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The Paranoian

By: Ray Sproule

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There’s a rap on Lester Netherman’s apartment door. It’s a little blue man from the planet Paranoia named Pymm. And so begins a series of misadventures culminating in a bizarre journey to a remote desert region of Nevada. There, after an encounter with a beguilingly lethal ‘sand creature’, Pymm attempts to lure Netherman back to Paranoia with him. Throughout, Netherman undergoes a rash of blackouts in which he vividly experiences three alternate identities — leading him to the ultimate personal question: ‘Who am I?

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FriesenPress

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1039158056

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9781039158054

The Crucifix

By: Ray Sproule

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The Crucifix

By: Ray Sproule

At the age of fourteen, Marciano kills a pedophilic abbot with the sharpened point of a crucifix, driving him to take refuge in a remote mountain villa in Corsica, devoted to training assassins and forcing him into a career as a notorious assassin known as The Crucifix. Later, he attempts to break free of his French Milieu masters and is pursued from Morocco to Paris, the Greek island of Mykonos, Messina, and finally, the Spanish Sahara. Throughout, he strives to find a belief, not in God so much, but in something more significant, his true nature.

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408

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FriesenPress

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1039193994

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9781039193994

The Bekaa

By: Ray Sproule

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The Bekaa

By: Ray Sproule

An adventure tale with murder, intrigue, treasure and romance—amid intimations of a past where Phoenician triremes sailed the Mediterranean Sea—set in 1957 strife-ridden Lebanon. It follows freelance journalist Matthew Thorne from Montreal, Paris, and Beirut to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, in pursuit of the murder of an old, mercurial college friend.

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532

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FriesenPress

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103831609X

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9781038316097

Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border

Characters and Community

By: Ray Cashman

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Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border

Characters and Community

By: Ray Cashman

A folklorist explores the storytelling traditions of a small Irish town where local character anecdotes build community across sectarian divides. More than quaint local color, folklore is a crucial part of life in Aghyaran, a mixed Catholic-Protestant border community in Northern Ireland. Neighbors socialize during wakes and ceilis—informal nighttime gatherings—without regard to religious, ethnic, or political affiliation. The witty, sometimes raucous stories swapped on these occasions offer a window into Aghyaran residents’ views of self and other in the wake of decades of violent conflict. Through anecdotes about local characters, participants explore the nature of community and identity in ways that transcend Catholic or Protestant sectarian histories. Ray Cashman analyzes local character anecdotes in detail and argues that while politicians may take credit for the peace process in Northern Ireland, no political progress would be possible without ordinary people using shared resources of storytelling and socializing to imagine and maintain community.

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276

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Indiana University Press

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025300568X

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9780253005687

Act of Injustice

A Novel

By: Ray Argyle

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Act of Injustice

A Novel

By: Ray Argyle

A bride, a groom, and a lover. One will die, another will hang, and the survivor will begin an obsessive 20-year odyssey to discover the truth. Three people caught up in the harsh class differences and religious and racial prejudices of Victorian Canada, where a vast new territory—the "Queen's Bush"—is being opened to settlement in Ontario's Georgian Bay country. Inspired by the true lives of Rosannah Leppard and Cook Teets, An Act of Injustice follows disgruntled newspaperman Leonard Babington in a combination courtroom drama, murder mystery, and meditation on the moral malaise of Victorian Canada. His obsession plunges him into the labyrinth world of Ottawa power politics, the salons of a smug "Toronto the Good," and the licentiousness of the city's Insane Asylum. With literary distinction and storytelling mastery, this historical novel brings the urgency of today's headlines to the struggle for romance, justice, and equality in a young, 20th century Canada.

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427

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Mosaic Press

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1771612304

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9781771612302

Fighting for Equality

A Life of May Wright Sewall

By: Ray E. Boomhower

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Fighting for Equality

A Life of May Wright Sewall

By: Ray E. Boomhower

This young readers' biography showcases educator, woman's rights pioneer, and peace activist May Wright Sewall's important contributions to the history of Indianapolis, Indiana, the United States, and the world. Sewall helped to establish such Indianapolis institutions as the Girls' Classical School, the Indianapolis Woman's Club, the Contemporary Club, the Art Association of Indianapolis (today known as the Indianapolis Museum of Art) and the Indianapolis Propylaeum. She served as a valuable ally to such national suffrage leaders as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and gave the woman's movement a worldwide focus through her pioneering involvement with the American National Council of Women and the International Council of Women.

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Indiana Historical Society

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0871953188

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9780871953186

Packy Jim

Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border

By: Ray Cashman

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Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border

By: Ray Cashman

A brilliant testament to the ethnographer's art, the deeply rooted wisdom of an "ordinary" person, and the complex ways in which folklore figures in everyday life along the Irish border.

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336

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299308901

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9780299308902

Jewish Ireland

A Social History

By: Ray Rivlin

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Jewish Ireland

A Social History

By: Ray Rivlin

Jewish Ireland: A Social History is an engaging and thoroughly researched panorama of Irish Jewry. Based on library and archival material, private memoirs and oral testimony, it traces Irish-Jewish life from the 1880s when Orthodox Russian Jews, forced to flee Tsarist persecution, began arriving in Ireland without any means of support, little secular education and no understanding of English. Overcoming poverty and antipathy, they established Jewish enclaves around the South Circular Road in Dublin and in townships and cities throughout Ireland, educated themselves from peddlers to professionals and entreprenurs, took an active part in the Irish civil war and other major conflicts, engaged in national politics and sport and achieved acclaim in literature, art and music. This insightful and often humorous portrayal of a people underlines the contribution made to Ireland by its Jewish citizens and gives an invaluable understanding of the Jewish way of life to the wider community.

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380

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The History Press

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1845887212

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9781845887216

Drugs Across the Spectrum

By: Ray Goldberg

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Drugs Across the Spectrum

By: Ray Goldberg

This unbiased and objective text critically examines reasons for drug use, the social implications of drugs, legal issues, problems caused by drug use and abuse, various modes of drug treatment, effectiveness of drug treatment, and the impact of drug prevention and drug education. Includes more than just the physiological and psychological effects of drugs.

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356

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Brooks Cole

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0534574122

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9780534574123

The Bekaa

By: Ray Sproule

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The Bekaa

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The Paranoian

The Paranoian

The Crucifix

The Crucifix

The Bekaa

The Bekaa

Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border

Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border

Act of Injustice

Act of Injustice

Fighting for Equality

Fighting for Equality

Packy Jim

Packy Jim

Jewish Ireland

Jewish Ireland

Drugs Across the Spectrum

Drugs Across the Spectrum

The Bekaa

The Bekaa

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