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My Magnolia Summer

A Novel

By: Victoria Benton Frank

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“[B]y writing My Magnolia Summer, a novel of low country food, family drama, and just the right amount of romance, Victoria Benton Frank shows that she is the rightful heir to the crown of summertime storytellers. Her mother would be so proud.” — Ann Patchett Escape to the South Carolina Lowcountry, where family bonds and hidden secrets run deep. In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, struggling to find her place in the world when she receives a phone call bringing her back to her hometown of Sullivan's Island. In New York City winter never seems to loosen its hold and for South Carolina transplant Maggie (born Magnolia after the fairest summer flower) the balmy beach weather of April back home on Sullivan’s Island feels like a distant memory. Until a phone call from her sister, Violet, changes everything. Gran, the treasured matriarch, has fallen into a coma after a car accident caused by Maggie’s troubled mother, Lily. But once Maggie returns, she finds that her hometown of Sullivan’s Island holds even more secrets. The Magic Lantern, the restaurant owned and run by generations of women in her family, is now rudderless, and her sister seems headed for a savage breakup. Once she is between the marsh grasses and dunes of South Carolina, she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind, and a new and different version of herself—one who can see how a minor crash into the back of a very handsome farmer’s truck may become fortunate. Or perhaps it’s even… fate? When the three generations of South Carolina women join forces—the family pillar Gran, troubled Lily, impulsive Violet, and redoubtable Maggie—anything is possible. With stunning descriptions of the magic of the Lowcountry, this novel will transport you to a world of treasured family traditions and unexpected twists of fate.

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0063286173

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Teddy Spaghetti

By: Dorothea Benton Frank,Victoria Benton Frank

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Teddy Spaghetti

By: Dorothea Benton Frank,Victoria Benton Frank

**A New Atlantic INDIE BESTSELLER!** The beloved bestselling author of The Hurricane Sisters and Porch Lights, Dorothea Benton Frank, and her daughter, Victoria Benton Frank, join forces to bring young readers a powerful (and scrumptious) story about a standout kid who learns to stick up for himself and the things he loves. Teddy really, really, REALLY loves spaghetti. What he doesn’t love is getting teased at school. When Teddy takes his favorite food to lunch, a bully calls him a not-so-nice name: TED-DY SPA-GHET-TI! Will Teddy let his new nickname prevent him from enjoying what he loves most? Find out in Dorothea Benton Frank’s first-ever children's book. It's certain to encourage kids to be themselves and to take a bite (or slurp) out of life! Perfect for anti-bullying and self-confidence discussions with children.

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0063054086

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Teddy Spaghetti

By: Dorothea Benton Frank,Victoria Benton Frank

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Teddy Spaghetti

By: Dorothea Benton Frank,Victoria Benton Frank

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My Magnolia Summer

A Novel

By: Victoria Benton Frank

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A Novel

By: Victoria Benton Frank

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A CONVENIENT GENTLEMAN

By: Victoria Aldridge

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A CONVENIENT GENTLEMAN

By: Victoria Aldridge

SHE NEEDED TO MARRY… Caroline Morgan is determined to make a success out of her aunt’s New Zealand business. But until Caro has a husband, the bank won’t lend her the money she so desperately needs. Caro discovers Leander Gray, the younger son of an aristocrat and the only eligible man in town, collapsed in a local bar. He grudgingly agrees toa paper marriage—if he’s paid a hefty fee. They marry, and Caro is left wondering what she’s got herself into. But when the gambler turns gentleman, her feelings begin to change….

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1459231600

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All Romance, All The Time

An Anthology

By: Gena Showalter,Julia London,Sara Arden,Victoria Dahl,B.J. Daniels,Sarah Morgan,Robyn Carr,Lori Foster,Maisey Yates,Kristan Higgins,Susan Mallery,RaeAnne Thayne,Sheila Roberts

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All Romance, All The Time

An Anthology

By: Gena Showalter,Julia London,Sara Arden,Victoria Dahl,B.J. Daniels,Sarah Morgan,Robyn Carr,Lori Foster,Maisey Yates,Kristan Higgins,Susan Mallery,RaeAnne Thayne,Sheila Roberts

The title says it all…whether you like your romances small-town sweet, hot and steamy, or with a bit of danger, we have what you're looking for. Inside ALL ROMANCE, ALL THE TIME, you'll get a taste of 13 stories by some of our most popular and bestselling authors, at least one of whom is guaranteed to become your new romance go-to. So no matter if your toes curl for Regency rogues, wounded warriors, chiseled cowboys or the classic guy-next-door, prepare to lose yourself between the covers. Featuring titles from The Closer you Come by Gena Showalter, The Devil Takes a Bride by Julia London, Unfaded Glory by Sara Arden, Flirting with Disaster by Victoria Dahl, Wild Horses by B.J. Daniels, First Time in Forever by Sarah Morgan, One Wish by Robyn Carr, Holding Strong by Lori Foster, Part Time Cowboy by Maisey Yates, In Your Dreams by Kristan Higgins, When We Met by Susan Mallery, Wild Iris Ridge by RaeAnne Thayne, and The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane by Sheila Roberts.

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HQN Books

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1460386116

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Belmont

By: Victoria Haase

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Belmont

By: Victoria Haase

Although Belmont was not incorporated until 1859, the town enjoys a unique and rich history that dates back to the 1600s, with its original farms, early businesses, and prominent citizens. Seceding from lands that were previously part of Waltham, Watertown, and West Cambridge (Arlington), Belmont quickly became known for its market gardens and country estates. The town prospered, developing a reputation for the finest fruits and vegetables carried into the farmers market at Faneuil Hall in Boston. Its serene country setting soon caught the attention of wealthy Bostonians, who made the journey just outside the city to build their fashionable summer homes. The extension of the railroad and trolley car lines significantly contributed to the continued growth of the quiet agricultural town and established its reputation as a desirable bedroom community.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738504661

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Steel-True 1907-1940

By: Victoria Wilson

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Steel-True 1907-1940

By: Victoria Wilson

“860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound (eighty-eight motion pictures) and lasted in television from its infancy in the 1950s through the 1980s. Here is Stanwyck, revealed as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock; her years in New York as a dancer and Broadway star; her fraught marriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius; the adoption of a son, embattled from the outset; her partnership with Zeppo Marx (the “unfunny Marx brother”) who altered the course of Stanwyck’s movie career and with her created one of the finest horse breeding farms in the west; and her fairytale romance and marriage to the younger Robert Taylor, America’s most sought-after male star. Here is the shaping of her career through 1940 with many of Hollywood's most important directors, among them Frank Capra, “Wild Bill” William Wellman, George Stevens, John Ford, King Vidor, Cecil B. Demille, Preston Sturges, set against the times—the Depression, the New Deal, the rise of the unions, the advent of World War II, and a fast-changing, coming-of-age motion picture industry. And at the heart of the book, Stanwyck herself—her strengths, her fears, her frailties, losses, and desires—how she made use of the darkness in her soul, transforming herself from shunned outsider into one of Hollywood’s most revered screen actresses. Fifteen years in the making—and written with full access to Stanwyck’s family, friends, colleagues and never-before-seen letters, journals, and photographs. Wilson’s one-of-a-kind biography—“large, thrilling, and sensitive” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country)—is an “epic Hollywood narrative” (USA TODAY), “so readable, and as direct as its subject” (The New York Times). With 274 photographs, many published for the first time.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439194068

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9781439194065

Appalachian Trail Hiker

Trail-Proven Advice for Hikes of Any Length

By: Victoria Logue,Frank Logue

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Appalachian Trail Hiker

Trail-Proven Advice for Hikes of Any Length

By: Victoria Logue,Frank Logue

The Appalachian Trail Hiker is a one-stop guide to preparing for and hiking the A.T. Although primarily geared to prepare and sustain the intrepid thru hiker, the book is also a must-have for anyone who wishes to experience the A.T., whether for an hour or for six months.

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Menasha Ridge Press

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0897328302

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The Business Benefits of GIS

An ROI Approach

By: David J. Maguire,Ross Smith,Victoria Kouyoumjian

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The Business Benefits of GIS

An ROI Approach

By: David J. Maguire,Ross Smith,Victoria Kouyoumjian

Presents a fact-based, benefits-focused methodology aimed at ensuring the sustainability of GIS initiatives by demonstrating the success of the investment. This book provides a framework with supplemental case studies, interactive digital tools, and templates.

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ESRI, Inc.

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158948200X

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9781589482005

The Best of the Appalachian Trail Day Hikes

By: Victoria Logue,Leonard M. Adkins,Frank Logue

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The Best of the Appalachian Trail Day Hikes

By: Victoria Logue,Leonard M. Adkins,Frank Logue

Day hikes in all fourteen states the Appalachian Trail passes through are described in brief, followed by a point-by-point description of the hike and trailhead directions. Hikes range in length from less than a mile to eleven miles....

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459618041

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9781459618046

The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture

By: Victoria Grieve

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The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture

By: Victoria Grieve

Art for everyone--the Federal Art Project's drive for middlebrow visual culture and identity

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University of Illinois Press

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025203421X

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Best of the Appalachian Trail: Overnight Hikes

By: Leonard M. Adkins,Frank Logue,Victoria Logue

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Best of the Appalachian Trail: Overnight Hikes

By: Leonard M. Adkins,Frank Logue,Victoria Logue

Experience sleeping under the stars on the Appalachian Trail with this guide. Hikers can traverse Virginia's Southern Shenandoah, enjoy North Carolina's Mount Cammerer Loop, and summit Vermont's Killington Peak with Best Hikes of the Appalachian Trail: Overnight Hikes by Victoria and Frank Logue and Leonard M. Adkins,the most comprehensive and useful guide to the best Appalachian Trail overnight hikes. This new edition includes new overnight hikes, as well as updated trail information. Each hike profile contains driving directions to the trailhead; a preview of the flora, fauna, and history hikers will encounter on the trail; and hike difficulty ratings.

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1634041488

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Best of the Appalachian Trail: Day Hikes

By: Leonard M. Adkins,Frank Logue,Victoria Logue

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Best of the Appalachian Trail: Day Hikes

By: Leonard M. Adkins,Frank Logue,Victoria Logue

A concise guide to the best day hikes along the entire Appalachian Trail. Summit the iconic Katahdin in Maine, explore Pennsylvania's Chimney Rocks, splash in Tennessee's Laurel Fork Gorge and Falls, and find out where Blood Mountain got its name in the new edition of Best of the Appalachian Trail: Day Hikes by Victoria and Frank Logue and Leonard M. Adkins. This is the most comprehensive and useful guide to this beloved long trail. The book details hikes in each of the 14 states that the Appalachian Trail passes through; previews the flora, fauna, and history of the A.T.; and offers point-by-point descriptions of each hike with trailhead directions. Hikes range in length from less than 1 mile to 11 miles.

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Menasha Ridge Press

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1634041461

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Heartland TV

Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity

By: Victoria E. Johnson

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Heartland TV

Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity

By: Victoria E. Johnson

Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award The Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by traditional cultural values and mass market dispositions. Whether cast positively —; as authentic, pastoral, populist, hardworking, and all-American—or negatively—as backward, narrow–minded, unsophisticated, conservative, and out-of-touch—the myth of the Heartland endures. Heartland TV examines the centrality of this myth to television's promotion and development, programming and marketing appeals, and public debates over the medium's and its audience's cultural worth. Victoria E. Johnson investigates how the "square" image of the heartland has been ritually recuperated on prime time television, from The Lawrence Welk Show in the 1950s, to documentary specials in the 1960s, to The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 1970s, to Ellen in the 1990s. She also examines news specials on the Oklahoma City bombing to reveal how that city has been inscribed as the epitome of a timeless, pastoral heartland, and concludes with an analysis of network branding practices and appeals to an imagined "red state" audience. Johnson argues that non-white, queer, and urban culture is consistently erased from depictions of the Midwest in order to reinforce its "reassuring" image as white and straight. Through analyses of policy, industry discourse, and case studies of specific shows, Heartland TV exposes the cultural function of the Midwest as a site of national transference and disavowal with regard to race, sexuality, and citizenship ideals.

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NYU Press

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0814743021

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9780814743027

1000 Paintings of Genius

By: Victoria Charles,Joseph Manca,Megan McShane

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1000 Paintings of Genius

By: Victoria Charles,Joseph Manca,Megan McShane

From the early Renaissance through Baroque and Romanticism to Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop, these canonical works of Western Art span eight centuries and a vast range of subjects. Here are the sacred and the scandalous, the minimalist and the opulent, the groundbreaking and the conventional. There are paintings that captured the feeling of an era and those that signaled the beginning of a new one. Works of art that were immediately recognised for their genius, and others that were at first met with resistance. All have stood the test of time and in their own ways contribute to the dialectic on what makes a painting great, how notions of art have changed, to what degree art reflects reality, and to what degree it alters it. Brought together, these great works illuminate the changing preoccupations and insights of our ancestors, and give us pause to consider which paintings from our own era will ultimately join the canon.

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Parkstone International

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1783104031

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9781783104031

Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity

By: Victoria L. Evans

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Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity

By: Victoria L. Evans

The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice of Sirk's formal style emerged from his detailed understanding of the artistic debates that raged in 1920s Europe and the post-war United States. With detailed case studies of Final Chord and All That Heaven Allows, Victoria Evans demonstrates how Sirk attempted to dissolve the boundaries of cinema by assimilating elements of avant-garde art, architecture and design into the colour, composition and setting of many of his most well-known films. Treating Sirk's oeuvre as a continuum between his German and American periods, Evans argues that his mise-en-scene was the result of an interdisciplinary, transnational dialogue, and illuminates the broader cultural context in which his films appeared by establishing links between archival documents, Modernist manifestos and the philosophical writings of his peers.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474409415

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9781474409414

Captive Arizona, 1851-1900

By: Victoria Smith

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Captive Arizona, 1851-1900

By: Victoria Smith

Captivity was endemic in Arizona from the end of the Mexican-American War through its statehood in 1912. The practice crossed cultures: Native Americans, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, and whites kidnapped and held one another captive. Victoria Smith's narrative history of the practice of taking captives in early Arizona shows how this phenomenon held Arizonans of all races in uneasy bondage that chafed social relations during the era. It also maps the social complex that accompanied captivity, a complex that included orphans, childlessness, acculturation, racial constructions, redemption, reintegration, intermarriage, and issues of heredity and environment. ø This in-depth work offers an absorbing account of decades of seizure and kidnapping and of the different ?captivity systems? operating within Arizona.øBy focusing on the stories of those taken captive?young women, children, the elderly, and the disabled, all of whom are often missing from southwestern history?Captive Arizona, 1851?1900 complicates and enriches the early social history of Arizona and of the American West.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803210906

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9780803210905

USA Facts and Fun Word Search Puzzles

By: Frank J. D'Agostino,Victoria Fremont,David Marshall,Ilene J. Rattiner

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USA Facts and Fun Word Search Puzzles

By: Frank J. D'Agostino,Victoria Fremont,David Marshall,Ilene J. Rattiner

Nearly 200 word searches are packed with interesting tidbits about every state and the District of Columbia as well as the life and times of the Presidents and First Ladies, from George and Martha Washington to Donald and Melania Trump. Solutions included.

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048683994X

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9780486839943

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