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Diary of a Single Thirty-Something

"31"

By: Ren E Szmajlo

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Diary of a Single Thirty-Something

"31"

By: Ren E Szmajlo

Take Carrie Bradshaw and combine her with Samantha Jones, and you've got Rachel. In Diary of a Single Thirty-Something: "31," Rachel begins a close relationship with her only reliable friend - her diary - and chronicles the ups and downs of being single and in your 30's in today's ever-changing society. While negotiating the single's landscape, Rachel's trials and tribulations with her indecisive brother, Caden, along with her husband-hunting best friend, Kacey, are also highlighted. Rachel's adventures in love are brought to life in this entertaining and insightful book, as she wonders if she might never settle for "settling down." Does Rachel want to consider falling into that potential trap? Will she ever change? Will marital bliss ever find her? Or is she destined to be single forever?

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1618979310

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9781618979315

Cold Call

By: Ren Foster

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Cold Call

By: Ren Foster

Cold Call is a crime mystery about greed, deceit, pride and betrayal and the things that people do to avoid them, fight them, or forget them. The books characters know that money can move people. But they learn that money is just a metaphor. What is important to people is where they stand in relation to each another. Tragedy is when things do not always work out well. Crime is when someone gets hurt along the way for reasons we all know are wrong. Mystery is when you do not understand the reason.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499065183

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9781499065183

Foreshadow

Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA

By: Nova Ren Suma,Emily X.R. Pan

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Foreshadow

Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA

By: Nova Ren Suma,Emily X.R. Pan

Thirteen Short Stories from Bold New YA Voices & Writing Advice from YA Icons Created by New York Times bestselling authors Emily X. R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma, Foreshadow is so much more than a short story collection. A trove of unforgettable fiction makes up the beating heart of this book, and the accompanying essays offer an ode to young adult literature, as well as practical advice to writers. Featured in print for the first time, the thirteen stories anthologized here were originally released via the buzzed-about online platform Foreshadow. Ranging from contemporary romance to mind-bending fantasy, the Foreshadow stories showcase underrepresented voices and highlight the beauty and power of YA fiction. Each piece is selected and introduced by a YA luminary, among them Gayle Forman, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jason Reynolds, and Sabaa Tahir. What makes these memorable stories tick? What sparked them? How do authors build a world or refine a voice or weave in that deliciously creepy atmosphere to bring their writing to the next level? Addressing these questions and many more are essays and discussions on craft and process by Nova Ren Suma and Emily X. R. Pan. This unique compilation reveals and celebrates the magic of reading and writing for young adults.

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Algonquin Young Readers

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1643750798

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9781643750798

17 & Gone

By: Nova Ren Suma

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17 & Gone

By: Nova Ren Suma

Original publication and copyright date: 2013.

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Penguin

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014242532X

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9780142425329

Against Happiness

By: Owen Flanagan,Joseph E. LeDoux,Bobby Bingle,Daniel M. Haybron,Batja Mesquita,Michele Moody-Adams,Songyao Ren,Anna Sun,Yolonda Y. Wilson

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Against Happiness

By: Owen Flanagan,Joseph E. LeDoux,Bobby Bingle,Daniel M. Haybron,Batja Mesquita,Michele Moody-Adams,Songyao Ren,Anna Sun,Yolonda Y. Wilson

The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice. Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the limitations of the happiness agenda. The authors emphasize that this movement draws on a parochial, Western-centric philosophical basis and demographic sample. They show that happiness defined as subjective satisfaction or a surplus of positive emotions bears little resemblance to the richer and more nuanced concepts of the good life found in many world traditions. Cross-cultural philosophy, comparative theology, and social and cultural psychology all teach that cultures and subcultures vary in how much value they place on life satisfaction or feeling happy. Furthermore, the ideas promoted by the happiness agenda can compete with rights, justice, sustainability, and equality—and even conceal racial and gender injustice. Against Happiness argues that a better way forward requires integration of cross-cultural philosophical, ethical, and political thought with critical social science. Ultimately, the authors contend, happiness should be a secondary goal—worth pursuing only if it is contingent on the demands of justice.

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Columbia University Press

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0231557965

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9780231557962

The Cry of the Senses

Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics

By: Ren Ellis Neyra

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The Cry of the Senses

Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics

By: Ren Ellis Neyra

In The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ellis Neyra highlights the ways Latinx and Caribbean sonic practices challenge antiblack, colonial, post-Enlightenment, and humanist epistemologies. They locate and address the sonic in its myriad manifestations—across genres and forms, in a legal trial, and in the art and writing of Xandra Ibarra, the Fania All-Stars, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Édouard Glissant, and Eduardo Corral—while demonstrating how it operates as a raucous form of diasporic dissent and connectivity. Throughout, Ellis Neyra emphasizes Caribbean and Latinx sensorial practices while attuning readers to the many forms of blackness and queerness. Tracking the sonic through their method of multisensorial, poetic listening, Ellis Neyra shows how attending to the senses can inspire alternate, ethical ways of collective listening and being.

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Duke University Press

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1478012692

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9781478012696

Learning to Lead, Second Edition

Effective Leadership Skills for Teachers of Young Children

By: Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan

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Learning to Lead, Second Edition

Effective Leadership Skills for Teachers of Young Children

By: Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan

Be a strong leader in the early childhood field through self-evaluation and personal leadership development.

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152

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Redleaf Press

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1605540188

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9781605540184

Learning from the Bumps in the Road

Insights from Early Childhood Leaders

By: Holly Elissa Bruno,Janet Gonzalez-Mena,Luis A. Hernandez,Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan

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Learning from the Bumps in the Road

Insights from Early Childhood Leaders

By: Holly Elissa Bruno,Janet Gonzalez-Mena,Luis A. Hernandez,Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan

The journey to professional and personal growth takes time, and the road isn’t always smooth, but it is a learning-filled adventure Holly Elissa Bruno, Janet Gonzalez-Mena, Luis Antonio Hernandez, and Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan are accomplished professionals and respected leaders in the early childhood field. After a decade of speaking together at national professional development conferences, they now give you twelve of their most important presentation topics as essays. Each chapter presents a dialogue among the authors about a particular topic and the lessons gleaned from facing and overcoming uncertainty and obstacles. Merging each author’s distinct voice, expertise, and life experiences, this collection unveils the authors’ personal and meaningful histories, insecurities, and insights. You will be encouraged and challenged to think more deeply and openly about your own practices and philosophies. You will gain a renewed sense of purpose as you help children reach their full potentials. And you will discover—as the authors did—that every bump in the road is an invitation to grow and opportunity to learn. Holly Elissa Bruno, MA, JD; Janet Gonzalez-Mena, MA; Luis Antonio Hernandez, MA; and Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan, EdD, are acclaimed keynote speakers, authors, and experts on a variety of topics in early childhood.

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248

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Redleaf Press

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1605542601

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9781605542607

Navigating Human Service Organizations

Essential Information for Thriving and Surviving in Agencies

By: Rich Furman,Margaret Gibelman,Ren Winnett

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Navigating Human Service Organizations

Essential Information for Thriving and Surviving in Agencies

By: Rich Furman,Margaret Gibelman,Ren Winnett

Since its very inception, social work has been considered an organizationally based profession, with the majority of its workforce employed within formal organizations. Whether in nonprofit, for-profit, or governmental agencies, the practical realities of human service organizations are a central element of professional social work. This book explores the climate and culture of these agencies and provides essential information for surviving and thriving in this setting. It prepares students for their future careers so that they will feel empowered in their work and be able to fulfill their responsibilities toward organizational, community, and social change. Using real-life examples, the authors examine the internal structures of management, financing, and supervision and discuss common conflicts between agencies and professionals. The book's straightforward tone and practical advice make it an asset to anyone entering human service organizations.

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Oxford University Press

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0197531059

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9780197531051

Seduction by the Stars

An Astrologcal Guide To Love, Lust, And Intimate Relationships

By: Ren Lexander,Geraldine Rose

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Seduction by the Stars

An Astrologcal Guide To Love, Lust, And Intimate Relationships

By: Ren Lexander,Geraldine Rose

How do you seduce that gorgeous Leo, that dark and mysteriously sensual Scorpio, that cautious but libidinous Libra? Here is an astrological guide to love unlike any you’ve read before. Playful, witty, but dangerously effective, Seduction by the Stars gives you the down-and-dirty secrets you need to make yourself irresistible to any sign under the sun. In this X-rated guide to the stars, you’ll learn all the tricks: • Are you lusting after an Aries? Run away until you catch them. • Desperate to seduce a Leo? Be prepared to destroy your credit rating in the process. • Smitten by a Virgo? Don’t scare them off with any sudden moves. • Swooning over a Libra? Flattery will get you everywhere. • Crazy for a Scorpio? They’re suckers for sexual shock tactics. Plus a hundred other deliciously naughty seductions and scenarios. It’s all here in this Kama Sutra of the zodiac. Whether you’re planning your next move on a prospective new lover, looking to spice up an already existing relationship, or desperately trying to end a relationship gone flat, you’ll find everything you need in Seduction by the Stars.

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Bantam

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030757007X

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9780307570079

The Wisdom of Wildness

Healing the Trauma of Domestication

By: Ren Hurst

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The Wisdom of Wildness

Healing the Trauma of Domestication

By: Ren Hurst

A guide to rewilding your heart, so you can undomesticate your life • Explores 13 principles of unconditional love for addressing the trauma of domestication, healing relationships, and restoring deep connection to the inner guidance of your wild soul • Explains the nature of trauma from the perspective of emotional development • Provides experiential practices for the cultivation of authentic relationships that are free of exploitation and codependency HOW CAN WE RECLAIM our wild soul and approach life with authenticity and emotional maturity? Looking deeply into the nature of domestication and humanity’s relationship to other animals, Ren Hurst finds our own domestication--and our resultant disconnection from nature--to be the root trauma for much of the human experience, which we seem to perpetuate by domesticating others. Ren offers another path: she reverse-engineered the conditioning process that leads to domestication and discovered a practical road map for deprogramming and undomesticating yourself in order to heal, restore connection, and reclaim the innate wisdom of wildness within. Sharing enlightening moments from her journey with a half-wild husky, Denali, The Wisdom of Wildness shows how only when emotional awareness and authentic leadership link in with your own wild parts can an authentic relationship between human and animal--or between oneself and another person--be possible. In her transformative body of work, Sanctuary13, Ren unveils 13 principles of unconditional love for deprogramming yourself, healing the trauma of domestication, and reviving deep connection to inner guidance, your wild soul, and, ultimately, freedom. Experiential practices help you cultivate authentic, undomesticated relationships free of exploitation and codependency, whether with human or animal companions. Instinct, intuition, and inspiration are just waiting to be reclaimed on this paradigm-shifting path toward healing and true soul connection.

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222

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Simon and Schuster

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1644116804

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9781644116807

The Walls Around Us

Special Preview - The First 7 Chapters plus Bonus Material

By: Nova Ren Suma

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The Walls Around Us

Special Preview - The First 7 Chapters plus Bonus Material

By: Nova Ren Suma

SPECIAL PREVIEW! “Ori’s dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She’s dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me.” The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living and one long dead. On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement. On the inside, within the walls of a girls’ juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom. Tying these two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries. We hear Amber’s story and Violet’s, and through them Orianna’s, first from one angle, then from another, until gradually we begin to get the whole picture--which is not necessarily the one that either Amber or Violet wants us to see. Nova Ren Suma tells a supernatural tale of guilt and innocence, and what happens when one is mistaken for the other. Praise for Imaginary Girls: “A surreal and dreamy world where magical thinking is carried to a chilling extreme.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Praise for 17 & Gone: “Suma’s exquisite sentence-level writing and fine eye for creepy detail are in abundant evidence.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Algonquin Books

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1616205733

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9781616205737

Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin

By: Ren, Julie

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Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin

By: Ren, Julie

Julie Ren investigates the motivations and practices of making art spaces in Beijing and Berlin to engage with comparative urbanism as a framework for doing research, beyond its significance as a critical intervention. Across vastly different contexts, where universal theories of modernity or development seem increasingly misplaced, she innovatively explores the ways that art spaces employ creative capital to sustain themselves in a competitive urban landscape. She shows how these art spaces are embedded within a politics of aspiration and demonstrates that aspiration is an important lens through which to understand the nature of, and possibilities for, urban change.

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Policy Press

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152920707X

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9781529207071

Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin

By: Ren, Julie

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Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin

By: Ren, Julie

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1529207053

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Diary of a Single Thirty-Something

Diary of a Single Thirty-Something

Cold Call

Cold Call

Foreshadow

Foreshadow

17 & Gone

17 & Gone

Against Happiness

Against Happiness

The Cry of the Senses

The Cry of the Senses

Learning to Lead, Second Edition

Learning to Lead, Second Edition

Learning from the Bumps in the Road

Learning from the Bumps in the Road

Navigating Human Service Organizations

Navigating Human Service Organizations

Seduction by the Stars

Seduction by the Stars

The Wisdom of Wildness

The Wisdom of Wildness

The Walls Around Us

The Walls Around Us

Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Engaging Comparative Urbanism

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