Shirley Sun's Books

Just an Ordinary Day

Stories

By: Shirley Jackson

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“Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation.”—San Francisco Chronicle Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House—classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe—Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death in 1965, Jackson’s children discovered a treasure trove of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, many of which are brought together in this remarkable collection. Here are tales of torment, psychological aberration, and the macabre, as well as those that display her lighter touch with humorous scenes of domestic life. Reflecting the range and complexity of Jackson’s talent, Just an Ordinary Day reaffirms her enduring influence and celebrates her singular voice, rich with magic and resonance. Praise for Shirley Jackson “[Jackson’s] work exerts an enduring spell.”—Joyce Carol Oates “Shirley Jackson’s stories are among the most terrifying ever written.”—Donna Tartt “An amazing writer . . . If you haven’t read [Jackson] you have missed out on something marvelous.”—Neil Gaiman “Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders.”—Dorothy Parker “An author who not only writes beautifully but who knows what there is, in this world, to be scared of.”—Francine Prose “The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.”—A. M. Homes “Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.”—Victor LaValle

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Bantam

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0307573591

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9780307573599

Two Lands

By: Lee Shirley

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Two Lands

By: Lee Shirley

Born in a different world but she carries one difficult and challenging responsibility. Two identities for two different worlds, one goal for both lands. Born with the sun, destined to save both worlds from the darkness, but can she? Her name is August and she shall not be forgotten.

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PartridgeIndia

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1482895994

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Primary Science: Teaching Theory and Practice

By: John Sharp,Graham Peacock,Rob Johnsey,Shirley Simon,Robin Smith,Alan Cross,Diane Harris

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Primary Science: Teaching Theory and Practice

By: John Sharp,Graham Peacock,Rob Johnsey,Shirley Simon,Robin Smith,Alan Cross,Diane Harris

The essential teaching theory and practice text for primary science. Covering the key skills of planning, monitoring and assessment and class management, it relates these specifically to primary science. The 5th edition of this popular text includes new features making specific links to Every Child Matters and outlining how ICT can be embedded into the teaching of primary science. This text is an indispensable guide for primary trainees on the theory and practice required for effective and creative science teaching. Includes features and activities to help the reader make essential links between theory and practice.

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SAGE

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0857250876

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9780857250872

Front Lines

Political Plays by American Women (Large Print 16pt)

By: Alexis Greene,Shirley Lauro

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Front Lines

Political Plays by American Women (Large Print 16pt)

By: Alexis Greene,Shirley Lauro

Ever since this country came into being, women have waged battles for rights in the pages of their plays, and on the stages where those plays were performed. - FROM THE PREFACE BY SHIRLEY LAURO Front Lines is a pathbreaking collection of the most important, critically acclaimed plays written by the country's leading contemporary female playwrights. Including seven full scripts and accompanying materials, Front Lines provides both major examples of the playwright's craft and an essential introduction to the politically inspired work of female dramatists of the twenty-first century. Here is Jessica Blank's widely heralded The Exonerated (written with Erik Jensen), based on interviews with American prisoners incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. Also included is Nilaja Sun's outstanding No Child . . ., winner of the Outer Critics Circle's 2007 John Gassner Award for Best New Play - a funny, stirring one-woman show centering on an inner-city teacher's success at involving her rebellious students in their own education by putting on a play. Rounding out the collection are Emily Mann's Mrs. Packard, Paula Vogel's Hot 'n' Throbbing, Shirley Lauro's Clarence Darrow's Last Trial, Quiara Alegra Hudes's Eliot: A Soldier's Fugue, and Cindy Cooper's Words of Choice. With a preface by distinguished playwright Shirley Lauro and an introduction by theater critic Alexis Greene, Front Lines also includes short biographies of the playwrights and a production photo of each play.

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1458778916

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From the Riverbank to Middle Earth and Beyond

By: Pat Shirley

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From the Riverbank to Middle Earth and Beyond

By: Pat Shirley

I received Kenneth Grahames The Wind in the Willows as a present on my seventh birthday. My mother probably read it to me at least fifty times in the next few years. A cousin suggested it as a gift for me. One of her teachers fi nished out class time reading aloud from her favorite books, of which The Wind in the Willows was one. I later learned that my cousins teacher continued to read it every other year for the rest of her life. Her devotion to it and the comment of an adult fictional character on TV that The Wind in the Willows was her favorite book convinced me that it isnt just for children and that I could go back to it. I now read it once a year.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466974567

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Love Eternal

By: Shirley Marie Jacobson

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Love Eternal

By: Shirley Marie Jacobson

Residing in Brooksville, Florida with her husband and their adopted cat Patches. Shirley Marie, besides her writings, delves in colored pen and ink, pencils, and markers. She is entirely devoted to her writings and passes that time in solitude in her works, writing away in the quietness of night time, in her secluded room. Following is a background relevance of the writings, not from my hand, but in truth, flowing from the love of God, and, from his love, unto mine, it is with love it is given to you in return. Use it well with his heavenly blessings. One has to ¿Accent the positive, and, eliminate the negative,¿ as the song goes, and, I may add, to bring harmony into ones¿ life. One will find, the messages hidden in the concept of these precious and treasured writings, that reach out to the heart and soul, enlightening its spiritual journey here, in his love, light, and majestic sound, eliminating the source of ones negativity, bringing in a steady influx of goodness and wellness to the mind and body, and the quality of life itself. So, it was in all truths, the he intervened, on my behalf when calling out his name to him, that he set my heart and soul free from the battlefield with-in, awakening and renewing the spirit of my very heart and soul with the outpouring of his unconditional love for me. Whatever your circumstances are, may all wellness and goodness reach out to you in the writings and the messages in between. With deep reverence and love, the writings are dedicated to God in all his words, works, and deeds, and his enlightenment upon my soul. Therefore, in all fruitfulness, I surrender them unto you in your journey here in all blessings of wellness and all goodness enveloping your heart and soul unto its contents and the message they truly give. God speed and welcome home.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480900184

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Reflections and Musings From the Book of Revelation

The Age of Apocalypse

By: Shirley McClerklin-Motley PhD

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Reflections and Musings From the Book of Revelation

The Age of Apocalypse

By: Shirley McClerklin-Motley PhD

John had been left out on Patmos to die alone. The courts assumed that there was nothing he could do there to promote Jesus. But they miscalculated. God chose John to write the book of Revelation, which some refer to as Apocalypse. That word means the revelation of what will take place in the Incarnation hidden in a humble form. It means to uncover. If you are frying fish, everyone around is aware of the distinctively rich aroma. The person cooking the fish does not have to be seen and the fish does not have to be seen, but the person smelling the aroma instinctively wants to take a closer look at the fish. This is an example of the Apocalypse. What we surmised is revealed. Satan hates the book of Revelation because it shows him for who and what he is. He is counting on us to be afraid of the book because it foretells his end. Join the author as she takes a detailed look at the book that describes the years leading to the end of the world.

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WestBow Press

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Day After Day

By: Shirley A. Ainsworth

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Day After Day

By: Shirley A. Ainsworth

Day after Day is summarized by real-life situations that are happening in our world today. It also includes various poems of my personal feelings of things that mean a lot to me. This book consists of a collections of poems written to inspire others through my individual experiences.

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1466917725

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All the Colors of Life

From the History and Mystery of Color! and Secrets of the Spectrum

By: Shirley J. Wenrich

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All the Colors of Life

From the History and Mystery of Color! and Secrets of the Spectrum

By: Shirley J. Wenrich

There have been many qualities obtained over the years, including work and positions of leadership in several nonprofit organizations. Also a deep interest in color and design, ranging from the ownership in two art shops that bridged the gap between art gallery and a craft shop, with quality and variety. This led to set design for a local theater and interior design that I love. However, the greatest achievement, besides raising four children, was my participation in the Harmonic Convergence. This took place in 1987, and the best place to be was the only sacred site east of the Mississippi at the Serpent Mounds in Ohio. Since I needed an active part, I was The Hug Lady and met people from all over the world. Whatever we did, it helped, because the Berlin Wall came down within three years, and it was the beginning of the end of Communism. I enjoy anything I can do to help others.

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1452564183

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9781452564180

December 1941

31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World

By: Craig Shirley

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December 1941

31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World

By: Craig Shirley

In the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was largely focused on the war in Europe, but when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial targets in Hawaii, everything changed in an instant. December 1941 takes you into the moment-by-moment ordeal of a nation waking to war. In December 1941, bestselling author Craig Shirley celebrates the American spirit while reconstructing the events that called it to shine with rare and piercing light. Shirley puts readers on the ground and the thick of the action. Relying on daily news reports from around the country and recently declassified government papers, Shirley sheds light on the crucial diplomatic exchanges leading up to the attack, the policies on the internment of Japanese people living in the U.S. after the assault, and the near-total overhaul of the U.S. economy to prepare for war. Shirley paints a compelling portrait of pre-war American culture--from the fashion and the celebrities to common pastimes. His portrait of America at war is just as vivid, highlighting: The surge in heroism, self-sacrifice, mass military enlistments, and national unity The prodigious talents of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley Troubling price-controls and rationing, federal economic takeover, and censorship Featuring colorful personalities including Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and General Douglas MacArthur, December 1941 highlights a period of profound change in American government, foreign and domestic policy, law, economics, and business, chronicling the developments day by day through that singular and momentous month. December 1941 features surprising revelations, amusing anecdotes, and heart-wrenching stories, and also explores the unique religious and spiritual dimension of a culture under assault on the eve of Christmas. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the closest thing to war for the Americans was uncoordinated, mediocre war games in South Carolina. Less than thirty days later, by the end of December 1941, the nation was involved in a battle for the preservation of its very way of life--a battle that would forever change the nation and the world.

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Thomas Nelson

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1595554580

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Israel and the Palestinian Territories

The Rough Guide

By: Daniel Jacobs,Shirley Eber,Francesca Silvani

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Israel and the Palestinian Territories

The Rough Guide

By: Daniel Jacobs,Shirley Eber,Francesca Silvani

This is the most complete and topical guide to the region, with detailed accounts of all the historic monuments and the Jewish, Islamic and Christian holy sites.

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1858282489

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Here's Holland

Simply the Best All-in-One Guide to Travel and Life in Holland

By: Sheila Gazaleh-Weevers,Shirley J.S. Agudo,Connie Moser

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Here's Holland

Simply the Best All-in-One Guide to Travel and Life in Holland

By: Sheila Gazaleh-Weevers,Shirley J.S. Agudo,Connie Moser

A focus on both travel and life in Holland sets the guidebook apart from other publications. ?The guidebook includes travel destinations and first-hand tips for touring well known and less familiar sites - all the practical stuff including opening times, websites and directions on how to get there. And all the resources needed about life in Holland for short and long-term visits, making the guidebook the bible for expats. ?Chapters include a calendar of yearly events and entertainment; inside information about custom and culture; characteristic Dutch crafts and products; biking and shopping opportunities; eating out; sports venues; markets; living in Holland; special activities and resources for children.

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Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.

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9059721411

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9789059721418

Gurdjieff

An Introduction to His Life and Ideas

By: John Shirley

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Gurdjieff

An Introduction to His Life and Ideas

By: John Shirley

A dramatic and literate introduction to one of the twentieth century's most influential and intriguing spiritual teachers. Born in the shifting border between Turkey and Russia in 1866, G. I. Gurdjieff is a man who would continually straddle borders-between East and West, between man and something higher than man, between the ancient teachings of esoteric schools and the modern application of those ideas in contemporary life. In many respects-from the concept of group meetings to the mysterious workings of the enneagram to his critique of humanity as existing in a state of sleep-Gurdjieff pioneered the culture of spiritual search that has taken root in the West today. While many of Gurdjieff's students-including Frank Lloyd Wright, Katharine Mansfield, and P. D. Ouspensky-are well known, few understand this figure possessed of complex writings and sometimes confounding methods. In Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas, the acclaimed novelist John Shirley-one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre-presents a lively, reliable explanation of how to approach the sage and his ideas. In accessible, dramatic prose Shirley retells that which we know of Gurdjieff's life; he surveys the teacher's methods and the lives of his key students; and he helps readers to enter the unparalleled originality of this remarkable teacher.

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1585422878

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9781585422876

Jesus

The Same Yesterday, Today & Forever

By: Shirley Hall

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Jesus

The Same Yesterday, Today & Forever

By: Shirley Hall

This book tells about Jesus as being the same yesterday, today and for ever. It is about how He never changes. He communicates and teaches in the same manner today as He did when He was on earth. He still performs miracles today, just as He did over two thousand years ago. The only difference is that He does all things by His Spirit. The book also encourages the born again believer to represent Him as He truly is in today's world.

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1452011540

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Six Decades Back

By: Charles Shirley Walgamott

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Six Decades Back

By: Charles Shirley Walgamott

Charles Shirley Walgamott arrived by stage at Rock Creek Station, Idaho Territory, on August 8, 1875. In an untamed land, far from his native Iowa, he survived illness, hardship, and lawlessness with his humor intact. Never a stranger to work, Walgamott mined, trapped, ranched, and hunted. While living with settlers, Indians, and outlaws alike, he amassed a trove of unforgettable experiences. First published in 1936, this one-volume book represents a collection of his fascinating stories, which were published in the mid-1920s. “A glowing, colorful, and interesting section of the true frontier....stories exceptionally well done, for every one of them has pith and point and is effectively told.”—The New York Times

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787201953

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9781787201958

Toxics A to Z

A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards

By: John Harte,Cheryl Holdren,Richard Schneider,Christine Shirley

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Toxics A to Z

A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards

By: John Harte,Cheryl Holdren,Richard Schneider,Christine Shirley

Toxics A to Z features and alphabetical listing of over 100 toxics, identifying . . . What they are How they are measured Where they are found The symptoms of exposure What their known risks are How we can lessen or avoid those risks An easy-to-use Cross-Reference Guide to help readers identify toxics in 18 major groups, including indoor and outdoor air pollutants, household items, and lawn and garden products A glossary of terms, explanation of abbreviations, and listing of sources for further help and information

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Univ of California Press

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052091077X

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9780520910775

Gardening For Dummies

By: Shirley Stackhouse,Jennifer Stackhouse

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Gardening For Dummies

By: Shirley Stackhouse,Jennifer Stackhouse

Brimming with advice, resources and suggested planting choices, this friendly guide shows you step by step how to create the garden of your dreams. From basic cultivation to garden design, this book is just what you need to start playing in the dirt ? even if you?ve never picked up a garden trowel in your life.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118560116

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9781118560112

The Guardians of Everlyn

By: Shirley C. James

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The Guardians of Everlyn

By: Shirley C. James

300 years without the guardian Angel Fields the town of Everlyn has fallen into ruins at the hands of those who betrayed her. Now the curse has been broken. And Fields finds herself face to face with Ambrose Deity. Is he her enemy or her savior? With the Guardians finally reunited it s now time to fight their biggest battle that they didn't even know was coming. Will Fields, Firebird, Blueflame, Mayleaf, and Fairytiea be able to defeat their greatest enemy of all time? Or is it already too late? Join them as they fight against the evil god.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493158384

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9781493158386

Selected Stories

By: Shirley Ann Grau

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Selected Stories

By: Shirley Ann Grau

This magnificent summation of the short stories of Shirley Ann Grau, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Keepers of the House, gathers together eighteen gems ranking with the finest of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. Grau possesses a range representing a master course in the craft of this most demanding art form. Her reader's banquet offers character sketches of Chekovian poignance and insight, a hilarious love story, excursions into the gothic and hauntingly apocalyptic, the elegiac and experimental, and stories that feel like compressed novels in their lapidary polish, depth, and emotional weight. Grau belongs in the company of the great southern short story writers, and the author's own choices of her best work remind readers of the unmatched capacity of the brief fictional form to depict character epiphany and such timeless themes as redemption and rebirth, the struggle between power and love, and the persistence of the past.

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LSU Press

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0807132012

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9780807132012

10 Bite-Sized Oil Painting Projects: Book 2

Practice Glazing, Pointillism and More via Fruit, Landscapes, Water Scenes and Glass

By: Rachel Shirley

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10 Bite-Sized Oil Painting Projects: Book 2

Practice Glazing, Pointillism and More via Fruit, Landscapes, Water Scenes and Glass

By: Rachel Shirley

This second book in the series lists further 10 oil painting demonstrations with step by step images and instructions to get the paint brush moving. The projects include landscapes, sky scenes, water scenes, fruit and glass. Includes a guide to the art materials and glossary. With 260 images.

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1544249942

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Hers the Kingdom

By: Shirley Streshinsky

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Hers the Kingdom

By: Shirley Streshinsky

When beautiful young Willa Reade first saw the wild California coast called the Malibu, she knew she had come home. It was here, with her handsome aristocratic husband, Owen, and her crippled sister Lena, that Willa would build her empire, an empire that would grow to shelter the generations of a mighty California dynasty. Through the boom days of the railroads, from the dance halls of San Francisco, to the revolutionary fires of China, through the bitter losses of war and the terrible secrets of a forbidden love, Willa would fight. For pride, for passion, for her children and her men . . . for the vast cherished acres of the Malibu, her kingdom, her home, her destiny.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1620455153

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9781620455159

Magic Moon: Bears Ears (Vol. 4)

By: Shirley Moulton

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Magic Moon: Bears Ears (Vol. 4)

By: Shirley Moulton

Magic Moon is a cool, quirky, gigantic, somewhat terrifying, alien “moon-like” being who likes puns and jokes when he’s not giving great advice. Join Magic Moon and his friends from two worlds as they continue to deal with bullies, help save an endangered species, support Bears Ears National Monument, and experience a rare solar eclipse! "...could get kids thinking about ways to safeguard the environment." -- Kirkus Reviews... Winner/Honorable Mention – The Purple Butterfly Book Awards (2018), Story Monsters, LLC. Green Books/Environmental.

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My Early Life as a Fledgling Mystic

By: Shirley Kingsley

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My Early Life as a Fledgling Mystic

By: Shirley Kingsley

In a quiet backwater of South Wales during the Second World War an evacuee, a lively and adventurous boy, arrived into the author's timid and mundane life, bringing into it a sense of magic, of freshness and excitement. His was the stimulus which encouraged Shirley to step beyond the bounds of normal perception into a world of raised awareness and enhanced abilities, and which would prepare her for more in-depth, more challenging experiences later in her life. This is the story of those early important years.

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Lulu.com

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1470983397

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The Dream Weavers

A Novel of Early Archaic North America

By: Shirley G. East

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The Dream Weavers

A Novel of Early Archaic North America

By: Shirley G. East

Wind Walker has dreamed for seasons of a better place for his starving tribe. Once proud Bison Hunters, they must find another way to live in order to survive. Driven north by drought, they search for a place they can claim as their own. A place where the woodland tribes will not try to enslave or kill them. They reach the shores of Lake Superior, where tales of monsters and evil spirits keep their enemies from settling the apparently barren and cold land. They are the First Americans to claim this new land. The Dream Weavers portrays the life and death struggle of these First Americans while weaving in an abundance of adventure and romance. The novel takes you on a journey of discovery where Wind Walker’s people learn not only to survive but thrive. By canoe they travel along the edge of Lake Superior, where they are the first to discover copper in the Great Lakes Region. They experience the very edge of the continental glaciers north of Isle Royal where they see the last of the Wooly Mammoths grazing on the tundra. The story is set at the beginning of the Archaic period, more than 8000 years ago, before copper was first discovered in the Great Lakes region. The dependence on large animals is all but gone and the use of plants is becoming more important. In this new land they discover an abundance of food, friendly spirits to guide and protect them and most of all copper, the wonderful metal that led to the later development of the Wisconsin Copper Culture. The People struggle to understand the secrets held stubbornly in the raw metal. Only Wind Walker seems able to make the valuable copper tools that give them an advantage over their enemies, an advantage which they must work hard to keep secret.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669810445

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9781669810445

Symbolism of the Eastern Star

By: Shirley Plessner

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Symbolism of the Eastern Star

By: Shirley Plessner

This book by Shirley Plessner, which was first published in 1956, was compiled in response to numerous requests for informative material about the symbols, terms, and stories of the Order of Eastern Star. The Order of the Eastern Star is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason, but was only adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 1873. The order is based on teachings from the Bible, but is open to people of all religious beliefs. It has approximately 10,000 chapters in twenty countries and approximately 500,000 members under its General Grand Chapter. “This book contains a complete discussion of the whole biblical account from which the teachings of the Order of Eastern Star are derived. Like all such interpretations, no effort is made to establish it as the one and only interpretation. Each discussion is a collection of ideas which are designed to assist the reader in forming his own conclusions concerning each selection. This book also contains the Bible passages from which our symbols, emblems, terms and stories have been taken. All of the information in this book has been alphabetically arranged to make this information readily accessible. “Use this book to find the answers to your questions about the symbols, emblems, terms, and legends associated with the work of our Order.”

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789126991

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9781789126990

RV Vacations For Dummies

By: Shirley Slater,Harry Basch

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RV Vacations For Dummies

By: Shirley Slater,Harry Basch

From New England to the Oregon Coast, from Texas to the Tetons, America is full of fascinating and friendly places — and your RV is a great way to get to any one of them. This fun, friendly guide shows you how to get the most out of your RV vacations with fun itineraries and handy tips on: Choose the right route and the right season for travel Picking the RV that will get you where you want to go on a budget you can afford Eating and sleeping comfortably on the road Tying up the loose ends before you leave Planning ahead to take care of special travel needs Tips on fun museums and special getaways for snowbirds Like every For Dummies travel guide, RV Vacations For Dummies, 3rd Edition includes: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skip The best restaurants and hotels for every budget Lots of detailed maps

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470049960

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9780470049969

Darkness Divided

By: John Shirley

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Darkness Divided

By: John Shirley

Darkness can be divided. It can be split like an atom, and in it can be found a destructive fire or light. Light, too, can be folded into darkness. The stories brought to light in John Shirley's stunning DARKNESS DIVIDED -- most of them never before collected, some written especially for this book--are presented in two sections: one featuring stories set in the present, or the past, the other set in myriad futures. These dark tales of new noir, science fiction, fantasy, and crime, demonstrate humankind's evolution from where we were and where we are, to where we have yet to be. Shadows are a current a continuity streaming from "Til Now" into "And Soon." John Shirley incisively explores human nature and the pitch-black streak within the soul that each of us fears. The twenty-two excursions collected here divide the darkness with scalpel-like precision, daring you to peek inside. In these divided shadows, in the shift of diffuse light and occlusion, things move--things that aren't there. There you will find your own id, the dark side of your own imagination. Read these words, and be forever changed by what you find.

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1627933336

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Learning and Awareness

By: Ference Marton,Shirley A. Booth

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Learning and Awareness

By: Ference Marton,Shirley A. Booth

This book stems from more than 25 years of systematic research into the experience of learning undertaken by a research team trying to account for the obvious differences between more or less successful instances of learning in educational institutions. The book offers an answer in terms of the discovery of critical differences in the structure of the learner's awareness and critical differences in the meaning of the learner's world. The authors offer a detailed account of the empirical findings that give rise to theoretical insights, and discuss the particular form of qualitative research that has been employed and developed. The form of learning that is the object of study is considered to be the most fundamental form -- namely a change in the learner's way of seeing, experiencing, handling, and understanding aspects of the world. The need for rigorous analysis of learning of specific subject matter, the individual construction of knowledge, and its social and cultural embeddedness -- the defining features of rival approaches into research on learning -- are reconciled from the approach adopted here into an intertwined and whole experience of learning. The learner's experience is always one of learning something, in some way, and in some context; by holding the learner's experience of learning as the focus of study throughout -- and not studying the learning of the content and the acts and the context as separate and distinct focuses -- the content, the act, and the context remain united as constituents of the learner's experience. By empirically revealing critical differences in the ways of experiencing these aspects of learning, and by developing a theoretical framework for the dynamics through which change comes about in the learner's awareness, this book gradually leads the reader to a powerful new view of learning. Equipped with the analytical tools and conceptual apparatus to be found in this book, the reader will be empowered to learn and to assist others to learn by creating environments conducive to the most fundamental form of learning: experiencing aspects of the world in new ways.

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Psychology Press

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0805824545

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The Concept of the Messiah in the Scriptures of Judaism and Christianity

By: Shirley Lucass

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The Concept of the Messiah in the Scriptures of Judaism and Christianity

By: Shirley Lucass

In this title, Shirley Lucass examines the history of the concept of messiah in biblical, and post-biblical traditions. For 2000 years, Judaism and Christianity have been at odds with one another. The problem at the heart of the division is the concept of messiah. Shirley Lucass looks directly at the concept of messiah from an historical perspective and examines its roots in ancient Jewish literature, and its development within the Christian tradition, aiming not only to trace the biblical and extra-biblical developments of the concept, but to outline a platform for religious dialogue. Lucass begins with a survey of methodological approaches, and then moves on to consider the origins of the messiah concept in ancient near eastern kingship, the 'anointed' in the Second Temple period and the messiah as outlined in the New Testament and in post 70 CE Messianism. Lucass contends that the New Testament concept of messiah is not inconsistent with, nor incompatible with the Jewish antecedent traditions, and it is this conclusion which enables her to present a valuable chapter on the implications of this study for inter-religious dialogue.

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0567540936

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