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Film Editing

The Art of the Expressive

By: Valerie Orpen

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Film Editing

The Art of the Expressive

By: Valerie Orpen

Film Editing provides an introduction to the craft of editing in the non-silent film. In clear and accessible language, Valerie Orpen considers editing as an expressive strategy rather than a mere technique. She reveals that editing can be approached and studied in a similar way to other aspects of film. Traditionally, studies on editing or montage tend to focus on silent cinema, yet this book claims that an examination of editing should also consider the role of the soundtrack. The aim of Film Editing is to examine the way in which editing can make meaning. The book addresses editing as part of a wider context and as a crucial element of the overarching design and vision of a film. Consequently, this book incorporates other parameters, such as mise-en-scène, framing, sound, genre, history, and performance. By examining a number of mainstream and art films, such as Godard's A bout de souffle, Hitchcock's Rear Window, and Scorsese's Raging Bull, Film Editing seeks to dispel the notion that editing is necessarily polarized as continuity versus discontinuity.

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Columbia University Press

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0231851367

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9780231851367

The SAGE Handbook of Nonverbal Communication

By: Valerie Manusov,Miles L. Patterson

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The SAGE Handbook of Nonverbal Communication

By: Valerie Manusov,Miles L. Patterson

This Handbook provides an up-to-date discussion of the central issues in nonverbal communication and examines the research that informs these issues. Editors Valerie Manusov and Miles Patterson bring together preeminent scholars, from a range of disciplines, to reveal the strength of nonverbal behavior as an integral part of communication.

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SAGE Publications

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1452261628

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9781452261621

The Faithful Lovers

By: Valerie Anand,Fiona Buckley

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The Faithful Lovers

By: Valerie Anand,Fiona Buckley

I want a quiet life from now on. And I don't want to fall in love…. I think I shall do better to stay away from affairs of the heart. One can be so hurt. I don't want to go through that again. Ninian Whitmead, almost forty years old, has already loved deeply, then lost once in his life. He has resigned himself to life alone on his seaside Cornish estate, Polmawgan House, without wife or family. But he is not prepared for the shipwreck of a Courteen pirate ship off the coast of Cornwall that leaves Parvati, a young Indian girl, stranded in a foreign land as its only survivor. At first out of charity, then out of growing affection, Ninian takes the lost girl into his home, and when his attachment deepens to love, he marries her and they have a son. Though Parvati adopts a Christian name and is baptized into the Anglican church, their solemn Puritan community finds her foreign blood and unfamiliar customs unacceptable. As the stirrings of Civil War in England increase, tragedy seems imminent. Anand's fourth radiant installment in The Bridge Over Time series follows the Whitmead family through the political and religious tumult of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. The Faithful Lovers “Valerie Anand has been building a remarkable body of work, a series of historical novels that have recreated England’s history both accurately and vividly.”—The Anniston Star

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Speaking Volumes

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1628154020

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9781628154023

A History of the African American Novel

By: Valerie Babb

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A History of the African American Novel

By: Valerie Babb

This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107061725

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Failure to Progress

The Contraction of the Midwifery Profession

By: Rosemary Mander,Valerie Fleming

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Failure to Progress

The Contraction of the Midwifery Profession

By: Rosemary Mander,Valerie Fleming

The book provides an up-to-date picture of contemporary midwifery in the UK. It analyses the profession's strengths and weaknesses and discusses current opportunities and threats to the midwife's role The statutory organisations that control midwifery are currently being overhauled and the issues raised in the book are relevant to that process All the contributors are actively involved in the provision of care to the childbearing woman and most are practising midwives The book considers the developmemt of midwifery in the UK and in the context of different forms of development in other countries, notably Germany and New Zealand.

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Routledge

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1136364811

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The Footmen's Club Books 1-3: The Footman and I, Duke Looks Like a Groomsman, The Valet Who Loved Me

By: Valerie Bowman

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The Footmen's Club Books 1-3: The Footman and I, Duke Looks Like a Groomsman, The Valet Who Loved Me

By: Valerie Bowman

In this delightful box set, an earl, a duke, and a marquess make a spontaneous bet that they can pass as servants at the most exclusive house party of the season… but they don’t count on finding love! Book One: The Footman and I Every fortune-hunting female in London is after the newly titled Earl of Kendall, but he’s intent on finding a wife whose heart is true. So, while drunkenly jesting with his friends in a pub one night, he has an idea—what if the ladies of the ton didn’t know he was a wealthy earl? All he has to do is pose as a servant at his friend’s summer country house party and make sure the guest list is full of beautiful, eligible debutantes. What could possibly go wrong? Book Two: Duke Looks Like a Groomsman Rhys Sheffield, the Duke of Worthington, has bet his friends an ungodly sum of money that despite his loftiness, he can pass himself off as a servant at the house party of the Season. But when his clever ex-flame arrives and recognizes Rhys in the stables pretending to be a groomsman, she realizes it’s the perfect opportunity to pay him back for breaking off their engagement. Book Three: The Valet Who Loved Me All of London knows Beau Bellham as the Marquess of Bellingham, but only a trusted few know he also works for the Home Office. His specialty? Scouting out traitors to the Crown. So, when one of his friends pretends to be a footman at a house party in order to find a wife, Beau decides posing as a valet at the same gathering will be the perfect cover for him to spy on the men he suspects of treason. What Beau doesn’t count on, however, is butting heads with a far-too-certain-of-herself maid who gives him hell at every turn.

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June Third Enterprises, LLC

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1960015044

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9781960015044

The House of Allerbrook

By: Valerie Anand

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The House of Allerbrook

By: Valerie Anand

Lady-in-waiting Jane Sweetwater’s resistance to the legendary attentions of Henry VIII may have saved her pretty neck, but her reward is a forced and unhappy marriage with a much older man and a harsh life on his farm. Her only consolation is that she still lives upon her beloved Exmoor, the bleak yet beautiful land that cradles Allerbrook House, her family home. Played out in this remote, forbidding place, Jane’s long and storied life is fraught with change: her fiercely protective nature leads her to assume responsibility not only for her own husband and child, but also for the rebellious son of her wayward sister. In time, she regains the position of a woman with status and property, but she cannot ignore the rumblings from London, as the articles of faith change with every new coronation. Jane’s small world is penetrated by plotting, treachery and even thwarted love as those she holds dearest are forced to choose between family loyalty and fealty to the crown.

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Harlequin

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1459248430

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9781459248434

From Girl to Goddess

The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend

By: Valerie Estelle Frankel

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From Girl to Goddess

The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend

By: Valerie Estelle Frankel

Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every man from Moses to Hercules grows to adulthood while battling his alter-ego. This book explores the universal heroine's journey as she quests through world myth. Numerous stories from cultures as varied as Chile and Vietnam reveal heroines who battle for safety and identity, thereby upsetting popular notions of the passive, gentle heroine. Only after she has defeated her dark side and reintegrated can the heroine become the bestower of wisdom, the protecting queen and arch-crone. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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McFarland

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0786457899

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9780786457892

Essential Microbiology for Wound Care

By: Valerie Edwards-Jones

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Essential Microbiology for Wound Care

By: Valerie Edwards-Jones

Many healthcare practitioners understand the role microbiology has within the management of their patients, particularly when this involves wound care and the healing process. However, basic medical and nursing training does not always cover the microbiology of wound care in any great depth. Essential Microbiology for Wound Care is an indispensable reference aid that covers the key areas and science of microbiology from a point of view relevant to wound care practitioners wishing to enhance their skills. Written by specialists in the areas of microbiology and wound care, the book explains the basic science of microbiology and how it applies to wound care from simple infections to complex non-healing wounds, covering areas such as the diagnosis of infection, antimicrobial agents, virulence, and the treatment of infection, and infection control. Current thought in the field is also discussed, covering the improved understanding of the role of microorganisms and biofilms, newly-arising management strategies, and the increasing concern about the rapid development of antimicrobial resistance and how this may impact the administration of antibiotics in the future. Prevention and alternative forms of treatment in the field of wound care for the diabetic foot, burns, acute, and chronic wounds are also included. From the basic science to biofilms, Essential Microbiology for Wound Care provides a thorough understanding of the basic principles of microbiology in an accessible style that makes it a key reference in the field of wound care.

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Oxford University Press

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0191025089

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9780191025082

Five Middle English Arthurian Romances

By: Valerie Krishna

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Five Middle English Arthurian Romances

By: Valerie Krishna

The poems in this collection will give the reader an appreciation of both the distinctiveness and the variety of the medieval English Arthurian tradition and highlight some of this important chapter in Arthurian legend literature. The Middle English stories are different in style and structure to the later French romances, composed in poetic forms that derive from native English traditions. The Stanzaic Morte Arthur is the earliest version of the Lancelot-Guinevere story in English; The Awyntas off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn is a serious moral poem while the story of the Avowing is a tail-rhyme romance. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell is a strongly folkloric variation of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale and Syre Gawene and the Carle of Carlyle is an alternative version of the testing of Gawain. Originally published in 1991, the translator gives an introduction to each poem as well as a general introduction about the development of the Arthurian poetic tradition.

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1317656776

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9781317656777

Memorializing the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902

Militarization of the Landscape: Monuments and Memorials in Britain

By: Valerie B. Parkhouse

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Memorializing the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902

Militarization of the Landscape: Monuments and Memorials in Britain

By: Valerie B. Parkhouse

Memorializing the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 is a study of a group of memorials to soldiers who fought in a now nearly forgotten war, and deals with the many factors influencing why there was such an unprecedented number of memorials compared to those to previous conflicts like the Crimean War, fifty years earlier. One of the most important issues was the impact of changes in the organization of the British Army in the late 1800s, particularly the creation of locally-based regiments, heavily manned by volunteers drawn from local communities. The book includes a detailed commentary on the social conditions in England that also account for the unprecedented number of commemorations of this conflict. It discusses the variety of forms memorials took: informal – drinking fountains, ‘Spion Kop” stands at football stadiums; formal – stained glass windows, statues, etc., and the numerous and diverse places where they were located: cathedrals, town squares, public schools and universities. The growth of the national press and the rise of literacy is dealt with in detail, as well as the telegraph, whose invention meant that news became available overnight. Space is given to discuss the expression of Victorian prosperity in public works. The part played by the established church is well documented and an insight is given into the contribution of Imperialism, patriotism and jingoism. All these factors explain the motivation for the memorials’ creation. The book is illustrated with photographs and articles from newspapers of the day. Appendices cover those who are not commemorated, lost memorials, those who unveiled the memorials, colonial involvement and more. Memorializing the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 will appeal particularly to social historians and students of military and social history.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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178088401X

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9781780884011

Changing the Subject

Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity

By: Wendy Hollway,Julian Henriques,Couze Venn,Cathy Urwin,Valerie Walkerdine

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Changing the Subject

Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity

By: Wendy Hollway,Julian Henriques,Couze Venn,Cathy Urwin,Valerie Walkerdine

Changing the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology that lays down the foundations of critical and feminist psychology.

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1134746458

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Until the last feather falls

Icy Hearts

By: Violetta-Valerie Gallee

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Until the last feather falls

Icy Hearts

By: Violetta-Valerie Gallee

Worries, fears and scars. That's what's left since the incident in which Velvet nearly died. Her hard facade is starting to crumble under the weight of her past. Secrets get unfolded, truths get told. But though there are problems and conflicts in their way, there is a big event taking place: The creature's Dance - the biggest ball in the magicanian culture! Yet that isn't the only event to look forward. Mr Avans had arranged a week abroad in the mountain village Ivory Splinters, for the students to learn more about history, fight and survival. But what if something is waiting in the ice and snow? Something dangerous and unpredictable? Or maybe it's not something... It's someone.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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373861088X

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9783738610888

Oxford

By: Valerie Edwards Elliott

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Oxford

By: Valerie Edwards Elliott

In the early 1800s, a wooded hilltop in southwestern Ohio became the site for Miami University and the town of Oxford. Miami was named for the area's Native American inhabitants and Oxford for the university town in England. By mid-century, Oxford was a well-established academic community featuring a university plus a men's theological seminary and three educational institutions for women. Oxford depicts the town's historic ties to higher education and its notable people, including U.S. President Benjamin Harrison and his wife Caroline Scott, author William Holmes McGuffey, and apiarist Lorenzo Langstroth. Today's Oxford continues to offer superior educational opportunities, athletic events, and cultural activities.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439631336

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9781439631331

Sex and World Peace

By: Valerie Hudson,Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill,Mary Capriolo,Chad Emmett

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Sex and World Peace

By: Valerie Hudson,Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill,Mary Capriolo,Chad Emmett

Backed up by a detailed analysis, tables and color maps, the authors argue that violence against women adversely affects all levels of society, and ultimately the security of a nation, and offer ways to heal the wounds of violence against women on both a micro and macro level.

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Columbia University Press

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0231131828

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9780231131827

Women of Ashdon

By: Valerie Anand

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Women of Ashdon

By: Valerie Anand

Like many young women in fifteenth- century England, Susannah Whitmead is sent away from home to be educated. Born of yeomen, Susannah's mother wants her only daughter to be raised a lady. But Susannah, who finds life at Hurleigh House to be horribly regulated, longs for home. One of her few comforts is a keepsake, a small badge with a curious design consisting of curved lines arching over wavy ones like a stylized bridge across a river. She is not sure of the badge's origins, but keeps it close to her as a link to her family. Susannah is married off to Sir James Weston of Ashdon manor. Although she doesn't love him, he is kind, and she falls in love instead with his house—a house she will fight to keep through the war, death, and treachery that surround her. Valerie Anand continues the intricate weave of history, politics, and passion in Women of Ashdon, the third novel in the acclaimed Bridges Over Time series. “Valerie Anand has been building a remarkable body of work, a series of historical novels that have recreated England’s history both accurately and vividly.” —The Anniston Star

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Speaking Volumes

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1628154004

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9781628154009

Black Georgetown Remembered

A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the Present Day

By: Kathleen M. Lesko,Valerie Melissa Babb,Carroll R. Gibbs

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Black Georgetown Remembered

A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the Present Day

By: Kathleen M. Lesko,Valerie Melissa Babb,Carroll R. Gibbs

Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling journey through more than two hundred years of history. A one-of-a-kind book, it invites readers to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.

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Georgetown University Press

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162616326X

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9781626163263

Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition

Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb

By: Valerie Purton

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Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition

Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Lamb

By: Valerie Purton

‘Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition’ is a timely study of the ‘sentimental’ in Dickens’s novels, which places them in the context of the tradition of Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith, Sheridan and Lamb. This study re-evaluates Dickens’s presentation of emotion – first within the eighteenth-century tradition and then within the dissimilar nineteenth-century tradition – as part of a complex literary heritage that enables him to critique nineteenth-century society. The book sheds light on the construction of feelings and of the ‘good heart’, ideas which resonate with current critical debates about literary ‘affect’. Sentimentalism, as the text demonstrates, is crucial to understanding fully the achievement of Dickens and his contemporaries.

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Anthem Press

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0857289071

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9780857289070

Edward Said

A Critical Introduction

By: Valerie Kennedy

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Edward Said

A Critical Introduction

By: Valerie Kennedy

Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today. His work as a literary and cultural critic, a political commentator, and the champion of the cause of Palestinian rights has given him a unique position in western intellectual life. This new book is a major exploration and assessment of his writings in all these main areas. Focusing on Said's insistence on the connection between literature, politics and culture, Kennedy offers an overview and assessment of the main strands of Said's work, drawing out the links and contradictions between each area. The book begins with an examination of Orientalism, one of the founding texts of post-colonial studies. Kennedy looks at the book in detail, probing both its strengths and weaknesses, and linking it to its sequel, Culture and Imperialism. She then examines Said's work on the Palestinian people, with his emphasis on the need for a Palestinian narrative to counter pro-Israeli accounts of the Middle East, and his searing criticisms of US, Israeli, and even Arab governments. The book closes with an examination of Said's importance in the field of post-colonial studies, notably colonial discourse analysis and post-colonial theory, and his significance as a public intellectual. This book will be of great interest to anyone studying post-colonialism, literary theory, politics, and the Middle East, as well as anyone interested in Said's writings.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745667457

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9780745667454

Records of Girlhood

Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods

By: Professor Valerie Sanders

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Records of Girlhood

Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods

By: Professor Valerie Sanders

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The fourteen women included juxtapose recollections of the bizarre with the quotidian and accounts of external events with the development of a complex inner life. Reading and acting are important themes, as is the precariousness of childhood, whether occasioned by a father's financial pressures or the early death of a parent. Significantly, most grew up expecting to earn their own living. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit), political figures (Emmeline Pankhurst and Louisa Twining), and well-known writers (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sarah Grand). Of relevance to scholars working in the fields of women’s autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature, this anthology includes a scholarly introduction and brief biographical sketches of each woman.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409472116

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9781409472117

It Happened Under the Mistletoe

A Holiday Novella

By: Valerie Bowman

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It Happened Under the Mistletoe

A Holiday Novella

By: Valerie Bowman

First in an exclusive Can happily ever after begin with one Christmas kiss? It Happened Under the Mistletoe is a brand-new holiday novella from award-winning author Valerie Bowman! When Oliver Townsende escapes to his friend's house for a Christmas party, he intends to avoid the hordes of marriage-minded misses who have been dogging his steps in London ever since he inherited a dukedom. He soon learns a bit of Yuletide peace and quiet is too much to ask for. When he encounters Miss Cerian Blake, who's dodging her own unwanted set of admirers, the two decide to join forces and fake an infatuation to keep their suitors at bay. But when a bough of mistletoe becomes involved, will their Christmastime prank turn into a love to last all seasons? Look for Secrets of a Scandalous Marriage—available now!—from St. Martin's Paperbacks. Praise for Valerie Bowman's Secret Brides novels: "This engaging and sweetly romantic [series] is just too delightful to miss."—New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas "This sparkling [series] marks Bowman for stardom." —RT Book Reviews "Everything romance should be—sexy, quirky, fun." —Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author

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1466847131

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9781466847132

What Return Shall I Make

A Family Mystery

By: Valerie C. Scanlon

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What Return Shall I Make

A Family Mystery

By: Valerie C. Scanlon

After seven years of travel, in October 1995, Jeanne Landry returns to the Barrett Hills estate where she grew up; her brother Owen is now caretaker. Jeanne is resigned to servant life for a while, in part beguiled by Charles Barrett suggesting that she may be like her late mother. A servant may overhear (though a good servant never lurks), and Jeanne is aware of the discord and conflict among Charles and Cecilia and their four grown children. Come January, during the Blizzard of ´96, there is murder on the estate, which has been isolated by the storm and a blackout. Jeanne and Owen quickly realize that the Barretts plan to have the Landrys take the blame and to be unable to deny it. Two families, each with its faults and misunderstandings, each with love and loyalty; for all their differences much the same. And a puzzle Jeanne has little time to solve.

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Xlibris Corporation

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0738840998

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9780738840994

The Footmen's Club Books 4-6: Save a Horse, Ride a Viscount, Earl Lessons, The Duke is Back

By: Valerie Bowman

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The Footmen's Club Books 4-6: Save a Horse, Ride a Viscount, Earl Lessons, The Duke is Back

By: Valerie Bowman

In this entertaining box set, a stubborn wallflower with a broken leg is forced to stay at a prickly earl’s country house, the princess of the debutantes has two weeks to turn an army captain into the hottest bachelor of the Season, and a wounded duke must avenge his brother's death and reclaim the woman he loved. Book Four: Save a Horse, Ride a Viscount Viscount Clayton had meticulously planned his path to success, ticking off every box, including finding a lady to marry and winning an Arabian thoroughbred. But when Lady Theodora Ballard's father sells her beloved horse to Clayton, she'll stop at nothing to get him back, even if it means a horse spying mission gone wrong. Thea's broken leg leaves her as a houseguest in Clayton's estate, igniting undeniable sparks between them. But with secrets and scandal looming, Clayton's best laid plans are about to go awry in the face of unexpected passion. Book Five: Earl Lessons Captain David Ellsworth never expected to become the Earl of Elmwood, but upon his return from war, he and his sister must navigate London Society. Lady Annabelle Bellham, the elusive belle of the ballrooms, agrees to teach David the ways of Society as a favor to her older brother. Despite having nothing in common, Annabelle and David find themselves drawn to each other with a fiery passion and inconvenient feelings. But Annabelle is dead set on avoiding marriage and the destruction it brings. Could their connection be enough to change her mind? Book Six: The Duke is Back Sophie Payton is engaged to the new Duke of Harlowe, Phillip Grayson's cousin, but her heart still belongs to Phillip, who she believed was killed in action. Unbeknownst to Sophie, Phillip has survived and returns to London to seek justice for his brother's murder and reclaim his title. As they confront their feelings for each other, they must also face the lies and danger that surround them. A wedding may be in Sophie's future, but a funeral is in Phillip's past, and the truth may save them or kill them.

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June Third Enterprises, LLC

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1960015052

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9781960015051

Campaigning for President in America, 1788–2016

By: Scott John Hammond,Robert North Roberts,Valerie A. Sulfaro

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Campaigning for President in America, 1788–2016

By: Scott John Hammond,Robert North Roberts,Valerie A. Sulfaro

What does it take to get elected president of the United States—"leader of the free world"? This book gives readers insight into the major issues and events surrounding American presidential elections across more than two centuries, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaigns of the 21st century. The race for the presidency encapsulates the broader changes in American democratic culture. This book provides insight into the major issues and events surrounding American presidential elections across more than two centuries, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaigns of the 21st century. Readers will be able to see and understand how presidential campaigns have evolved over time, and how and why the current state of campaigning for president came into being.

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City Girls

The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950

By: Valerie J. Matsumoto

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City Girls

The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950

By: Valerie J. Matsumoto

Even before wartime incarceration, Japanese Americans largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. The first-generation American children, the Nisei, were American citizens, spoke English, and were integrated in public schools, yet were also socially isolated in many ways from their peers and subject to racism. Their daughters especially found rapport in a flourishing network of ethnocultural youth organizations. Until now, these groups have remained hidden from the historical record, both because they were girls' groups and because evidence of them was considered largely ephemeral. In her second book, Valerie Matsumoto has recreated this hidden world of female friendship and comradery, tracing it from the Jazz age through internment to the postwar period. Matsumoto argues that these groups were more than just social outlets for Nisei teenage girls. Rather, she shows how they were critical networks during the wartime upheavals of Japanese Americans. Young Nisei women helped their families navigate internment and, more importantly, recreated communities when they returned to their homes in the immediate postwar period. This book will be a considerable contribution to our understanding of Japanese life in America, youth culture, ethnic history, urban history, and Western history. Matsumoto has interviewed and gained the trust of many (now old) women who were part of these girls' clubs"--

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0190655208

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Interdisciplinary Design of Game-based Learning Platforms

A Phenomenological Examination of the Integrative Design of Game, Learning, and Assessment

By: Fengfeng Ke,Valerie Shute,Kathleen M. Clark,Gordon Erlebacher

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Interdisciplinary Design of Game-based Learning Platforms

A Phenomenological Examination of the Integrative Design of Game, Learning, and Assessment

By: Fengfeng Ke,Valerie Shute,Kathleen M. Clark,Gordon Erlebacher

This book represents a four-year research and development project. It presents a phenomenological examination and explanation of a functional design framework for games in education. It furnishes a rich description of the experiences and perceptions of performing interdisciplinary collaborative design among experts of very diverse fields, such as learning systems design, architectural design, assessment design, mathematics education, and scientific computing.

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3030043398

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The Duke is Back

By: Valerie Bowman

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The Duke is Back

By: Valerie Bowman

A wedding is in her future Miss Sophie Payton might be engaged, but she’s not in love. The only man who ever captured her heart was Phillip Grayson—a soldier who was slain a year ago. But when her stepmother decrees that Sophie will marry Phillip’s cousin, the new Duke of Harlowe, Sophie’s in no position to refuse. A funeral is in his past The ton thinks Phillip Grayson died a hero on the battlefields of Europe, but he’s very much alive. While he spent the last year recuperating from his grave injuries in secret at his friend’s estate, his brother was murdered, his cousin took over the title of duke, and the woman he loved—the one he dreamed of every night—apparently moved on without him. But the duke is back Phillip has returned to London intent on reclaiming his brother’s title and making the people who killed him pay. He doesn’t understand how Sophie could have betrayed him; she can’t forgive him for letting her believe he was dead. And yet neither can deny that the attraction between them burns hotter than ever. Nothing is as it seems, but perhaps the truth can save them…if it doesn’t kill them first.

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Mary Poppins, She Wrote

The Life of P. L. Travers

By: Valerie Lawson

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Mary Poppins, She Wrote

The Life of P. L. Travers

By: Valerie Lawson

THE ONLY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CREATOR OF MARY POPPINS The remarkable life of P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins—perfect for fans of the movie Mary Poppins Returns and the original Disney classic! “An arresting life…Lawson is superb at excavating the details.” —Library Journal The spellbinding stories of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical nanny, have been loved by generations. She flew into the lives of the unsuspecting Banks family in a children’s book that was instantly hailed as a classic, then became a household name when Julie Andrews stepped into the title role in Walt Disney’s hugely successful and equally classic film. But the Mary Poppins in the stories was not the cheery film character. She was tart and sharp, plain and vain. She was a remarkable character. The story of Mary Poppins’ creator, as this definitive biography reveals, is equally remarkable. The fabulous English nanny was actually conceived by an Australian, Pamela Lyndon Travers, who came to London in 1924 from Queensland as a journalist. She became involved with Theosophy, traveled in the literary circles of W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, and became a disciple of the famed spiritual guru, Gurdjieff. She famously clashed with Walt Disney over the adaptation of the Mary Poppins books into film. Travers, whom Disney accused of vanity for “thinking you know more about Mary Poppins than I do,” was as tart and opinionated as Julie Andrews’s big-screen Mary Poppins was cheery. Yet it was a love of mysticism and magic that shaped Travers’s life as well as the character of Mary Poppins. The clipped, strict, and ultimately mysterious nanny who emerged from her pen was the creation of someone who remained inscrutable and enigmatic to the end of her ninety-six years. Valerie Lawson’s illuminating biography provides the first full look whose personal journey is as intriguing as her beloved characters.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476762937

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The Great Divorce

By: Valerie Martin

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The Great Divorce

By: Valerie Martin

From the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and prize-winning author of Property comes a riveting story of three women in New Orleans who must face the repercussions of sex, betrayal and the wilder side of human nature. • “Haunting…. An utterly compelling work of fiction.” —The New York Times Three surprising women, their lives riven by divorce both literal and metaphorical: Ellen Clayton, reeling from her husband’s decision to leave her after twenty years, finds meaning in caring for her teenage daughters and in her work as the veterinarian at the New Orleans Zoo. Her young assistant Camille, preyed on by a series of contemptuous men, experiences bizarre episodes in which she feels herself transforming into one of the great cats in her care. And Elisabeth Boyer, a passionate Creole aristocrat trapped on her husband’s antebellum plantation, finds deliverance in the form of a black leopard, a powerful, merciless ally from the wild. Their unfolding stories blur distinctions of time, class and social construct to reveal the ordinary and extraordinary measures required to make our fractured world whole.

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0307833844

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Music in Elementary Education

By: John Flohr,Valerie Trollinger

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Music in Elementary Education

By: John Flohr,Valerie Trollinger

Based on the National Standards, this text is divided into three parts. Part one, Foundations, covers the rationale for a Music Education program in the elementary years; meaning and musical experience; and elements and kinds of music. Part two– Music Elements, Curriculum and Avenues to Music Learning–covers curriculum development; music for special needs students; avenues to music learning and historic and contemporary approaches. Part three–Musical Experiences– is grouped by avenues of music learning and grades. Thanks to years of thorough research, Music in Elementary Education promises is a standard text in the field.

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1317346270

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Skeletal Anatomy of the Newborn Primate

By: Timothy D. Smith,Valerie B. DeLeon,Christopher J. Vinyard,Jesse W. Young

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Skeletal Anatomy of the Newborn Primate

By: Timothy D. Smith,Valerie B. DeLeon,Christopher J. Vinyard,Jesse W. Young

The first clearly-illustrated, comparative book on developmental primate skeletal anatomy, focused on the highly informative newborn stage.

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1107152690

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Wicked And Wonderful

By: Valerie King

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Wicked And Wonderful

By: Valerie King

Lord Kelthorne engages in the one pursuit which Judith Lovington has been trying to evade: love. As determined as Judith and her friends are to discourage him, Kelthorne is equally determined to win her heart. Original.

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0821778471

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Mega-event Cities: Urban Legacies of Global Sports Events

By: Valerie Viehoff,Gavin Poynter

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Mega-event Cities: Urban Legacies of Global Sports Events

By: Valerie Viehoff,Gavin Poynter

Mega-events represent an important moment in the life of a city, providing a useful lens through which we may analyse their cultural, social, political and economic development. In the wake of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC’s) concerns about ’gigantism’ and wider public concerns about rising costs, it was imperative in the C21st to demonstrate the long term benefits that arose for the city and nations from hosting premier sporting events. ’London 2012’ was the first to integrate the concept of legacy from the moment a bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games was being considered. London proposed an ambitious programme of urban renewal for East London. Subsequent host city bids have adopted the ’legacy narrative’ and, as this book demonstrates, aligned this to major schemes of urban development and renewal. Bringing together scholars, practitioners and policy makers, this book focuses upon the legacies sought by cities that host major sports events. It analyses how governments, the IOC and others define and measure ’legacy’. It also focuses upon the challenges and opportunities facing future host cities of mega-events, looking at their aspirations and the intended impact upon their domestic and international development. It questions what the global shift in geographical location of mega-events means for sports development and the business of sport, what the attractions are for cities seeking to harness the hosting of a mega-event, and whether there may be longer term consequences for the bidding and hosting major sporting events in the wake of the widespread social unrest that accompanied the preparations in Brazil for hosting the FIFA World Cup (2014) and the summer Olympics (2016) and in Turkey, where there was significant opposition to bid for the 2020 summer Olympiad.

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1317097963

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The King's Wife

George IV and Mrs Fitzherbert

By: Valerie Irvine

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The King's Wife

George IV and Mrs Fitzherbert

By: Valerie Irvine

One of the most extraordinary episodes in British royal history took place on 15 December 1785 when George, Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and George IV) secretly married the beautiful, twice-widowed and Roman Catholic Maria Fitzherbert. This marriage was in breach of the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 but was almost certainly valid in the eyes of the Catholic Church, and possibly of all Christian churches. If it had been discovered, George might well have forfeited his claim to the throne. As it was, George and Maria remained together for over twenty-five years, staying deeply attached, despite George's disastrous (and probably bigamous) marriage to Princess Caroline of Brunswick. The King's Wife is a highly readable account of a love match that, in part, pre-echoes the later relationship of Prince Charles and Camilla. In the eyes of George IV's own family, Maria was his real wife.

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0826431429

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Using Mental Imagery in Counselling and Psychotherapy

A Guide to More Inclusive Theory and Practice

By: Valerie Thomas

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Using Mental Imagery in Counselling and Psychotherapy

A Guide to More Inclusive Theory and Practice

By: Valerie Thomas

The therapeutic potential of working with clients' mental images is widely acknowledged, yet there is still little in the counselling and psychotherapy literature on more inclusive approaches to the clinical applications of mental imagery. Using Mental Imagery in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a unique, accessible guide for counsellors and psychotherapists who wish to develop their expertise in this important therapeutic practice. Contemporary practitioners have at their disposal a large repertoire of imagery methods and procedures comprising the contributions from different therapeutic schools and clinical innovators. Valerie Thomas identifies some of the common features in these approaches and offers a transtheoretical framework that supports integrative practitioners in understanding and using mental imagery to enhance therapeutic processes. The book: Examines the development of the theory and practice of mental imagery within a wider context of the history of imagination as a healing modality; Describes the different ways that mental imagery has been incorporated into therapeutic practice and evaluates recent developments; Reviews explanations of the therapeutic efficacy of mental imagery and considers how recent theoretical concepts provide a means of understanding the role that mental images play in processing experience; Includes reflections on ways to develop more inclusive theory and proposes a model that can inform integrative practice. Using a wide range of clinical vignettes to illustrate theory and cutting-edge research, Valerie Thomas proposes a new integrated model of practice. Providing clear and detailed guidance on applying the model to clinical practice, the book will be essential reading for psychotherapists and counsellors, both in practice and training, who wish to harness the therapeutic efficacy of mental imagery.

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1317375556

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Gender Matters

Female Policymakers' Influence in Industrialized Nations

By: Valerie O'Regan

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Gender Matters

Female Policymakers' Influence in Industrialized Nations

By: Valerie O'Regan

Valerie O'Regan examines the relationship between female policymakers and policy outputs. Her primary concern is whether female policymakers are associated with the advancement of women's issues in the policy realm. Although this question is important in the study of representation theory, there has been surprisingly little research on the topic, and it has tended to provide limited, often contradictory results. O'Regan's research design and analysis utilizes time-series, cross-sectional procedures to examine the effects of the independent variables on the dependent variables over time, across countries. Data from 22 countries during the period of 1960-1994 were analyzed in two separate segments. The first analysis involved three general policy measures that address two types of women's issue policies—employment and social. The second analysis involved two measures for policy comprehensiveness employing equal wage legislation. The findings for the first analysis are positive regarding the relationship between the presence of female policymakers and the presence of women's issue policies. The findings for the second analysis highlight the difficulties of developing valid measures of policy substance. Scholars and other researchers involved with women and politics and legislative behavior will find the study of particular interest.

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0313002703

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9780313002700

The Dowerless Sisters

By: Valerie Anand,Fiona Buckley

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The Dowerless Sisters

By: Valerie Anand,Fiona Buckley

When their businessman father dies suddenly, leaving his affairs in disarray and his family in dire financial straits, it seems that sisters Charlotte and Victoria have little choice but to accept the support offered by their stuffy, authoritarian Uncle Edward. But their mother has other ideas and, defying convention, she chooses to provide her daughters with careers. The girls' drapery business prospers but there is a price to pay for their independence. They have severely compromised their marriageability. Vicky's reckless attempts at romance end in disaster whilst Charlotte, outwardly more content with her lot, suffers behind the walls of her self-control, silently repressing her need for a man's love and enduring the fact that although she would have loved to have a child, she never will. But the twentieth century brings changes and, by an ironic twist of fate, Charlotte and Vicky find themselves guardians of their great-niece Paula, the granddaughter of a long-dead airman around whom Charlotte had, long ago, built groundless dreams. Like her grandfather, Paula is fascinated by flying and unlike her great-aunt, her romance with an airman blossoms and results in marriage. But when tragedy threatens from an unexpected quarter it is to her great-aunts that she turns—to Vicky for comfort but to Charlotte for the strength to go on into the future, and Charlotte, though she is now on the eve of her hundredth birthday, does not fail her. A moving, deeply felt novel, THE DOWERLESS SISTERS is an unforgettable chronicle of a life lived through a century of enormous change. THE DOWERLESS SISTERS is the final book in this epic series. The Dowerless Sisters An unforgettable chronicle of a century of change

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Speaking Volumes

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1628154063

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