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The Pond

By: Laurie Hoffman

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The Pond is a book of fiction about two sisters, Emma and Sara who live in the early 1900's. Curiosity leads them to an old chest in their cellar where they find an old Ouija board. The board leads them to a haunted pond, setting forth a frightening chain of events that devastates them and the small town of Wichita for years to come.

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Laurie Ann Hoffman

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1675645744

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9781675645741

Ex

By: Laurie Avadis

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Ex

By: Laurie Avadis

Daniel's father wants to kill him. It's something of a family tradition. Daniel's 32-stone psychotic police sergeant father is constantly concocting ever-more obscure methods of killing him and his mother has abandoned the family to live out her life as a mermaid. Together with child genius Ferris and school bully Dorsal, the unlikely trio must set out on an epic adventure to reunite Daniel's family and find out exactly why his father is so emotionally illiterate. Ex takes you on a riotous and bizarre voyage down the Thames on the world's largest and most deadly wooden potato. Along the way you and Daniel will meet an outrageous array of characters including a flock of swearing ducks, a superhero-murdering grandmother and a cappuccino-swigging lion. If you're squeamish stay far away but if you've ever seen the funny side of a bad situation, Ex will transport you to a bizarre topsy turvy world where childhood has gone so wrong that the results are gothic.

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247

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Unbound Publishing

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1783521627

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9781783521623

Tears of Gold

By: Laurie McBain

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Tears of Gold

By: Laurie McBain

New York Times bestselling author and Reviewers' Choice Award–winner Laurie McBain has sold more than 11 million copies of her romances around the world with lush, epic storytelling that has made her a favorite among generations of readers. She has sworn never to love. To many, she has a perfect life—freedom to travel the world, expensive gifts from wealthy men. But consummate actress though she is, Mara Flynn can never make herself believe the passion is real. One more job. That's all she needs to ensure her family's financial future. And California is just teeming with gold. There, her daring impersonation will fool everyone...except one man. He has sworn never to forgive. Mara didn't plan for Nicholas Chantale, though. He has hunted her from the steamy streets of New Orleans all the way to the blinding brilliance of California gold country, only to have his dreams of vengeance crushed when he meets her in the flesh. For though he was sworn to kill her, she was the love he would die for. Praise for Laurie McBain: "Ms. McBain's flare for the romantic intermingled with suspense will keep the reader riveted to the story until the last page." —Affaire de Coeur "Vivid sense of description, colorful characters...I found myself happily lost in the magnificence of the storytelling." —Los Angeles Herald Examiner "Well-crafted and wonderfully romantic. Readers are rewarded with teeming atmosphere." —RT Book Reviews

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402269374

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9781402269370

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead

The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

By: Laurie Kaye Abraham

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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead

The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

By: Laurie Kaye Abraham

“A provocative examination of our health care delivery for the poor. . . . Such an honest and candid account is essential.” —Alex Kotlowitz, national bestselling author of There Are No Children Here Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses readers in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family from North Lawndale, Chicago, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America’s inner-cities. Headed by Jackie Banes, who oversees the care of a diabetic grandmother, a husband on kidney dialysis, an ailing father, and three children, the Banes family contends with countless medical crises. From visits to emergency rooms and dialysis units, to trials with home care, to struggles for Medicaid eligibility, Laurie Kaye Abraham chronicles their access—or lack thereof—to medical care. Their story reveals an inadequate health care system that is further undermined by the effects of poverty. Mama Might Be Better Off Dead is an unsettling, profound look at the human face of health care in America. This new edition includes an incisive foreword by David Ansell, a physician who worked at Mt. Sinai Hospital, where much of the Banes family’s narrative unfolds. “Goes to the heart of today’s problem. Powerful . . . deeply searching.” —Washington Post “A powerful indictment of the big business of medicine.” —Los Angeles Times “Abraham . . . illuminates the problems with passion and skill.” —Kirkus Reviews “This personally observed, lucid chronicle and call for reform of our ailing health system covers all levels of responsibility in the medical establishment.” —Publishers Weekly “Clearly identifies in human and policy terms how [healthcare] programs have failed a population desperately in need of help.” —Library Journal

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University of Chicago Press

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022662384X

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9780226623849

Billy Graham

The Man I Knew

By: Greg Laurie

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Billy Graham

The Man I Knew

By: Greg Laurie

Pastor Greg Laurie sheds light on Graham's lesser-known struggles--such as a broken heart before he met the love of his life and a crisis of faith from which he emerged stronger than ever. Explore the evangelist's private challenges and public successes to his disappointments and joys in this portrait of one of history's most well-known Christian lives.

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Simon and Schuster

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1684510597

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9781684510597

Spring's Edge

A Ranch Wife's Chronicles

By: Laurie Wagner Buyer

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Spring's Edge

A Ranch Wife's Chronicles

By: Laurie Wagner Buyer

Chronicling a time of deep personal change, Buyer struggles with her role as a ranch wife in Colorado.

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UNM Press

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0826343910

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9780826343918

Doing Real Research

A Practical Guide to Social Research

By: Eric Jensen,Charles Laurie

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Doing Real Research

A Practical Guide to Social Research

By: Eric Jensen,Charles Laurie

Challenging the formality and idealized settings of conventional methods teaching and opting instead for a real world approach to social research, this book offers frank, practical advice designed to empower students and researchers alike. Theoretically robust and with an exhaustive coverage of key methodologies and methods the title establishes the cornerstones of social research. Examples reflect research conducted inside and outside formal university settings and range from the extremes of war torn countries to the complexities of school classrooms. Supported by a wealth of learning features and tools the textbook and website include: Video top tips Podcasts Full text journal articles Interviews with researchers conducting field research Links to external websites and blogs Student exercises Real world case studies

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SAGE

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1473944295

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9781473944299

The Ten O'Clock Horses

By: Laurie Graham

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The Ten O'Clock Horses

By: Laurie Graham

It is 1962. The first avocado pears are appearing at the greengrocers, people are thinking about carpeting their lavatories and boxing in their banisters, and Ronnie Glover, housepainter, husband and father, is feeling the first vague stirrings of discontent with his life. Then, out of the blue, the fabulous, sophisticated (and married) Jacqueline bursts into this life and teaches him to tango. She seems to offer everything he ever dreamt of. But is it all too good to be true? What can a woman who has traveled the world want with a man who carries a stub of pencil behind his ear? And are the Ten O'Clock horses of Ronnie's painful childhood awake and sniffing the wind?

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Quercus

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1849169462

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9781849169462

The Tain of Hamlet

By: Laurie Johnson

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The Tain of Hamlet

By: Laurie Johnson

Shakespeare's Hamlet is considered by many to be the cornerstone of the English literary canon, a play that remains universally relevant. Yet it seems likely that we have spent so long reading the play for its capacity to reflect ourselves that we have lost sight of the thing itself. The goal of this book is to look beyond the Hamlet that has bedazzled critics for centuries, to seek to apprehend the play in all of its historical distinctness. This is not simply the search for what the play me...

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443869929

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9781443869928

Introduction to International Varieties of English

By: Laurie Bauer

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Introduction to International Varieties of English

By: Laurie Bauer

This book looks at native speaker varieties of English, considering how and why they differ in terms of their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and spelling. It shows how the major national varieties of English have developed, why similar causes have given rise to different effects in different parts of the world, and how the same problems of description arise in relation to all 'colonial' Englishes.It covers varieties of English spoken in Britain, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Falkland Islands.Key FeaturesIntroductory text, presupposes a minimum of previous knowledgeFocuses on common traits rather than on individual varietiesInformed by latest research on dialect mixingExercises included with each chapterReferences for further reading in each chapter

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474400450

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9781474400459

The Coming Plague

Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

By: Laurie Garrett

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The Coming Plague

Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

By: Laurie Garrett

A New York Times bestseller The definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett "Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours. Relying on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America, and the United States, Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo on a harrowing, fifty year journey through the history of our battles with microbes. This book is a work of investigative reportage like no other and a wake-up call to a world that has become complacent in the face of infectious disease—one that offers a sobering and prescient warning about the dangers of ignoring the coming plague.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429953276

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9781429953276

Battling the Plantation Mentality

Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle

By: Laurie B. Green

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Battling the Plantation Mentality

Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle

By: Laurie B. Green

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of "freedom" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing "plantation mentality" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before--and even after--the groundbreaking legislation of the mid-1960s. With its slogan "I AM a Man!" the Memphis strike provides a clarion example of how the movement fought for a black freedom that consisted of not only constitutional rights but also social and human rights. As the sharecropping system crumbled and migrants streamed to the cities during and after World War II, the struggle for black freedom touched all aspects of daily life. Green traces the movement to new locations, from protests against police brutality and racist movie censorship policies to innovations in mass culture, such as black-oriented radio stations. Incorporating scores of oral histories, Green demonstrates that the interplay of politics, culture, and consciousness is critical to truly understanding freedom and the black struggle for it.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807888877

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9780807888872

John Amos Comenius, Bishop of the Moravians, His Life and Educational Works

By: Simon Somerville Laurie

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John Amos Comenius, Bishop of the Moravians, His Life and Educational Works

By: Simon Somerville Laurie

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385447232

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9783385447233

Integrating Gerontological Content Into Advanced Practice Nursing Education

By: Carolyn Auerhahn,Dr. Laurie Kennedy-Malone

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Integrating Gerontological Content Into Advanced Practice Nursing Education

By: Carolyn Auerhahn,Dr. Laurie Kennedy-Malone

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Springer Publishing Company

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082610536X

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9780826105363

Free Money For Athletic Scholarships

By: Laurie Blum

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Free Money For Athletic Scholarships

By: Laurie Blum

There is an enormous amount of financial aid money available in direct scholarships and grants to fund college study; the trick is to identify the sources of athletic awards and to find the right one for you. In Free Money for Athletic Scholarships, Laurie Blum shows the high school athlete where and how to apply for the millions of dollars available each year to help finance education costs.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1466859296

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9781466859296

Sovereign Amity

Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts

By: Laurie Shannon

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Sovereign Amity

Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts

By: Laurie Shannon

Renaissance formulations of friendship typically cast the friend as "another self" and idealized a pair of friends as "one soul in two bodies." Laurie Shannon's Sovereign Amity puts this stress on the likeness of friends into context and offers a historical account of its place in English culture and politics. Shannon demonstrates that the likeness of sex and station urged in friendship enabled a civic parity not present in other social forms. Early modern friendship was nothing less than a utopian political discourse. It preceded the advent of liberal thought, and it made its case in the terms of gender, eroticism, counsel, and kingship. To show the power of friendship in early modernity, Shannon ranges widely among translations of classical essays; the works of Elizabeth I, Montaigne, Donne, and Bacon; and popular literature, to focus finally on the plays of Shakespeare. Her study will interest scholars of literature, history, gender, sexuality, and political thought, and anyone interested in a general account of the English Renaissance.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226749665

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9780226749662

Free Money for Graduate School

A Directory Of Private Grants

By: Laurie Blum

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Free Money for Graduate School

A Directory Of Private Grants

By: Laurie Blum

Free Money for Graduate School, published in 1990, is a book by Laurie Blum, author of the Free Money series.

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Henry Holt and Company

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146685930X

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9781466859302

Passion and Affect

Stories

By: Laurie Colwin

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Passion and Affect

Stories

By: Laurie Colwin

The debut story collection from one of America’s most beloved authors Laurie Colwin explores the mysteries of life and love with her signature blend of empathy, wisdom, and wit in these fourteen exquisite tales. In “Animal Behavior,” an ornithologist and a doctoral student find their own mating habits to be just as inscrutable as those of their avian subjects. In “The Elite Viewer,” when his wife travels to England to attend a seminar, Benno Moran searches for exotic ways to occupy his time. He discovers television, junk food, and Greenie Frenzel, a young woman with Technicolor hair and an appetite for cherry soda and mentholated cigarettes. “Children, Dogs, and Desperate Men” is the story of Elizabeth Bayard, a sensible music critic whose flirtation with a married cartographer is the latest in a series of romantic missteps as irrational as they are irresistible. The heroes and heroines of Passion and Affect are clever, naive, brave, delicate, and fickle. In other words, they are profoundly human, and their precisely observed, warmly intelligent stories capture nothing less than what it means to be alive in the modern world. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Laurie Colwin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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Open Road Media

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1497673739

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9781497673731

Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World

By: Linden J. Ball,Laurie T. Butler,Susan M. Sherman,Helen St Clair-Thompson

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Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World

By: Linden J. Ball,Laurie T. Butler,Susan M. Sherman,Helen St Clair-Thompson

This unique textbook explores core cognitive psychology topics from an innovative new perspective, focusing on key real-world issues to show how we understand and experience the world. The book examines compelling topics such as creativity, problem-solving, reasoning, rationality and language, all within the context of modern 21st century life. Each chapter demonstrates how this vibrant and constantly evolving discipline is at the heart of some of the biggest issues facing us all today. The last chapter discusses the future of cognitive psychology, which includes guidance on conducting rigorous, replicable research and how to use skills from cognitive psychology to be an effective student. Packed with pedagogical features, each chapter includes boxed examples of cognitive psychology in the real world and engaging ‘try it yourself’ features. Each chapter also includes objectives, a range of illustrative figures, chapter summaries, key readings and a glossary for ease of use. The book is fully supported by original online resources for students and instructors. Offering a new model for the study of cognitive psychology that brings the subject alive, the book is essential reading for all students studying psychology and related disciplines.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000899411

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9781000899412

Executive Function Skills in the Classroom

Overcoming Barriers, Building Strategies

By: Laurie Faith,Carol-Anne Bush,Peg Dawson

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Executive Function Skills in the Classroom

Overcoming Barriers, Building Strategies

By: Laurie Faith,Carol-Anne Bush,Peg Dawson

With insight and humor, this motivating guide shows how to bring executive functions (EF) to the forefront in K–8 classrooms--without adopting a new curriculum or scripted program. Ideal for professional development, the book includes flexible, practical, research-based ideas for implementation in a variety of classroom contexts. It shares stories from dozens of expert teachers who are integrating explicit EF support across the school day. Provided is a clear approach for talking about EF barriers and strategies as part of instruction, and working as a class to problem-solve, explore, and apply the strategies that feel right for each student. Purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print several reproducible tools in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

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Guilford Publications

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146254892X

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9781462548927

Recess

Rediscovering Play and Purpose

By: Laurie Haller

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Recess

Rediscovering Play and Purpose

By: Laurie Haller

After twenty years as a successful pastor, Laurie Haller was burned out. A Lilly Endowment grant gave her a rare opportunity to take a sabbatical from ministry and family to evaluate her ministry and life. Recess brings readers along as she travels from Michigan to Montana, South Carolina to France. The journey is equally introspective. Each page discloses her thoughts, prayers and passions. Ultimately Recess challenges us all to find a better balance between work and play, physical and spiritual health.

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David Crumm Media LLC

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1939880866

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9781939880864

New York City Restaurant Access

By: Laurie Werner

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New York City Restaurant Access

By: Laurie Werner

A culinary melting pot, New York City offers ethnic menus that include--and reach far beyond--pasta. From tandoori chicken from India to mole from Mexico, this guide's got it all. Color-coded entries highlight everything you need to know about where to find the city's best restaurants, fancy food shops, stories stocking the latest pots and pans, and bookshops that specialize in the art and preparation of food.

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Access Press (HarperCollins)

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0062771302

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9780062771308

The Science of Numerology Through the Law of Vibration

By: John C. Laurie

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The Science of Numerology Through the Law of Vibration

By: John C. Laurie

The best book on the subject we've seen. of the many systems of numerology, this is tops! the book was written by a highly spiritual person who truly feels the wisdom he imparts so clearly in this unique volume. More and more people are asking for book.

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Health Research Books

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0787305375

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9780787305376

Don Sherwood

The Life and Times of "The World's Greatest Disc Jockey"

By: Laurie Harper

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Don Sherwood

The Life and Times of "The World's Greatest Disc Jockey"

By: Laurie Harper

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Prima Lifestyles

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1559580445

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9781559580441

Fever 1793

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

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Fever 1793

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight-the fight to stay alive.

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Simon and Schuster

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1442443073

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9781442443075

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 2

Texts and Contexts

By: Laurie Garrison,Anne Anderson,Sibylle Erle,Verity Hunt,Peter West,Phoebe Putnam

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Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 2

Texts and Contexts

By: Laurie Garrison,Anne Anderson,Sibylle Erle,Verity Hunt,Peter West,Phoebe Putnam

The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040128807

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9781040128800

Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story

By: Laurie Kruk

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Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story

By: Laurie Kruk

Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature going to Alice Munro, the “master of the contemporary short story,” this art form is receiving the recognition that has been its due and—as this book demonstrates—Canadian writers have long excelled in it. From theme to choice of narrative perspective, from emphasis on irony, satire and parody to uncovering the multiple layers that make up contemporary Canadian English, the short story provides a powerful vehicle for a distinctively Canadian “double-voicing”. The stories discussed here are compelling reflections on our most intimate roles and relationships and Kruk offers a thoughtful juxtaposition of themes of gender, mothers and sons, family storytelling, otherness in Canada and the politics of identity to name but a few. As a multi-author study, Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is broad in scope and its readings are valuable to Canadian literature as a whole, making the book of interest to students of Canadian literature or the short story, and to readers of both.

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University of Ottawa Press

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0776623249

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9780776623245

The Collected Stories

Passion and Affect, The Lone Pilgrim, and Another Marvelous Thing

By: Laurie Colwin

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The Collected Stories

Passion and Affect, The Lone Pilgrim, and Another Marvelous Thing

By: Laurie Colwin

The definitive collection of short fiction from a writer “who has single-handedly revitalized the short story” (Los Angeles Times). “If anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin” (San Francisco Chronicle). In this stunning volume, which gathers together her three brilliant story collections, the beloved author of Home Cooking explores the mysteries of life and love with her signature blend of empathy, wisdom, and wit. Passion and Affect: From two ornithologists who find their own mating habits to be just as inscrutable as those of their avian subjects to a lonely husband whose search for exotic hobbies leads him to television, junk food, and a young woman with Technicolor green hair, the heroes and heroines of Colwin’s debut story collection are clever, naïve, brave, delicate, and fickle. In other words, they are profoundly human, and their precisely observed, warmly intelligent stories capture nothing less than what it means to be alive in the modern world. The Lone Pilgrim: In the title story of this elegant and insightful collection, a book illustrator meets the man of her dreams and struggles to say goodbye to her old self. “A Mythological Subject” is the tale of an adulterous affair that arrives unexpected and unwanted, like a natural disaster, but is no mistake. “A Girl Skating” is a delicate and haunting portrait of the unbridgeable divide between life and art, poetry and nature. “One reads with fascination the steps by which lovers in one story after another stumble upon their forthright declarations” (The New York Times Book Review). Another Marvelous Thing: These “witty, literate, and intelligent” linked stories are told from the alternating perspectives of two adulterous lovers (The New York Times Book Review). Josephine “Billy” Delielle and Francis Clemens are economists married to other people, but the similarities end there. He is fastidious; she is a slob. He delights in good food and fine wine; her refrigerator is always empty. He is old and sentimental; she is young and tough minded. Charting their electrifying affair from beginning to end, this exquisite story collection tackles the thorniest of subjects with honesty, grace, and humor.

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Open Road Media

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150404827X

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9781504048279

When Pregnancy Isn't Perfect

A Layperson's Guide to Complications in Pregnancy

By: Laurie A. Rich

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When Pregnancy Isn't Perfect

A Layperson's Guide to Complications in Pregnancy

By: Laurie A. Rich

Complete with advice on coping with such problems as multiple pregnancy and cesarean delivery--plus a special chapter for fathers--this helpful book is packed with comprehensive information and reassurance for women who develop problems during their pregnancies.

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Dutton Adult

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0525249613

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9780525249610

Laurie Blum's Free Money for Day Care

By: Laurie Blum

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Laurie Blum's Free Money for Day Care

By: Laurie Blum

Free Money for Day Care identifies thousands of sources for hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds that are available to help parents care for their children. For the millions of working mothers and single parents who spend millions on day care, here is a much-needed resource.

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248

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Touchstone

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0671745905

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9780671745905

Glencoe Administrative Procedures for Medical Assisting: A Patient-Centered Approach

By: Barbara Ramutkowski,Abdulai Barrie,Cindy Keller,Laurie Dazarow,Cindy Abel

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Glencoe Administrative Procedures for Medical Assisting: A Patient-Centered Approach

By: Barbara Ramutkowski,Abdulai Barrie,Cindy Keller,Laurie Dazarow,Cindy Abel

Students learn the skills necessary to become a multiskilled front office medical assistant. All of the step-by-step procedures are fully illustrated so students can learn proper technique. Trains students on medical office administrative procedures and equipment. Each chapter begins with an outline of topics, a list of chapter objectives, key terms and a list of 1997 AAMA Role Delineation Study Areas of Competence covered in that chapter so students know where to focus their attention as they read and study. Questions and activities at the end of every chapter help students measure their progress every step of the way.

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376

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Career Education

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0028048636

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9780028048635

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