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Area Woman Blows Gasket

Tales from the Domestic Frontier

By: Patricia Pearson

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Area Woman Blows Gasket

Tales from the Domestic Frontier

By: Patricia Pearson

From the author of Playing House comes a sharp and sophisticated collection of essays that takes us on a hilarious tour of our twenty-first-century obsessions and distractions. Patricia Pearson is a working woman, wife and mother on the verge. Whether it’s being humiliated by the Beauty Bullies at the Lancôme counter or failing to live up to the Serene Mother ideal, Pearson is fed up with negotiating our present-day myths and fads. In Area Woman Blows Gasket, Pearson plumbs every facet of modern life, marriage and motherhood: from choosing the right vegan-bran-hemp diet for your family to confronting your husband’s irrational fear of mayonnaise. Adult education classes, psychotherapy, $100 haircuts, the latest news on what may or may not cause cancer, Christmas shopping — all come into sharp focus with the help of Pearson’s comic eye. Her wry brand of wisdom is a refreshing and long-awaited release from the contradictions thrown at us by society.

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Vintage Canada

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0307370895

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9780307370891

Woe Is I Jr

The Younger Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English

By: Patricia T. O'Conner

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Woe Is I Jr

The Younger Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English

By: Patricia T. O'Conner

A grammar reference for middle-grade students shares accessible guidelines organized under such chapter names as "Incredible Shrinking Words," in a lighthearted guide that pairs English-language rules with whimsical instructional elements.

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Penguin

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0147519160

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His Amish Teacher and Plain Target

By: Patricia Davids,Dana R. Lynn

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His Amish Teacher and Plain Target

By: Patricia Davids,Dana R. Lynn

Amish men and women find their happily-ever-after His Amish Teacher by Patricia Davids Lillian Keim has a calling to be a teacher—and she won’t give it up to marry. When Timothy Bowman rescues her class from a fire, the volunteer firefighter realizes he wants his lifelong pal as his wife. But something beyond her professional goals is holding Lillian back. Now he’s determined to unlock her secret before he loses his friend—and his forever love. Plain Target by Dana R. Lynn Horse trainer Jess McGrath only wants to clear her brother’s name. But with enemies at every turn, she’s shocked that her most trusted protector turns out to be Seth Travis—the boy behind her high school humiliation. When they find sanctuary in the Amish community, can they uncover answers in time to stop a killer—and resolve their past and build a future together?

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Harlequin

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1488084548

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Catch Me When I Fall

By: Patricia Westerhof

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Catch Me When I Fall

By: Patricia Westerhof

Welcome to Poplar Grove, a farming community with three generations of Dutch-Canadians. Life in the New World has not become less complicated as the decades have passed, and now, a set of dying customs is about to collide with the ways of a new generation. The balance is shifting between people comfortable holding hymnals and cleaning cows’ teats and those who are uneasy with traditional expectations. A young woman grapples with contradiction between the pious appearance of her best friend’s family and the bits of reality she hears in her friend’s confidences; a woman mourns the loss of her disabled son, but also wishes to end the ritual state of mourning; a girl finds herself stranded on the battlefield between her new-age brother and her Old World parents. These people are bound by time-worn expectations and the demands of an agricultural life. With humour and insight, author Patricia Westerhof examines a place where opposing ideologies mingle, and a community struggles to redefine who and what they are.

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Brindle and Glass

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1897142641

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9781897142646

Shot In Detroit

By: Patricia Abbott

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Shot In Detroit

By: Patricia Abbott

Nominated for the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award Violet Hart is a photographer who has always returned to cobble out a life for herself in the oddly womblike interiors of Detroit. Nearing forty, she’s keenly aware that the time for artistic recognition is running out. When her lover, Bill, a Detroit mortician, needs a photograph of a body, she agrees to takes the picture. It’s an artistic success and Violet is energized by the subject matter, persuading Bill to allow her to take pictures of some of his other “clients,” eventually settling on photographing young, black men. When Violet’s new portfolio is launched, she quickly strikes a deal, agreeing to produce a dozen pictures with a short deadline, confident because dead bodies are commonplace in Detroit and she has access to the city’s most prominent mortician. These demands soon place Violet in the position of having to strain to meet her quota. As time runs out, how will Violet come up with enough subjects to photograph without losing her soul or her life in the process? A riveting novel of psychological suspense, Patricia Abbott continues to cement herself as one of our very best writers of the darkness that lies within the human heart.

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Polis Books

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1943818142

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9781943818143

Aggression, Family Violence and Chemical Dependency

By: Ron Potter-Efron,Patricia Potter-Efron

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Aggression, Family Violence and Chemical Dependency

By: Ron Potter-Efron,Patricia Potter-Efron

Here is an informational and practical book that systematically addresses the complex relationships between chemical abuse/dependency, aggression, and family violence. Directed toward professional chemical dependency and family violence counselors, it provides specific guidelines for the assessment of child abuse, incest, and marital rape, as they are likely to be encountered in a chemical dependency treatment setting. Experts outline treatment suggestions for chemically dependent and codependent individuals who are or have been the victims/perpetrators of family violence. Aggression, Family Violence and Chemical Dependency contains two unique and very detailed chapters on the relationship between aggression and the use of alcohol and other mood-altering substances as well as the connections between these two and other physiological and psychological correlates of violence.

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Routledge

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1317714946

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9781317714941

Poison in the Pen

By: Patricia Wentworth

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Poison in the Pen

By: Patricia Wentworth

Miss Silver comes to the aid of Scotland Yard when a village is turned upside-down by cruel anonymous letters: “A first-rate storyteller” (The Daily Telegraph). It is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being tortured by an unknown author who insinuates that the young woman’s husband may not have died of natural causes. It is a case of the kind of cruelty that is all too common in the countryside, and the governess-turned-detective listens with only polite interest. Then the first death comes. Another target of the letter-writing campaign, tortured by the threats to reveal her darkest secrets, drowns herself in the manor-house pond. The Yard sends Abbott to unmask the sinister letter-writer, and he brings Miss Silver along as an undercover agent, masquerading as a tourist as she attempts to stop the next death before it happens.

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Open Road Media

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1453223908

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His Amish Teacher

By: Patricia Davids

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His Amish Teacher

By: Patricia Davids

USA Today–Bestselling Author: When a teacher starts to have feelings for her firefighter pal, sparks will fly! For Lillian Keim, instructing children in her one-room schoolhouse is as close to being a mother as she’ll ever get. Lillian has a calling to be a teacher, and she won’t give it up to marry. But her plans—and her heart—are at risk when she begins to feel more than friendship for lifelong pal Timothy Bowman. When Tim rescues Lillian and her class from a fire, the volunteer firefighter suddenly sees what he’s been blind to all his life: he wants his friend as his wife. But something beyond her professional goals is holding Lillian back. He’s got to unlock her secret before he loses his friend—and his forever love. Praise for Patricia Davids’ novels “Uplifting . . . will have fans of Amish romance eager to read more from Davids.” —Publishers Weekly “Tender and gentle . . . A lovely read.” —RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times–bestselling author of Willowleaf Lane

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Harlequin

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1488018189

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9781488018183

Teaching with Books that Heal

Authentic Literature and Literacy Strategies to Help Children Cope with Everyday Problems

By: Patricia L. Kolencik,Carianne Bernadowski

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Teaching with Books that Heal

Authentic Literature and Literacy Strategies to Help Children Cope with Everyday Problems

By: Patricia L. Kolencik,Carianne Bernadowski

Help children learn coping skills through literature! This book answers the often repeated question: Is there a children's book I can read in my classroom to give children insight into significant life events? Literature ideas and activities help students cope with real-life situations, such as bullying, that interfere with school. This book will assist educators in guiding and nurturing children's special issues and concerns with outstanding, ready-to-go reading and writing lessons. This professional resource for K-6 educators and parents uses literature with identifiable characters to help children who are facing challenges in their lives. Like bullying, peer acceptance, peer pressure, and being different, as well as family situations such as death, divorce, adoption, and sibling rivalry.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1586833723

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9781586833725

Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing - E-Book

By: Susan C. deWit,Patricia A. Williams

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Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing - E-Book

By: Susan C. deWit,Patricia A. Williams

NEW! Rationales for NCLEX review questions at the end of each chapter help you understand why your choices were correct or incorrect. NEW! Full text reviews by experts in the field offer consistency and ease understanding as you progress through the book. NEW! Evolve margin icons denote supplemental material for students on Evolve. NEW! Evidence Based Practice margin icons point out the most current and evidence based information. NEW! In depth discussion of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) within the text provides the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323293204

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9780323293204

The Search for Kum Ba YA

By: Patricia A. Knott

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The Search for Kum Ba YA

By: Patricia A. Knott

Knott's work is a guide through the tough times of African-American history to show how to cross over into the land of promise--a place where the captive roams free, spirits soar, and the lion lies down with the lamb. (Social Issues)

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Xulon Press

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1604773936

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World of the Small Farmer

Tenure, Profit and Politics in the Early-Modern Somerset Levels

By: Patricia Croot

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World of the Small Farmer

Tenure, Profit and Politics in the Early-Modern Somerset Levels

By: Patricia Croot

This detailed and original study of early-modern agrarian society in the Somerset Levels examines the small landholders in a group of sixteen contiguous parishes in the area known as Brent Marsh. These were farmers with lifehold tenures and a mixed agricultural production whose activities and outlook are shown to be very different from that of the small 'peasant' farmers of so many general histories. Patricia Croot challenges the idea that small farmers failed to contribute to the productivity and commercialization of the early-modern economy. While the emergence of large capitalist farms was an important development, these added to the production of existing small cultivators, rather than replacing them. The idea that only large-scale, specialized farmers were involved in agricultural progress, or that their contribution alone was enough to account for the great increase in food production by the late 17th century is questioned; small farmers continued to make a living, contributed to the market, and survived alongside the new, bigger farms. Croot's in-depth study not only adds to our knowledge of agrarian society generally, but shows that far from being backward and interested primarily in subsistence farming, small producers in this area sought profit in making the best use of their resources, however limited, being flexible in their production and growing new or unusual crops. The main land tenures, copy and lease for lives, are also covered in detail, contributing to current debates on landholding and sub-tenancy. The author shows the uses to which lifehold tenures could be put, resulting in the increasing financial strength of copyholders and their dominance in local society. The effects of the tenure and profits of farming can be seen in the way that families were provided for, as well as in the roles that women played and the responsibility they had in economic and social life, while the wider interests of the inhabitants are shown in their religious and political engagement in events of the 17th century. Patricia Croot's meticulous study is a valuable contribution to English agrarian history, and in particular to the history of this under-researched region.

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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1909291919

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9781909291911

Monica's Revenge

By: Patricia Murphy

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Monica's Revenge

By: Patricia Murphy

The book you are about to read is a story about four men and a woman. They terrorize people everywhere they gothey rape, kill, and rob. The men are the following: Nigel, Shana, Rodney, and Sammy.

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Partridge Publishing Singapore

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1482827204

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The Play World

Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood

By: Patricia Anne Simpson

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The Play World

Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood

By: Patricia Anne Simpson

The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of the modern ideas and realities of play and childhood in the transatlantic world. With attention to the details of toy manufacturing and marketing, Simpson considers prescriptive texts about how children should play, treat their possessions, and experience adventure in the scientific exploration of distant geographies. She illuminates the role of toys—among them a mechanical guillotine, yo-yos, hybridized dolls, and circus figures—as agents of history. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from postcolonial, childhood, and migration studies, she makes the case that these texts and toys transfer the world of play into a space in which model childhoods are imagined and enacted as German. With chapters on the Protestant play ethic, enlightened parenting, Goethe as an advocate of play, colonial fantasies, children’s almanacs, ethnographic play, and an empire of toys, Simpson’s argument follows a compelling path toward understanding the reproduction of religious, gendered, ethnic, racial, national, and imperial identities, emanating from German-speaking Europe, that collectively construct a global imaginary. This foundational and deeply original study connects German-speaking communities across the Atlantic as they collectively engender the epistemology of the play world. It will be of particular interest to German studies scholars whose research crosses the Atlantic.

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Penn State Press

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0271087420

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9780271087429

Evaluation in Today’s World

Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability

By: Veronica G. Thomas,Patricia B. Campbell

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Evaluation in Today’s World

Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability

By: Veronica G. Thomas,Patricia B. Campbell

Evaluation in Today’s World: Respecting Diversity, Improving Quality, and Promoting Usability covers theoretical and practical issues related to evaluation of programs with an emphasis on viewing evaluation topics through a social justice, diversity, and inclusive perspective.

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SAGE Publications

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1544348177

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9781544348179

How I Made it Over

By: Patricia Wedlington

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How I Made it Over

By: Patricia Wedlington

God inspired me to write this book to show people the miracles He is able to perform in our lives, by doing what we thought was impossible and bless you at the same time. So I pray that this book will be an encouragement and blessing to someone's life who feel like they're failures. In life can't be put back together , or someone who believe their current situation can't be turned around. I give all the glory to God because I couldn't do it without Him.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1645840387

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Legacy of Resilience

By: Patricia A. Pape

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Legacy of Resilience

By: Patricia A. Pape

This book has been in the making for over a decade, perhaps a lifetime. My reasons for writing about our family history are: to learn more about my ancestors, their beliefs, values, struggles, and accomplishments: and to learn about the resilience carried through the generations. I believe that I am the member of the family to do this. I also want a healing process to occur. And finally, I want this as a gift for my children and grandchildren and their descendants. The themes of my book relate to the perseverance and resilience in our family members. I have learned that darkness and light can often coexist closely, even in the same person, and I believe that staying in for the journey has resulted in many transformative experiences in my own life. I also believe that these have come as a result of my relationship with God.

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Author House

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1456710389

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A Tribe Apart

A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence

By: Patricia Hersch

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A Tribe Apart

A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence

By: Patricia Hersch

For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their dreams and enact their tragedies. What she found was that America's teens have fashioned a fully defined culture that adults neither see nor imagine--a culture of unprecedented freedom and baffling complexity, a culture with rules but no structure, values but no clear morality, codes but no consistency. Is it society itself that has created this separate teen community? Resigned to the attitude that adolescents simply live in "a tribe apart," adults have pulled away, relinquishing responsibility and supervision, allowing the unhealthy behaviors of teens to flourish. Ultimately, this rift between adults and teenagers robs both generations of meaningful connections. For everyone's world is made richer and more challenging by having adolescents in it.

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Ballantine Books

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034543594X

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9780345435941

Oscar Wilde Eros and Aesthetics

By: Patricia Flanagan Behrendt

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Oscar Wilde Eros and Aesthetics

By: Patricia Flanagan Behrendt

This study explores the relationship between Wilde's treatment of sexual subject matter and the development of his literary aesthetics from the earliest volume of poetry through the social comedies which highlighted his career. In addition, the study considers the earliest critical responses to Wilde's works, since they reveal how references to sexual subject matter, particularly to homoerotic themes, were received in Wilde's own period.

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Springer

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1349216577

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St. Marys and Camden County

By: Patricia Barefoot

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St. Marys and Camden County

By: Patricia Barefoot

Bounded on the north by the Little Satilla River from neighboring Glynn County and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, Camden County's southern boundary at the St. Marys River separates Georgia from Florida. Dating from a 1766 land grant, port of St. Marys and Camden County have faced a challenging past, present, and future. Camden's growth and development have been driven by businessmen, adventurers and opportunists, determined "wild swamp Crackers," and hardy, self-reliant, God-fearing men and women. Accompanied by Jonathan Bryan, a planter with an insatiable appetite for virgin tracts of land, Georgia's third and last Royal Governor James Wright visited Buttermilk Bluff in June 1767 and envisioned a city. St. Marys was born, and its street names reflect the surnames of the 20 founding fathers. While the county seat was removed from a quaint St. Marys on more than one occasion, today, the garden spot of Woodbine serves as the seat of county government. Formerly the rice plantation of J.K. Bedell, this small city shares a symbiotic relationship with port of St. Marys and the "City of Royal Treatment" at Kingsland. The history of the county, with its three main towns as well as the outlying, rural areas, unfolds in striking photographs from days gone by. Preserved within the pages of this treasured volume, images reveal Camden and its people in times of tragedy and triumph.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439629099

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9781439629093

Earthly Vows

By: Patricia Hickman

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Earthly Vows

By: Patricia Hickman

The award-winning author of Fallen Angels, Nazareth's Song, and Whisper Town delivers the final novel in the acclaimed Millwood Hollow Series of role reversals, strange bedfellows, and ultimate redemption. Jeb Nubey and Fern Coulter are finally setting a wedding date, but their plans are derailed when a trip to Oklahoma to visit Fern's family catapults them into Fern's past 'the past she would prefer remained buried. Additionally, the challenges and perks that come with the wealthy community church Jeb is called to lead give him food for growth; however, this new found enlightenment appears arrogant in light of Fern's insecurities. In the midst of their struggles, Jeb and Fern must also deal with the disappearance of Angele 'Jeb' s adopted daughter. He must retrieve her from the dangerous young man who has played on her vulnerabilities and lured her away promising to fill the emptiness she feels. Earthly Vows takes a look at how easily those we think we know so well can fall into behaviors and make decisions we would never expect. Through this, Hickman shows how broken circles can be redeemed and how we can find beauty in life's flaws.

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FaithWords

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0446561495

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9780446561495

Between Mothers and Sons

Women Writers Talk About Having Sons and Raising Men

By: Patricia Stevens

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Between Mothers and Sons

Women Writers Talk About Having Sons and Raising Men

By: Patricia Stevens

The challenge for mothers of sons is to realize that because we do not share a sexual identity, that because we have not grown up in a male body, we cannot presume to understand everything there is to know about our sons' worlds." -- Patricia Stevens Between Mothers and Sons is the first anthology in which women writers attempt to answer the question that all mothers have contemplated in the course of mothering the opposite sex: "Who is this male child who came out of my body?" Or, as a pregnant Mary Gordon said when her doctor told her she was having a boy, "Oh, my God. What am I supposed to do with one of them?" From the earliest days of nursing to the good-byes of college and looming adulthood, these writers collectively explore, in a thrilling range of styles and sensibilities, the delights and frustrations, the deep and often conflicted emotions, they feel in their roles as mothers to their male children. Between Mothers and Sons resoundingly and unflinchingly celebrates this journey we are all making with our boys. with essays from: Julene Bair † Janet Burroway † Robb Forman Dew Deborah Galyan † Mary Gordon † Joy Harjo † Anne Lamott Susan Lester † Jo-Ann Mapson † Leigh McKinley Valerie Monroe † Naomi Shihab Nye † Eileen Pollack Jewell Parker Rhodes † Patricia Stevens † Sallie Tilsdale Kris Vervaecke † Patricia Williams

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Simon and Schuster

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0684850729

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9780684850726

Marriage is Easier When You Know How!

Based on the 14 Skills of the Award-Winning Third Optiona,,C/ Program

By: Patricia Crane Ennis MSW

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Marriage is Easier When You Know How!

Based on the 14 Skills of the Award-Winning Third Optiona,,C/ Program

By: Patricia Crane Ennis MSW

Marriage IS Easier When You Know How And Here's How! Empowering. Practical. Based on the award-winning Third Option Program, which has been transforming and saving marriages for over thirty years. Have you have ever asked, "Should I make an issue of this or let it blow over?" "If my spouse doesn't appear sorry, should I forgive them or not?" "Should I fight for what I want or give in?" We're often caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. Neither choice seems appealing. There must be a better way. There is! This book condenses all the best marriage research into two easy-to-understand secrets; teaches the fourteen essential skills of marriage step-by-step, which you can learn and apply immediately, even by yourself; and offers hundreds of couple stories, which will entertain and inspire you. As seen in Women's Day, Family Relations Journal, Marriage Savers, Mothering Magazine, and many more. Couples in their own words: We were going through a difficult time in our marriage... Then my mother gave us an article about the Third Option... We found something in every topic we could use to better our relationship. The concepts...now seem to be so "common sense" that I am amazed that we needed to learn them... I have often regretted that we didn't learn of the Third Option earlier in our marriage. It would have saved us several years of pain and suffering. (J and M) We sought marriage counseling...read self-help books, attended seminars... We couldn't get our marriage on track... You armed us with the knowledge that we needed... You put the puzzle pieces together. The Third Option works. We are together because of it... (S and E) We...found ourselves in complete relationship burnout. The Third Option process provided the essential tools with which to work through even the most deep-seated problems in our relationship. We experienced such profound improvement...that we have recommended the Third Option program to many of our friends and family. (B and T)

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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9798887510415

Autism and Asperger Syndrome

Preparing for Adulthood

By: Patricia Howlin

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Autism and Asperger Syndrome

Preparing for Adulthood

By: Patricia Howlin

Autism and Asperger Syndrome reviews what is known about adults with autism in terms of their social functioning, educational and occupational status. Focusing mainly on the problems experienced by high functioning people with autism - and those working with and caring for them - the book offers practical ways of dealing with their difficulties. Each chapter makes use of clinical case material to illustrate the kinds of problems faced and ways in which they may be overcome. First-hand accounts from people with autism are included and links with psychiatric illness in later life are explored. This updated edition is helpful to both professionals and families with autistic children and has been completely updated to take account of the latest research in the field. It also includes an additional chapter on the differences between autism and Asperger syndrome.

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Routledge

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1134391412

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9781134391417

Katrina's Wings

By: Patricia Hickman

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Katrina's Wings

By: Patricia Hickman

A rich, reassuring, coming-of-age tale for the dreamer in us all For every woman who has come into her own or is striving to find her way in the world, Katrina's Wings honors and explores the desire to break free from childhood constraints and soar into the future. A tale of redemption, love, and triumph set entirely in the Deep South, Patricia Hickman's novel offers an intimate, occasionally painful, and frequently humorous glimpse into the lives of two sisters who take different paths in life, yet wind up at the same discovery: Miracles show up in the most unexpected places. Praise for Patricia Hickman and Katrina's Wings from other best-selling authors: "I was captivated by Katrina's Wings, an irresistible novel with unique charm and depth. This is Ms. Hickman's absolute best!" —Robin Lee Hatcher "The pain of growing up is dramatized skillfully by Hickman, and by the time Katrina reaches her goal, the reader has identified with her. A fine treatment of the growth of an artist-and of a human being!" —Gilbert Morris "Katrina's Wings takes the reader on a journey through the introspective places of the soul to a place where love is launched and faith begins." —Karen Kingsbury "Keep some tissues handy, and be prepared to laugh as well. Beautiful language, fascinating characters moving about the pages, and a richly woven story make this a delightful read!" —Lawana Blackwell

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WaterBrook

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0307756416

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9780307756411

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003

By: Patricia Cardoza

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003

By: Patricia Cardoza

OneNote offers the flexibility of a paper notebook and the power of digital note taking, all explored in this beginner's guide. It begins by explaining what OneNote is and why a consumer would want to buy it. The book continues to show the reader how to type in his first note, use the pen, organize notes, draw pictures, add audio and much more.

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0789731487

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The Drama of Leadership

By: Patricia Pitcher

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The Drama of Leadership

By: Patricia Pitcher

As a member of the board of directors of several major international financial services corporations, Patricia Pitcher was in a privileged position to observe the inner workings of the corporate world. What she witnessed was a crisis of leadership rooted in a misunderstanding of what leading is all about. Not content to simply offer an opinion-opinions come cheap-she embarked on an eight-year research project to document the reasons for the rapid collapse of a global giant. That collapse, she shows us, began with one critical succession error and was compounded by a chronic failure to understand the importance of personality in the leadership equation. One wrong person at the helm turned a dream into a nightmare. In The Drama of Leadership, Patricia Pitcher shares her findings and, in the process, explodes a number of popular myths about leadership, including the one that leadership and vision are qualities that can be taught in management seminars. She refutes the common belief that leaders are in short supply and proves that the corporate talent pool abounds with potential leaders whose talents either go unrecognized or are tragically undervalued. And she explains why, at a time when vision, innovation, humanity, and passion are so desperately needed, so many companies cast in leadership roles people who possess none of these qualities, and who distrust anyone who does. But who are the good and bad leaders, and how do you identify them? In answer to this question, Patricia Pitcher identifies three types of leaders: Artists, who are people-oriented, open-minded, intuitive, and visionary; Craftsmen, to whom the adjectives "humane," "dedicated," and "wise" best apply; and Technocrats - brilliant and well-schooled in the latest theory, they are detail-oriented, rigid, methodical, self-centered, and, when left in control, pose a serious threat to corporate competitiveness. The power struggles between these types are dramas being played out in companies everywhere. Whether the story has a happy or an unhappy ending depends entirely upon which type gets top billing. The author also offers her wise recommendations on what companies can do to protect themselves against a technocratic hegemony and how to cultivate the talents of Artists and Craftsmen. She also tells you how to determine what type of leader you are and how to interact with other types to achieve both personal and corporate success. The Drama of Leadership is an articulate, insightful, passionate appeal to develop the kind of leaders and organizations that can take us into the twenty-first century.

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0471148431

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Life and Deaf

By: Patricia Molloy

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Life and Deaf

By: Patricia Molloy

The object of writing this book," the author writes, "is to try to relate as honestly and as sincerely as possible, the emotions, fears, difficulties, disappointments and hopes, and, above all, the tremendous satisfaction I experienced in bringing up a deaf child." In that aim she has undoubtedly succeeded, and no reader can read this moving story of courage and perseverance without being profoundly moved and regenerated by the depth of love with which she and her husband--and indeed Rosemary, their daughter--relentlessly overcame the barriers that confronted them.

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0595317944

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Searching for Lady Luck

By: Patricia Kiyono

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Searching for Lady Luck

By: Patricia Kiyono

Only seven years have passed since Rose Sheffield was a carefree college student, though it seems like a lifetime ago. Her father’s position at a major bank provided her with luxuries she took for granted. Now she works at menial jobs to support herself and her mother, and they live in what used to be their vacation home in Wildwood, New Jersey. Rose’s days are pure drudgery, until she meets Charlie. As luck would have it, she just happens to have the perfect place to display his artwork. Before the Great Stock market crash of 1929, Charlie Brannigan was hailed as an up and coming artist in Manhattan. But now he’s back at his family home in Wildwood, delivering newspapers in the mornings and selling his paintings on the Boardwalk in the afternoons. He needs some luck in his life, and it seems every time a pretty lady named Rose appears, good things happen.

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1940695228

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Cases in Public Relations Management

The Rise of Social Media and Activism

By: Patricia Swann

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Cases in Public Relations Management

The Rise of Social Media and Activism

By: Patricia Swann

Now in its third edition, Cases in Public Relations Management uses recent cases in strategic communication designed to encourage discussion, debate, and exploration of the options available to today's strategic public relations manager, with the help of extensive supplemental materials. Key features of this text include coverage of the latest controversies in current events, discussion of the ethical issues that have made headlines in recent years, and strategies used by public relations practitioners. The problem-based case study approach encourages readers to assess what they know about communication theory, the public relations process, and management practices. New to the third edition: Eighteen new cases including Snap, Wells Fargo, SeaWorld, United Airlines, and Starbucks. Additional emphasis on social media and social responsibility for communication management today. End-of-chapter activities that reinforce concepts. Developed for advanced students in strategic communication and public relations, this book prepares them for their future careers as communication and public relations professionals. The new edition features a fully enhanced companion website that includes resources for both instructors and students. Instructors will find PowerPoint Lecture Slides, Case Supplements, Instructor Guides, and Answer Keys for Quizzes and End-of-Chapter Activities. Students will benefit from Quizzes, a Glossary, and Case Supplements.

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Routledge

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1351613502

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May It Please the Campus

Lawyers Leading Higher Education

By: Patricia E. Salkin

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May It Please the Campus

Lawyers Leading Higher Education

By: Patricia E. Salkin

A 2022 Green Bag Almanac & Reader Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree This is a groundbreaking study on the important and little known role that lawyers have played as leaders in higher education. The book traces the history of lawyer campus presidents from the 1700s to present, exploring dozens of topics such as: where lawyer presidents went to law school; the percentage of lawyer presidents serving at public, private, community, HBCUs, and religiously affiliated institutions; geographic concentrations of campuses led by lawyers, women lawyer presidents, pathways to the presidency for lawyers, commonalities in backgrounds, and more. The author explores reasons for an exponential increase in lawyers serving as campus leaders examining the growth of legal education and myriad legal and regulatory issues confronting higher education.

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Calling in the Soul

Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village

By: Patricia V. Symonds

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Calling in the Soul

Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village

By: Patricia V. Symonds

A gold mine of information for American social scientists. It is a 'must have.'" -Choice "Calling in the Soul" (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological beliefs about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death, and the gender relationships evident in these practices. The social framework of the Hmong (or Miao, as they are called in China, and Meo, in Thailand), who have lived on the fringes of powerful Southeast Asian states for centuries, is distinctly patrilineal, granting little direct power to women. Yet within the limits of this structure, Hmong women wield considerable influence in the spiritually critical realms of birth and death. Patricia Symonds situates her study within the landscape of northern Thai mountain life and anthropological perspectives on the Hmong, and then focuses on "Flower Village," telling detailed stories of births, marriages, and deaths. Recurring motifs emerge: the complementarity of women's and men's roles in daily life and in the otherworld, and their reversal at critical moments; the importance of the brother-sister relationship; the social and spiritual significance of the ceremonial clothing women create, especially their embroidered "flower cloth" and the ambiguously nuanced sev, or "modesty aprons," they wear; the endlessly cyclical nature of life, from birth to death to birth again; the importance of sound and silence at times of transition; the complex connections between the land of the living and the land of the dead. Hmong women's primary source of power in the patriline is their fecundity, through which they influence key spiritual aspects of the life cycle. This value and power is evident in the division of bride-price into two parts: "milk and care money," which compensates a woman's parents for her upbringing; and payment for the "birth shirt," or placenta, of the child the young wife will produce. Through provision of birth shirts for fetuses and of elaborately embroidered cloth shirts for the dead, women literally clothe the soul through cycles of rebirth. An epilogue and appendixes provide a discussion of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the Hmong of Thailand, cultural factors in HIV transmission, and strategies for containment; complete Hmong texts and English translations of "Calling in the Soul," and "Showing the Way," the chant which guides the soul of the deceased through the land of darkness and back to reincarnation in a new body in the land of light; Flower Village demographic information; and an account of a shamanic healing and outline of Hmong health care issues in the United States. Calling in the Soulwill be of interest to sociocultural anthropologists, medical anthropologists, Southeast Asianists, and gender specialists. Patricia V. Symondsis adjunct associate professor of anthropology at Brown University. She is the coauthor (with Brooke G. Schoepf) ofHIV/AIDS: The Global Pandemic and Struggles for Control. "Despite the now quite substantial literature on the Hmong, until now, there has been very little that explores gender issues. . . .Calling in the Soulalso makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge about Hmong death rites and religious beliefs." - Charles Keyes, University of Washington "The volume's strength is its ethnography, . . . in the numerous engaging accounts of particular events - marriages, births, etc." - Nicola Tannebaum, Lehigh University "A fascinating ethnography. Its firm grounding in an ethnic minority village in Thailand provides an interesting setting for thinking about the life cycle." - Hjorleifur Jonsson, Arizona State University

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0295983396

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