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Great Dames

What I Learned from Older Women

By: Marie Brenner

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Great Dames

What I Learned from Older Women

By: Marie Brenner

Fascinating, gossipy, entertaining. . . ." — New York Times Book Review They are ten outstanding women of the century. Each had an aura, including Thelma Brenner, the first great dame her daughter ever knew. Their lives were both gloriously individual and yet somehow universal. They were mighty warriors and social leaders, women of aspiration who persevered. They lived through the Great Depression and a world war. Circumstances did not defeat them. They played on Broadway and in Washington. They had glamour, style, and intelligence. They dressed up the world. "Vivid, intimate portraits . . . a splendid tribute to ten of the century's grandest, most powerful women." —Us "These women were our geishas, whispering in our ears to influence all aspects of American life." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Delectable, classy . . . a runaway hit." —Liz Smith "An engrossing introduction to a way of life that's now extinct, for better or for worse." —Chicago Sun-Times

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Crown

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0307556492

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9780307556493

Hopes for the Griot Hamlet

By: Marie Milo

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Hopes for the Griot Hamlet

By: Marie Milo

Hopes for the Griot Hamlet covers the lives and families of two eighteenth-century women from different parts of the world. They wind up living and working on a plantation in Virginia, where their lives intertwine during the period of slavery. Pages of the saga cover the greed, lust, ambition, jealousy, and even murder of some of its characters. Hopes for the Griot Hamlet demonstrates how God has worked in the lives of people throughout the ages.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1685703712

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9781685703714

The First Ladies

By: Marie Benedict,Victoria Christopher Murray

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The First Ladies

By: Marie Benedict,Victoria Christopher Murray

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance. Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women’s rights and the power of education, Mary and Eleanor become fast friends confiding their secrets, hopes and dreams—and holding each other’s hands through tragedy and triumph. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president, the two women begin to collaborate more closely, particularly as Eleanor moves toward her own agenda separate from FDR, a consequence of the devastating discovery of her husband’s secret love affair. Eleanor becomes a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly on civil rights. And when she receives threats because of her strong ties to Mary, it only fuels the women’s desire to fight together for justice and equality. This is the story of two different, yet equally formidable, passionate, and committed women, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.

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Penguin

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0593440293

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9780593440292

Continually Working

Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee

By: Crystal Marie Moten

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Continually Working

Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee

By: Crystal Marie Moten

Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political and intellectual strategies they used to critique and resist employment discrimination, dismantle unjust structures, and transform their lives and the lives of those in their community. Moten emphasizes the ways in which Black women transformed the urban landscape by simultaneously occupying spaces from which they had been historically excluded and creating their own spaces. Black women refused to be marginalized within the historically white and middle‑class Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association (MYWCA), an association whose mission centered on supporting women in urban areas. Black women forged interracial relationships within this organization and made it, not without much conflict and struggle, one of the most socially progressive organizations in the city. When Black women could not integrate historically white institutions, they created their own. They established financial and educational institutions, such as Pressley School of Beauty Culture, which beautician Mattie Pressley DeWese opened in 1946 as a result of segregation in the beauty training industry. This school served economic, educational, and community development purposes as well as created economic opportunities for Black women. Historically and contemporarily, Milwaukee has been and is still known as one of the most segregated cities in the nation. Black women have always contested urban inequality, by making space for themselves and others on the margins. In so doing, they have transformed both the urban landscape and urban history.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826505597

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9780826505590

Colonial Intimacies

Indian Marriage in Early New England

By: Ann Marie Plane

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Colonial Intimacies

Indian Marriage in Early New England

By: Ann Marie Plane

In 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed; she contritely promised that if her life were spared, she would return to her husband and "continue faithfull to him during her life yea although hee should beat her againe...."These events, recorded in the court documents of colonial Massachusetts, may appear unexceptional; in fact, they reflect a rapidly changing world. Native American marital relations and domestic lives were anathema to English Christians: elite men frequently took more than one wife, while ordinary people could dissolve their marriages and take new partners with relative ease. Native marriage did not necessarily involve cohabitation, the formation of a new household, or mutual dependence for subsistence. Couples who wished to separate did so without social opprobrium, and when adultery occurred, the blame centered not on the "fallen" woman but on the interloping man. Over time, such practices changed, but the emergence of new types of "Indian marriage" enabled the legal, social, and cultural survival of New England's native peoples. The complex interplay between colonial power and native practice is treated with subtlety and wisdom in Colonial Intimacies. Ann Marie Plane uses travel narratives, missionary tracts, and legal records to reconstruct a previously neglected history. Plane's careful reading of fragmentary sources yields both conclusive and fittingly speculative findings, and her interpretations form an intimate picture, moving and often tragic, of the familial bonds of Native Americans in the first century and a half of European contact.

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Cornell University Press

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1501729500

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9781501729508

Cruel and Unusual

The Culture of Punishment in America

By: Anne-Marie Cusac

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Cruel and Unusual

The Culture of Punishment in America

By: Anne-Marie Cusac

The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.

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Yale University Press

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0300155492

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9780300155495

Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire

By: Alistair Charles Rolls,Clara Dominque Sitbon,Marie-Laure Jacqueline Vuaille-Barcan

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Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire

By: Alistair Charles Rolls,Clara Dominque Sitbon,Marie-Laure Jacqueline Vuaille-Barcan

In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan counter the myths and received wisdom that are typically associated with this iconic French crime fiction series, namely: that it was born in Paris on a tide of postwar euphoria; that it initially consisted of translations of American hard-boiled classics by the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; and that the translations were rushed and rather approximate. Instead, an alternative vision of Duhamel’s translation practice is proposed, one based on a French tradition of auto-, or “original”, translation of “ostensibly” American crime fiction, and one that appropriates the source text in order to create an allegory of the target culture.

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BRILL

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9004359001

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9789004359000

Amelia Earhart

The Mystery Solved

By: Marie K. Long,Elgen M. Long

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Amelia Earhart

The Mystery Solved

By: Marie K. Long,Elgen M. Long

When Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, she was flying the longest leg of her around-the-world flight and was only days away from completing her journey. Her plane was never found, and for more than sixty years rumors have persisted about what happened to her. Now, with the recent discovery of long-lost radio messages from Earhart's final flight, we can say with confidence that she ran out of gas just short of her destination of Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean. From the beginning of her flight, a series of tragic circumstances all but doomed her and her navigator, Fred Noonan. Authors Elgen M. and Marie K. Long spent more than twenty-five years researching the mystery surrounding Earhart's final flight before finally determining what happened. They traveled over one hundred thousand miles to interview more than one hundred people who knew some part of the Earhart story. They draw on authoritative sources to take us inside the cockpit of the Electra plane that Earhart flew and recreate the final flight itself. Because Elgen Long began his own flying career not long after Earhart's disappearance, he can describe the equipment and conditions of the time with a vivid first-hand accuracy. As a result, this book brings to life the primitive conditions under which Earhart flew, in an era before radar, with unreliable communications, grass landing strips, and poorly mapped islands. Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved does more than just answer the question, What happened to Amelia Earhart? It reminds us how daring early aviators such as Earhart were as they risked their lives to push the technology of the day to its limits -- and beyond.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743202171

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9780743202176

Building Tradition

Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels

By: Marie Rose Wong

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Building Tradition

Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels

By: Marie Rose Wong

Marie Rose Wong peers through the lens of single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels to capture the 157-year origin story of Seattle's pan-Asian International District. This gorgeous, meticulous book layers together interviews, maps, and insights from over a decade of primary research to provide an urgent history for Asian American activists and urban planners.

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Chin Music Press

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1634059689

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9781634059688

Out of the Silence

a Novel

By: Marie Theodore

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Out of the Silence

a Novel

By: Marie Theodore

A novel of resistance amidst domestic strife Alexa Montgomery is a criminal lawyer, a fierce protector of victim’s rights, who’s made a name for herself as an assistant district attorney in New York City. But when Casimir Johnson—a man who escaped prosecution years ago for the brutal attack on his wife—is arrested again, Alexa knows that she needs to put this dangerous man behind bars—for good this time. In Alexa’s search for justice, the destinies of two women are forever entwined. If the criminal justice system and courts won’t make Casimir Johnson pay, Alexa Montgomery will. In her debut novel, an intoxicating thriller in the style of The Perfect Marriage, Marie Theodore has created a fast-paced, character driven, erotic courtroom drama. Out of the Silence will captivate your heart and keep you turning the pages, while you anxiously look forward to seeing how it all unfolds.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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9798886452310

Harlequin Romantic Suspense July 2019 Box Set

By: Geri Krotow,Marie Ferrarella,Cindy Dees,Beth Cornelison

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense July 2019 Box Set

By: Geri Krotow,Marie Ferrarella,Cindy Dees,Beth Cornelison

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! COLTON’S MISTAKEN IDENTITY The Coltons of Roaring Springs by Geri Krotow Posing as her twin is easy for Phoebe Colton until she meets sexy Prescott Reynolds, whose dangerous action roles in films become too realistic when a stalker comes after Phoebe and forces them onto a dangerous cross-country road trip. COLTON 911: COWBOY’S RESCUE Colton Search and Rescue by Marie Ferrarella A sudden hurricane shakes up more than just the buildings in and around Whisperwood, Texas. A long-awaited wedding is put on hold, and as Jonah Colton rescues Maggie Reeves, the bad girl home to make amends, a devastating flood reveals a body—and a serial killer is on the loose! SPECIAL FORCES: THE OPERATOR Mission Medusa by Cindy Dees She’s an American Special Forces soldier; he’s an Israeli commando. On a covert mission in Australia, they have two weeks to stop a terror attack at the Olympics…and fall in love. Let the games begin! RANCHER’S HOSTAGE RESCUE The McCall Adventure Ranch by Beth Cornelison When Dave Giblan and Lilly Shaw are held hostage by an armed man, they must overcome personal heartaches and grudges to survive the ordeal…and claim the healing of true love.

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1488041652

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9781488041655

Tales from the Cloud Walking Country

By: Marie Campbell

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Tales from the Cloud Walking Country

By: Marie Campbell

Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths, the tales had been handed down through generations of telling before Marie Campbell collected them in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Readers will recognize the story of Snow White in "A Stepchild That Was Treated Mighty Bad," while "Three Shirts and a Golden Finger Ring" recalls the fairy tale of the Seven Swans. "The Fellow That Married A Dozen Times" is a lively rendition of "Bluebeard." As the narrators cautioned Marie Campbell again and again, "Tale-telling is nigh about faded out in the mountain country," but Tales from the Cloud Walking Country offers a lasting record of history, cultural heritage, language, and good old-fashioned fun.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820321869

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9780820321868

People of the Middle Fraser Canyon

An Archaeological History

By: Anna Marie Prentiss,Ian Kuijt

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People of the Middle Fraser Canyon

An Archaeological History

By: Anna Marie Prentiss,Ian Kuijt

The Middle Fraser Canyon contains some of the most important archaeological sites in British Columbia, including the remains of ancient villages that supported hundreds, if not thousands, of people. How and why did these villages come into being? Why were they abandoned? In search of answers to these questions, Anna Marie Prentiss and Ian Kuijt take readers on a voyage of discovery into the ancient history of the St’át’imc, or Upper Lillooet people. Drawing on evidence from archaeological surveys and excavations and from the knowledge of St’át’imc people, they find explanations in the evolution of food-gathering and -processing techniques, climate change, the development of social complexity, and the arrival of Europeans. This wide-ranging vision of the ancient history of British Columbia is brought to vivid life through photographs, artist renderings and fictionalized accounts of life in the villages, a guide to the St’át’imc language, and sidebars on archaeological methods, theories, and debates.

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UBC Press

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077482171X

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9780774821711

In the Shadow of the Gallows

Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

By: Jeannine Marie DeLombard

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In the Shadow of the Gallows

Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

By: Jeannine Marie DeLombard

From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that African Americans have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect," it overlooked the right to due process, which ensured that black offenders—even slaves—appeared as persons in the eyes of the law. In the familiar account of African Americans' historical shift "from plantation to prison," we have forgotten how, for a century before the Civil War, state punishment affirmed black political membership in the breach, while a thriving popular crime literature provided early America's best-known models of individual black selfhood. Before there was the slave narrative, there was the criminal confession. Placing the black condemned at the forefront of the African American canon allows us to see how a later generation of enslaved activists—most notably, Frederick Douglass—could marshal the public presence and civic authority necessary to fashion themselves as eligible citizens. At the same time, in an era when abolitionists were charging Americans with the national crime of "manstealing," a racialized sense of culpability became equally central to white civic identity. What, for African Americans, is the legacy of a citizenship grounded in culpable personhood? For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt? In the Shadow of the Gallows reads classics by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, George Lippard, and Edward Everett Hale alongside execution sermons, criminal confessions, trial transcripts, philosophical treatises, and political polemics to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812206339

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9780812206333

Even Me

By: Virgie Marie Wilson

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Even Me

By: Virgie Marie Wilson

75 * 75 * This is a book about a simple housewife, mother, and grandmother who suffered through tragedy and unexpected events, but never gave up her faith or the hope of someday having a life without the threat of losing her life at the hands of the person she spent thirty-eight years caring for and loving. I plan to write another book soon because I have many events with laughter and humor as well as many other chapters I was not able to include in this book. I wanted to get my first book out there as soon as possible so that the readers could get acquainted with me and with the hope that they would request to know more about a person who only thought of herself as a nobody but didn't let her experiences keep her down or destroy her hope. I am a seventy-five-year-old who loves to write about the things I see in the world around me and share the good, the bad, and the ugly side of the life I knew and still enjoy. I completed my education and work as an accountant/financial advisor, but still have time to continue writing religious manuscripts and other religious articles. My strength comes when I make time to pray and commune with God as I do on a daily basis. When the Spirit speaks to me, I learn something new, or I am reminded of something I need to write about before I forget. If the feeling a writer gets to record what they feel needs to be written down, a true writer never fails to stop whatever they are doing even in the middle of the night. Sometimes the Spirit keeps speaking while I try to keep up and get it all down. Then I read it over and pray God's will over the words His Spirit has given me. I am amazed at what God has shown me. I have a busy schedule taking care of two teenage girls I have been fostering as their granny nanny since their birth, and their dad, my employer, who calls me mom and treats me like real family is a single business owner. I am a grandmother of nineteen grandchildren plus two deceased, and twenty-one great-grandchildren with two deceased at this time, as my family continues to grow. This book has several chapters about some family events, but many chapters will require another book in the future. I read a lot and enjoy the testimonies of several popular religious writers. My hope is to write books about the things that will help strengthen and encourage others to find their faith in the living God and listen for His Spirit to speak to them even as He has spoken to me. A conversation is always between a person speaking and a listener. We must learn to listen to God's voice as He answers our questions just as we would in real time with anyone else. He is always there waiting to be asked to come into our lives and be a present active part in all that we do. He is not intrusive and respects our privacy, and we read His Word to learn what He expects of us. The respect I have learned to give the Heavenly Father, God Almighty, Creator of all and His Son Jesus who died on the cross for all believers keeps me grounded and secure until He returns. Until then, I will continue to write hoping to help someone along the way find the faith I have found in the one true living God who loves even me.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1685709672

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9781685709679

Colton 911: Cowboy's Rescue

By: Marie Ferrarella

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Colton 911: Cowboy's Rescue

By: Marie Ferrarella

When a map leads a woman into disaster, the only one who can rescue her is a sexy cowboy in this romantic suspense series opener. When Magnolia “Maggie” Reeves receives a puzzling map from her former father-in-law, she can’t resist searching for clues—even in a hurricane! Fortunately, search-and-rescue cowboy Jonah Colton is there to save the day. But when the duo find a mummified body, they’re plunged straight into an abyss of danger. And even as they stumble headlong into a dazzling attraction, they’re also fighting for their lives . . .

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Harlequin

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1488041369

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9781488041365

Ultimate Cruelty

A Mother’s Memoir

By: Marie Paris

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Ultimate Cruelty

A Mother’s Memoir

By: Marie Paris

Sixteen-year-old Emilie was a beautiful girl caught up in a relationship with the wrong guy. She held onto the dream that life would be everything she thought it would be until one day the dream came crashing down on her and her mother. In Ultimate Cruelty, Marie Paris, Emilie’s mother, narrates her daughter’s story. Paris a single mother, shares how she was caught off guard when her young daughter went missing , and she tells of the frantic search that ensued and the outcome no one expected. Paris writes about the media frenzy, the injustice, the breakdown of her family, and the aftermath surrounding Emilie’s disappearance. Ultimate Cruelty discusses the thoughts, memories, and emotions of the family’s nightmare. It chronicles each milestone Paris encountered and overcame in this heart-wrenching story. Ultimate Cruelty shares one mother’s heart-wrenching story as she journeys through her sixteen-year-old daughter’s disappearance and eventual death, reflecting on her daughter’s life and the tragedy itself.

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iUniverse

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1532021992

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9781532021992

When Lily Ponds Ripple

By: Anne-Marie Fitzwilliam

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When Lily Ponds Ripple

By: Anne-Marie Fitzwilliam

ENTWINED LIVES A SECRET THAT RIPS THEM APART TWINS ON A TURBULENT VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY A sugar plantation, a waterlily pond, and a decades-old deception are the backdrop for When Lily Ponds Ripple. It is a forceful narrative about the West Indian twins, Florence and Charlotte Montague. Their rivalry for the same man underscores just how close loyalty and betrayal are. The revelation of a family secret takes the Barbadian sisters from their sheltered island to London and Germany. In Frankfurt, Florence becomes a notable author, while Charlie’s career leads her from the London stage to Hollywood. Despite their geographical separation, the sisters cannot escape one another, far less their shared history. To face the future, they must confront the past together.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398475637

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9781398475632

Explorer's Guide Connecticut (Eighth Edition)

By: Andi Marie Cantele

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Explorer's Guide Connecticut (Eighth Edition)

By: Andi Marie Cantele

Comprehensive . . .well organized . . . should be carried in every glove compartment of every car that traverses Connecticut highways."—Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Connecticut Welcomed and praised by newspapers across the state, Explorer’s Guide Connecticut gives visitors and residents alike detailed descriptions of attractions and little-known tips about the Nutmeg State. Veteran travel writers Barnett Laschever and Andi Marie Cantele again bring you authoritative advice on what to see, where to eat, and where to stay in the new edition of this trusted guide. Covering the state from the mountains in the north to the long and varied coastline in the south, from cities to backroads, this revised and expanded edition features extensive descriptions and detailed maps to guide readers effortlessly along many pleasant journeys for individual travelers and families. Historic and exciting Mystic Seaport, the rich collections of the Yale University museums, beach and skiing trips, and the many state forests and parks of Connecticut are just a handful of the attractions covered. Regional and downtown maps feature helpful icons and indicate places that are wheelchair-accessible, pet- and family-friendly, and of other special value. Features include: an alphabetical "What's Where" subject guide to aid in trip plan; regional and downtown maps; handy icons that point out family-friendly attractions, wheelchair access, special value, and lodgings that accept pets.

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The Countryman Press

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1581578156

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Explorer's Guides Connecticut 8th Edition

By: Andi Marie Cantele

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Explorer's Guides Connecticut 8th Edition

By: Andi Marie Cantele

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0881509590

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St. Philip's College

A Point of Pride on San Antonio's Eastside

By: Marie Pannell Thurston

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St. Philip's College

A Point of Pride on San Antonio's Eastside

By: Marie Pannell Thurston

In 1898, St. Philip’s Normal and Industrial School opened its doors in San Antonio, offering sewing classes for black girls. It was the inaugural effort in a program, founded by the West Texas diocese of the Episcopal Church, to educate and train former slaves and other African Americans in that city. Originally tied to St. Philip’s Church, about three miles east of the downtown center, the school grew to offer high school and then junior college courses and eventually affiliated with the San Antonio Independent School District and San Antonio College. One of the few remaining historically black junior colleges in the country, St. Philip’s, whose student body is no longer predominantly black, has also been designated a Hispanic-serving institution, one of few schools to bear both designations. Known by many as “the school that love built,” St. Philip’s College claimed in its 1932 catalog, “There is perhaps as much romance surrounding the development of St. Philip’s Junior College as there is of the ‘Alamo City’ in which it is located.” That love story, also containing dominant strains of sacrifice, scarcity, creativity, determination, and pride, finds its full expression in this history by Marie Pannell Thurston. Based on archival research and extensive interviews with current and former alumni, faculty, and friends, St. Philip’s College presents the heartwarming and inspiring record of a school, the community that nurtures it, and the collective pride in what the institution and its graduates have accomplished.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623490014

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Toward Mutual Recognition

Relational Psychoanalysis and the Christian Narrative

By: Marie T. Hoffman

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Toward Mutual Recognition

Relational Psychoanalysis and the Christian Narrative

By: Marie T. Hoffman

Ever since its nascent days, psychoanalysis has enjoyed an uneasy coexistence with religion. However, in recent decades, many analysts have been more interested in the healing potential of both psychoanalytic and religious experience and have explored how their respective narrative underpinnings may be remarkably similar. In Toward Mutual Recognition, Marie T. Hoffman takes just such an approach. Coming from a Christian perspective, she suggests that the current relational turn in psychoanalysis has been influenced by numerous theorists - analysts and philosophers alike - who were themselves shaped by an embedded Christian narrative. As a result, the redemptive concepts of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection - central to the tenets of Christianity - can be traced to relational theories, emerging analogously in the transformative process of mutual recognition in the concepts of identification, surrender, and gratitude, a trilogy which she develops as forming the "path of recognition." Each movement on this path of recognition is given thought-provoking, in-depth attention. Chapters dedicated to theoretical perspectives utilize the thinking of Benjamin, Hegel, and Ricoeur. In her historical perspectives, she explores the personal and professional histories of analysts such as Sullivan, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Erikson, Kohut, and Ferenczi, among others, who were influenced by the Christian narrative. Uniting it all together is the clinical perspective offered in the compelling extended case history of Mandy, a young lady whose treatment embodies and exemplifies each of the steps along the path of growth in both the psychoanalytic and Christian senses. Throughout, a relational sensibility is deployed as a cooperative counterpart to the Christian narrative, working both as a consilient dialogue and a vehicle for further integrative exploration. As a result, the specter of psychoanalysis and religion as mutually exclusive gives way to the hope and redemption offered by their mutual recognition.

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The Sea in the Greek Imagination

By: Marie-Claire Beaulieu

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The Sea in the Greek Imagination

By: Marie-Claire Beaulieu

The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life and livelihood of many who dwell on the islands and coastal areas of the Mediterranean, and it has been so since long ago—the sea loomed large in the Homeric epics and throughout Greek mythology. The Greeks of antiquity turned to the sea for food and for transport; for war, commerce, and scientific advancement; and for religious purification and other rites. Yet, the sea was simultaneously the center of Greek life and its limit. For, while the sea was a giver of much, it also embodied danger and uncertainty. It was in turns barren and fertile, and pictured as both a roadway and a terrifying void. The image of the sea in Greek myth is as conflicting as it is common, with sea crossings taking on seemingly incompatible meanings in different circumstances. In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea crossings in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the mortal world, the underworld, and the realms of the immortal. Through six in-depth case studies, she shows how, more than a simple physical boundary, the sea represented the buffer zone between the imaginary and the real, the transitional space between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods. From dolphin riders to Dionysus, maidens to mermen, Beaulieu investigates the role of the sea in Greek myth in a broad-ranging and innovative study.

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0812291964

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Her Red-Carpet Romance

By: Marie Ferrarella

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Her Red-Carpet Romance

By: Marie Ferrarella

Playing Cupid. Arranging dates. What are mothers for? Hollywood heartthrob and widower Lukkas Spader knows his women are just photo ops for the paparazzi. He's sworn off real dating. But the big-time movie producer needs a gal Friday. And Yohanna desperately needs a job. So what if she's beautiful and their relationship starts out like a typical chick flick? That doesn't mean they're going to fall in love… She's never felt the sparks between herself and the parade of potential husbands her mother's insisted she meet. But when Yohanna Andrzejewski poses for the cameras with sexy, gorgeous Lukkas—trying to keep the gossipmongers at bay—she realizes that there's something in the air…call it sparks. Bells. Magic. Because Lukkas and Yohanna may not be looking for love, but something—or someone—is making sure it finds them!

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Exposed

Living with scandal, rumour, and gossip

By: Mia-Marie Hammarlin

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Exposed

Living with scandal, rumour, and gossip

By: Mia-Marie Hammarlin

This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It applies ethnological perspectives to empirical materials from a Swedish context to highlight the existential level of the phenomenon. How does it feel to be exposed through scandalisation? How does such an experience affect a person’s everyday life? These are the urgent and fascinating questions that the book addresses. It also highlights the fusion between face-to-face communication and traditional news media. Gossip and rumour must be included in the idea of the media system for us to be able to understand the power of a media scandal, a finding leads to a critique of earlier research.

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense August 2019 Box Set

By: Addison Fox,Lisa Childs,Marie Ferrarella,Melinda Di Lorenzo

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense August 2019 Box Set

By: Addison Fox,Lisa Childs,Marie Ferrarella,Melinda Di Lorenzo

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! THE COLTON SHERIFF The Coltons of Roaring Springs by Addison Fox In the midst of his reelection campaign, Sheriff Trey Colton has made a startling discovery. His fake engagement to his best friend, Aisha, has turned serious. Maybe even real… But will the serial killer he’s hunting put this new relationship in danger? COLTON 911: BABY’S BODYGUARD Colton 911 by Lisa Childs Rae Lemmon isn’t happy when Forrest Colton finds a body in her backyard, and she’s absolutely terrified when someone threatens the life of her baby if she doesn’t get rid of her new bodyguard—Forrest. But as they get closer to finding the threat, Rae may be in danger of losing her heart along the way. CAVANAUGH’S MISSING PERSON Cavanaugh Justice by Marie Ferrarella Kenzie Cavanaugh is searching for a missing person, but when fellow detective Hunter Brannigan realizes it ties into one of his cold cases, they’re pulled into a much deeper conspiracy than they ever believed possible. FIRST RESPONDER ON CALL by Melinda Di Lorenzo Paramedic Remo DeLuca finds Celia Poller on the side of the road after a car accident. Severely injured, Celia has short-term memory loss and the only thing she’s sure of is that she has a son—and that someone is threatening both their lives!

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1488041660

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Explorer's Guide Connecticut

By: Barnett D. Laschever,Andi Marie Cantele,B. D. Laschever

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Explorer's Guide Connecticut

By: Barnett D. Laschever,Andi Marie Cantele,B. D. Laschever

A comprehensive guide to lodging, dining, shopping, crafts, resorts, outdoor recreation, and museums in Connecticut.

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0881508241

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The Broken Spoke

Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk

By: Donna Marie Miller

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The Broken Spoke

Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk

By: Donna Marie Miller

James and Annetta White opened the Broken Spoke in 1964, then a mile south of the Austin city limits, under a massive live oak, and beside what would eventually become South Lamar Boulevard. White built the place himself, beginning construction on the day he received his honorable discharge from the US Army. And for more than fifty years, the Broken Spoke has served up, in the words of White’s well-worn opening speech, “. . . cold beer, good whiskey, the best chicken fried steak in town . . . and good country music.” White paid thirty-two dollars to his first opening act, D. G. Burrow and the Western Melodies, back in 1964. Since then, the stage at the Spoke has hosted the likes of Bob Wills, Dolly Parton, Ernest Tubb, Ray Price, Marcia Ball, Pauline Reese, Roy Acuff, Kris Kristofferson, George Strait, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Asleep at the Wheel, and the late, great Kitty Wells. But it hasn’t always been easy; through the years, the Whites and the Spoke have withstood their share of hardship—a breast cancer diagnosis, heart trouble, the building’s leaky roof, and a tour bus driven through its back wall. Today the original rustic, barn-style building, surrounded by sleek, high-rise apartment buildings, still sits on South Lamar, a tribute and remembrance to an Austin that has almost vanished. Housing fifty years of country music memorabilia and about a thousand lifetimes of memories at the Broken Spoke, the Whites still honor a promise made to Ernest Tubb years ago: they’re “keepin’ it country.”

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623495202

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From Fidelity to History

Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century

By: Anne-Marie Scholz

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From Fidelity to History

Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century

By: Anne-Marie Scholz

Scholarly approaches to the relationship between literature and film, ranging from the traditional focus upon fidelity to more recent issues of intertextuality, all contain a significant blind spot: a lack of theoretical and methodological attention to adaptation as an historical and transnational phenomenon. This book argues for a historically informed approach to American popular culture that reconfigures the classically defined adaptation phenomenon as a form of transnational reception. Focusing on several case studies— including the films Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Portrait of a Lady (1997), and the classics The Third Man (1949) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)—the author demonstrates the ways adapted literary works function as social and cultural events in history and how these become important sites of cultural negotiation and struggle.

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0857457322

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