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The Trouble With Tigers

A gripping and sweeping tale of unforgettable adventures and unforgiveable secrets

By: Roxane Dhand

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The Trouble With Tigers

A gripping and sweeping tale of unforgettable adventures and unforgiveable secrets

By: Roxane Dhand

A highly accomplished novel, peopled by complex characters, most of whom are hiding secrets about themselves' Jasmina Svenne, Historical Novel Society 'This is a story with all the engaging elements of suspense and romance' FIVE STARS This compulsive tale is rich in atmosphere and page-turning intrigue' FIVE STARS 'The story is engaging from the start with enough twists and turns in the plot to keep you guessing right until the last page' FIVE STARS From the best-selling author of The Pearler's Wife, a gripping and immersive story of family secrets, sacrifice and romance set against the backdrop of a spell-binding circus in 20th Century India. Perfect for fans of books by Lucinda Riley and Dinah Jeffries. After her father died under mysterious circumstances, Lilly Myerson grew up in England raised by her grandparents. Married off at eighteen to a well-to-do but controlling Indian merchant, Lilly has never experienced adventure or romance. But in 1902 as a new king is about to be crowned, Lilly's life is destined to change. When her estranged mother invites her to spend the hot season in Nainital, Lilly's husband forces her to leave her beloved, five-year-old son Teddy behind. As Lilly discovers what lies outside her sheltered existence, she realises two things: she can't return to her carefully manicured life and she must rescue Teddy before his father turns him against her. Fleeing to the circus, Lilly enters a breath-taking world of wonder, romance and peril. Tiffert's Circus is renowned for bareback riding, the iron jaw act, trained tigers and elephants. The more dangerous the acts, the more the audience adore them. But the greater danger to Lilly Myerson is her husband Royce... *** Readers are loving The Trouble with Tigers! 'Brilliantly written. This book will not disappoint!' FIVE STARS 'This book is worth reading just for the fantastic, likeable characters you get to meet' FIVE STARS 'So much to love here. Highly recommended' FIVE STARS 'The book flows beautifully and is captivating. I would absolutely recommend it' FIVE STARS 'The attention to historical detail shines through every page' FIVE STARS

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Orion Dash

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1398710032

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9781398710030

Infertility and the Creative Spirit

By: Roxane Head Dinkin,Robert J. Dinkin

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Infertility and the Creative Spirit

By: Roxane Head Dinkin,Robert J. Dinkin

Roxane Head Dinkin, PhD, a clinical psychologist practicing in Bradenton, Florida, who has long dealt with the problems of infertile women, and history professor Robert J. Dinkin have created an informative book showcasing seven prominent women who struggled with infertility and became creative powerhouses in a variety of fields. Unable to have children themselves, the Dinkins utilized their combined expertise and discovered how these seven women had worked through their infertility issues and honed their creativity to more fully utilize their talents: - Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA - Joy Adamson, wildlife conservationist and author of Born Free - Josephine Baker, entertainer and adoptive mother of twelve - Frida Kahlo, innovative artist - Emma Goldman, anarchist and birth-control advocate - Ruth Benedict, leading anthropologist - Marilyn Monroe, film star and sexual icon Infertility produces a profound loss for women who hold the expectation that they will reproduce. Infertility and the Creative Spirit clearly illustrates the connection between the desire and inability to have children and lasting accomplishments in other areas of life, showing how infertile women contribute to the next generation.

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358

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iUniverse

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0595517315

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9780595517312

Surviving Reproductive Loss

Stories of Creativity and Positive Transformation in Women’s Lives

By: Robert J. Dinkin,Roxane Hand Dinkin

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Surviving Reproductive Loss

Stories of Creativity and Positive Transformation in Women’s Lives

By: Robert J. Dinkin,Roxane Hand Dinkin

Surviving Reproductive Loss: Stories of Creativity and Positive Transformation in Women’s Lives tells the fascinating stories of the lives and creative accomplishments of nearly fifty women who experienced infertility, pregnancy loss or stillbirth. Robert J. Dinkin, PhD, historian, and Roxane Head Dinkin, PhD, clinical psychologist, have teamed up again to write a follow-up to their previous volume, Infertility and the Creative Spirit, published by iUniverse in 2010. The Dinkins tell the stories of women innovators in writing, entertaining, sports, politics, and social reform. When Julia Child was living in Paris with her husband Paul and unable to become pregnant, she turned to learning the art of French cooking, ultimately producing her famous cookbooks and TV shows. When she showed up with a hot plate and an omelet pan on an educational television program, the first cooking show was born. Read about her and the many other women who made major contributions in their own fields and who also changed the larger society by contributing to the well-being of women and children.

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iUniverse

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1663258538

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9781663258533

Difficult Women

By: Roxane Gay

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Difficult Women

By: Roxane Gay

The New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist shares a collection of stories about hardscrabble lives, passionate loves and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister’s marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Roxanne Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America with her “signature wry wit and piercing psychological depth” (Harper’s Bazaar).

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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0802189644

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9780802189646

The Sisters of Auschwitz

The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

By: Roxane van Iperen

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The Sisters of Auschwitz

The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

By: Roxane van Iperen

A New York Times bestseller The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured by the Nazis, and ultimately survived the Holocaust. Eight months after Germany’s invasion of Poland, the Nazis roll into The Netherlands, expanding their reign of brutality to the Dutch. But by the Winter of 1943, resistance is growing. Among those fighting their brutal Nazi occupiers are two Jewish sisters, Janny and Lien Brilleslijper from Amsterdam. Risking arrest and death, the sisters help save others, sheltering them in a clandestine safehouse in the woods, they called “The High Nest.” This secret refuge would become one of the most important Jewish safehouses in the country, serving as a hiding place and underground center for resistance partisans as well as artists condemned by Hitler. From The High Nest, an underground web of artists arises, giving hope and light to those living in terror in Holland as they begin to restore the dazzling pre-war life of Amsterdam and The Hague. When the house and its occupants are eventually betrayed, the most terrifying time of the sisters' lives begins. As Allied troops close in, the Brilleslijper family are rushed onto the last train to Auschwitz, along with Anne Frank and her family. The journey will bring Janny and Lien close to Anne and her older sister Margot. The days ahead will test the sisters beyond human imagination as they are stripped of everything but their courage, their resilience, and their love for each other. Based on meticulous research and unprecedented access to the Brilleslijpers’ personal archives of memoirs and photos, Sisters of Auschwitz is a long-overdue homage to two young women’s heroism and moral bravery—and a reminder of the power each of us has to change the world.

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HarperCollins

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006309763X

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9780063097636

Principles of Cardiac Diagnosis and Treatment

A Surgeons’ Guide

By: Donald N. Ross,Terence A.H. Sir English,Roxane McKay

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Principles of Cardiac Diagnosis and Treatment

A Surgeons’ Guide

By: Donald N. Ross,Terence A.H. Sir English,Roxane McKay

Leading heart surgeons (including the President of the Royal College of Surgeons) bridge the ever-widening gap between the "student" (both pre- and post-graduate) and an increas- ingly remote group of medical and surgical specialists in this , the only book devoted entirely to the established principles of cardiac diagnosis.

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411

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447114701

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9781447114703

Shout, Sister, Shout!

Ten Girl Singers who Shaped a Century

By: Roxane Orgill

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Shout, Sister, Shout!

Ten Girl Singers who Shaped a Century

By: Roxane Orgill

Biographical sketches of ten outstanding female singers of popular music in the twentieth century.

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168

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Simon and Schuster

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0689819919

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9780689819919

Siege: How General Washington Kicked the British Out of Boston and Launched a Revolution

By: Roxane Orgill

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Siege: How General Washington Kicked the British Out of Boston and Launched a Revolution

By: Roxane Orgill

Step back to British-held Boston and hear the voices of citizens, militiamen, and redcoats at a turning of the tide in the American Revolution, brought to life in Orgill's deft verse. Back matter includes source notes, a glossary, and a bibliography.

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233

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Candlewick Press

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0763688517

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9780763688516

Ayiti

By: Roxane Gay

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Ayiti

By: Roxane Gay

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Hunger and Bad Feminist, a powerful short story collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In Ayiti, a married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A young woman procures a voodoo love potion to ensnare a childhood classmate. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed. And a woman conceives a daughter on the bank of a river while fleeing a horrific massacre, a daughter who later moves to America for a new life but is perpetually haunted by the mysterious scent of blood. Roxane Gay is an award-winning literary voice praised for her fearless and vivid prose, and her debut collection Ayiti exemplifies the raw talent that made her “one of the voices of our age” (National Post, Canada). Praise for Ayiti “Highly dimensioned characters and unforgettable moments. . . . Dismantling the glib misconceptions of her complex ancestral home, Gay cuts and thrills. Readers will find her powerful first book difficult to put down.” —Booklist “The themes explored in Gay’s nonfiction, such as the transactional nature of violence and the ways in which stereotypes of poverty add another layer of dehumanization, are just as potent here. Even her more lyrical mode is filtered through a keen sense of the lost promise of one country and the blinkered privilege of the other. It’s Gay’s unflinching directness—the sense that her characters are in the room with you, telling it like it is—that makes her irresistible.” —Vogue “A set of brief, tart stories mostly set amid the Haitian-American community and circling around themes of violation, abuse, and heartbreak . . . This book set the tone that still characterizes much of Gay’s writing: clean, unaffected, allowing the (often furious) emotions to rise naturally out of calm, declarative sentences. That gives her briefest stories a punch even when they come in at two pages or fewer, sketching out the challenges of assimilation in terms of accents, meals, or ‘What You Need to Know About a Haitian Woman’. . . . This debut amply contains the righteous energy that drives all her work.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Grove Press

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0802165737

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9780802165732

Homework Survival Guide

English

By: Roxane Fox,Professor of Entomology Fox, Charles

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Homework Survival Guide

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By: Roxane Fox,Professor of Entomology Fox, Charles

Provides an introduction to languages, English grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary learning, techniques of writing, preparing reports, different types of literature, reference materials, and related subjects.

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Troll Communications

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0816748144

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9780816748143

Medical Outcasts

Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants' Emergency Health Care

By: Roxane Richter

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Medical Outcasts

Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants' Emergency Health Care

By: Roxane Richter

As witnessed through the firsthand experiences of a frontline activist and international medical aid practitioner, this biosocial political study gives voice to the inequities in undocumented Mexican and Zimbabwean women’s emergency healthcare access and treatment in Houston, United States of America, and Johannesburg, South Africa. As a construct of feminist transdisciplinary fieldwork, this research utilizes methodological pluralism and biosocial disparities to examine constructs of “social determinants” or “social origins” of women’s suffering, disease, and healthcare access. These variables include gender inequity, xenophobia, structural violence, political economy subjugation, healthcare access and delivery disparities, and human rights violations. Illustrated through 24 purposive interviews, this seven-year study shows Zimbabwean women sought out emergency care at a rate 16 times higher than their Mexican counterparts—but reported lower instances of domestic violence and depression. Most notably, the Zimbabwean women reported communicable diseases at double the rate of the interviewed Latinas. However, the most surprising finding of the study was the high number of Mexican women, some 60%, who cited depression as one of their indications for seeking emergency healthcare. The study indicated that the reality of many forced migrants’ experiences in claiming their accorded healthcare rights was more theoretical than practical in its distribution and disposition. Particularly, sovereign freedom and civil justice were not being conferred to these women according to the two host country’s mandated Constitutional precepts, and/or emergency medical aid mandates, and social, gender, aid, and human rights justice directives. Thus the role of government in shaping these systemic and institutionalized ideologies will be examined, as well as paradigms that effect national healthcare expenditures, subsidies, and public health risks. The intention of this study is not to provide definitive recommendations of specific forced migration policies that have a civic and/or partisan duty to be executed, but rather to serve as an illustration of how these social tenets, inequitable power relations, and political economy subjugation directly impact socioeconomically disadvantaged women’s health, livelihood, and human rights.

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Lexington Books

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1498525458

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9781498525459

Thank You, Miyuki

By: Roxane Marie Galliez

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Thank You, Miyuki

By: Roxane Marie Galliez

Miyuki and her grandfather return in an enchanting intergenerational story enhanced by Seng Soun Ratanavanh's gorgeous Japanese-inspired illustrations. Miyuki's curiosity is piqued by her grandfather's morning meditation routine, and she is eager to learn this new skill. Her wise and patient grandfather first takes her on a walk in the garden. "When do we start to meditate?" she asks repeatedly. Grandfather enjoys the warm sun and stops to smell a rose, inviting Miyuki to join him. Their walk in the garden, filled with many tender moments, heightens their gratitude for each other and for the world around them. Miyuki comes to understand that in the small acts of mindfulness throughout her day, she learned how to meditate.

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Chronicle Books

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1648960154

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Homework Survival Guide

English

By: Roxane Fox,Professor of Entomology Fox, Charles

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By: Roxane Fox,Professor of Entomology Fox, Charles

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Book's by Roxane Fox

The Trouble With Tigers

The Trouble With Tigers

Infertility and the Creative Spirit

Infertility and the Creative Spirit

Surviving Reproductive Loss

Surviving Reproductive Loss

Difficult Women

Difficult Women

The Sisters of Auschwitz

The Sisters of Auschwitz

Principles of Cardiac Diagnosis and Treatment

Principles of Cardiac Diagnosis and Treatment

Shout, Sister, Shout!

Shout, Sister, Shout!

Siege: How General Washington Kicked the British Out of Boston and Launched a Revolution

Siege: How General Washington Kicked the British Out of Boston and Launched a Revolution

Ayiti

Ayiti

Homework Survival Guide

Homework Survival Guide

Medical Outcasts

Medical Outcasts

Thank You, Miyuki

Thank You, Miyuki

Homework Survival Guide

Homework Survival Guide

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