Maxine Frost's Books

The Roots of Things

Essays

By: Maxine Kumin

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Throughout her career, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin has been at the vanguard of discussions about feminism and sexism, the state of poetry, and our place in the natural world. The Roots of Things gathers into one volume her best essays on the issues that have been closest to her throughout her storied career. Divided into sections on "Taking Root," "Poets and Poetry," and "Country Living," these pieces reveal Kumin honing her views within a variety of forms, including speeches, critical essays, and introductions of other writers’ work. Whether she is recollecting scenes from her childhood, ruminating on the ups and downs of what she calls "pobiz" (for "poetry business"), describing the battles she’s fought on behalf of women, or illuminating the lives of animals, Kumin offers insight that can only be born of long and closely observed experience.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810126486

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9780810126480

Behind the Baton

An American Icon Talks Music

By: Gerard Schwarz,Maxine Frost

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Behind the Baton

An American Icon Talks Music

By: Gerard Schwarz,Maxine Frost

(Amadeus). To speak of Gerard Schwarz musician, conductor, festival organizer, gig hopper, educator, television personality, patron and proselytizer of the arts is to tell an exemplary American story. You could convey it exclusively in cliches, from his industrious emigre parents to his precocious childhood, from his ardor and diligence as a prodigy trumpeter to his meteoric rise as a conductor, from his unforeseen cross-country migration to the gradual construction of a world-class orchestra in a city formerly regarded as a cultural backwater, from the halls of New York City's High School of Performing Arts to the digital instructor's chair of the All-Star Orchestra's Khan Academy course series. You could simply recite the numbers: over 300 new works premiered, over 350 recordings in his discography, 14 GRAMMY nominations, 4 Emmy awards, six ASCAP Awards, and hundreds of other honors and laurels. You could dazzle and festoon and bewitch with talk of truth and beauty and the pursuit of ever-higher forms of artistic expression. Or you could tell it Jerry's way. Behind the Baton is a quintessentially Schwarzian memoir: intrepid, forthright, risible, subtly self-assured, and entirely unpretentious. It offers an intimate inside look at a man whose immense talent is rivaled only by his humility and work ethic a man who, for nearly fifty years, has strived to leave every orchestra and musician he touched better than when he found them. Whether you're a classical music aficionado, an orchestra initiate just cutting your teeth, or an everyday reader interested in the remarkable story behind an extraordinary man, Behind the Baton belongs on your nightstand.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1574674943

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9781574674941

Lives We Leave Behind

By: Maxine Alterio

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Lives We Leave Behind

By: Maxine Alterio

In July 1915 the hospital ship Maheno leaves Wellington with seventy New Zealand nurses on board. Addie Harrington and Meg Dutton are assigned to the same cabin. Quiet and cautious, Addie is taken aback by her impetuous, fun-loving roommate. The two women seem to have little in common other than a desire to serve their country. But as they care for injured and dying soldiers in Egypt and France, they discover that deep connections can develop under unusual circumstances. When Meg meets British surgeon Wallace Madison, she falls for him immediately and amidst the chaos of overloaded military hospitals they embark on an intense love affair. Addie suspects Wallace has much to hide and fears the relationship will destroy her friend. 'Maxine Alterio brings a novelist's eye to the startling story of New Zealand's World War I nurses. I was enthralled and moved by the lives of these women and their experiences of war.' Laurence Fearnley, award-winning novelist

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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1742532691

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The Supportive State

Families, Government, and America's Political Ideals

By: Maxine Eichner

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The Supportive State

Families, Government, and America's Political Ideals

By: Maxine Eichner

Broad agreement exists among politicians and policymakers that the family is a critical institution of American life. Yet the role that the state should play with respect to family ties among citizens remains deeply contested. This controversy over the state's role undergirds a broad range of public policy debates: Does the state have a responsibility to help resolve conflicts between work and family? Should same-sex marriage be permitted? Should parents who receive welfare benefits be required to work? Yet while these individual policy issues are endlessly debated, the underlying theoretical question of the stance that the state should take with families remains largely unexplored. In The Supportive State, Maxine Eichner argues that government must take an active role in supporting families. She contends that the respect for human dignity at the root of America's liberal democratic understanding of itself requires that the state not only support individual freedom and equality--the goods generally considered as grounds for state action in liberal accounts. It must also support families, because it is through families that the caretaking and human development needs which must be satisfied in any flourishing society are largely met. Families' capacity to satisfy these needs, she demonstrates, is critically affected by the framework of societal institutions in which they function. In the "supportive state" model she develops, the state bears the responsibility for structuring societal institutions to support families in performing their caretaking and human development functions. Although not all family forms will further the important functions that warrant state support, she argues that a broad range will. Eichner's vigorous defense of the state's responsibility to enhance families' capacity for caretaking and human development stands as a sharp rejoinder to the widespread conservative belief that the state's role in family life must be diminished in order for families to flourish.

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Oxford University Press

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0199711224

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9780199711222

The Gulf Between

By: Maxine Alterio

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The Gulf Between

By: Maxine Alterio

Under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, love, lies and disenchantment lead to a menacing showdown in this suspense-filled novel. A foreigner is seriously injured not far from Julia's safe Queenstown hideaway. Why does he have her name in his wallet? His unexpected arrival takes Julia back forty-five years to London, where as an impulsive young woman she first met Benito Moretti - a meeting that was to change her life, taking her to the glittering Gulf of Naples. There Julia found herself pitted against her belligerent mother-in-law and Benito’s sinister brother in a lethal battle for her husband and children. Julia remembered her father saying, We’re all as sick as our secrets. Words that still haunt her.

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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0143773321

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9780143773320

One-Block Wonders of the World

New Ideas, Design Advice, A Stunning Collection of Quilts

By: Maxine Rosenthal,Linda Bardes

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One-Block Wonders of the World

New Ideas, Design Advice, A Stunning Collection of Quilts

By: Maxine Rosenthal,Linda Bardes

Transform a single fabric print with marvelous piecing magic! Best-selling author Maxine Rosenthal and Linda Bardes share stunning One-Block Wonder quilts, with contributions from the popular Facebook design community. Learn how to choose the right 60° ruler, how to pick the most useful fabric, and how to choose the best starting strip size for your fabric. See what others have done—from the beginning fabric to the ending project—and courageously cut into that beautiful yardage! Sew simple pieced hexagon blocks with no Y-seams, and get addicted to the thrill of arranging and rearranging them on your design wall.

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C&T Publishing Inc

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1617455199

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9781617455193

7th Heaven

By: James Patterson,Maxine Paetro

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7th Heaven

By: James Patterson,Maxine Paetro

Discover the Women's Murder Club's most terrifying case ever in this New York Times bestseller. As a terrible series of fires blazes through California, the heat begins to rage too close to home. A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case-a very devastating lead. As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must race to find the arsonists responsible and get to the bottom of Michael Campion's disappearance. But suddenly the flames are raging too close to home. Frightened for her life and torn between two men, Lindsay must find a way to solve the most daunting dilemmas she's ever faced-at work and at home.

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Little, Brown

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0316029033

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9780316029032

Covenant of Care

By: Maxine Lantz

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Covenant of Care

By: Maxine Lantz

Covenant of Care features poetry describing the life-changing transformation in a life that is committed to Jesus Christ and in a heart that is His forever.

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WestBow Press

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1449756409

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The Dialectic of Freedom

By: Maxine Greene

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The Dialectic of Freedom

By: Maxine Greene

Special 2018 Edition From the new Introduction by Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY : "Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'" In The Dialectic of Freedom, Maxine Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, determine, and—too frequently—oppress. Examining the interrelationship between freedom, possibility, and imagination in American education, Greene taps the fields of philosophy, history, educational theory, and literature in order to discuss the many struggles that have characterized Americans’ quests for freedom in the midst of what is conceived to be a free society. Accounts of the lives of women, immigrants, and minority groups highlight the ways in which Americans have gone in search of openings in their lived situations, learned to look at things as if they could be otherwise, and taken action on what they found. Greene presents a unique overview of American concepts and images of freedom from Jefferson’s time to the present. She examines the ways in which the disenfranchised have historically understood and acted on their freedom—or lack of it—in dealing with perceived and real obstacles to expression and empowerment. Strong emphasis is placed on the focal role of the arts and art experience in releasing human imagination and enabling the young to reach toward their vision of the possible. The author concludes with suggestions for approaches to teaching and learning that can provoke both educators and students to take initiatives, to transcend limits, and to pursue freedom—not in solitude, but in reciprocity with others, not in privacy, but in a public space.

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Teachers College Press

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0807728977

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9780807728970

Ribbons of Grace

By: Maxine Alterio

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Ribbons of Grace

By: Maxine Alterio

A gripping story of love and deception on the Otago Gold Fields of nineteenth-century New Zealand. Arrowtown, a goldfield settlement with an explosive mix of inhabitants, is the scene of an unlikely love story. Ming Yuet, a young Chinese woman seeking riches disguises herself as a male miner and comes to the goldfields, where she meets Conran, an Orcadian stonemason escaping a family tragedy. A secret love affair develops amidst suspicion, fear and hostility, culminating in an act of violence that irrevocably shatters the lives of those involved. Maxine Alterio's beautiful novel about love, forgiveness, alienation and friendship moves between past and present, homeland and adopted country, and from the living to the deceased . . .

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

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1742288359

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9781742288352

Wildflowers and Weeds

A Collection of Poems (1980-2010)

By: Maxine Landis

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Wildflowers and Weeds

A Collection of Poems (1980-2010)

By: Maxine Landis

In Wildflowers and Weeds, a flowing and evocative collection of poems spanning thirty years, Maxine Landis explores both the sweetness and sweet-sadness of life. Whether dwelling on a landscape. A grandchild, or the spirit of a fellow poet, Landis is that ideal witness with an evolved and generous heart. This is a wonderful book.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462813356

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The Nutcracker and Other Seasonal Tales

By: Maxine Barry

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The Nutcracker and Other Seasonal Tales

By: Maxine Barry

This collection of illustrated Christmas stories is perfect for reading together. Whether you are looking for familiar classics or new discoveries, these tales will charm and delight children of all ages. Help improve your child's reading in just 10 minutes a day with Storytime. 10 minutes of reading a day can... Boost Vocabulary Reading for a short period every day exposes your child to almost 1 million words per year, which helps to foster communication and understanding. Encourage Learning Reading at home is linked to better performance in spelling, comprehension and general knowledge, helping to develop important learning skills. Promote Relaxation Reading a book gives your child the quiet time they need each day to relax, and is a great way for you to spend quality time together.

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Arcturus Publishing

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1789504902

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9781789504903

Letters to My Sister

By: Maxine Oliveres

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Letters to My Sister

By: Maxine Oliveres

Letters to My Sister is a collection of actual letters written during the many years apart from my Georgia family, for the express purpose of entertaining my sister. They are amusing, funny, risqué, or thought-provoking accounts of my experiences, my imagination, menopause, bathroom humor, and some spiritual insights. Some letters are true; some have a grain of truth, while others are purely fictional. Have fun trying to guess what is true: you would be surprised. If you only knew!

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Dorrance Publishing

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1434967131

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9781434967138

Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010

By: Maxine Kumin

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Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010

By: Maxine Kumin

Where I Live is a collection celebrating the remarkable poetic range of one of America's greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from Maxine Kumin's five previous books. The poems take as their concern rural life, family, and poetic legacy, and they wrestle with political and social causes. Also included is a generous selection of twenty-three new poems, which expand upon themes that have preoccupied Kumin and bring her record of poetic mastery up to the present." "Kumin's rare kinship with the natural world is again seen in this collection." --Book Jacket.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393076490

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9780393076493

Hannah Szenes

A Song of Light

By: Maxine Rose Schur

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Hannah Szenes

A Song of Light

By: Maxine Rose Schur

A biography of the Jewish heroine whose mission to help rescue European Jews in World War II cost her her life.

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Jewish Publication Society

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0827609906

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9780827609907

Along Life's By-Ways

A Poetic Journey

By: Maxine Eliza Powers

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Along Life's By-Ways

A Poetic Journey

By: Maxine Eliza Powers

Maxine has been entertaining family and friends with her stories of life's events, wisdom she has gained over the years, and fantasies from a a creative imagination for eighty-five years. Her words weave a vivid picture that will capture your attention and make you want to abandon the hectic life today's society imposes on you for a simpler time, when folks took the time to stop and listen to the corn grow. Like a fine wine you need to savor each page taking the time to visualize the pictures, depicting a simple life, created by the words of an average woman. Each poem is a step in a journey rich with wisdom and emotions overflowing. The ideal place to read this book is sitting in the top of an apple tree in the summer sun but since most of us are a little too old or just too busy to take the time to climb a tree, I recommend you find a comfy place and settle in for a whirlwind journey ALONG LIFE'S BY-WAYS.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412004276

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9781412004275

Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Maxine Berg

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Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Maxine Berg

In this book, Maxine Berg explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were made and shopped for, then displayed in the private domestic settings of Britain's urban middling classes. It tells the stories and analyses the developments that led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the sixteenth century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the eighteenth century. These new products, regarded as luxuries by the rapidly growing urban and middling-class people of the eighteenth century, played an important part in helping to proclaim personal identities,and guide social interaction. Customers enjoyed shopping for them; they took pleasure in their beauty, ingenuity or convenience. All manner of new products appeared in shop windows; sophisticated mixed-media advertising seduced customers and created new wants. This unparalleled 'product revolution' provoked philosophers and pundits to proclaim a 'new luxury', one that reached out to the middling and trading classes, unlike the elite and corrupt luxury of old. Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth Century Britain is cultural history at its best, built on a fresh empirical base drawn directly from customs accounts, advertising material, company papers, and contemporary correspondence. Maxine Berg traces how this new consumer society of the eighteenth century and the products first traded, then invented to satisfy it, stimulated industrialization itself. Global markets for the consumer goods of private and domestic life inspired the industrial revolution and British products 'won the world'.

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OUP Oxford

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019153403X

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9780191534034

Unraveled

The Life and Death of a Garment

By: Maxine Bedat

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Unraveled

The Life and Death of a Garment

By: Maxine Bedat

Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Sri Lanka." But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked, spun, wove, dyed, packaged, shipped, and sold them to get to you? The fashion industry operates with radical opacity, and it's only getting worse to disguise countless environmental and labor abuses. It epitomizes the ravages inherent in the global economy, and all in the name of ensuring that we keep buying more while thinking less about its real cost. In Unraveled, entrepreneur, researcher, and advocate Maxine Bédat follows the life of an American icon--a pair of jeans--to reveal what really happens to give us our clothes. We visit a Texas cotton farm figuring out how to thrive without relying on fertilizers that poison the earth. Inside dyeing and weaving factories in China, where chemicals that are banned in the West slosh on factory floors and drain into waterways used to irrigate local family farms. Sewing floors in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are crammed with women working for illegally low wages to produce garments as efficiently as machines. Back in America, our jeans get stowed, picked, and shipped out by Amazon warehouse workers pressed to be as quick as the robots primed to replace them. Finally, those jeans we had to have get sent to landfills--or, if they've been "donated," shipped back around the world to Africa, where they're sold for pennies in secondhand markets or buried and burned in mountains of garbage. A sprawling, deeply researched, and provocative tour-de-force, Unraveled is not just the story of a pair of pants, but also the story of our global economy and our role in it. Told with piercing insight and unprecedented reporting, Unraveled challenges us to use our relationship with our jeans--and all that we wear--to reclaim our central role as citizens to refashion a society in which all people can thrive and preserve the planet for generations to come.

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Penguin

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0593085973

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9780593085974

The Accidental Bad Girl

By: Maxine Kaplan

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The Accidental Bad Girl

By: Maxine Kaplan

After getting caught hooking up with her best friend’s ex on the last day of junior year, Kendall starts senior year friendless and ostracized. She plans to keep her head down until she graduates. But after discovering her online identity has been hacked and she’s being framed for stealing from a dealer, Kendall is drawn into a tenuous partnership with the mastermind of a drug ring lurking in the shadows of her Brooklyn private school. If she wants to repair her tattered reputation and save her neck, she’ll have to decide who she really is—and own it. The longer she plays the role of “bad girl,” the more she becomes her new reputation. Friends and enemies, detectives and drug dealers—no one is who they appear to be. Least of all Kendall.

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Abrams

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1683352653

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9781683352655

The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820

Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain

By: Dr Maxine Berg,Maxine Berg

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The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820

Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain

By: Dr Maxine Berg,Maxine Berg

This new edition of The Age of Manufactures provides an exciting alternative overview of the eighteenth-century British economy. Recent macro-economic history has discounted many of the achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg argues that at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, we find many new consumer industries employing a women's workforce, and bringing with them a rich diversity of technological and organizational change. Four new chapters explore recent perspectives on: * The Industrial Revolution * Eighteenth century industries * Machines and manual labour * The rise of the factory system Statistical summaries, and a thorough revision of the whole text have refreshed and enhanced this well-established and important contribution to British ecomonic history.

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Routledge

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1134914725

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9781134914722

Still to Mow: Poems

By: Maxine Kumin

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Still to Mow: Poems

By: Maxine Kumin

Kumin writes ... with the clear gaze of a journalist and the ire of an activist.... Filled with love."—Christian Science Monitor Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. Both "delicate and powerful" (Library Journal), she faces with equanimity the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage—ending with the unspoken question of "Which of us will go down first.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393333140

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9780393333145

The Golden Era Christmas Tales

Volume 1

By: Maxine Johnson

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The Golden Era Christmas Tales

Volume 1

By: Maxine Johnson

Christmas Hero Children love heroes because they help others. During the Golden Era, aka 1950s, children thought of policemen, firemen, soldiers, doctors, etc. as their heroes. When asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, their response would be one of those. The children of Annanhem are no different. They live a life of freedom with very little concern about the dreaded "evil scientist" who is out to destroy or take over the world. They think more about defeating Communism specifically in Korea, bank robbers, and disease. They admire and trust the doctors, soldiers, policemen, and firemen in their town to right wrongs and to save lives. Christmas Hospitality Marion delights in being back in Annanhem. She spent most of her childhood summers there and made great friends. She never dreamed she would be working as the librarian. When unexpected visitors arrive early one morning, she offers them what they really need the most, hospitality. When Pastor Robert Stephenson discovers her gift, he is enthralled. Will it be possible to capture her attention and make her his permanent hostess only in a more personal way? Christmas Hopes Tragedy led Sarah to her mother in Annanhem. Hired to teach junior and senior English classes, Sarah works to learn the names of everyone in town. After being in town just a month, Sarah has a run-in with the new doctor Abraham Hollinsworth, who literally knocks her of her feet. Finding out she is a married woman, Abraham finds himself in desperate straits and doubting his understanding of where he felt sure God was leading him. Mystery surrounds Sarah, but Abe, somewhat of a mystery himself, takes on the task of helping to solve the mystery. Will they find their hopes fulfilled?

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1645598691

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9781645598695

Country Ragamuffins

Reflections on a Midwestern Farm Childhood

By: Maxine Bergerson Werner

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Country Ragamuffins

Reflections on a Midwestern Farm Childhood

By: Maxine Bergerson Werner

In "Country Ragamuffins," Maxine Bergerson Werner invites readers on a journey back to the 1950s as she recalls her upbringing as the oldest girl among eight siblings in a Norwegian farming community in rural Minnesota. To convey and preserve the experiences, values, and character of a typical Midwestern farm family of the time "before those memories grow dim and finally disappear," the author offers this chronicle laced with humor and appreciation. Werners parents cultivated a lifestyle that combined hard work, learning, and time for childhood fun and play in the surrounding fields, pastures, and woodlands. Connectedness was the theme in their happy life. Every member of the family participated in the functioning of the farm; siblings were best friends; and laughter and debate were welcome at the dinner table. The daily routines, the chores, the holiday festivities, and the births of siblings are recorded in scrapbook fashion.

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300

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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1626522715

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9781626522718

The Dickens' Christmas Village Tales

The Christmas Village Tales Collection, Volume 2

By: Maxine Johnson

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The Dickens' Christmas Village Tales

The Christmas Village Tales Collection, Volume 2

By: Maxine Johnson

Christmas villages warm the heart and hearth of many homes. Have you ever wondered what the people in those villages are doing? Where they are going? Where did they come from? Have they lived in that village all their lives? Elizabeth has lived in Hillshire Downs all her life. She has suffered the loss of her family in a plague that swept away almost more lives than it left. Will she and her youngest brother and sister survive the coldest winter remembered? God is their refuge and strength and ever-present help in time of trouble. He never fails. Richard returns after his wife and youngest child die - not from the plague. His heart is heavy, and he is at the end of his means. He must recover from his loss of everything. His son, Billy, needs him to be strong. Richard realizes he needs help and prays God will send him a job and some way to survive. Billy has loved Rebekah since childhood. Will she love him back? Will family complications create a situation in which hi love will never be declared? What of the lost boys and their futures? As Hillshire Downs comes back from the devastating plague, will the townsfolk be able to take care of their own and those who have been widowed, orphaned, and left destitute? As the village people find their Christmas treasure, or see their Christmas wishes come true, they find a Christmas worth waiting for.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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163630527X

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9781636305271

Dear Canada: The Death of My Country

By: Maxine Trottier

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Dear Canada: The Death of My Country

By: Maxine Trottier

The first Dear Canada featuring a First Nations diarist, The Death of My Country is set at a pivotal point in Canada's history — the war between Britain and France for control of New France. Geneviève Aubuchon is born into an Abenaki tribe but is orphaned when another tribe destroys her village. She and her brother are taken to a convent in Québec.While Geneviève gradually adapts to her new life with the sisters, her older brother runs away to rejoin the Abenaki. Geneviève fears for his life when he joins the First Nations allies who are helping defend Québec against the British siege of the city and the attack on the Plains of Abraham. Author Maxine Trottier frequently participates in historical re-enactments. Her hobby has provided her with an opportunity to research and experience this key time in Canada's history.

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1443119997

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Mourning, Memory, and Life Itself

Essays by an Art Therapist

By: Maxine Borowsky Junge

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Mourning, Memory, and Life Itself

Essays by an Art Therapist

By: Maxine Borowsky Junge

Part IV discusses art therapy as a woman's profession, the art therapist and aging, and reconsiders the wars between art and therapy. Part V defines family art evaluation and therapy, including preventive art therapy techniques to help families deal with the death of a family member. This book will be of primary interest to an therapists, artists, art educators, art lovers, and other mental health professionals."--BOOK JACKET.

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0398078289

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9780398078287

Releasing the Imagination

Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

By: Maxine Greene

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Releasing the Imagination

Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

By: Maxine Greene

This remarkable set of essays defines the role of imagination in general education, arts education, aesthetics, literature, and the social and multicultural context.... The author argues for schools to be restructured as places where students reach out for meanings and where the previously silenced or unheard may have a voice. She invites readers to develop processes to enhance and cultivate their own visions through the application of imagination and the arts. Releasing the Imagination should be required reading for all educators, particularly those in teacher education, and for general and academic readers." —Choice "Maxine Greene, with her customary eloquence, makes an impassioned argument for using the arts as a tool for opening minds and for breaking down the barriers to imagining the realities of worlds other than our own familiar cultures.... There is a strong rhythm to the thoughts, the arguments, and the entire sequence of essays presented here." —American Journal of Education "Releasing the Imagination gives us a vivid portrait of the possibilities of human experience and education's role in its realization. It is a welcome corrective to current pressures for educational conformity." —Elliot W. Eisner, professor of education and art, Stanford University "Releasing the Imagination challenges all the cant and cliché littering the field of education today. It breaks through the routine, the frozen, the numbing, the unexamined; it shocks the reader into new awareness." —William Ayers, associate professor, College of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787952915

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9780787952914

The Long Marriage: Poems

By: Maxine Kumin

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The Long Marriage: Poems

By: Maxine Kumin

This luminous collection is Maxine Kumin's twelfth volume of poetry, the first since her remarkable memoir, Inside the Halo. Themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, along with poems addressing the eminent dead: Wordsworth, Gorki, Rukeyser, and others. "Inescapably, many poems come up out of the earth I live on and tend to," Kumin says.

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W. W. Norton

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0393324370

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9780393324372

Flower Children

By: Maxine Swann

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Flower Children

By: Maxine Swann

A work of stunning lyricism and intense originality' (Mary Gordon, author of Pearl). From an award-winning short story writer comes this spare, lively, moving novel, quickly embraced by critics and readers, portraying the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the 1970's and 80's. Based on the author's own upbringing, Flower Children tells the story of four children growing up in rural Pennsylvania, impossibly at odds with their surroundings. In time, as the sheltered utopia their parents have created begins to collapse, the children long for structure and restraint-and all their parents have avoided.

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Penguin

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1440631689

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9781440631689

Explore Winter!

25 Great Ways to Learn About Winter

By: Maxine Anderson

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Explore Winter!

25 Great Ways to Learn About Winter

By: Maxine Anderson

Young readers become scientists in the field when this activity book sends them off to answer the question “Why do we have winter?” with experiments and projects that mix real science with real fun. Combining hands-on learning with trivia, jokes, riddles, and terrific illustrations, chapters start with the “tools” of science—the scientific method and how to keep a science journal—and then investigate the winter constellations, long nights and long shadows, animal tracking in snow, and food-gathering behavior in birds.

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Nomad Press

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1619300907

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9781619300903

The Bear Necessities of Business

Building a Company with Heart

By: Maxine Clark

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The Bear Necessities of Business

Building a Company with Heart

By: Maxine Clark

Build-A-Bear Workshop® is one of the most successful retailing concepts in recent history. Starting with just one location in 1997, the company now operates more than 200 stores worldwide. Leading the way is Maxine Clark, the company's founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Bear. Clark is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading and most creative entrepreneurs. In The Bear Necessities of Business, she reveals how she built this amazing global business from the ground up, while arming you with the tools you need to start, run, and market your own company in today's tough competitive environment. While primarily drawing on real-life experiences from Build-A-Bear Workshop®, Clark also offers wisdom gained throughout her entire thirty-plus-year career, including lessons and examples from some of the other great companies that do so much right. Straightforward and accessible, The Bear Necessities of Business is divided into seven parts, each built around an essential element that will allow you to stand apart from the crowd. The short, accessible chapters show you everything you need to: Get your business started Become a great boss Connect with your customers Add value to the overall experience Effectively market your company Plan for future growth Give back to your customers, employees, and community Best of all, these principles can be applied to any industry and are proven to work whether your target audience is children, teenagers, baby boomers, seniors, or any age in-between. Whether you're looking to start a new business, improve an existing one, be a better manager, or hire the best employees, The Bear Necessities of Business contains the insights and information you need to succeed. Even if you work for some-one else and have no plans to strike out on your own, you'll still benefit from the advice found in this book. After all, the best employees—and those who consistently rise to the top—are those who think like entrepreneurs!

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0470040890

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9780470040898

Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember

By: Karleen Bradford,Sarah Ellis,Julie Lawson,Carol Matas,Maxine Trottier,Perry Nodelman,Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch,Jean Little

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Dear Canada: A Christmas to Remember

By: Karleen Bradford,Sarah Ellis,Julie Lawson,Carol Matas,Maxine Trottier,Perry Nodelman,Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch,Jean Little

A wonderful seasonal anthology for Dear Canada readers, both old and new! A real treat for fans of this series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Eleven stories that each revisit a favourite character from books in the Dear Canada series are included in this special collection. These are completely original tales that stand alone as heartwarming Christmas stories, but also serve as a lovely "next chapter" to their original books. Each story is written by one of Canada's top award-winning writers for children, including Jean Little, Sarah Ellis, Maxine Trottier, Carol Matas and more. This collection is a lovely companion to A Season of Miracles, and will be treasured year after year at holiday time!

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Scholastic Canada

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1443119970

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9781443119979

October Suite

A Novel

By: Maxine Clair

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October Suite

A Novel

By: Maxine Clair

The debut novel by the author of Rattlebone. “Told in a melody all its own, this story touches many lovely and unexpected notes.” —Elizabeth Strout, #1 New York Times bestselling author It is 1950 and October Brown is a twenty-three-year-old first-year teacher thanking her lucky stars that she found a room in the best boardinghouse for Negro women teachers in Wyandotte County, Kansas. During an affair with an unhappily married handyman, October becomes pregnant. With job in jeopardy and her reputation in tatters, October goes back to Ohio to be with her family: her older sister, Vergie, and her aunts who raised the sisters after their mother was killed by their father. After giving birth, she gives the child to Vergie and her husband to raise as their own, then returns to Kansas City to rebuild her life. But something is missing—and, apparently too late, October realizes what she has done . . . The Midwest, the flourishing of modern jazz, and the culture of segregation form a compelling historical backdrop for this timeless and universal tale of one person’s battle to understand and master her own desires, and to embrace the responsibilities and promise of mature adulthood. In October Suite, Clair “has skillfully brought lyricism and word-play to her first novel, a family saga filled with secrets, redemption, and rivalry, as two sisters try to reclaim bonds forged in early childhood tragedy” (Library Journal). “Maxine Clair deserves our admiration for this beautifully written and humane novel.” —The Washington Post “A beautifully imagined novel that pulses with all the colors and sounds of the lives we live.” —Marita Golden, author of The Wide Circumference of Love

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Agate Digital

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1572844841

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Sweet Summer

By: Ann Maxine Nivens

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Sweet Summer

By: Ann Maxine Nivens

As Aura continued to dance in the moonlight, Patrick leaned against the doorway and pondered the mood of the night. He was six and felt very big indeed. He wondered if he was old enough to have a sweetheart. Pappy, am I old enough to court? Not quite, son! Why? Well, sir, I think that girl is going to be my sweetheart! So begins the lifelong love between Aura Blake and Patrick Garner. Soon afterward, Aura finds herself orphaned at age six, and she and Pat are separated for much of their childhood as Aura endures bitter mistreatment and isolation at the hands of extended family members. When God, in His providence, brings Aura into kinder surroundings and the two childhood sweethearts back in touch, their little spark from long ago blazes into an epic love. This love story, inspired by the authors own parents, follows Aura in her fight for survival, anchored by her deep faith in God, and Pat in his quest to find himself and God, as he wrestles with the impact of his failing health on his passionate adventures in the great outdoors. Together, Patrick and Aura face unspeakable tragedies that would destroy most loves and lives. Yet in the end, both find their place in the world as their love proves unquenchable and their faith unshakable.

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WestBowPress

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1490812113

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Gold from the Fire

Postcards from a Prairie Pilgrimage

By: Maxine Hancock

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Gold from the Fire

Postcards from a Prairie Pilgrimage

By: Maxine Hancock

Maxine Hancock has become well known among Christians in Canada for her conference speaking, broadcasting and writing. In these devotional and inspirational pieces, she draws on her many years of experience on an Alberta farm and her deep connections to the land, the community, and the small village church. "Maxine Hancock, a brilliant scholar and teacher and a gifted public communicator, here lets us into her inner heart and life. Her insights come one by one, the way they do in daily living, but each of these very personal, earthbound essays are informed by a heavenly vision of a superintending God who loves her and leads her. Beautifully and poignantly written, Gold From the Fire never dodges the hard questions, but Hancock's faith shines through them." -Luci Shaw, Author of The Crime of Living Cautiously "Maxine Hancock is one of those few scholars who is comfortable and competent debating in a televison studio, speaking to a packed conferenced assembly, giving a reasoned presentation to scholars or encouraging a young student in their walk of faith. Her gift of ministry in writing greatly enriches our lives as followers of the Lord. " - Brian C. Stiller, Tyndale University College & Seminary Maxine Hancock is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among her other books are several on family relationships, including Living on Less and Liking in More, Re-evaluating Your Commitments, and Creative, Confident, Children.

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Regent College Publishing

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1573832332

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9781573832335

Jewish Every Day

The Complete Handbook for Early Childhood Teachers

By: Behrman House,Maxine Segal Handelman

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Jewish Every Day

The Complete Handbook for Early Childhood Teachers

By: Behrman House,Maxine Segal Handelman

Written in a warm and understanding tone, this guide takes the best in secular early childhood education and applies it to Jewish early childhood education. With extensive bibliographies as well as background information for teachers, individual chapters review developmentally appropriate practice, anti-bias education, storytelling, music, Jewish thematic units, reaching out to interfaith families, keeping kosher at school, and much more.

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Behrman House, Inc

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0867050489

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9780867050486

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