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Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

A Novel

By: Crystal Smith Paul

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Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

A Novel

By: Crystal Smith Paul

REESE'S BOOK CLUB MAY 2023 PICK BOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 2023 PICK A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty’s affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty’s journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could—and between a cheating fiancé and the fallout from a controversial social media post, there are plenty. The truth behind Kitty's ascent to stardom from her beginnings in the segregated South threatens to expose a web of unexpected family ties, debts owed, and debatable crimes that could, with one pull, unravel the all-American fabric of the St. John sisters and those closest to them. As Elise digs deeper into Kitty's past, she must also turn the lens upon herself, confronting the gifts and burdens of her own choices and the power that the secrets of the dead hold over the living. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? is a sprawling page-turner set against the backdrop of the Hollywood machine, an insightful and nuanced look at the inheritances of family, race, and gender—and the choices some women make to break free of them.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1250815312

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Soul of a Citizen

Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time

By: Paul Rogat Loeb

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Soul of a Citizen

Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time

By: Paul Rogat Loeb

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Macmillan

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0312204353

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The Biodiversity Gardener

Establishing a Legacy for the Natural World

By: Paul Sterry

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The Biodiversity Gardener

Establishing a Legacy for the Natural World

By: Paul Sterry

A personal account of—and guide to—unlocking the wildlife potential of gardens and other plots of land in lowland Britain Over the past decade, wildlife author and photographer Paul Sterry has nurtured, both through action and by doing nothing, what has become a small island of flourishing biodiversity in the half-acre garden that surrounds his north Hampshire cottage. By giving nature a free hand, and fostering habitats appropriate to this part of southeast England, he has enabled an abundance of native plant and animal species to call the garden home. This contrasts with the continued decline in biodiversity in the surrounding countryside. In this inspiring and informative book, Sterry tells the story of his own experiences in biodiversity gardening and offers detailed practical advice to anyone who wants to give nature the upper hand on their own bit of land, no matter how small. Hampshire still retains traces of its rich wildlife heritage, but changes in land use over the past half-century have had a devastating impact on local biodiversity. Against this backdrop, The Biodiversity Gardener presents a habitat-driven and evidence-based approach, describing how any gardener can unlock the wildlife potential of their plot and enjoy the satisfaction of watching it become home to a rich array of native species, including butterflies, wildflowers, grasshoppers, amphibians, and fungi. In The Biodiversity Gardener, Sterry explains the ecological imperative of adopting this approach. Collectively, biodiversity gardens could leave a lasting legacy—wildlife oases from which future generations stand a fighting chance of restoring Britain’s natural heritage. The book encourages and empowers readers to create their own biological inheritance for posterity—and shows them how they can do it.

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Princeton University Press

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0691245568

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The Pain Tourist

By: Paul Cleave

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The Pain Tourist

By: Paul Cleave

A young man wakes from a coma to find himself targeted by the men who killed his parents, while someone is impersonating a notorious New Zealand serial killer ... the latest chilling, nerve-shredding, twisty thriller from the author of The Quiet People... &‘ Paul Cleave is an automatic must-read for me' Lee Child &‘ You can' t be a true fan of crime fiction if you' re not reading Cleave' s books' Tom Wood &‘ Uses words as lethal weapons' New York Times _______________ James Garrett was critically injured when he was shot following his parents' execution, and no one expected him to waken from a deep, traumatic coma. When he does, nine years later, Detective Inspector Rebecca Kent is tasked with closing the case that her now retired colleague, Theodore Tate, failed to solve all those years ago. But between that, and hunting for Copy Joe &– a murderer on a spree, who' s imitating Christchurch' s most notorious serial killer &– she' s going to need Tate' s help ... especially when they learn that James has lived out another life in his nine-year coma, and there are things he couldn' t possibly know, including the fact that Copy Joe isn' t the only serial killer in town... _______________ Praise for Paul Cleave &‘ The sense of dread builds unstoppably in this gripping page-turner ... an intense, chilling read' Gilly Macmillan &‘ You may think you know where it' s going, but you couldn' t be more wrong. A true page-turner filled with dread, rage, doubt and more twists than the Remutaka Pass' Linwood Barclay &‘ A true page-turner, with an intriguing premise, a rollercoaster plot and a cast of believably flawed characters' Guardian &‘ An absolute BELTER of a book ... I' d forgotten how good Paul Cleave is!' Sarah Pinborough &‘ The psychological depth of the leads bolsters the complex plot. This merits comparison with the work of Patricia Highsmith' Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW &‘ Cleave writes the kind of dark, intense thrillers that I never want to end. Do yourself a favour and check him out' Simon Kernick &‘ Tense, thrilling, touching. Paul Cleave is very good indeed' John Connolly &‘ An intense adrenaline rush from start to finish' S J Watson &‘ A riveting and all too realistic thriller' Tess Gerritsen &‘ A gripping thriller ... I couldn' t put it down' Meg Gardiner &‘ This very clever novel did my head in time and again' Michael Robotham &‘ Cleave' s whirligig plot mesmerises' People &‘ This thriller is

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Orenda Books

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1914585496

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Between Darkness and the Light

The Moonstone and the Host

By: Paul T.H. Mitchener

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Between Darkness and the Light

The Moonstone and the Host

By: Paul T.H. Mitchener

A young, bored and confused teenager is thrown into an adventurous world that he believed only existed in books and dreams. Henry is destined to become the next Host Master and to lead the everlasting fight between the darkness and the light. The Wyvern, an ancient creature of mythical powers and defender of all things living, has to find a host to be able to dwell in this world. It chooses Henry. After his encounter with Bert and the odd dog Ben in the woodland, Henry's life would never be the same again: as well as finding his only true love, he's told that his mother and aunt had kept from him that they were creatures of nature and guardians of the woodland and commanded great powers. Henry has to find a way to grow up fast and find the strength to face up to bothhis own demons as well as those sent by the Shadow Master, a powerful sorcerer, who has the power and the aid from dark allies to destroy life and spread darkness across the world.

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eBook Partnership

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1785452436

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Emperor of Gondwanaland

By: Paul Di Filippo

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Emperor of Gondwanaland

By: Paul Di Filippo

“The only thread connecting the 18 stories that make up this witches’ brew . . . seems to be the author’s bright imagination and a spark of dark humor” (Kirkus Reviews). Literary allusions abound in this volume as Di Filippo recasts a classic Melville story of slave rebellion at sea—with aliens; “Ailoura” tells the Puss in Boots fairy tale as a space opera romp; “Observable Things” has Cotton Mather encountering with Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane; and “A Monument to After‐Thought Unveiled” has poet Robert Frost starting his career writing horror fiction for Weird Tales magazine, edited by H. P. Lovecraft. Emperor of Gondwanaland contains eighteen stories, including one published only in this collection.

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Open Road Media

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1497622263

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Struggles Over the Word

Race and Religion in O'Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright

By: Timothy Paul Caron

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Struggles Over the Word

Race and Religion in O'Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright

By: Timothy Paul Caron

This literary critical study counters the usual tendency to segregate Southern literature from African American literary studies. Noting that William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor are classified as Southern writers, whereas Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright are considered black authors, Timothy P. Caron argues for an integrated study of the South's literary culture. He shows that the interaction of Southern religion and race binds these four writers together. Caron broadens our understanding of Southern literature to include both white and African American voices. Analyzing O'Connor's Wise Blood, Faulkner's Light in August, Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain, and Wright's Uncle Tom's Children, Caron shows that these writers share an intertwined concern for issues of race and religion. These two significant components of Southern culture form the intertextual network that binds together such seemingly disparate texts. These authors not only interact among themselves in acknowledged and unacknowledged ways, but also with the South's discursive practices. Most particularly, Caron sees common struggles over the Word, as he investigates how these writers use the Bible in their understandings of race and religion in the American South. While all four authors argue for the centrality of the Bible in both the black and white Southern experience, each offers a different view of how this iconic text has shaped Southern culture and its literature.

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Mercer University Press

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086554669X

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Tomorrow, soldier.

Part Two: Perfect Proposal

By: Paul F.F. Hood with Carra Leah Hood

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Tomorrow, soldier.

Part Two: Perfect Proposal

By: Paul F.F. Hood with Carra Leah Hood

Tomorrow, soldier. by Paul F. F. Hood is an autobiographical novel in four parts: Part One, subtitled Gun Oil; Part Two, subtitled Perfect Proposal; Part Three, subtitled Himmler’s Gas Station; and Part Four, subtitled Return of the 8017 Elite SS. The novel, set from the end of World War II through the onset of the Cold War until the beginning of the Korean War, chronicles one soldier’s ongoing quest for a “normal” life. Instead, Paul F. Barker, an army Staff Sergeant, finds himself in the midst of a characteristically abnormal world in-between-the-wars. He struggles with the trauma of surviving and remembering wartime horrors as well as the effects of global espionage on his friendships, intimate relationships, and business dealings. There is nothing “normal” here, nothing is as it seems, not even Marlene Dietrich.

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1463462611

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Jennifer Jones

The Life and Films

By: Paul Green

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Jennifer Jones

The Life and Films

By: Paul Green

The distinguished film career of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones (1919-2009) is thoroughly chronicled from her faltering start as Phylis Isley (her real name) at Republic Studios in 1939, to her re-invention as a major star by producer David O. Selznick, the actress' second husband. Each of her 24 films--among them The Song of Bernadette, Since You Went Away, Duel in the Sun, Portrait of Jennie, Madame Bovary and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing--is discussed in depth. Robert Osborne, host of the Turner Classic Movies cable channel, affectionately recalls his interview with Jennifer Jones in the Foreword. The actress' biography, radio appearances and unrealized projects are also covered, along with previously undocumented details of her limited stage career, including a 1966 revival of Clifford Odets' The Country Girl.

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McFarland

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0786485833

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Improving Learning How to Learn

Classrooms, Schools and Networks

By: Mary James,Robert McCormick,Paul Black,Patrick Carmichael,Mary-Jane Drummond,Alison Fox,John MacBeath,Bethan Marshall,David Pedder,Richard Procter,Sue Swaffield,Joanna Swann,Dylan Wiliam

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Improving Learning How to Learn

Classrooms, Schools and Networks

By: Mary James,Robert McCormick,Paul Black,Patrick Carmichael,Mary-Jane Drummond,Alison Fox,John MacBeath,Bethan Marshall,David Pedder,Richard Procter,Sue Swaffield,Joanna Swann,Dylan Wiliam

Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. While this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils to learn how to learn. This book makes a major contribution by building on previous work associated with ‘assessment for learning’. Improving Learning How to Learn is based on the findings of a major development and research project that explored what teachers can do in their classroom practice to help pupils acquire the knowledge and skills of learning how to learn. This book will be of interest to all those concerned with improving classroom learning and assessment. A practical companion book, Learning How to Learn: Tools for Schools, is also available from Routledge.

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Routledge

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1134138431

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Internet Alley

High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005

By: Paul E. Ceruzzi

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Internet Alley

High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005

By: Paul E. Ceruzzi

How government military contractors and high-tech firms transformed an unincorporated suburban crossroads into the center of the world's Internet management and governance.

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MIT Press

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0262033747

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9780262033749

Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of the Trees

Understanding, Casting, and Interpreting the Ancient Druidic Alphabet

By: Paul Rhys Mountfort

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Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of the Trees

Understanding, Casting, and Interpreting the Ancient Druidic Alphabet

By: Paul Rhys Mountfort

This comprehensive and practical guide to the ancient oracle is based on the alphabet of the Druids. It provides an historical background and bibliographic references to the Druidic mythology ruling this 1,500-year-old oracle.

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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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0892819197

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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and the American Justice System

By: Paul B. Wice

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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and the American Justice System

By: Paul B. Wice

Examines the murder conviction of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and the retrials that followed, noting problems in the case and in the American judicial system itself.

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Rutgers University Press

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081352864X

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Bitter Crop

The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

By: Paul Alexander

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Bitter Crop

The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

By: Paul Alexander

A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. He shrewdly focuses on the last year of her life—with relevant flashbacks to provide context—to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of Holiday’s artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, Bitter Crop—a reference to the last two words of Strange Fruit, her moving song about lynching—limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music.

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Knopf

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0593315901

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Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry and the Lyric Voice

By: Paul Duncan Morris

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Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry and the Lyric Voice

By: Paul Duncan Morris

Morris re-evaluates Nabokov's poetry and demonstrates that poetry was in fact central to his identity as an author and was the source of his distinctive authorial - lyric - voice.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442613327

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Spiffies and Loonies

By: Jean-Paul G. POTET

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Spiffies and Loonies

By: Jean-Paul G. POTET

Spiffies and Loonies is a situational comedy developed into 88 episodes. It departs from the typical ones, in which the plot hinges on the emotional and irrational decisions made by the lead characters. The opposite happens here. First of all, Brad and Dolly meet, fall in love and marry. To make things worse, they become rich after a few episodes. They are therefore geared to lead the eventless life of the happy few. Fortunately they are surrounded by misfits warped by one big deviant trait. When these do not bump into Brad and Dolly along the way, they will come and knock on their door - thus a turmoil of events running from the amusing to the fantastic, with a lot of absurdities in between.You will soon be captivated by the antics of these cartoon-like characters, and will ask for more. Several passages are spoofs of literary works. Each episode is independent enough from the others to be read or performed for its own sake.

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Lulu.com

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0244798346

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9780244798345

The Irish Patient

By: Paul Byrne

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The Irish Patient

By: Paul Byrne

Paul Byrne Dublin Ireland 2015 A CANDID ACCOUNT of a boy growing up on council estates in South Dublin in the 1970s and 1980s. A true life story. I try to look at it from both sides of the argument. However, I can’t always look at it from the other side. From having a happy and healthy childhood, going on adventures in the Dublin Mountains and Shankill and Killiney beaches ... Then becoming seriously ill. Finding out how bad the health service really is. Left to fight a very serious illness. On my own. I knew I was different from every other child, which would make my illness totally unique in my country. And maybe in the whole world. I have yet to come up with a name for my illness. Maybe call it O’Byrne’s Syndrome? Without causing offence to the O’Byrne clan. I just hope that my book. Will help others. Who have a serious and embarrassing illness and are living it alone. Please read and reflect.

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Paragon Publishing

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1782224211

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Communities and Communion in the Texas Hill Country

By: Paul O. Primrose

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Communities and Communion in the Texas Hill Country

By: Paul O. Primrose

In today’s ever-busy, every-hurrying world, it’s easy to yearn for slower, simpler times. Life in the old days was hard and far from idyllic, but the people were hard-working, honest, and honorable. In his book, Communities and Communion in the Texas Hill Country, author Paul Primrose offers memories, musings, and imaginings focused on life then and now in Llano and surrounding counties in the Texas Hill Country. Some of the people and businesses mentioned now belong to the past. At times witty and scathing and other times sweet and surprisingly soulful, the author’s stories provide food for thought for folks of all ages from various walks of life—whether or not one is fortunate enough to be a genuine Texan. The stories, like memories, are not in any particular order.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457558246

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Seekers

Dreams Are Made to Happen

By: Richard Paul Donahue

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Seekers

Dreams Are Made to Happen

By: Richard Paul Donahue

Johnny Flannigan developed a sixth sense about trouble at an early age: it always happens when you're not dressed. Johnny grew up in a ragtag family full of what other folk called "characters." His dad and mother, who lived on small change and laughs, had Johnny late in life. But when Johnny was seventeen, things began to look up. He and his new friend, Jesse Davidson, teamed up with Eddie Freeman, a fast-talking kid who would later became manager for the singing duo, Jesse and Johnny. Together, the three boys began to make a little money, learning the entertainment business by trial and error. Eddie will do whatever it takes to make his friends (and clients) into superstars. Johnny loses his heart to a faithful hometown girl named Joyce, and all is bliss-that is, until Ruby Van-Heusen, an older woman with more than enough money (but not enough scruples), steps in with her own agenda. When Levi, Johnny's unpredictable older brother, follows him to Hollywood with big dreams of his own, Johnny's world spins out of control even more. In an effort to regain a bit of balance, Johnny and his partners form a record company which in turn brings on some unwelcome surprises, including the Mob. From Indiana to New York and then Hollywood, Johnny's life is never short on adventure, laughs, heartbreak-or the struggle it takes to never give up. Richard Donahue has spent his adult life in the music industry. As a teenager he ventured off to New York and signed a recording contract with RCA Records. Later he joined forces with Hollywood Sound Studios in Los Angeles., working in songwriting, publishing and production. He co-wrote "It's the lover not the love" for pop star Tiffany. He currently lives in Nashville Tennessee.

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iUniverse

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1475943202

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The Mammoth Book of More Bizarre Crimes

By: Robin Odell,Paul Donnelley

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The Mammoth Book of More Bizarre Crimes

By: Robin Odell,Paul Donnelley

Fact is never more strange than fiction than when it comes to crime, and the crimes described here are so bizarre it's inconceivable that they could have been made up. In this all-new collection of truly unusual crimes, a sequel to the bestselling Mammoth Book of Bizarre Crimes, Odell and Donnelley tell the extraordinary stories of criminal acts far stranger than any fiction, including the murder of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace by spree-killer Andrew Cunanan and the killing of intern Chandra Ann Levy, who had had an affair with US Representative Gary Condit, though he was cleared of any involvement in her murder. They reveal how Danilo Restivo was eventually convicted of the murder of Heather Barnett in England after the ritualistic placing of hair connected him to another murder in Italy. They tell the terrible story of the inexplicably brutal murder, over a number of days, of 15-year-old Kristy Bamu by his sister and her lover because they believed him to be practising 'witchcraft'. They also give a chilling account of the thirty-one-year-old mother-of-two, Joanna Dennehy, who killed three men. 'I started killing,' she said, 'to see if I was as cold as I thought I was. Then it got moreish and I got a taste for it.

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Robinson

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1472118049

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Five Days in May:The Brookfield Murders

A Harrison Hunt Mystery

By: Paul Eiseman

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Five Days in May:The Brookfield Murders

A Harrison Hunt Mystery

By: Paul Eiseman

Five Days in May: the Brookfield Murders" is the first in a series of Harrison Hunt Mysteries. The second volume "Six Days in June: the Havenport Murders" will soon be published. Whennoted theatrical director and playwright Harrison Hunt reluctantly leaves "the Great White Way" for the rural community of Brookfield to workshop his new productions, he has no inkling that he will soon be up to his cashmere sweater in dead bodies, scandalous secrets and enough twists and turns to stymie even the most persevering of amateur sleuths. Liberally laced with cultural references (both high and low) and sprinkled with dry wit reminiscent of the Nick and Nora films, "Five Days in May: the Brookfield Murders" will delight andglue mystery lovers to the last surprising and satisfying page. For more information, go to www.harrisonhuntmysteries.com

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1468585207

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Capitan Chiquito

A Personal History of an Apache Chief, 1821–1919

By: John Paul Hartman

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Capitan Chiquito

A Personal History of an Apache Chief, 1821–1919

By: John Paul Hartman

Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito: A Personal History of an Apache Chief, 1821–1919 relates the little-known life and career of a leader of the Aravaipa band of Apaches during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During his nearly 100 years of life, Chief Capitan Chiquito spent time in prison with Geronimo; defended his home territory in Aravaipa Canyon from the depredations of Anglo-Americans, Mexicans, and rival Native American tribes; suffered the brutal massacre and abduction of many of his people; and ultimately won from the federal government the right to live on and cultivate his canyon homestead. He died in 1919 at the age of 98 from complications of influenza while caring for ill members of his clan. In the opening pages, author John Paul Hartman reminisces about some of the people he has loved—and lost—during his time on the San Carlos Reservation in southeastern Arizona. His wife, Velma Bullis, great-granddaughter of Chief Capitan Chiquito; her father, Lonnie, the chief’s grandson; and many others have preceded him through “the Western portal,” departing this life. “There is nothing for me here in San Carlos now,” he writes. “It is time for me to leave . . . But before they will let me go, I have a story to tell.” As Hartman ends this work, he explains that he undertook the research and writing about his wife’s ancestor as a means of closure for his two decades of life on the San Carlos Reservation. With the care of a historian and the dedication of an enthusiast, he has followed the trail of this notable leader, affording readers a unique view of a previously little-known yet intensely revealing historical narrative.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623499984

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Angel of the Hills

By: Paul Sebastian

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Angel of the Hills

By: Paul Sebastian

Patty Stratten, a wealthy, very religious, highly educated, Boston spinster, decides to give up her comfortable life for the rigors of teaching at an orphanage and school in an isolated area of Eastern Kentucky, a place that is completely devoid of modern conveniences. She falls in love with an uneducated, uncultured, mountaineer, that is a firm believer in the commandment, ‘Thou shalt do no murder,’ and is eleven years her junior. When World War I is declared, he feels that he should help his country and volunteers for service but refuses to accept a rifle. He is assigned as an aide to the medics that are caring for the wounded. While crawling toward an enemy foxhole to rescue a fellow soldier, he is seriously wounded and is discharged as being physically unable to continue service. He returns home, marries Patty, but is shunned by his former friends and neighbors for his refusal to participate in the killing.

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059518796X

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Protocol for Murder

By: Paul Nathan

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Protocol for Murder

By: Paul Nathan

Hired as director of media relations for New York’s famous Krinsky Research Center, ex-reporter Bert Swain is thrust into the role of detective when a member of the staff drops out of sight and a laboratory chief becomes the victim of a violent death. The great medical complex to which Krinsky belongs is engaged in a $100-million building-fund campaign and many in the community oppose the planned construction, but is their hostility so intense that it could lead to murder or is research fraud implicated in the disappearance and death? Step by step, and at increasing personal peril, our inadvertent Sherlock becomes enmeshed in high-level intrigue. Estranged from his former wife, trying to win the friendship of their preteen daughter and taking comfort where he finds it, Bert will face a final showdown with the killer—or killers—he’s been pursuing just as the right woman comes into his life.

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Seacoast Plants of the Carolinas

A New Guide for Plant Identification and Use in the Coastal Landscape

By: Paul E. Hosier

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A New Guide for Plant Identification and Use in the Coastal Landscape

By: Paul E. Hosier

This accessibly written and authoritative guide updates the beloved and much-used 1970s classic Seacoast Plants of the Carolinas. In this completely reimagined book, Paul E. Hosier provides a rich, new reference guide to plant life in the coastal zone of the Carolinas for nature lovers, gardeners, landscapers, students, and community leaders. Features include: * Detailed profiles of more than 200 plants, with color photographs and information about identification, value to wildlife, relationship to natural communities, propagation, and landscape use. * Background on coastal plant communities, including the effects of invasive species and the benefits of using native plants in landscaping. * A section on the effects of climate change on the coast and its plants. * A list of natural areas and preserves open to visitors interested in observing native plants in the coastal Carolinas. * A glossary that includes plant names and scientific terms. With a special emphasis on the benefits of conserving and landscaping with native plants, this guide belongs on the shelf of every resident and visitor to the coasts of the Carolinas.

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Sons of Mississippi

A Story of Race and Its Legacy

By: Paul Hendrickson

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A Story of Race and Its Legacy

By: Paul Hendrickson

They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club. More than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. Sons of Mississippi is a scalding yet redemptive work of social history, a book of eloquence and subtlely that tracks the movement of racism across three generations and bears witness to its ravages among both black and white Americans.

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A Psychological Biography of Hiram “Hank” Williams

By: Paul R. Nail, Ph.D.

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A Psychological Biography of Hiram “Hank” Williams

By: Paul R. Nail, Ph.D.

Volume II picks up in 1943-44, right where Volume I left off, with Hank’s courtship and marriage to first wife, Audrey (Sheppard) Guy Williams, his rise to fame at the Louisiana Hayride, 1948-49, and at the Grand Ole Opry, 1949-50, before success began closing in on him by December 1950. Hank was only 27 years old at the time, and no one knew that he had only two more years to live. Despite Hank’s growing alcoholism, marital and health problems, and eventual addiction to prescription drugs, his last two years were perhaps the most productive and successful of his career. “A special feature of Volume II is that Dr. Nail devotes an entire chapter to the art and craft of songwriting. Here, Nail provides what I believe is the most accurate and comprehensive analysis to date of the relative contributions of Hank and his publisher/song editor, Fred Rose, to Hank’s songs. Like Volume I, Volume II is a must-read for anyone seeking greater understanding and insight into the short but fabulous life and career of the legendary Hank Williams. I wholeheartedly recommend it.” – Ed Guy, noted Hank Williams expert

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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov

Mind and Matter

By: Paul Benedict Grant

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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov

Mind and Matter

By: Paul Benedict Grant

The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov’s humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour Offers the first in-depth study of Nabokov’s humour Presents a revisionist reading of Nabokov Examines the metaphysical aspects of Nabokov’s humour Examines the sexual and scatological aspects of Nabokov’s humour Applies humour theory (e.g. those of Hobbes, Bergson, Freud) to Nabokov’s texts Compares Nabokov’s humour to that of his Russian predecessors (e.g. Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov) and to literary humourists such as Rabelais, Swift, Joyce Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov’s writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.

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1399519247

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Psychoanalysis in Medicine

Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Medical Care

By: Paul Ian Steinberg

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Psychoanalysis in Medicine

Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Medical Care

By: Paul Ian Steinberg

This book shows how contemporary psychoanalytic thinking can be applied in the everyday practice of medicine to enhance the practice of family medicine and all clinical specialties. Dr. Steinberg analyzes his writings over the past 35 years—on psychiatry and family medicine, liaison psychiatry, and mentoring—based on developments in psychoanalytic thinking. Divided into sections based on different venues of medical practice, including family medicine clinics, inpatient medical and surgical units, and psychiatric inpatient units and outpatient programs, chapters illustrate how various concepts in psychoanalysis can enhance physicians’ understanding and management of their patients. A concluding section contains applications of psychoanalytic thought in non-clinical areas pertinent to medicine, including preventing suicide among physicians, residents, and medical students, sexual abuse of patients by physicians, and oral examination anxiety in physicians. Readers will learn to apply psychoanalytic concepts with a rational approach that enhances their understanding and management of their patients and practice of medicine generally.

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0429629060

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Bramhall Through Time

By: Simon Crossley,Paul Chrystal

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Bramhall Through Time

By: Simon Crossley,Paul Chrystal

This fascinating selection of photographs shows how Bramhall has changed and developed over the last century.

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Dead Man Walking (Part 3 of 3) (Detective Mark Heckenburg, Book 4)

By: Paul Finch

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Dead Man Walking (Part 3 of 3) (Detective Mark Heckenburg, Book 4)

By: Paul Finch

Dead Man Walking can be read either in three parts or as a full-length ebook (available 20 November 2014). The fourth unputdownable book in the DS Mark Heckenburg series. A killer thriller for fans of Stuart MacBride and Luther, from the #1 ebook bestseller Paul Finch.

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0008116881

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Survival Skills of Native California

By: Paul Campbell

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Survival Skills of Native California

By: Paul Campbell

Author Paul Campbell reveals the knowledge he has spent 20 years learning and reproducing from California natives. Included are sections on the basic skills of survival, the tools of gathering and food preparation, and the implements of household and personal necessity, as well as the arts of hunting and fishing. Sample topics include: shelter; greens, beans, flowers and other vegetables; meat preparation; how to make and shoot an Indian bow.--From publisher description.

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0879059214

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Occult Botany

Sédir's Concise Guide to Magical Plants

By: Paul Sédir

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Occult Botany

Sédir's Concise Guide to Magical Plants

By: Paul Sédir

• Includes a dictionary of nearly 300 magical plants with descriptions of each plant’s scientific name, common names, elemental qualities, ruling planets, and zodiacal signatures, with commentary on medico-magical properties and uses • Explores methods of phytotherapy and plant magic, including the Paracelsian “transplantation of diseases,” ritual pacts with trees, the secret ingredients of witches’ ointments, and the composition of magical philters • Explains the occult secrets of phytogenesis, plant physiology, and plant physiognomy (classification of plants according to the doctrine of signatures) Merging the scientific discipline of botany with ancient, medieval, and Renaissance traditions of occult herbalism, this seminal guide was first published in French in 1902 as a textbook for students of Papus’s École hermétique and sparked a revival in the study of magical herbalism in early twentieth-century France. Author Paul Sédir, pseudonym of Yvon Le Loup (1871-1926), explains the occult secrets of phytogenesis (the esoteric origin and evolutionary development of the plant kingdom), plant physiology (the occult anatomy of plants), and plant physiognomy (classification of plants according to the doctrine of signatures). Unveiling the mysteries behind planetary and zodiacal attributions, he provides readers with the keys to make their own informed determinations of the astral properties of plants. Moving from theory into practice, Sédir explores various methods of phytotherapy and plant magic, including the Paracelsian “transplantation of diseases,” the secret ingredients of witches’ ointments, and the composition of magical philters. In the third section of the book, Sédir offers a dictionary of magical plants that covers nearly 300 plant species with descriptions of their astral signatures, occult properties, and medico-magical uses. Compiled from an array of rare sources and esoterica, this classic text includes a wealth of additional materials and supplemental charts and diagrams drawn from Sédir’s occult colleagues, all of whom adopted and expanded upon Sédir’s pioneering system of plant correspondences.

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1644112612

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