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The Orphans of Bell Lane

'A real page turner' Sheila Newberry

By: Ruthie Lewis

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The Orphans of Bell Lane

'A real page turner' Sheila Newberry

By: Ruthie Lewis

A heartwarming Victorian saga, perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Maggie Hope and Kitty Neale. 'I couldn't stop reading this story . . . a real page turner' Sheila Newberry 1860s London Orphaned at a young age, Rosa has always looked out for her younger sister, Grace, protecting her from the dangers and bullies of the workhouse. So when Grace is suddenly faced with a world without Rosa, she finds herself alone and forced to make difficult decisions about her future. Can she really walk away from everything she has built to protect the children Rosa has left behind? Returning to the gang-ruled streets of south-east London, Grace is determined to build a better future for herself and for the children of Bell Lane - no matter what the cost . . .

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Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.

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1785761307

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9781785761300

Fireflies

By: Ruthie Lewis

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Fireflies

By: Ruthie Lewis

I'm so different now, so different from the naive high school senior full of heart and dreams. Like a firefly whose very being lights up a summer night like a Fourth of July sparkler, my soul's light was at its brightest. Tammy and Charla have been friends since childhood, but lost touch when life took them separate directions. In their time apart, both women have found themselves in situations far beyond their control. Tammy Trovich had been full of dreams, but had sacrificed and forgotten them all. Truth collides with her head-on when she realizes she's been caught like a firefly in a proverbial jar, living a life of have-to and supposed-to, when all the while, freedom was only inches away. Despite many obstacles, Charla Calibrisi thinks she's living her dream as a news anchor, but when her husband's aggressive behavior mirrors her dark past, will she allow the truth she has buried to be excavated, or will she be buried with it? Trapped in a jar with their lights dimming, both women wrestle with their devotion to the sanctity of marriage. To what limit will Tammy and Charla let their lives grow fainter before their light is extinguished-unable to emanate even the faintest glow? Fireflies is Ruthie Lewis's debut novel, a glimpse into the twisted lives of marriage, what it means to be a woman, the lies they believe, and the choices they make.

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378

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Tate Publishing

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1613468148

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9781613468142

Lights Out

By: Ruthie Robinson

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Lights Out

By: Ruthie Robinson

Piper Renee Knight was sole proprietor of two coffee shops located in Austin, Texas. Lights Out Coffee began two and a half years ago as a joint venture with her father, Macarthur "Lights Out" Knight, former boxing great turned business- man. Joe and Piper meet during Joe's second visit to her shop and exchange coffee and banter. They both agree to take their attraction further. But before they can start, Piper's father asks her to look after his two younger daughters, her half-sisters. His third wife has left him. Piper settles her sisters into her life, locating a school for them. She decided that Joe is not an option for her now that she has the girls, and he gets her message and stops com- ing by the shop. They meet again at the kids' school. Joe has been raising his nephew for the last two years, after his sis- ter's departure. During the school year they join forces and work together. Piper falls in love, and, while Joe likes her, he's not sure with his nephew and his prior life experiences that he's in for the long haul.

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242

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Genesis Press, Inc.

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1585714879

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9781585714872

Perfect Baby Names

A Parent's Guide to the Most Important Gift Ever Given

By: Ruthie Cheung,Rosie Cole

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Perfect Baby Names

A Parent's Guide to the Most Important Gift Ever Given

By: Ruthie Cheung,Rosie Cole

This beautifully designed and comprehensive book of names will bring pleasure to one of the most important decisions you will ever make for your new baby. Over 5,000 names with their variations, origins and meanings are listed from A to Z for ease of reference, with special sections throughout the book listing the top 10 names in particular categories, such as the most popular names by letter, year or country, names rated the luckiest or most successful in life, common names inspired by cities, gems or inspirational leaders, and the most popular names of celebrity babies and film stars. Whether you're looking for a traditional, modern or unique name that will fit perfectly with your surname, this lovingly compiled book will guide, entertain and inspire you to choose the most precious gift you will ever give your child.

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300

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Orion

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1409114503

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9781409114505

A Chain of Events

A Black Woman’S Perspective on Our Rise to Prominence from Slavery to the White House

By: Ruthie Green

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A Chain of Events

A Black Woman’S Perspective on Our Rise to Prominence from Slavery to the White House

By: Ruthie Green

In October 2011, a ceremony was held at the Washington, DC mall to unveil a granite statue of our slain Civil Rights leader, Rev. MLK, Jr. The large piece of granite was 30 feet high and a light reddish-brown in color. It looked majestic in the sunlight. The King family members participating in the ceremony were his sister and three of his children. They were all very dynamic speakers and that makes me think that public speaking was a family trait. Some of the other speakers that day were also present during the early days of the Civil Rights movement. They were Andrew Young, Julian Bond and Rev. Joseph Lowery. Rev. Lowery was 90 years old and the tears flowed freely as he spoke. It was overwhelming for him and me to witness the final moments of a movement that had started in 1955 in Montgomery, AL. For the Black man, the road had been long and definitely rough, but we had stayed on our course. Also at times, our footsteps toward Freedom were slow, but by Gods Grace we were able to reach our goal. For years, we could not say that America was our country or proudly call America our Home, Sweet Home. But after seeing a statue of a Black man with a flat nose and thick lips standing among the memorials of past U.S. Presidents in the DC mall made us realize that only a loving and caring God could have orchestrated such a feat. Now, I will use the phrase that the Evangelist, Joel Osteen usesPut your trust in God and He will take you places that you NEVER dreamed of.

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313

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iUniverse

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1469773910

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9781469773919

Disability Servitude

From Peonage to Poverty

By: Ruthie-Marie Beckwith

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Disability Servitude

From Peonage to Poverty

By: Ruthie-Marie Beckwith

Disability Servitude traces the history and legacy of institutional peonage. For over a century, public and private institutions across the country relied on the unpaid, forced labor of their residents and patients in order to operate. This book describes the work they performed, in some cases for ten or more hours a day, seven days a week, and the lawsuits they brought in an effort to get paid. The impact of those lawsuits included accelerated de-institutionalization, but they fell short of obtaining equal and fair compensation for their plaintiffs. Instead, thousands of resident and patient-workers were replaced by non-disabled employees. Disability Servitude includes a detailed history of longstanding problems with the oversight of the sub-minimum wage provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act oversight. Beckwith shows how that history has resulted in the continued segregation and exploitation of over 400,000 workers with disabilities in sheltered workshops that legally pay far less than minimum wage.

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201

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Springer

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1137540311

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9781137540317

Efficacy of Sound

Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà

By: Ruthie Meadows

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Efficacy of Sound

Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà

By: Ruthie Meadows

The first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria. Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America and the Caribbean, Ifá missionary-practitioners are transforming the landscape of Ifá divination and deity (òrìṣà/oricha) worship through transatlantic travel and reconnection. In Cuba, where Ifá and Santería emerged as an interrelated, Yorùbá-inspired ritual complex, worshippers are driven to “African traditionalism” by its promise of efficacy: they find Yorùbá approaches more powerful, potent, and efficacious. In the first book-length study on music and Ifá, Ruthie Meadows draws on extensive, multisited fieldwork in Cuba and Yorùbáland, Nigeria, to examine the controversial “Nigerian-style” ritual movement in Cuban Ifá divination. Meadows uses feminist and queer of color theory along with critical studies of Africanity to excavate the relation between utility and affect within translocal ritual music circulations. Meadows traces how translocal Ifá priestesses (ìyánífá), female batá drummers (bataleras), and priests (babaláwo) harness Yorùbá-centric approaches to ritual music and sound to heighten efficacy, achieve desired ritual outcomes, and reshape the conditions of their lives. Within a contentious religious landscape marked by the idiosyncrasies of revolutionary state policy, Nigerian-style Ifá-Òrìṣà is leveraged to transform femininity and masculinity, state religious policy, and transatlantic ritual authority on the island.

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255

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University of Chicago Press

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0226828948

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9780226828947

Acrostic Poems

By: Ruthie Van Oosbree,Lauren Kukla

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Acrostic Poems

By: Ruthie Van Oosbree,Lauren Kukla

This title introduces readers to acrostic poems. Fun themed chapters help inspire budding poets to write their own acrostic poems about nature, food, sports, and more. Example poems in each chapter serve as guides to spark creativity. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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1098272846

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Redemptive Service

Loving Our Neighbors Well

By: Lisa P. Stephenson,Ruthie Wienk

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Redemptive Service

Loving Our Neighbors Well

By: Lisa P. Stephenson,Ruthie Wienk

This book introduces readers to redemptive service, benevolence, and the pursuit of justice. Bringing together expertise in Christian theology and sociology, Lisa Stephenson and Ruthie Wienk write from the conviction that service to others--especially those who are disenfranchised and impoverished--is central to our identity and mission as Christians. Redemptive Service articulates the biblical, theological, and sociological foundations of service and explains why it is an important part of true Christian identity. The authors use the parable of the good Samaritan to frame redemptive service as a twofold process. First, true Christian service must emerge from a genuine love of our neighbor, which can only come about when service emerges from a Christian worldview. Second, our vision must be accompanied by intentional and informed action. We must discern and respond to the cries for help that surround us through relief, development, and advocacy work. The authors highlight why we should engage in service while providing readers with a framework to use when deciding whom to serve and how to serve well.

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307

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Baker Books

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1493436945

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9781493436941

Possessed Voices

Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theater

By: Ruthie Abeliovich

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Possessed Voices

Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theater

By: Ruthie Abeliovich

Finalist for the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual presented by the Association for Jewish Studies Possessed Voices tells the intriguing story of a largely unknown collection of audio recordings, which preserve performances of modernist interwar Hebrew plays. Ruthie Abeliovich focuses on four recordings: a 1931 recording of The Eternal Jew (1919/1923), a 1965 recording of The Dybbuk (1922), a 1961 radio play of The Golem (1925), and a 1952 radio play of Yaakov and Rachel (1928). Abeliovich traces the spoken language of modernist Hebrew theater as grounded in multiple modalities of expressive practices, including spoken Hebrew, Jewish liturgical sensibilities supplemented by Yiddish intonation and other vernacular accents, and in relation to prevalent theatrical forms. The book shows how these recorded performances provided Jewish immigrants from Europe with a venue for lamenting the decline of their home communities and for connecting their memories to the present. Analyzing sonic material against the backdrop of its artistic, cultural, and ideological contexts, Abeliovich develops a critical framework for the study of sound as a discipline in its own right in theater scholarship.

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254

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State University of New York Press

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1438474458

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9781438474458

There I Am

The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir

By: Ruthie Lindsey

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There I Am

The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir

By: Ruthie Lindsey

Brain on Fire meets Carry On, Warrior in this inspirational memoir and “testament to the things that break us, heal us, and make us who we are” (Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores one woman’s journey from chronic pain and hopelessness to finding joy, redemption, and healing. At seventeen years old, Ruthie Lindsey is hit by an ambulance near her home in rural Louisiana. She’s given a five percent chance of survival and one percent chance of walking again. One month later after a spinal fusion surgery, Ruthie defies the odds, leaving the hospital on her own two feet. Just a few years later, newly married and living in Nashville, Ruthie begins to experience debilitating pain. Her case confounds doctors and after numerous rounds of testing, imaging, and treatment, they prescribe narcotic painkillers—lots of them. Ruthie has become bedridden, dependent on painkillers, and hopeless, when an X-ray reveals that the wire used to fuse her spine is piercing her brain stem. Without another staggeringly expensive experimental surgery, she could well become paralyzed, but in many ways, she already is. Ruthie goes into the hospital in chronic pain, dependent on prescription painkillers, and leaves the same way. She can still walk but has no idea where she’s going. As her life unravels, Ruthie returns home to Louisiana and sets out on a journey to learn joy again. She trades fentanyl for sunsets and morphine for wildflowers, weaning herself off of the drugs and beginning the process of healing—of coming home to her body. Raw and redemptive, There I Am is not just about the magic of optimism, but the work of it. Ruthie’s extraordinary memoir “like going on a walk with a best friend and listening to a life-changing speech at the same time: it’s equal parts familiar and profound, warm and insightful, comforting and challenging, relatable and unlike anything you’ve read before” (Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author).

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288

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Simon and Schuster

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1982107928

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9781982107925

Worms in My Tea

And Other Mixed Blessings

By: Becky Freeman,Becky Freeman Johnson,Ruthie Arnold

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Worms in My Tea

And Other Mixed Blessings

By: Becky Freeman,Becky Freeman Johnson,Ruthie Arnold

Anyone who's ever needed a little comic relief from the challenges of managing a family and raising children will find it here, along with biblical truths about commitment, relationships, and our lifelong walk with God.

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196

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B&H Publishing Group

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0805461434

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9780805461435

The Orphans of Bell Lane

'A real page turner' Sheila Newberry

By: Ruthie Lewis

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The Orphans of Bell Lane

'A real page turner' Sheila Newberry

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Book's by Ruthie Lewis

The Orphans of Bell Lane

The Orphans of Bell Lane

Fireflies

Fireflies

Lights Out

Lights Out

Perfect Baby Names

Perfect Baby Names

A Chain of Events

A Chain of Events

Disability Servitude

Disability Servitude

Efficacy of Sound

Efficacy of Sound

Acrostic Poems

Acrostic Poems

Redemptive Service

Redemptive Service

Possessed Voices

Possessed Voices

There I Am

There I Am

Worms in My Tea

Worms in My Tea

The Orphans of Bell Lane

The Orphans of Bell Lane

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