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Wild Goose Chase

By: Terri Thayer

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A computer techie by trade, Dewey Pellicano would rather swallow needles than be pinned down to a life of quilting. But when her mother passes away, Dewey must exchange code for calico as the new proprietress of Quilter Paradiso. Between learning the business and dealing with a conniving employee who is also her sister-in-law, Dewey is ready to snap. During a national quilt show, quilting celebrity Claire Armstrong offers to buy the shop. But before Dewey can accept, she finds the famous quilter lying dead on the floor—a bloody rotary cutter at her side. When hunky homicide detective Buster Healy enters the scene, romance flourishes...until another murder takes place. Can Dewey thread together the pieces to this murderous pattern before the killer strikes again? Wild Goose Chase is the first book in the Quilting Mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Dewey Pellicano.

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0738717878

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9780738717876

Stamped Out

By: Terri Thayer

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Stamped Out

By: Terri Thayer

Back in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, with a failed marriage and sabotaged career in her wake, April Buchert is ready for a fresh start. Working alongside her father on the restoration of the town’s famous Winchester mansion seems like the perfect project—until their efforts reveal a murderous motif. A professional rubber stamper who creates intricate patterns on walls, April is thrilled to help revive her hometown's architectural gem. Then, during the demolition of an abandoned guesthouse behind the mansion, a human skull tumbles out of the rubble. All eyes are on April’s father, who oversaw the construction twenty years ago. As unexplained deaths pile up and a dangerously handsome carpenter becomes a pleasant distraction, can April chip away at the truth before another innocent victim is stamped out? Includes instructions for a stamping project!

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1440635315

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False Impressions

By: Terri Thayer

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False Impressions

By: Terri Thayer

Third in the Stamping Sisters mystery series. Professional rubber stamper April Buchert is shocked to discover that the brother of one of the Stamping Sisters faked his own death, only to really die in a tragic car accident-that was not an accident at all. Now this heated family drama could cause one cold winter if the killer isn't found.

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110118860X

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Ocean Waves

By: Terri Thayer

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Ocean Waves

By: Terri Thayer

Quilt shop owner Dewey Pellicano intends to mix business with pleasure at the Sewing-by-the-Sea Symposium in Asilomar, California. But her plan is ruined by Mercedes Madsen, the militant conference organizer who acts more like a dictator than a director. Now tangled up in a bundle of trouble, Dewey is facing a notorious "ghost," a mysterious missing woman, a stolen heirloom sewing box, and a mountain lion on the loose...and that's before she stumbles across the dead body. Armed only with blueprint fabric and her wits, Dewey must try to find a pattern in this crazy quilt of a murder mystery. Praise for Terri Thayer's Old Maid's Puzzle: "A near perfect cozy mystery."—Cozy Library "Extremely well written, the book not only kept me turning pages, but had me nodding delightedly at the dead-aim Terri takes on the contemporary quilting world."—A Charmed Life, the blog of Quilting Arts features editor, Cate Prato

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0738720313

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9780738720319

Inked Up

By: Terri Thayer

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Inked Up

By: Terri Thayer

Back in her hometown of Aldenville, Pennsylvania, April Buchert is creating a new life for herself as a professional rubber stamper and restoration expert. She’s also joined the Stamping Sisters, a group of craft-loving women who leave their mark on the world by stamping cards—and stamping out murder. The annual Pumpkin Express weekend is a fall tradition in Aldenville, and the haunted corn maze is one of the main attractions. Everyone has always made it out alive…until now. When April and her friend Mitch Winchester meander through the maze, the shortcut they take leads not to the exit, but to a lifeless body. Worse yet, it’s a woman they both know. Though local police are quick to blame the husband, April quickly assumes he isn’t capable of murder. Finding her voice, she and the Stamping Sisters jump into the fray, determined to find the killer before he catches another in his murderous motif. Includes instructions for a stamping project!

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1101108886

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Stamped Out

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Stamped Out

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Ocean Waves

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Wild Goose Chase

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Inked Up

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False Impressions

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Monkey Wrench

By: Terri Thayer

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Monkey Wrench

By: Terri Thayer

Dewey Pellicano's quilt shop has earned a spot in the annual Quilter's Crawl, and twenty-something employee Vangie has organized a trendy Twitter promotion to boost sales at the struggling store. But when Vangie's boyfriend dies from an overdose, it's up to Dewey to get her young staffer off the hook for homicide. Meanwhile, the store's quilting teacher Pearl takes in a college-age "GrandSon," who turns out to be a real pill. As if Dewey didn't have enough on her plate, she's blamed when a customer is killed during a Twitter-induced stampede. Putting together the pieces to save her skin—and her store— is a real monkey wrench in Dewey's murderously busy shop-hop weekend. Praise: "Thayer's pleasant fourth offers its curious heroine a touch of romance and several puzzles to solve, and adds quilting tips for the like-minded."—Kirkus Reviews "A smoothly written blend of cast, plot, and craft."—Booklist

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0738733180

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Watch Your Back

By: Terri Parlato

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Watch Your Back

By: Terri Parlato

Amid the depths of a bleak Boston winter, a recently married couple find their lives and their relationship unraveling after a series of deadly accidents, in this brilliantly twisting domestic thriller perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham, Greer Hendricks, and Megan Miranda. Accidents happen, no matter how careful or well-intentioned you are. Psychiatrist Eve Thayer frequently reassures her patients of that fact. There are even times when accidents have good consequences—like when Eve met her now-husband, Nathan, at his collision shop after another car ran her off the road. After a whirlwind courtship, Nathan and Eve have settled into domestic life. They have a lovely home on a quiet street, a beautiful baby girl, and even the perfect babysitter to care for her. And yet, something isn’t quite right. The stress in Eva’s life is mounting, both professionally and personally. Though the clinic where she works has been remodeled since its notorious days as an institution for the criminally insane, she feels increasingly uneasy there. And in her own neighborhood, a break-in at a nearby empty house hasn't helped, either. Detective Rita Myers hasn’t yet figured out whether Eve is a target or a suspect, but every disturbing discovery in this usually peaceful neighborhood seems to revolve around her. Only as a deadly ice storm crashes through does it become clear just how far from perfect Eve and Nathan’s lives really are. And as the cracks in the surface come to light, so do the sinister secrets that lie beneath . . .

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Kensington Books

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1496738640

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Monkey Wrench

By: Terri Thayer

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Monkey Wrench

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Old Maid's Puzzle

By: Terri Thayer

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Old Maid's Puzzle

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Thirty-year-old techie Dewey Pellicano is trying to make a go of Quilter Paradiso, the quilt shop she inherited from her mother. But she's facing a patchwork of problems—fierce competition, an uncooperative employee (who also happens to be Dewey's sister-in-law) and, oh yes, a dead body in the alley. Dewey pins her hopes on the store's huge 20th anniversary sale and appearance on national television. With the help of her smolderingly hot detective boyfriend Buster Healy, can Dewey save her shop and find the killer? Praise for Terri Thayer's Wild Goose Chase "Cutting-edge drama deftly sliced to reveal the sass beneath the surface of the quilting business." —Margaret Miller, author of AnglePlay Blocks "Put down your piecework, brew yourself a cup o'Joe, fill up a snack bowl, and laze around the yard this spring with this amusing quilt-themed mystery."—Mark Lipinski's Quilter's Home Magazine

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0738720321

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Eyewitness to Titanic

From Building the Great Ship to the Search for Its Watery Grave

By: Terri Lynn Dougherty

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Eyewitness to Titanic

From Building the Great Ship to the Search for Its Watery Grave

By: Terri Lynn Dougherty

View the story of the doomed ship Titanic through the eyes of those who knew it best. Builders, crew members, passengers, and explorers who discovered the wreck each have their own perspectives. Feel the pride of builders as they put the final touches on the grand staircase and the deep sadness of survivors who left loved ones behind. It's the story of the Titanic like you've never heard it before.

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1623704529

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Marie Mason Potts

The Lettered Life of a California Indian Activist

By: Terri A. Castaneda

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Marie Mason Potts

The Lettered Life of a California Indian Activist

By: Terri A. Castaneda

Born in the northern region of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Marie Mason Potts (1895–1978), a Mountain Maidu woman, became one of the most influential California Indian activists of her generation. In this illuminating book, Terri A. Castaneda explores Potts’s rich life story, from her formative years in off-reservation boarding schools, through marriage and motherhood, and into national spheres of Native American politics and cultural revitalization. During the early twentieth century, federal Indian policy imposed narrow restrictions on the dreams and aspirations of young Native girls. Castaneda demonstrates how Marie initially accepted these limitations and how, with determined resolve, she broke free of them. As a young student at Greenville Indian Industrial school, Marie navigated conditions that were perilous, even deadly, for many of her peers. Yet she excelled academically, and her adventurous spirit and intellectual ambition led her to transfer to Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School. After graduating in 1915, Marie Potts returned home, married a former schoolmate, and worked as a domestic laborer. Racism and socioeconomic inequality were inescapable, and Castaneda chronicles Potts’s growing political consciousness within the urban milieu of Sacramento. Against this backdrop, the author analyzes Potts’s significant work for the Federated Indians of California (FIC) and her thirty-year tenure as editor and publisher of the Smoke Signal newspaper. Potts’s voluminous correspondence documents her steadfast conviction that California Indians deserved just compensation for their stolen ancestral lands, a decent standard of living, the right to practice their traditions, and political agency in their own affairs. Drawing extensively from this trove of writings, Castaneda privileges Potts’s own voice in the telling of her story and offers a valuable history of California Indians in the twentieth century.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806168315

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9780806168319

From the Loess Hills of Iowa with the Descendants of Dennis Conyers

By: Terri Napoli,Arden Iva Sleadd

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From the Loess Hills of Iowa with the Descendants of Dennis Conyers

By: Terri Napoli,Arden Iva Sleadd

Iva Agnes conyers grew up in Iowa in the 1890's. Orphaned at age eight, she suffered ill treatment and loneliness. Through hard work, grit and determination, she overcame her circumstances and became a teacher. In later life, she wrote her memoirs, which have been revised and expanded by her grandaughter, Arden Iva Sleadd. The book relates the events of Iva's early life; the death of her mother; living with her Mormon grandparents; the remarriage of her father; their move by covered wagon to Kansas and Idaho; the death of her father; and the heartbreak that followed. Includes brief memoirs by Iva's children and others who knew her, along with her personal photos. Part Two of the book contains the Conyers family history, compiled by Terri Napoli. It contains over 3400 names of descendants, reflecting ten years of research, and includes the accounts of two other Conyers pioneers: Enoch Ward Conyers and John Hiram Conyers. Other surnames included are Hanscom, Hansen, Ballentyne, Hornback, Mitts, Mayfield, Vredenburgh, Horseman and many others.

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Trafford Publishing

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1553696492

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Scrappy

A Little Book about Choosing to Play Big

By: Terri L. Sjodin

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Scrappy

A Little Book about Choosing to Play Big

By: Terri L. Sjodin

For those times when hard work and persistence just aren't enough, Terri Sjodin offers an inspiring guide to getting scrappy and beating the odds. Terri Sjodin loves scrappy people -- those who beat the odds with a blend of cleverness and fighting spirit. People who see big problems and come up with big solutions. People like the clever Girl Scout who sold 117 boxes of cookies in two hours outside a medical marijuana dispensary, or the entrepreneur who turned his home into an indoor jungle to sell investors on the Rainforest Cafe Restaurant chain. It can seem like these successes are just one-off acts of ingenuity or isolated flashes of brilliance. But today it takes more than just creativity, more than just persistence, more than just a dream to reach big goals -- it takes a mindset and a strategy. Sjodin explains the common elements behind every successful scrappy effort.

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1591848350

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What Waits in the Woods

A Chilling Novel of Suspense with a Shocking Twist

By: Terri Parlato

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What Waits in the Woods

A Chilling Novel of Suspense with a Shocking Twist

By: Terri Parlato

Her ballet career derailed by injury, a once-promising young dancer returns to her hometown only to face a grisly discovery – and the increasingly alarming realization that nothing from her past is quite what she believed. Now in paperback, this electrifyingly twisty suburban thriller is perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham, Greer Hendricks, and Megan Miranda. “A moody, atmospheric thriller perfectly crafted.” —Charlie Donlea, USA Today bestselling author of Twenty Years Later on All the Dark Places When Esmé Foster left the Boston suburbs to become a professional ballerina, the future shimmered with promise. Eleven years later, her career has been derailed by an injury, and Esme knows it’s time to come back to Graybridge to help her brother care for their ailing father. But her return coincides with an unthinkable crime. Kara Cunningham, one of Esme’s high school friends, is found dead in the woods behind the Fosters’ house. Esmé is grief-stricken, but also uneasy. In her dreams, she still sees the man who showed up at the scene of the car accident that killed her mother—and told Esmé he was going to kill her too. Everyone insisted he was a product of Esmé’s imagination, that she was concussed after the crash. But she and Kara looked strikingly similar. Could Kara’s murder have been a case of mistaken identity? Detective Rita Myers knows close-knit communities like Graybridge, where, beneath the friendliness, there are whispers and secrets. The town has seen other tragedies in the woods too, including the long-ago drowning of a young girl in a pond. Even within Esmé and Kara’s once-close circle of friends, Rita discerns a ripple of mistrust. Day by day, Esmé discovers more about the place she left behind—and the people she thought she knew. Soon, shining a light into the darkness to learn what really happened the night Kara died is the only way she can bring the nightmare to an end . . .

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Kensington Publishing Corp

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1496738608

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In Defense of a Political Court

By: Terri Jennings Peretti

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In Defense of a Political Court

By: Terri Jennings Peretti

Can the Supreme Court be free of politics? Do we want it to be? Normative constitutional theory has long concerned itself with the legitimate scope and limits of judicial review. Too often, theorists seek to resolve that issue by eliminating politics from constitutional decisionmaking. In contrast, Terri Peretti argues for an openly political role for the Supreme Court. Peretti asserts that politically motivated constitutional decisionmaking is not only inevitable, it is legitimate and desirable as well. When Supreme Court justices decide in accordance with their ideological values, or consider the likely political reaction to the Court's decisions, a number of benefits result. The Court's performance of political representation and consensus-building functions is enhanced, and the effectiveness of political checks on the Court is increased. Thus, political motive in constitutional decision making does not lead to judicial tyranny, as many claim, but goes far to prevent it. Using pluralist theory, Peretti further argues that a political Court possesses instrumental value in American democracy. As one of many diverse and redundant political institutions, the Court enhances both system stability and the quality of policymaking, particularly regarding the breadth of interests represented.

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Princeton University Press

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1400823358

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Old Maid's Puzzle

By: Terri Thayer

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Enhancing Capacity to Address Mental Health Needs of Veterans and Their Families

The Welcome Back Veterans Initiative

By: Terri L. Tanielian,Laurie T. Martin,Caroline Epley,RAND Health,Rand Corporation,Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation

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Enhancing Capacity to Address Mental Health Needs of Veterans and Their Families

The Welcome Back Veterans Initiative

By: Terri L. Tanielian,Laurie T. Martin,Caroline Epley,RAND Health,Rand Corporation,Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation

In the context of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade, there have been a growing number of efforts designed to support service members, veterans, and their families as they cope with deployment and ensure that those who experience mental health problems following their service have access to high-quality care for themselves and their families. Among these is the Welcome Back Veterans (WBV) Initiative, launched in 2008 by Major League Baseball and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. During 2011-2013, the WBV Initiative issued grants to academic medical institutions around the nation to create and implement programs and services designed to address the mental health needs of returning veterans and their families. In 2010, the McCormick Foundation asked RAND to join the WBV Initiative in a performance monitoring role. RAND designed a system of regular data reporting to assess performance and impact of the WBV-funded activities at each site. This report provides an overview of the WBV Initiative, summarizes the impact of WBV-funded programs during their funding cycle between February 2011 and June 2013, and outlines the lessons learned in implementing veteran support programs. It also discusses the role of partnerships and innovative strategies for outreach.

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