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The Taste of Sugar: A Novel

By: Marisel Vera

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“A masterful work of historical fiction. . . . [A] Latino Grapes of Wrath.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Marisel Vera emerges as a major new voice in contemporary fiction with this “capacious” (The New Yorker) novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War. Up in the mountainous region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their coffee farm from the creditors. When the great San Ciriaco hurricane of 1899 brings devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured along with thousands of other puertorriquenos to the sugar plantations of Hawaii, where they are confronted by the hollowness of America’s promises of prosperity. Depicting the roots of Puerto Rican alienation and exodus, which resonates especially today, The Taste of Sugar is “a gorgeous feat of storytelling” (Tayari Jones).

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Liveright Publishing

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163149774X

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Moon Lake Angel

A Novel

By: Vera Cleaver

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Moon Lake Angel

A Novel

By: Vera Cleaver

Kitty Dale, whose mother does not want to deal with a child, or admit one into her new life, spends the summer with Aunt Petal and eventually learns to accept her mother's weaknesses.

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Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books

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0688049524

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9780688049522

A Warrior's Faith

Navy SEAL Ryan Job, a Life-Changing Firefight, and the Belief That Transformed His Life

By: Robert Vera

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A Warrior's Faith

Navy SEAL Ryan Job, a Life-Changing Firefight, and the Belief That Transformed His Life

By: Robert Vera

An exhilarating story of a young Navy SEAL whose relentless faith transformed his life and inspired everyone who knew his courageous story. In A Warrior’s Faith, Ryan Job’s close friend, Robert Vera, recounts how the highly decorated Navy SEAL’s unstoppable sense of humor, positive attitude, and fierce determination helped him survive after being shot in the face by an enemy sniper on a roof in Ramadi, Iraq. Though blinded, the irrepressible Job recovered from his wounds and began facing a new set of obstacles with his characteristic humor and resolve. He married the girl of his dreams, hunted elk, climbed Mt. Rainier, graduated college with honors, influenced countless people around him, and was looking forward to being a father—before his life was tragically cut short by a hospital medical error. Vera’s raw, often funny, and heartfelt account of his friend’s life offers readers a way to find hope in the middle of life’s raging storms.

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Thomas Nelson

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1400206790

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9781400206797

Belle Pruitt

By: Vera Cleaver

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Belle Pruitt

By: Vera Cleaver

When her adored baby brother suddenly dies of pneumonia, eleven-year-old Belle is left to cope with the devastating effects on her family.

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180

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0064402495

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9780064402491

Complicated Lives

Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

By: Vera Lopez

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Complicated Lives

Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

By: Vera Lopez

Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system (living in group homes, a residential treatment center, and a youth correctional facility) who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez situates girls’ relationships with parents who fail to live up to idealized parenting norms and examines how these relationships change over time, and ultimately contribute to the girls’ future drug use and involvement in the justice system. While Lopez’s subjects express concerns and doubt in their chances for success, Lopez provides an optimistic prescription for reform and improvement of the lives of these young women and presents a number of suggestions ranging from enhanced cultural competency training for all juvenile justice professionals to developing stronger collaborations between youth and adult serving systems and agencies.

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299

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Rutgers University Press

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0813586569

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9780813586564

Melted Away

A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru

By: Barbara Drake-Vera

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Melted Away

A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru

By: Barbara Drake-Vera

A prolific poet as a child, Barbara Drake-Vera loved writing almost as much as she adored her father, a moody postal employee with an elaborate comb-over and a fondness for Mahler. But when her successes sparked his rage, Barbara silenced her voice for years, terrified even to see her name in print. By age forty-nine, she was a professional journalist living in Peru and collaborating with her husband, a Peruvian-born photographer, to report on melting glaciers in the Andes, far from the reach of her father. Melted Away recounts what happens after her father is diagnosed with advancing Alzheimer’s and Barbara takes him into her home in Lima, beginning a process of self-discovery that uncovers a path toward personal and family healing. A diverse group of allies support her on this quest: a trio of caregiving women from the provinces, who serve as home-health aides; a mischievous, Cervantes-quoting, nonagenarian suitor; and a stubborn alpaca herder who lives beneath a long-worshipped, life-sustaining Andean glacier now melting from rapid climate change. Candid, poignant, and deeply researched, Melted Away is the true story of how a writer at midlife reclaims her agency, and an ardent plea to care for the planet by embracing collectivism and mutual aid.

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LSU Press

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0807181919

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9780807181911

I Would Rather be a Turnip

By: Vera Cleaver,Bill Cleaver

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I Would Rather be a Turnip

By: Vera Cleaver,Bill Cleaver

Twelve-year-old Annie gradually begins to understand the bigotry of the small town that makes her an outcast when her illegitimate eight-year-old nephew comes to live with her and her father.

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J.P. Lippincott

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0397313608

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9780397313600

Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz

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Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz

Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that discourse may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through centralised government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethnonationalism in Russia, which harks back to "old-fashioned" values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia’s recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media.

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318

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Routledge

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1317526236

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9781317526230

Colors of Veracity

A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond

By: Vera Schwarcz

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Colors of Veracity

A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond

By: Vera Schwarcz

In Colors of Veracity, Vera Schwarcz condenses four decades of teaching and scholarship about China to raise fundamental questions about the nature of truth and history. In clear and vivid prose, she addresses contemporary moral dilemmas with a highly personal sense of ethics and aesthetics. Drawing on classical sources in Hebrew and Chinese (as well as several Greek and Japanese texts), Schwarcz brings deep and varied cultural references to bear on the question of truth and falsehood in human consciousness. An attentiveness to connotations and nuance is apparent throughout her work, which redefines both the Jewish understanding of emet (a notion of truth that encompasses authenticity) and the Chinese commitment to zhen (a vision of the real that comprises the innermost sincerity of the seeker’s heart-mind). Works of art, from contemporary calligraphy and installations to fake Chinese characters and a Jewish menorah from Roman times, shed light light on the historian’s task of giving voice to the dread-filled past. Following in the footsteps of literary scholar Geoffrey Hartman, Schwarcz expands on the “Philomela Project, which calls on historians to find new ways of conveying truth, especially when political authorities are bent on enforcing amnesia of past traumatic events. Truth matters, even if it cannot be mapped in its totality. Veracity is shown again and again to be neither black nor white. Schwarcz’ accomplishment is a subtle depiction of “fractured luminosity,” which inspires and sustains the moral conviction of those who pursue truth against all odds.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824838742

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9780824838744

Tort Law Directions

By: Vera Bermingham,Carol Brennan

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Tort Law Directions

By: Vera Bermingham,Carol Brennan

A considered balance of depth, detail, context, and critique, Directions books offer the most student-friendly guide to the subject; they empower students to evaluate the law, understand its practical application, and approach assessments with confidence.

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Oxford University Press

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0198805357

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9780198805359

Tort Law Directions

By: Carol Brennan,Vera Bermingham

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Tort Law Directions

By: Carol Brennan,Vera Bermingham

A considered balance of depth, detail, context, and critique, Tort Law Directions offers the most student-friendly guide to the subject; empowering students to evaluate the law, understand its practical application, and approach assessments with confidence.

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Directions

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0198853920

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9780198853923

King Arthur's Daughter

By: Vera Chapman

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King Arthur's Daughter

By: Vera Chapman

A magical glimpse into the legendary age of Arthurian chivalry. Ursulet, daughter of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, captured by Saxons and doomed to lsoe her family and heritage. Knightly chivalry is beset by Dark Age barbarity in this richly woven tapestry of heroes and heroines, monsters and saints, temptresses and magicians.

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Pollinger in Print

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1905665334

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9781905665334

Bridge Across Broken Time

Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory

By: Vera Schwarcz

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Bridge Across Broken Time

Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory

By: Vera Schwarcz

Schwarcz uncovers resonances between the narratives of Chinese intellectuals recovering from the trauma of the Cultural Revolution and the halting tales of her own parents.

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Yale University Press

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0300066147

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9780300066142

Sugar Blue

By: Vera Cleaver

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Sugar Blue

By: Vera Cleaver

Amy, age 13, is saddled with caring for a 4-year-old niece, Ella.

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Yearling

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0440484227

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9780440484226

Sweetly Sings the Donkey

By: Vera Cleaver

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Sweetly Sings the Donkey

By: Vera Cleaver

When fourteen-year-old Lily and her family move to Florida, it falls to her to keep her family together and start a new life.

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0064402339

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9780064402330

The Grand Old Duke of York

By: Vera Cleaver

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The Grand Old Duke of York

By: Vera Cleaver

An illustrated selection of familiar nursery rhymes.

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0862276446

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9780862276447

Time Out

Soul Talk for Stay-at-Home Moms: A Personal Coach Celebrates the Mommy Track

By: Vera Nicholas-Gervais

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Soul Talk for Stay-at-Home Moms: A Personal Coach Celebrates the Mommy Track

By: Vera Nicholas-Gervais

This intimate, lighthearted portrait of real life as an at-home mother tells the untold story of the stay-at-home mom's experience, giving a voice to the full range of maternal feeling and acknowledging and validating women who've chosen the at-home mommy track.

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Soulgoals Press

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097300200X

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9780973002003

Where the Lilies Bloom

By: CLEAVER,Bill Cleaver,Vera Cleaver

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Where the Lilies Bloom

By: CLEAVER,Bill Cleaver,Vera Cleaver

Mary Call has promised her dying father to keep her brother and sisters together forever on the mountain, and never to take any help from strangers. She is determined to keep her word. No matter what. At first she is sure she can manage. Romey, Ima Dean, and Devola help gather herbs to sell in town; the riches of the mountains will surely keep the family clothed and fed. But then winter comes, fast and furious, and Mary Call has to learn that the land where the lilies bloom is also a cruel and unforgiving place, and it may take more than a promise to keep her family together.

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Harper Collins

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0064470059

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9780064470056

Me Too

By: Vera Cleaver,Bill Cleaver

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Me Too

By: Vera Cleaver,Bill Cleaver

Hoping to expunge neighborhood prejudice and to do something everyone else has failed to do, a twelve-year-old desperately tries to teach her retarded twin.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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039731485X

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9780397314850

Sugar Blue

By: Vera Cleaver

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Sugar Blue

By: Vera Cleaver

Amy, age 13, is saddled with caring for a 4-year-old niece, Ella.

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Yearling

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Moon Lake Angel

A Novel

By: Vera Cleaver

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Moon Lake Angel

A Novel

By: Vera Cleaver

Kitty Dale, whose mother does not want to deal with a child, or admit one into her new life, spends the summer with Aunt Petal and eventually learns to accept her mother's weaknesses.

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