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Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States

Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Normalization of Creativity

By: Mary Ann Stankiewicz

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Developing Visual Arts Education in the United States

Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Normalization of Creativity

By: Mary Ann Stankiewicz

This book examines how Massachusetts Normal Art School became the alma mater par excellence for generations of art educators, designers, and artists. The founding myth of American art education is the story of Walter Smith, the school’s first principal. This historical case study argues that Smith’s students formed the professional network to disperse art education across the United States, establishing college art departments and supervising school art for industrial cities. As administrative progressives they created institutions and set norms for the growing field of art education. Nineteenth-century artists argued that anyone could learn to draw; by the 1920s, every child was an artist whose creativity waited to be awakened. Arguments for systematic art instruction under careful direction gave way to charismatic artist-teachers who sought to release artistic spirits. The task for art education had been redefined in terms of living the good life within a consumer culture of work and leisure.

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113754449X

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The Underground Railroad

An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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The Underground Railroad

An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.

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Routledge

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1317454162

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History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-1976

By: Mary L. Medley

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History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-1976

By: Mary L. Medley

About a third of Mr. Gold's account deals with the general history of the county, with the balance devoted to the Civil War. The author provides an overview of the various troop movements throughout the county during the war, such as those under the command of Confederate General Jubal Early. The bulk of the volume examines the roles of Clarke County natives in the conflict.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806347554

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50 Wisconsin Crimes of the Century

By: Marv Balousek,Balousek Mary

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50 Wisconsin Crimes of the Century

By: Marv Balousek,Balousek Mary

Wisconsin's most notorious crimes and criminals are profiled in this book of the Crimes of the Century series. Read about the killer dairy princess and meet notorious fiends Edward Gein, Jeffery Dahmer, and others.

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Badger Books Inc.

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1878569473

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Traditioning Disciples

The Contributions of Cultural Anthropology to Ecclesial Identity

By: Colleen Mary Mallon

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Traditioning Disciples

The Contributions of Cultural Anthropology to Ecclesial Identity

By: Colleen Mary Mallon

In a globalized world and an "age that cannot name itself," how do Christian communities sustain a recognizable gospel identity? How might examining tradition and identity formation from both theology and cultural anthropology help churches approach the challenges of being a follower of Jesus today? With these questions in focus, Colleen Mallon studies symbol systems in the works of anthropologists Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Clifford Geertz and places her findings in dialogue with a "thick description" of discipleship gleaned from the great Roman Catholic ecclesiologist Yves Congar, OP. The result is a reflection on gospel identity that will be invaluable to Christian ministers, missioners, and students of theology interested in the social and theological processes of disciple formation.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608990885

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August Wilson

A Literary Companion

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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August Wilson

A Literary Companion

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. The authentic ring of wit, anecdote, homily, and plaint proved that a self-educated Pittsburgh ghetto native can grow into a revered conduit for a century of black achievement. He forced readers and audiences to examine the despair generated by poverty and racism by exploring African-American heritage and experiences over the course of the twentieth century. This literary companion provides the reader with a source of basic data and analysis of characters, dates, events, allusions, staging strategies and themes from the work of one of America's finest playwrights. The text opens with an annotated chronology of Wilson's life and works, followed by his family tree. Each of the 166 encyclopedic entries that make up the body of the work combines insights from a variety of sources along with generous citations; each concludes with a selected bibliography on such relevant subjects as the blues, Malcolm X, irony, roosters, and Gothic mode. Charts elucidate the genealogies of Wilson's characters, the Charles, Hedley, and Maxson families, and account for weaknesses in Wilson's female characters. Two appendices complete the generously cross-referenced work: a timeline of events in Wilson's life and those of his characters, and a list of 40 topics for projects, composition, and oral analysis.

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McFarland

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1476605327

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Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature

By: Mary Lou Emery

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Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature

By: Mary Lou Emery

This ambitious study offers a comprehensive analysis of the visual in authors from the Anglophone Caribbean. Mary Lou Emery analyses works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Jamaica Kincaid and David Dabydeen. This study is an original and important contribution to both transatlantic and postcolonial studies.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521872138

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Legends of Spook Hollow

By: Mary L. Shofkom

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Legends of Spook Hollow

By: Mary L. Shofkom

Spook Hollow runs its unexplainable horror through an eight-mile, sharply cut valley. The lay of the land leaves an unwelcome sense of a moral freight to any who dare challenge its existence. Charlie, also known as Gramps, lives right near Spook Hollow and witnesses first-hand the horrors the hollow has to offer. Full of trepidation and intrigue, Legends of Spook Hollow contains family legends founded around a campfire, of people never to be the same after experiencing the monstrosities of Spook Hollow. About the Author Mary L. Shofkom lives a very full life with her family, and working outside the home as a school monitor. Her classroom is a calming sanctuary where students come for a break. Shofkom has coached varsity cheerleading for 20 years. She has also bartended at the same establishment for over 20 years. Shofkom enjoys crafting with her friends, camping with her husband, and riding motorcycles. Shofkom and her husband both have their own Harleys, and they love to travel together. Shofkom’s children and grandchildren are a huge part of her life. Shofkom loves to write when she gets a chance.

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Dorrance Publishing

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Introduction to Criminal Justice

Systems, Diversity, and Change

By: Callie Marie Rennison,Mary Dodge

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Introduction to Criminal Justice

Systems, Diversity, and Change

By: Callie Marie Rennison,Mary Dodge

Introduction to Criminal Justice: Systems, Diversity, and Change, Fourth Edition, offers students a brief, yet thorough, introduction to criminal justice with up-to-date coverage of all aspects of the system in succinct and engaging chapters. Authors Callie Marie Rennison and Mary Dodge weave four true criminal case studies throughout the book, capturing students’ attention with memorable stories that illustrate the real-life pathways and outcomes of criminal behavior and victimization. Designed to show the connectedness of the criminal justice system, each case study brings the chapter concepts to life. Providing students with a more inclusive overview of criminal justice, important and timely topics such as ethics, policy, gender, diversity, and victimization are emphasized throughout. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

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SAGE Publications

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1544398751

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Corrections

A Text/Reader

By: Mary K. Stohr,Anthony Walsh,Craig Hemmens

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Corrections

A Text/Reader

By: Mary K. Stohr,Anthony Walsh,Craig Hemmens

This is a core text/reader for undergraduate and graduate corrections courses. It can serve either as a supplement to a core textbook or as a stand-alone course text. Each chapter begins with 15 pages of text that includes photos, figures and tables and is followed by carefully selected articles authored by leading scholars in the field.

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1412937736

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Traditioning Disciples

The Contributions of Cultural Anthropology to Ecclesial Identity

By: Colleen Mary Mallon OP, PhD

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Traditioning Disciples

The Contributions of Cultural Anthropology to Ecclesial Identity

By: Colleen Mary Mallon OP, PhD

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1630876453

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Learning to Look at Paintings

By: Mary Acton

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Learning to Look at Paintings

By: Mary Acton

Mary Acton shows how you can learn to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. She describes the ingredients of composition, space, form, tone and colour which make up a picture, and discusses the importance of subject matter and the original function and setting of a picture in appreciating its visual meanings.

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Psychology Press

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0415148898

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The Civil War Era and Reconstruction

An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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The Civil War Era and Reconstruction

An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health and medicine, science and technology, exploration, life on the Western frontier, family life, slave life, Native American life, women, and more than a hundred influential individuals.

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1317457900

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Grassroots Garveyism

The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927

By: Mary G. Rolinson

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Grassroots Garveyism

The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927

By: Mary G. Rolinson

The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers were found in the southern Black Belt. Tracing the path of organizers from northern cities to Virginia, and then from the Upper to the Deep South, Rolinson remaps the movement to include this vital but overlooked region. Rolinson shows how Garvey's southern constituency sprang from cities, countryside churches, and sharecropper cabins. Southern Garveyites adopted pertinent elements of the movement's ideology and developed strategies for community self-defense and self-determination. These southern African Americans maintained a spiritual attachment to their African identities and developed a fiercely racial nationalism, building on the rhetoric and experiences of black organizers from the nineteenth-century South. Garveyism provided a common bond during the upheaval of the Great Migration, Rolinson contends, and even after the UNIA had all but disappeared in the South in the 1930s, the movement's tenets of race organization, unity, and pride continued to flourish in other forms of black protest for generations.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807872784

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Mr. President, I've Got Your Back!

The First Ladies of South Carolina State University

By: Abbiegail H. Hugine,Mary L. Smalls

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Mr. President, I've Got Your Back!

The First Ladies of South Carolina State University

By: Abbiegail H. Hugine,Mary L. Smalls

South Carolina State College was established in 1896 by the state legislature to provide educational opportunities to African Americans. The college is situated on land acquired by the state from the United Methodist Church in 1869. Thomas E. Miller was named the first President. Faced with many challenges and struggles, Miller and his wife, Anna, did an excellent job of moving the college forward and building a foundation for her later growth and development. Since that time, thirteen presidents and five interims have continued to build upon Miller’s legacy. Although much is written about the presidents, very little has been written about their spouses who aided them in furthering the university. This book features twelve dynamic, smart, and innovative first ladies who demonstrated through their untiring support, Mr. President, I’ve Got Your Back!

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1958922919

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9781958922910

The House of the Burgesses

By: Michael Burgess,Mary Wickizer Burgess

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The House of the Burgesses

By: Michael Burgess,Mary Wickizer Burgess

A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia. Complete with illustrations, photos, comprehensive given and surname indexes, and historical introduction.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0893704792

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D-Day Deception

Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion

By: Mary K. Barbier

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D-Day Deception

Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion

By: Mary K. Barbier

On 6 June 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy. The invasion followed several years of argument and planning by Allied leaders, who remained committed to a return to the European continent after the Germans had forced the Allies to evacuate at Dunkirk in May 1940. Before the spring of 1944, however, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other British leaders remained unconvinced that the invasion was feasible. At the Teheran Conference in November 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill promised Josef Stalin that Allied troops would launch Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, in the spring. Because of their continuing concerns about Overlord, the British convinced the Americans to implement a cover plan to help ensure the invasion's success. The London Controlling Section (LCS) devised an elaborate two-part plan called Operation Fortitude that SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force) helped to fine tune and that both British and American forces implemented Historians analyzing the Normandy invasion frequently devote some discussion to Operation Fortitude. Although they admit that Fortitude North did not accomplish all that the Allied deception planners had hoped, many historians heap praise on Fortitude South, using phrases such as, unquestionably the greatest deception in military history. Many of these historians assume that the deception plan played a crucial role in the June 1944 assault. A reexamination of the sources suggests, however, that other factors contributed as much, if not more, to the Allied victory in Normandy and that Allied forces could have succeeded without the elaborate deception created by the LCS. Moreover, the persistent tendency to exaggerate the operational effect of Fortitude on the German military performance at Normandy continues to draw attention away from other, technical-military reasons for the German failures there.

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1567207537

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Dissent in the Heartland

The Sixties at Indiana University

By: Mary Ann Wynkoop

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Dissent in the Heartland

The Sixties at Indiana University

By: Mary Ann Wynkoop

More than other local histories of campus activism during this period, Dissent in the Heartland introduces national themes and events, and successfully places Indiana University into that context. The research in primary sources, including FBI files, along with numerous interviews, is superior, and the writing is lucid and at times provocative." -- Terry H. Anderson, author of The Sixties This grassroots view of student activism in the 1960s chronicles the years of protest at one Midwestern university. Located in a region of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family values, Indiana University was home to antiwar protestors, civil rights activists, members of the counterculture, and feminists who helped change the heart of Middle America. Its students made their voices heard on issues from such local matters as dorm curfews and self-governance to national issues of racism, sexism, and the Vietnam War. Their recognition that the personal was the political would change them forever. The protest movement they helped shape would reach into the heartland in ways that would redefine higher education, politics, and cultural values. Based on research in primary sources, interviews, and FBI files, Dissent in the Heartland reveals the Midwestern pulse of the Sixties, beating firmly, far from the elite schools and urban centers of the East and West.

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0253109426

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Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

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Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802058566

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Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay

By: Stuart Houston,Tim Ball,Mary Houston

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Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay

By: Stuart Houston,Tim Ball,Mary Houston

The authors show that meteorologic data and weather information recorded at the HBC trading posts over two centuries provide the largest and longest consecutive series available anywhere in North America, one that can help us understand the mechanisms and amount of climate change. They demonstrate that Hudson Bay is the second largest site of new bird species named by Linnaeus and reproduce some of George Edwards' colour paintings of these new species. Six informative appendices reveal how the invaluable HBC archives were transferred from London, England, to Winnipeg, correct previous misinterpretations of the collaboration and relative contributions of Thomas Hutchins and Andrew Graham, use two centuries of HBC fur returns to demonstrate the ten-year hare and lynx cycles, tell how the swan trade almost extirpated the Trumpeter Swan, explain how the Canada Goose got its name before there was a Canada, and offer an extensive list of eighteenth-century Cree names for birds, mammals, and fish. Informative tables list the eighteenth-century surgeons at York Factory and give names and dates for the annual supply ships.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773569758

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9780773569751

DESIRE and DESIGN

By: MARY JANE STAUDENMANN

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DESIRE and DESIGN

By: MARY JANE STAUDENMANN

Here's a new and stimulating look at the actions of Venus and Mars in the birth chart and in our lives. Through over eighty color art reproductions and over a hundred celebrity chart references, Venus and Mars show their true colors and their full potential throughout the twelve zodiacal signs. A rare chance to experience their power close-up!

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1491892315

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Beyond the Box

By: Mary Johnson

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Beyond the Box

By: Mary Johnson

Beyond The Box is a fictious story The story is written as a paradox. Statements within the story are made to shed a little light on the errant and confusing behavior of many in present day society. The main character, Jed (Myis) Turner is a man on a mission. In order to complete it he must first live his life as someone else. His physical person has been altered to look and act exactly like the man he pretends to be. Everyone has heard the statement outside the box. Myiss thinking is beyond the box. The box being that which is normal. The story has a fluctuating viewpoint between the narrator and the characters. The narrator sees the characters as he remembers them. The characters see themselves as altruistic, and liberators of inferior beings. Good and bad things happen when these people become desperate to be socially acceptable and accepted. Those in the limelight, especially politicians who compete for favor, seek to please and appease unhealthy lusts. Unwittingly, they open the door for a barrage of unsolicited emotions causing reactions that are often iniquitous. A paradox is further displayed when Myis falls in love with a woman(Naomi) who represents all he hates. On the other hand, he rejects the woman(Margrielle) who represents the things he loves. He is supposed to create a perfect world of peace and contentment. Instead, he creates one of violence, lust and selfishness. He wants to father a child who will father a perfect nation. He succeeds in creating one that destroys him The story begins at the end.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503576418

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9781503576414

The Silence

A Novel

By: Mary McGarry Morris

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The Silence

A Novel

By: Mary McGarry Morris

From a New York Times–bestselling “writer to reckon with,” a psychological suspense about a woman whose life is fractured by a childhood crime (The New York Times Book Review). There was the moment eight-year-old Ruth Corrigan ran away from playing in the woods with her best friend, and then the moment after, when Ceely was gone. Murdered. Now the silence of that day lives within Ruth. Lives in the judgment she sees in the faces of so many in the small town she still calls home. Ruth may be older now, tougher, a cop by trade, but her life has been unraveling ever since that tragic day in the woods. Alcohol, sex, broken marriages—nothing can lighten the truth she knows inside. Until the child-killer returns, free and unencumbered. A predator who will act again unless Ruth can prove him guilty. Only no one will listen to a police officer on suspended duty, a woman whose life has been one personal disaster after the next, not even Maddie Pardeau Klein, her dead playmate’s older sister. It’s up to Ruth alone to trap the vicious criminal before he strikes once more. No matter what it takes. Or who gets hurt. Praise for Mary McGarry Morris “Morris can depict society’s outsiders . . . with rare understanding and compassion.” —Publishers Weekly “A superb storyteller.” —The Washington Post “Morris’s nearly flawless prose is mesmerizing.” —Booklist

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Open Road Media

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1504084098

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Jim Crow Capital

Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920–1945

By: Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy

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Jim Crow Capital

Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920–1945

By: Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy

Local policy in the nation's capital has always influenced national politics. During Reconstruction, black Washingtonians were first to exercise their new franchise. But when congressmen abolished local governance in the 1870s, they set the precedent for southern disfranchisement. In the aftermath of this process, memories of voting and citizenship rights inspired a new generation of Washingtonians to restore local government in their city and lay the foundation for black equality across the nation. And women were at the forefront of this effort. Here Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy tells the story of how African American women in D.C. transformed civil rights politics in their freedom struggles between 1920 and 1945. Even though no resident of the nation's capital could vote, black women seized on their conspicuous location to testify in Congress, lobby politicians, and stage protests to secure racial justice, both in Washington and across the nation. Women crafted a broad vision of citizenship rights that put economic justice, physical safety, and legal equality at the forefront of their political campaigns. Black women's civil rights tactics and victories in Washington, D.C., shaped the national postwar black freedom struggle in ways that still resonate today.

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1469646730

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Men of Sorrows

Smugglers of the Marsh

By: Mary-Elizabeth Thomas

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Men of Sorrows

Smugglers of the Marsh

By: Mary-Elizabeth Thomas

Romney Marsh, Kent in the 1700's - it was sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll! The drug is opium, the rock 'n' roll is Handel and the sex is - well, the same as it has always been! There are no lawmen, no policemen and ordinary people are taxed on their favourite commodities to finance a succession of costly overseas wars. The time is ripe for any man (or woman) to chance their luck and cross the Channel to bring over untaxed goods from France. 'Men of Sorrows' is a novel based on the true adventures of the Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers - the largest and most successful smuggling gang of their time. Arthur and William Gray are brought up in poverty until Arthur chances upon a smuggling gang and finds his future with them. Beth Stone also joins them - beautiful, high-born Beth whom Arthur has loved all his life. But his brother Will also loves her. This story of love, comradeship, betrayal and treachery takes place amid the sweeping, eerie beauty of the mysterious Romney Marsh.

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