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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game

Introduction by Grey Gowrie

By: Patricia Highsmith

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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game

Introduction by Grey Gowrie

By: Patricia Highsmith

Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not even murder--to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself the opulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself to be a master of illusion and manipulation and a disturbingly sympathetic combination of genius and psychopath. As Highsmith navigates the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley's deadly and sinister games, she turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into the mind of a man utterly indifferent to evil. The Talented Mr. Ripley In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, Ripley is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly like him. Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral, Ripley stops at nothing--certainly not only one murder--to accomplish his goal. Turning the mystery form inside out, Highsmith shows the terrifying abilities afforded to a man unhindered by the concept of evil. Ripley Under Ground In this harrowing illumination of the psychotic mind, the enviable Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But such a gracious life has not come easily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient friend, and Ripley's world will come tumbling down--unless he takes decisive steps. In a mesmerizing novel that coolly subverts all traditional notions of literary justice, Ripley enthralls us even as we watch him perform acts of pure and unspeakable evil. Ripley's Game Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more subtle, and infinitely more sinister. A social slight doesn't warrant murder of course--just a chain of events that may lead to it.

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Everyman's Library

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0375407928

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9780375407925

Ripley Under Ground

By: Patricia Highsmith

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Ripley Under Ground

By: Patricia Highsmith

Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."—Frank Rich Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In these volumes, we find Ripley ensconced on a French estate with a wealthy wife, a world-class art collection, and a past to hide. In Ripley Under Ground (1970), an art forgery goes awry and Ripley is threatened with exposure; in The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld; and in Ripley Under Water (1991), Ripley is confronted by a snooping American couple obsessed with the disappearance of an art collector who visited Ripley years before. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393344746

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9780393344745

Talking to Myself

Poems from a Transgender Woman during Transition

By: Lukcia Patricia Sullivan

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Talking to Myself

Poems from a Transgender Woman during Transition

By: Lukcia Patricia Sullivan

My joy, my tears, are sincere. Is this girl real? I really like being a girl. I don’t miss the male me. I don’t miss the him and he. Away from him, I’m finally free. Since birth, Lukcia Patricia Sullivan lived a false existence first as a boy, and then as a man. What no one knew is that she desperately wanted to be a girl. But as she grew, she learned that this desire had to be hidden and never discussed. Still, she knew she was a girl in heart and mind, and approached life with the emotional sensitivities of a female—until she was finally able to transition at age sixty-seven. In a soul-searching collection of poems originally penned to maintain her sanity, courage, and to survive the challenge of male-to-female transition in her hometown of twenty-three years, Sullivan lyrically explores a lifetime struggling with an unfulfilled want, lost and false loves, and the unwavering hope that she would somehow find her way to her true self. While capturing the pain of unresolved gender dysphoria, Sullivan’s poems also provide uplifting encouragement to others in transition that happiness is on the other side of tears. Talking to Myself is a volume of poetry that reflects on a transgender woman’s courageous path to personal fulfillment and her true self.

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Archway Publishing

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1665757078

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9781665757072

Twinkle

By: Patricia Leavy

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Twinkle

By: Patricia Leavy

Twinkle is a novel about the nature of doubt, the struggle to feel worthy of love, the relationship of the small part to the greater whole, and the ways in which love can help us move from trauma to healing.

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BRILL

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9004447083

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9789004447080

Confidence and Self-Esteem

A Special Reading Team

By: Patricia Kent McLaughlin

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Confidence and Self-Esteem

A Special Reading Team

By: Patricia Kent McLaughlin

Confidence and Self-Esteem (A Special Reading Team) Using controlled vocabulary that focused on vowel patterns, the children were able to meet with lots of success just as the characters did. This gave them a feeling of confidence and self-esteem as they were exposed to many rewarding activities to promote vocabulary and comprehension. And then they began to read. I hope all children enjoy the stories in my book!

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1644926555

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9781644926550

Black Culture, Inc.

How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America

By: Patricia A. Banks

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Black Culture, Inc.

How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America

By: Patricia A. Banks

A surprising and fascinating look at how Black culture has been leveraged by corporate America. Open the brochure for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and you'll see logos for corporations like American Express. Visit the website for the Apollo Theater, and you'll notice acknowledgments to corporations like Coca Cola and Citibank. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, owe their very existence to large corporate donations from companies like General Motors. And while we can easily make sense of the need for such funding to keep cultural spaces afloat, less obvious are the reasons that corporations give to them. In Black Culture, Inc., Patricia A. Banks interrogates the notion that such giving is completely altruistic, and argues for a deeper understanding of the hidden transactions being conducted that render corporate America dependent on Black culture. Drawing on a range of sources, such as public relations and advertising texts on corporate cultural patronage and observations at sponsored cultural events, Banks argues that Black cultural patronage profits firms by signaling that they value diversity, equity, and inclusion. By functioning in this manner, support of Black cultural initiatives affords these companies something called "diversity capital," an increasingly valuable commodity in today's business landscape. While this does not necessarily detract from the social good that cultural patronage does, it reveals its secret cost: ethnic community support may serve to obscure an otherwise poor track record with social justice. Banks deftly weaves innovative theory with detailed observations and a discerning critical gaze at the various agendas infiltrating memorials, museums, and music festivals meant to celebrate Black culture. At a time when accusations of discriminatory practices are met with immediate legal and social condemnation, the insights offered here are urgent and necessary.

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Stanford University Press

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1503631257

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9781503631250

Ripley Under Water

By: Patricia Highsmith

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Ripley Under Water

By: Patricia Highsmith

Ripley must protect himself when an American couple come to the village where he lives with this wife.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393333191

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9780393333190

Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars

The Story Behind the Da Vinci Code

By: Patricia Fanthorpe

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Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars

The Story Behind the Da Vinci Code

By: Patricia Fanthorpe

Unsolved mysteries surround the remarkable men known as the Templars. Their ancient origins go back much further than their well-known adventures in the Middle East in the twelfth century. They knew that ancient secrets were waiting to be rediscovered and, perhaps, reactivated. They could generate labyrinthine codes - and decipher those that others had created in the remote past. But no real understanding of Templarism is possible without examining what became of their noble order after the treacherous attack of 1307. King Philip le Bel did not succeed in destroying all Templars - many escaped, including their fleet. Where did they go? Where are they now? What are their continuing purposes today?

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Dundurn

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145972058X

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9781459720589

The Black Cabinet

By: Patricia Wentworth

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The Black Cabinet

By: Patricia Wentworth

Chloe Dane inherits a fabled ancestral estate—and plunges into deadly danger—in this novel of romance and suspense from the author of the acclaimed Miss Silver Mysteries The lowly assistant to a London dressmaker, Chloe Dane yearns for a new life. She has bittersweet memories of being a carefree child playing hide-and-seek at Danesborough, her family’s magnificent country estate. Decades later, the ancestral mansion has been restored to its former glory—and Chloe is shocked to discover that she is the sole heir. Danesborough is not the sun-filled, evergreen place she remembers. The trees are bare and the house is shrouded in mist. But the enormous gold-and-black lacquered Chinese cabinet in the drawing room is exactly the same. Chloe’s childhood imagination created an entire story out of the intricate carvings on the cabinet: a flowing river filled with boats and fishermen and one frightening man she called Mr. Dark. But now, as Chloe begins to uncover Mitchell Dane’s true motives for bequeathing her the centuries-old manse, she has a very real reason to be afraid: The truth about what’s hidden in the black cabinet will soon threaten her life.

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Open Road Media

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1504033299

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9781504033299

Blue Blood & Mutiny

The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley

By: Patricia Beard

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Blue Blood & Mutiny

The Fight for the Soul of Morgan Stanley

By: Patricia Beard

The behind the scenes story of the power struggle that rocked Wall Street's most prestigious financial institution. In March 2005 the business world woke up to an unprecedented full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling for the removal of Morgan Stanley's CEO. It was paid for by a cohort of eight former Morgan Stanley executives, including an ex-chairman and an ex-president, who soon would be dubbed the “Eight Grumpy Old Men.” Their target was CEO Philip Purcell, who had come to power following Morgan Stanley's 1997 merger with Dean Witter Discover. In his eight years as CEO, Purcell had presided over a 50 percent decline in stock price since its peak in 2000 and a series of high-profile government and civil lawsuits that had tarnished the company's once-sterling reputation. Just a few months after the Journal ad, Purcell would retire under pressure, and former president John Mack, who had been pushed out by Purcell, was appointed CEO. The “Eight Grumpy Old Men” won the battle. Opening the long-closed doors of a bastion of Wall Street that has maintained the strictest privacy until now, Blue Blood and Mutiny is real-life business thriller exposing the tale that shook high finance. Weaving the history of Morgan Stanley with the inside story of the fight for dominance between two competing business cultures—one, the collegial meritocracy handed down from the days of J. P. Morgan, and the other, a cold, contemporary corporate model, acclaimed journalist and historian Patricia Beard has written a must-read book for anyone who wants to understand the future of American business.

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Harper Collins

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0061899143

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9780061899140

Falcon's Fire

By: Patricia Ryan,Patricia Burford Ryan

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Falcon's Fire

By: Patricia Ryan,Patricia Burford Ryan

Thorne Falconer swore he'd do anything to overcome his humble beginnings, even arrange a marriage for his wealthy lord. Martine of Rouen, the promised bride, has strong aspirations of her own, but agrees to wed to keep her family holdings intact. But when these two meet, the pull of their passion may overcome the power of their will.

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Topaz

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0451406354

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9780451406354

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

16 Saints and Christian Heroes

By: Leo Zanchettin,Patricia Mitchell

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A Great Cloud of Witnesses

16 Saints and Christian Heroes

By: Leo Zanchettin,Patricia Mitchell

Includes Blessed Sister Faustina, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Paul Miki, St. Bernadette Soubirous, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, St. Francis Xavier, Takashi Nagai, Blessed Edith Stein, St. Alphonsus Liguori, Blessed Jeanne Jugan, St. Clare of Assisi, St. John Bosco, Blessed Katharine Drexel, Saint Athanasius, St. Philip Neri, and St. Catherine of Siena

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Word Among Us Press

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0932085148

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9780932085146

The Kermit Washington Story

By: Patricia Harris,Kermit Washington

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The Kermit Washington Story

By: Patricia Harris,Kermit Washington

Who would have imagined meeting a stranger would lead to the writing of this book. Walking the scenic hills in Palos Verdes Estates, California, as a form of daily exercise, Kermit met and began sharing numerous stories about his life. As this daily routine developed into a mutual friendship the idea of writing a book was introduced. Although not the first time this idea was introduced, the timing was right and the idea took root and the adventure began. Noted for his gift of story-telling the task at hand was to capture details that would engage the reader after reading the first lines in the text to continue reading until the last page of the manuscript. We hope these words inspire, motivate, invoke emotions, encourage laughter, share challenges in overcoming obstacles, and explain details of incidents left in doubt.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1635684749

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9781635684742

Our Life in the Church

By: Martha S. Long,Patricia I. Puccetti,Ignatius Press Staff

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Our Life in the Church

By: Martha S. Long,Patricia I. Puccetti,Ignatius Press Staff

The Faith and Life Third Edition series is a minor update to the Revised Edition series so that all text and liturgical references conform to the implementation of the new Roman Missal. Revised Edition teachers' manuals may continue to be used with the Third Edition text and activity books as the changes are relatively few. A list of changes with side by side textual comparisons to aid teachers using the Revised Edition teacher's manual is available from the Faith and Life series website. This Faith & Life activity book is designed for use in the home or classroom and provides creative activities for review and reinforcement of each lesson. Through carefully developed and selected activities, the emphasis is on understanding and putting into practice the teachings of Christ in everyday life. The Nation's Leading Religion Series Just Got Better! THEME: The history of the Church--its founding by Christ, its birth in the Holy Spirit, the marks of the one, true Church, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the saints and the role of the religious and laity up to the present. The structure of the Church Jesus planned, the role of the Magisterium, the clergy, the religious and the laity and our own vocations. SEQUENCE: Part 1: The Church. Christ's plan for the Church's structure and its necessary attributes; the Church's teaching authority. The early Church: Martyrs, Fathers, Saints and Mary. Part 2: The Christian in the World. Religious and laity, Holy Orders, Marriage, and family life; call to holiness. Part 3: The Last Things. Death, Judgment, the end of the world. AIM: To help the teenager know and love the Church as Christ's Body and the Magisterium as the sure voice of Jesus, so that the young person may be strengthened through his life in the Church to face the confusion and secularism of modern-day society.

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0898701554

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9780898701555

Collected Books

The Guide to Identification and Values

By: Allen Ahearn,Patricia Ahearn

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Collected Books

The Guide to Identification and Values

By: Allen Ahearn,Patricia Ahearn

An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).

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eBookIt.com

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1883060141

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9781883060145

World Painting Index: Second Supplement 1980-1989

Bibliography, Paintings by Unknown Artists, Painters and Their Works; Volume II: Titles of Works and Their Painters

By: Patricia Pate Havlice

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World Painting Index: Second Supplement 1980-1989

Bibliography, Paintings by Unknown Artists, Painters and Their Works; Volume II: Titles of Works and Their Painters

By: Patricia Pate Havlice

A monumental reference work designed to eliminate many of the problems encountered in the search for a reproduction of a particular painting. Indexes 697 art books and catalogs published in the U.S. and abroad from 1980 to 1989.

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0810830205

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Book's by Patricia Bernard

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game

Ripley Under Ground

Ripley Under Ground

Talking to Myself

Talking to Myself

Twinkle

Twinkle

Confidence and Self-Esteem

Confidence and Self-Esteem

Black Culture, Inc.

Black Culture, Inc.

Ripley Under Water

Ripley Under Water

Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars

Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars

The Black Cabinet

The Black Cabinet

Blue Blood & Mutiny

Blue Blood & Mutiny

Falcon's Fire

Falcon's Fire

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

The Kermit Washington Story

The Kermit Washington Story

Our Life in the Church

Our Life in the Church

Collected Books

Collected Books

World Painting Index: Second Supplement 1980-1989

World Painting Index: Second Supplement 1980-1989

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