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Eff This! Meditation

108 Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for When You're Feeling Anxious, Stressed Out, or Overwhelmed

By: Liza Kindred

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Eff This! Meditation

108 Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for When You're Feeling Anxious, Stressed Out, or Overwhelmed

By: Liza Kindred

Are you stressed out, anxious, or overwhelmed? Get out of the storm swirling in your head—and into the peaceful place inside you. Eff This! Meditation will help you let that crap go…with 108 hands-on practices rooted in humor, love, straight talk, and a deep respect for the foundational teachings of Buddhism. If you’re ready to throw your hands in the air and yell “Eff This!” you are not alone—and this book can help. You already know that you should meditate, and that meditation will make you happier and healthier. But you’re tired and irritated, and every time you try to meditate, your mind races and you can't stop thinking about that jerk at work. If this describes you, then this might be just what you need. This is not a joke, this is real meditation—and really effective practices—for everyday life. This book is a reference for you to come back to again and again. Integrate these tips into your daily life, or pull it off the shelf when you need a boost. Learn to celebrate the small victories in life with a “to done” list. Release yourself from phone addiction with a digital detox plan. Get your body out of stress mode by practicing diaphragmatic breathing. Be transported, and open your heart with a pick-me-up playlist. These are just a few of the simple, practical strategies that will help you find your center. Eff This! Meditation is a Shamatha (mindfulness-awareness) practice rooted in radical compassion for self, and presented in 108 tips, tricks, and ideas. They are all centered on the idea that, as humans, we might not be “finished,” but we are complete. Everything you need to attain enlightenment is already contained within you, and you can use meditation—and these practices—to connect with it. The book offers 108 exercises, organized by the amount of time you have to help you respond to your current effing context. There are a number of ways you can dive into the book: Read it all the way through Flip through and mark what seems interesting Try all of the techniques, one by one Grab the book in a panic and thumb through until something sticks out Open the book to a random page and do that thing However the eff you want; it’s your book now The Live Well series from Rock Point invites you to create a life you love through multiple acts of self-discovery and reinvention. These encouraging gift books touch on fun yet hardworking self-improvement strategies, whether it’s learning to value progress over perfection, taking time to meditate and slow down to literally smell the roses, or finding time to show gratitude and develop a personal mantra. From learning how to obtain more restful sleep and creating a healthy work/life balance to developing personal style and your own happy place, the Live Well series encourages you to live your best life. Other titles in the series include: Progress Over Perfection; Find Your Flow; Be Happy; Seeking Slow; Finding Gratitude; The Joy of Forest Bathing; Find Your Mantra; It Had to be You; Men’s Society; Genius Jokes; The Calm and Cozy Book of Sleep; Beating Burnout; Ayurveda for Life; Choose Happy; and You Got This.

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Rock Point

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0760365806

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9780760365809

Calm Your Anxiety Journal

Take Control of Your Anxiety and Quiet Your Mind

By: Liza Kindred

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Calm Your Anxiety Journal

Take Control of Your Anxiety and Quiet Your Mind

By: Liza Kindred

Learn the mechanisms behind anxiety, practices that can calm it, and how to journal for stress relief with Calm Your Anxiety Journal.

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163

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Rock Point Gift & Stationery

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1631068156

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9781631068157

Anna Karenina and Others

By: Liza Knapp

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Anna Karenina and Others

By: Liza Knapp

Liza Knapp offers a fresh approach to understanding Tolstoy's construction of his novel Anna Karenina and how he creates patterns of meaning. Her analysis draws on works that were critical to his understanding of the interconnectedness of human lives, including The Scarlet Letter, Middlemarch, and Blaise Pascal's Pens es. Knapp concludes with a tour-de-force reading of Mrs. Dalloway as Virginia Woolf's response to Tolstoy's treatment of Anna Karenina and others.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299307905

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9780299307905

Bleeding Heart

By: Liza Gyllenhaal

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Bleeding Heart

By: Liza Gyllenhaal

Liza Gyllenhaal has charmed readers with her “gripping and deeply perceptive” (Ben Sherwood, Author of Charlie St. Cloud) novels. Now the author of A Place for Us brings us a captivating new story about a woman’s struggle to rebuild her life after scandal destroys her marriage.... After her accountant husband disappears with millions of dollars stolen from his company’s clients, Alice Hyatt flees New York City and moves to her family’s longtime summer home in a small town in western Massachusetts. There she begins to make a new start, reconnecting with old friends and finding peace—and a growing sense of pride—as a landscape architect. When extremely wealthy newcomer Graham Mackenzie asks her to design an elaborate garden for him, she can’t turn down the opportunity despite misgivings about Mackenzie’s energy company, which specializes in the controversial practice of fracking. But just as the project nears completion, she learns Mackenzie’s offer is not all that it seems. Once again, Alice finds herself embroiled in someone else’s crimes, this time putting her newfound success—and possibly her life—in jeopardy.... CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

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Penguin

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0451466705

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9780451466709

The meeting could not take place

By: Liza Zaikina

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The meeting could not take place

By: Liza Zaikina

My book is not a novel, mysticism or just a short story. I will try to tell about stories from the life of people who met me at different moments of my life, and about what happened once to them and is close to all of us. Understand what separates us from God in heaven. My story is about a simple accident and how people ended up in the role of gods connecting other people. And that the problem of one is a solution for another. After all, you never even thought about why you came down with a temperature. There is more to it than just getting out of bed in the morning and having a cup of coffee. And you know what it is - something more? It's you yourself.

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BookRix

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3755413531

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All Day

A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island

By: Liza Jessie Peterson

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All Day

A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island

By: Liza Jessie Peterson

ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill-prepared for a full-time stint teaching in the GED program for the incarcerated youths. For the first time faced with full days teaching the rambunctious, hyper, and fragile adolescent inmates, "Ms. P" comes to understand the essence of her predominantly Black and Latino students as she attempts not only to educate them, but to instill them with a sense of self-worth long stripped from their lives. "I have quite a spirited group of drama kings, court jesters, flyboy gangsters, tricksters, and wannabe pimps all in my charge, all up in my face, to educate," Peterson discovers. "Corralling this motley crew of bad-news bears to do any lesson is like running boot camp for hyperactive gremlins. I have to be consistent, alert, firm, witty, fearless, and demanding, and most important, I have to have strong command of the subject I'm teaching." Discipline is always a challenge, with the students spouting street-infused backtalk and often bouncing off the walls with pent-up testosterone. Peterson learns quickly that she must keep the upper hand-set the rules and enforce them with rigor, even when her sympathetic heart starts to waver. Despite their relentless bravura and antics-and in part because of it-Peterson becomes a fierce advocate for her students. She works to instill the young men, mostly black, with a sense of pride about their history and culture: from their African roots to Langston Hughes and Malcolm X. She encourages them to explore and express their true feelings by writing their own poems and essays. When the boys push her buttons (on an almost daily basis) she pushes back, demanding that they meet not only her expectations or the standards of the curriculum, but set expectations for themselves-something most of them have never before been asked to do. She witnesses some amazing successes as some of the boys come into their own under her tutelage. Peterson vividly captures the prison milieu and the exuberance of the kids who have been handed a raw deal by society and have become lost within the system. Her time in the classroom teaches her something, too-that these boys want to be rescued. They want normalcy and love and opportunity.

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Center Street

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1455570907

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9781455570904

Mattia Battistini

King of Baritones and Baritone of Kings

By: Jacques Chuilon,Liza Mrosovsky-Shaw

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Mattia Battistini

King of Baritones and Baritone of Kings

By: Jacques Chuilon,Liza Mrosovsky-Shaw

Mattia Battistini (1856-1928) is considered by many to be among the finest examples of the bel canto singing style. His unique vocal abilities and strong stage personality made him the most famous singer of his time, with a career spanning nearly 50 years in the most revered opera venues in Europe. Mattia Battistini: King of Baritones and Baritone of Kings covers the singer's entire career, from his first performance in Rome in 1878 to his final concert 50 years later. Jacques Chuilon analyzes Battistini's principle roles, recordings, and vocal technique, accessing a rich collection of reviews from the time to show Battistini's relationship with and influence on the day's top composers, such as Wagner, Verdi, and Massenet, even going into detail on how Massenet rewrote his music especially for Battistini's voice. Through this important research, Chuilon offers a fresh portrayal of this unique and inspiring, yet often misrepresented, individual. Mattia Battistini: King of Baritones and Baritone of Kings also contains an informative postscript by Battistini's granddaughter, as well as the most complete list ever compiled of Battistini's performances around the world, an impressive selection of photographs, a discography, and a 90-minute CD, re-mastered to reveal the full splendor of Battistini's magnificent voice as nearly as possible. It is an unmatched reference for teachers, students, professional musicians, and singers, as well as the casual opera lover.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810867273

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9780810867277

Book of Tea

Beauty, Simplicity and the Zen Aesthetic

By: Okakura Kakuzo,Liza Dalby

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Book of Tea

Beauty, Simplicity and the Zen Aesthetic

By: Okakura Kakuzo,Liza Dalby

Written over a century ago when Japan was abandoning its rich traditions to embrace the hysteria of colonization, this classic written by Okakura Kakuzo helped preserve the masterpieces of Japanese art and culture by illuminating the spirit of the Japanese Tea Masters. The Book of Tea doesn't focus on the Tea Ceremony itself, but the Zen Buddhist thought behind it known as the Way of Tea or Chado. Kakuzo teaches us to listen to the language of flowers as well as the language of art. His considerable charm is as apparent today as it was one hundred years ago as he introduces us to the aesthetic and culture of Japan. This edition has a new foreword by Andrew Juniper who runs the Wabi-Sabi Art Gallery in West Sussex, England and an introduction by Liza Dalby, the first American woman to be fully trained as a geisha in the 70's.

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462904394

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9781462904396

Suite Success

The Psychologist from the Apprentice Reveals What It Really Takes to Excel-- in the Boardroom and in Life

By: Liza Siegel

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Suite Success

The Psychologist from the Apprentice Reveals What It Really Takes to Excel-- in the Boardroom and in Life

By: Liza Siegel

In Suite Success, Dr. Liza Siegel, the Consulting Psychologist for the popular reality show The Apprentice, shows readers how to develop the powerful, positive mindset necessary for achieving success. Filled with fascinating examples from the show, the book helps readers become more resilient, tough and confident in their quest for the top.

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Amacom Books

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081442967X

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9780814429679

Not enough money to complete

By: Liza Zaikina

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Not enough money to complete

By: Liza Zaikina

From early childhood, I dreamed of becoming a singer, and there was not a day when I did not make efforts to fulfill my dream. Unfortunately, today the world is arranged in such a way that everything is decided only through connections and money, and if this is not the case, then you can sing in your closet for life, aging along with your dream. It seems to me that all this is wrong, and it was stupid to create an economic system in the world that does not allow millions of people to reveal themselves, develop talents, and present creation for all to see. Fortunately, there is the Internet, where you can share your creativity with others, but, based on my life experience, I saw that without money this is impossible to do.

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BookRix

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3755413620

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9783755413622

"Am not I / A fly like thee?"

Human-Animal Relations in William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience"

By: Liza Bauer

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"Am not I / A fly like thee?"

Human-Animal Relations in William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience"

By: Liza Bauer

Ecocriticism – a firm branch of literary criticism by now – first emerged back in the 1980s, when literary scholars started to reassess Romantic texts in terms of their ecological merit. Based on the assumption that humanity's anthropocentric conceptions of their relationship to the nonhuman world are largely responsible for today's environmental crisis, "Green Romanticism" primarily focused on the poetry written by Wordsworth, Coleridge, or Shelley. However, later critical stances on the anthropocentric nature of the Romantic sublime triggered a profound rethinking of Romantic ecology. Second-wave Green Romanticism revives an interest in the radical poetics by William Blake, the one canonical Romantic who had remained largely absent from the earlier debate. Tying in with this desideratum, Liza Bauer introduces the revolutionary visions of Blake's animals in his illuminated work "Songs of Innocence and Experience" (1789), which innovatively combines verbal and visual poetic visions. Bauer relates the poet's conceptions of the natural world to those prevailing in the 18th century and sketches out possible routes for future research. Her close readings of selected poems alongside with their designs show that Blake's reputation as one of nature's biggest Romantic antagonists needs to be reconsidered.

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Büchner-Verlag

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3963176768

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9783963176760

Spontaneous Revolutions

Seeing America One Pedal at a Time

By: Liza McQuade

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Spontaneous Revolutions

Seeing America One Pedal at a Time

By: Liza McQuade

An Extraordinary Bicycling Adventure Spontaneous Revolutions: Seeing America One Pedal at a Time is the story of a middle-aged couples' spur-of-the-moment bicycle journey across the country. These two out-of-shape, inexperienced cyclists rode from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine. It took four (sometimes) grueling months. Being overweight and over 50 was one thing. They also knew next to nothing about bikes - didn't even know how to change a flat tire when they left! And, they chose to travel unplugged. Why do this seemingly Insane thing? Well, beyond the "wild hair," they wanted to meet the people of the tiny towns and byways of America. It's also a testamentto overcoming challenges, staying motivated and enjoying the kindness of strangers. People constantly surprised them with support: Invitations to their homes and cheerleadlng along the way. The experience reaffirmed their faith in humanity, proving how many good people there are across America. There are moments of hilarity, fear, surprise, struggle, tenderness, frustration, beauty, danger and love. The book leaves the reader with confidence and inspiration: if these two can do it, you can do it- no matter your dream. Spontaneous Revolutions is also a love story. Author Liza McQuade and her husband reconnected in their marriage, learned to let go of judgement and found they loved each other more than they thought possible. The book was written after McQuades' husband passed away unexpectedly. It's not maudlin, it's an uplifting account of two people who undertook a huge leap of faith and learned to live In the moment. The trip proved to be a metaphor for taking on any big challenge. Whether you're making an important decision or scaling a mountain, don't psych yourself out. Tackle what's thrown your way head-on, even if you have to get off your bike and walk. Most importantly, it's a reminder to take life one pedal at a time.

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451

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Balboa Press

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1982256826

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9781982256821

Victorian London

The Tale of a City 1840--1870

By: Liza Picard

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Victorian London

The Tale of a City 1840--1870

By: Liza Picard

To Londoners, the years 1840 to 1870 were years of dramatic change and achievement. As suburbs expanded and roads multiplied, London was ripped apart to build railway lines and stations and life-saving sewers. The Thames was contained by embankments, and traffic congestion was eased by the first underground railway in the world. A start was made on providing housing for the "deserving poor." There were significant advances in medicine, and the Ragged Schools are perhaps the least known of Victorian achievements, in those last decades before universal state education. In 1851 the Great Exhibition managed to astonish almost everyone, attracting exhibitors and visitors from all over the world. But there was also appalling poverty and exploitation, exposed by Henry Mayhew and others. For the laboring classes, pay was pitifully low, the hours long, and job security nonexistent. Liza Picard shows us the physical reality of daily life in Victorian London. She takes us into schools and prisons, churches and cemeteries. Many practical innovations of the time—flushing lavatories, underground railways, umbrellas, letter boxes, driving on the left—point the way forward. But this was also, at least until the 1850s, a city of cholera outbreaks, transportation to Australia, public executions, and the workhouse, where children could be sold by their parents for as little as £12 and streetpeddlers sold sparrows for a penny, tied by the leg for children to play with. Cruelty and hypocrisy flourished alongside invention, industry, and philanthropy.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466863471

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9781466863477

Restoration London

From Poverty To Pets, From Medicine To Magic, From Slang To Sex, From Wallpaper To Women's Rights

By: Liza Picard

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Restoration London

From Poverty To Pets, From Medicine To Magic, From Slang To Sex, From Wallpaper To Women's Rights

By: Liza Picard

How did you clean your teeth in the 1600s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep? Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of daily life in London in the decade between 1660 and 1670: the streets, houses and gardens; cooking, housework, laundry and shopping; medicine, sex education, hobbies and etiquette; law and crime, religion and popular belief. The London of 300 years ago is brought vividly (and sometimes horrifyingly) to life in Restoration London.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466863498

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9781466863491

High School Bites

The Lucy Chronicles

By: Liza Conrad

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High School Bites

The Lucy Chronicles

By: Liza Conrad

Lucy Hellenberg is not your typical Pacific Cedar High student. Because in between hanging out with her friends, hating her hair and her math teacher, and trying to decide whether she should dump her on-again, off-again boyfriend, she has to deal with a father who refuses to go outside and a house that bears way too much resemblance to the set of The Munsters. And that’s not all. Lucy has just discovered that she’s a descendent of the lovely Lucy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula—and that vampires really do exist (right here at Pacific Cedar High!). Now she has to accessorize her homecoming dress with a necklace of garlic and learn how to drive while driving away vampires—without becoming their next victim.

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149

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Penguin

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1440624283

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9781440624285

Picturing Indians

Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960

By: Liza Black

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Picturing Indians

Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960

By: Liza Black

Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post–World War II American films and production studios that cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face to face with mainstream representations of “Indianness.”

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U of Nebraska Press

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149623264X

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9781496232649

The Marriage Act

The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America, and What It Taught Us About Love

By: Liza Monroy

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The Marriage Act

The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America, and What It Taught Us About Love

By: Liza Monroy

After her traditional engagement to her high school sweetheart falls apart, Liza Monroy faced the prospect of another devastating loss: the deportation of her best friend Emir. Desperate to stay in America, Emir tried every legal recourse to obtain a green card knowing that his return to the Middle East—where gay men are often beaten and sometimes killed—was too dangerous. So Liza proposes to Emir in efforts to keep him safe and by her side. After a fast wedding in Las Vegas, the couple faces new adventures and obstacles in both L.A. and New York City as they dodge the INS. Their relationship is compounded further by the fact that Liza’s mother works for the State Department preventing immigration fraud. Through it all, Liza and Emir must contend with professional ambition, adversity, and heartbreak and eventually learn the true lessons of companionship and devotion. This marriage that was not a marriage, in the end, really was. The Marriage Act is a timely and topical look at the changing face of marriage in America and speaks to the emergent generation forming bonds outside of tradition—and sometimes even outside the law.

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188

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Catapult

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1619023652

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9781619023659

Cougarman

Percy Dewar

By: Liza Potvin

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Cougarman

Percy Dewar

By: Liza Potvin

Vancouver Island pioneer Percy Dewar, grandson of the Scottish distiller, began hunting cougars as a teen and spent many years studying them, then worked actively for their conservation.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412058775

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9781412058773

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