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Separate Ways

By: Maggie Carew

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Two young men leave their depressed home town (in Scotland) and go their separate ways. They have many adventures and meet many people on their journeys. Roger travels south and finds success and happiness and love. Alec goes west, and finds himself in an alternative reality, based on ancient British folklore.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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139846354X

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9781398463547

Better Faster Farther

How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

By: Maggie Mertens

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How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

By: Maggie Mertens

“From foot-binding to corsets, patriarchal societies have found ways to immobilize women, but now, marathoners and Olympians are proving that women can run like the wind!” —GLORIA STEINEM "A look behind the curtain that all women who love running and sport should read.” —KARA GOUCHER, Olympic runner and New York Times-bestselling author of The Longest Race More than a century ago, a woman ran in the very first modern Olympic marathon. She just did it without permission. Award-winning journalist Maggie Mertens uncovers the story of how women broke into competitive running and how they are getting faster and fiercer every day—and changing our understanding of what is possible as they go. Despite women proving their abilities on the track time and again, men in the medical establishment, media, and athletic associations have fought to keep women (or at least white women) fragile—and sometimes literally tried to push them out of the race (see Kathrine Switzer, Boston Marathon, 1967). Yet before there were running shoes for women, they ran barefoot or in nursing shoes. They ran without sports bras, which weren’t invented until 1977, or disguised as men. They faced down doctors who put them on bed rest and newspaper reports that said women collapsed if they ran a mere eight hundred meters, just two laps around the track. Still today, women face relentless attention to their bodies: Is she too strong, too masculine? Is she even really a woman? Mertens transports us from that first boundary-breaking marathon in Greece, 1896, to the earliest “official” women’s races of the twentieth century to today’s most intense ultramarathons, in which women are setting all-out records, even against men. For readers of Good and Mad, Born to Run, and Fly Girls, Better Faster Farther takes us inside the lives and the victories of the women who have redefined society’s image of strength and power. "An essential read to normalize women's existence, excellence, and humanity within the sport of running.” —ALISON MARIELLA DÉSIR

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279

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Algonquin Books

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1643756133

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9781643756134

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

By: Maggie Kilgour

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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

By: Maggie Kilgour

Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.

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398

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Oxford University Press

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0199589437

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9780199589432

The Origin Of Plants

By: Maggie Campbell-Culver

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The Origin Of Plants

By: Maggie Campbell-Culver

A fascinating history of Britain's plant biodiversity and a unique account of how our garden landscape has been transformed over 1000 years, from 200 species of plant in the year 1000 to the astonishing variety of plants we can all see today. Thousands of plants have been introduced into Britain since 1066 by travellers, warriors, explorers and plant hunters - plants that we now take for granted such as rhododendron from the Far East, gladiolus from Africa and exotic plants like the monkey puzzle tree from Chile. Both a plant history and a useful reference book, Maggie Campbell-Culver has researched the provenance and often strange histories of many of the thousands of plants, exploring the quirky and sometimes rude nature of the plants, giving them a personality all of their own and setting them in their social context. The text is supported by beautiful contemporary paintings and modern photographs in 2 x 8 pp colour sections.

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Random House

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1473509327

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9781473509320

A Wartime Nurse

By: Maggie Hope

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A Wartime Nurse

By: Maggie Hope

As bombs begin to fall, her strength will be tested... A newly qualified nurse, Theda Wearmouth is delighted to gain a place at Newcastle Hospital. But the onset of war brings tragedy when her young soldier boyfriend is killed in action before he can make good on his promise to marry her. Broken-hearted, Theda finds herself re-assigned to a special unit of the hospital dealing with German prisoners of war. Her duty is clear. But will she be able to cope with nursing the very men her fiancé died fighting...? A gritty family saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Miner’s Girl and An Orphan’s Secret

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Random House

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1446446611

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9781446446614

Separate Ways

By: Maggie Carew

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By: Maggie Carew

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Separate Ways

Separate Ways

Better Faster Farther

Better Faster Farther

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

The Origin Of Plants

The Origin Of Plants

A Wartime Nurse

A Wartime Nurse

Separate Ways

Separate Ways

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