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The Cinderella Pact

By: Sarah Strohmeyer

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Soon to be a Lifetime movie called "Lying to be Perfect" When Nola Devlin is turned down for her dream job because she's overweight, she decides to become thin-or, at least, pretend to be. The alter ego she creates-the thin, British, hip, and did we mention thin Belinda Apple-is a smashing success who is offered movie proposals, national television appearances and even dates...though no one's met her in person, of course. Then Nola takes Belinda a bit too far, and is forced to join "The Cinderella Pact" and drop the pounds. As the weight comes off, however, Nola's problems begin to mount. Watch a Video

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Penguin

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1440623031

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The Arrangement

A Novel

By: Sarah Dunn

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The Arrangement

A Novel

By: Sarah Dunn

National Bestseller: A hilarious and emotionally charged novel about a couple who embark on an open marriage-what could possibly go wrong? Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb. They've got a two hundred year-old house, an autistic son obsessed with the Titanic, and 17 chickens, at last count. It's the kind of paradise where stay-at-home moms team up to cook the school's "hot lunch," dads grill grass-fed burgers, and, as Lucy observes, "chopping kale has become a certain kind of American housewife's version of chopping wood." When friends at a wine-soaked dinner party reveal they've made their marriage open, sensible Lucy balks. There's a part of her, though-the part that worries she's become too comfortable being invisible -- that's intrigued. Why not try a short marital experiment? Six months, clear ground rules, zero questions asked. When an affair with a man in the city begins to seem more enticing than the happily-ever-after she's known for the past nine years, Lucy must decide what truly makes her happy: "real life," or the "experiment?

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Little, Brown

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0316300977

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9780316300971

Summer Lovin: A Sweet Romance

By: Barbara Dunlop,Jamie K. Schmidt,Joan Kilby,Robyn Neeley,Kelsey McKnight by Sarah Fischer,Jami Rogers

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Summer Lovin: A Sweet Romance

By: Barbara Dunlop,Jamie K. Schmidt,Joan Kilby,Robyn Neeley,Kelsey McKnight by Sarah Fischer,Jami Rogers

A gorgeous selection of sweet summer romances just for you. Small town living has never felt so good! Kiss Me in the Summer by Barbara Dunlop NYC lawyer Laila has a secret fear of dogs. When compassionate vet Josh finds out, he’s determined to help her overcome it with the help of big scruffy Butch the dog. Can a lovable dog bring two opposites together? The Summer Wedding Hoax by Jami Rogers Ava needs a pretend boyfriend to accompany her to at all the summer weddings and family events coming up—and who better to ask than her old friend Will? Will’s about to leave his Wyoming hometown to grow the family business, but suddenly packing up is the last thing on his mind… A Spark of Romance by Jamie K. Schmidt Fire Chief Kayleigh is determined the 4th of July fireworks will go ahead. Police Chief Liam is relieved when the local 4th of July fireworks are cancelled. Can the boy next door convince the town hero that fireworks and small town traditions aren’t the only things worth fighting for? Love At First Spark by Sarah Fischer & Kelsey Knight Can a matchmaking app convince CEO Kay to take a chance on sailing instructor and boat restorer, Fin? Because while Fin doesn’t believe an algorithm will lead him to true love and romance, it did lead Kay to him. And for a chance with her he might just try anything. Say I Do by Joan Kilby Architect Angus returns to Sweetheart, Montana, hoping to convince Brianna to give him a second chance. Will the insecurities and misunderstandings of their youth dash any hopes of a reunion? Or will their first love become their forever love? Love Pops Up by Robyn Neeley A matchmaking cat and a fun competition! Does the quaint small town of Honey Springs need Patrick’s coffee shop or Madison’s ice cream parlour? Because there’s no way this feuding twosome will ever co-operate long enough to find a different solution…

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Tule Publishing

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1964703131

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Behind the Black Door

By: Sarah Brown

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Behind the Black Door

By: Sarah Brown

In this personal memoir about life at 10 Downing Street, Sarah Brown shares the secrets of living behind the most famous front door in the world. Sarah gave up a successful career in business to serve the country. A passionate campaigner for women and children, she mobilised over a million people through her early adoption of Twitter. If you've ever wondered what it's like to pack for a photo call with supermodels or pause a speech in front of hundreds when the autocue fails, it's all here - from what to do when the school play clashes with a visit to the White House to what it feels like to support the man you love as he takes tough decisions to stave off global financial meltdown... Intimate, reflective, surprising and funny, Behind the Black Door takes us backstage to reveal what it's like to be an ordinary woman, wife and mother in extraordinary circumstances.

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Random House

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1446446654

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How to Hook a Husband

A laugh-out-loud modern love story

By: Sarah Harvey

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How to Hook a Husband

A laugh-out-loud modern love story

By: Sarah Harvey

Sophie Kinsella meets My Best Friend's Wedding and Bridesmaids! Treat yourself this summer. You know you want to! BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR . . . When Belle returns home from backpacking and catches her best friend's groom-to-be with another girl, the wedding is cancelled. Heartbroken but not defeated, ex-bride-to-be Nicky realises Belle has a talent for spotting eligible men. She puts her friend to work helping other women and soon Belle is hanging out in bars and hiding in bushes, on the hunt for unsuspecting Casanovas, and the two friends are having a ball. When she is hired to follow the elusive Eddie Farrar everything changes. Belle soon finds herself falling under his spell. Will she be able to resist his charms, is he all he appears to be, or is there more to him than meets the eye? Sharp, laugh-out-loud funny and full of surprises. You'll love the international bestseller HOW TO HOOK A HUSBAND!

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Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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178658011X

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9781786580115

Dead Man's Cell Phone

By: Sarah Ruhl

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Dead Man's Cell Phone

By: Sarah Ruhl

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet caf. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man - with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur ''Genius'' Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. A work about how we memorialize the dead - and how that remembering changes us - it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. Sarah Ruhl's plays have been produced at theaters around the country, including Lincoln Center Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among others, and internationally. She is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (for The Clean House, 2004), the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, and the Whiting Writers' Award. The Clean House was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458766306

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9781458766304

The Wrath to Come

Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

By: Sarah Churchwell

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The Wrath to Come

Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

By: Sarah Churchwell

The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of the year' Suzannah Lipscomb 'Brilliant and provocative' Gavin Esler Sarah Churchwell examines one of the most enduringly popular stories of all time, Gone with the Wind, to help explain the divisions ripping the United States apart today. Separating fact from fiction, she shows how histories of mythmaking have informed America's racial and gender politics, the controversies over Confederate statues, the resurgence of white nationalism, the Black Lives Matter movement, the enduring power of the American Dream, and the violence of Trumpism. Gone with the Wind was an instant bestseller when it was published in 1936; its film version became the most successful Hollywood film of all time. Today the story's racism is again a subject of controversy, but it was just as controversial in the 1930s, foreshadowing today's debates over race and American fascism. In The Wrath to Come, Sarah Churchwell charts an extraordinary journey through 160 years of American denialism. From the Lost Cause to the romances behind the Ku Klux Klan, from the invention of the 'ideal' slave plantation to the erasure of interwar fascism, Churchwell shows what happens when we do violence to history, as collective denial turns fictions into lies, and lies into a vicious reality.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1789542979

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9781789542974

The Secret Country

Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips’ Cryptic Fiction

By: Sarah Robertson

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The Secret Country

Decoding Jayne Anne Phillips’ Cryptic Fiction

By: Sarah Robertson

The Secret Country is the first monograph on the work of the contemporary American novelist Jayne Anne Phillips. Through detailed and innovative textual analysis this study considers the southern aspects of Phillips’ writing. Robertson demonstrates the importance of Phillips’ place within the southern literary canon by identifying the echoes of William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter and Edgar Allan Poe that permeate her work. Phillips’ complex attachments to a regional past are explored through both psychoanalytical and historical materialist approaches, revealing not only the writer’s distinctly southern preoccupations, but also her reflections on contemporary American society. Tracing the family dynamics in Phillips’ work from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, this book examines the effects of increased modernization and capitalization on everyday interactions, and questions the nature of the author’s backward glance to the past. This volume is of interest for a wide audience, particularly students and scholars of contemporary southern and American literature.

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BRILL

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9401203881

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When Lives Collide

By: Sarah Bourne

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When Lives Collide

By: Sarah Bourne

A hit-and-run puts two women on a collision course with fate, in this mind-blowing psychological thriller from the author of Exile. It only takes one second to change a life. Loretta Davidson learns this the hard way when, on a rainy afternoon, her car crashes into another vehicle at an intersection. Loretta survives with only a few stitches. Her four-year-old son is not so lucky. Falling into a coma, he soon succumbs to his injuries, leaving Loretta and her husband devastated. Emma Elliot’s four-wheel drive glanced off the car she hit, and she left the scene of the accident convinced no one was hurt. She could not be late running errands for her partner—or there would be hell to pay. He had hit her before, and he would do it again. In the months following the accident, Loretta struggles to survive her grief as her marriage crumbles. Emma gets engaged—and then pregnant. But the twists and turns life throws at the two women have a way of balancing things out, sending them straight into one another’s paths one more time. “The novel does what fiction does best: exploring the small moments that can change lives for good.” —The Bookbag

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Open Road Media

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1504077644

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Every Home a Distillery

Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake

By: Sarah H. Meacham

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Every Home a Distillery

Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake

By: Sarah H. Meacham

In this original examination of alcohol production in early America, Sarah Hand Meacham uncovers the crucial role women played in cidering and distilling in the colonial Chesapeake. Her fascinating story is one defined by gender, class, technology, and changing patterns of production. Alcohol was essential to colonial life; the region’s water was foul, milk was generally unavailable, and tea and coffee were far too expensive for all but the very wealthy. Colonists used alcohol to drink, in cooking, as a cleaning agent, in beauty products, and as medicine. Meacham finds that the distillation and brewing of alcohol for these purposes traditionally fell to women. Advice and recipes in such guidebooks as The Accomplisht Ladys Delight demonstrate that women were the main producers of alcohol until the middle of the 18th century. Men, mostly small planters, then supplanted women, using new and cheaper technologies to make the region’s cider, ale, and whiskey. Meacham compares alcohol production in the Chesapeake with that in New England, the middle colonies, and Europe, finding the Chesapeake to be far more isolated than even the other American colonies. She explains how home brewers used new technologies, such as small alembic stills and inexpensive cider pressing machines, in their alcoholic enterprises. She links the importation of coffee and tea in America to the temperance movement, showing how the wealthy became concerned with alcohol consumption only after they found something less inebriating to drink. Taking a few pages from contemporary guidebooks, Every Home a Distillery includes samples of historic recipes and instructions on how to make alcoholic beverages. American historians will find this study both enlightening and surprising.

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JHU Press

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0801897912

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9780801897917

Beyond 9 to 5

Your Life in Time

By: Sarah Norgate

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Beyond 9 to 5

Your Life in Time

By: Sarah Norgate

In Beyond 9 to 5, Sarah Norgate investigates the psychological, social, and cultural influences that affect the way we regard and are affected by time. Using everyday examples from around the world, her intriguing analysis unravels both the mental and biological mysteries of our relationships with time and provides a clear understanding of the links among behavior, brain, and genes. Norgate begins by musing on the origins of our obsession with punctuality; the conflicting practices of rushing and taking things slow; economy-driven proverbs from highly industrialized nations-Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today-and how they differ from beliefs and attitudes in more rural areas; why some countries like Japan promote a 24/7 lifestyle while others still have trouble allowing businesses to open on Sunday; and which city moves at a faster pace, New York or Dublin? Norgate's examination of global trends yields surprising results. Norgate then considers the biological effects of irregular hours, night shifts, cram sessions, round-the-clock consumption, and other potentially unhealthy characteristics of modern living. In addition, she looks at how our relationship with time evolves throughout our lives, from birth to old age, tracing the connection between longevity and memory and how such conditions as Parkinson's disease, addiction, sensory impairment, and autism change our perception of time. Norgate concludes by uniting these threads to better understand the universality of our temporal landscapes. An engaging mix of cultural reference and research, Beyond 9 to 5 is a compelling look at what makes us human.

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Columbia University Press

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0231140088

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9780231140089

Editing My Ancestors

By: Sarah Dawson Rodgers

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Editing My Ancestors

By: Sarah Dawson Rodgers

Ellen Rosemary Woolcote never could have guessed that buying a 200 year old bonnet in a charity shop in Kent, England, would change her life forever, and re-arrange her family tree. This is what happens in the historical fantasy, Editing My Ancestors, that will appeal to all age groups. Ellen tells of her adventures, often accompanied with her Wooly pet Lambie-Pie, in an easy conversational style, full of wit and candor. I never knew what Id find in a charity shop. I spotted a dead looking thing stuck in the dusty corner of the bottom shelf. The elderly volunteer, with watery blue eyes that matched her blue hair, exclaimed I say there my dear, look at the prize youve found! I discovered the name Elizabeth Schooner neatly cross-stitched in the old bonnet, along with several auburn hairs. I set out to discover who Elizabeth Schooner had been 200 years agoI start keeping a notebook of my findingsI wear the bonnet for inspiration as a make my notesI begin to notice gas lamps outside my hotel, that Id never noticed beforesounds of horses hooves on cobblestone , and three masted sailing ships outside my window, in the English Channel. The hat seems to be transferring me back to 1805...I meet and fall in love with Daniel Woolcote. There is one problem, that only I know. He is my Great, Great Grandfather. If I should marry him, three generation of my family would never be born.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503561984

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Catwoman: Soulstealer

By: Sarah J. Maas

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Catwoman: Soulstealer

By: Sarah J. Maas

Sizzling with action and suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author SARAH J. MAAS delivers with this DC Icons coming-of-age Selina Kyle who will steal readers' hearts in the YA blockbuster: CATWOMAN! DC ICONS IS NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES! "A Catwoman story with Maas' signature touch. . . . Devilish." --Entertainment Weekly When the Bat's away, the Cat will play. It's time to see how many lives this cat really has. Two years after escaping Gotham City's slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, the city looks ripe for the taking. Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to prove that as Batwing he has what it takes to help people. He targets a new thief on the prowl who has teamed up with Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. Together, they are wreaking havoc. This Catwoman is clever—she may be Batwing's undoing. In this third DC Icons book, Selina is playing a desperate game of cat and mouse, forming unexpected friendships and entangling herself with Batwing by night and her devilishly handsome neighbor Luke Fox by day. But with a dangerous threat from the past on her tail, will she be able to pull off the heist that's closest to her heart? "Maas has a gift for crafting fierce female protagonists. . . . An epic shoutout to all the bad girls who know how to have fun." —Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW "A Catwoman story unlike anything you've seen before." --Nerdist Don't miss the rest of the DC Icons series! Powerful reads in any order you choose: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu Superman: Dawnbreaker by Matt de la Peña

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Ember

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0399549722

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9780399549724

Blood & Irony

Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937

By: Sarah E. Gardner

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Blood & Irony

Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937

By: Sarah E. Gardner

During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, this book argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807828181

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From the Ashes

Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

By: Sarah Jaffe

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From the Ashes

Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

By: Sarah Jaffe

The politics of grief, in an era marked by loss, shows us how we can find our humanity once more. From one of our most vital and far-seeing social critics. Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, yet we barely have time to acknowledge it. The losses range from the personal grief of a single COVID death to the planetary disaster wrought by climate change. We are in an age of unraveling hopes and expectations, of dreams curtailed, of aspirations desiccated. What can we do? This is capitalism’s death phase. It has become clear that the cost of wealth creation for a few is enormous destruction for others. The marginalized and the vulnerable have been feeling the crisis for a long time, but it is increasingly coming for all of us. At the same time, we are denied the means of mourning the futures that are being so brutally curtailed. At such a moment, taking the time to grieve is a radical act. Through in-depth reporting intertwined with memoir, Sarah Jaffe shows how public memorialization has become more than a refusal or a protest: it is a path to imagining a better world. When we are able to mourn the lives, the homes, the worlds we have lost, we are better prepared to fight for a transformed future.

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Bold Type Books

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1541703510

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Georgia Journeys

Being an Account of the Lives of Georgia's Original Settlers and Many Other Early Settlers

By: Sarah Gober Temple,Kenneth L. Coleman

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Georgia Journeys

Being an Account of the Lives of Georgia's Original Settlers and Many Other Early Settlers

By: Sarah Gober Temple,Kenneth L. Coleman

Originally published: Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1961.

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0820335290

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Essentials of Public Health Communication

By: Parvanta,Claudia Parvanta,David E. Nelson,Sarah A. Parvanta,Richard N. Harner

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Essentials of Public Health Communication

By: Parvanta,Claudia Parvanta,David E. Nelson,Sarah A. Parvanta,Richard N. Harner

Essentials of Public Health Communication presumes no prior knowledge of the health communication or informatics fields, making it accessible to students from a broad range of disciplines. Concepts are presented in clear, jargon-free language, with terms defined throughout --Book Jacket.

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