha Jennings, who surreptitiously delivers home-cooked meals to the hobo camp outside town because one of the young Civilian Conservation Corps workers reminds her of her dead son. Loewenstein's sensitive treatment of these dark days in the Dust Bowl era offers little humor but a whole lot of compassion." --New York Times Book Review "This striking historical mystery...is brooding and gritty and graced with authenticity." --NPR, A Best Book of 2018 "The Depression and a 240-day-long dry spell drive the desperate townspeople of Vermillion, OK, to hire a rainmaker, but he's murdered, leaving sheriff Temple Jennings to investigate. Loewenstein's terrific historical mystery wears its history lightly and its humanity beautifully. The first in a series, it's a realistic, expertly drawn novel with characters you'll come to love." --Library Journal, A Best Book of 2018 "The plot is compelling, the character development effective and the setting carefully and accurately designed...I have lived in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma; I know about wind and dust...Combining a well created plot with an accurate, albeit imagined, setting and characters that 'speak' clearly off of the page make Death of a Rainmaker a pleasant adventure in reading." --The Oklahoman "Set in an Oklahoma small town during the Great Depression, this launch of a promising new series is as vivid as the stark photographs of Dorothea Lange." --South Florida, One of Oline Cogdill's Best Mystery Novels of 2018 "After a visiting con artist is murdered during a dust storm, a small-town sheriff and his wife pursue justice in 1930s Oklahoma. A vivid evocation of life during the Dust Bowl; you might need a glass of water at hand while reading Loewenstein's novel." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Editor's Pick "Laurie Loewenstein's new mystery novel...expertly evokes the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression...Loewenstein's novel sometimes reads like a combination of a Western and a mystery. But that genre mishmash works." --Washington City Paper "The plot is solid in Death of a Rainmaker, but what makes Loewenstein's novel so outstanding is the cast of characters she has assembled...Death of a Rainmaker is a suburb book, one that sets the reader right down amid some of the hardest times our country has faced, and lets us feel those hopeful farmers' despair as they witness their dreams turning to dust." --Mystery Scene Magazine When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death in the pitch-blackness of a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl. The killing only magnifies Temple's ongoing troubles: a formidable opponent in the upcoming election, the repugnant burden of enforcing farm foreclosures, and his wife's lingering grief over the loss of their eight-year-old son. As the sheriff and his young deputy investigate the murder, their suspicions focus on a teenager, Carmine, serving with the Civilian Conservation Corps. The deputy, himself a former CCCer, struggles with remaining loyal to the corps while pursuing his own aspirations as a lawman. When the investigation closes in on Carmine, Temple's wife, Etha, quickly becomes convinced of his innocence and sets out to prove it. But Etha's own probe soon reveals a darker web of secrets, which imperil Temple's chances of reelection and cause the husband and wife to confront their long-standing differences about the nature of grief.

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Akashic Books

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1617756806

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This Is How It Always Is

A Novel

By: Laurie Frankel

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This Is How It Always Is

A Novel

By: Laurie Frankel

New York Times Bestseller The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick “Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick) People Magazine’s Top 10 Books of 2017 Bustle’s 17 Books Every Woman Should Read From 2017 PopSugar’s Our Favorite Books of the Year (So Far) Refinery29's Best Books of the Year So Far BookBrowse’s The 20 Best Books of 2017 Pacific Northwest Book Awards Finalist The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2017 Longlisted for 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award “It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.” —Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change...and then change the world. This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it explodes. Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.

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Flatiron Books

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1250118522

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Power of the Witch

The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment

By: Laurie Cabot,Tom Cowan

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Power of the Witch

The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment

By: Laurie Cabot,Tom Cowan

The earth, the moon, and the magical path to enlightenment. Written by a practicing witch who conducts classes and seminars on witchcraft—the oldest Western religion, a means of power and enlightenment, and a healing art. “Laurie Cabot has written a fascinating account of a beautiful and sadly misunderstood religion, witchcraft. She has with her life and work done a great deal to legitimize this ancient pagan form of worship. I am among the ecumenical Christians who have discovered the truth about witchcraft, that it is neither demonic nor evil. Power of the Witch is a marvelous introduction to the magical and highly ethical world of wicca.”—Whitley Strieber

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Delta

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0804152217

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Demise of the Horse Fairy

By: Laurie Loveman

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Demise of the Horse Fairy

By: Laurie Loveman

Over the space of several weeks in the summer of 1935, 13 starving horses and ponies, along with one very fat pony and a goat, are left in Woodhill, Ohio. The people of Woodhill rally behind horse owner Laura Darvey and newly arrived Ramona Hernandez, to help restore the abused horses to health. The unknown person behind the arrival of the horses earns the nickname, The Horse Fairy, but The Horse Fairy is not out to save lives; he is racketeer Bobby Darvey, who is determined to harm Laura and Fire Chief Jake McCann to avenge his cousin, Dan Darvey's death. Among the victims in Bobby's scheme are Alex Carpenter and Nelson Dobos, who learn too late that Alex's son, Bill, is working for Bobby and could be a danger to them both. With advice from his father, New York City homicide detective J.P. McCann, and the help of Woodhill Police Chief, Matt Gardner, Jake teams up with Bobby's top man, Benjy Talbot, to stop Bobby from carrying out his plans for vengeance.

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Laurie Loveman

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1450585388

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