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Ruby River

A Novel

By: Lynn Pruett

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“Lynn Pruett provides, by turns, a sensual, humorous, heart-breaking and uplifting look at life in a small Alabama town.” —New Haven Advocate Hailed as “a triumph” by the Lexington Herald-Leader, Ruby River drops us into a small town during a blistering Alabama summer. Hattie Bohannon has just opened a truck stop—a magnet for transients of questionable background and inclination, some say, and an uneasy presence in tradition-bound, gossipy Maridoches. Hattie is quietly mourning her recently dead husband and trying to determine the contours of herself alone, but too often her strong-willed daughters—whose burgeoning sexuality is attracting attention from the truck-stop patrons—keep her at loose ends. Then Hattie’s oldest daughter, Jessamine, is falsely accused of prostitution, and the reverend conveniently declares war against the immorality of the Bohannons and their establishment. Lynn Pruett deftly weaves the struggles of Hattie, her daughters, and members of the community into a tapestry of individuals desperately trying to deny the conflicting urges of flesh and spirit, progress and tradition. In the manner of beloved contemporary writers such as Fannie Flagg and Rebecca Wells, Lynn Pruett’s glorious tale—rich with the feel and flavor of the South—captures the struggle for the very soul of a community suddenly forced to look at itself in a new light. “A first novel in the grand tradition of southern women writers.” —Planet Weekly

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0802192459

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The Romance Of Risk

Why Teenagers Do The Things They Do

By: Lynn E Ponton

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The Romance Of Risk

Why Teenagers Do The Things They Do

By: Lynn E Ponton

Dr. Lynn Ponton has devoted her clinical practice to a particular community -- teenagers in trouble. Whether these kids are struggling with peers, experimenting with drugs, stealing cars, or having unprotected sex, they have something in common: they are all involved in unhealthy risk-taking. And their parents are scared. "How did my child get involved in this dangerous situation?" they ask. "And what can I do?"Their fears are justified: today's teens have more opportunities for taking dangerous risks than ever before. But in The Romance of Risk, Dr. Ponton refutes the traditional idea that risk-taking is primarily an angry power struggle with parents -- so-called teenage rebellion -- and re-defines it as a potentially positive testing process whereby challenge and risk are the primary tools adolescents use to find out who they are and determine who they will become. This new perspective is revealed in a series of mesmerizing tales about individual adolescents and their families. Among others, we meet Jill, a 13-year-old thrill-seeking runaway; Hannah, a privileged daughter of suburbia who suffers from anorexia; and Joe, a high school senior with a serious drinking problem. Through these stories, we come to understand Dr. Ponton's startling observation that teenagers must confront and experience challenge and risk along the path to self-discovery. For adolescents, the powerful allure of the adult world is equaled only by the fear of failing to find a place in it. Parents can ease that transition into adulthood, however, by promoting healthy risk-taking so that dangerous options will be avoided. In The Romance of Risk, parents will learn how they can begin to understand rather than fear adolescent risk-taking, and how to communicate with their children about it. After all, teenagers will always romanticize risk. But with the support and guidance of parents and other adults, odds are the risks they take will be the right ones.

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Basic Books

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0786725400

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9780786725403

Arequipa Sanatorium

Life in California's Lung Resort for Women

By: Lynn Downey

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Arequipa Sanatorium

Life in California's Lung Resort for Women

By: Lynn Downey

As San Francisco recovered from the devastating earthquake and fire of 1906, dust and ash filled the city’s stuffy factories, stores, and classrooms. Dr. Philip King Brown noticed rising tuberculosis rates among the women who worked there, and he knew there were few places where they could get affordable treatment. In 1911, with the help of wealthy society women and his wife, Helen, a protégé of philanthropist Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Brown opened the Arequipa Sanatorium in Marin County. Together, Brown and his all-female staff gave new life to hundreds of working-class women suffering from tuberculosis in early-twentieth-century California. Until streptomycin was discovered in the 1940s, tubercular patients had few treatment options other than to take a rest cure at a sanatorium and endure its painful medical interventions. For the working class and minorities, especially women, the options were even fewer. Unlike most other medical facilities of the time, Arequipa treated primarily working-class women and provided the same treatment to all, including Asian American and African American women, despite the virulent racism of the time. Author Lynn Downey’s own grandmother was given a terminal tuberculosis diagnosis in 1927, but after treatment at Arequipa, she lived to be 102 years old. Arequipa gave female doctors a place to practice, female nurses and social workers a place to train, and white society women a noble philanthropic mission. Although Arequipa was founded by a male doctor and later administered by his son, the sanatorium’s mission was truly about the women who worked and recovered there, and it was they who kept it going. Based on sanatorium records Downey herself helped to preserve and interviews she conducted with former patients and others associated with Arequipa, Downey tells a vivid story of the sanatorium and its cure that Brown and his talented team of Progressive women made available and possible for hundreds of working-class patients.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806165111

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9780806165110

UNDERCOVER FIANCE

By: Sheryl Lynn

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UNDERCOVER FIANCE

By: Sheryl Lynn

AN EXCEPTIONAL DETECTIVE…AN EXPERT LOVER Daniel Tucker was all man and a threat to the sinister stalker closing in on Janine Duke. Daniel insisted on posing as Janine's fiancé to draw out the madman. A role he relished with Janine as his woman. Daniel was the only one willing to help her, though his methods left Janine trembling with desire. He never left her side and wouln't keep his hands—or mouth—off her. He made her feel liberated, like a real woman, while safe and protected. Something only a lover could do. Which only incited the stalker. Elk River, Colorado Where men still stand tall—and know how to treat a woman.

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Harlequin

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1459251296

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9781459251298

Gateway to Glorieta

A History of Las Vegas, New Mexico

By: Lynn Irwin Perrigo

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Gateway to Glorieta

A History of Las Vegas, New Mexico

By: Lynn Irwin Perrigo

Perrigo addresses issues in the development of Las Vegas and the American Southwest that remain quite relevant in the 21st century. Among these is an increased socio-cultural diversity that impacts the hegemony of this population and its effects on intercultural relations.

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Sunstone Press

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0865347859

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9780865347854

Working with Your Woodland

A Landowner's Guide

By: Mollie Beattie,Charles Thompson,Lynn Levine

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Working with Your Woodland

A Landowner's Guide

By: Mollie Beattie,Charles Thompson,Lynn Levine

A landowner's manual for forest management in New England

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UPNE

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1611680697

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9781611680690

West Salem

By: Lynn Mack,Debra Meaghers

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West Salem

By: Lynn Mack,Debra Meaghers

Few people realize that West Salem was an independent town for over 30 years. From its early development in the mid-19th century--when valley homesteaders grew wheat, hops, and fruits--to the founding of Fairview School in 1868, the opening of the Center Street Bridge across the Willamette River in 1886, the rail line in 1909, and a city charter in 1913 to the surrender of that charter to Salem in 1949, the West Salem area forged its own unique identity. Today, West Salem is a thriving community full of cherished memories alongside physical reminders of its independence, such as the Art Deco-style city hall and jailhouse.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738575879

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9780738575872

Idaho's Remarkable Women

Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

By: Lynn Bragg

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Idaho's Remarkable Women

Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

By: Lynn Bragg

Idaho's Remarakble Women 2 tells the history of the Gem State through the stories of fifteen pioneering women, all born before 1900, who made a profound impact on Idaho. Meet Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide; Jo Monaghan, who lived as a man for nearly forty years; Margaret Cobb Ailshie, who ran Idaho's biggest newspaper; and Nell Shipman, an actress, writer, and early filmmaker. Each woman in her own way displayed remarkable courage, hope, and love during a time when Idaho was still an untamed frontier. Read about their exceptional lives in this collection of absorbing biographies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493023217

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9781493023219

Best Easy Day Hikes Eugene, Oregon

By: Art Bernstein,Lynn Bernstein

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Best Easy Day Hikes Eugene, Oregon

By: Art Bernstein,Lynn Bernstein

Best Easy Day Hikes Eugene, OR includes concise descriptions of the best short hikes in the area, with detailed maps of the routes. The 20 hikes in this guide are generally short, easy to follow, and guaranteed to please.

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0762767871

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9780762767878

Gregory Peck

A Charmed Life

By: Lynn Haney

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Gregory Peck

A Charmed Life

By: Lynn Haney

His first screen test was a disaster, his features were large and irregular, his left ear outsized the right, yet he would one day be headlined as the Most Handsome Man in the World. And most of his leading ladies—among them, Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, and Ava Gardner—would not disagree. Irreverent, candid, refreshingly honest, Lynn Haney's carefully researched biography not only charts the remarkable career of the Oscar-winning star but also plumbs Peck's frequently troubling complexity in his off-screen roles as husband, father, lover, and son. About the tough times, Haney minces no words; but the misfortunes by no means eclipse the energy, intensity, and excitement that characterized Peck's five decades of moviemaking. This is a book filled with telling photographs, and a story cast with movie moguls from Louis B. Mayer to Darryl Zanuck, with directors from Hitchcock and Walsh to Huston and Wyler, with nearly every major luminary in Hollywood, and, starring for the first time in toto, Gregory Peck.

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Da Capo Press

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0786737816

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9780786737819

Ruby River

A Novel

By: Lynn Pruett

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A Novel

By: Lynn Pruett

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The Unofficial Guide?to Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

By: Lynn Kyle

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The Unofficial Guide?to Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

By: Lynn Kyle

The inside scoop...for when you want more than the official line! You can dream big with Macromedia's robust Dreamweaver Web design software, but to use it with confidence you need to understand its quirks and shortcuts. Find out what the manual doesn't always tell you in this insider's guide to using Dreamweaver in the real world. Must you know HTML to design Web pages? How do the pros add data to Web sites? From working with frames and forms to jumping into multimedia ina big way--first get the official way, then the best way from an expert. Unbiased coverage on getting the most out of Dreamweaver, including how to set up a site structure, design your interface, and use graphics, media, and text to draw visitors Savvy, real-world advice on topics from using templates, libraries,and application panels, to adding scripts and live data Time-saving techniques and practical guidance on using Flash(r)and other media, adding forms, and more ways to create, build, andmanage your Web site effectively Tips and hacks on how to increase productivity and avoid pitfalls Sidebars and tables on sketching a site flow plan, selecting ahosting service, and checking files in and out Watch for these graphic icons in every chapter to guide you to specific practical information. * Bright Ideas are smart innovations that will save you time or hassle. * Hacks are insider tips and shortcuts that increase productivity. * When you see Watch Out! heed the cautions or warnings to help you avoid commonpitfalls. * And finally, check out Inside Scoops for practical insights from the author. It's like having your own expert at your side!

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Wiley

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0471774979

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9780471774976

Ruby River

By: Lynn Pruett

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Ruby River

By: Lynn Pruett

Having recently opened a truck stop, Hattie, a widowed mother of four daughters, finds her family targeted for its role in opening up the community to questionable patrons when one of her daughters is accused of prostitution. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

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0871138557

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The Great Fires of Lynn

By: Bill Conway,Diane Shephard

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The Great Fires of Lynn

By: Bill Conway,Diane Shephard

Using photographs from the extensive collection of the Lynn Museum and Historical Society, Bill Conway, former deputy fire chief of the Lynn Fire Department, and Diane Shephard look back on Lynn's great fires and how the city has picked itself up from the ashes.

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0738545538

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The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Lynn, Massachusetts

By: Lynn Historical Society

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The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Lynn, Massachusetts

By: Lynn Historical Society

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.

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Ruby River

Ruby River

The Romance Of Risk

The Romance Of Risk

Arequipa Sanatorium

Arequipa Sanatorium

UNDERCOVER FIANCE

UNDERCOVER FIANCE

Gateway to Glorieta

Gateway to Glorieta

Working with Your Woodland

Working with Your Woodland

West Salem

West Salem

Idaho's Remarkable Women

Idaho's Remarkable Women

Best Easy Day Hikes Eugene, Oregon

Best Easy Day Hikes Eugene, Oregon

Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Ruby River

Ruby River

The Unofficial Guide?to Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

The Unofficial Guide?to Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

Ruby River

Ruby River

The Great Fires of Lynn

The Great Fires of Lynn

The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Lynn, Massachusetts

The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Lynn, Massachusetts

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