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Rose Campion and the Curse of the Doomstone

By: Lyn Gardner

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Rose Campion and the Curse of the Doomstone

By: Lyn Gardner

Business has never been better for Campion's Palace of Variety and Wonders - and the music hall is about to open its doors to its biggest act yet: the Illustrious Gandini, the stage magician known as the Great Wizard of the North. But when the Doomstone Diamond - a priceless jewel with a disturbing history - is stolen during one of Gandini's performances, Campion's finds itself under threat once more, and Rose Campion and her friends will need all their wits about them to find the thief and uncover the secrets of the magician's mysterious past... The second book in the gripping, atmospheric Rose Campion series! Also in the series: Rose Campion and the Stolen Secret Rose Campion and the Christmas Mystery

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Nosy Crow

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0857638459

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Liverpool Sisters

A heart-warming family saga of sorrow and hope

By: Lyn Andrews

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Liverpool Sisters

A heart-warming family saga of sorrow and hope

By: Lyn Andrews

With no mother to guide them, can Livvie and Amy find happiness? Two motherless girls, a young stepmother and a domineering father are woven into an unputdownable Merseyside saga set before the First World War. The perfect read for fans of Anne Baker, Catherine Cookson and Kitty Neale. 'Gutsy... a vivid picture of a hard-up, hard-working community... will keep the pages turning' - Daily Express Liverpool, 1907. Thanks to their father's success, sisters Livvie and Amy Goodwin are moving from their cramped home to a roomier house on the outskirts of Liverpool. But tragedy strikes when their adored mother dies in childbirth. The girls are still grieving when Thomas introduces their new stepmother - a woman just a few years older than Livvie. Thomas has plans for his daughters. He wants Livvie to marry a wealthy neighbour's son - not Frank Hadley, the kind and handsome factory manager she is attracted to. Their relationship is a dangerous enough secret, but Livvie's interest in the Suffragettes could drive Thomas to the edge. For the Goodwin girls, the happy future they once took for granted is far from certain... What readers are saying about Liverpool Sisters: 'Another wonderful saga set in Liverpool' 'You feel like you're actually there in the era as she describes the places and characters so well' 'I absolutely loved it

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1472228669

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Film Makers

15 Groundbreaking Women Directors

By: Lyn Miller-Lachmann,Tanisia Moore

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Film Makers

15 Groundbreaking Women Directors

By: Lyn Miller-Lachmann,Tanisia Moore

In Hollywood, women don't have to be in front of the camera to shine. Each of the 15 women profiled in Film Makers shares a common trait: she is, as Shonda Rhimes says, "First. Only. Different." These phenomenal women have redefined the film and television industry, winning awards historically given to a male counterpart, being the only woman in a writers' room, or portraying stories no one else could tell. While their resumes are impressive, it is how they live their lives that has made a greater impact in the communities they serve. Many of them, like Gina Prince-Bythewood and Greta Gerwig, mentor other women. Some, like Agnieszka Holland and ChloÉ Zhao, have stood up to those who seek to ignore or silence them. All of them tell their stories with passion and integrity, serving as role models and champions for future generations. We hope they will inspire you to use the tools of film to tell your story!

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Chicago Review Press

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1641606126

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9781641606127

Sherlock Holmes in Belling the Cat

By: Lyn McConchie

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Sherlock Holmes in Belling the Cat

By: Lyn McConchie

Who is following Diana McClane, the young friend of Miss Emily Jackson and her brown Burmese cat Mandalay, and why? Miss Emily asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to investigate, and they uncover a menace rooted in her family’s history. Can they keep Diana safe from the growing threats of the violent past?

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479428868

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9781479428861

Habits of the Heartland

Small-Town Life in Modern America

By: Lyn C. Macgregor

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Habits of the Heartland

Small-Town Life in Modern America

By: Lyn C. Macgregor

Although most Americans no longer live in small towns, images of small-town life, and particularly of the mutual support and neighborliness to be found in such places, remain powerful in our culture. In Habits of the Heartland, Lyn C. Macgregor investigates how the residents of Viroqua, Wisconsin, population 4,355, create a small-town community together. Macgregor lived in Viroqua for nearly two years. During that time she gathered data in public places, attended meetings, volunteered for civic organizations, talked to residents in their workplaces and homes, and worked as a bartender at the local American Legion post. Viroqua has all the outward hallmarks of the idealized American town; the kind of place where local merchants still occupy the shops on Main Street and everyone knows everyone else. On closer examination, one finds that the town contains three largely separate social groups: Alternatives, Main Streeters, and Regulars. These categories are not based on race or ethnic origins. Rather, social distinctions in Viroqua are based ultimately on residents' ideas about what a community is and why it matters. These ideas both reflect and shape their choices as consumers, whether at the grocery store, as parents of school-age children, or in the voting booth. Living with-and listening to-the town's residents taught Macgregor that while traditional ideas about "community," especially as it was connected with living in a small town, still provided an important organizing logic for peoples' lives, there were a variety of ways to understand and create community.

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Cornell University Press

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0801458978

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9780801458972

The Perfect Fence

Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire

By: Lyn Ellen Bennett,Scott Abbott

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The Perfect Fence

Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire

By: Lyn Ellen Bennett,Scott Abbott

Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became commonplace on battlefields and in concentration camps, the fence accrued a fascinating and troubling range of meanings beyond the material facts of its construction. In The Perfect Fence, Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott explore the multiple uses and meanings of barbed wire, a technological innovation that contributes to America’s shift from a pastoral ideal to an industrial one. They survey the vigorous public debate over the benign or “infernal” fence, investigate legislative attempts to ban or regulate wire fences as a result of public outcry, and demonstrate how the industry responded to ameliorate the image of its barbed product. Because of the rich metaphorical possibilities suggested by a fence that controls through pain, barbed wire developed into an important motif in works of literature from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Early advertisements proclaimed that barbed wire was “the perfect fence,” keeping “the ins from being outs, and the outs from being ins.” Bennett and Abbott conclude that while barbed wire is not the perfect fence touted by manufacturers, it is indeed a meaningful thing that continues to influence American identities.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623495822

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Child Development and Teaching Pupils with Special Educational Needs

By: Anne Anderson,Richard Gerrish,Lyn Layton,Jenny Morgan,Christina Tilstone,Anna Williams

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Child Development and Teaching Pupils with Special Educational Needs

By: Anne Anderson,Richard Gerrish,Lyn Layton,Jenny Morgan,Christina Tilstone,Anna Williams

A thought-provoking book which provides a framework for understanding the physical, sensory, emotional, social, linguistic and cognitive development of children with special educational needs. It gives practitioners and students a sound grasp of the theoretical ground needed to fully understand cognitive development and will help them track children's developmental progress in order to optimise learning opportunities. The authors handle complex topics in a highly accessible manner, explaining how to put theory into practice. In three lucidly argued sections they present: an overview of the work of key theorists and thinkers, including Vygotsky, Piaget, Freud, Erikson, Bruner and the Korning theorists an evaluation of the educational implications of the work of each theorist, using illustrative case studies a consideration of areas of development in learning and teaching children with special educational needs. This book will be a beacon for teachers, head teachers, educational psychologists and all practitioners involved in special needs education who seek the opportunity to help empower their pupils, and enhance their own understanding.

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Routledge

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1134476175

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9781134476176

Charles Dickens

By: Lyn Pykett

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Charles Dickens

By: Lyn Pykett

To many of his contemporaries, Charles Dickens was the greatest writer of his age; a one-man fiction industry who produced fourteen massive novels, and numerous sketches, essays and stories, many of which appeared in the two magazines which he founded and edited. Today the work of one of the first and most successful mass-circulation authors continues to enthrall readers around the world. This wide-ranging book examines the writings of Dickens, not only in his time but also in ours. It looks at the author as a Victorian 'man of letters', and explores his cultural and critical impact both on the definition of the novel in the nineteenth century and the subsequent development of the form in the twentieth. Lyn Pykett focuses on Dickens as journalist, literary entrepreneur, the conductor of magazines, the shaper of the serial novel, the manipulator of the multiple plot, and the creator of eccentric characters. She also assesses the modernity of the writer's alienated protagonists and their social environments, as well as reassessing his representations of the vivid, bleak and at times menacing spectacle of the metropolis, from the late modern/postmodern perspective of the twenty first century. Each chapter of this text analyses the work of a particular decade in Dickens's career, providing a lively contextual study which places his writings in relation to the worlds that made him, and the literary worlds which he made. It is essential reading for all those with an interest in one of the most popular, and enduring, British novelists of all time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1403919194

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9781403919199

Far From Home

A young woman finds hope and tragedy in 1920s Liverpool

By: Lyn Andrews

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Far From Home

A young woman finds hope and tragedy in 1920s Liverpool

By: Lyn Andrews

When blacksmith's daughter Kitty Doyle catches the eye of her grocer employer it seems her troubles are over - but there are still dramas to come... In Far From Home, Lyn Andrews travels between both Ireland and Liverpool in this engrossing saga of new beginnings, new tragedies and new loves. Perfect for fans of Anne Baker, Annie Murray and Dilly Court. As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village, fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world, but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries and she has no choice but to leave the family home. Luckily there's work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool and soon Kitty has a job in a grocer's, where she also catches the eye of the owner. With Kitty's input the business is soon thriving - but tragedy lies ahead, and she must endure many trials and tribulations before she can find true happiness... What readers are saying about Far From Home: 'A very good read, enjoyed every page. A typical Lyn Andrews book, riveting to the very end. Thoroughly recommend this book' 'Another enthralling read from Lyn Andrews, I couldn't put it down from start to finish. You will not be disappointed

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0755379241

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Summer's End

By: Lyn Cote

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Summer's End

By: Lyn Cote

Dr. Kirsi Royston finds much more than she bargained for when she arrives in Steadfast, Wisconsin.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842335587

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9780842335584

Never Alone

By: Lyn Cote

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Never Alone

By: Lyn Cote

Never Alone by Lyn Cote released on Apr 24, 1998 is available now for purchase.

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Harlequin Treasury-Love Inspired 90s

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0373870302

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9780373870301

Sherlock Holmes: Familiar Crimes

New Tales of the Great Detective

By: Lyn McConchie

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Sherlock Holmes: Familiar Crimes

New Tales of the Great Detective

By: Lyn McConchie

Master storyteller Lyn McConchie returns with two tantalizing tales for Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. This time our heroes must dig deep to unearth long-buried family secrets in Familiar Crimes. When Bradon Riggston decides to write his family history, he is shocked to find that many of his relatives and their friends have died by unfortunate accidents. Are Riggston family members and their close associates just unlucky, or is there some sinister power working behind the scenes? Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate, only to uncover a deadly saga of revenge for long-hidden crimes. A terrible fire burns Miss Darna Rosewarne's home for elderly ladies to the ground, leaving six residents dead. Local opinion blames her for negligence, but as Holmes and Watson sift through the charred ruins and scrutinize the residents and staff, they discover hidden secrets of both the living and the dead -- but which one is the motive for murder?

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479425850

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9781479425853

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

Miracle Or Model?

By: Lyn S. Graybill

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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

Miracle Or Model?

By: Lyn S. Graybill

Graybill (mind and human interaction, U. of Virginia) provides students not only the facts about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but also the broader context in which it operated. She asks whether it led to reconciliation and healing, what criteria were used to decide whether to pardon or punish, whether politics necessitated the compromise, and other questions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1588260577

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9781588260574

Construal

By: Lyn Frazier,Charles Clifton

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Construal

By: Lyn Frazier,Charles Clifton

Construal presents a new theory of sentence processing, one that allows a limited type of underspecification in the syntactic analysis of sentences. It extends what has arguably been the dominant theory of parsing (the garden-path theory developed by Lyn Frazier and colleagues) through the 1980s into new and previously unexplored domains, and greatly advances the potential for insights into how meaning is both made and understood. Frazier and Clifton, both pioneers in parsing theory, present new psycholinguistic theory and experimentation concerning how "nonprimary" phrases are analyzed in sentence comprehension. They define a process of "construal" and show how it accounts for cases in which the parser does not fully determine structure during the course of ordinary comprehension. The idea of construal arises in part through the authors' critical review of the challenges to their established framework for research on structural parsing. While they demonstrate that the principles of parsing theory remain valid for a wide variety of languages and grammatical constructions, they go beyond them to clearly identify those types of constructions built by the process of construal. Frazier and Clifton show that construal follows distinct principles, and they flesh out their hypothesis with previously unexamined evidence and new empirical tests.

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250

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MIT Press

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0262061791

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9780262061797

I'm on My Way Running

Women Speak on Coming of Age

By: Lyn Reese,Jean Wilkinson,Phyllis Sheon Koppelman

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I'm on My Way Running

Women Speak on Coming of Age

By: Lyn Reese,Jean Wilkinson,Phyllis Sheon Koppelman

Young women come of age in autobiography, poetry, fiction, and anthropological accounts from around the world.

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0380830221

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9780380830220

Bullmastiffs Today

By: Lyn Pratt

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Bullmastiffs Today

By: Lyn Pratt

In a rare look at this powerful, courageous breed created to combine the best qualities of the Bulldog and the Mastiff, readers are treated to a history with emphasis almost wholly on utilitarian performance. With an evolving role as both protector and companion both in the United States and abroad, the breed is given full treatment with concentration on the care and management of this intensely loyal companion canine.

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Howell Books

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087605064X

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9780876050644

The Manhattan Health Pages

A Resource Guide to Educate, Pamper, and Inspire You

By: Lyn Skreczko,Virginia Bell

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The Manhattan Health Pages

A Resource Guide to Educate, Pamper, and Inspire You

By: Lyn Skreczko,Virginia Bell

In this overview of New York City's body, mind and spirit health resources, the authors review in detail hundreds of health clubs, day spas, restaurants, stores, services and more and share recipes of more than two dozen famous New York chefs. Also defines different therapies, techniques and more.

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0964126281

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9780964126282

The Stenciled House

An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Transforming Your Home

By: Lyn Le Grice,Lynn Le Grice

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The Stenciled House

An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Transforming Your Home

By: Lyn Le Grice,Lynn Le Grice

This comprehensive guide to this enjoyable pastime includes hundreds of inspiring ideas for every room in the house. Techniques, materials, and the actual process of stenciling are covered.

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0789400146

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