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Good Behaviour

By: Molly Keane

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This Booker Prize-short listed dark satire of 20th-century Irish society is back in print. Is it possible to kill with kindness? As Molly Keane’s Booker Prize–short-listed dark comedy suggests, not only can kindness be deadly, it just may be the best form of revenge. The novel opens as Aroon St. Charles prepares to serve her invalid mother a splendid luncheon—the silver gleams, the linens glow—of rabbit mousse, a dish her mother despises. In fact, a single whiff of the stuff is enough to knock the old lady dead. “All my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives,” says Aroon soon after. In the pages that follow she will make her case, reminiscing about her youth among the hunting-and-fishing classes of Ireland, a faded aristocracy dedicated to distraction even as their fortunes dwindle. Keane’s brilliant sleight of hand is to allow her blinkered heroine to narrate her own development from neglected child, to ungainly debutante, to bitter spinster: Aroon understands nothing, yet she reveals all.

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New York Review of Books

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1681375303

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9781681375304

Women's Political Discourse

A 21st-century Perspective

By: Molly A. Mayhead,Brenda DeVore Marshall

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Women's Political Discourse

A 21st-century Perspective

By: Molly A. Mayhead,Brenda DeVore Marshall

Following an overview of women's political discourse from the early twentieth century, this book features selected women governors, representatives, and senators of the past several decades, from Jeannette Rank in the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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308

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742529096

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9780742529090

Just Write

The Art of Personal Correspondence

By: Molly O'Shaughnessy

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Just Write

The Art of Personal Correspondence

By: Molly O'Shaughnessy

When you receive your daily mail do you jump to open the handwritten envelopes first? Handwritten correspondence stands out as more interesting and personal. Writing by hand is something we need to do to connect as human beings, so if you are trying to establish intimacy, it needs to go beyond a screen. Just Write is a beautifully detailed guide to composing the perfect note. Molly O'Shaughnessy offers tips and solutions to creating memorable sentiments for every occasion, from birthdays to anniversaries to business. Just Write is written for the beginning/interested writer who doesn't quite know what to say, but it also appeals to longtime letter writers who are still looking to advance their techniques. Molly O'Shaughnessy owns Just Write, a company that designs invitations and personalized stationery, which she started as an expression of her love of written correspondence. She lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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164

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Gibbs Smith

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1423610121

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9781423610120

Learn Faster, Perform Better

A Musicianâs Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing

By: Molly Gebrian

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A Musicianâs Guide to the Neuroscience of Practicing

By: Molly Gebrian

Growing up, I hated to practice. I thought it was a frustrating waste of time that didn't accomplish much of anything. I did it because I was a diligent student and I knew it was expected of me, but I didn't quite see the point. My practice in those days consisted of getting out my instrument, playing through a few times the music my teacher had assigned, and then calling it a day. When I messed up, I'd start over, trying to play without the mistake. Or sometimes I'd repeat the spot where I had tripped up once or twice to correct the mistake, and then I'd just go on. Anything that wasn't immediately made better by these two methods was essentially ignored. Maybe my teacher won't notice that I can't really play that part, I thought"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197680070

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9780197680070

Americans Recaptured

Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity

By: Molly K. Varley

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Americans Recaptured

Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity

By: Molly K. Varley

It was on the frontier, where “civilized” men and women confronted the “wilderness,” that Europeans first became Americans—or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians. For Americans in the Progressive Era (1890–1916) these stories of Indian captivity seemed to prove that the violence of national expansion had been justified, that citizens’ individual suffering had been heroic, and that settlers’ contact with Indians and wilderness still characterized the nation’s “soul.” Furthermore, in the act of memorializing white Indian captives—through statues, parks, and reissued narratives—small towns found a way of inscribing themselves into the national story. By drawing out the connections between actual captivity, captivity narratives, and the memorializing of white captives, Varley shows how Indian captivity became a means for Progressive Era Americans to look forward by looking back. Local boosters and cultural commentators used Indian captivity to define “Americanism” and to renew those frontier qualities deemed vital to the survival of the nation in the post-frontier world, such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, “manliness,” and patriotism. In Varley’s analysis of the Progressive Era mentality, contact between white captives and Indians represented a stage in the evolution of a new American people and affirmed the contemporary notion of America as a melting pot. Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time—with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy—Americans Recaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806147555

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9780806147550

The UnAmericans: Stories

By: Molly Antopol

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The UnAmericans: Stories

By: Molly Antopol

A stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history, the debut work of fiction by a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree. Moving from modern-day Jerusalem to McCarthy-era Los Angeles to communist Prague and back again, The UnAmericans is a stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history. Molly Antopol’s critically acclaimed debut will long be remembered for its "poise and gravity" (New York Times), each story "so full of heartache and humor, love and life…[it’s] as though we’re absorbing a novel’s worth of insight" (Jesmyn Ward, Salon).

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212

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393241971

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9780393241976

You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

By: Molly Ivins

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You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

By: Molly Ivins

In her long-awaited new collection, the Colt Peacekeeper of American political humor draws a bead on targets that range from the Libido-in-Chief to Newt Gingrich, campaign funny-money to the legislative lunacy of her native Texas--and hits a bull's-eye every time. Whether she's writing about Bill Clinton ("The Rodney Dangerfield of presidents"), Bob Dole ("Dole contributed perhaps the funniest line of the year with his immortal observation that tobacco is not addictive but that too much milk might be bad for us. The check from the dairy lobby must have been late that week"), or cultural trends ("I saw a restaurant in Seattle that specialized in latte and barbecue. Barbecue and latte. I came home immediately"), Molly takes on the issues of the day with her trademark good sense and inimitable wit.

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281

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Vintage

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0307434753

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9780307434753

Dark Man

By: Molly Cutpurse

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Dark Man

By: Molly Cutpurse

When purity is not enough. North London 1936. Father Forrest is an inherently decent priest consumed by impure corporal thoughts. He has little possibility of ethical growth. When his secretary's young daughter dies, the tragedy stimulates a series of events which contribute to obsession, misfortune and blackmail. It will take a chance meeting with an unscrupulous young woman, the sudden reasonless death of his demented mother, a fortuitous brush with an elderly ex woman prisoner and combating an evil and vicious thug before he is able to come to terms with his moral struggle. This is a character-driven novel. You won't get any cute Hollywood endings here!

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Lulu.com

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1291533036

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9781291533033

Beaufort

The Duke and His Duchess, 1657-1715

By: Molly McClain

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Beaufort

The Duke and His Duchess, 1657-1715

By: Molly McClain

They also sought to tame political and religious passions and to bring order and stability to Restoration society, a goal which was shared by many members of the landed classes. This book uses their story to illuminate the profound cultural changes which took place after 1660. It also brings to life Henry Somerset (1629-1700) and Mary Capel Somerset (1630-1715), two complex and unique individuals."--BOOK JACKET.

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306

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Yale University Press

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0300084110

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9780300084115

The Bandersnatch

By: Molly Hardwick,Mollie Hardwick

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The Bandersnatch

By: Molly Hardwick,Mollie Hardwick

The story's lively characters, antique lore, tension-laden plot, and feisty heroine add up to amiable entertainment." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS When antiques dealer Doran Fairweather purchases an ancient limewood carving of a rosy-lipped cherub in flight for her baby's nursery, it seems she excites a lot of unwanted interest. Someone ransacks her home for it, while she and her family are asleep, and anonymous collectors offer outrageous prices for the carving and utter curses when they are refused. Now Doran must use her investigative brilliance to save her family from these mounting acts of terror. Staunchly supported by her husband Rodney, and inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll, Doran risks her life and everything she loves in an all-or-nothing gamble with a madman....

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Fawcett

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044922029X

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9780449220290

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Americans Recaptured

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The UnAmericans: Stories

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You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

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Dark Man

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Beaufort

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