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Lady Bliss

By: Maggie MacKeever

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When lovely, lethargic Jynx Lennox invites Viscount Roxbury to join her in a marriage of convenience, he agrees. Alas, their pathway to the altar is fraught with pitfalls, including gaming hells and card debts and misplaced betrothal rings and the onslaught of true love; and above all the viscount’s most recent flirt, the notorious—and notoriously bird-witted—Lady Bliss. Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Coventry

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Belgrave House

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1610842030

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An Extraordinary Flirtation

By: Maggie MacKeever

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An Extraordinary Flirtation

By: Maggie MacKeever

The legendary Loversalls have long loved unwisely and too well, among them Cara, the widowed Lady Norwood, who is content to rusticate on her country estate. But then her brother Beau arrives to destroy her peace, and Cara must hurry to London to rescue her abominable niece Zoe from Lord Mannering, the most irresistible rakehell of them all – which is precisely that diabolical gentleman’s intent. Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Zebra Regency

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Belgrave House

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1610847563

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Dulcie Bligh

By: Maggie MacKeever

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Dulcie Bligh

By: Maggie MacKeever

Matters are looking grim for the rakish Earl of Dorset: ravishing Lady Arabella Arbuthnot has gone to meet her maker by way of his knife plunged deep into her fickle heart, which makes him the chief suspect. But villains and Bow Street alike are no match for Dorset’s fond aunt, the bewitching, calculating, and totally unscrupulous Baroness Dulcie Bligh. Regency Romance/Mystery by Maggie MacKeever writing as Gail Clark; originally published by Pocket

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Belgrave House

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1610841107

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Kellie's Curse

Sometimes the Safest Place Is Inside a Shell

By: Maggie Charters

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Kellie's Curse

Sometimes the Safest Place Is Inside a Shell

By: Maggie Charters

Based on the author's life, entwined with fictional elements, Kellie's Curse: Sometimes the Safest Place Is Inside a Shell introduces us to Crystal Collie as she struggles with her father's paranoid schizophrenia and her erratic mother's depression. This compelling story is set in Port Melbourne during the 1960s, where the sensitive, creative Crystal tries to come to terms with her bewildering world. Eventually, Crystal uses her wiles and artistic talents to overcome her taunting demons - the painful memories of anorexia, rape, domestic violence, losing her soul-mate in horrific circumstances, and helplessly witnessing her father's suicide attempts. Just when she thought she could cope, a dramatic occurrence leaves Crystal fighting for her life. Will she survive? Will she discover the answers to the dark family mysteries that haunt her? Follow the gripping action and heartfelt drama in Kellie's Curse: Sometimes the Safest Place Is Inside a Shell.

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Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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1612046355

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One Night with the Duchess

By: Maggie Weston

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One Night with the Duchess

By: Maggie Weston

Maggie Weston makes her Harlequin debut with this spicy Victorian romance “May I ask a favor? I would like for you to bed me.” Widowed duchess and virgin Isabelle must prove her loveless marriage was consummated or face losing her title and stepson! Her plan? Seek out a notorious rake to bed her! Her first stop is the famously indecent Lord Ashworth, who reluctantly agrees, to save her from the more debauched rogues on her list… Despite their fiery encounter making her feel wanted for the first time, Isabelle resolves never to seek him out again. Yet when their worlds collide once more, she’s hiding a secret that would bind them forever… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Widows of West End Book 1: One Night with the Duchess

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0369758609

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Our Black Year

One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy

By: Maggie Anderson

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Our Black Year

One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy

By: Maggie Anderson

Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is that black consumers -- unlike consumers of other ethnicities -- choose not to support black-owned businesses. At the same time, most of the businesses in their communities are owned by outsiders. On January 1, 2009 the Andersons embarked on a year-long public pledge to "buy black." They thought that by taking a stand, the black community would be mobilized to exert its economic might. They thought that by exposing the issues, Americans of all races would see that economically empowering black neighborhoods benefits society as a whole. Instead, blacks refused to support their own, and others condemned their experiment. Drawing on economic research and social history as well as her personal story, Maggie Anderson shows why the black economy continues to suffer and issues a call to action to all of us to do our part to reverse this trend.

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PublicAffairs

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1610390253

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A Woman's Place

By: Maggie Ford

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A Woman's Place

By: Maggie Ford

Eveline’s father believes a woman’s place is in the home... But when she is accidentally caught up in a suffragette march, it changes her life forever. She finds friendships, and even the possibility of love too in the form of the gentlemanly Laurence Jones-Fairbrook. But will she be forced to choose between her family and friends... between duty and love? (Note: previously published as Give Me Tomorrow by Elizabeth Lord)

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Random House

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1473501024

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Once Upon a Lie

A Thriller

By: Maggie Barbieri

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Once Upon a Lie

A Thriller

By: Maggie Barbieri

“An excellent, edgy thriller” about a single mom turned amateur sleuth confronting “secrets, betrayals, stunning revelations. This book has it all” (Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Still See You Every Where). Maeve Conlon’s life is coming apart at the seams. Her bakery is barely making ends meet, and one of her daughters spends as much time grounded as the other does studying. Her ex-husband has a new wife, a new baby, and a look of pity for Maeve that’s absolutely infuriating. Her father insists he’s still independent, but he’s slowly and obviously succumbing to Alzheimer’s. And now, her cousin Sean Donovan has been found dead, sitting in his car in a public park in quiet Farringville, New York, shot through the head. There was never much love lost between Maeve and Sean and she’s not exactly devastated by his death, but suddenly the police are poking around asking the family questions. It’s just one more hassle Maeve doesn’t have time for, until she realizes that her father, whose memory and judgment are unreliable at best, is a suspect in the murder. Maeve is determined to clear his name, but is she prepared to cope with the dark memories and long-hidden secrets that doing so might dredge up? “[A] riveting tale of ordinary cruelty and complicated heroism . . . All the characters are sharply drawn, particularly Maeve, whose dark humor and stoic attitude mask an unshakable moral core.” —Publisher’s Weekly, starred review “A darkly powerful tale of family secrets, loss, and revenge.” —Hank Philippi Ryan, USA Today–bestselling author of The House Guest “A surprising, suspenseful and satisfying story.” —Mary Jane Clark, New York Times–bestselling author of Dying for Mercy

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125001168X

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Lest We Forget

Remembrance & Commemoration

By: Professor Maggie Andrews,Nigel Hunt,Charles Bagot Jewitt

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Lest We Forget

Remembrance & Commemoration

By: Professor Maggie Andrews,Nigel Hunt,Charles Bagot Jewitt

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.' These words, spoken at war memorials across the United Kingdom and around the world on 11 November every year, encapsulate how we commemorate our war dead. Lest We Forget looks at how we remember not only those who died in battle, but also those whose memory is important to us in other ways. This wide-ranging review considers such topics as Holocaust Memorial Day, the Hillsborough Disaster, memories of the Spanish Civil War, the genocide in Rwanda, Diana, Princess of Wales and the role of the Cenotaph and the National Memorial Arboretum. With an endorsement from The Royal British Legion, which celebrates its 90th anniversary in 2011, this is a timely study, and is relevant not only to people in the United Kingdom, but recognises the universal need to remember.

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The History Press

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0752473344

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9780752473345

2010 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide

By: Maggie Thompson,Brent Frankenhoff

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2010 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide

By: Maggie Thompson,Brent Frankenhoff

No other guide on the market covers the volume of comic book listings and range of eras as Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide does, in an easy-to-use checklist format. Readers can access listings for 130,000 comics, issued since 1961, complete with names, cover date, creator information and near-mint pricing. With super-hero art on the cover and collecting details from the experts as America's longest-running magazine about comics in this book, there is nothing that compares.

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1440229112

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The Crack Between the Worlds

A Dancer's Memoir of Loss, Faith, and Family

By: Maggie Kast

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The Crack Between the Worlds

A Dancer's Memoir of Loss, Faith, and Family

By: Maggie Kast

A car crashes, and Maggie Kast, at the peak of a modern dance career, loses a three-year-old daughter. Raised without religion and now mired in grief, she senses a persistent connection to the little girl, a love somehow more powerful than the brute fact of death. This awareness leads her, over three years, to the Catholic Church. After the accident, her marriage is greatly stressed by the entrance of religion into married life, and she and her husband each accuse the other of being too religious or too secular at various times. Despite conflict, dialogue keeps the marriage intimate and vital. Following study of liturgy at Catholic Theological Union, she teaches and tours sacred dance nationally and internationally, exploring the arts as a spiritual path. Moving forward and looking back at once, she discovers early hints of religious experience in childhood celebrations, encounters with art, and marriage. Her husband dies. Now a single parent of a ten-year-old and a developmentally disabled teenager, as well as college-aged sons, she continues her search.

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1621891518

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Drama at the Heart of English

Transforming Practice in the Secondary Classroom

By: Theo Bryer,Maggie Pitfield,Jane Coles

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Drama at the Heart of English

Transforming Practice in the Secondary Classroom

By: Theo Bryer,Maggie Pitfield,Jane Coles

Drama at the Heart of English is unique in its exploration of drama’s potential to revitalise English as a secondary school subject. It focuses specifically on the value and inclusive nature of educational drama practices in the reading of literary, dramatic and multimodal texts in the English classroom. Examples from the authors’ research show English teachers working in the drama-in-English mode with real learners as part of their everyday classroom activity. Challenging current curriculum and assessment constraints, the authors argue that drama-in-English pedagogy re-establishes English as a creative, imaginative and interactive subject. This book: offers a blend of theory and practice to demonstrate the powerful potential of drama-in-English proposes that drama is a uniquely sustainable form of learning in English when fully integrated into the daily work of classroom teachers highlights the intrinsic connection that exists between drama and the playful qualities of literary texts analyses landmark moments and key policy shifts that have shaped the development of the relationship between drama and English over time This resource is for all educators interested in and passionate about the field of English and Language Arts. It is a must-read for the international academic community of researchers, practitioners, teacher-educators and teachers of English, as well as student-teachers of English/Media/Drama.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000936910

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9781000936919

Lover's Knot

By: Maggie MacKeever

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Lover's Knot

By: Maggie MacKeever

Conor Melchers is a seasoned rakehell. Augusta is an embittered lady with a penchant for games of chance. Annette (known to her intimates as Nit) is a marriage-minded damsel without a ha’porth of common sense. Abby is a mysterious unknown whose memory has been misplaced. Add the misguided meddling of several not-disinterested bystanders – result, a rollicking game of hearts. Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Zebra

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Belgrave House

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1610847369

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101 Things You Need to Know About Suffragettes

By: Professor Maggie Andrews,Dr Janis Lomas

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101 Things You Need to Know About Suffragettes

By: Professor Maggie Andrews,Dr Janis Lomas

Suffragettes learned jiu-jitsu, repelled policemen with their hatpins, burnt down football stadiums and planted bombs. They rented a house near to Holloway Prison and sang rebel anthems to the Suffragettes inside. They barricaded themselves into their homes to repulse tax collectors. They arranged mass runs on Parliament. They had themselves posted to the Prime Minister, getting as far as the door of No. 10. Indomitable older members applied for gun licences to scare the government into thinking they were planning a revolution. Rebels. Warriors. Princesses. Prisoners. Pioneers. Here are 101 of the most extraordinary facts about Suffragettes that you need to know.

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0750988851

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The Rise of the Gothic Novel

By: Maggie Kilgour

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The Rise of the Gothic Novel

By: Maggie Kilgour

One of the central images conjured up by the gothic novel is that of a shadowy spectre slowly rising from a mysterious abyss. In The Rise of the Gothic Novel, Maggie Kilgour argues that the ghost of the gothic is now resurrected in the critical methodologies which investigate it for the revelation of buried cultural secrets. In this cogent analysis of the rise and fall of the gothic as a popular form, Kilgour juxtaposes the writings of William Godwin with Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ann Radcliffe with Matthew Lewis. She concludes with a close reading of the quintessential gothic novel, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. An impressive and highly original study, The Rise of the Gothic Novel is an invaluable contribution to the continuing literary debates which surround this influential genre.

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Routledge

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1317761898

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The Second Last Woman in England

By: Maggie Joel

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The Second Last Woman in England

By: Maggie Joel

London, 1953. Mrs Harriet Wallis is found guilty of the murder of her husband, Cecil. One year earlier, and Harriet's life is thrown into turmoil by the reappearance of a man she did not expect to ever see again. A new nanny, Jean Corbett, arrives at the Wallis household - a young woman still traumatised by the devastating loss of her entire family during the War. And two policemen come to the house investigating a theft at Mr Wallis's shipping firm. Thus, a chain of events is set in place, and when Mr Wallis makes the momentous decision to purchase a television set on which to watch the Coronation, his and Harriet's fates are sealed."--Publisher description.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459620992

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9781459620995

The Purloined Heart

By: Maggie MacKeever

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The Purloined Heart

By: Maggie MacKeever

Widowed Maddie Tate and handsome Angel Jarrow. In the ordinary course of events, their paths might never cross. But then comes the Burlington House bal masque, when Maddie witnesses something she should not, and flees straight into Angel’s arms. And he discovers that he does not want to let her go. Mysterious masqueraders, misbehaving monarchs, and political perfidy in Regency England. 2nd of Tyburn trilogy. Regency Romantic Suspense by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Vintage Ink Press

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Belgrave House

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1610847962

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A Vision Softly Creeping

By: Maggie Allder

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A Vision Softly Creeping

By: Maggie Allder

“I was one of the good guys, or so they believed...” Karl has just successfully brought through security a document which would be considered subversive and incriminating if it had been found. He had believed himself to be one of the good guys for years, for decades even; his life had been dedicated to the service of his country. Now, as he approached retirement, he found himself keeping secrets from his second in command, deliberately working against the local Police Commissioner and using his hard-earned skills to evade the very authorities who had paid his wages for all his working life. How had things come to this? His love for Alice had started it – Alice, with her concern for the underprivileged and her uncomplicated desire to help others. Somehow Karl’s eyes had been opened to a different side of the society in which he lived so comfortably. And so a journey had started which led him to a remote Cambridgeshire village, to a desperate drive across the country during one of the worst winter storms to hit England and Wales since those countries had left the European Union, and to a tragedy that Karl did not see coming. A Vision Softly Creeping is an exciting and gripping romantic thriller, and the third book in the series. It is unashamedly political, looking just a few years ahead from our present constitutional turmoil, to a time when England and Wales are driven into the arms of an America which is moving ever to the right.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1788039637

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The Factory Girl

By: Maggie Ford

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The Factory Girl

By: Maggie Ford

From rags to riches... With the Armistice only a few months passed, times are hard for eighteen-year-old Geraldine Glover. A machinist at Rubins clothing factory in the East End, she dreams of a more glamorous life. When she meets Tony Hanford, the young and handsome proprietor of a small jeweller's shop in Bond Street, Geraldine is propelled into a new world – but it comes at a heavy price...

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Random House

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1473503175

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Sweet Vixen

By: Maggie MacKeever

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Sweet Vixen

By: Maggie MacKeever

Lady Tess was a beauty, but she didn’t expect marriage because of her limp, the result of a childhood accident. Though she agreed to accompany her sister Clio to London, she wanted no part of the social whirl. But Sir Morgan, with his scandalous reputation, tempted her into adventure—and a surprising flirtation. Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Crest

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Belgrave House

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1610844181

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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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1473509327

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Jane

A Murder

By: Maggie Nelson

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Jane

A Murder

By: Maggie Nelson

Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours. Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane’s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche. Exploring the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related “true crime” books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane’s own diaries written when she was 13 and 21, its eight sections cover Jane’s childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson’s girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane’s sister) to retrace the path of Jane’s final hours. Each piece in Jane has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the next--along with the white space that surrounds each fragment--serve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, “page-turner” quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another’s life and death. Equal parts a meditation on violence (serial, sexual violence in particular), and a conversation between the living and the dead, Jane’s powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, shows its readers what poetry is capable of--what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.

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Catapult

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1593763298

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Merrie

By: Maggie MacKeever

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Merrie

By: Maggie MacKeever

“If anyone ever offers you bodily harm, petite, it will be because you have poked your nose into what you should not.” So spoke Merrie’s guardian, the maddening Mephisto. But what else is a girl to do but investigate when there are so many curious matters surrounding her, not least concerning the handsome fortune hunter who holds her heart? Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever writing as Grace South; originally published by Fawcett Coventry

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Belgrave House

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1610842820

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Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

By: Maggie Hennefeld

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Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

By: Maggie Hennefeld

Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane’s Mishap, Jane on Strike, and The Consequences of Feminism, comediennes exhibit the tensions between joyful laughter and gendered violence. Slapstick comedy often celebrates the exaggeration of make-believe injury. Unlike male clowns, however, these comic actresses use slapstick antics as forms of feminist protest. They spontaneously combust while doing housework, disappear and reappear when sexually assaulted, or transform into men by eating magic seeds—and their absurd metamorphoses evoke the real-life predicaments of female identity in a changing modern world. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes reveals the gender politics of comedy and the comedic potentials of feminism through close consideration of hundreds of silent films. As Maggie Hennefeld argues, comedienne catastrophes provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century. At the same time, slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language. Women’s flexible physicality offered filmmakers blank slates for experimenting with the visual and social potentials of cinema. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes poses major challenges to the foundations of our ideas about slapstick comedy and film history, showing how this combustible genre blows open age-old debates about laughter, society, and gender politics.

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Columbia University Press

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0231547064

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Don't Let It Break Your Heart

By: Maggie Horne

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Don't Let It Break Your Heart

By: Maggie Horne

Perfect for fans of The Half of It, Maggie Horne's debut YA contemporary novel is an ode to lifelong friendships and discovering queer community. You only get one soulmate, and I'm not throwing mine away. Alana and Gray have been the perfect couple ever since they got together before high school – and neither of them think that should have to change just because Alana came out as a lesbian. Sure, things are a little different now: their romantic relationship is over, but their best-friends-since-forever relationship is stronger than ever. And yeah, Alana sees the way her other friends now exclude her in tiny, almost unnoticeable ways, but she still has Gray, and that’s all that’s ever mattered to her. Really, the only difference is that instead of kissing Gray herself, Alana sets him up with other girls to do that. But when new girl Tal arrives, she stops Alana and Gray in their tracks. Suddenly, Gray’s all-in on his plan to get Tal to fall in love with him, and, for the first time, Alana’s reluctant to help. As Alana and Tal grow closer, and Alana begins to think Tal might share her feelings, she has to decide whether to embrace her queerness and risk losing the life she thought she was building, or continue to hide parts of herself and maintain the status quo. Don’t Let it Break Your Heart is a tender and romantic exploration of identity, love, and friendship that turns the friends to lovers romance trope on its head.

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Feiwel & Friends

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1250894980

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Fair Fatality

By: Maggie MacKeever

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Fair Fatality

By: Maggie MacKeever

Young, beautiful and fabulously wealthy, the widowed Lady Easterling has decided to capture the love of London’s notoriously elusive bachelor, Lord Carlin. But milady is a hoyden with a vocabulary from the stables, and it’s Sara Valentine’s task to prepare the highly capricious Jaisy for her entry into Polite Society. Even when her charge flouts every society rule and is nicknamed “Fair Fatality.” Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Coventry

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1610841336

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The Tyburn Waltz

By: Maggie MacKeever

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The Tyburn Waltz

By: Maggie MacKeever

Julie Wynne expects to end on Tyburn gallows, hanged as a thief. Ned expects he to die on the battlefields of the Peninsula, hanged as a spy. But when Julie takes on the trappings of a lady, and Ned unexpectedly becomes an earl, they become players in a deadly game that will take them from the heights of London society to the depths of the Regency underworld. Regency Romance/Adventure by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Vintage Ink Press

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1610845668

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9781610845663

Talland House

A Novel

By: Maggie Humm

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Talland House

A Novel

By: Maggie Humm

Royal Academy, London 1919: Lily has put her student days in St. Ives, Cornwall, behind her—a time when her substitute mother, Mrs. Ramsay, seemingly disliked Lily’s portrait of her and Louis Grier, her tutor, never seduced her as she hoped he would. In the years since, she’s been a suffragette and a nurse in WWI, and now she’s a successful artist with a painting displayed at the Royal Academy. Then Louis appears at the exhibition with the news that Mrs. Ramsay has died under suspicious circumstances. Talking to Louis, Lily realizes two things: 1) she must find out more about her beloved Mrs. Ramsay’s death (and her sometimes-violent husband, Mr. Ramsay), and 2) She still loves Louis. Set between 1900 and 1919 in picturesque Cornwall and war-blasted London, Talland House takes Lily Briscoe from the pages of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and tells her story outside the confines of Woolf’s novel—as a student in 1900, as a young woman becoming a professional artist, her loves and friendships, mourning her dead mother, and solving the mystery of her friend Mrs. Ramsay’s sudden death. Talland House is both a story for our present time, exploring the tensions women experience between their public careers and private loves, and a story of a specific moment in our past—a time when women first began to be truly independent.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631527304

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9781631527302

Just Make Believe

By: Maggie Robinson

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Just Make Believe

By: Maggie Robinson

The next mystery book—with a touch of paranormal women's fiction—in an amusing historical cozy series! With a string of suspicious deaths threatening her guests, a horribly depressing love life, and a handsome detective on her doorstep, the last thing Lady Adelaide needs to deal with is the ghost of her dead husband. Gloucestershire, 1925. A week-long house party in the country—why not? Lady Adelaide has nothing else to do, now that her year of mourning for her unfaithful husband is up and her plans to rekindle her romantic life have backfired. But when her hostess is found dead on the conservatory floor, Addie knows just who to call—Detective Inspector Devenand Hunter of Scotland Yard. Dev may not want to kiss Addie again, but he's anxious to solve the crime. Who would want to kill Pamela, the beautiful wife of one of Britain's greatest Great War heroes? Certainly not her devoted and wheelchair-bound husband, Sir Hugh Fernald. The other guests seem equally innocent and improbable. But despite all appearances, something is very wrong at Fernald Hall—there's a body buried in the garden, and the governess has fallen down the stairs to her death. Who's next? Addie and Dev find themselves surrounded by Scotland ghosts and must work together to stop another murder, with some help from Rupert, Addie's late and unlamented husband. Rupert needs to make amends for his louche life on earth, and what better way to earn his celestial wings than catch a killer? The Lady Adelaide Mysteries: Nobody's Sweetheart Now (Book 1) Who's Sorry Now? (Book 2) Just Make Believe (Book 3)

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1492699454

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9781492699453

Comics Shop

By: Maggie Thompson

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Comics Shop

By: Maggie Thompson

ESSENTIAL COMICS VALUES ALL IN COLOR! COMICS SHOP is the reliable reference for collectors, dealers, and everyone passionate about comic books! THIS FULL-COLOR, INDISPENSABLE GUIDE FEATURES: • Alphabetical organization by comic book title • More than 3,000 color photos • Hundreds of introductory essays • Analysis of multi-million dollar comics' sales • How covers and splash pages have evolved • An exclusive photo to grading guide to help you determine your comics' conditions accurately • Current values for more than 150,000 comics From the authoritative staff at Comics Buyer's Guide, the world's longest running magazine about comics, Comics Shop is the only guide on the market to give you extensive coverage of more than 150,000 comics from the Golden Age of the 1930s to current releases and all in color! In addition to the thousands of comic books from such publishers as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image, this collector-friendly reference includes listings for comic books from independent publishers, underground publishers, and more!

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3356

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Penguin

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1440216509

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9781440216503

The Right Honourable Viscount

By: Maggie MacKeever

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The Right Honourable Viscount

By: Maggie MacKeever

A scatterbrained widow desirous of marrying off her dowdy stepdaughter, as well as herself, a crusading virago bent on social justice, a rakehell, a doctor, a very proper viscount and a mysterious masked suitor – Master Cupid has his job cut out. Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever, writing as Gail Clark; originally published by Pocket Books

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Belgrave House

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1610843770

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9781610843775

A New Dream

A captivating family saga set in 1920s London

By: Maggie Ford

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A New Dream

A captivating family saga set in 1920s London

By: Maggie Ford

She must fight to save her family from ruin. Julia Longfield has a comfortable life. She lives on the fringes of the East End, in a prosperous and middle-class neighbourhood with her family, and is looking forward to the announcement of her engagement to Chester Morrison. But when Julia’s father dies suddenly, the family are left in poverty and Julia is jilted by her fiancé. It falls to Julia to look after her mother and younger siblings and find them new lodgings. Ambitious and determined to fight for her family, Julia seizes upon an opportunity when she meets Simon Layzell, the owner of a shop selling dress fabric. Together, they decide to go into business and a new partnership is formed, giving Julia the chance at a better future. An uplifting and engaging saga set in 1920s London, perfect for fans of Rosie Harris and Katie Flynn.

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361

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Canelo

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1800324359

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9781800324350

The Past and Other Lies

By: Maggie Joel

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The Past and Other Lies

By: Maggie Joel

A psychologically suspenseful novel of three generations of sisters: “An edgy story . . .Joel has a wicked sense of humor.” —The Age (Australia). In a novel that ranges through the decades of the twentieth century, we meet sisters Jennifer and Charlotte, who share both a dark sense of humor and a dark secret; their mother and aunt, who grew up during World War II and endured the bombing of London; and the generation before them—Bertha and Jemima—whose lives took a dramatic and deadly turn during England’s ill-fated general strike of 1926. As the lies, betrayals, and hidden mysteries of the past unspool, we come to know these three sets of siblings—and how both family history and world history shaped their lives—in a riveting saga from the award-winning author of The Second-Last Woman in England.

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422

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Felony & Mayhem Press

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1937384705

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9781937384708

The Fortune Tellers' Daughters

the heart-warming and nostalgic WWII family saga

By: Maggie Mason

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The Fortune Tellers' Daughters

the heart-warming and nostalgic WWII family saga

By: Maggie Mason

THE BRAND-NEW WARTIME SAGA BY MAGGIE MASON - PERFECT FOR READERS OF VAL WOOD, KITTY NEALE AND ROSIE GOODWIN 'Reading a Maggie Mason book is like having a warm hug' - NB MAGAZINE 1939 The threat of war is looming over Blackpool, but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it dampen their spirits. With two young evacuees for Martha to take care of, and Trisha's market garden business growing as Britain digs for victory, the friends have their hands full. Both are proud to see their daughters making their own way in the world, even in wartime. Sally has become a ballerina and Bonnie is training to become a doctor. The girls' friendship brings them all happiness and hope. But Martha is troubled by her visions for their daughters' futures. War, tragedy and falling in love will put Sally and Bonnie's lifelong friendship to the test. But can their families pull together and see them through? The third and final heart-warming tale in The Fortune Tellers series from Maggie Mason, much-loved author of The Halfpenny Girls.

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Sphere

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1408728192

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9781408728192

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