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Daughter of the King

Growing Up in Gangland

By: Sandra Lansky,William Stadiem

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Daughter of the King

Growing Up in Gangland

By: Sandra Lansky,William Stadiem

The daughter of one of the most powerful mobsters in America describes growing up amidst the glamour and tragedy of 1940s, 50s and 60s Las Vegas and recounts knowing Bugsy Siegel, Lucky Luciano and Frank Sinatra as a child.

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Daughter of the King

Growing Up in Gangland

By: Sandra Lansky,William Stadiem

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Daughter of the King

Growing Up in Gangland

By: Sandra Lansky,William Stadiem

Sandi Lansky Lombardo grew up the only daughter of mob boss Meyer Lansky. Raised in upper-class Jewish splendor, first at the Majestic Hotel and then at the Beresford, at finishing schools and fancy stables, Sandi was the wild child of the late 40's, the 50's, and the early 60's. She was the Paris Hilton of her day, partying till dawn at El Morocco and the Stork Club, dating the biggest celebrities of the era. Her life was not without heartbreak and tragedy, including the insanity of her mother, and the crippling handicap of her baby brother – not to mention his drug addiction. Sandi was privy to her father's secrets as well as his unexpected tenderness. She always stuck closely to the strict code of omerta. In Daughter of the King, Sandi teams up with Nick Pileggi (author of the seminal Wise Guy, perhaps the best-selling mob book ever) and multiple time New York Times Bestselling writer Bill Stadiem. Nick has made a career in books and films chronicling the mob, and Bill has emerged as a master of recreating the glamour and romance of the golden era of American culture with bestsellers like Mr. S and George Hamilton's Don't Mind if I Do.

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1602862168

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9781602862166

Making a Difference in Patients' Lives

Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting

By: Sandra Buechler

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Making a Difference in Patients' Lives

Emotional Experience in the Therapeutic Setting

By: Sandra Buechler

Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication! Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own, is often not powerful enough to have a significant impact on how a life is actually lived. Many clinicians and therapists have turned toward emotional experience, within and outside the treatment setting, as a resource. How can the immense power of lived emotional experience be harnessed in the service of helping patients live richer, more satisfying lives? Most patients come into treatment because they are too anxious, or depressed, or don’t seem to feel alive enough. Something is wrong with what they feel, or don’t feel. Given that the emotions operate as a system, with the intensity of each affecting the level of all the others, it makes sense that it would be an emotional experience that would have enough power to change what we feel. But, ironically, the wider culture, and even psychoanalysts, seem to favor "solutions" that aim to mute emotionality, rather than relying on one emotion to modify another. We turn to pharmaceutical, cognitive, or behavioral change to make a difference in how life feels. Because we are afraid of emotional intensity, we cut off our most powerful source of regulation. In clear, jargon-free prose that utilizes both clinical vignettes and excerpts from poetry, art, and literature, Buechler explores how the power to feel can become the power to change. Through an active empathic engagement with the patient and an awareness of the healing potential inherent in each of our fundamental emotions, the clinician can make a substantial difference in the patient’s capacity to embrace life.

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Taylor & Francis

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113546958X

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A Dixie Christmas

By: Sandra Hill

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A Dixie Christmas

By: Sandra Hill

Two magnolias-and-mistletoe-inspired holiday stories from the bestselling author of more than thirty romantic, humorous novels. Laughter and love combine in Sandra Hill's BLUE CHRISTMAS--with a touch of Elvis magic. Wealthy Wall Street businessman Clayton Jessup III has only one reason for arriving in Memphis a few days before Christmas--to sell off his inheritance, an embarrassingly kitschy hotel named The Blue Suede Suites. His feelings for the Land of Elvis are dark: his long-dead Memphis mother abandoned him and his dad when Clay was a baby, and now Clay wants nothing to do with a southern legacy that couldn't be more different from his sophisticated big-city life. But then he steps in trouble--literally--when he confronts the bizarre group of Elvis impersonators who've set up a living Nativity scene on his property. One slip of a wingtip in some sheep poop lands Clay in the care of gorgeous Annie Fallon, whose big-haired Elvis-girlfriend get-up can't hide her wholesome, sexy appeal. Annie and her brothers have set up the Nativity scene to earn some badly needed money for their struggling dairy farm. The last thing she needs is an angry Yankee with a concussion and a come-hither smile . . . In JINX CHRISTMAS, sexy NASCAR star Lance Caslow makes a last-ditch effort to win back his ex-wife Brenda. Five years ago, his reckless pursuit of racetrack fame tore them apart and broke Brenda's heart. Now Lance shows up in Louisiana determined to make things right this Christmas, not just for himself and Brenda, but for their young daughter, Patti. He's got his work cut out for him, and desperate measures are needed. Lance will do anything to prove he's worthy of Brenda's trust again--even join the Cajun Christmas show starring a raucous Cajun family whose menfolk dance for charity events in little more than a smile . . .

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BelleBooks

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1611940737

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9781611940732

Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking 2

Relationships, Communication, Reporting and Performance

By: Jörg Andriof,Sandra Waddock,Bryan Husted,Sandra Sutherland Rahman

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Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking 2

Relationships, Communication, Reporting and Performance

By: Jörg Andriof,Sandra Waddock,Bryan Husted,Sandra Sutherland Rahman

This book is the companion to "Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking: Theory, Responsibility and Engagement", which examined many emerging theoretical and normative issues and was released to acclaim in October 2002. "Unfolding Stakeholder Thinking 2" collects a series of essays by leading researchers worldwide to focus on the practice of stakeholder engagement in terms of relationship management, communication, reporting and performance. As stakeholder relationships and business in society have become increasingly central to the unfolding of stakeholder thinking, important new topics have begun to take centre stage in both the worlds of practice and academia. The first part of the book makes clear that simply engaging with stakeholders is insufficient to build successful stakeholder strategies. Companies, considered as the focal entity in a relationship, also need to actively communicate with stakeholders and manage their relationships. Dialogue is essential but can only be useful if companies listen to the messages that stakeholders are sending them. It is also essential to understand the role of power and influence in stakeholder engagement strategies especially if partnerships or collaborations emerge from the relationships that are engendered. The book examines a wide range of corporate–NGO collaborations to determine what makes them effective – and what makes them fail. Conflict management in stakeholder alliances is also discussed. The second part of the book addresses the critically important element of emerging schemes for the assessment, measurement and reporting of business in society and relationships involving stakeholders. A variety of current approaches to stakeholder assessment and reporting are discussed here including social auditing and sustainability reporting. The evolution of stakeholder thinking has led to a new view of the firm as an organism embedded in a complex web of relationships with other organisms. The role of management becomes immensely more challenging, when stakeholders are no longer seen as simply the objects of managerial action but rather as subjects with their own objectives and purposes. This book captures the complexity of managing relationships with stakeholders and will provide both practitioners and researchers with a wealth of information on the benefits and consequences of this practice.

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Routledge

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1351281828

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Bearing Witness

Violence and Collective Responsibility

By: Sandra L Bloom,Michael Reichert

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Bearing Witness

Violence and Collective Responsibility

By: Sandra L Bloom,Michael Reichert

Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility offers a unique layperson’s introduction to the scope and causes of violence and trauma theory and suggests ways we can all work to attack these causes. Upon completing this work, you will have a better understanding of the social causes of the violence epidemic and concrete suggestions for its long-term control.Bearing Witness addresses the cycle of violence by discussing some of the biological, psychological, social, and moral issues that go into determining whether a person will end up as a victim, perpetrator, or bystander to violent events and what happens to us when we are in one or all three of these roles. The authors look at a number of intersecting factors that play interdependent roles in creating a culture that promotes, supports, and even encourages violence. Specifically, you’ll gain invaluable insight into: trauma theory and traumatogenic forces--backdrops against which the chances of exposure to violence and the use of violence as a problemsolver are increased normal human development in the context of attachment theory and what occurs as a result of disrupted attachment bonds how rapid changes in modern society and the breakdown of the traditional family structure contribute to a level of social stress that promotes violence violence in the family, in the workplace, and in the schools--all places to which people turn for security social responses to violence--the ways in which certain responses decrease or increase the likelihood of violence the unhealthy balance of power between the genders and how violence or the threat of violence maintains this imbalance how our cultural standard of disavowing our normal emotional experience sets the stage for repeated and regular empathic failure, which leads to violenceA framework for understanding the various aspects of the problem of violence, Bearing Witness delves into the various aspects of trauma--what trauma does to the body, the mind, the emotions, and relationships--before beginning to formulate proposals for initiating processes that lead to problemsolving. Once this knowledge base has been established, the authors give you the beginnings of an outline for reorganizing society with the aim of establishing a community that is responsive to the basic human need for safety and peace.

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1317790278

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Deviant Behavior

Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups

By: Charles H. McCaghy,Timothy A. Capron,J.D. Jamieson,Sandra Harley H. Carey

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Deviant Behavior

Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups

By: Charles H. McCaghy,Timothy A. Capron,J.D. Jamieson,Sandra Harley H. Carey

Using the framework of interest group conflict, this text combines a balanced, comprehensive overview of the field of deviance with first-hand expertise in the workings of the criminal justice system. Deviant Behavior, Seventh Edition, surveys a wide range of topics, from explanations regarding crime and criminal behavior, measurement of crime, violent crime and organizational deviance, to sexual behavior, mental health, and substance abuse. This new edition continues its tradition of applying time-tested, sociological theory to developing social concepts and emerging issues.

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Routledge

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131734877X

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9781317348771

Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories

By: Sandra McDonald

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Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories

By: Sandra McDonald

A beautiful adventuress from the ancient city of New Dalli sets off to reclaim her missing lover. What secrets does she hide beneath her silk skirts? A gay cowboy flees the Great War in search of true love and the elusive undead poet Whit Waltman, but at what cost? A talking statue sends an abused boy spinning through a great metropolis, dodging pirates and search for a home. On these quests, you will meet macho firefighters, tiny fairies, collapsible musicians, lady devils and vengeful sea witches.""--Cover, p. [4].

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Lethe Press

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1590210948

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9781590210949

Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis

Lessons from Literature

By: Sandra Buechler

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Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis

Lessons from Literature

By: Sandra Buechler

Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature describes the problematic ways people learn to cope with life’s fundamental challenges, such as maintaining self-esteem, bearing loss, and growing old. People tend to deal with the challenges of being human in characteristic, repetitive ways. Descriptions of these patterns in diagnostic terms can be at best dry, and at worst confusing, especially for those starting training in any of the clinical disciplines. To try to appeal to a wider audience, this book illustrates each coping pattern using vivid, compelling fiction whose characters express their dilemmas in easily accessible, evocative language. Sandra Buechler uses these examples to show some of the ways we complicate our lives and, through reimagining different scenarios for these characters, she illustrates how clients can achieve greater emotional health and live their lives more productively. Drawing on the work of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Munro, Mann, James, O’Connor, Chopin, McCullers, Carver, and the many other authors represented here, Buechler shows how their keen observational short fiction portrays self-hurtful styles of living. She explores how human beings cope using schizoid, paranoid, grandiose, hysteric, obsessive, and other defensive styles. Each is costly, in many senses, and each limits the possibility for happiness and fulfillment. Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis offers insights into what living with and working with problematic behaviors really means through a series of examples of the major personality disorders as portrayed in literature. Through these fictitious examples, clinicians and trainees, and undergraduate and graduate students can gain a greater understanding of how someone becomes paranoid, schizoid, narcissistic, obsessive, or depressive, and how that affects them, and those around them, including the mental health professionals who work with them.

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1317594053

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9781317594055

Myths and Mysteries of Ohio

True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained

By: Sandra Gurvis

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Myths and Mysteries of Ohio

True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained

By: Sandra Gurvis

Myths and Mysteries of Ohio reveals the dark and ominous cloud of mysteries and myths that hovers over the Buckeye State. This book offers residents, travelers, history buffs, and ghost hunters a refreshingingly lively collection of stories about Ohio's unsolved murders, legendary villains, lingering ghosts, terrifying myths, and haunted places.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493016377

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9781493016372

Communication as Comfort

Multiple Voices in Palliative Care

By: Sandra L. Ragan,Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles,Joy Goldsmith,Sandra Sanchez Reilly

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Communication as Comfort

Multiple Voices in Palliative Care

By: Sandra L. Ragan,Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles,Joy Goldsmith,Sandra Sanchez Reilly

This scholarly volume explores communication at the end of life, emphasizing palliative care and the circumstances of patients in need of such consideration.

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1135597545

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9781135597542

My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment

By: Sandra M. Castillo

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My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment

By: Sandra M. Castillo

Winner of the 7th Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize.

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White Pine Press

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1893996522

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9781893996526

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Program Development

A Guide for the Heart Team

By: Marian C. Hawkey,Elizabeth M. Perpetua,Sandra Lauck,Amy Simone

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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Program Development

A Guide for the Heart Team

By: Marian C. Hawkey,Elizabeth M. Perpetua,Sandra Lauck,Amy Simone

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Launch and cultivate a successful program for the innovative procedure poised to become the standard for patients with aortic stenosis (AS) with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Program Development: A Guide for the Heart Team. Written by leaders in the field, this clinical instruction manual is the first to consolidate evidence, guidelines, and best practices for the TAVR care pathway from referral to follow-up. This is a must-have for clinicians—nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals—as well as administrative leadership and staff involved in TAVR programs. The text offers a comprehensive view of the TAVR program organized to support staff and quality, and positioned to grow on pace with evolving indications, regulations, technology, and patient needs.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975105249

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9781975105242

Still Practicing

The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career

By: Sandra Buechler

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Still Practicing

The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career

By: Sandra Buechler

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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0415879124

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9780415879125

Listening to Patients

A Phenomenological Approach to Nursing Research and Practice

By: Sandra P. Thomas,Howard R. Pollio

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Listening to Patients

A Phenomenological Approach to Nursing Research and Practice

By: Sandra P. Thomas,Howard R. Pollio

This book fills not only a gap but a wide cavern....I can not think of a better way for neophyte nurses to engage the human experiences and perspectives of their patients, nor can I think of a more relevant and comprehensive explanation of the philosophy and methods of existential phenomenology for seasoned researchers, scientists, and theoreticians.-- Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud, PhD, RN, FAAN, UCLA School of Nursing. While addressing a wide readership, this book focuses particularly on the nurse clinician and student, demonstrating how a humanistic philosophy and research methodology has the potential to illuminate the deeper meanings of health crises and universal human experiences like pain and spiritual distress.

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310

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826197191

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9780826197191

Explorer's Guide South Florida

Includes Sarasota, Naples, Miami & the Florida Keys

By: Sandra Friend,Trish Riley,Kathy Wolf

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Explorer's Guide South Florida

Includes Sarasota, Naples, Miami & the Florida Keys

By: Sandra Friend,Trish Riley,Kathy Wolf

This completely revised second edition of the definitive South Florida guidebook offers coverage of Tampa, the Gulf Coast, South Beach, Miami, and the Keys. In diverse, exciting South Florida you might catch a glimpse of an endangered Florida panther in a nature preserve in the morning and visit a four-star restaurant and world-class nightclub that evening. This rich destination welcomes visitors from all over the world with its vibrant arts communities and multicultural historic sites, luxurious seaside resorts and lush forests, and some of the best fishing and diving in the United States. With cattle ranches and citrus groves all the way down to the mighty swamps of the Everglades and Big Cypress there are endless opportunities for exploration and discovery for singles, couples, and families. From eco-friendly establishments and environmental information about the region to its trendy nightlife, out-of-the-way attractions, and best beach hotels, Explorer’s Guide South Florida is a thorough introduction to an alluring place that tourists as well as locals simply shouldn’t miss. Detailed maps, an index, an alphabetical “What’s Where” subject guide, and helpful icons that highlight places that offer special value, are pet-, gay-, and family-friendly, and are wheelchair accessible round out this incredible resource, your perfect travel companion.

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The Countryman Press

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0881508705

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9780881508703

Creating Sanctuary

Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, Revised Edition

By: Sandra L Bloom

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Creating Sanctuary

Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, Revised Edition

By: Sandra L Bloom

Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that the program was based upon. This book focuses on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of trauma. Fifteen years later, Dr. Sandra Bloom has updated this classic work to include the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experiences Study that came out in 1998, information about Epigenetics, and new material about what we know about the brain and violence. This book is for courses in counseling, social work, and clinical psychology on mental health, trauma, and trauma theory.

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Routledge

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1136739521

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Explorer's Guide South Florida: Includes Sarasota, Naples, Miami & the Florida Keys (Second Edition)

By: Sandra Friend,Trish Riley,Kathy Wolf

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Explorer's Guide South Florida: Includes Sarasota, Naples, Miami & the Florida Keys (Second Edition)

By: Sandra Friend,Trish Riley,Kathy Wolf

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The Countryman Press

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1581579020

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This Year's Christmas Present

By: Sandra Hill,Nina Bangs,Dara Joy

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This Year's Christmas Present

By: Sandra Hill,Nina Bangs,Dara Joy

Includes stories "Fever" by Sandra Hill, "Man With a Golden Bow" by Nina Bangs, and "Santa Reads Romance" by Dara Joy.

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Love Spell

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0505527901

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9780505527905

Reach for the Dream

By: Sandra Bregman

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Reach for the Dream

By: Sandra Bregman

Set in the high-powered world of Washington, D.C., this compelling insider novel follows the life of the ambitious daughter of immigrant parents who climbs to the top of the capital's social and political arenas.

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Dell Publishing Company

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0440206502

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9780440206507

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