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Shackleton's Stowaway

By: Victoria McKernan

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On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the Antarctic continent. The crew stood on deck to watch the city fade away. All but one. Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow hid below in a locker. But the thrill of stowing away with the legendary explorer would soon turn to fear. Within months, the Endurance, trapped and crushed by ice, sank. And even Perce, the youngest member of the stranded crew, knew there was no hope of rescue. If the men were to survive in the most hostile place on earth, they would have to do it on their own. Victoria McKernan deftly weaves the hard-to-fathom facts of this famous voyage into an epic, edge-of-your-seat survival novel.

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Laurel Leaf

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0307545660

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9780307545664

Son of Fortune

By: Victoria McKernan

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Son of Fortune

By: Victoria McKernan

In mid-1860s San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Aiden gains a hoped-for chance at a change in fortune when he wins a ship in a poker game, but soon he is involved in Peru's savage guano trade and the exploitation of its Chinese workers.

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Ember

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0375857869

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9780375857867

Shackleton's Stowaway

By: Victoria McKernan

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By: Victoria McKernan

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The Devil's Paintbox

By: Victoria McKernan

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The Devil's Paintbox

By: Victoria McKernan

When almost-16-year-old Aiden Lynch and his little sister, Maddy, first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson, they're eating clay and hunting grasshoppers on the remains of their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. In short, the two orphans are starving to death, so when this man Jackson offers an escape—a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world—Aiden knows it's their only choice. They say there are a hundred ways to die on the Oregon Trail, and the long wagon journey is broken only by catastrophe: wolf attacks, tornadoes, rattlesnakes, deadly river crossings, Indians, and the looming threat of smallpox, "the devil's paint." But with the sky a cornflower blue and the air sweet with new prairie grass, Aiden and Maddy and a hundred fellow travelers move forward with a growing hope, and the promise of a new life in the Washington Territory. Adventure-filled and historically accurate, Victoria McKernan captures both the peril and stunning beauty of the frontier West in an epic American story at once sweeping and intimate, heartbreaking and hopeful.

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386

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Ember

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0449816559

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9780449816554

Shakespeare on screen : Macbeth

By: Sarah HATCHUEL,Nathalie VIENNE-GUERRIN,Victoria BLADEN

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Shakespeare on screen : Macbeth

By: Sarah HATCHUEL,Nathalie VIENNE-GUERRIN,Victoria BLADEN

This addition to the Shakespeare on Screen series reveals the remarkable presence of Macbeth in the global Shakespearean screenscape. What is it about Macbeth that is capable of extending beyond Scottish contexts and speaking globally, locally and “glocally”? Does the extensive adaptive reframing ofMacbeth suggest the paradoxical irrelevance of the original play? After examining the evident topic of the supernatural elements—the witches and the ghost—in the films, the essays move from a revisitation of the well-known American screen versions, to an analysis of more recent Anglophone productions and to world cinema (Asia, France, South Africa, India, Japan, etc.). Questions of lineage and progeny are broached, then extended into the wider issues of gender. Finally, ballet remediations, filmic appropriations, citations and mises-en-abyme of Macbeth are examined, and the book ends with an analysis of a Macbeth script that never reached the screen. Ce nouvel ouvrage de la série « Shakespeare à l’écran » révèle la présence remarquable de Macbeth dans le paysage filmique shakespearien à l’échelle mondiale. Comment expliquer qu’une pièce dont l’intrigue est ancrée dans une nation, l’Écosse, ait pu être absorbée par des cultures aussi diverses ? Les multiples adaptations de Macbeth suggèrent-elles, de manière paradoxale, une moindre pertinence de la pièce originelle ? Après avoir exploré la représentation des éléments surnaturels (les sorcières et le fantôme), le volume revisite les films américains « canoniques », les productions anglophones plus récentes et les versions d’autres aires culturelles (Asie, France, Afrique du Sud, Inde, Japon, etc.) Les questions de lignée et de descendance sont abordées, puis prolongées dans des articles sur la représentation du genre. Les versions dansées, les appropriations, les citations et les mises en abyme de Macbeth sont ensuite analysées, et ce parcours mène à un étrange objet – un scénario non filmé.

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1084

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Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre

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9791024000404

Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry

By: Victoria Roche,William S. Zito,Thomas Lemke,David A. Williams

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Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry

By: Victoria Roche,William S. Zito,Thomas Lemke,David A. Williams

With expert contributions from experienced educators, research scientists and clinicians, Foye’s Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, Eighth Edition is an invaluable resource for professional students, graduate students and pharmacy faculty alike. This ‘gold standard’ text explains the chemical basis of drug action, emphasizing the structure-activity relationships, physicochemical-pharmacokinetic properties, and metabolic profiles of the most commonly used drugs.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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149638587X

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9781496385871

Seeing Sarah Bernhardt

Performance and Silent Film

By: Victoria Duckett

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Seeing Sarah Bernhardt

Performance and Silent Film

By: Victoria Duckett

The most famous stage actress of the nineteenth century, Sarah Bernhardt enjoyed a surprising renaissance when the 1912 multi-reel film Queen Elizabeth vaulted her to international acclaim. The triumph capped her already lengthy involvement with cinema while enabling the indefatigable actress to reinvent herself in an era of technological and generational change. Placing Bernhardt at the center of the industry's first two decades, Victoria Duckett challenges the perception of her as an anachronism unable to appreciate film's qualities. Instead, cinema's substitution of translated title cards for her melodic French deciphered Bernhardt for Anglo-American audiences. It also allowed the aging actress to appear in the kinds of longer dramas she could no longer physically sustain onstage. As Duckett shows, Bernhardt contributed far more than star quality. Her theatrical practice on film influenced how the young medium changed the visual and performing arts. Her promoting of experimentation, meanwhile, shaped the ways audiences looked at and understood early cinema. A leading-edge reappraisal of a watershed era, Seeing Sarah Bernhardt tells the story of an icon who bridged two centuries--and changed the very act of watching film.

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249

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097750

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9780252097751

Snow Angels

By: Cherie Claire,Kensington Publishing Corporation Staff,P Conn,V Dark,Victoria Dark,Phoebe Conn

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Snow Angels

By: Cherie Claire,Kensington Publishing Corporation Staff,P Conn,V Dark,Victoria Dark,Phoebe Conn

Share the delights of long-ago winter love stories, from ante-bellum Louisiana to Regency England to the Texas range as three couples find their hearts' desire with the help of some adorable cherubs. THE LETTER by Cherie Claire Fiona Riley swore to her dying friend that she would be a mother to her child. Desperate to provide for the baby, Fiona poses as wealthy Emile Dugas's long lost cousin. From the moment he sees the Irish beauty, Emile knows she's not his missing relative. But how can he resist her laughing eyes, or the sweet child in her arms? TEXAS LULLABY by Phoebe Conn When young Alexandra Howard gave up her tomboy ways to marry Dr. Clay Burnett, she found herself overwhelmed by the task of playing the perfect physician's wife in a small Texas town, while her husband wondered what had happened to the spitfire girl he'd married. It takes the promise of a little angel of their own to turn this passionate pair into the perfect couple. SNOWFLAKES AND KISSES by Victoria Dark When pretty Olivia Knowles jilted Sir Derrick Blackwell to elope with his nephew, the baronet dismissed her as an empty headed social butterfly. Now she is a widow with a little daughter to raise. When Derrick pays a duty call and finds Olivia making a happy Christmas for her child, this merry pair of angels captures his heart.

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390

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Zebra Books

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0821763830

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9780821763834

Silk Stalkings

More Women Write of Murder

By: Victoria Nichols,Susan Thompson

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Silk Stalkings

More Women Write of Murder

By: Victoria Nichols,Susan Thompson

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of series characters created by women authors in crime and mystery fiction from 1867 to 1997.

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081083393X

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9780810833937

Osprey Reef

By: Victoria McKernan

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Osprey Reef

By: Victoria McKernan

While diving off Osprey Reef, Chicago, the daughter of a Norwegian sea captain and a Trinidadian woman, and her Haitian assistant, Umbi, have their boat stolen, a crime that embroils Chicago with a federal agent, danger, and murder

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Carroll & Graf Pub

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088184635X

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Shakespeare on screen : Macbeth

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Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry

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Seeing Sarah Bernhardt

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