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Surrender at the Border

By: Risa Leigh

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He's the only one who can save her... ATF agent B.J. Carleton’s first priority is stopping the flow of guns into Mexico until sassy Callie Snowden finds herself in the sights of a ruthless gunrunner, a man B.J. suspects killed her husband. After the tragedy Callie retreated home to her small Texas town, thinking she’d found safety. Now secrets from the past plunge her into a nightmare. When she and B.J. are kidnapped by ruthless cartel henchmen and taken into the Chihuahuan desert, B.J. must protect Callie from the killers and harsh terrain. As they run for their lives, the past continues to play itself out and catches them in its deadly spiral. And if B.J. gives in to his overwhelming attraction for her, he may lose everything...for both of them.

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Entangled: Ignite

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1633755576

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9781633755574

Beyond Compare

By: Risa Kirk

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Beyond Compare

By: Risa Kirk

Beyond Compare by Risa Kirk released on Dec 25, 1985 is available now for purchase.

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312

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Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s

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0373702000

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9780373702008

Narrative and Imperative

The First Fifty Years of Italian Holocaust Writing (1944-1994)

By: Risa B. Sodi

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Narrative and Imperative

The First Fifty Years of Italian Holocaust Writing (1944-1994)

By: Risa B. Sodi

Narrative & Imperative is the first book in English on Italian Holocaust writing as a whole. Risa Sodi explores the work of eight representative authors, including the internationally famous (Primo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, and Elsa Morante) and the lesser known (Giacomo Debenedetti, Paolo Maurensig, Liana Millu, Bruno Piazza, and Giuliana Tedeschi). She examines issues of genre, language, gender, and facticity while situating the works studied within the fields of European and Holocaust letters. A brief history of the Italian Jews - the oldest Jewish community in Europe - opens the book, and the conclusion brings the study up to recent times.

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296

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Peter Lang

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0820488720

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9780820488721

Conceiving Christian America

Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics

By: Risa Cromer

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Conceiving Christian America

Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics

By: Risa Cromer

How embryo adoption advances the Christian Right’s political goals for creating a Christian nation In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thousands of frozen human embryos remaining from assisted reproduction procedures, which they contend are unborn children. While a small part of US fertility services, embryo adoption has played an outsized role in conservative politics, from high-profile battles over public investment in human embryonic stem cell research to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Based on six years of ethnographic research with embryo adoption staff and participants, Risa Cromer uncovers how embryo adoption advances ambitious political goals for expanding the influence of conservative Christian values and power. Conceiving Christian America is the first book on embryo adoption tracing how this powerful social movement draws on white saviorist tropes in their aims to reconceive personhood, with drastic consequences for reproductive rights and justice. Documenting the practices, narratives, and beliefs that move embryos from freezers to uteruses, this book wields anthropological wariness as a tool for confronting the multiple tactics of the Christian Right. Timely and provocative, Conceiving Christian America presents a bold and nuanced examination of a family-making process focused on conceiving a Christian nation.

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409

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NYU Press

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1479818615

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9781479818617

There Was A Fire Here

A Memoir

By: Risa Nye

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There Was A Fire Here

A Memoir

By: Risa Nye

Less than a month before her 40th birthday, a devastating firestorm destroys Risa Nye’s home and neighborhood in Oakland, California. Already mourning the perceived loss of her youth, she now must face the loss of all tangible reminders of who she was before. There Was a Fire Here is the story of how Nye adjusts to the turning point that will forever mark the “before and after” in her life—and a chronicle of her attempts to honor the lost symbols of her past even as she struggles to create a new home for her family.

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163

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Simon and Schuster

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1631520466

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9781631520464

Vagrant Nation

Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s

By: Risa Goluboff

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Vagrant Nation

Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s

By: Risa Goluboff

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-served not only to maintain safety and order but also to enforce conventional standards of morality and propriety. A person could be arrested for sporting a beard, making a speech, or working too little. Yet by the end of the 1960s, vagrancy laws were discredited and American society was fundamentally transformed. What happened? In Vagrant Nation, Risa Goluboff answers that question by showing how constitutional challenges to vagrancy laws shaped the multiple movements that made "the 1960s." Vagrancy laws were so broad and flexible that they made it possible for the police to arrest anyone out of place: Beats and hippies; Communists and Vietnam War protestors; racial minorities and civil rights activists; gays, single women, and prostitutes. As hundreds of these "vagrants" and their lawyers challenged vagrancy laws in court, the laws became a flashpoint for debates about radically different visions of order and freedom. Goluboff's compelling account of those challenges rewrites the history of the civil rights, peace, gay rights, welfare rights, sexual, and cultural revolutions. As Goluboff links the human stories of those arrested to the great controversies of the time, she makes coherent an era that often seems chaotic. She also powerfully demonstrates how ordinary people, with the help of lawyers and judges, can change the meaning of the Constitution. The Supreme Court's 1972 decision declaring vagrancy laws unconstitutional continues to shape conflicts between police power and constitutional rights, including clashes over stop-and-frisk, homelessness, sexual freedom, and public protests. Since the downfall of vagrancy law, battles over what, if anything, should replace it, like battles over the legacy of the sixties transformations themselves, are far from over.

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481

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Oxford University Press

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0190262273

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9780190262273

Send No Regrets

By: Risa Kirk

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Send No Regrets

By: Risa Kirk

Send No Regrets by Risa Kirk released on Dec 25, 1990 is available now for purchase.

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310

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Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s

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0373704410

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9780373704415

The Dog from Rodeo Drive

By: Anne Hampson,Risa Kirk

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The Dog from Rodeo Drive

By: Anne Hampson,Risa Kirk

The Dog From Rodeo Drive by Risa Kirk released on Nov 24, 1993 is available now for purchase.

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Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s

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0373705794

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9780373705795

Worth the Wait

By: Risa Kirk

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Worth the Wait

By: Risa Kirk

Worth The Wait by Risa Kirk released on Feb 22, 1993 is available now for purchase.

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0373705425

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9780373705429

Frommer's America on Wheels

California and Nevada, 1997

By: George McDonald,Risa Weinreb

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Frommer's America on Wheels

California and Nevada, 1997

By: George McDonald,Risa Weinreb

Now featuring complete coverage of the continental United States, Frommer's "America on Wheels" series is indispensable for every type of travel, from romantic weekend getaways to family vacations to cross-country tours. Four-color maps.

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484

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MacMillan Publishing Company

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0028611098

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9780028611099

Frommer's Honeymoon Destinations

By: George McDonald,Risa Weintraub

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Frommer's Honeymoon Destinations

By: George McDonald,Risa Weintraub

Honeymoon travel expert Risa Weinreb shares her extensive knowledge of the hottest romantic destinations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, which account for nearly 80 percent of all honeymoon travel.

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678

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Prentice Hall

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0133326772

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9780133326772

Surrender at the Border

By: Risa Leigh

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Polytechnic Days

Texas Wesleyan's First Decade 1891-1901

By: Risa Brown

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Polytechnic Days

Texas Wesleyan's First Decade 1891-1901

By: Risa Brown

Polytechnic Days tells the story of the early years of Fort Worth's Polytechnic College, now Texas Wesleyan University. The reader is introduced to the many significant individuals who participated in the creation and development of the college during a difficult first decade. Along with biographical sketches, the book also provides information regarding daily life, social activities, sports, entrance requirements, and academic schedules associated with this time period. Many photographs of individuals and places associated with this story of Polytechnic College's early days are included.

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Surrender at the Border

Surrender at the Border

Beyond Compare

Beyond Compare

Narrative and Imperative

Narrative and Imperative

Conceiving Christian America

Conceiving Christian America

There Was A Fire Here

There Was A Fire Here

Vagrant Nation

Vagrant Nation

Send No Regrets

Send No Regrets

The Dog from Rodeo Drive

The Dog from Rodeo Drive

Worth the Wait

Worth the Wait

Frommer's America on Wheels

Frommer's America on Wheels

Frommer's Honeymoon Destinations

Frommer's Honeymoon Destinations

Surrender at the Border

Surrender at the Border

Polytechnic Days

Polytechnic Days

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