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Thieves I've Known

Stories

By: Tom Kealey

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In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up. Their names are Merrill, Omar, Shelby, Laika, Winston, and Toomey, but most people don't see them. They are boxers in training and the children of fishermen. They are altar boys in a poverty-stricken parish. They are assistant groundskeepers and assistant camel-keepers. They travel with the circus, care for disabled siblings, steal police cars, and retrieve the stolen boots of a priest. Ranging in abode from Puget Sound, Washington, to Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, they are abandoned yet courageous and plucky children and teenagers living on the edges of society. Thieves I've Known is a collection of powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and peculiar cast of young characters who become easy to know and difficult to forget.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820346365

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9780820346366

The Creative Writing MFA Handbook

A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students

By: Tom Kealey

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The Creative Writing MFA Handbook

A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students

By: Tom Kealey

Guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. This handbook includes special sections about Low-Residency writing programs, PhD programs, publishing in literary journals, and workshop and teaching advice.

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A&C Black

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0826418430

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9780826418432

Thieves I've Known

By: Tom Kealey

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University of Georgia Press

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0820345377

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When the State Trembled

How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike

By: Reinhold Kramer,Tom Mitchell

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When the State Trembled

How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike

By: Reinhold Kramer,Tom Mitchell

When the State Trembled recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442611162

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9781442611160

Walk Towards the Gallows

The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899

By: Tom Mitchell,Reinhold Kramer

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Walk Towards the Gallows

The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899

By: Tom Mitchell,Reinhold Kramer

On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime. Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life. This remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield. As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442692146

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9781442692145

The House

The most utterly gripping, must-read political thriller of the twenty-first century

By: Tom Watson,Imogen Robertson

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The House

The most utterly gripping, must-read political thriller of the twenty-first century

By: Tom Watson,Imogen Robertson

A prescient page-turner about secrets, lies, ruthless ambition and betrayal' SARAH VAUGHAN 'A rare view from the inside of the Machiavellian machinations for power . . . Fascinating' HARRIET TYCE __________ In their remarkable debut political thriller, Tom Watson, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, and Imogen Robertson open the doors to The House, a place of ambition, hope, friendship . . . and betrayal. Once allies, Labour MP Owen McKenna and Conservative Minister Philip Bickford now face each other across the House of Commons as bitter enemies. Then the reappearance of a figure from their past forces them to confront the choices that led to the tragic downfall of their former housemate, Jay. Late one night, Owen receives a visit from a lobbyist who promises to protect him from the consequences of his actions in exchange for one, small favour - or to have his reputation and career utterly destroyed if he refuses. But that favour will sell out everything Owen believes in. As rivals gather and whispers of wrongdoing fill the corridors of Westminster, it's clear that someone knows the truth about Jay's Icarus-like fall from grace. Now, the former friends must face one terrible truth... Someone is responsible, and a reckoning is overdue. __________ 'Politics red in tooth and claw. Watson and Robertson capture, with scalpel precision, the neurotic allure of the Westminster power game' LUKE JENNINGS 'Few people know more about what goes on behind the political scenes than Watson, and it is all unveiled here, in a snappy, twisty page-turner' HOLLY WATT

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384

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Sphere

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0751578789

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9780751578782

Net Force: Threat Point

By: Jerome Preisler,Steve Pieczenik,Tom Clancy

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Net Force: Threat Point

By: Jerome Preisler,Steve Pieczenik,Tom Clancy

THE UNITED STATES MAY SEEM SAFE FROM WITHIN BUT BEYOND ITS BORDERS, A NEW ENEMY RISES An American ship has vanished. The president has tasked the new cyber-intelligence agency, Net Force, with finding out what happened to the vessel. But their investigation reveals a plan that could trigger a world war. Their only option is to strike first. Through the streets of New York, a secret city in Crimea and the depths of the South China Sea, Net Force must race to discover who is behind the attack…before it's too late. “Jerome Preisler takes us deep into the dark side of the web.” —Jim DeFelice on Net Force: Attack Protocol “A tightly woven, expertly crafted story with a finger on the pulse of the overwhelmingly clear and present danger of cyberterrorism.” —Marc Cameron on Net Force: Dark Web

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Harlequin

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1488075751

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Prescription for a Healthy Nation

A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World

By: Tom Farley, M.D.,Deb Cohen

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Prescription for a Healthy Nation

A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World

By: Tom Farley, M.D.,Deb Cohen

America spends more than twice as much for health care as any other nation. So why are Americans among the sickest people in the industrialized world? Public health experts Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen show that the answer does not lie in our medical care system but rather in the world around us. As they explain, the leading killers of our time fall almost entirely into two categories: injuries and chronic diseases such as heart disease, lung and breast cancer, diabetes, and stroke. For all its inspiring, high-tech cures, modern medicine is just not very effective at combating these illnesses. Our health, as Farley and Cohen explain, depends much less on medicine than on how we lead our lives. And as their surprising and illuminating examples show, our behavior and our health are in fact shaped by our everyday world-from the design of our cities to the rules that govern our organizations. Obesity, for example, has emerged as a major health threat because our environment makes it difficult to be physically active and because prepared high-calorie foods-from chips and candy bars to fast food and "food on the go"-saturate our surroundings. Though we'd like to believe that we could stay slim through individual self-discipline, our everyday world overwhelms our resolve. In similar ways, the world around us influences whether we live our lives in ways that increase or decrease our chances of dying from killers as wide-ranging as cancer and car crashes. In the last part of the book, Farley and Cohen remind us of once-controversial changes to our physical environment that have saved tens of thousands of lives and outline many other ways in which we can change our daily environment so we can all live longer and healthier. Prescription for a Healthy Nation is at once an exposé of how various industries influence our health for the worse, a paradigm-shifting argument about health and disease, and a positive blueprint for how to create a healthier society.

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Beacon Press

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0807097241

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9780807097243

The Knowledge Web

Learning and Collaborating on the Net

By: Eisenstadt, Marc,Vincent, Tom

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The Knowledge Web

Learning and Collaborating on the Net

By: Eisenstadt, Marc,Vincent, Tom

Featuring contributions from staff and associates of the Knowledge Media Institute at the UK Open University, this text provides a glimpse into the wide variety of projects undertaken in the development and assessment of distance learning technologies.

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Routledge

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1136357726

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9781136357725

A Perfect Souvenir

Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

By: Ethan Laughman

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A Perfect Souvenir

Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

By: Ethan Laughman

Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on childhood—and for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and more. Travel can whisk us away to craggy mountainsides and sunny coastlines or bustling cities and mysterious jungles. Travel can excite and rejuvenate or intimidate and overwhelm. These sixteen stories reflect upon our immense, intriguing world and our explorations of it, whether you choose to follow the beaten path or abandon it.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820358436

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9780820358437

Growing Up

Stories about Adolescence from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

By: Ethan Laughman

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Growing Up

Stories about Adolescence from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

By: Ethan Laughman

Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence. With maturity comes the shift from infinite possibilities to imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the forces that pushed us toward adulthood and away from the familiar ground of youth that must be left behind if we are to learn how to soar on our own.

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082035872X

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Thieves I've Known

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The Creative Writing MFA Handbook

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Thieves I've Known

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When the State Trembled

When the State Trembled

Walk Towards the Gallows

Walk Towards the Gallows

The House

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Net Force: Threat Point

Net Force: Threat Point

Prescription for a Healthy Nation

Prescription for a Healthy Nation

The Knowledge Web

The Knowledge Web

A Perfect Souvenir

A Perfect Souvenir

Growing Up

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