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How High The Moon

By: Shirley C. Whitman

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Emma Rose (ER) Johnston, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, and Jesse Anderson, a well-known Nova Scotia wildlife artist, are a match made in heaven. After a year of marriage, the two are more in love than ever. The arrival of identical twins, completes their idyllic little family, which includes six-year-old Skye, Jesse’s temperamental daughter from a former marriage. One dark cloud threatens their horizons—Skye has rejected her stepmother from the first, and makes it perfectly clear she has no use for her new brothers either. It is only much later, after tragedy strikes, that the walls she has erected finally crumble.

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Club Lighthouse Publishing

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1772171360

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9781772171365

Now And Forever

By: Shirley C. Whitman

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Now And Forever

By: Shirley C. Whitman

Emma Rose Johnston seems to have it all—youth, beauty, and brilliance. Beyond that, she is headstrong and impetuous. When Emma Harrington invites her granddaughter to spend the summer in Nova Scotia, she wonders if she’s getting in over her head. Emma Rose, alias ER, arrives on the east coast with her parrot, Magoo, requiring the Harrington household to adapt to an entertaining and foulmouthed bird, plus a spirited teenager. Little does ER suspect that her seventeenth summer will change her life forever. Since childhood, she’s had one passion—animals and nature, and when she decides to spend her vacation volunteering at a wildlife refuge, it is evident she’s found her niche. There, she meets eighteen-year-old Jesse Anderson, sensitive, complicated, and aloof. They are immediately drawn to each other and soon realize their feelings go much deeper than those of a teenage romance. One obstacle to a lasting relationship stands in the way—Jesse’s conviction that he and ER are destined to spend their lives in separate worlds. At the close of the summer there are two broken hearts, when Jesse pulls away. ER believes the door to love is forever closed and returns to Ontario to go ahead with her plans for advanced education. Jesse’s life proceeds in a much different direction. The years go by until ER, by a twist of fate, returns to southwest Nova Scotia to begin her career as a veterinarian. In the intervening time, Jesse’s life has taken an unexpected and dramatic turn. Now, they must come face to face with the soul-deep feelings they’ve never been able to put to rest. One of them is ready to forgive and reclaim their love; the other is not sure reconciliation is possible.

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Club Lighthouse Publishing

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1772171174

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9781772171174

Raising Will

By: Shirley C. Whitman

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Raising Will

By: Shirley C. Whitman

William Rennehan is a naïve nineteen-year-old, brought up on welfare, the victim of an abusive father. His teenaged wife dies in childbirth and he is left to care for his infant daughter, Delilah. Powerfully bonded to her from the first, he is hopelessly out of his depth, jobless and broke, but determined to raise her. His situation is complicated by estranged in-laws who threaten to gain custody of their granddaughter. Will learns the meaning of grace (unmerited favour) as, one after another, people step up to give support. There is Wynona, who is domineering and opinionated but never wavers in her advice and encouragement; Pearl, a retiree, who takes him under her wing; a quirky nurse named Grace Anne who is the queen of social blunders; and his former English teacher who becomes a significant benefactor, to name a few. Will faces many challenges as he embraces fatherhood and adult responsibility. Unintentionally entangled in his older brothers’ shady activities, disaster ensues, and his ability to raise his daughter is called into question. The story evolves as he struggles to rise above circumstances and prove his good character. Several astounding developments suddenly alter the course of his life, and a friendship he took for granted takes a surprising turn.

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Club Lighthouse Publishing

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1772171581

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9781772171587

Dancing In The Dark

By: Shirley C. Whitman

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Dancing In The Dark

By: Shirley C. Whitman

Emma Morgan’s husband dies suddenly, and she stumbles on evidence he siphoned off large amounts of their personal savings to an intimidating stranger. Gone are her stable marriage, her secure future, and the comfortable life in suburbia she’s always taken for granted. She must now find her way through a labyrinth of terrifying challenges, or cower behind the wall of her deepest insecurities forever. Complications increase when she is swept off her feet by a charismatic widower who is carrying secrets of his own; secrets that threaten to destroy her world all over again. Simultaneously, her dearest friend becomes ill, stretching her emotional resources to the breaking point. Emma is forced to examine the past in order to determine why, throughout life, fear has dictated her choices. Insight begins to empower her. Compelled to uncover the truth of her late husband’s mysterious double life, she goes in search of the ghost in the Morgan’s family closet. Never could she have predicted the ghost would come back to life and knock her off her feet. As she begins to reinvent her life according to her own design, she believes her tribulations are finally behind her. Then disaster strikes again, and she must admit one final truth she’s been denying—the passport to lasting happiness is close at hand, although it may be too late to reach out and claim it.

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Club Lighthouse Publishing

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1772171131

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9781772171136

Guide to the White House Staff

By: Shirley Anne Warshaw

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Guide to the White House Staff

By: Shirley Anne Warshaw

Guide to the White House Staff is an insightful new work examining the evolution and current role of the White House staff. It provides a study of executive-legislative relations, organizational behavior, policy making, and White House–cabinet relations. The work also makes an important contribution to the study of public administration for researchers seeking to understand the inner workings of the White House. In eight thematically arranged chapters, Guide to the White House Staff: Reviews the early members of the White House staff and details the need, statutory authorization, and funding for staff expansion. Addresses the creation of the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and a formal White House staff in 1939. Explores the statutes, executive orders, and succession of reorganization plans that shaped and refined the EOP. Traces the evolution of White House staff from FDR to Obama and the specialization of staff across policy and political units. Explores how presidential transitions have operated since Eisenhower created the position of chief of staff. Explains the expansion of presidential in-house policymaking structures, beginning with national security and continuing with economic and domestic policy. Covers the exodus of staff and the roles remaining staff played during the second terms of presidents. Examines the post–White House careers of staff. Guide to the White House Staff also provides easily accessible biographies of key White House staff members who served the presidencies of Richard M. Nixon through George W. Bush. This valuable new reference will find a home in collections supporting research on the American presidency, public policy, and public administration.

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505

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CQ Press

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1452234329

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9781452234328

Facing America

Iconography and the Civil War

By: Shirley Samuels

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Facing America

Iconography and the Civil War

By: Shirley Samuels

Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure a face for the nation, author Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine. Expressions of such a change appear in the allegorical configurations of nineteenth-century American novels, poetry, cartoons, and political rhetoric. Because of the visibility of war's assaults on the male body, masculine vulnerability became such a dominant facet of national life that it practically obliterated the visibility of other vulnerable bodies. The simultaneous advent of photography and the Civil War in the nineteenth century may be as influential as the conjoined rise of the novel and the middle class in the eighteenth century. Both advents herald a changed understanding of how a transformative media can promote new cultural and national identities. Bodies immobilized because of war's practices of wounding and death are also bodies made static for the camera's gaze. The look of shock on the faces of soldiers photographed in order to display their wounds emphasizes the new technology of war literally embodied in the impact of new imploding bullets on vulnerable flesh. Such images mark both the context for and a counterpoint to the "look" of Walt Whitman as he bends over soldiers in their hospital beds. They also provide a way to interpret the languishing male heroes of novels such as August Evans's Macaria (1864), a southern elegy for the sundering of the nation. This book crucially shows how visual iconography affects the shift in postbellum gendered and racialized identifications of the nation.

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Oxford University Press

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0190284552

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9780190284558

Book's by Shirley C. Whitman

How High The Moon

How High The Moon

Now And Forever

Now And Forever

Raising Will

Raising Will

Dancing In The Dark

Dancing In The Dark

Guide to the White House Staff

Guide to the White House Staff

Facing America

Facing America

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