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A Snowflake in My Hand

By: Samantha Mooney

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A miracle of a book--a joyous celebration of the unspoken but deeply felt bond between animals and people and, in Roger Caras's words, "a celebration of life in the face of death". Each day holds the promise of a few new faces, a hundred possibilities, and perhaps one miracle. In a book that reflects her years of work at New York City’s famous Animal Medical Center, Samantha Mooney creates a miracle of her own—the unforgettable story of dedicated professionals who, faced with sometimes incurable illness among the animals they care for, nevertheless find companionships and laughter in that caring. But above all, this is a story of cats: Clancy, a tiger-suited Irish rogue who refuses to be caged; gentle Oliver Cromwell, who summers in Maine and makes friends with his own personal sea gull; and one tiny black cat, Fledermaus, who breaks through Samantha’s own wall of frozen grief after her father’s death and shows her the rewards, and the risks, of loving again. Praise for A Snowflake in My Hand “This book is not only for cat lovers, it is for lovers of life.”—The Washington Post “She displays an empathy with animals akin to that evident in the works of James Herriot.”—The New York Times Book Review “Heartrending for cat lovers.”—Kirkus Reviews “An affair of the heart and a celebration of life in the face of death . . . a very special story.”—Roger Caras “In telling the story of the cats she has served far beyond the call of duty, Samantha Mooney is really telling us how to face the ordeal of serious, sometimes terminal illnesses with humor, patience, and courage. . . . This large-spirited little book reaches out to us all.”—Budd Schulberg “A very compelling book that’s difficult to put down.”—The Seattle Times “Beautifully written . . . one of the outstanding books of the year. Don’t miss it.”—The Chattanooga Times “The Inside story of the most famous clinics in the world, beautifully told, with warmth and compassion.”—Cleveland Amory

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0307833682

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The Christmas Calendar Girls

a gripping and emotive feel-good romance perfect for Christmas reading

By: Samantha Tonge

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The Christmas Calendar Girls

a gripping and emotive feel-good romance perfect for Christmas reading

By: Samantha Tonge

Warm, cosy and perfect to curl up with' Mandy Baggot, author of One Last Greek Summer. 'A charming story about second chances, redemption, and the magic of Christmas. Five festive stars!' Lucy Coleman, author of Snowflakes Over Holly Cove. 'A must-read Christmas story of love, loss, friendship and community' Sandy Barker, author of One Summer in Santorini. This Christmas fall in love with the town of Chesterwood... Christmas is meant to be a time of giving, so with Chesterwood food bank under risk of closure Fern knows just what to do to save it. She's going to get the town to create a living advent calendar. Fern, and her best friends, call for help from the local community to bring this calendar to life. When Kit, the new man in town, offers his assistance Fern's heart can't help but skip a beat (or two). As they grow ever closer, Fern must admit that Kit's breaking down the barriers she built after the death of her husband. But his past is holding him back and Fern doesn't know how to reach him. No matter how hard she tries. In this town, Kit's not the only one with secrets. Domestic goddess Cara is behaving oddly, burning meals in the oven and clothes whilst ironing, and Davina's perfect children are causing trouble at school leaving her son, Jasper, desperately unhappy. Can the Christmas Calendar Girls find a way to bring the community together in time to save the food bank, while still supporting their families and each other? Can Fern find love again with Kit? This is a story about kindness and letting go of the past. It's about looking out for your neighbours and about making every day feel like Christmas. Praise for Samantha Tonge: 'A story of love, friendship and community sprinkled with magical festive moments. Full of warmth, this is a real treat' Maggie Conway, author of Winter at West Sands Guest House.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838930760

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Vanity Blade

By: Samantha Harte

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Vanity Blade

By: Samantha Harte

The life and loves of the riverboat queen who left a trail of broken hearts behind her on her voyage west. The orphan daughter of a saloon singer, vivacious Mary Lousie Mackenzie grows up to be a famous singer herself, the beautiful gambling queen known as Vanity Blade. Leaving her home in Mississippi, Vanity travels a wayward path to Sacramento, where she rules her own gambling boat. Gamblers and con men barter in high stakes around her, but Vanity’s heart remains back east, with her once carefree life and former love, Trance Holloway, a preacher’s son. Trying to reclaim a happiness she’d left behind long ago, Vanity returns to Mississippi to discover—and fight for—the love she thought she’d lost forever.

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Diversion Books

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1626816603

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With Shaking Hands

Aging with Parkinson's Disease in America's Heartland

By: Samantha Solimeo

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With Shaking Hands

Aging with Parkinson's Disease in America's Heartland

By: Samantha Solimeo

Far from celebrity media spotlight, ordinary individuals, many older and less advantaged, suffer the disabling pain of Parkinson's disease (PD), an illness whose progressive symptoms often mimic old age and cause mobility impairment, communication barriers, and social isolation. At the heart of With Shaking Hands is the account of elder Americans in rural Iowa who have been diagnosed with PD. With a focus on the impact of chronic illness on an aging population, Samantha Solimeo combines clear and accessible prose with qualitative and quantitative research to demonstrate how PD accelerates, mediates, and obscures patterns of aging. She explores how ideas of what to expect in older age influence and direct interpretations of one's body. This sensitive and groundbreaking work unites theories of disease with modern conceptions of the body in biological and social terms. PD, like other chronic disorders, presents a special case of embodiment which challenge our thinking about how such diseases should be researched and how they are experienced.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813547121

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Somatechnics

Queering the Technologisation of Bodies

By: Samantha Murray

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Somatechnics

Queering the Technologisation of Bodies

By: Samantha Murray

Somatechnics highlights the reciprocal bond between the sôma and the techné of 'the body' and the techniques in which bodies are formed and transformed as crafted responses to the world around us. Structured around the themes of the governance of social bodies, the gendering of sexed bodies and the techniques associated with the formation of the self, Somatechnics presents a groundbreaking study of body modification. Its contributions to the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Deluze and Guattari make it a must read for scholars of sociology, cultural and queer studies and philosophy.

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Routledge

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1317052749

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Poetical Remains

Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century

By: Samantha Matthews

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Poetical Remains

Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century

By: Samantha Matthews

In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published them. This innovative cultural history, drawing on emerging disciplines of book history and death studies, explores the many strange stories about the deaths of Romantic and Victorian poets, and the 'last words', books, relics, memorials, and objects that survived them.

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Oxford University Press

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019925463X

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Yuletide Blessing - The Coming (Act I of IV)

By: Samantha Kennedy

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Yuletide Blessing - The Coming (Act I of IV)

By: Samantha Kennedy

Yuletide Blessing is a romantic drama in four episodes. In parts it is riddled with humour and smatterings of the supernatural. A young woman, who had been raped and wrongly imprisoned, consequently falls pregnant. While on parole, her daughter was delivered on Christmas day by nuns in a convent, which had been cut off by a snow blizzard. Her child was to be adopted against her will, but she absconded with the baby and they spent six months in sheltered accommodation. They subsequently went on the run and lived on the streets; branded as fugitives of the law. Just before the girl’s seventh birthday, they returned to Seattle where the majority of the story is based. Soaking wet and sheltering in a garden summerhouse, they are discovered by a kind elderly retired maths teacher, who takes them in and lets them stay with him, in return for performing domestic duties. His grandson, who is a naval pilot, returns home on leave just before Christmas, and at first is uncomfortable with the woman and child remaining. When the pilot’s mother, who happens to be a deputy district attorney, discovers her father’s arrangement, she insists that the young woman leave immediately, but her son argues against it, having now fallen in love with her and the little girl. Having witnessed the young woman’s incredible artistry and almost mystical powers, the mother’s attitude changes towards her, and she is determined to clear her name in court. The young woman’s paintings attracted much acclaim in the art world, as did her ability to detect fraudulent works. As the story progresses, far more characters come into the frame, and the narrative digresses to encompass the intimacy of their lives. Because of her powers, the young woman is enlisted by the police to help solve a number of fascinating and exciting cases. She becomes an assistant art teacher at her patron’s old school, where the little girl also attends. She introduces revolutionary teaching methods, and these come to the attention of the principal, who, after risking her position to employ her, has gradually become like a mother figure to her. I do not want to give too much away, but at the end of the first book, there is a monumental revelation followed by a terrible tragedy. Books two, three and four continue to follow the adventurous and exciting lives of the young woman, her new family and their friends in the USA and beyond.

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ShieldCrest Publishing

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191565744X

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9781915657442

The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture

By: Samantha Baskind

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The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture

By: Samantha Baskind

On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics. Samantha Baskind explores seventy years’ worth of artistic representations of the ghetto and revolt to understand why they became and remain touchstones in the American mind. Her study includes iconic works such as Leon Uris’s best-selling novel Mila 18, Roman Polanski’s Academy Award–winning film The Pianist, and Rod Serling’s teleplay In the Presence of Mine Enemies, as well as accounts in the American Jewish Yearbook and the New York Times, the art of Samuel Bak and Arthur Szyk, and the poetry of Yala Korwin and Charles Reznikoff. In probing these works, Baskind pursues key questions of Jewish identity: What links artistic representations of the ghetto to the Jewish diaspora? How is art politicized or depoliticized? Why have Americans made such a strong cultural claim on the uprising? Vibrantly illustrated and vividly told, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture shows the importance of the ghetto as a site of memory and creative struggle and reveals how this seminal event and locale served as a staging ground for the forging of Jewish American identity.

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Penn State Press

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0271081481

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Breakfast Under A Cornish Sun: The perfect romantic comedy for summer

By: Samantha Tonge

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Breakfast Under A Cornish Sun: The perfect romantic comedy for summer

By: Samantha Tonge

Dreaming of the perfect man? Kate Golightly needs to move forward and what better way to do that then with a trip to the Cornish coast with best friend and boss, Izzy.

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0008184844

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Alternative Femininities

Body, Age and Identity

By: Samantha Holland

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Alternative Femininities

Body, Age and Identity

By: Samantha Holland

Imagine a world where the oppressive, over-feminized images of women from advertising, television, films, and magazines have re-armed themselves with army boots, body modifications, and flamboyant hair. Is this just another fairy tale, and if so, why cant it be a reality? In Alternative Femininities, Samantha Holland unpacks the myth of model womanhood and considers how a particular group of real women define and practise femininity. These women, who see themselves as 'alternative', modify and subvert popular images of femininity. The choices they make in clothing, appearance and body modifications enable them to construct a personal look that is intimately tied to self-identity. Getting the balance right between over-femininity and not being feminine enough is a frequently voiced concern. Holland also addresses head-on the much-neglected issue of how ageing impacts on notions of femininity. What do these women think about fashion, gender and appearance as they grow older and less visible in our media-dominated society? Do they choose to tone down or stay out there, and what motivates their choice? A revealing look at contemporary femininity, Alternative Femininities gives voice to a previously silent group of women who struggle to resist sexist gender stereotypes, yet age with style, individuality and creativity. By looking at how real women negotiate self-image in an increasingly appearance-conscious society, Holland has provided a much-needed corrective to theoretical accounts of gender and femininity lacking in real data.

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Berg Publishers

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1859738087

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I Don't Want to Be Crazy

By: Samantha Schutz

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I Don't Want to Be Crazy

By: Samantha Schutz

A harrowing, remarkable poetry memoir about one girl's struggle with anxiety disorder. A harrowing, remarkable poetry memoir about one girl's struggle with anxiety disorder.This is a true story of growing up, breaking down, and coming to grips with a psychological disorder. When Samantha Schutz first left home for college, she was excited by the possibilities -- freedom from parents, freedom from a boyfriend who was reckless with her affections, freedom from the person she was supposed to be. At first, she revelled in the independence. . . but as pressures increased, she began to suffer anxiety attacks that would leave her mentally shaken and physically incapacitated. Thus began a hard road of discovery and coping, powerfully rendered in this poetry memoir.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0545231728

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The Christmas Calendar Girls

a gripping and emotive feel-good romance perfect for Christmas reading

By: Samantha Tonge

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The Christmas Calendar Girls

a gripping and emotive feel-good romance perfect for Christmas reading

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1838930760

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A Snowflake in My Hand

By: Samantha Mooney

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A Snowflake in My Hand

By: Samantha Mooney

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Storm Reid

By: Samantha Bell

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Storm Reid

By: Samantha Bell

Storm Reid earned praise for her starring role in A Wrinkle in Time. Learn about how this teen actress got her start!

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Capstone Press

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1543558224

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The Summer Island Swap

a laugh out loud romantic comedy perfect for summer reading

By: Samantha Tonge

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The Summer Island Swap

a laugh out loud romantic comedy perfect for summer reading

By: Samantha Tonge

A charming story' Lucy Coleman, bestselling author of Summer in Provence 'Full of warmth' Maggie Conway Sometimes the best holidays are the ones you least expect... After a long and turbulent year, Sarah is dreaming of the five-star getaway her sister has booked them on. White sands, cocktails, massages, the Caribbean is calling to them. But the sisters turn up to tatty beaches, basic wooden shacks, a compost toilet and outdoor cold water showers. It turns out that at the last minute Amy decided a conservation project would be much more fun than a luxury resort. So now Sarah's battling mosquitos, trying to stomach fish soup and praying for a swift escape. Life on a desert island though isn't all doom and gloom. They're at one with nature, learning about each other and making new friends. And Sarah is distracted by the dishy, yet incredibly moody, island leader she's sure is hiding a secret. Perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Mandy Baggot and Heidi Swain. Praise for The Summer Island Swap: 'Another page turner from this extremely talented writer' Amazon 5* Review 'A fabulous read and one I would definitely recommend' Amazon 5* Review 'This is a heartwarming story of discovery and acceptance that left me with a big smile on my face' Amazon 5* Review 'If the film The Holiday was set in the Caribbean, The Summer Island Swap would be the result' NetGalley 5* Review 'The perfect read for summer' NetGalley 5* Review 'A brilliant and sunshine-filled read that I loved from beginning to end' NetGalley 5* Review

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1838930787

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Elixir

By: Samantha Bailly

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Elixir

By: Samantha Bailly

Les apparences sont trompeuses, Elixir le sait mieux que personne. Grâce à son don d’empathe, elle peut lire les âmes, comprendre les sentiments profonds d’un être, et ainsi, départager les coupables des innocents. Mais où s’arrêtent ses propres sentiments ? Quand les émotions se mêlent, difficile de rester impartiale. Samantha Bailly est une autrice, scénariste et vidéaste française. Naviguant de genre en genre, elle a écrit des romans de fantasy ou réalistes contemporains, des contes, des scénarios de mangas et de films, notamment Oraisons et Ce qui nous lie. Très engagée pour la défense des auteurs, elle participe à la fondation de la Ligue des auteurs professionnels en 2018. Elle a aussi une chaîne YouTube, où elle publie conseils et anecdotes !

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Nouvelles Éditions Actu SF

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2376866499

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Flirting with celebrity

By: Samantha Joyce

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Flirting with celebrity

By: Samantha Joyce

À tout juste 19 ans, Elise est l'auteur d'une saga romanesque qui fait un véritable carton. Mais elle fait tout pour rester dans l’ombre du succès. Des années plus tôt, elle a eu un grave accident qui lui a laissé de profondes et visibles cicatrices. Depuis, elle fait tout pour garder son anonymat... Mais son éditeur l’oblige à suivre en personne le tournage du film adapté de ses livres. Un blockbuster dans lequel Gavin Hartley, son acteur préféré, sera le héros ! Alors, pour ne pas dévoiler son secret, elle demande à une doublure, Veronica, de jouer son rôle d'auteur à succès, tandis qu'elle fera semblant d’être son assistante. Mais ce petit jeu énerve assez vite Elise, car c'est Veronica qui récolte tous les honneurs. Pour conquérir le beau Gavin, Elise va devoir assumer sa véritable identité. Au risque de perdre ses fans et d’exhumer les lourds secrets de son enfance... Pour conquérir le garçon qu'elle aime, elle va enfin devoir s'assumer...

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2824644893

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Cruise Control: The Anti-Princess Club 5

By: Samantha Turnbull,Sarah Davis

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Cruise Control: The Anti-Princess Club 5

By: Samantha Turnbull,Sarah Davis

Maths whiz Emily Martin has won a place in a video game competition - on a summer cruise! And her best friends Bella, Grace and Chloe are with her all the way. While onboard, the girls set themselves a few anti-princess missions: win the regatta, rescue the endangered turtle, show the gift shop manager that dolls can be more than be pretty, and prove to the gamers that girls can compete - and win! Can the anti-princesses work together to complete their missions, and maybe pick up some new members along the way?

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Allen & Unwin

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1925268772

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9781925268775

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