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Over the Line

By: David Lloyd

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Fifteen-year-old Justin Lyle does not see in himself the qualities he admires in heroes like his paternal grandfather, awarded a medal of honor during World War II, or in the fictional heroes of television and comic books. Growing up in the declining manufacturing town of East Liberty, New York—beset by unemployment, rising crime, and an influx of drugs, and encircled by struggling dairy farms—Justin feels isolated and decidedly unheroic. These feelings are intensified by his parents’ divorce, his longing for an unattainable girl, and the death, eight years previous but still a potent memory, of his infant brother. When Justin steps "over the line" one afternoon, attempting to help the drug-addled girlfriend of an unstable bully, he triggers a series of increasingly perilous encounters. By week’s end, Justin has been drawn into his community’s sinister underworld and compelled to unexpected action and a fresh understanding of the complexities of heroism. The author of Boys: Stories and a Novella, Lloyd again illustrates his pitch-perfect ear for capturing the detached vernacular and emotional angst of adolescence. Lloyd brings to life the trials of a small, Upstate New York town, creating a story that is as real as it is fictional.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815652305

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9780815652304

Archives of American Time

Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

By: Lloyd Pratt

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Archives of American Time

Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

By: Lloyd Pratt

American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse population could cluster around this common temporality as one forward-looking people. In a bold revision of this narrative, Archives of American Time examines American literature's figures and forms to disclose the competing temporalities that in fact defined the antebellum period. Through discussions that link literature's essential qualities to social theories of modernity, Lloyd Pratt asserts that the competition between these varied temporalities forestalled the consolidation of national and racial identity. Paying close attention to the relationship between literary genre and theories of nationalism, race, and regionalism, Archives of American Time shows how the fine details of literary genres tell against the notion that they helped to create national, racial, or regional communities. Its chapters focus on images of invasive forms of print culture, the American historical romance, African American life writing, and Southwestern humor. Each in turn revises our sense of how these images and genres work in such a way as to reconnect them to a broad literary and social history of modernity. At precisely the moment when American authors began self-consciously to quest after a future in which national and racial identity would reign triumphant over all, their writing turned out to restructure time in a way that began foreclosing on that particular future.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812203534

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9780812203530

Troubled Waters off Argentina

By: Herman Lloyd Bruebaker

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Troubled Waters off Argentina

By: Herman Lloyd Bruebaker

In 1943 German U-boat activity off Argentina got to a point it was seriously affecting Allied shipping. The United States Navy sends in two intelligence offi cers to eliminate their fueling sources. It was a bloody dangerous situation with the civil unrest burning across the country and rumors of a Colonels revolt against the unpopular Presidential Palace. After neutralizing the German naval activity they turn their attention on the second assignment. The agents have to work through the suspicious populace to fi nd and destroy a plot to spray deadly gases along the coastal regions.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503559025

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9781503559028

Iron City

A Novel

By: Lloyd Louis Brown

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Iron City

A Novel

By: Lloyd Louis Brown

A groundbreaking work of African American proletarian literature, first published in 1951 and now back in print.

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UPNE

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1555532063

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9781555532062

The Rough Guide to Cult Sport

By: Lloyd Bradley

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The Rough Guide to Cult Sport

By: Lloyd Bradley

Think you know all about sport? Think again. The Rough Guide to Cult Sport takes the armchair sports fan on a beguiling world tour exploring the maverick, the bizarre and the deliriously obscure parts of the sporting universe. It recalls the players, games and moments in all sports which have excited the greatest passions from the dawn of the Olympics to the present day. You'll find sections on the top twenty cult sports from baseball to sumo, angling to ultimate frisbee; cult legends, from female grand prix driver Hell� Nice to Mexican wrestling star Mil M�scaras; around the world in 80 sports, from bog snorkelling, bun climbing and ostrich racing to pumpkin throwing; plus all the shocks, conspiracies and scandals that have rocked the world of sport over the years. With all this, plus the strangest sports statistics you'll ever find, The Rough Guide to Cult Sport is the ultimate tribute to the weird and wonderful world of sport.

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Rough Guides UK

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1409363678

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9781409363675

A Field Guide to Warblers of North America

By: Jon Lloyd Dunn,Kimball Garrett

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A Field Guide to Warblers of North America

By: Jon Lloyd Dunn,Kimball Garrett

Describes sixty species of North American warblers.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395783216

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9780395783214

The gig

By: Terry Lloyd Vinson

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The gig

By: Terry Lloyd Vinson

Following extensive damage and several tragic deaths incurred from a deadly tornado, the infamous Pine Hills Penitentiary permanently closed its cell doors in the spring of 1989. Decades later, the long-abandoned prison is reopened for a one-night-only concert to be attended by former staff and inmates, the mysterious benefactor and host the son of a former inmate who vanished on the night of the deadly twister. Specifically requested as the show’s feature act is ‘80’s hard rock band, Death Adler, newly reformed with faint hopes of a comeback. As the curtain lifts beneath a full and foreboding southern moon, the aged rockers, notorious for their snake tattoos, lurid song lyrics and reptilian cool, will fall victim to an encore of unrelenting terror.

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Rogue Phoenix Press

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1624207294

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9781624207297

Contemporary American Poetry

A Checklist : Second Series, 1973-1983

By: Lloyd M. Davis

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Contemporary American Poetry

A Checklist : Second Series, 1973-1983

By: Lloyd M. Davis

Lists over 5,200 titles of books published by American poets between 1973 and 1983.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810818299

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9780810818293

Pictures of Heroes and Lessons from their Lives

By: Bitha Fox Lloyd

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Pictures of Heroes and Lessons from their Lives

By: Bitha Fox Lloyd

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382311062

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9783382311063

The Swedes of Greater Brockton

By: James E. Benson,Lloyd F. Thompson

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The Swedes of Greater Brockton

By: James E. Benson,Lloyd F. Thompson

Swedes came to America filled with hope tempered by the uncertainties of new surroundings, customs, and language. The first Swede to arrive in Brockton, then North Bridgewater, was Daniel Larson (Lawson), in 1844. Since that time, Swedish immigrants and their descendants have left a profound and positive imprint on the character of this region. With an excellent collection of more than two hundred vintage images, The Swedes of Greater Brockton tells the unique story of the immigration to this area of Massachusetts. Greater Brockton was the shoe-manufacturing center of the United States, with such factories as W.L. Douglas, George E. Keith, and D.W. Field. These magnets of immigration drew thousands to the region. Within these pages, meet hundreds of these Swedish immigrants and their descendants. Join in their journey to America, visit their homes, churches, and places of business, and experience their leisure activities. Learn about the establishment of the "Swedish" churches-Lutheran, Congregational, Baptist, Methodist, and the Salvation Army-and see how the entrepreneurial spark in America caught fire in Brockton's Swedish community.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738508519

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9780738508511

Team First

History of Baseball Integration & Civil Rights

By: Lloyd H. H. Barrow

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Team First

History of Baseball Integration & Civil Rights

By: Lloyd H. H. Barrow

The year 2017 is a special year, the seventieth anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson integrating modern baseball. Robinson's successes and challenges have been documented by baseball and civil rights historians. This three-part book presents the chronological history of baseball integration along with the major civil rights events of the 1940s and 1950s. Team First focuses upon each of the sixteen Major League teams and players (with life stories) who were the first to integrate each team. Some individuals were players of the Negro League, Hall of Famers, and World Series players and others whose notable contribution was only being the first to integrate. Information about owners, general managers, and managers influenced teams' orientation about integration. Rates of integration varied by team. The final three teams to integrate happened ten years after Robinson won the 1947 Rookie of the Year Award. Find out how your favorite team approached integration. How did your team compare to other National League and American League teams? How was your favorite team influenced by early civil rights events?

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Page Publishing Inc

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1641383844

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9781641383844

National Geographic Birding Essentials

All the Tools, Techniques, and Tips You Need to Begin and Become a Better Birder

By: Jonathan K. Alderfer,Jon Lloyd Dunn

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National Geographic Birding Essentials

All the Tools, Techniques, and Tips You Need to Begin and Become a Better Birder

By: Jonathan K. Alderfer,Jon Lloyd Dunn

Offers tips and advice for how to improve bird watching skills, from choosing equipment and guides to where to watch and what features to look for when trying to identify a bird.

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National Geographic Books

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1426201354

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9781426201356

The Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations

By: Lloyd Biggle Jr.

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The Rule of the Door and Other Fanciful Regulations

By: Lloyd Biggle Jr.

This volume collects 9 classic science fiction stories by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Included are: "The Rule of the Door," "Petty Larceny," "On the Dotted Line," "Judgement Day," "Secret Weapon," "The Perfect Punishment," "A Slight Case of Limbo," "D.F.C.," and "Wings of Song." Also included is the original 1967 introduction by the author. In "The Rule of the Door": The owner had a positive mania for closets and doors. Along one entire wall of that spacious living room were closets, large, window-less closets. Their doors were structural monstrosities, fully two feet thick, that functioned strangely. They were hung with a strange type of hinge none of the carpenters had ever seen before. And the doors opened inward. Who ever heard of a closet with a door that opened inward? There were eleven of them, and the central closet was left unfinished and doorless...

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Wildside Press LLC

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143444841X

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9781434448415

Old School Ties

Book Two of the Chicagoland Detective Series

By: Lloyd Frankland

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Old School Ties

Book Two of the Chicagoland Detective Series

By: Lloyd Frankland

Tyler Brykman returns home form a business trip to find the mutilated bodies of his wife and two children. Morgan Strongbow and Sara Rydell are assigned to the case even though Sara may not be fully recovered from the life-threatening wound she received solving their previous case. Brykman immediately becomes their primary suspect until he tells them he was in Europe. As soon as Strongbow and Sara corroborate Brykman's alibi, they turn their attention to his partner, a manipulative bully named Ronald Mazarovic. When Mazarovic's wife and children meet the same fate as Tyler Brykman's, the police are certain they have their man. The problem is, Mazarovic also has an alibi for the times when both homicides took place. Could the two attorneys have plotted the murders together and acted as each other's alibis? Or might someone be trying to take revenge on Brykman and Mazarovic for an series of events that took place decades earlier when the two were in grammar school. Betrayal. Bullies. Manipulation. Rape. Revenge. Old School Ties has all of the mind bending plot twists that readers of Veiled Threats, the first installment of Lloyd Frankland's Chicagoland Detective Series, have come to expect.

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iUniverse

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0595527302

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9780595527304

Health and Care in Ageing Societies

A New International Approach

By: Lloyd, Liz

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Health and Care in Ageing Societies

A New International Approach

By: Lloyd, Liz

In the context of global ageing societies, there are few challenges to the underlying assumption that policies should promote functional health and independence in older people and contain the costs of care. This important book offers such a challenge. It provides a critical analysis of the limitations of contemporary policies and calls for a fuller understanding of the relationship between health and care throughout the life-course. Located within the tradition of the feminist ethic of care, the book provides a fresh insight into global policy debates and the impact that these have on people's experiences of ageing. Including international evidence on health inequalities, health promotion and health care, this book will be of interest to a range of social scientists, particularly specialists in gerontology and social policy.

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Policy Press

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1447304926

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9781447304920

Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield

By: L. T. Evans,Lloyd T. Evans

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Crop Evolution, Adaptation and Yield

By: L. T. Evans,Lloyd T. Evans

In this major 1993 work, Lloyd Evans provides an integrated view of the domestication, adaptation and improvement of crop plants, bringing together genetic diversity, plant breeding, physiology and aspects of agronomy. Considerations of yield and maximum yield provide continuity throughout the book. Food, feed, fibre, fuel and pharmaceutical crops are all discussed. Cereals, grain legumes and root crops, both temperate and tropical, provide many of the examples, but pasture plants, oilseeds, leafy crops, fruit trees and others are also considered. After the introductory chapter, the increasing significance of crop yields to the world's food supply is highlighted. The next three chapters consider changes to crop plants over the last ten thousand years, including domestication, adaptation and improvement. Aimed at research workers and advanced students in crop physiology and ecology, agronomy and plant breeding, this book also reaches conclusions of relevance to those concerned with developmental policy, agricultural research and management, environmental quality, resource depletion and human history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521295580

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9780521295581

Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial Time Scales

By: Lloyd D. Keigwin

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Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial Time Scales

By: Lloyd D. Keigwin

Contributors describe the current understanding of abrupt climate variations that have occurred at millennial to submillennial time scales, events now recognized as characteristics of the global climate during the last glaciation. Subjects covered include analysis of modern climate and ocean dynamics, paleoclimate reconstructions derived from the marine, terrestrial and ice core records, and paleoclimate modeling studies. The breadth of global paleoclimate knowledge presented here provides information required to answer many questions and provides a road map to address remaining problems. Most material is from a June 1998 conference. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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American Geophysical Union

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087590095X

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9780875900957

Land Is Kin

Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites

By: Dana Lloyd

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Land Is Kin

Sovereignty, Religious Freedom, and Indigenous Sacred Sites

By: Dana Lloyd

Responding to Vine Deloria, Jr.’s call for all people to “become involved” in the struggle to protect Indigenous sacred sites, Dana Lloyd’s Land Is Kin proposes a rethinking of sacred sites, and a rethinking of even land itself. Deloria suggested using the principle of religious freedom, but this principle has failed Indigenous peoples for decades. Lloyd argues that religious freedom fails Indigenous claimants because settler law creates a tension between two competing rights—one party’s religious freedom and another party’s property rights. In this contest, the right of property will always win. Through an analysis of the 1988 US Supreme Court case Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, which she interprets as a case about sovereignty and the meaning of land, Lloyd proposes a multilayered understanding of land and the different roles it can simultaneously play. Rejecting the binary logic of sacred religion versus secular property, Lloyd uses the legal dispute over the High Country—an area of the Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California sacred to the Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa Indigenous nations—to show that there are at least five different, but not equally valid, ways to understand land in the Lyng case: home, property, sacred site, wilderness, and kin. To protect the High Country, the Yurok filed a religious freedom lawsuit but then proceeded to describe the land as their home in court. They lobbied for protecting the High Country through a wilderness designation even as they continued to argue that they had been managing it for centuries. They have purchased large parcels of ancestral land and also declare the land their kin, a relationship that ostensibly excludes the possibility of ownership. Land Is Kin demonstrates the complexity of land in contemporary religious, political, and legal discourse. By drawing on Indigenous perspectives on the land as kin, Lloyd points toward a framework that shifts sovereignty away from binary oppositions—between property and sacred site, between the federal government and Native nations—toward seeing the land itself as sovereign.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700635890

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9780700635894

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