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Becoming Bob

By: Patricia E. Linson

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Satisfied with a Grade 8 education? Not fourteen-year-old Allister McRuer. The first step to realizing his dreams requires high school, but will his father ever allow him to leave the farm and live in town to attend? Allister’s one thread of hope for more education involves waiting for their one-room school to get a teacher with a high school diploma, and then persuading that teacher to help him study Grade 9. However, when fire spreads from Turtle Mountain towards the McRuers’ farm and the school, Allister must work quickly to prevent this hope from disappearing into ashes. In the midst of his fight for an education, Allister meets Sam Pollack in the fall of 1896, an itinerant worker from Ontario who comes to the farm. He asks Allister a pointed question: “What do you want to do with your life?” Will answering truthfully change anything? And if he ever gets his wish to attend high school in Cherry Creek, what name should he ask his classmates and teachers to call him by? Certainly not Allister!

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1486616399

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9781486616398

A Boy Called Allis

Allister of Turtle Mountain Series

By: Patricia E. Linson

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A Boy Called Allis

Allister of Turtle Mountain Series

By: Patricia E. Linson

Eleven-year-old Allister McRuer’s fears materialize when he and his family arrive at their Manitoba pioneer homestead in 1892. What could make it worse? Being called Allis.During the trip from Lachute, Quebec to Cherry Creek, Manitoba, Allister shares a train boxcar with three of his brothers and all of their family’s livestock. The closer he gets to the homestead his father and oldest brother, John, started three years ago, the worse Allister’s misery gets as older brother, Will, torments Allister by calling him “Allis,” a name he hates because it sounds like “Alice.”Allister’s first hour in Cherry Creek does little to ease his concerns. While their brothers unload the McRuers’ two boxcars, Allister and his twin brother, Jim, explore the town. Allister is discouraged at the small size of the local school, wondering how he will ever finish grade eight. As they continue walking, Allister and Jim witness a terrible accident. Although they’re able to help a horse and an injured driver, Allister’s anxiety over his family’s move to the prairies takes a new turn when he’s told that the only doctor

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Word Alive Press

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1486613950

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9781486613953

Out of the Box: a Memoir of an Adoptee

By: Patricia Bauer Collins RN

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Out of the Box: a Memoir of an Adoptee

By: Patricia Bauer Collins RN

After years of childhood curiosity, a woman adopted as an infant decides to find her birth mother. It took her years to finally decide to hire a “Search Angel.” She got her call only three days later—but she found out that her birth parents had already passed on. However, her birth mother’s husband was a joyful fount of information and treated her like his own lost daughter. In Out of the Box: A Memoir of an Adoptee, author Patricia Bauer Collins shares her journey to discover her birth parents, as she faces new challenges yet undergoes a great deal of emotional growth. Patricia shares actual letters between her birth mother, Shirley, and Shirley’s mother and grandmother regarding “Shirley’s problem” when she was just twelve years old. Patricia also tells the story of how she was able to connect with her half-siblings and other relatives—something more exciting than she had ever imagined—even traveling to her Spanish ancestors’ 1842 family adobe outside Santa Barbara. For Patricia, connecting with her origins and with her past made her realize that her ancestors were far more important to her than she had thought. Not only did she discover more about her history and the talents and skills she shared with them; she also discovered more about herself, being rewarded along the way with an astounding epiphany of connection.

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iUniverse

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1532051018

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9781532051012

Hope for Allis

By: Patricia Linson

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Hope for Allis

By: Patricia Linson

Twelve-year-old Allister McRuer can’t wait to attend the brand new, one-room schoolhouse that he, his father, and brothers helped to build on a corner of his family’s pioneer homestead in southwestern Manitoba. There was no school within walking distance when Allister and his family first arrived in May of 1892. More than a year has passed, and Allister worries that he has forgotten everything he learned at his school in eastern Canada. Will he and his twin brother, Jim, ever be able to catch up? Allister’s excitement quickly turns to frustration. His new teacher doesn’t seem to know how to handle sixteen children in Grades 1 through 8. What chaos! And his father continually pulls Allister and Jim out of school to help with the harvest or to build on their older brothers’ homestead claims. How are he and Jim going to pass any grade?

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190

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Word Alive Press

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1486616372

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9781486616374

The Matrix of Visual Culture

Working with Deleuze in Film Theory

By: Patricia Pisters

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The Matrix of Visual Culture

Working with Deleuze in Film Theory

By: Patricia Pisters

This book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.

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317

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Stanford University Press

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0804764557

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9780804764551

Thomas Hovenden

His Life and Art

By: Anne Gregory Terhune,Patricia Smith Scanlan

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Thomas Hovenden

His Life and Art

By: Anne Gregory Terhune,Patricia Smith Scanlan

This first full-length study fosters a greater understanding of Hovenden's gifts as a painter and of his stylistic contribution to art. Chronologically organized, it is both a retrospective of Hovenden's work and a critical biography of the artist.

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293

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812208870

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9780812208870

Duets 2-in-1

Drive-By Daddy/Calamity Jo

By: Cheryl Anne Porter,Patricia Knoll

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Duets 2-in-1

Drive-By Daddy/Calamity Jo

By: Cheryl Anne Porter,Patricia Knoll

Duets 2-In-1 by Cheryl Anne Porter\Patricia Knoll released on Jan 25, 2000 is available now for purchase.

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388

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Harlequin Books

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0373440871

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9780373440870

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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Hope for Allis

By: Patricia Linson

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Hope for Allis

By: Patricia Linson

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1486616372

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Becoming Bob

By: Patricia E. Linson

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1486616399

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Book's by Patricia Linson

Becoming Bob

Becoming Bob

A Boy Called Allis

A Boy Called Allis

Out of the Box: a Memoir of an Adoptee

Out of the Box: a Memoir of an Adoptee

Hope for Allis

Hope for Allis

The Matrix of Visual Culture

The Matrix of Visual Culture

Thomas Hovenden

Thomas Hovenden

Duets 2-in-1

Duets 2-in-1

World Painting Index: Second Supplement 1980-1989

World Painting Index: Second Supplement 1980-1989

Hope for Allis

Hope for Allis

Becoming Bob

Becoming Bob

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