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Greywaren (The Dreamer Trilogy #3)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

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Greywaren (The Dreamer Trilogy #3)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

The majestic conclusion to Maggie Stiefvater’s Dreamer Trilogy. This is the story of the Lynch family. Niall and Mor escaped their homeland for a new start, and lost themselves in what they found. Declan has grown up as the responsible son, the responsible brother--only to find there is no way for him to keep his family safe. Ronan has always lived on the edge between dreams and waking... but now that edge is gone, and he is falling. Matthew has been the happy child, the brightest beam. But rebellion beckons, because it all feels like an illusion now. This world was not made for such a family--a family with the power to make a world and break it. If they cannot save each other or themselves, we are all doomed.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338188410

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9781338188417

Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy, Book 1)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

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Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy, Book 1)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338188356

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9781338188356

Mister Impossible (The Dreamer Trilogy #2)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

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Mister Impossible (The Dreamer Trilogy #2)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. Something is happening to the source of the dreamers' power. It is blocked. Diminished. Weak. If it goes away entirely, what will happen to the dreamers and those who depend on them? Ronan Lynch isn't planning to wait and find out. Backed by his mentor, Bryde, he is ready to do what needs to be done to save the dreamers and the dreamed . . . even if it takes him far from his family and the boy he loves. Jordan Hennessy knows she will not survive if the dreaming fails. So she plunges into a dark underworld in order to find an object that may sustain her. Carmen Farooq-Lane is afraid of the dreamers -- which is why she's agreed to hunt them down. The closer she gets, though, the more complicated her feelings become. Will the dreamers destroy the world . . . or will the world be destroyed trying to eliminate the dreamers? In the remarkable second book of The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater pushes her characters to their limits -- and shows what happens when they start to break.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338188380

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9781338188387

Schooling the Viscount

By: Maggie Robinson

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Schooling the Viscount

By: Maggie Robinson

A simple country schoolteacher, Rachel Everett was never meant to cross paths with a gentleman such as Henry. What could such a worldly man ever see in her? As it turns out, everything. Beautiful, fiercely intelligent Rachel is Henry's dream woman-- and wife. Such a match would be scandalous for his family of course, and Rachel has no business meddling with a resident at the famed, rather draconian, Puddling Rehabilitation Foundation. All the better, for two lost souls with nothing to lose-- and oh so very much to gain"--

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Kensington Publishing Corporation

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1516100034

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9781516100033

100 Walks in Surrey

By: Maggie Mellett

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100 Walks in Surrey

By: Maggie Mellett

Surrey is a walker's paradise, with rolling chalk downland, picturesque villages and dense woodland, and this collection of 100 walks of up to 12 miles will help you explore the best of this diverse county. The Crowood Walking Guides give detailed and accurate route descriptions of the 100 walks, with full-colour mapping and details of where to park and where to eat and drink, and also places of interest to see along the way. With easy-to-follow directions, this will be of great interest to anyone living in Surrey, or visiting family or friends and who enjoys walking - from retirees to young families.

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The Crowood Press

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1785003038

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9781785003035

Rabbit Stew And A Penny Or Two

A Gypsy Family's Hard and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s

By: Maggie Smith-Bendell

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Rabbit Stew And A Penny Or Two

A Gypsy Family's Hard and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s

By: Maggie Smith-Bendell

Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her father's campfire on ancient verges, poor but free to roam. As the twentieth century progressed, common land was fenced off and the traditional ways disappeared. Eventually Maggie married a house-dweller and tried to settle for bricks and mortar, but she never lost the restless spirit, the deep love of the land and the gift for storytelling that were her Romani inheritance. Maggie's story is one of hardship and prejudice, but also, unforgettably, it recalls the glories of the travelling life, in the absolute safety of a loyal and loving family.

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Abacus

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0748122885

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9780748122882

Our Forgotten Years

A Gypsy Woman's Life on the Road

By: Maggie Smith-Bendell

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Our Forgotten Years

A Gypsy Woman's Life on the Road

By: Maggie Smith-Bendell

Maggie Smith-Bendell and her family are Romani Gypsies and, as she grew up, Maggie learned the old crafts and customs of the Gypsies' traditional way of life. In this memoir, Maggie describes a way of life that has more or less vanished in the 21st century.

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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1902806913

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9781902806914

Love Inspired Suspense October 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Maggie K. Black,Dana R. Lynn,Connie Queen

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Love Inspired Suspense October 2023 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Maggie K. Black,Dana R. Lynn,Connie Queen

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: UNDERCOVER OPERATION (A Pacific Northwest K-9 novel) by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Maggie K. Black After three bloodhound puppies are stolen, K-9 officer Asher Gilmore and trainer Peyton Burns are forced to go undercover as married drug smugglers to rescue them. But infiltrating the criminals will be more dangerous than expected, putting the operation, the puppies and their own lives at risk. HUNTED AT CHRISTMAS (An Amish Country Justice novel) by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Dana R. Lynn When single mother Addison Johnson is attacked by a hit man, she learns there’s a price on her head. Soon it becomes clear that Isaiah Bender—the bounty hunter hired to track her down for crimes she didn’t commit—is her only hope for survival. RESCUING THE STOLEN CHILD by Connie Queen When Texas Ranger Zane Adcock’s grandson is kidnapped and used as leverage to get Zane to investigate an old murder case, he calls his ex-fiancée for help. Zane and retired US marshal Bliss Walker will risk their lives to take down the criminals…and find the missing boy before it’s too late. For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense October 2023 Box Set – 2 of 2

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Harlequin

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0369741773

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9780369741776

Europe For Dummies

By: Donald Olson,Liz Albertson,Cheryl A. Pientka,George McDonald,Darwin Porter,Danforth Prince,Neil Edward Schlecht,Tania Kollias,Mark Baker,Dardis McNamee,Maggie Childs,Bruce Murphy,Alessandra de Rosa

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Europe For Dummies

For Dummies Travel guides are the ultimate user-friendly trip planners, combining the broad appeal and time-tested features of the For Dummies series with up-to-the-minute advice and information from the experts at Frommer's. Small trim size for use on-the-go Focused coverage of only the best hotels and restaurants in all price ranges The fun and easy way to explore Europe From great museums and historic sights to fabulous food and trendsetting styles, Europe has it all. Get the lowdown on everything from passports to palaces, culture to nightlife, and cathedrals to cuisine. With mini-guides to fifteen of Europe's most popular cities and surrounding areas in eleven different countries, this book is your ticket to an exciting European adventure. Open the book and find: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn't miss -and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget Lots of detailed maps

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John Wiley & Sons

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111800356X

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9781118003565

Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland

By: Maggie Humphreys,Robert Evans

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Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland

By: Maggie Humphreys,Robert Evans

A dictionary containing 3500 biographical entries, each representing a composer whose work has been used within the worship of the church in Britain and Ireland.

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A&C Black

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0720123305

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9780720123302

Wedding Planning and Management

Consultancy for Diverse Clients

By: Maggie Daniels,Carrie Wosicki

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Wedding Planning and Management

Consultancy for Diverse Clients

By: Maggie Daniels,Carrie Wosicki

Wedding Planning and Management: Consultancy for Diverse Clients, 2nd Edition provides students, consultants, vendors, scholars and engaged couples with a comprehensive introduction to the business of weddings. Looking through an event management lens, this is the only book to thoroughly explore the fundamentals of weddings, including historical and cultural foundations, practice, and the business of wedding planning in one volume. An emphasis on diversity, traditions from cultures around the globe are integrated throughout with over 80 international case studies that inspire and set standards for best practice. Since the first edition, there have been many changes in the business of weddings and this second edition has been updated in the following ways: Updated content to reflect recent issues and trends in areas such as family dynamics, media influences, impacts of technology, legislation and the global economy. Every chapter is updated with the most recent research, statistics, vendor information and consultant guidelines. New international case studies explore current research, cultural traditions, vendor relations and consulting best practice. New companion website for instructors that includes PowerPoint slides, case study solutions, additional discussion ideas and assignments. The book is illustrated in full color and contains over 150 images by top wedding photojournalist Rodney Bailey end-of-chapter checklists, practical scenarios and review questions to test readers' knowledge as they progress. Maggie Daniels and Carrie Loveless bring a combination of over 40 years of industry practice and teaching experience, and have written a book that is the ideal guide to successful wedding planning and management.

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Routledge

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113616054X

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9781136160547

Forever This Time

An Echo Lake Novel

By: Maggie McGinnis

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Forever This Time

An Echo Lake Novel

By: Maggie McGinnis

*** Formerly published in 2015 under the same title. This book has been extensively revised from the original. *** USA TODAY® Bestselling author Maggie McGinnis welcomes us to Echo Lake, Vermont, where just the right wishes can lead to sparkly, unexpected happily-ever-afters. Boston therapist Josie Kendrew specializes in helping other people mend their broken hearts, but her own heart is another story. After years of putting distance between herself and her childhood home, she's forced to rush back to Echo Lake, Vermont when her father has a stroke, but once she arrives, painful memories threaten to send her driving right back out of town. Between her sweet "little sister" and Ethan Miller, the boy she left behind, Josie finds herself face-to-face with a pain she's not sure she can endure. Ethan is now--wow--all man, and he's sitting in the CFO chair of Snowflake Village, her family's Christmas-themed amusement park ... a place noted by journalists as charming and sweet and festive, but a place she's derisively called Camp Ho-Ho forever--or at least since she was old enough to watch the twinkly lights and endless hours destroy her parents. Ethan Miller never set out to be the one left behind, but when Josie blew out of town ten years ago with no explanation, suddenly that's who he was. After a week spent mostly in a Jim Beam haze, he tucked her engagement ring in a drawer and set out to make a life for himself, though their history gnaws at him every day he walks the pathways of Snowflake Village. A lot has changed since Josie fled, so when she drives back in, a mixture of angry, scared, and sad, he has no idea whether she'll stay ... or leave him shattered once again. As the days turn into weeks, both Ethan and Josie realize that maybe, just maybe, Snowflake Village might hold more than just ghosts from the past. It might hold the possibility of a second chance at love...

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Maggie McGinnis

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1733354719

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9781733354714

A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939

Citizenship, surveillance and the body

By: Maggie B. Gale

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A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900-1939

Citizenship, surveillance and the body

By: Maggie B. Gale

This book provides a new social history of British performance cultures in the early decades of the twentieth century, where performance across stage and screen was generated by dynamic and transformational industries. Exploring an era book-ended by wars and troubled by social unrest and political uncertainty, A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900–1939 makes use of the popular material cultures produced by and for the industries – autobiographies, fan magazines and trade journals, as well as archival holdings, popular sketches, plays and performances. Maggie B. Gale looks at how the performance industries operated, circulated their products and self-regulated their professional activities, in a period where enfranchisement, democratization, technological development and legislation shaped the experience of citizenship. Through close examination of material evidence and a theoretical underpinning, this book shows how performance industries reflected and challenged this experience, and explored the ways in which we construct our ‘performance’ as participants in the public realm. Suited not only to scholars and students of British theatre and theatre history, but to general readers as well, A Social History of British Performance Cultures 1900–1939 offers an original intervention into the construction of British theatre and performance histories, offering new readings of the relationship between the material cultures of performance, the social, professional and civic contexts from which they arise, and on which they reflect.

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Routledge

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1351397192

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9781351397193

Free To Be Me

By: Maggie White

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Free To Be Me

By: Maggie White

By telling my story I hope to help people suffering adversity and severe depression. This problem has been with me since my early 20's. I have spent several periods in hospital, also having E.C.T. I am still on a lot of medication. We moved form Sydney to Broke in the Hunter Valley firstly growing raspberries to supply the restaurants and eventually having an on-farm-shop. I also made chutneys and jams from our fruit trees and extensive vegetable garden. Although we had apricots, figs, pears and table grapes, the raspberries developed a disease so we had to look to another venture. We researched and eventually planted olive trees. We were foundation members of the Hunter Valley Olive Association; I also travelled to California, Argentine, Spain and Italy for further research. We sold the farm and bought a huge home on Lake Macquarie, from tree change to sea change. The marriage was very rocky and I was very unhappy. We then bought a restaurant, which brought a whole lot of new stresses and problems. In 2003 I suffered a stroke, was in an induced coma for four months and when I regained consiousnes, I was blind. My husband and children put me in a nursinghome, I was only 56 years old. It was awful. Apart from loss of vision I was suffering no other effects from the stroke. The family sought no help for me so I initiated seeing an eye surgeon. The result was I regained my sight. I was indeed a medical miracle. I went back home but life was terrible. I was working with two social workers who described my situation as domestic violence, not physical but emotional. Eventually one morning I rang my three children, in Sydney, and told them I was leaving, not one said Mum I will come and get you. I rang a friend who would pick me up but I could only stay a couple of nights. After contacting one of the social workers I ended up in a Women's Refuge, firstly in Muswellbrook then Lane Cove, in Sydney. For 7 years I have been in a Retirement Village and am extremely happy. I rarely have contact with my three children and six grand daughters. This hurts a great deal. They don't seem to value me but my many friends and activities make a very full and happy life. I am at last free to be me'. Maggie Attached are two chapters.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477126953

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9781477126950

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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Penguin

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1440229112

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9781440229114

A Nurse's Courage

a gripping story of love and duty set during the First World War

By: Maggie Holt

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A Nurse's Courage

a gripping story of love and duty set during the First World War

By: Maggie Holt

If you love watching Call the Midwife or reading Dilly Court and Donna Douglas, you will love much-loved author Maggie Holt's warm-hearted, captivating and intensely moving wartime saga in which a young nurse's life is forever changed by war. Perfect to settle down with! WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT A NURSE'S COURAGE! 'I found this book extremely difficult to put down' - 5 STARS 'Truly breathtaking' - 5 STARS 'Fantastic book, from start to finish...recommend' - 5 STARS 'Worth every penny' - 5 STARS 'Great story- I couldn't put the book down, totally addicted to it' - 5 STARS *********************************************************************************** HER COUNTRY NEEDED HER, BUT SO DID HE... Orphan Mabel Court's dreams come true when she enters the Booth Street Poor Law Infirmary as a probationer nurse. But it is August 1914, and her world is about to be turned upside down. She soon meets Norah McLoughlin, another probationer, and the two girls - together with Mabel's childhood friend Maudie, now a music-hall dancer - become firm friends. As war rages across Europe, they try to keep their spirits up but when Mabel's fiancé Harry Drover is wounded at the battle of the Somme, Mabel realises that the life she and Harry had always hoped for is now an impossibility. Then when Maudie falls pregnant by an officer, and Norah's young man is lost at sea, all three girls are forced to face the fact that life will never be the same again. The adventures continue in A Nurse at War. Previously published as A Child at the Door by Maggie Bennett.

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Random House

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1448150264

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9781448150267

Physical Education

By: Maggie Barbieri

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Physical Education

By: Maggie Barbieri

College English professor and sometime amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron would've been thrilled to hear that her husband, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, was leaving Homicide if that were the whole story, but it turns out that Bobby's next assignment is even worse---undercover. As if worrying about his involvement in a case he won't talk about at all wasn't bad enough, Alison is forced to take over the women's basketball team at St. Thomas after the coach dies of a heart attack during a game. She may not know much about basketball, but she's no stranger to sleuthing, and it isn't long before she suspects that the coach's death may be more than unexpected but premeditated as well. With Bobby deep undercover and Alison always on her way to deep trouble, it's only a matter of time before they run smack into each other in Physical Education, the latest in Maggie Barbieri's charming Murder 101 mystery series.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429981806

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9781429981804

Motherhood Without All the Rules

Trading Stressful Standards for Gospel Truths

By: Maggie Combs

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Motherhood Without All the Rules

Trading Stressful Standards for Gospel Truths

By: Maggie Combs

Ditch Pressure for Freedom in Christ Any mom who has tried to create a godly home for her family knows it doesn’t happen automatically. Through books, blogs, and Instagram accounts, culture asserts that good moms must follow certain standards and abide by certain rules if she want what’s best for her children. She must do everything she can—and she must do it all just right. Following the suggested steps and recommended rules may seem best, but what if we’re missing the point? This is something Maggie Combs came to realize while seeking to be a good mom to her three sons. Though the world around us may have critical expectations and rules for mothering, Christ instead calls moms to an intimate, abiding relationship with a triune God. In Motherhood Without All the Rules, Maggie identifies the main “rules” moms today often feel pressured to follow and counters them with gospel truth. You’ll discover how the character of each member of the trinity practically impacts your role as a mom. Join Maggie in forgetting the rules, so that instead of being a good mom, you grow to become a holy mom.

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Moody Publishers

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0802498043

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9780802498045

Love Inspired Suspense August 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Valerie Hansen,Maggie K. Black,Virginia Vaughan

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Love Inspired Suspense August 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Valerie Hansen,Maggie K. Black,Virginia Vaughan

More of the suspense you love—now Love Inspired Suspense brings you six new titles, in two convenient bundles! Enjoy these contemporary heart-pounding tales of suspense, romance, hope and faith. This Love Inspired Suspense bundle includes A Trace of Memory by Valerie Hansen, Deadline by Maggie K. Black and No Safe Haven by Virginia Vaughan. Look for six new inspirational suspense stories every month from Love Inspired Suspense!

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Harlequin

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1460339886

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9781460339886

Michael Morpurgo

War Child to War Horse

By: Maggie Fergusson,Michael Morpurgo

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Michael Morpurgo

War Child to War Horse

By: Maggie Fergusson,Michael Morpurgo

The life of Michael Morpurgo, as a biography, and autobiographical stories.

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0007387261

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9780007387267

The Chieftain and the Chair

The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America

By: Maggie Taft

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The Chieftain and the Chair

The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America

By: Maggie Taft

A history of how Danish design rose to prominence in the postwar United States, becoming shorthand for stylish modern comfort. Today, Danish Modern design is synonymous with clean, midcentury cool. During the 1950s and ‘60s, it flourished as the furniture choice for Americans who hoped to signal they were current and chic. But how did this happen? How did Danish Modern become the design movement of the times? In The Chieftain and the Chair, Maggie Taft tells the tale of our love affair with Danish Modern design. Structured as a biography of two iconic chairs—Finn Juhl’s Chieftain Chair and Hans Wegner’s Round Chair, both designed and first fabricated in 1949—this book follows the chairs from conception and fabrication through marketing, distribution, and use. Drawing on research in public and private archives, Taft considers how political, economic, and cultural forces in interwar Denmark laid the foundations for the postwar furniture industry, and she tracks the deliberate maneuvering on the part of Danish creatives and manufacturers to cater to an American market. Taft also reveals how American tastemakers and industrialists were eager to harness Danish design to serve American interests and how furniture manufacturers around the world were quick to capitalize on the fad by flooding the market with copies. Sleek and minimalist, Danish Modern has experienced a resurgence of popularity in the last few decades and remains a sought-after design. This accessible and engaging history offers a unique look at its enduring rise among tastemakers.

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University of Chicago Press

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022655046X

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9780226550466

After All These Years

Our Gypsy Journey Continues

By: Maggie Smith-Bendell

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After All These Years

Our Gypsy Journey Continues

By: Maggie Smith-Bendell

Maggie Smith-Bendell provides more of her vivid memories, set in the context of the long history of the gypsies.

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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1907396969

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9781907396960

The Hand That First Held Mine

A Novel

By: Maggie O'Farrell

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The Hand That First Held Mine

A Novel

By: Maggie O'Farrell

From the best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. "An exquisitely sensual tale of love, motherhood, and other forms of madness, The Hand That First Held Mine will unsettle, move, and haunt you." —Emma Donoghue, author of Room Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own. Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. She doesn't recognize herself: she finds herself walking outside with no shoes; she goes to the restaurant for lunch at nine in the morning; she can't recall the small matter of giving birth. But for her boyfriend, Ted, fatherhood is calling up lost memories, with images he cannot place. As Ted's memories become more disconcerting and more frequent, it seems that something might connect these two stories—these two women—something that becomes all the more heartbreaking and beautiful as they all hurtle toward its revelation. Praised by The Washington Post as a “breathtaking, heart-breaking creation,” The Hand That First Held Mine is a gorgeous and tenderly wrought story about the ways in which love and beauty bind us together. It is a gorgeous inquiry into the ways we make and unmake our lives, who we know ourselves to be, and how even our most accidental legacies connect us.

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HarperCollins

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0547487274

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9780547487274

Murder 101

By: Maggie Barbieri

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Murder 101

By: Maggie Barbieri

Safely away from the chaos of Manhattan, St. Thomas, a small college on the banks of the Hudson River in the Bronx, is supposed to be tranquil, bucolic, and serene. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. Recently divorced from a fellow professor and even more recently without a car---it was stolen---she has been hoofing it to school. One Friday evening, two NYPD homicide detectives drop by her office. The good news is that they found her beat-up Volvo; the bad news is that the body of one of the students in her Shakespeare seminar was in the trunk. Not only are Alison's chances of getting the car back bleak, but suddenly she's the primary suspect on a list that includes, among others, the murdered student's drug-dealing boyfriend, Vince, and the girl's father's business rivals (he's head of an old Italian family . . .). Accused of a crime that she didn't commit, Alison enlists her best friend, Max's, emotional support and services as an amateur sleuth. Their fumbling efforts to clear Alison's name could land her in even hotter water with Detective Bobby Crawford, the handsome investigating officer (and former altar boy)---not to mention the nuns at St. Thomas. . . . Maggie Barbieri's charming professor and down-to-earth detective make an unlikely but lovable team in her delightful debut mystery.

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Crossing Caine's Road

By: Maggie Hinton

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Crossing Caine's Road

By: Maggie Hinton

Michael Greyson, former college football legend and subsequent head coach for the Arizona Marauders pro-football team, has lain in a coma for six years as a result of a plane crash. Michael's wife, Melanie, decides to start a new life for herself by making use of her teaching degree for the first time. She packs up her three children and moves to the small northern Arizona village of Buena Suerte, (better known to the younger generation as "B.S.",) where she will teach high school English. Melanie's seventeen year-old daughter, K.C., an award winning trumpet player, is distraught when she learns that the high school band program may be abandoned. But then leather-jacketed, ponytailed Jesse Cockran comes riding into town on his old HarleyDavidson motorcycle. A professional trumpet player from New York City, Jesse will also be teaching for the first time, and, like Melanie, is seeking a new beginning. He moves into a teacherage trailer across the street from Melanie on Caine's Road and she and her children soon become emotionally drawn to him. Jesse has to prove himself to the community in spite of the school board president's determination to find a reason to dismiss him. K.C. commences a feud with Cooke Nasby, an Apache boy from the nearby reservation. And despite Melanie's objections, her father-in-law is firm in his attempts to remove Michael from life support. In addition to this clash of wills, Mel finds herself being sexually harassed by an anonymous stalker. The year is filled with romance, conflict, and tragedy. Mel, Jesse, and K.C. all face crisis which will change their lives and the lives of those they love. Crossing Caine's Road is a story of commitment and second chances, of love and loss.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466966742

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Hamlet and the Tales of Sniggery Woods

By: Maggie Kneen

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Hamlet and the Tales of Sniggery Woods

By: Maggie Kneen

Three stories about Hamlet Piggins, a talented young swine who inherits a restaurant and turns it into a cooking school.

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Maggie Colvin's Home Style

Quick Make-overs to Transform Your Home

By: Maggie Colvin,Margaret Colvin

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Maggie Colvin's Home Style

Quick Make-overs to Transform Your Home

By: Maggie Colvin,Margaret Colvin

Quick makeovers to transform your home, from 2 hours to 2 days. This collection of 12 complete room schemes, including a Mexican dining room, American East Coast bathroom, and Tuscan hallway is the perfect combination of visual inspiration and practical know-how to transform the home. From gathering the colors, textures and decorative details that define a particular style, to simple step-by-step projects, you can re-create the look you want with ease.

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Opposites Attract - Three Book Selection/Lingerie For Felons/Rescue Nights/This Is Now

By: Ros Baxter,Maggie Gilbert,Nina Hamilton

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Opposites Attract - Three Book Selection/Lingerie For Felons/Rescue Nights/This Is Now

By: Ros Baxter,Maggie Gilbert,Nina Hamilton

The harder you fight, the harder you fall when Opposites Attract... Lingerie for Felons – Ros Baxter If there's one universal truth, it's this: You're always wearing your worst underwear when you land in trouble. She is determined to make a difference in the world; he is all about the bottom line. But sometimes Mr Wrong just needs to time to find the right path. Funny, touching, emotional and political, Lingerie for Felons is Bridget Jones meets An Inconvenient Truth, a contemporary romance about doing the right thing, finding the right person, and always thinking through your underwear choices. Rescue Nights – Nina Hamilton English surgeon Andrew Wentworth left behind a successful career and a failed engagement to join the Cairns Rescue Helicopter team, but it's not shaping up to be the rejuvenating working holiday he expected. Rescue paramedic Kate Spears is used to proving herself in a man's world, so informing the handsome surgeon that all his orders now come from her is deliciously satisfying. But she soon finds that Andrew cannot only take everything she throws at him, he keeps coming back for more. Opposites attract in this medical romantic suspense set in the high adrenalin world of the Cairns Rescue Helicopter team. This is Now – Maggie Gilbert A gritty, urban New Adult Cinderella story where the princess can do her own rescuing – she just needs someone to believe in her. Sister to car thieves, ex–girlfriend to a drug dealer, high school dropout, no–hoper and loser – Jess is on the sidelines, watching her life become one epic fail. Then she meets Sebastien, a gifted cellist from a very different walk of life. Sebastien is clean and strong and talented. He seems to think she can do anything, and Jess, despite her fears and the secrets she hides, is starting to believe him. But just as Jess dares to hope, the secrets in her past and the lies in her present catch up with her. All seems lost and she has to make a choice. Between past and future. Between home and hope. Between now and never. And this is now.

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