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The Power Within

A Psychic Healing Primer

By: Rita Louise

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The Power Within

A Psychic Healing Primer

By: Rita Louise

The Power Within is the premier "how to" guide for discovering our latent healing energies and expanding our inherent psychic potential.

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1591092302

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9781591092308

Six of One

By: Rita Mae Brown

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Perched right on the Mason-Dixon line, tiny Runnymede, Maryland, is ripe with a history almost as colorful as the women who live there—from Celeste Chalfonte, headstrong and aristocratic, who murders for principle and steals her brother’s wife, to Fannie Jump Creighton, who runs a speakeasy right in her own home when hard times come knocking. Then of course, there’re Louise and Julia, the boldly eccentric Hunsenmeir sisters. Wheezie and Juts spend their whole lives in Runnymede, cheerfully quibbling about everything from men to child-rearing to how to drive a car. But they never let small-town life keep them from chasing their biggest dreams—or from being true to who they really are. Sparkling with a perfect combination of sisterhood and sass, Six of One is a richly textured Southern canvas—Rita Mae Brown “at her winning, fondest best”(Kirkus Reviews).

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Bantam

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0399181024

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9780399181023

Bingo

By: Rita Mae Brown

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Bingo

By: Rita Mae Brown

In the sequel to her beloved Six of One, Rita Mae Brown returns with another witty tale of passion and rivalry in the small Southern town of Runnymede, Maryland. Newspaper editor Nickel Smith is scrambling to save the local paper from corporate extinction, even as she is engaged in an affair that would shock the town as much as it amazes Nickel herself. Meanwhile, her mother, Julia, and her aunt Louise, the infamous Hunsenmeir sisters, who’ve set the town on its ears for decades, keep an eagle eye on Nickel. No matter that she’s a grown woman and that they’re going on ninety; they need someone to gossip about! Not even the town’s weekly bingo games can keep Louise and Julia out of trouble when Ed Tutweiler Walters, an eligible newcomer, arrives in town—and has the sisters fighting over him like schoolgirls. A telling look at the foibles of modern relationships, Bingo is full of wisdom about the comforts, trials, and absurdities of small-town life and especially of our own nearest and dearest.

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Bantam

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0307794040

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9780307794048

Reading Raps

A Book Club Guide for Librarians, Kids, and Families

By: Rita Soltan

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Reading Raps

A Book Club Guide for Librarians, Kids, and Families

By: Rita Soltan

Book clubs are sprouting up all over, and so are book club guides—but not all book club guides are equal. Many focus on a specific type of book club, or they take a generic approach of one size fits all; and most do not take into account the special needs of librarians and educators working with young readers. This guide has it all, and it will help you ensure that your book club meetings are both fun and educational. Focusing on children in grades 3-8 (and their families), the book offers 100 ready-made book club instructions for popular children's and YA titles—from newer releases, such as Theresa Nelson's Ruby Electric and Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer to perennial favorites and award-winning classics, such as Johanna Hurwitz's Much Ado about Aldo and Gary Soto's Baseball in April and Other Stories. Along with thought-provoking discussion questions, you'll find all the background information you need to conduct lively book discussions with a variety of readers-plot summary, themes and characters description, genre, reading level, author and award information, related reads, and more. The guide describes four types of family-oriented book clubs—family, mother/daughter, father/son, and readers' rap—as well as a book club for kids only. The author provides practical instructions for making each type of book club successful. For each title, she provides a plot summary, characterization sketches, questions to use for provocative discussion, and follow-up bibliographies on similar reads. Notes on genres, themes, and reading levels are also provided. The selected titles reflect some of the best, most current, and most popular children's literature. In addition, a broad scope of genres and multicultural titles are included. Perfect for public library programs and after school book clubs, this is a one-stop resource, with practical, ready-made plans that can easily be adapted to multiple environments. Grades 3-8.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0897899482

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9780897899482

Loose Lips

By: Rita Mae Brown

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Loose Lips

By: Rita Mae Brown

If you crossed Mitford, North Carolina, with Peyton Place, you might come up with Runnymede, Maryland, the most beguiling of Southern towns. In Loose Lips, Rita Mae Brown revisits Runnymede and the beloved characters introduced in Six of One and Bingo, serving up an exuberant portrayal of small-town sins and Southern mores, set against a backdrop of homefront life during World War II. "I'm afraid life is passing me by," Louise told her sister. "No, it's not," Juts said. "Life can't pass us by. We are life." In the picturesque town of Runnymede, everyone knows everyone else's business, and the madcap antics of the battling Hunsenmeir sisters, Julia (Juts) and Louise, have kept the whole town agog ever since they were children. Now, in the fateful year of 1941, with America headed for war, the sisters are inching toward forty...and Juts is unwise enough to mention that unspeakable reality to her sister. The result is a huge brawl that litters Cadwalder's soda fountain with four hundred dollars' worth of broken glass. To pay the debt, the sisters choose a surprisingly new direction. Suddenly they are joint owners of The Curl 'n' Twirl beauty salon, where discriminating ladies meet to be primped, permed, and pampered while dishing the town's latest dirt. As Juts and Louise become Runnymede's most unlikely new career women, each faces her share of obstacles. Restless Juts can't shake her longing for a baby, while holier-than-thou Louise is fit to be tied over her teenage daughter's headlong rush toward scandal. As usual, the sisters rarely see eye to eye, and there are plenty of opinions to go around. Even the common bond of patriotic duty brings wildly unexpected results when the twosome joins the Civil Air Patrol, watching the night sky for German Stukas. But loose lips can sink even the closest relationships, and Juts and Louise are about to discover that some things are best left unsaid. Spanning a decade in the lives of Louise, Juts, and their nearest and dearest, including the incomparable Celeste Chalfonte, Loose Lips is an unforgettable tale of love and loss and the way life can always throw you a curveball. By turns poignant and hilarious, it is deepened by Rita Mae Brown's unerring insight into the human heart.

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Bantam

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0307573621

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9780307573629

The Sand Castle

By: Rita Mae Brown

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The Sand Castle

By: Rita Mae Brown

A family trip to Chesapeake Bay holds life-changing revelations in this Runnymede novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle. It’s August 1952, and seven-year-old Nickel—otherwise known as Nicole—sets off for a day at the beach with her mother, Juts, aunt Wheezie, and eight-year-old cousin Leroy. Chesapeake Bay is beautiful in summer, but Leroy, who recently lost his mother, is frightened of the world around him. While Nickel delights in tormenting her cousin, the group begins work on a magnificent sand castle. And in an effort to coax Leroy out of his shell, the sisters tell stories of their own childhood trips to the shore. As the sun swings higher in the sky, and uncomfortable family history rises to the surface, Nickel’s taunting escalates until a frightening event draws them back together. It isn’t until years later that Nickel can see that single day at the beach for what it truly was—a life-changing lesson about family and all the pleasure and heartbreak that comes with it. Beginning with Six of One, Rita Mae Brown’s novels of Southern sisters Juts and Wheezie Hunsenmeir have won critical praise and millions of readers worldwide. Now Brown’s beloved characters from Runnymede, Maryland, “are back and irascible as ever” in The Sand Castle (Publishers Weekly).

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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1555848451

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9781555848453

Hammered Gold

By: Rita Coker

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Hammered Gold

By: Rita Coker

A heart that broke when crushed by the loss of a loved one; a marriage that fell apart; addiction (drugs, alcohol, pornography); a teen age pregnancy that blew your plans for your child to pieces; depression; illness; or was it financial crisis? Rita Coker, author of Hammered Gold, offers help, hope and encouragement from God's word to each reader with a work sure to heal your hurting heart. Hammered Gold shares the true stories of ordinary people who have found victory in the midst of their fiery trials because of the faithfulness of their extraordinary God.

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Tate Publishing

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159886923X

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9781598869231

Rita Moreno

A Memoir

By: Rita Moreno

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Rita Moreno

A Memoir

By: Rita Moreno

In this New York Times bestselling memoir, West Side Story star Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend—one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys. Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto Rico, Moreno, at age five, embarked on a harrowing sea voyage with her mother and wound up in the harsh barrios of the Bronx, where she discovered dancing, singing, and acting as ways to escape a tumultuous childhood. Making her Broadway debut by age thirteen—and moving on to Hollywood in its Golden Age just a few years later—she worked alongside such stars as Gary Cooper, Yul Brynner, and Ann Miller. When discovered by Louis B. Mayer of MGM, the wizard himself declared: “She looks like a Spanish Elizabeth Taylor.” Cast by Gene Kelly as Zelda Zanders in Singin’ in the Rain and then on to her Oscar-winning performance in West Side Story, she catapulted to fame—yet found herself repeatedly typecast as the “utility ethnic,” a role she found almost impossible to elude. Here, for the first time, Rita reflects on her struggles to break through Hollywood’s racial and sexual barriers. She explores the wounded little girl behind the glamorous façade—and what it took to find her place in the world. She talks candidly about her relationship with Elvis Presley, her encounters with Howard Hughes, and the passionate romance with Marlon Brando that nearly killed her. And she shares the illusiveness of a “perfect” marriage and the incomparable joys of motherhood. Infused with Rita Moreno’s quick wit and deep insight, this memoir is the dazzling portrait of a stage and screen star who longed to become who she really is—and triumphed.

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Penguin

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0451416392

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9780451416391

Listen to the Wisest of All

By: Rita Blockman,Kimberly Morin

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Listen to the Wisest of All

By: Rita Blockman,Kimberly Morin

In this beautifully illustrated book, individuals from 88-104 years old from differing backgrounds share life stories, values, and accumulated wisdom. This is a great gift book for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends because they will enjoy the inspirational stories, words of advice, and will have an opportunity to leave their own legacy just as the individuals in the book have done.

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0979502403

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9780979502408

Depression & Natural Medicine

By: Rita Elkins

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Depression & Natural Medicine

By: Rita Elkins

Rita Elkins' work in health research over the past decade has contributed to this valuable reference about the devastating effects of depression and effective natural treatments for the disorder. Depression and Natural Medicine contains information gathered from extensive interviews with medical doctors and psychologists, and explains why someone might be depressed and what natural therapies are available. Elkins firmly underscores the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle in order to treat depression.

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188567001X

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9781885670014

Bride's Guide to Emotional Survival

By: Rita Bigel-Casher

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Bride's Guide to Emotional Survival

By: Rita Bigel-Casher

A therapist provides advice for the potential bride on how to prepare for a wedding, deal with family members, overcome cold feet, and adjust to being a newlywed.

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260

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Prima Lifestyles

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0761511563

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9780761511564

Complete Fiber Fact Book

Learn the Secrets of Using Dietary Fiber to Cut the Risk of Disease, Improve Digestion, and Enhance Overall Health

By: Rita Elkins

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Complete Fiber Fact Book

Learn the Secrets of Using Dietary Fiber to Cut the Risk of Disease, Improve Digestion, and Enhance Overall Health

By: Rita Elkins

Health advocates the world over have long been touting the benefits of fiber, among them lower risk of various cancers, enhanced gastrointestinal function, increased energy and improved overall health. Despite the wealth of knowledge indicating fiber's worth, the public remains largely ignorant of some of the most basic facts concerning dietary fiber. In this valuable guide, Rita Elkins, MH, provides a detailed and fun look at using fiber to promote great health. Inside THE COMPLETE FIBER FACT BOOK you will find: how dietary fiber can lower the risk of various diseases, including cancer; how it can improve digestion and overall gastrointestinal health; detailed lists of high-fiber foods; simple explanations of the truths and myths surrounding dietary fiber; great recipes that easily and effectively incorporate high-fiber foods.

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228

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Woodland Publishing

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1885670206

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9781885670205

Book's by Rita Louise

The Power Within

The Power Within

Six of One

Six of One

Bingo

Bingo

Reading Raps

Reading Raps

Loose Lips

Loose Lips

The Sand Castle

The Sand Castle

Hammered Gold

Hammered Gold

Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno

Listen to the Wisest of All

Listen to the Wisest of All

Depression & Natural Medicine

Depression & Natural Medicine

Bride's Guide to Emotional Survival

Bride's Guide to Emotional Survival

Complete Fiber Fact Book

Complete Fiber Fact Book

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