Michelle Barnes's Books

The Sky Has Caring Eyes

By: Michelle Barnes-Andreson

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Melkenzye, called "Mel-Mel" by family and friends, is born without the chance to meet her Papa. Every morning, she looks out the window at the beautiful sky and says hello to Papa. Papa looks down from the sky and reminds her that she is loved. Mel-Mel goes about her day with Papa watching. She brushes her teeth and picks out fun clothes to wear. She goes to school and reminds other kids that they too, are loved from both close by and far away. Back home, her conversation with Papa continues. He might not physically be with her, but he is always near. The Sky Has Caring Eyes is a creative tool that can be used to tackle the difficult topic of death with small children. This is a gentle way to start a tough conversation and a way to remind children that, although family may have left us, they are never gone--and they love us all day long and forever.

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Archway Publishing

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1665711728

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The FitzOsbornes in Exile

By: Michelle Cooper

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The FitzOsbornes in Exile

By: Michelle Cooper

Michelle Cooper combines the drama of pre-War Europe with the romance of debutante balls and gives us another compelling historical page turner. Sophia FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Germans attacked, and now find themselves in the lap of luxury. Sophie's journal fills us in on the social whirl of London's 1937 season, but even a princess in lovely new gowns finds it hard to fit in. Is there no other debutante who reads?! And while the balls and house parties go on, newspaper headlines scream of war in Spain and threats from Germany. No one wants a second world war. Especially not the Montmaravians—with all Europe under attack, who will care about the fate of their tiny island kingdom? Will the FitzOsbornes ever be able to go home again? Could Montmaray be lost forever?

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Knopf Books for Young Readers

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0375898026

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Paint It Black

By: Michelle Perry

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Paint It Black

By: Michelle Perry

After fulfilling a lifelong devotion of bringing her drug lord father to justice, DEA agent Necie Bramhall believes the painful past is finally behind her—unaware that she has just created a new, more deadly enemy. Necie's beautiful and ruthless half-sister Maria Barnes, driven by a lifetime of jealousy and enraged by her father's arrest, is bent on destroying everything Necie holds dear—starting with her marriage and family. When Necie's daughter is kidnapped, new revelations show that her imprisoned father, the man she always perceived as her greatest enemy, might be the only one who can save her from Maria's wrath.

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Medallion Media Group

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1605429279

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African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina

By: Sarah Bryan,Beverly Bush Patterson,Michelle Lanier

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African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina

By: Sarah Bryan,Beverly Bush Patterson,Michelle Lanier

Includes CD with "music from artists in Edgecombe, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Nash, Pitt, Wayne and Wilson Counties.

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UNC Press Books

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1469610795

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Women in Presidential Cabinets

Power Players or Abundant Tokens?

By: Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon,Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson

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Women in Presidential Cabinets

Power Players or Abundant Tokens?

By: Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon,Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson

Though parity is still rare, presidential cabinets contain more women than ever before. Who are these women and what types of political capital resources do they bring to the administration? Are they new types of political players or very much like the men who have traditionally run the government? And once they gain office, are they treated equally in the cabinet? Do they have the capacity to be as effective as their male counterparts? Drawing on data from five presidential democracies -- Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and the United States -- Women in Presidential Cabinets examines the backgrounds, connections and credentials of all full-rank cabinet ministers in presidential administrations over the course of two decades to determine if women and men bring similar numbers and diversity of political capital resources to the administration. Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson find that, with a few notable exceptions, presidents select men and women with similar work and education backgrounds, political experience, and linkages to related interest groups. There are, however, differences across types of posts and countries. They evaluate the treatment and effectiveness of similarly credentialed male and female ministers on four benchmarks. Specifically, they examine whether women with equal qualifications can really obtain all posts or whether glass ceilings persist in some areas. They then turn to the ability of women to hold onto a post, considering the nature and circumstances surrounding their departures from office and how long they remain in office. In doing so, they uncover evidence that female ministers in Latin America stand on an unequal playing field when it comes to the ability to enact policy through legislation. Ultimately, Escobar-Lemmon and Taylor-Robinson show conclusively that while women lack numerical equality, they are no longer tokens, instead appearing positioned to exercise power at the highest levels within the executive branch.

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Oxford University Press

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019063216X

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The FitzOsbornes at War

By: Michelle Cooper

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The FitzOsbornes at War

By: Michelle Cooper

Michelle Cooper completes her heart-stealing epic drama of history and romance with The FitzOsbornes at War. Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But as war breaks out in England and around the world, nowhere is safe. Sophie fills her journal with tales of a life during wartime. Blackouts and the Blitz. Dancing in nightclubs with soliders on leave. And endlessly waiting for news of her brother Toby, whose plane was shot down over enemy territory. But even as bombs rain down on London, hope springs up, and love blooms for this most endearing princess. And when the Allies begin to drive their way across Europe, the FitzOsbornes take heart—maybe, just maybe, there will be a way to liberate Montmaray as well.

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Ember

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0307930580

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Raising Your Kids Right

Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism

By: Michelle Ann Abate

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Raising Your Kids Right

Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism

By: Michelle Ann Abate

Michelle Ann Abate examines a variety of texts that offer information, ideology, and even instructions on how to raise kids right, not just figuratively, but politically. Highlighting the works of William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, and others, she brings together such diverse fields as cultural studies, literary criticism, political science, childhood studies, brand marketing, and the cult of celebrity. --from publisher description.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813547989

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Censoring Translation

Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics of Translation

By: Michelle Woods

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Censoring Translation

Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics of Translation

By: Michelle Woods

A play is written, faces censorship and is banned in its native country. There is strong international interest; the play is translated into English, it is adapted, and it is not performed. Censoring Translation questions the role of textual translation practices in shaping the circulation and reception of foreign censored theatre. It examines three forms of censorship in relation to translation: ideological censorship; gender censorship; and market censorship. This examination of censorship is informed by extensive archival evidence from the previously unseen archives of Václav Havel's main theatre translator, Vera Blackwell, which includes drafts of playscripts, legal negotiations, reviews, interviews, notes and previously unseen correspondence over thirty years with Havel and central figures of the theatre world, such as Kenneth Tynan, Martin Esslin, and Tom Stoppard. Michelle Woods uses this previously unresearched archive to explore broader questions on censorship, asking why texts are translated at a given time, who translates them, how their identity may affect the translation, and how the constituents of success in a target culture may involve elements of censorship.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441187189

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Michelle Perry Collection

By: Michelle Perry

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Michelle Perry Collection

By: Michelle Perry

Multiple award–winning author Michelle Perry brings you Paint It Black, The Three Motives for Murder, In Enemy Hands, and Cain and Abel. Paint It Black DEA agent Necie Bramhall thinks she knows a thing or two about revenge. She’s devoted to bringing down the drug lord father who abandoned her. When she finally captures him, she thinks she’ll be able to put her painful past behind her. What she doesn’t realize is that she’s created a brand-new enemy. A deadly enemy: her half-sister Maria Barnes, who vows to destroy Necie, her marriage, and her family. Necie’s father, the only one who can save her, is behind bars, where Necie herself put him. The Three Motives for Murder A car crash on graduation night leaves three Coalmont, Tennessee, teenagers dead and another three fighting for their lives. Four years later, no one in the small town feels the aftershocks more than Natasha Hawthorne, the young driver. When a murderer targets the survivors, newly appointed police chief Brady Simms finds himself standing squarely between the killer and his next victim, the woman who broke his heart four years ago. Brady’s only hope of saving the intended victims is to get into the mind of a sociopath. What he finds will change their lives forever. In Enemy Hands Reclusive businessman Gary Vandergriff offers Dante Giovanni a cool half million to bring home his estranged daughter, Nadia. His first meeting with her is stunning. He foils an attempt on her life and falls immediately under her spell. It’s not going to be hard to keep her safe from the Mexican drug lord infuriated by her stepfather’s expanding meth operation. He’ll take her out of harm’s way, no problem, get her back to her father, and enjoy the ride along the way. Everything is great. Until he delivers her into enemy hands. Cain and Abel In Los Angeles an unexpected pregnancy sparks a daring plan of escape for a brutally battered wife. Jessica Ramsey fakes her death and flees to Tennessee. Five years later, a chance encounter has destroyed Jessica’s carefully cultivated anonymity. She thought at first Cole had found her, but it was his twin, Alex, who unwittingly unmasked her. Now she must trust him to save her from Cole’s wrath. But the twins are bound by blood. Will it prove stronger than the fragile relationship growing between Alex and Jessica? Or will a third time be a deadly charm?

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Medallion Media Group

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1605428000

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Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance

By: Michelle Zerba

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Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance

By: Michelle Zerba

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of doubt in works by Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Cicero, Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Montaigne. Based on close analysis of literary and philosophical texts by these important authors, Michelle Zerba argues that doubt is a defining experience in antiquity and the Renaissance, one that constantly challenges the limits of thought and representation. The wide-ranging discussion considers issues that run the gamut from tragic loss to comic bombast, from psychological collapse to skeptical dexterity and from solitary reflection to political improvisation in civic contexts and puts Greek and Roman treatments of doubt into dialogue not only with sixteenth-century texts but with contemporary works as well. Using the past to engage questions of vital concern to our time, Zerba demonstrates that although doubt sometimes has destructive consequences, it can also be conducive to tolerance, discovery and conversation across sociopolitical boundaries.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139536915

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Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part I Vol 3

By: Michelle Allen-Emerson,Tina Young Choi,Christopher S Hamlin

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Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part I Vol 3

By: Michelle Allen-Emerson,Tina Young Choi,Christopher S Hamlin

Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. An extensive general introduction sets the material in context and extends the debate to provide a contemporary international perspective.

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1000561364

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Autumn Bay

By: Robin Michelle Zachery

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Autumn Bay

By: Robin Michelle Zachery

A suspense novel about a small town in Kentucky with more than secrets of the past. Murder, love, hate, suspense all wrapped up in a web of secrets and lies. The truth is too cruel to know.

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Lulu.com

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1105621464

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9781105621468

Four Weddings and a Duke

By: Michelle McLean

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Four Weddings and a Duke

By: Michelle McLean

As the middle—and least marriageable—sister in a bevy of swans, Lavinia Wynnburn is quite content being the odd duck out. This way, she’s free to commit social faux pas without anyone much noticing. Until the Duke of Beaubrooke turns up the morning after a ball, asking for her hand in marriage. Alexander Reddington doesn’t particularly care for social niceties, nor is he particularly good at them. But now that the spare has become the heir, he must marry...and soon. When he stumbles into the same corner as a socially awkward wallflower, he knows he’s found the perfect wife: one who won’t bother him to attend every simpering event of the season. Only, Alexander’s shy and pretty new wife is finding her new position surprisingly exciting and keeps accepting every invitation that flutters past their door. And worse luck, he might even be falling for her. Now he must hide the truth about why he really proposed...before his unexpectedly happy marriage is dashed to pieces.

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Entangled: Amara

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1649373309

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9781649373304

Ball Tales

A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s through 1960s

By: Michelle Nolan

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Ball Tales

A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s through 1960s

By: Michelle Nolan

This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels from early dime novels through the 1960s. Chapters cover dime novel heroes Frank and Dick Merriwell; the explosion of sports novels before World War II and its influence on the authors who later wrote for baby boom readers; how sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and the classic John R. Tunis novels. Appendices list sports pulp titles and comic books featuring sports fiction.

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McFarland

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0786458305

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Smart Suits, Tattered Boots

Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century

By: Korie Little Edwards,Michelle Oyakawa

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Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century

By: Korie Little Edwards,Michelle Oyakawa

A compelling study of how race, culture, and civic organizing impact black religious leader mobilization in contemporary America. Black ministers were at the heart of the Civil Rights movement, but in recent years their level of social mobilization has decreased, with much of their efforts being devoted to supporting the candidacies of Democratic politicians. This book explores the question of when and why black ministers mobilize for change, and attempts to explain their relative lack of involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement and the broader movement for police reform"--

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NYU Press

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1479812536

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A Veil Removed

By: Michelle Cox

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A Veil Removed

By: Michelle Cox

“Mixing Romance and Mystery in a Fizzy 1930s Cocktail!” “This is a wonderfully-written, engaging story with excellent character treatment and a thrilling mystery.” — IBPA, Independent Book Publishers Association “Another triumph in a gorgeously romantic, but also seriously compelling mystery series.” — Readers Favorite “Entertaining. . . Composed of large dollops of romance and a soupcon of mystery, this confection will appeal.” — Publishers Weekly Murder is never far from this sexy couple . . . even during the holidays! Their honeymoon abruptly ended by the untimely death of Alcott Howard, Clive and Henrietta return to Highbury, where Clive discovers all is not as it should be. Increasingly convinced that his father’s death was not an accident, Clive launches his own investigation, despite his mother’s belief that he has become “mentally disturbed” with grief. Henrietta eventually joins forces with Clive on their first real case, which becomes darker—and deadlier—than they imagined as they get closer to the truth behind Alcott’s troubled affairs. Meanwhile, Henrietta’s sister, Elsie, begins, at Henrietta’s orchestration, to take classes at a women’s college—an attempt to evade her troubles and prevent any further romantic temptations. When she meets a bookish German custodian at the school, however, he challenges her to think for herself . . . even as she discovers some shocking secrets about his past life.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631525042

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9781631525049

Reaching Out to Children and Families

Students Model Effective Community Service

By: Michelle R. Dunlap

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Reaching Out to Children and Families

Students Model Effective Community Service

By: Michelle R. Dunlap

Community service and learning experiences are booming as we enter the 21st century. This practical guide assists college students and other constituents as they psychologically prepare for volunteering, service-learning, practicums, fieldwork assignments, and internships in a diverse and ever-changing world. Though created with the novice community worker in mind, this book will also assist professors, teachers, administrators, and agency personnel in understanding and preparing workers for community service and learning in schools, child care centers, soup kitchens, and shelters for the homeless. Written in a practical, conversational style, this book offers the voices, issues, concerns, and resources of more than 200 previous community workers. This book includes their struggles with the initial adjustment process, as well as ongoing gender, race, and class issues encountered in various service learning environments. Topics range from choosing a community service site to appropriate methods of bringing closure to the experience when it is time to say good-bye. This book in essence, provides hundreds of role models, scenarios, and worker perspectives that will help less-inexperienced workers prepare for the real-life, hands-on experiences of community engagement.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461641802

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Heart of a Hoosier

A Year of Inspiration from IU Men's Basketball

By: Del Duduit,Michelle Medlock Adams

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Heart of a Hoosier

A Year of Inspiration from IU Men's Basketball

By: Del Duduit,Michelle Medlock Adams

Five NCAA Championships, 22 Big Ten Conference Championships—this is the candy-striped legacy of the Indiana University men's basketball team. In its 120-year history, Indiana basketball has become a giant in college basketball and earned a legion of fans. In Heart of a Hoosier: A Year of Inspiration from IU Men's Basketball, authors Del Duduit and Michelle Medlock Adams show readers how the famous moments and personalities of the Indiana Hoosiers can inspire them to reach for success, overcome adversity, be a great team member, and more. Readers will be inspired by a year's worth of stories featuring fierce rivalries with Purdue and Kentucky and legendary players and coaches such as Steve Alford, Isiah Thomas, Calbert Cheaney, George McGinnis, Branch McCracken, and Bobby Knight. Heart of a Hoosier will entertain and motivate every fan who bleeds Cream & Crimson. Relive the triumphs, groan at the losses, and revel in great traditions!

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Indiana University Press

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0253056985

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Serial Killer Trivia: Cold Cases

Fascinating Facts and Chilling Details from the Creepiest Unsolved Murders Ever

By: Michelle Kaminsky

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Serial Killer Trivia: Cold Cases

Fascinating Facts and Chilling Details from the Creepiest Unsolved Murders Ever

By: Michelle Kaminsky

The ultimate collection of intriguing details from the most infamous cold cases around the world—and the killers who may still be out there . . . From England’s Jack the Ripper and the Axeman of New Orleans to lesser-known cases like Detroit’s Bigfoot Killer and Cleveland’s Torso Murderer, this trivia book is packed with information about some of the most shocking cold cases in history. Written for the true crime junkies who just can’t get enough, you’ll get all the must-know details on more than 80 unsolved true crime cases. Alongside these disturbing cold cases, you’ll also learn about the inspiring story of the crack detective work—and ancestry DNA database—that eventually brought California’s Golden State Killer, arguably one of the most famous serial killer cold cases, to justice. With gripping facts and disturbing evidence plucked from original sources such as trial transcripts and contemporary newspaper accounts, the book is sure to include surprising stories that even the most well-informed true crime fans don’t know.

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Simon and Schuster

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1646041275

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Millicent Quinones

By: Jeanette Michelle

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Millicent Quinones

By: Jeanette Michelle

In order to understand Millicent Quinones, you must first read the first book written by this author titled Mycall. Millicent Quinones is a spin off from Mycall and a prequel to Mycall part II. Millicent left Minnesota with Mycall due to an unfortunate incident beyond their control. If you like suspense, mayhem and murder you definitely will enjoy Millicent Quinones. To better understand the characters in this novel, it’s recommended to read, Mycall followed by, You can’t save them all. Millicent Quinones is a virtuous woman who was never influenced by evil, but evil and bad people always delimited her. The truth is finally revealed to Millicent, which puts her life in total disarray.

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Xlibris Corporation

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146283826X

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Harlequin Desire May 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Kristi Gold,Michelle Celmer,Cat Schield

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Harlequin Desire May 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Kristi Gold,Michelle Celmer,Cat Schield

Harlequin Desire brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Desire bundle includes From Single Mom to Secret Heiress by Kristi Gold, Caroselli’s Accidental Heir by USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle Celmer and A Merger by Marriage by Cat Schield. Look for 6 new compelling stories every month from Harlequin Desire!

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1460335716

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Death Row, Texas

Inside the Execution Chamber

By: Michelle Lyons

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Death Row, Texas

Inside the Execution Chamber

By: Michelle Lyons

“Tells the story of a traumatic life spent witnessing hundreds of people being executed in Texas’ most infamous prison.” —Daily Beast “I can’t remember his name or his crime. What I remember is the nothingness. No family members, no friends, no comfort. Maybe he didn’t want them to come, maybe they didn’t care, maybe he didn’t have any in the first place. It was just a prison official and two reporters, including me, looking through the glass at this man strapped fast to the gurney, needles in both arms, staring hard at the ceiling. When the warden stepped forward and asked if he wanted to make a last statement, the man barely shook his head, said nothing and started blinking. That’s when I saw it: a single tear at the corner of his right eye. A tear he desperately wanted to blink away, a tear he didn’t want us to see. It pooled there for a moment before running down his cheek. The warden gave his signal, the chemicals started flowing, the man coughed, sputtered and exhaled. A doctor entered the room, pronounced the man dead and pulled a sheet over his head.” —Michelle Lyons, from the Prologue Michelle Lyons witnessed nearly 300 executions at the Texas State penitentiary. This “haunting, dark and hard to put down” behind-the-scenes look at those final moments of life relates shocking true stories of the inmate, his/her family members, prison officials, the death-row chaplain and the victim’s loved ones—all of whom come together in the death chamber (Houston Chronicle).

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1612438903

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9781612438900

Lost Restaurants of Louisville

By: Stephen Hacker,Michelle Turner

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Lost Restaurants of Louisville

By: Stephen Hacker,Michelle Turner

Louisville was home to fine cuisine long before the famous restaurant rows on Bardstown Road, Frankfort Avenue and East Market Street. Mazzoni's served the area's first rolled oyster. At the C-54 Grill, guests dined inside a remodeled aircraft, and Kaelin's prepared its classic cheeseburger. Hasenour's sauerbraten and Hoe Kow's war sui gai are two dishes that still make local mouths water when mentioned. Authors Stephen Hacker and Michelle Turner revisit the vivid personalities, celebrated spaces and unique recipes that made Louisville's historic eateries unforgettable.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625856288

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Death Metal and Music Criticism

Analysis at the Limits

By: Michelle Phillipov

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Death Metal and Music Criticism

Analysis at the Limits

By: Michelle Phillipov

Death metal is one of popular music's most extreme variants, and is typically viewed as almost monolithically nihilistic, misogynistic, and reactionary. Studies tend to view the music as a reflection of these listeners' social conditions and are concerned with metal's pleasures so long as these can be seen within that context: as responses to cultural and economic circumstances. Michelle Phillipov's Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits, in contract, offers an account of listening pleasure on its own terms. Through an analysis of death metal's sonic and lyrical extremity, Phillipov shows how violence and aggression can be configured as sites for pleasure and play in death metal music, with little relation to the 'real' lives of listeners. In some cases, gruesome lyrical themes and fractured song forms invite listeners to imagine new experiences of the body and of the self. In others, the speed and complexity of the music foster a 'technical' or distanced appreciation akin to the viewing experiences of graphic horror film fans. These aspects of death metal listening are often neglected by scholarly accounts concerned with evaluating music as either 'progressive' or 'reactionary.' By contextualizing the discussion of death metal via substantial overviews of popular music studies as a field, Phillipov's Death Metal and Music Criticism highlights how the premium placed on political engagement in popular music studies not only circumscribes our understanding of the complexity and specificity of death metal, but of other musical styles as well. Exploring death metal at the limits of conventional music criticism helps not only to develop a more nuanced account of death metal listening—it also offers some important starting points for a rethinking of popular music scholarship as a whole.

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0739164619

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Rita’S Saga

A Young Woman’S Journey Through the Seedy Side of Nashville

By: Angela Michelle Grant

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Rita’S Saga

A Young Woman’S Journey Through the Seedy Side of Nashville

By: Angela Michelle Grant

Readers will marvel at this truly incredibility original and exciting romance novel that is filled with mystery, comedy and family dynamics. Ritas Saga is a tale about Rita Annett Craighead a down-to-earth, unpretentious, unassuming natural beauty from a small farming town in west Tennessee. She moves to the metropolitan city of Nashville after receiving a full academic scholarship to attend the prestigious Commodore University. Her sister, who lives in public housing ask her to care for her children for two months. Because of circumstance out of her control, she has to get a job as an escort. The characters she dates have eccentric personalities and ask her to perform bizarre task for which she is paid handsomely. The saga takes Rita on a journey through Music City USA. She meets and falls in love with a wealthy and mysterious newcomer, Mason Grant. And when she does, she is unaware of the danger she is in. She is eventually kidnapped, drugged and dumped in an alley only to be discovered by a hound-dog police detective, Thomas Monroe who is convinced that it was not Rita the kidnappers were after, but information from about Mason Grant. To protect herself and the children in her care, she has no other recourse than to move in with the handsome stranger in his mansion in the upscale neighborhood of Belle Meade where she is held a virtual prisoner. Rita soon learns that Mason has a secret pass and in order to protect his true identity he would go great lengths. You will laugh, cry and be encouraged as you read this page turner that will remind you of the value of faith, true love and family unity.

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At the End of the River Styx

By: Michelle Kulwicki

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At the End of the River Styx

By: Michelle Kulwicki

Before he can be reborn, Zan has spent 499 years bound in a 500-year curse to process souls for the monstrous Ferryman—and if he fails he dies. In Portland, Bastian is grieving. He survived a car accident that took his mother and impulse-purchased a crumbling bookstore with the life insurance money. But in sleep, death’s mark keeps dragging Bastian into Zan’s office. It shouldn’t be a problem to log his soul and forget he ever existed. But when Zan follows Bastian through his memories of grief and hope, Zan realizes that he is not ready for Bastian to die. The boys borrow time hiding in the memories of the dead while the Ferryman hunts them, and Zan must decide if he’s willing to give up his chance at life to save Bastian—and Bastian must decide if he’s willing to keep living if it means losing Zan.

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A Promise Given

By: Michelle Cox

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A Promise Given

By: Michelle Cox

“Mixing Romance and Mystery in a Fizzy 1930s Cocktail!” “Series fans will cheer the beginning of Clive and Henrietta’s private investigation business in an entry with welcome echoes of Pride and Prejudice.” ― Publishers Weekly “The mix of sleuthing and aristocratic life pairs well with Rhys Bowen’s Royal Spyness series.” ― Booklist “A story full of family secrets, twisted plots, and a striking English setting, A Promise Given is the perfect novel for fans of Sherlock Holmes.” — Brit + Co. This third book in the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series provides a delightful romp through the English countryside and back. Anxious to be married, Henrietta and Clive push forward with their wedding plans despite their family differences, made worse now by Oldrich Exley’s attempts to control the Von Harmons. When the long-awaited wedding day arrives, there is more unfolding than just Clive and Henrietta’s vows of love. Stanley and Elsie’s relationship is sorely tested by the presence of the dashing Lieutenant Harrison Barnes-Smith and by Henrietta’s friend Rose—a situation that grows increasingly dark and confused as time goes on. As Clive and Henrietta begin their honeymoon at Castle Linley, the Howards’ ancestral estate in England, they encounter a whole new host of characters, including the eccentric Lord and Lady Linley and Clive’s mysterious cousin, Wallace. When a man is murdered in the village on the night of a house party at the Castle, Wallace comes under suspicion—and Clive and Henrietta are reluctantly drawn into the case, despite Clive’s anxiety at involving his new bride and Henrietta’s distracting news from home. Delicately attempting to work together for the first time, Clive and Henrietta set out to prove Wallace’s innocence, uncovering as they do so some rather shocking truths that will shake the Linley name and estate forever.

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Maggie's Mark

A Romantic Suspense Novella

By: Michelle Cornish

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Maggie's Mark

A Romantic Suspense Novella

By: Michelle Cornish

The CIA told me to hunt him down. Instead, I fell in love with him. It’s 1987 and CIA officer Maggie Barnes has the opportunity of her life—take down Ricardo Ceiba, Colombia’s most prominent drug lord. But the more Maggie learns about Ricardo, and the deeper she goes undercover the more she sees Ricardo for who he really is. Her mission becomes an impossible choice—take down the man she loves or betray her country.

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Constant and Eternal (The Father's Love)

The Third of A Beautiful Sequel (My Life in Christ)

By: Venus Michelle Pilipovic

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Constant and Eternal (The Father's Love)

The Third of A Beautiful Sequel (My Life in Christ)

By: Venus Michelle Pilipovic

Amish, Buddhists, Christians, Deists, Episcopalians, Free Masons, Gnoses, Hindus, Islamics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Kimbanguists, Lutherans, Mormons, Neo-Pagans, Occultists, Pagans, Quadri, Rastafarians, Satanists, Taoists, Unitarian Universalists, Vaishnavites, Wiccans, Xintiandi, Yezidis, Zoroastrians, and all that was not mentioned with or without a category--welcome to my story, soon to be yours.

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The IC Toolkit

By: Jim Knight,Jessica Wise,Michelle Harris,Amy Musante

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The IC Toolkit

By: Jim Knight,Jessica Wise,Michelle Harris,Amy Musante

Refine the art and craft of instructional coaching. For more than 25 years, Jim Knight and his team at the Instructional Coaching Group have been studying what excellence in instructional coaching looks and sounds like. Their findings—organized around 7 Success Factors for instructional coaches and shared via books, articles, and workshops—have helped many instructional coaches around the world to increase teacher effectiveness and improve outcomes for students. Bringing together for the first time a wealth of resources and practical tools, The IC Toolkit is designed to guide instructional coaches—either individually or, preferably, collectively—through a 36-week journey of practice, reflection, and learning. For instructional coaches who want to improve and leaders who want to set up meaningful learning experiences, the book provides concrete tools—including activities, checklists, case studies, and videos—that you can use every week. Additional features include One-page descriptions of each success factor A needs assessment to gauge your instructional coaching proficiency in the 7 Success Factors Learning paths to guide your use of the resources and enable meaningful exploration of each success factor End-of-chapter reflection questions The IC Toolkit makes it possible for every instructional coach to become highly proficient in the Success Factors. When instructional coaches become highly proficient in their craft, we can see students, teachers, and systems flourish.

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Jacinda Ardern

The Full Story of an Extraordinary Prime Minister

By: Michelle Duff

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Jacinda Ardern

The Full Story of an Extraordinary Prime Minister

By: Michelle Duff

In-depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's extraordinary leadership as Prime Minister of New Zealand. What made Jacinda Ardern such an incredibly popular New Zealand prime minister? And why did her popularity then fall so dramatically? What happened during her leadership, and how did the unprecedented events of her tenure eventually lead to her resignation? This in-depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's extraordinary leadership from award-winning journalist Michelle Duff examines these questions, and much more. Substantially revised to provide a comprehensive overview, this edition of the bestselling biography covers Ardern's rise to power and her nearly six years as Aotearoa New Zealand's prime minister, a period that included a global pandemic, a devastating terrorist attack and a deadly volcanic eruption. Covering the turbulent time between Labour's historic landslide election victory in 2020 and Ardern's shock resignation in early 2023, Duff also looks at the increasingly misogynistic pushback experienced by Ardern. Pandemic-induced tensions led to a rise in social and political polarisation in Aotearoa, having major ramifications for Ardern's time as prime minister. This is an engrossing and powerful exploration of one of the most intriguing political stories of our time — telling us as much about an extraordinary prime minister's ascendancy and fall as it does about the country that elected her.

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1761188011

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Designing for Autism Spectrum Disorders

By: Kristi Gaines,Angela Bourne,Michelle Pearson,Mesha Kleibrink

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Designing for Autism Spectrum Disorders

By: Kristi Gaines,Angela Bourne,Michelle Pearson,Mesha Kleibrink

Winner of the 2017 IDEC Book Award, 2017 EDRA Great Places Award (Book Category), 2017 American Society of Interior Designers Joel Polsky Prize and the 2016 International Interior Design Association TXOK Research Award Designing for Autism Spectrum Disorders explains the influence of the natural and man-made environment on individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other forms of intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD). Drawing on the latest research in the fields of environmental psychology and education, the authors show you how architecture and interior spaces can positively influence individuals with neurodiversities by modifying factors such as color, lighting, space organization, textures, acoustics, and ventilation. Now you can design homes, therapeutic environments, work environments, and outdoor spaces to encourage growth and learning for the projected 500,000 children with ASD (in the United States alone) who are expected to reach adulthood by 2024. Topics discussed include: -Environmental design theories -Symptoms of ASD -Sensory processing deficits -Design needs of individuals on the spectrum at all ages -Design methods and solutions for spaces, including residential, learning, work, and therapeutic environments encompassing a wide range of budgets -Designing for self-actualization, well-being, and a high quality of life for the duration of an individual's life -Avenues for healthy living and aging in place -Biophilic design -Environmental impact on well-being -Strategies to promote active living as an integral part of the welfare focus.

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131793203X

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The Tentmaker

By: Michelle Blake

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The Tentmaker

By: Michelle Blake

Sleuth Lily Connor investigates the death of an Episcopal priest in a Boston parish. Officially the priest died of an insulin overdose, but Lily, a priest from Texas sent as a replacement, suspects foul play.

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Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 4

By: Leigh Wetherall Dickson,Allan Ingram,David Walker,Anita O'Connell,Michelle Faubert

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Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800 vol 4

By: Leigh Wetherall Dickson,Allan Ingram,David Walker,Anita O'Connell,Michelle Faubert

As a psychiatric term ‘depression’ dates back only as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Before then a wide range of terms were used: ‘melancholy’ carried enormous weight, and was one of the two confirmed forms of eighteenth-century insanity. This four-volume set is the first large-scale study of depression across an extensive period.

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Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

By: Michelle M. Dowd

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Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

By: Michelle M. Dowd

Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women.

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The Joy Choice

How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise

By: Michelle Segar

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The Joy Choice

How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise

By: Michelle Segar

Learn to live a happier and healthier life with the help of this book—start changing behaviors and create new habits using fun and easy science-based solutions. What if you could easily and joyfully resolve the in-the-moment conflicts that often derail your eating and exercise goals? Much of what we’ve been taught about creating change in eating and exercise is simplistic, outdated, and for many, misguided. Sustainable-behavior-change researcher and lifestyle coach Michelle Segar has devoted decades to the study of how to achieve lasting changes in eating and exercise and other self-care behaviors. Segar explains the surprising reasons why our eating and exercise plans so often crash when they come up against real life. She calls these conflicts “choice points,” and shows that they are the real place of power for achieving lasting changes in eating and exercise.The Joy Choice offers a fresh, brain-based solution that turns the old behavior-change paradigm on its head. This groundbreaking book liberates you from the self-defeating obligations and rigid requirements of past diet and workout regimens and reveals what emerging research suggests really drives the consistent choices that power sustainable change. Designed from cutting-edge decision science and real-world experience coaching clients, you’ll discover the easy, flexible, and three-step joy-infused decision tool that works with the chaos of daily life, guiding you to finally achieve and maintain your eating and exercise goals once and for all—and enjoy doing it! "One of the best health books of 2022”—Washington Post “If you want a smart, science-based, and joyful approach to sustainable behavior change, start here." ―Tom Rath, NYT bestselling author of Eat Move Sleep and StrengthsFinder 2.0 "The Joy Choice...reveals easy and fun ways to stay consistent with our health goals, while still tending to the meaningful people and demands in our lives."―Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D., NYT bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child and author of The Bottom Line for Baby "If you’re frustrated with your progress in exercising and eating right, this book is for you. Michelle Segar shifts the focus...toward a new approach to our choices that is full of humanity, imperfection, and, yes, joy.” ―Daniel H. Pink, NYT bestselling author of The Power of Regret and Drive

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0306826097

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The Architecture of Persistence

Designing for Future Use

By: David Fannon,Michelle Laboy,Peter Wiederspahn

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The Architecture of Persistence

Designing for Future Use

By: David Fannon,Michelle Laboy,Peter Wiederspahn

The Architecture of Persistence argues that continued human use is the ultimate measure of sustainability in architecture, and that expanding the discourse about adaptability to include continuity as well as change offers the architectural manifestation of resilience. Why do some buildings last for generations as beloved and useful places, while others do not? How can designers today create buildings that remain useful into the future? While architects and theorists have offered a wide range of ideas about building for change, this book focuses on persistent architecture: the material, spatial, and cultural processes that give rise to long-lived buildings. Organized in three parts, this book examines material longevity in the face of constant physical and cultural change, connects the dimensions of human use and contemporary program, and discusses how time informs the design process. Featuring dozens of interviews with people who design and use buildings, and a close analysis of over a hundred historic and contemporary projects, the principles of persistent architecture introduced here address urgent challenges for contemporary practice while pointing towards a more sustainable built environment in the future. The Architecture of Persistence: Designing for Future Use offers practitioners, students, and scholars a set of principles and illustrative precedents exploring architecture’s unique ability to connect an instructive past, a useful present, and an unknown future.

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