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Too Young to Be Angels

An Ongoing Journey of Grief

By: Shirley Delorbe

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Too Young to Be Angels

An Ongoing Journey of Grief

By: Shirley Delorbe

Many of us have heard tragic stories of parents losing a child, but not many people could handle the abject grief of the deaths of three of their own children. Too Young To Be Angels: An Ongoing Journey of Grief is the heart-wrenching story of one mother's climb from the pits of despair, grief, and depression after the deaths of three of her four children. Author Shirley Delorbe struggles to hold on to reality when death seems to become a way of life. After her six-year-old son Randall's death in 1964 from acute trachea bronchitis, the road to recovery is long and hard. The question "Why me?" nags at Delorbe's subconscious. Her heart is only beginning to heal when her daughter Victoria's brutal murder four years later shocks the family. Almost at the breaking point, Delorbe fights simply to breathe as the death of her son Gerry in a motorcycle accident drags her back into hell a few years later. Too Young To Be Angels recounts Delorbe's journey as she struggles with the loss of each child, reveals her every thought, and shares how she eventually developed her ten steps to recovery.

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iUniverse

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0595434398

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9780595434398

Liberating Language

Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America

By: Shirley Wilson Logan

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Liberating Language

Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America

By: Shirley Wilson Logan

This book traces the ways that African Americans learned lessons in rhetoric through language-based activities associated with black survival in nineteenth-century America, such as working in political organizations, reading and publishing newspapers, maintaining diaries, and participating in literary societies. It shows how rhetorical training was manifested through places of worship and military camps, self-education in oratory and elocution, literary societies, and the black press. It also draws on the experiences of various black rhetors of the era, such as Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, Fanny Coppin, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, and the lesser-known Oberlin-educated Mary Virginia Montgomery, Virginia slave preacher "Uncle Jack," and former slave "Mrs. Lee." The book also outlines nontraditional means of acquiring rhetorical skills and demonstrates how African Americans, faced with the lingering consequences of enslavement, acquired rhetorical competence.

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SIU Press

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0809328720

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9780809328727

The Wild Vine

By: Sandra Pesini,Shirley Mattson Wolf

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The Wild Vine

By: Sandra Pesini,Shirley Mattson Wolf

After her mother's untimely death, seven-year-old Abigail must endure an alcoholic stepfather, a well-meaning but unsavory orphanage, and a grandfather ruled by a designing woman. The traumatic seeds of Abigail's unstable childhood grow, flourish and pervade her adolescence and marriage.

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0971422109

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9780971422100

Reefer Movie Madness

The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide

By: Shirley Halperin,Steve Bloom

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Reefer Movie Madness

The Ultimate Stoner Film Guide

By: Shirley Halperin,Steve Bloom

The ultimate guide for bong-hitting movie buffs, with over 420 entries—plus contributions from Snoop Dogg, Cheech & Chong, Margaret Cho, and more. From the authors of Pot Culture, Reefer Movie Madness is the most extensive guide ever to movies for and about stoners, going well beyond Harold and Kumar and Pineapple Express. In addition to entries on more than 420 films, there are contributions and Q&As from actors, movie directors, musicians, and celebrities, including Jason Mraz, comedian Andy Milonakis, Snoop Dogg, Doug Benson, and Cheech & Chong. Reefer Movie Madness covers it all, from pot-fueled comedies and druggy dramas to sci-fi flicks and 1960s artifacts to documentaries, musicals, and blockbusters—including lots of photos, sidebars, and lists.

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Abrams

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1613120168

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9781613120163

Gray's Island

Where the Creek Bends

By: Shirley Brock Turney.

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Gray's Island

Where the Creek Bends

By: Shirley Brock Turney.

This book is a collection of poems and childhood memories. The poems are simple words from a simple mind. Some were written to be just plain silly in hopes of making you smile. The childhood memories are about growing up in the fifties when I spent most of my young years playing in the dirt, swimming in the creek and walking on railroad tracks. My family and I lived in a small house next door to a big, three-room school house. There was a railroad in front of our house and a creek in the back. The rest of the community was on the other side of the railroad tracks. I always say that I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Most memories are about Gray's Island where we spent the summers swimming in the creek and having many adventures. It was always boys chasing girls, dunking us in the creek, and having battles throwing pine cones and crabapples at each other. It was a time of innocence that could only be experienced during childhood.

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AuthorHouse

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1491827440

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9781491827444

Ghosts of the Past & Murder

By: Shirley Gloster

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Ghosts of the Past & Murder

By: Shirley Gloster

When newspaper reporter Alex Rutherford receives a tip about a murdered family in the Niagara region, she decides to investigate—especially when she learns that her own family might be involved. Accompanied by her best friend, Ginny, and her dog, Spider, they set out to solve the case.

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Word Alive Press

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1486614493

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9781486614493

A Feeling of Belonging

Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960

By: Shirley Jennifer Lim

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A Feeling of Belonging

Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960

By: Shirley Jennifer Lim

When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time. In A Feeling of Belonging, Lim highlights the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960. This period marks a crucial generation—the first in which American-born Asians formed a critical mass and began to make their presence felt in the United States. Though they were distinguished from previous generations by their American citizenship, it was only through these seemingly mundane “American”activities that they were able to overcome two-dimensional stereotypes of themselves as kimono-clad “Orientals.” Lim traces the diverse ways in which these young women sought claim to cultural citizenship, exploring such topics as the nation's first Asian American sorority, Chi Alpha Delta; the cultural work of Chinese American actress Anna May Wong; Asian American youth culture and beauty pageants; and the achievement of fame of three foreign-born Asian women in the late 1950s. By wearing poodle skirts, going to the beach, and producing magazines, she argues, they asserted not just their American-ness, but their humanity: a feeling of belonging.

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NYU Press

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0814751938

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9780814751930

Stormland

By: John Shirley

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Stormland

By: John Shirley

They call it Stormland: a sprawling, largely abandoned region of the southeastern coast of the USA, where climate change’s extreme weather conditions have brought about a “perfect storm” of perpetual tempests; where hurricane-strength storms return day after day, 365 days a year. The heart of Stormland is Charleston, South Carolina, a flooded ruin where hundreds of people remain for their own peculiar reasons; where thugs prey on the weak, and a strangely benevolent cult tries to keep everyone insanely sane. Here, plutocratic evil takes advantage of Stormland’s lawlessness to cultivate a weirdly puppeted theater of cruelty. Swept into the turbulent vortex of Stormland is an unlikely duo—a former serial killer and a former US Marshal—who must work together to bring light to America’s late twenty-first century heart of darkness. A cyberpunk detective thriller set in a maelstrom of climatic upheaval, classism, and corrupt power, Stormland paradoxically dramatizes the resilience of the human spirit.

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Blackstone Publishing

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1094017841

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9781094017846

A2 Media Studies

The Essential Introduction for AQA

By: Antony Bateman,Peter Bennett,Sarah Casey Benyahia,Jacqui Shirley,Peter Wall

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A2 Media Studies

The Essential Introduction for AQA

By: Antony Bateman,Peter Bennett,Sarah Casey Benyahia,Jacqui Shirley,Peter Wall

Developing key topics in depth and introducing students to the notion of independent study, this full colour, highly illustrated textbook is designed to support students through the transition from AS to A2 and is the perfect guide for the new AQA A2 Media Studies syllabus. Individual chapters, written by experienced teachers and examiners cover the following key areas: • Introduction: From AS to A2 • Developing Textual Analysis • Critical Perspectives • Issues and Debates: Case Studies • Passing MEST 3: Critical Perspectives • Research and Production Skills • Passing MEST 4: Media Research and Production Specially designed to be user-friendly, A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for AQA includes activities, key terms, case studies, sample exam questions and over 100 images.

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Routledge

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1136881301

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9781136881305

Country Doctor

The Story of Dr. Claire Louise Caudill

By: Shirley Gish

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Country Doctor

The Story of Dr. Claire Louise Caudill

By: Shirley Gish

Claire Louise Caudill is one of those rare people who have become legends in their own time. She delivered more than 8,000 babies over the years, in and around her hometown of Morehead, Kentucky. In 1995 she was named Country Doctor of the Year, and she has been interviewed by CBS and featured in USA Today. Dr. Caudill stopped delivering babies when she turned seventy, but today, at the age of 86, she remains in practice- her patients won't let her retire! Her friend Susie Halbleib has served as nurse in Caudill's clinic since it opened in 1946. Caudill was instrumental in establishing a hospital in Morehead and for more than fifty years has worked to improve health care for the people of the Kentucky hill country. The first part of Country Doctor tells Caudill's story through interviews with Dr. Caudill, Nurse Halblieb, and the people who know them best. The second reproduces a one-woman, two-act play entitled Me 'n Susie, inspired by Dr. Caudill's warmth and humor. Together, the play and interviews provide a vivid picture of life in the hills of Eastern Kentucky and a remarkable portrait of two great women in medicine.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813149649

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9780813149646

Single Parent Families

Diversity, Myths and Realities

By: Marvin B Sussman,Shirley Hanson

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Single Parent Families

Diversity, Myths and Realities

By: Marvin B Sussman,Shirley Hanson

Here is a comprehensive source of vital information on single parent families in contemporary society. This book analyzes literature and empirical research concerning single parent families and explores issues and challenges they face. Contributing authors from many fields and perspectives examine a broad range of subjects relating to families in which one person is primarily responsible for parenting. The only state-of-the-art compendium on the topic of single parent families available today, the book synthesizes empirical, theoretical, and contemporary literature about the diversity, myths, and realities of single parent families in western countries. Each chapter contains a demographic overview, definitions, a literature review, and implications for practice, research, education, and social policy. Theoretical and conceptual perspectives related to parenting and wider families are included. An analysis, synthesis, and commentary on single parent families concludes the volume. Themes highlighted throughout the book include socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of single parent families, cultural and ethnic features, and legal and ethical components. Some chapter topics include: single parenthood following divorce single parenthood following death of a spouse never married teen mothers and fathers female-headed homeless families adoptions by single parents noncustodial mothers and fathers grandparents as primary parents single parents of children with disabilities Single Parent Families contains additional resources useful for family professionals: an annotated bibliography, a video/filmography, and a national community resource list. The book is intended for a multidisciplinary audience, including sociologists, psychologists, health care professionals, social workers, therapists, and other researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and educators. An ideal primary or reference text for undergraduate and graduate level programs, the book can also serve as a tool for staff development and continuing education in service agencies.

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Routledge

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1317764595

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9781317764595

Rendezvous with Destiny

Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America

By: Craig Shirley

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Rendezvous with Destiny

Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America

By: Craig Shirley

“A first-rate work of insider history . . . A monumental accomplishment.” —National Review The election that changed everything: Craig Shirley’s masterful account of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals how a race judged “too close to call” as late as Election Day became a Reagan landslide—and altered the course of history. To write Rendezvous with Destiny, Shirley gained unprecedented access to 1980 campaign files and interviewed more than 150 insiders—from Reagan’s closest advisers and family members to Jimmy Carter himself. His gripping account follows Reagan’s unlikely path from his bitter defeat on the floor of the 1976 Republican convention, through his underreported “wilderness years,” through grueling primary fights in which he knocked out several Republican heavyweights, through an often-nasty general election campaign complicated by the presence of a third-party candidate (not to mention the looming shadow of Ted Kennedy), to Reagan’s astounding victory on Election Night in 1980. Shirley’s years of intensive research have enabled him to relate countless untold stories—including, at long last, the solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in politics: just how Reagan’s campaign got hold of Carter’s debate briefing books.

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Open Road Media

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1497636388

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9781497636385

Good People Beget Good People

A Geneology of the Frist Family

By: William H. Frist,Shirley Wilson

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Good People Beget Good People

A Geneology of the Frist Family

By: William H. Frist,Shirley Wilson

The beautifully and expensively produced volume is a painstaking record of the family of Frist, the U.S. Senate's majority leader and a heart surgeon from Tennessee. Clearly a labor of love for Frist and his co-author, a longtime genealogist, the work is not in any sense a biography or political memoir, but rather is a straightforward tracing of Fr

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742533360

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9780742533363

Hearing the Silent Cries

By: Shirley Gunstream Poland

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Hearing the Silent Cries

By: Shirley Gunstream Poland

LET'S STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE! Hearing the Silent Cries: Exposing Wife Abuse puts relationships under a microscope! -- Is your relationship more like a see-saw or a slide? If it feels like a slide, which end are you on? -- Do you know if your spouse has the 15 Personality Traits of an abuser? Learn the dangers of abuse through the stories of two Christian women who committed murder after years of various forms of spousal abuse. Learn how it starts in the dating stage of life, what it is, why it is used, and methods to diffuse it. Date violence is experienced by one in four teens. This is why we need to educate teenagers of the 15 Personality Traits of an abuser, so they know the difference between sick and healthy relationships. Be sure the teens you know learn the traits! By exposing wife abuse, maybe we can prevent the death of one of the approximately 3,000 women beaten to death by their partner every year. Shirley Poland is a teacher and a storyteller, who received a B.L.S. degree from the University of Oklahoma; a B.S. in Education from Lamar University in Beaumont, TX; and a M.S. in Education from McNeese State University of Lake Charles, LA. After teaching 30 years, Shirley is retired from school districts of Orange, Beaumont, and Plano, TX. Her avocation is an after-dinner speaker and as "Mother Goose" for daycare centers, elementary schools, festivals, and health fairs. She has five adult children, and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Poland has taught Bible classes for many years and continues to serve in her church. Shirley grew up in Orange, TX and recently married her grade school sweetheart, now a retired minister, who has helped her discover her talents in painting and writing.

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Xulon Press

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1606479199

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9781606479193

The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney

By: Shirley Anne Warshaw

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The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney

By: Shirley Anne Warshaw

This analysis of the Bush administration reveals how the president willingly ceded power to a calculating vice president—with disastrous consequences. Under the relatively inexperienced president George W. Bush, Dick Cheney was perhaps the most powerful vice president in American history. In this excellently documented work, presidential scholar Shirley Anne Warshaw debunks the popular myth that Bush’s authority was hijacked or stolen. Instead, drawing on extensive research as well as personal interviews with White House Staffers and Washington insiders, she demonstrates how Bush and Cheney operated as nothing less than co-presidents. While Bush focused on building what he called a moral and civil society, anchored by a war on science and by the proliferation of faith-based programs, he allowed Cheney to lead in business and foreign policy. Warshaw highlights Cheney’s decades-long career in Washington and his familiarity with its inner workings to present a complete picture of this calculating political powerhouse. From Cheney’s unprecedented merging of presidential and vice-presidential authority to his abhorrence of what he deemed congressional interference, Warshaw paints an intriguing, and at times frightening, portrait.

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Stanford University Press

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0804771189

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9780804771184

Citizen Newt

The Making of a Reagan Conservative

By: Craig Shirley

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Citizen Newt

The Making of a Reagan Conservative

By: Craig Shirley

The definitive, authorized biography of one of the most important, provocative, and visionary political figures of our time. In one way or another Newt Gingrich has been leading a revolution for most of his life. Citizen Newt is the definitive account of that struggle. Writing with the full cooperation of Speaker Gingrich and the players around him, New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley captures the events, ideas, failures, and successes of Newton Leroy Gingrich—one of the most complex, influential, and durable political figures of our time. Returning to Gingrich’s childhood in Pennsylvania and his formative years as a young history professor, Citizen Newt moves through Gingrich’s first forays into politics and takes readers behind the scenes of the Congressman’s crucial role in the Reagan Revolution, his battles with George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and his masterly orchestration of 1994s “Gingrich Revolution” and the Contract with America, which catapulted him to national prominence and forever changed congressional and national politics. Drawing upon untold stories from Gingrich and those who know him best—political allies and opponents, Washington insiders and political iconoclasts, Capitol Hill staffers and colleagues—Shirley has crafted a fascinating, humorous, humanizing, and insightful account of a true American original.

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Harper Collins

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1595554491

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9781595554499

The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

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The Lottery and Other Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. The Lottery and Other Stories, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual short stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range -- from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous -- and her power as a storyteller.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429957840

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9781429957847

Our Family

Peckham, Moore, Webb, Walley

By: Shirley Niles

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Our Family

Peckham, Moore, Webb, Walley

By: Shirley Niles

Stories for the family to enjoy and learn about about our ancestors, where they came from, what they did for a living, where they lived and who their children were.

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Outskirts Press

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1977265650

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9781977265654

Brave Heroes and Bold Defenders

50 True Stories of Daring Men of God

By: Shirley Raye Redmond

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Brave Heroes and Bold Defenders

50 True Stories of Daring Men of God

By: Shirley Raye Redmond

Men of Fearless Faith Meet men who have used their God-given talents to live out their faith to the fullest. They come from a variety of backgrounds, eras, and ethnicities, but each one has answered the Lord’s call on their life in bold and innovative ways. Children of all ages will be inspired by the stories of C.S. Lewis—professor and author of the influential Chronicles of Narnia series Zhang Boli—Chinese dissident, journalist, and Christian pastor Richard Allen—former slave and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Tim Tebow—athlete, Heisman trophy winner, and outspoken follower of Christ Father Damien—priest who dedicated his life to helping lepers in Hawaii These and the 45 other defenders of the faith featured in this book have made a profound impact on the world around them, and in many cases changed the course of history. Strong, smart, and sometimes outspoken, these men are tremendous examples of God’s love in action. These inspiring profiles will captivate kids’ imaginations and encourage them to discover their own gifts and how they can use them to glorify God.

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Harvest House Publishers

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0736981349

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9780736981347

The Together Years

By: Shirley Randels Floyd

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The Together Years

By: Shirley Randels Floyd

This book is not a memoir but a compilation of actual journals that the author kept as her children were born and growing from infants to young adults. It captures the funny sayings of young children we all wish we had written down at the time. It also captures the very real problems of parenting, sibling rivalries, and settling into new neighborhoods. The author writes with her heart and records the ordinary moments so they wont be forgotten. She also writes with a very young voice, and we see her mature along with her children over the fifteen years that this book encompasses.

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iUniverse

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1475978391

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9781475978391

Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II

A Project of the International Reading Association

By: James Flood,Shirley Brice Heath,Diane Lapp

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Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II

A Project of the International Reading Association

By: James Flood,Shirley Brice Heath,Diane Lapp

The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II brings together state-of-the-art research and practice on the evolving view of literacy as encompassing not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also the multiple ways through which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. It forefronts as central to literacy education the visual, communicative, and performative arts, and the extent to which all of the technologies that have vastly expanded the meanings and uses of literacy originate and evolve through the skills and interests of the young. A project of the International Reading Association, published and distributed by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Visit http://www.reading.org for more information about Internationl Reading Associationbooks, membership, and other services.

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Routledge

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1317639707

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9781317639701

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women

By: Gayle Shirley

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More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women

By: Gayle Shirley

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Treasure State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762766921

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9780762766925

Touching Lives

A Teacher's Memoir

By: Shirley A. Kitner-Mainello

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Touching Lives

A Teacher's Memoir

By: Shirley A. Kitner-Mainello

This is a moving and personal story of teachers life told from her side of the desk. Teachers build a nation by touching the lives of the youth and you will be there, too, as the stories touch your life. Everyone knows what it is like to be a student; they don't know how it is to be the teacher! The author began teaching in 1960 before the civil rights movement was in full swing. Through the eyes of the children and the teacher you will watch education change in the forty years that followed. When you read Touching Lives you will share wonderful and surprising experiences with students of various ages whose lives have touched my own. As you read, you will cry for them, worry for them, and always you will love them as I did. Laugh with me when Henry brings his snakes to school. Enjoy the adventure to the aquarium; and the trip to the woods through the eyes of the children who have never been out of the city. Any person involved in education, at any level, will enjoy this story. Shirley A. Kitner-Mainello

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144

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1468555839

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9781468555837

Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics

By: Ménard, Claude,Shirley, Mary M.

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Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics

By: Ménard, Claude,Shirley, Mary M.

New institutional economics (NIE) is a powerful tool for understanding real world phenomena. This Advanced Introduction explores NIE’s answers to fundamental questions about the organization, growth and development of economies, such as why are some countries rich and others poor? Why are activities organized as firms or markets or through alternative organizational solutions? When are shared resources overexploited?

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1789904498

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9781789904499

Dreams and Nightmares - The Martha Whittaker Story

By: Shirley A. Roe

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Dreams and Nightmares - The Martha Whittaker Story

By: Shirley A. Roe

The Martha Whittaker Story is a historical romance taking the reader on a journey from the English aristocracy to the trials and tribulations of pioneer life. Martha McGuire's arranged marriage to Jebediah Whittaker turns her life into her worst nightmare. After travelling on an immigrant ship to the Americas, a Conestoga wagon to the west, calamity follows, leaving her alone with a devil of a man and his three sons in the vast wilderness of Wyoming. Will hero Austin Wells find her and rescue her from her nightmare. How does brother-in-law Jeremy fit into the scenario? Will she survive? Can she ever find true and lasting love?

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The eBook Sale

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1906806578

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9781906806576

Dixie Be Damned

300 Years of Insurrection in the American South

By: Neal Shirley,Saralee Stafford

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Dixie Be Damned

300 Years of Insurrection in the American South

By: Neal Shirley,Saralee Stafford

In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains. Over the next year, tactics escalated to include burning company property and looting company stores. This was one of the largest insurrections in US working-class history. It happened at the same time as the widely publicized northern labor war in Homestead, Pennsylvania. And it was largely ignored, then and now. Dixie Be Damned engages seven similarly "hidden" insurrectionary episodes in Southern history to demonstrate the region's long arc of revolt. Countering images of the South as pacified and conservative, this adventurous retelling presents history in the rough. Not the image of the South many expect, this is the South of maroon rebellion, wildcat strikes, and Robert F. Williams's book Negroes with Guns, a South where the dispossessed refuse to quietly suffer their fate. This is people's history at its best: slave revolts, multiracial banditry, labor battles, prison uprisings, urban riots, and more. Neal Shirley grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and now lives in Durham, NC, where he is involved in several anti-prison initiatives and runs a small publishing project called the North Carolina Piece Corps. Saralee Stafford was born in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Her recent political work has focused on connecting the struggles of street organizations with those of anarchists in the area. She teaches gender-related health in Durham, North Carolina.

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Who's who in Hockey

By: Stan Fischler,Shirley Fischler

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Who's who in Hockey

By: Stan Fischler,Shirley Fischler

If there is one book that's missing from the ever-growing number of hockey books available, it is an A-to-Z guide of the sport's all-time greatest stars. Finally, that book has arrived. Veteran hockey authors Stan and Shirley Fischler's Who's Who in Hockey is the complete guide to the game's greatest players.This indispensable hockey reference book features all of the sport's most notable players, from Wayne Gretzky and Howie Morenz to Rocket Richard, Marcel Pronovost, and Bep Guidolin.For easy reference, this comprehensive 480-page volume is divided into three parts: pre-World War II players, World War II to Expansion, and From 1967-68 to the present.Each player's entry includes his biography, personal statistics, and career highlights, along with anecdotal information. In addition to player listings, this power-packed book will include: o Dozens of player photoso Capsule histories of every past and present NHL franchiseo The colorful history behind the Stanley Cupo Profiles of the game's best coaches and managers o Profiles of others who've helped make the game great, such as Pete and Jerry Cusimano, who pioneered the Detroit tradition of throwing octopuses onto the ice for luck.Perhaps the most complete compendium of biographies on hockey's greatest players ever published, Who's Who in Hockey will be a hot item with both die-hard and newer fans of this popular professional sport.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740719041

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Lakeliners 2013: Food for Thought

By: Stuart Jones,Chris Bagley,Lee West,Greta Mansveld,Shirley Chaplin,Danielle Kerr

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Lakeliners 2013: Food for Thought

By: Stuart Jones,Chris Bagley,Lee West,Greta Mansveld,Shirley Chaplin,Danielle Kerr

The 2013 collection of stories and poems from Milang's ""Lakeliners"" Writers' Group. Written By Chris Bagley, Shirley Chaplin, Danielle Kerr, Stuart Jones, Greta Mansveld and Lee West

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Dancing My Way Through Hell!

By: Gene Shirley Richey

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Dancing My Way Through Hell!

By: Gene Shirley Richey

Her mother sternly said, "Gene! Stop that tap dancing right now! You're going to dance your way to hell!" The first half of her life surely felt that way - three sexual assaults, two abusive husbands, three children for whom she was the sole provider. Nevertheless, during that same period of her life, Gene and her violin went on a summer tour with young Billy Graham. She was also given a TV contract with the original Hank Williams Band in Montgomery, Alabama, as twin fiddler. DANCING MY WAY THROUGH HELL! focuses on life struggles and a forgiving spirit which was the key to bringing Gene through those experiences in six states from coast to coast and leading her to an amazing future....

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1460236807

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The Road Through the Wall

By: Shirley Jackson

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The Road Through the Wall

By: Shirley Jackson

The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now, that’s not good—it’s just not good at all. Satirically exploring what happens when a smug suburban neighborhood is breached by awful, unavoidable truths, The Road Through the Wall is the tale that launched Shirley Jackson’s heralded career. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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1101616784

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Blessing

By: Shirley Moore

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Blessing

By: Shirley Moore

The Blessing begins as a writing exercise that takes on a life of its own. A blue chest of drawers and the blessing it contains touch the lives of fifteen women, giving to them the desire of a lifetime. Meet Sarah and Juliette, mother and daughter who share a child; Laurie who owned the chest and then opens her home to a new mother; Aunt Rachel and Uncle Budge, a couple who get a second chance at a family; Maida who rears her granddaughter; and Ed whose mother discovers the blue chest for a second time. The blue chest is an upbeat novel that you will hate to see end. A 2001 South Dakota State Fair Literary Competition Blue Ribbon winner.

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Trails and Trailblazers

Public Education and School Desegregation in Lunenburg County, Virginia 1870 - 1970

By: Shirley Robertson Lee

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Trails and Trailblazers

Public Education and School Desegregation in Lunenburg County, Virginia 1870 - 1970

By: Shirley Robertson Lee

Trails and Trailblazers By: Shirley Robertson Lee Following the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, this book provides a story of how Lunenburg County, a rural school district, in Southside Virginia transitioned - in the span of one hundred years - from a segregated to an integrated, unified system. The Lunenburg story is as important as that of its neighbor, Prince Edward County, although its transition is less dramatic. This story is part of what occurred in public education during this important chapter. As a life-long resident of Lunenburg County and former student attending segregated schools from the first to eleventh grade and an integrated school during her senior year, Shirley Robertson Lee offers a thoroughly researched and passionate study of public education and school desegregation. By the time segregated schools ended in Lunenburg County in the fall of 1969, it had been nearly fifteen years since America’s racially segregated school systems were found to be unconstitutional in the case of Brown v. Board of Education on May 1, 1954. The first totally integrated Lunenburg senior class graduated in spring of 1970. Shirley Robertson Lee is a member of that class. “Many people remember Brown v. Board of Education and think of that as the end of segregated schools in our country. The truth is, of course, infinitely more complicated. This book meticulously documents that transition and all that led up to it in one Virginia County. It is both scholarly and personal and will be of interest to educators and local government, but also to anyone who wants to understand the important history of mid-twentieth century America.” -STEPHANIE DEUTSCH, Author, You Need a Schoolhouse- “The telling of this story is important to Lunenburg County’s history; and I know that those who live here now, others who have journeyed from the County but stay connected, and others into the future will enjoy and learn from it. Shirley’s research was both thorough and very interesting in both the written word as well as her historical photograph collection. Well done and many thanks!” -STEPHEN S. ISRAEL, President, Lunenburg County Historical Society-

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