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To Foster the Spirit of Professionalism

Southern Scientists and State Academies of Science

By: Nancy Smith Midgette

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To Foster the Spirit of Professionalism

Southern Scientists and State Academies of Science

By: Nancy Smith Midgette

Details the struggle of Southern scientists to maintain professional status and organizations after the Civil War. Explores the role of academies of science in helping maintain a presence, research activity, and communication.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817305491

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9780817305499

A God That Could be Real

Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet

By: Nancy Ellen Abrams

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A God That Could be Real

Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet

By: Nancy Ellen Abrams

A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for the agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded reader Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them, perpetuates conflict, vilifies science, and undermines reason. Nancy Abrams—a philosopher of science, lawyer, and lifelong atheist—is among them, but she has also found freedom in imagining a higher power. In A God That Could Be Real, Abrams explores a radically new way of thinking about God. She dismantles several common assumptions about God and shows why an omniscient, omnipotent God that created the universe and plans what happens is incompatible with science—but that this doesn’t preclude a God that can comfort and empower us. Moving away from traditional arguments for God, Abrams finds something worthy of the name “God” in the new science of emergence: just as a complex ant hill emerges from the collective behavior of individually clueless ants, and just as the global economy emerges from the interactions of billions of individuals’ choices, God, she argues, is an “emergent phenomenon” that arises from the staggering complexity of humanity’s collective aspirations and is in dialogue with every individual. This God did not create the universe—it created the meaning of the universe. It’s not universal—it’s planetary. It can’t change the world, but it helps us change the world. A God that could be real, Abrams shows us, is what humanity needs to inspire us to collectively cooperate to protect our warming planet and create a long-term civilization.

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Beacon Press

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0807075957

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9780807075951

Decision Making & Spiritual Discernment

The Sacred Art of Finding Your Way

By: Nancy L. Bieber

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Decision Making & Spiritual Discernment

The Sacred Art of Finding Your Way

By: Nancy L. Bieber

Stay spiritually grounded and open to divine wisdom as you shape your life. "To make wise decisions, we need the aid of that wise and loving Spirit whose wisdom and light exceed our own. With the Spirit illuminating the complexities of our decisions, we can see and understand more about ourselves and our choices." —from the Introduction Spiritual discernment is the traditional name for listening and responding to divine guidance. In this book you will approach decision making as an active participant, a co-creator with God in shaping your life. Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as a psychologist and fifteen years as a spiritual director, Nancy L. Bieber presents three essential aspects of Spirit-led decision making: • Willingness—being open to God's wisdom and love • Attentiveness—noticing what is true, discerning the right path • Responsiveness—taking steps forward as the way becomes clear. With gentle encouragement, Bieber shows how to weave these themes together to discover the best path for you. Each chapter is enriched by practical spiritual exercises to help you understand yourself and your specific situation, as well as to strengthen spiritual discernment as a daily way of life. An appendix includes a detailed guide for using the book in group study.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1594733333

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9781594733338

Sunglasses After Dark

By: Nancy A. Collins

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Sunglasses After Dark

By: Nancy A. Collins

A half-human, half-vampire hunts the bloodsucker who bit her in this “compelling” Bram Stoker Award-winning debut (Publishers Weekly). One spring night in London, heiress Denise Thorne disappears while partying at a nightclub, never to be seen again. That very same night, Sonja Blue, a tough-as-nails punk vampire/vampire-slayer, conceived in terror and blood, is borne from the city’s gutters. Saved by modern medicine before she could die, she is a living vampire who still possesses a soul and is determined to fight for what remains of her humanity. In the years since her bizarre resurrection, Sonja Blue travels the globe, hunting down and disposing of those creatures that prey on the innocent while searching for the vampire Noble who created her. But when she investigates a sleazy televangelist named Catherine Wheele, who is exploiting Denise Thorne’s parents, Sonja finds herself up against a powerful inhuman adversary. But as dangerous as Catherine Wheele proves to be, Sonja’s greatest foe remains the Other, the demonic personality with whom she is locked in a constant battle for control of their shared body. Can Sonja Blue overcome her inner demon in time to rescue an innocent man from Catherine Wheele’s unholy clutches? Acknowledged as one of the first Urban Fantasy novels, Sunglasses After Dark burst onto the fantasy/horror scene in 1989, garnering widespread critical praise and winning the Horror Writers Association’s coveted Bram Stoker Award, as well as the British Fantasy Society’s Icarus Award. New edition: Revised and edited by the author.

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Open Road Media

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1504016254

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9781504016254

Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part I, Volume 2

Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone by their Contemporaries

By: Nancy LoPatin-Lummis,Michael Partridge,Richard Gaunt

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Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part I, Volume 2

Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone by their Contemporaries

By: Nancy LoPatin-Lummis,Michael Partridge,Richard Gaunt

Aims to bring alive, through the eyes of their contemporaries, three of the greatest political figures of the Victorian era - Henry, third Viscount Palmerston, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. This four-volume set draws together various documents including journals and diaries, pamphlets, correspondence, and other ephemeral literature. Volume 2 covers the political life of Benjamin Disraeli (Part I).

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Routledge

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1000419932

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9781000419931

Tony N' Tina's Wedding

By: Nancy Cassaro,Thomas Michael Allen,Artificial Intelligence (Group)

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Tony N' Tina's Wedding

By: Nancy Cassaro,Thomas Michael Allen,Artificial Intelligence (Group)

Originally produced by Joseph and Daniel Corcoran in association with Artificial Intelligence.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573694729

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9780573694721

And Then There Were Four

By: Nancy Werlin

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And Then There Were Four

By: Nancy Werlin

When five high school students are brought together under mysterious circumstances, they begin to piece together a theory that their parents are working together to kill them all"--

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Penguin

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0803740727

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9780803740723

Slay Bells Ring

By: Nancy Robards Thompson

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Slay Bells Ring

By: Nancy Robards Thompson

It's one thing to write a mystery, but when your daughter is the suspect -- you solve it. Wedding planner Jenna Bell doesn’t panic when the groom is a no-show to the ceremony – even though he is her former high school sweetheart and this wedding is the small town's event of the year. However, when he turns up dead and she is falsely accused… well, yeah, now it’s the time to panic. Jenna’s mother, Maddie, puts her cozy mystery writing skills to use to try to clear her daughter’s name, stepping on by-the-book Chief of Police Jackson Bradley's toes in the process. No matter how enticing he finds her, he doesn’t want this writer-turned-amateur-sleuth interfering with his murder investigation. With nearly all of Hemlock, North Carolina, picking sides and the town's own Gossip Brigade churning out the rumors, Maddie discovers the mystery isn't very cozy when it hits this close to home.

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Tule Publishing

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1951190440

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9781951190446

Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie

By: Nancy Mitford

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Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie

By: Nancy Mitford

Two sparkling comedies from early in the career of the beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. • “Exuberant...enjoyable skulduggery and shenanigans.” —The New York Times In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters converge on the hunt-obsessed Lady Bobbin’s country house, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl’s pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose serious first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. In Pigeon Pie, set at the outbreak of World War II, Lady Sophia Garfield dreams of becoming a beautiful spy but manages not to notice a nest of German agents right under her nose, until the murder of her maid and kidnapping of her beloved bulldog force them on her attention, with heroic results. Delivered with a touch lighter than that of Mitford’s later masterpieces but no less entertaining, these comedies combine glamour, wit, and fiendishly absurd plots into irresistible literary confections.

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Vintage

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0345806638

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Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets, Student Workbook

By: Nancy L. Caroline,AAOS

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Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets, Student Workbook

By: Nancy L. Caroline,AAOS

Dr. Caroline trained her paramedics to be well-rounded, compassionate, quick-thinking problem solvers. This workbook will help students become great paramedics! Critical thinking skills are further developed through: Realistic and engaging case studies ECG Interpretation exercises “What Would You Do?” scenarios Comprehension of the course material is aided through: Skill drill activities Anatomy labeling exercises Medical vocabulary building exercises Fun is ensured with these activities: Crossword puzzles Secret messages Word finds Student Resources CD-ROM Included free with each copy of the Student Workbook! This CD-ROM contains the following resources: Glossary Common Prefixes Common Suffixes Common Root Words Common Abbreviations Medication Formulary Medication Flashcards Skill Evaluation Sheets National Registry Skill Sheets The Student Workbook comes complete with an answer key and page references for further study. Click here to view a sample chapter from the Student Workbook. Learn more about Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets, Sixth Edition at http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9780763781729/.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449615716

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9781449615710

Crone's Notebook

Second Edition

By: Nancy Talley

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Crone's Notebook

Second Edition

By: Nancy Talley

What can I say about a collection of poems that span forty years of my life. Some of the old poems are not-so-good. A few are my favorites. All of them speak of who I am as a human. I am forming this collection so that someday my grandchildren will have a clear understanding of who I am.

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iUniverse

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1491704179

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Childhood Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors

A Guide for Families, Friends & Caregivers

By: Tania Shiminski-Maher,Catherine Woodman,Nancy Keene

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Childhood Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors

A Guide for Families, Friends & Caregivers

By: Tania Shiminski-Maher,Catherine Woodman,Nancy Keene

Each year about 4,000 children and teens in the United States are diagnosed with a brain or spinal cord tumor. The illness and its treatment can have devastating effects on family, friends, schoolmates, and the larger community. This newly updated edition contains essential information families need during this difficult time. It includes descriptions of the newest treatments, such as computer-assisted surgery, stem cell transplants, and targeted therapies as well as practical advice about how to cope with diagnosis, medical procedures, hospitalization, school, and finances. Woven throughout the text are true stories&–&–practical, poignant, moving, funny&–&–from more than 100 children with cancer, their siblings, and their parents. The book, reviewed by renowned experts in childhood cancer, also contains a cancer survivor's treatment record.

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Childhood Cancer Guides

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194108902X

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9781941089026

Down the Strings

By: Nancy Means Wright

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Down the Strings

By: Nancy Means Wright

Drusie Valentini doesn’t fit in with her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsy-like assistant Fey, who moved in when her mother left—or her pesky younger brother Punch. A party that a boyfriend talked her into ends in disaster, and getting her sent to a strict boarding school. In a year when it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forced to come to terms with her life. Young adult fiction by Nancy Means Wright; originally published by Dutton

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Belgrave House

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1610845269

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9781610845267

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

By: Donna M. Nickitas,Donna J. Middaugh,Nancy Aries

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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

By: Donna M. Nickitas,Donna J. Middaugh,Nancy Aries

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and healthcare providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics. This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how healthcare professionals can get involved and be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients. Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a tool kit that includes a "skills" section.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449654592

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9781449654597

From Little Houses to Little Women

Revisiting a Literary Childhood

By: Nancy McCabe

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From Little Houses to Little Women

Revisiting a Literary Childhood

By: Nancy McCabe

A typical travel book takes readers along on a trip with the author, but a great travel book does much more than that, inviting readers along on a mental and spiritual journey as well. This distinction is what separates Nancy McCabe’s From Little Houses to Little Women from the typical and allows it to take its place not only as a great travel book but also as a memoir about the children’s books that have shaped all of our imaginations. McCabe, who grew up in Kansas just a few hours from the Ingalls family’s home in Little House on the Prairie, always felt a deep connection with Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House series. McCabe read Little House on the Prairie during her childhood and visited Wilder sites around the Midwest with her aunt when she was thirteen. But then she didn’t read the series again until she decided to revisit in adulthood the books that had so influenced her childhood. It was this decision that ultimately sparked her desire to visit the places that inspired many of her childhood favorites, taking her on a journey that included stops in the Missouri of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Minnesota of Maud Hart Lovelace, the Massachusetts of Louisa May Alcott, and even the Canada of Lucy Maud Montgomery. From Little Houses to Little Women reveals McCabe’s powerful connection to the characters and authors who inspired many generations of readers. Traveling with McCabe as she rediscovers the books that shaped her and ultimately helped her to forge her own path, readers will enjoy revisiting their own childhood favorites as well.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826273378

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9780826273376

Heat

By: Nancy Holder

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Heat

By: Nancy Holder

From southern California to Sedona, Arizona, from Oden Tal to Pylea, the war between the dimensions is heating up as Buffy and Angel face off against the demon Lir and the huntress Jhiera.

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Simon and Schuster

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068986017X

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9780689860171

Forged in Crisis

The Making of Five Courageous Leaders

By: Nancy Koehn

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Forged in Crisis

The Making of Five Courageous Leaders

By: Nancy Koehn

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER “Five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history…a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic” —Angela Duckworth, #1 bestselling author of Grit An enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights, Forged in Crisis, by celebrated Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn, spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson. What do such disparate figures have in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, Nancy Koehn offers a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. She begins each of the book’s five sections by showing her protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter absolute evil with faith; Carson racing against the cancer ravaging her in a bid to save the planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader’s against-all-odds journey, we begin to glean an essential truth: leaders are not born but made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each of us. Whether it’s read as a repository of great insight or as exceptionally rendered human drama, Forged in Crisis stands as a towering achievement.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501174460

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9781501174469

But Enough About Me

Why We Read Other People's Lives

By: Nancy K. Miller

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But Enough About Me

Why We Read Other People's Lives

By: Nancy K. Miller

In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to explore the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. The evolution she chronicles was lived by a generation of literary girls who came of age in the midst of profound social change and, buoyed by the energy of second-wave feminism, became writers, academics, and activists. Miller's recollections form one woman's installment in a collective memoir that is still unfolding, an intimate page of a group portrait in process.

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Columbia University Press

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0231516347

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9780231516341

The Home Jar: Stories

By: Nancy Zafris

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The Home Jar: Stories

By: Nancy Zafris

Nancy Zafris is a critically acclaimed writer because of the highly distinctive, piercing intelligence that underlies her works. Her gifts accumulate in a vision that somehow combines just the right amount of irony, subtle humor, and compassion for characters you won't see anywhere else in contemporary fiction. Those characters are emotionally all over the map too: resolute, sympathetic, and indelible—their stories can be laugh-out-loud funny one minute and bittersweet the next. In The Home Jar, Zafris reconfirms herself to be among the keenest observers of the human condition around. This is her first short story collection since the critically acclaimed The People I Know, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and her most famous work, the New York Times notable novel The Metal Shredders. Zafris's very loyal following of readers will herald The Home Jar as a major event in American letters.

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Northern Illinois University Press

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1501757784

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9781501757785

Keep Me in Mind

By: Nancy Holder

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Keep Me in Mind

By: Nancy Holder

You make your own destiny, with the interactive story lines. Your decisions determine your fate. Do you have what it takes to be a slayer, or will you fail and summon a successor?

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Simon and Schuster

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0689869568

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9780689869563

Odyssey Of The Heart

By: Nancy Browne

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Odyssey Of The Heart

By: Nancy Browne

Odyssey Of The Heart" is a book of heartfelt writings in free-verse poetic form. It is the journey of one voice that expands well over a half a century. Complied in this book are 590 poems that will give the reader a new perspective on subjects ranging from love, to nature, as well as sadness, war, abortion, illness, corruption, and many other intense feelings that the author has written about. Nancy considers herself to be a deep thinker, and writes verbal and strong messages in the hope that her poetry will stimulate and provoke the readers to respond with their own thoughts. An empathetic writer, her verse reveals a passion for the less fortunate, and for those who have no voice. This book will take you to the center of her heart, as well as to many places around the world, where injustice occurs far too often.

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Lulu.com

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1257758136

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9781257758135

Mad Season

By: Nancy Means Wright

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Mad Season

By: Nancy Means Wright

Single mother-farmer Ruth Willmarth discovers her neighbor, Lucien, and his part-Indian wife Belle, bloody, beaten, and robbed of their life savings. When Belle dies, Ruth faces barn burnings and the disappearance of her son—as she and would-be lover Colm Hanna, who serves as Realtor, town mortician, and part-time cop, track the killer's muddy trail to put an end to this mad season. Mystery by Nancy Means Wright; originally published by St. Martin’s Press

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Belgrave House

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1610842669

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Sharing Hearts

Love & Surprises

By: Nancy Ashworth

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Sharing Hearts

Love & Surprises

By: Nancy Ashworth

Skinny and Pokey decide they have to close down their daughters house and mercantile in St. Louis after Loras death. Seeing they are dreading doing it their grandchildren volunteer to go with them. Lots of fun, action and adventure happens in the city of St. Louis and on the way going and returning home. Beth Ann says goodbye to her old life as Jake, Glory and Carrie Lynn see a way of life they have never imagined before. Joe and Elizabeths love deepens as their lives blend even more together. Through many trials and tribulation each learns more about life, love and giving of themselves and of their blessings.

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1496933672

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9781496933676

Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV Vol 1

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, William Morris and Walter Bagehot by their Contemporaries

By: Nancy LoPatin-Lummis,Michael Partridge,David Martin,William A Hay,Denys P Leighton

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Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV Vol 1

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, William Morris and Walter Bagehot by their Contemporaries

By: Nancy LoPatin-Lummis,Michael Partridge,David Martin,William A Hay,Denys P Leighton

First published in 2009, this is a collection of carefully selected extracts from biographies, memoirs, diaries, private letters and other ephemera reveal how these key nineteenth-century figures were viewed by their contemporaries. Volume 1 covers John Stuart Mill.

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Routledge

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1000558908

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9781000558906

The Metal Shredders

By: Nancy Zafris

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The Metal Shredders

By: Nancy Zafris

John Bonner is sure that anytime now he will recover from the sting of his recent separation from his wife. And he’s begun to wonder if he truly wants to spend the rest of his days running the family scrap-metal business, an operation where his employees are likely to have made the very license plates they now shred. His sister, Octavia, has just returned to Ohio from Boston to nurture the pain of her own broken relationship, and she is more certain: Following in the footsteps of their imperious father is a recipe for emotional disaster. But then two of John’s more eccentric workmen discover thousands of dollars stashed in the trunk of a car, the remains of a drug deal gone bad. The question of what to do with this unexpected cash draws John and his sister into the lives of their newfound collaborators, and sends them all on a surprising journey of high jinx and the heart. In The Metal Shredders, Nancy Zafris offers up a refreshingly wise, offbeat, and thoroughly convincing look at blue-collar America. Hers is a world rich in humor, steeped in closely held traditions, and filled with gently endearing, slightly crazed characters trying to discover just who they are. In the process they discover much about love, loyalty, family obligation, class—and yes, scrap.

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Unbridled Books

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1609531078

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9781609531072

Safely Home

By: Nancy Morley

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Safely Home

By: Nancy Morley

This book stays with the characters from the previous book in the series and follows them through the many difficulties of the last of the French and Indian Wars. Readers will travel back and forth to various places in New Enland as the settlers either stay in Broad Bay or leave for a safer environment.

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1491842954

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9781491842959

Beaker's Dozen

By: Nancy Kress

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Beaker's Dozen

By: Nancy Kress

Kress's best short stories of the decade are collected for the first time in this substantial anthology that includes many Nebula Award nominees.

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Macmillan

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031286843X

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9780312868437

The Great Depression in America [2 volumes]

A Cultural Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: William H. Young,Nancy K. Young

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The Great Depression in America [2 volumes]

A Cultural Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: William H. Young,Nancy K. Young

Everything from Amos n' Andy to zeppelins is included in this expansive two volume encyclopedia of popular culture during the Great Depression era. Two hundred entries explore the entertainments, amusements, and people of the United States during the difficult years of the 1930s. In spite of, or perhaps because of, such dire financial conditions, the worlds of art, fashion, film, literature, radio, music, sports, and theater pushed forward. Conditions of the times were often mirrored in the popular culture with songs such as Brother Can You Spare a Dime, breadlines and soup kitchens, homelessness, and prohibition and repeal. Icons of the era such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George and Ira Gershwin, Jean Harlow, Billie Holiday, the Marx Brothers, Roy Rogers, Frank Sinatra, and Shirley Temple entertained many. Dracula, Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night, and Superman distracted others from their daily worries. Fads and games - chain letters, jigsaw puzzles, marathon dancing, miniature golf, Monopoly - amused some, while musicians often sang the blues. Nancy and William Young have written a work ideal for college and high school students as well as general readers looking for an overview of the popular culture of the 1930s. Art deco, big bands, Bonnie and Clyde, the Chicago's World Fair, Walt Disney, Duke Ellington, five-and-dimes, the Grand Ole Opry, the jitter-bug, Lindbergh kidnapping, Little Orphan Annie, the Olympics, operettas, quiz shows, Seabiscuit, vaudeville, westerns, and Your Hit Parade are just a sampling of the vast range of entries in this work. Reference features include an introductory essay providing an historical and cultural overview of the period, bibliography, and index.

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0313088713

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Environmental Management of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

By: Frank R. Spellman,Nancy E. Whiting

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Environmental Management of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

By: Frank R. Spellman,Nancy E. Whiting

Clean and environmentally sound disposal of animal waste in the quantities that Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) produce can only be described as a challenge. Designed to provide practical information, Environmental Management of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) covers the concepts and practices involved in the operation

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1000654079

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Enola Holmes: The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline

By: Nancy Springer

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Enola Holmes: The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline

By: Nancy Springer

Don't miss Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess! Now a Netflix original movie starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, and Helena Bonham Carter! Enola Holmes--younger sister to Sherlock Holmes--is back on another case! (Cover may vary) Enola Holmes's landlady, Mrs. Tupper, is the closest thing Enola has to family these days, besides her occasional run-ins with her brother Sherlock. Even though Mrs. Tupper is nearly deaf and can barely cook, she's an endearing presence as Enola longs for her absent mother. So imagine her horror when Enola comes home to find Mrs. Tupper kidnapped! Who would take her, and why? And what does Florence Nightingale have to do with it? From the master of mystery Nancy Springer, here's another absorbing adventure for our award-winning, unstoppable heroine, Enola Holmes. Praise for Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Edgar Award Nominee! "Empowered, capable, and smart . . . [with] an impactful message that you can do anything if you set your mind to it."--Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things * "Enola shows herself to be an intelligent, rational, resourceful, and brave protagonist. Readers will look forward to hearing this heroine's unique voice again." --Publishers Weekly, starred review * "This is a terrific package. Springer not only provides two fine mysteries, breathtaking adventure, and key-eyed description, but she also offers a worthy heroine." --Booklist, starred review

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Penguin

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0142416908

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American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994

By: Charles F. Ritter,James Roger Sharp,Nancy Weatherly Sharp,Jon L. Wakelyn

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American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994

By: Charles F. Ritter,James Roger Sharp,Nancy Weatherly Sharp,Jon L. Wakelyn

The second of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Entries provide basic biographical and career information on more than 1,400 speakers. The book opens with an analytical introduction and includes useful statistical appendixes. The four volumes, covering state speakers in the West, Midwest, Northeast, and South, are designed to complement Charles R. Ritter's and Jon L. Wakelyn's book American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 (1989).

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0313032076

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Ungoverning

The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos

By: Nancy L. Rosenblum,Russell Muirhead

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Ungoverning

The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos

By: Nancy L. Rosenblum,Russell Muirhead

An in-depth look at the ways in which an emboldened effort to ungovern threatens to undermine the effective working of the administrative state. In this book, political theorists Nancy Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead, aim to identify and name a growing effort to undermine the workings of effective government. They call this "ungoverning." It is an unfamiliar name for an unfamiliar phenomenon, but one which has become increasingly strident in recent years. It is a root and branch attack on the functions and legitimacy of the administrative state, that unloved element of modern government that is necessary for everything people expect a modern state to do. The administrative state consists of the vast array of government agencies that shape, implement, adjudicate, and enforce public policies of every kind. It encompasses all those who carry on the day-to day business of government: the ordinary and routine, the wars and emergencies, and even the most basic function of a democracy: the oversight of free and fair elections. Ungoverning is the effort to reverse, by various methods, the already highly developed capacity of state to provide for its citizenry. It is different from state failure because it is a path deliberately chosen by politicians and agency heads who have a specific aim in mind. Ungoverning in the U.S., went from thinly veiled policy to open warfare, during the Trump presidency. Although efforts to ungovern were underway before his term in office, Trump clarified ungoverning as no one else could by forming the first presidential administration that was anti-administration. Rosenblum and Muirehead point to the incapacitation of a range of agencies from the Departments of State and Justice to Housing and Urban Development. Ungoverning did not come out of nowhere. The President brought decades of cultivated hostility toward government to a crescendo. Prior to that, even though over its history hostility toward the administrative state was expressed by both the Left and Right, there had been nothing like errant destruction of government capacity. But this is not just a story of the Trump administration. The damage ungoverning has done and can do remains a grave threat. Despite the Biden's admistration's efforts, reversing the corrosive effects of ungoverning cannot happen at a stroke. The capacity of a public agency takes many years to build. Replacing demoralized civil servants can take decades. The retail consequences of disdain for governing endure: As hard to reverse, and perhaps most serious for democracies, is public belief that neither the ability nor the will to govern exists. Ungoverning is, the authors argues, part of the constellation of actions that make up illiberal, anti-democratic politics with the end result being democratic erosion"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691250529

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Fiction in the Age of Photography

The Legacy of British Realism

By: Nancy Armstrong

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Fiction in the Age of Photography

The Legacy of British Realism

By: Nancy Armstrong

In this study of British realism, Armstrong explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new popular art of Victorian photography that transformed the world into a picture.

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Harvard University Press

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0674008014

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Can This Marriage Be Saved?

A Memoir

By: Nancy McCabe

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Can This Marriage Be Saved?

A Memoir

By: Nancy McCabe

In this warm, deeply-personal, and often humorous book, Nancy McCabe re-examines and gains new understanding of her early life and her ill-advised marriage. Borrowing from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” how-to essays and before-and-after weight loss ads, a curriculum guide, Bible study notes, an obsession with Tom Swiftie jokes, and women’s magazine columns and quizzes that oversimplified women’s lives and choices, McCabe examines the many influences that led to her youthful marriage—and out of it, into finally taking control of her life.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826274471

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9780826274472

New World Monkeys

By: Nancy Mauro

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New World Monkeys

By: Nancy Mauro

Hoping to revive their marriage during a summer spent in a crumbling Victorian dwelling in upstate New York, Duncan and Lily face such challenges as a hit-and-run involving a wild boar, the discovery of a human bone in the yard and a peeping tom.

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0307461424

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