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Reading the Old Man

John Brown in American Culture

By: Bruce A. Ronda

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Reading the Old Man

John Brown in American Culture

By: Bruce A. Ronda

In this absorbing book, Bruce Ronda examines the representations of Brown chronologically, ranging from Thoreau's "Plea for Captain John Brown" - with its ardent defense of Brown as a patriot, Transcendentalist, and true New Englander - through treatments by anonymous southern writers and well-known authors such as John Greenleaf Whittier, Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Frederick Douglass, William Dean Howells, and E. A. Robinson. Ronda then considers the major treatments of Brown in the early to mid-twentieth century by W. E. B. DuBois, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Robert Penn Warren. Of particular interest are discussions of a 1930s poem by Muriel Rukeyser, Truman Nelson's 1960 novel The Surveyor, and artwork by Jacob Lawrence. He concludes with studies of novels by three contemporary authors: Russell Banks, Michelle Cliff, and Bruce Olds."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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157233620X

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9781572336209

Black American History For Dummies

By: Ronda Racha Penrice

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Black American History For Dummies

By: Ronda Racha Penrice

Go deeper than the Black History you may think you know! Black American History For Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging into the complexities and the intrigues that make up Black America. From slavery and the Civil Rights movement to Black Wall Street, Juneteenth, redlining, and Black Lives Matter, this book offers an accessible resource for understanding the facts and events critical to Black history in America. The history of Black Americans is the history of Americans; Americans dance to Black music, read Black literature, watch Black movies, and whether they know it or not reap the benefits of the vibrant political, athletic, and sociological contributions of Black Americans. With this book, you can dive into history, culture, and beyond. See how far there’s yet to go in the approach to studying Black American culture and ending racism. Get the authoritative story on the growth and evolution of Black America from slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era through to today Discover the Black artists, musicians, athletes, and leaders who have made the United States what it is Develop a fuller understanding of concerns about police brutality and other front-and-center race issues Find out how every aspect of American life connects to Black history Black American History For Dummies is for anyone who needs to learn or re-learn the true history about Black Americans.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111978087X

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9781119780878

Searching for the New Black Man

Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies

By: Ronda C. Henry Anthony

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Searching for the New Black Man

Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies

By: Ronda C. Henry Anthony

The role of women's bodies in the productions of ideal and progressive black masculinities in African American literature

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617037346

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9781617037344

African American History For Dummies

By: Ronda Racha Penrice

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African American History For Dummies

By: Ronda Racha Penrice

Understand the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans Get to know the people, places, and events that shaped the African American experience Want to better understand black history? This comprehensive, straight-forward guide traces the African American journey, from Africa and the slave trade through the Civil War, Jim Crow, and the new millennium. You'll be an eyewitness to the pivotal events that impacted America's past, present, and future - and meet the inspiring leaders who struggled to bring about change. How Africans came to America Black life before - and after - Civil Rights How slaves fought to be free The evolution of African American culture Great accomplishments by black citizens What it means to be black in America today

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118069811

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9781118069813

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

A Reformer on Her Own Terms

By: Bruce A. Ronda

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

A Reformer on Her Own Terms

By: Bruce A. Ronda

This is the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, one of the three notable Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts, and sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Marm. It traces the intricate private life and extraordinary career of one of nineteenth-century America's most important Transcendental writers and educational reformers. Peabody was a reformer devoted to education in the broadest, and yet most practical, senses. She saw the classroom as mediating between the needs of the individual and the claims of society. She taught in her own private schools and was an assistant in Bronson Alcott's Temple School. In her contacts with Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendental circle in the 1830s, and as publisher of the famous Dial and other imprints, she took a mediating position once more, claiming the need for historical knowledge to balance the movement's stress on individual intuition. She championed antislavery, European liberal revolutions, Spiritualism, and, in her last years, the Paiute Indians. She was, as Theodore Parker described her, the Boswell of her age.

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Harvard University Press

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0674246950

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9780674246959

The Fate of Transcendentalism

Secularity, Materiality, and Human Flourishing

By: Bruce A. Ronda

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The Fate of Transcendentalism

Secularity, Materiality, and Human Flourishing

By: Bruce A. Ronda

The Fate of Transcendentalism examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of American transcendentalism and shows the movement’s influence on several subsequent writers, thinkers, and artists who have drawn inspiration and energy from the creative outpouring it produced. In this wide-ranging study, Bruce A. Ronda offers an account of the movement as an early example of the secular turn in American culture and brings to bear insights from philosopher Charles Taylor and others who have studied the broad cultural phenomenon of secularization. Ronda’s account turns on the interplay and tension between two strands in the transcendentalist movement. Many of the social experiments associated with transcendentalism, such as the Brook Farm and Fruitlands reform communities, Temple School, and the West Street Bookshop, as well as the transcendentalists’ contributions to abolition and women’s rights, spring from a commitment to human flourishing without reference to a larger religious worldview. Other aspects of the movement, particularly Henry Thoreau’s late nature writing and the rich tradition it has inspired, seek to minimize the difference between the material and the ideal, the human and the not-human. The Fate of Transcendentalism allows readers to engage with this fascinating dialogue between transcendentalist thinkers who believe that the ultimate end of human life is the fulfillment of human possibility and others who challenge human-centeredness in favor a relocation of humanity in a vital cosmos. Ronda traces the persistence of transcendentalism in the work of several representative twentieth- and twenty-first-century figures, including Charles Ives, Joseph Cornell, Truman Nelson, Annie Dillard, and Mary Oliver, and shows how this dialogue continues to inform important imaginative work to this date.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820351253

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9780820351254

My Texas Family

An Uncommon Journey to Prosperity, Featuring Photographs from 1912 to 1927

By: Rick Hyman,Ronda Hyman

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My Texas Family

An Uncommon Journey to Prosperity, Featuring Photographs from 1912 to 1927

By: Rick Hyman,Ronda Hyman

The Hyman family left Virginia when they were freed from slavery and settled in East Texas.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738501816

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9780738501819

Remainders

American Poetry at Nature's End

By: Margaret Ronda

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Remainders

American Poetry at Nature's End

By: Margaret Ronda

A literary history of the Great Acceleration, Remainders examines an archive of postwar American poetry that reflects on new dimensions of ecological crisis. These poems portray various forms of remainders—from obsolescent goods and waste products to atmospheric pollution and melting glaciers—that convey the ecological consequences of global economic development. While North American ecocriticism has tended to focus on narrative forms in its investigations of environmental consciousness and ethics, Margaret Ronda highlights the ways that poetry explores other dimensions of ecological relationships. The poems she considers engage in more ambivalent ways with the problem of human agency and the limits of individual perception, and they are attuned to the melancholic and damaging aspects of environmental existence in a time of generalized crisis. Her method, which emphasizes the material histories and uneven effects of capitalist development, models a unique critical approach to understanding the causes and conditions of ongoing biospheric catastrophe.

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Stanford University Press

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1503604896

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9781503604896

Coastal Secrets

By: Ronda Preacher

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Coastal Secrets

By: Ronda Preacher

Shelly McCain's tidy, organized life has served her well in the last five years as a ninth grade English teacher in Santa Barbara's large Christian Academy. She has built relationships based on trust, but is left questioning her ability to trust anyone when her life is turned upside down by Derek Donovan. Donovan's wild, dangerous, and unconventional occupation throws her for a loop when she realizes she is in love with someone so opposite from what she imagined. Can their love bridge the gap of two conflicting lifestyles? And why is Shelly so reluctant to trust him? Is Donovan ready to reveal his secrets and will those secrets destroy their emerging love before it has a chance to blossom? Can a wholesome, young high school teacher ever learn to trust an adventurous Irishman whose dangerous work is veiled in secrets?

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WestBow Press

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1490825223

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9781490825229

Art of Layers

Simple Techniques, Inventive Scrapbook Pages, Imaginative Papercrafts

By: Ronda Palazzari

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Art of Layers

Simple Techniques, Inventive Scrapbook Pages, Imaginative Papercrafts

By: Ronda Palazzari

Layer, Stitch, Scrunch, Pull & Flick • 50 fabulous and simple step-by-step techniques that will be valuable for all crafters, from beginner mixed-media artists to advanced papercrafters and scrapbookers. • 75+ imaginative layouts and projects using innovative techniques, that can be applied to any medium, whether papercrafter, fiber artist, or messy artist. • A mixed-media crossover for all crafters or scrapbookers that will teach you how to make paper resemble lace, to flicking acrylic paint off of a toothbrush, or using household items to create your own stencil! Layer with Ronda Palazzari as she teaches you just how easy it is to get that desired layered look in any project. With five chapters, Art of Layers will help you build your skills, from various paper techniques, to working with fabric and adding embellishing, stamping, and experimenting with paints, mists and gesso. Accompanying projects show each technique in action and illustrate how they can be used in combination, to develop endless possibilities for an even grander project. Layer, play and have fun with Art of Layers!

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Penguin

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1599632888

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9781599632889

Visions of the Tallgrass

Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne

By: James P. Ronda

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Visions of the Tallgrass

Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne

By: James P. Ronda

In centuries long past, a vast swath of grassland swept down the center of North America, from Canada’s Prairie Provinces to central Texas. This once-plentiful prairie has now all but disappeared. Humans have grazed, mowed, and plowed the plains, dammed the rivers, and imposed their will on the land and its creatures. Fortunately, some remnants have survived, including the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma. In this visually stunning volume, wildlife photographer Harvey Payne and historian James P. Ronda offer an intimate look at and into one of America’s Last Great Places. Spanning nearly 40,000 acres in Oklahoma’s Osage County, the Preserve is a living witness to a world that once existed. But the Osage prairie is not a museum or theme park—and it is not frozen in time. Under the stewardship of The Nature Conservancy, which has overseen its restoration, the Preserve lives on as a fully functioning ecosystem. And for twenty-five years, Payne and Ronda have explored these lands, together and in solitude. Rendered here in brilliant color and paired with Ronda’s informative yet deeply personal commentary, Payne’s photographs open our eyes to the ever-changing world of the Tallgrass Preserve. In chapters focused on grass, sky, birds, bison, and fire, Ronda and Payne reveal that the “Big Empty” is, in fact, teeming with life. Through interwoven images and words, Visions of the Tallgrass shows that our nation’s grasslands are sacred ground, a priceless piece of our American past—and future.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806164573

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9780806164571

Creating Joy and Meaning for the Dementia Patient

A Caregiver's Guide to Connection and Hope

By: Ronda Parsons

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Creating Joy and Meaning for the Dementia Patient

A Caregiver's Guide to Connection and Hope

By: Ronda Parsons

According to recent estimates, more than five million Americans suffer from dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, a number predicted to grow as Baby Boomers continue to age. Although staggering, these statistics only tell half of the story. As caregivers are thrust into situations they never could have predicted, the emotional, physical, and financial strains are enormous and cannot be overestimated. As the number of dementia patients continues to increase, so will the number of caregivers searching for answers and advice. Creating Joy and Meaning for the Dementia Patient offers a positive and innovative approach to dementia care that focuses on the caregiver’s power to create an atmosphere of joy and peace for both the patient and themselves, breathing fresh air into the topic of dementia care. As the disease progresses, the patient’s world grows smaller and smaller. Time for them no longer consists of weeks, days, or even hours. Eventually their cognitive life is reduced to small increments of time, mere moments of memory. By understanding this and seeing the world through the eyes of a sufferer, the caregiver is better able to create an environment of mutual joy and contentment. Based on ten years of caregiving experience, the techniques offered here honor the patient’s individuality, interests, and previous accomplishments. This approach is fresh and inspirational, and recounts a personal journey, filled with relatable experiences that readers will find uplifting and brimming with hope. It teaches family members and other caregivers how to stay connected with their loved one for as long as possible. But most importantly, it honors the unique individual that still resides deep inside every dementia patient by offering techniques enabling them to continue to experience the simple joys of everyday life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442227567

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9781442227569

Astoria and Empire

By: James P. Ronda

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Astoria and Empire

By: James P. Ronda

In late December 1788 a worried Spanish official in Mexico City set down his fears about a new and aggressive northern neighbor. Viceroy Manuel Antonio Florez offered a gloomy prediction about the future of Spanish-United States relations in the West. He already knew about the steady march of frontiersmen toward St. Louis and now came troubling word of Robert Gray's ship Columbia on the Northwest coast. All this seemed to fit a pattern, a design for Yankee expansion. "We ought not to be surprised," warned the viceroy, "that the English colonies of America, now being an independent Republic, should carry out the design of finding a safe port on the Pacific and of attempting to sustain it by crossing the immense country of the continent above our possessions of Texas, New Mexico, and California." Canadian fur merchants and Russian bureaucrats also viewed the young republic as a potential rival in the struggle for western dominion. The viceroy's vision of the future proved startlingly accurate. Within the next two decades an American president would authorize a federally funded expedition to find just the sort of transcontinental route Florez imagined. Equally important, a New York entrepreneur would propose and put into motion an ambitious plan to make the Northwest an American political and commercial empire. John Astor's Pacific Fur Company, with Astoria as its central post on the Columbia River, was Florez's nightmare come true. Astoria had long represented either a daring overland adventure or simply a failed trading venture. The Astorians surely had their share of adventure. And the Pacific Fur Company never brought its founder the profits he expected. But all those involved in the extensive enterprise knew it meant more. Thomas Jefferson once described Astoria as the "germ of a great, free and independent empire," believing that the entire American claim to the lands west of the Rockies rested on "Astor's settlement at the mouth of the Columbia." And John Quincy Adams, the expansionist-minded secretary of state, labeled then entire Northwest as "the empire of Astoria." This book seeks to explore Astoria as part of a large and complex struggle for national sovereignty in the Northwest. The Astorians and their rivals were always engaged in more than trading and trapping. They were advance agents of empire. -- from Preface

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803289421

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9780803289420

Lewis and Clark Among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition)

By: James P. Ronda

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Lewis and Clark Among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition)

By: James P. Ronda

Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences.OCo"Choice

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803290195

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9780803290198

Finding the West

Explorations with Lewis and Clark

By: James P. Ronda

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Finding the West

Explorations with Lewis and Clark

By: James P. Ronda

Documents not only the stories that Lewis and Clark offered about their "road across the continent," but also the large and important stories by and about the Native peoples whose trails they followed and whose lands they described in their journals.

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UNM Press

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0826324185

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9780826324184

Make it Your Own

By: Lori Bottom,Ronda Chaney

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Make it Your Own

By: Lori Bottom,Ronda Chaney

The authors show that you don't have to be a pattern maker to create one-of-a-kind designs. They show how to start with a basic pattern and add designer details, such as lacy overlays, custom collars, novelty necklines, and more. The book explains the design process, and inspiring fashion illustrations and short exercises spark individual creativity. Express your personality through clothing you have "made your own".

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Chilton Book Company

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0801983800

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9780801983801

Healing Hidden Hurts

Faith to Begin Again

By: Ronda Brown

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Healing Hidden Hurts

Faith to Begin Again

By: Ronda Brown

As you read Healing Hidden Hurts, the simplistic message of forgiveness becomes relevant.Your total healing and restoration is possible! Prior hurts and unjustified wounds that scarred you mentally and kept you bound in personal prisons are finally released to reveal the true inner beauty and wholeness that you were created for. Lasting inner peace is possible. Complete wholeness and healing can be yours as you learn these simple and easy steps to applying forgiveness. Don t hide or bandage your pain any longer. It s time for you to be as whole, free and healed as Jesus died to make you.

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Destiny Image Publishers

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0768496446

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9780768496444

The Lowfat Lifestyle

By: Valerie Parker,Ronda Gates

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The Lowfat Lifestyle

By: Valerie Parker,Ronda Gates

General rules for choosing an aerobic exercise program are outlined; repetitive exercises for the arm and shoulder, thigh, buttocks, abdominals, and back are demonstrated.

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Lfl Associates

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0961383801

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9780961383800

The Book of Catholic Customs and Traditions

By: Ronda Chervin,Ronda De Sola Chervin,Carla Conley

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The Book of Catholic Customs and Traditions

By: Ronda Chervin,Ronda De Sola Chervin,Carla Conley

For all Catholics who want to discover meaningful traditions for their homes--as well as those who simply want to know more about the Catholic faith--this treasury of customs, traditions, and other ideas for enhancing holidays and family celebrations provides a smorgasbord of ideas for every church season.

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Servant Books

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0892837969

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9780892837960

In Trouble's Arms

By: Ronda Thompson

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In Trouble's Arms

By: Ronda Thompson

A beautiful woman agrees to marry a mail-order man to save her family's farm, little suspecting that her rugged groom will also rescue her heart. Includes the sixth installment of "Lair of the Wolf.

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Leisure Books

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0843947160

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9780843947168

R. Friend - Hats Off to Heroes

By: Ronda Friend

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R. Friend - Hats Off to Heroes

By: Ronda Friend

Ronda's family and friends each have something about them that makes them heroes.

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0974362727

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9780974362724

Violets Are Blue

By: Ronda Thompson

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Violets Are Blue

By: Ronda Thompson

Although raised by wealthy landowner Miles Traften, Violet Mallory was the child of no-good outlaws, and one day St. Louis society would find out. Seeking revenge on the man who'd sired and sold her, Violet leaves a trail of mayhem behind her. Though her family had seeds of depravity, Violet is different. Like Gregory Kline--blackmailer, thief, and the handsome rogue sent by Traften to bring her home. (July)

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0843950293

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9780843950298

You're Only Young Twice

10 Do-overs to Reawaken Your Spirit

By: Ronda Beaman

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You're Only Young Twice

10 Do-overs to Reawaken Your Spirit

By: Ronda Beaman

The science of growing young (neoteny) underpins this book about maintaining or rediscovering ten youthful traits in ourselves as we age. The traits are resilience, optimism, wonder, curiosity, joy, humor, musicality (song and dance), work, play, and learning. Across all, there is love. The reader is encouraged to keep a Young Twice Chronicle for recording thoughts and outcomes as the book suggests do-overs and other activities for growing young-from the inside out.

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Vanderwyk & Burnham

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188924225X

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9781889242255

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