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[ "In 1996, a groundbreaking television drama debuted on the Fox network. Created by Chris Carter, Millennium tells the story of Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a legendary forensic profiler gifted with the ability to see into the minds of killers. Through his work as a consultant with the F.B.I. and the mysterious Millennium Group, the series offers a thoughtful exploration of the nature and manifestations of evil in the modern world. Back to Frank Black offers an unprecedented volume of material exploring this landmark series. With forewords from Lance Henriksen and Frank Spotnitz and an introduction by series creator Chris Carter, the collection features interviews with cast and crew as well as in-depth essays analyzing Millennium's characters, themes, and enduring legacy. Inspired by the growing movement to return this iconic hero to the screen, Back to Frank Black finds its focus in an incomparable figure of hope: Frank Black. We need him now more than ever." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Performing Arts" ]

[ "Veterinarian Trip Beaumont likes being a big fish in a small pond. There’s hardly an animal she can’t heal or a woman she can’t charm within fifty miles of Pine Cone, Georgia―except for the irritating and elusive new cop who keeps leaving parking tickets on her truck. Officer Jamie Grant has never liked rule breakers, but she’s especially incensed when she discovers Trip owns the truck that is constantly parked illegally. She’s searched carefully for a quiet, eclectic community to settle down with her drug-sniffing―albeit gastric-challenged―canine partner, Petunia. Instead, she finds herself on a collision course with the woman who stole her college girlfriend and broke her heart after an ill-conceived threesome. A Pine Cone Romance" ]

[ "About the Author", "D. Jackson Leigh grew up barefoot and happy, swimming in farm ponds and riding rude ponies in rural south Georgia. Her passion for writing led her to a career in journalism and North Carolina where she lives with The Terrors, her three mostly terrier mutts. She edits news at night and spends her days writing lesbian romance stories laced with her trademark Southern humor and affection for horses. Jackson has won three Golden Crown Literary Society awards for her novels and was a finalist in the romance category of the 2014 Lambda Literary Awards." ]

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[ "Books", "Romance", "LGBTQ+ Romance" ]

[ "Wedged chronologically between World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War—which began with North Korea’s invasion of South Korea in June of 1950—possessed neither the virtuous triumphalism of the former nor the tragic pathos of the latter. Most Americans supported defending South Korea, but there was considerable controversy during the war as to the best means to do so—and the question was at least as exasperating for American army officers as it was for the general public. A longtime historian of American military leadership in the crucible of war, Stephen R. Taaffe takes a close critical look at how the highest ranking field commanders of the Eighth Army acquitted themselves in the first, decisive year in Korea. Because an army is no better than its leadership, his analysis opens a new perspective on the army's performance in Korea, and on the conduct of the war itself.In that first year, the Eighth Army’s leadership ran the gamut from impressive to lackluster—a surprising unevenness since so many of the high-ranking officers had been battle-tested in World War II. Taaffe attributes these leadership difficulties to the army’s woefully unprepared state at the war’s start, army personnel policies, and General Douglas MacArthur’s corrosive habit of manipulating his subordinates and pitting them against each other. He explores the personalities at play, their pre-war experiences, the manner of their selection, their accomplishments and failures, and, of course, their individual relationships with each other and MacArthur. By explaining who these field, corps, and division commanders were, Taaffe exposes the army’s institutional and organizational problems that contributed to its up-and-down fortunes in Korea in 1950–1951. Providing a better understanding of MacArthur’s controversial generalship, Taaffe’s book offers new and invaluable insight into the army’s life-and-death struggle in America’s least understood conflict." ]

[ "Review", "\"Taaffe writes with smoothness, clarity, and verve. . . Personal profiles extend beyond background and training to personality traits and idiosyncrasies, including thoughtful and balanced assessments of individual strengths and weaknesses.\"--", "H-Net Reviews", "\"Taaffe has done a service for students of the Korean War of of US Army Institutional history. His generally direct, clearly written evaluations of the performance of men like MacArthur, Ridgway, and the troublesome X Corps commander Ned Almond are judicious and carefully reasoned.\"--", "Michigan War Studies Review", "\"Those interested in the Korean War are sure to want", "MacArthur's Korean War Generals", "on their bookshelf. Taaffe's insights will cause readers to reevaluate their understanding of the war as well as their assessment of the army's senior leadership at the time.\"--", "Military Review", "\"An outstanding study, adding considerably to one's understanding of Korean War military leadership and operations.\"--", "Korean Journal of Military History", "\"Offers important insights into and background on the army generals who led U.S. forces during the first thirteen months of the Korean War.\"--", "Journal of Military History", "\"Anybody who wants to understand how the US Army fought in the Korean War needs to read this book. Taaffe is especially interesting on the personal relationships between senior officers.\"--", "Thomas E. Ricks", ", author of", "Fiasco", "and", "The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today", "\"Taaffe is a master storyteller, analyst, and researcher who provides commendable balance to a subject that has often produced polemics. His extensive use of oral history and background on World War II military leadership enable him to provide insights that will inform specialists, buffs, and general readers alike.\"--", "William Stueck", ", author of", "Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History", "\"A terrific study of America's military leadership during the Korean War. Taaffe is remarkably even-handed, providing praise where it is appropriate and criticism where it is deserved. The book offers insights into topics ranging from the critical tactical and strategic decisions of the war to the impact of more petty politics and personal relationships. Beautifully-written and thoroughly-researched,", "MacArthur's Korean War Generals", "offers lessons that still resonate today for the Korean Peninsula and beyond.\"--", "Mitchell Lerner", ", Director of Korean Studies, The Ohio State University", "One of the best US Army history studies on the Korean War. Taaffe successfully explains that, although the US Eighth Army was unprepared for the war, its field commanders made the difference in the success of the UNF operations because of their leadership style, combat experience, and command skills. There were divergent views on how to fight the war at MacArthur's HQs. Taaffe assesses the dissimilar war-fighting strategies through the lens of the differing military careers and political considerations of the generals, who had abled to make good use of their experiences from WWII that made the Eighth Army a competent fighting force in Korea. They consolidated the UNF defense line, pushed for offensive campaigns into North Korea, built the confidence in fighting back the Communist invasions, and transformed the US Army from a WWII \"liberation force\" to a Cold War \"containment force\". A milestone in US military leadership research of the Korean War. It is highly recommended. --", "Xiaobing Li", ", co-editor and translator of", "Mao's Generals Remember Korea", "About the Author", "Stephen R. Taaffe is professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He is the author of", "Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World War II", "and", "MacArthur’s Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign", ", both from Kansas." ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Military" ]

[ "For many, markets are the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. But what about those markets we might label noxious--markets in addictive drugs, say, or in sex? In", "Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale", ", philosopher Debra Satz takes a penetrating look at those commodity exchanges that strike most of us as problematic. What considerations, she asks, ought to guide the debates about such markets? Satz contends that categories previously used by philosophers and economists are of limited use in addressing such markets because they are assumed to be homogenous. Accordingly, she offers a broader and more nuanced view of markets--one that goes beyond the usual discussions of efficiency and distributional equality--to show how markets shape our culture, foster or thwart human development, and create and support structures of power. Nobel Laureate Kenneth J. Arrow calls this book \"a work that will have to be studied and taken accountof by all those concerned by the role of the market as compared with other social mechanisms.\"" ]

[ "Review", "\"A wonderfully lucid tour of the thinking on markets over the years by economists and philosophers, from Adam Smith through Ronald Dworkin. Her main focus is markets that almost all find offensive: child labor, sex, kidneys. But the lessons she draws from them raise hard questions about the markets for health care, education, and maybe even credit derivatives.\" --", "Harvard Business Review", "\"Satz here provides a rigorous analysis of the relation between morality and the role of markets. Satz's contributions will be useful for a wide range of scholars concerned with ethics, moral theory, and economics. Highly recommended.\" --", "CHOICE", "\"Why not put everything up for sale--shoes and sex, cars and kidneys, blackberries and babies? Drawing on history and philosophy, economics and sociology,", "Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale", "presents a powerful defense of a bracing answer to this question. According to Debra Satz, we can have markets for everything or we can have a democratic society, but we cannot have both. Satz's argument is subtle, rich, and complex, but in the end, the choice she presents us with is that simple.\"--Joshua Cohen, Stanford University", "\"This is a major accomplishment, and a compelling study for everyone interested in exploring the moral limits of markets. Satz seamlessly integrates moral reflection with concrete studies of how specific markets actually work. She provides an outstanding model of how empirically responsible moral inquiry should be conducted.\"--Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor", "\"In the modern world markets are central to our lives. We sell our labor and buy the goods and services we want. Markets can lead to economically efficient outcomes that could not be reached by other means. But markets have their limits. As Debra Satz points out, we reject markets in child labor, organs, votes or human beings, among other things. Sometimes we reject markets because they are inefficient. But, Satz argues, efficiency is not the only value in play, for markets affect 'who we are, how we relate to each other and what sort of society we can have.' Markets, Satz, demonstrates, are far too important to be left to economists. In this masterful work, the culmination of many years of thought, Satz provides a highly original framework to assist our reflections on which markets are beneficial and which, as she puts, it are 'noxious'.\"--Jonathan Wolff, Professor of Philosophy, University College London", "\"Our intuitive reaction that there are some trades that should not be made has received little understanding from economic analysis. Satz has greatly clarified the issues by making clear the social role that markets play, both in their own performance and in their consequences. She is discriminating in her analysis, pointing out the markets may sometimes contribute to the achievement of broader social values and better interactions while at other times they may reinforce bad consequences. This is a work that will have to be studied and taken account of by all those concerned by the role of the market as compared with other social mechanisms.\"--Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Stanford University", "\"A rigorous and pertinent inquiry into the relationship between morality and markets and the need for regulation of specific commodity markets.\" --", "Publishers Weekly", "\"Satz's analysis is likely to be the focus of much debate among political philosophers, as those with a libertarian bent endeavor to respond to herwell-crafted critique\" --", "Library Journal", "\"Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale is intelligent, insightful and on the whole convincing, and even those readers who already agree with most of Satz's conclusions regarding the justifiability and permissibility of particular sorts of markets will learn from it.\" --Troy Jollimore,", "Truthdig", "\"Satz's contribution will be useful for a wide range of scholars concerned with ethics, moral theory, and economics. Highly recommended.\" --", "Choice", "\"This book is third in the Oxford Political Philosophy series and offers a rich argument about the morality of markets and the limits of our political and philosophical categories when looking at various markets, such as those in human organs or child labor.\" --Christine M. Fletcher,", "Journal of Markets and Morality", "About the Author", "Debra Satz", "is Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University." ]

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[ "Books", "New, Used & Rental Textbooks", "Humanities" ]

[ "Humanity is fractured and on the brink of war…The United Terran Federation and the Eastern Star Alliance have been fighting in minor skirmishes along the border region for the last few years, but now it threatens to break out into a full-on war with the victor assuming control of all human space.The Alliance has fired the opening shots with a horrific strike on a civilian target, killing millions and shocking the Federation's parliament into action. Now mighty fleets of starships are moving against each other, ready for the final battle that will settle the conflict once and for all. The venerable Admiral Jackson Wolfe prepares himself for one last fight as his nemesis, Admiral Vadim Kohl, looks to make a name for himself by defeating the infamous Federation officer in battle. Jackson knows events are now in motion that can't be stopped and only one thing is certain: win or lose, nothing will ever be the same again." ]

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[ "Books", "Science Fiction & Fantasy", "Science Fiction" ]

[ "In 1926, the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company closed the gates on a newly finished dam at the confluence of the Turtle and Flambeau rivers in Iron County Wisconsin. That act created a storage reservoir of over 13,000-acres, known today as the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage, whose waters were to be released for the purpose of generating hydropower for downstream industries. What served the state’s industries, however, angered conservationists, for the headwaters of an iconic northwoods river, the Flambeau, had been replaced by a body of water dotted with standing dead trees and awash in driftwood and slash. But Clio, the muse of history, had a trick up her sleeve. The reservoir quickly became home to an abundant fish population; resorts sprang up to meet the needs of anglers and their families; and the flowage gained a reputation for its unique blend of excellent fishing with a wilderness setting. Statewide recognition followed in 1990, when Governor Tommy G. Thompson hailed the flowage as “One of Wisconsin’s Crown Jewels” and announced that the state would be purchasing the bulk of the flowage’s shoreline from the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company. A few years later the Turtle-Flambeau Scenic Waters Area became a reality. This book tells the story of the creation of the flowage, traces the evolution of its waters, recounts the emerging human presence in the area, and examines the interplay of the various parties that have an interest in the flowage and its future. It also takes a close look at flowage fishing, life at flowage resorts, and some of the colorful people whose lives have become part of the history and legend of the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage." ]

[ "About the Author", "Michael Hittle is a retired history professor from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. During his 35 years on the faculty—including eight as dean of the faculty—he taught the history of Russia and authored The Service City: State and Townsmen in Russia 1600-1800. Since retiring he has traveled with his wife, Marcia, pursued his life-long passion for fishing, and spent a great deal of time at the family’s cabin on the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage, where he has served on the board of the lake association and worked on chronicling the history of this fabled body of water." ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Americas" ]

[ "Offering the same brand of practical, no-holds-barred, expert advice that made", "Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office", "an international million-copy bestseller,", "Nice Girls Just Don't Get It", "teaches us the skills we need to turn from a nice girl into a winning woman, not just in our careers but in our relationships, families, and everyday lives.", "Have you ever felt invisible? Taken advantage of? Reluctant (or unable) to articulate what you really want? If so, join the club. The nice girls club.  Nice girls—that's right, girls—are those  more concerned with pleasing others than with addressing their own needs and haven't yet learned how to overcome the childhood messages cultural stereotypes keeping them from getting their voices heard, their needs met, and the lives they want. This book will turn those nice girls into winning women. That is, women who factor their own needs in with those of others, confront those who treat them disrespectfully,  maintain healthy and mutually beneficial relationships with appropriate boundaries— and as a result, are happier and more successful in every area of their life.  In 2004, Lois Frankel blew the lid off so many of our long-held ideas about gender and success with her bestselling", "Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office", ", which went on to become such a huge phenomenon, the term \"nice girls\" has secured a place in our cultural lexicon. Here, Frankel teams up with negotiation expert Carol Frohlinger to bring this bestselling advice out of the workplace and provide a broader set of skills that any woman—whether a CEO or stay-at-home mom—can use to win anywhere, with anyone.Presented in the straightforward, digestible format that helped make", "Nice Girl's Don't Get the Corner Office", "an instant hit, Frankel and Frohlinger outline seven practical strategies and 99 supporting tactics that every winning woman should know. By the time you've finished reading this book, you'll be able to:• Get your husband to do his half of the household chores—without being made to feel like a nag. • Stop overextending yourself by taking on all the unpleasant tasks no one on your volunteer board, or your team at work will go near. • Win an argument with your mother in law about who will be hosting Christmas dinner.  • Have the courage to send back a meal that isn’t prepared the way you’d ordered it. • Confront a colleague who is shirking responsibility or taking credit for your work.• Convince a sales person to reduce a fee, waive a surcharge, or honor a store credit.• Question a doctor’s course or treatment or request a second opinion, instead of simply going along in order to be a “good” patient.• Firmly but politely bow out of an extravagant vacation to celebrate a friend’s birthday that you simply can’t afford–without feeling guilty about it. And so much more. A must-read for anyone who's ever felt taken advantage of by a friend or family member, unappreciated by a spouse or partner, or exploited by a vindictive neighbor or co-worker,", "Nice Girls Just Don't Get It", "offers women the indispensable knowledge and skills to get the things they want, the respect they've earned, and the success they deserve." ]

[ "Amazon.com Review", "Q&A with Lois Frankel and Carol Frohlinger", "© Rob Reiter Photography", "In", "Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It", "you compare nice girls and winning women. What are the differences?", "Nice girls put everyone else’s needs before their own. They hesitate to take action because they don’t want to make waves or be labeled a bitch, and they don’t ask for what they want so as not to appear high maintenance. Winning women factor their needs in with those of others. They know how to approach confrontations without being confrontational and they are willing to take risks in diplomatically asking for what they’ve earned, deserve, or want.", "What are some of the most common mistakes women make when it comes to getting the things they most want in life and why do they make them?", "1. Not knowing what they want! Women have been socialized to put others needs before their own, so frequently they can’t put a figure on exactly what it is they do want, or are afraid to express it for fear that others will see them as greedy or needy.", "2. Not knowing when it’s time to walk away from a bad situation. Women often think they can turn it around or that it’s their fault, when in fact neither is true.", "3. Communicating indirectly. They expect others to read their minds, use so many words when expressing themselves that others tune out or can’t figure out what they really want, and put their assertions in the form of questions. All of these behaviors contribute to unclear and diluted messages.", "Why are men often better negotiators than women?", "The reasons are complicated. Women are as good as men when they are negotiating on behalf of others (such as their families) but fall short when they are negotiating for themselves, for example, when they negotiate salary.", "Nice girls have a particularly difficult time as negotiators because they tend to accept the rules as they are, failing to recognize they can challenge the status quo. Take the all-too-common situation of the woman who holds down a job and then heads home for the “second shift.” She fails to recognize the opportunity to negotiate a more equitable solution with her family--she’s not the only person who’s capable of sorting laundry and grocery shopping!", "When you look at high-profile contemporary women, who do you see getting it right?", "People like Anne Mulcahy at Xerox, actor Sandra Bullock, and media mogul Oprah Winfrey are all getting it right. They haven’t sacrificed their femininity to get what they want, and they don’t suffer fools gladly. Each is a unique combination of the characteristics that make up the personalities of winning women.", "Give us three tips women can put to immediate use to start getting what they want--now!", "1. Define with crystal clarity what it is you want that you don’t currently have. It could be a better job, to leave a bad relationship, or to tell your mother-in-law to butt out of your business. Until you can “see” and “say” what you want, you won’t get it.", "2. Speak in headlines with taglines. The first thing out of your mouth should be your main point, not a lot of filler words. Give your opinion briefly and succinctly. Then follow it up with an inclusive tagline such as, “You can see I have strong feelings about this. I’d also like to know what you think.” The tagline mitigates the impression of being too aggressive.", "3. Avoid V-8 moments. Rather than walk away from difficult conversations thinking, “I should have said __________,” prepare in advance for resistance. If you know your husband will be resistant to you going back to work, consider what his objections might be and have a response ready.", "From Publishers Weekly", "Frankel (Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office) and Frohlinger (coauthor, Her Place at the Table) provide a broad set of skills women can use to achieve goals when dealing with anyone, anywhere, whether a disparaging sister-in-law, a contractor who can't remember what was agreed upon in previous discussions, or a boyfriend who lets you pay for most of the meals and entertainment. Employing case studies and self-assessment and visualization exercises, the authors urge readers not to let early experiences define them and limit their expectations of themselves or invest equally in every relationship. They advise paying attention to subtle messages given by others, developing a thicker skin, and asking directly for what you need rather than hinting around, as well as avoiding passive-aggressive behavior; learn to interrupt a discussion \"with aplomb\"; and being proactive in both your personal and professional lives. Despite nuggets of helpful advice, this book feels like an also-ran to Frankel's previous trail-blazing bestseller. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.", "Review", "“Frankel and Frohlinger break down why so many women go through life harboring resentment and frustration: it’s about respect, and no one is going to hand it to us. Bravo to these two winning women – they demonstrate how it’s done, share the expert advice that will earn you the things you want, and the respect you deserve.”—", "Carolyn Kepcher", ", bestselling author of", "Carolyn 101", ", former Trump Executive V.P., and CEO of WorkHerWay.com “I have read all the", "Nice Girls", "books, and they’ve helped me immensely both personally and professionally. Now a new gem in the series appears – this one is the crown jewel!”  —", "Hamida Belkadi", ", CEO, De Beers, North America“This book is a treasure! If you’re looking for smart, down-to-earth strategies for building a fulfilling life look no further.  Frankel and Frohlinger are a winning team whose advice is essential reading for women who want to use their talents to the fullest.”—", "Anne Fisher", ", \"Ask Annie\" columnist, CNNmoney.com “Lois Frankel and Carol Frohlinger have done it again!", "Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It", "is easy to read, practical and crammed with great advice for all women. It’s a gentle wakeup call and powerful resource for everyone—from teenagers to top executives. Brilliant!”—", "Liz Cornish", ", founding partner, FHD (First 100 Days) Consulting  “You don’t have to be a drop dead diva to love this book. Every woman can win the life she wants by following its sage advice.” —", "Josh Berman", ", Creator,", "Drop Dead Diva", "“If you're a nice girl—or even if you're not—you'll want to read this book.”—", "Peggy Klaus", ", author of", "BRAG! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It", "and", "The Hard Truth About Soft Skills: Workplace Lessons Smart People Wish They’d Learned Sooner", "About the Author", "The name, DR. LOIS FRANKEL, has become practically synonymous with helping women to succeed in work and life.  Her book, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, was a New York Times mega-bestseller that has been translated into twenty-five languages and sold a million copies worldwide. As president of Corporate Coaching International and an active speaker, Frankel helps tens of thousands of women each year achieve their personal and professional goals. She has been widely featured in the media, including the Today show, Larry King Live, People magazine, Time magazine, BusinessWeek, and The Wall Street Journal.  CAROL FROHLINGER,J.D., is a cofounder of Negotiating Women, Inc., a firm committed to helping women to negotiate more confidently, competitively, and competently. Her advice has been featured by CBS MoneyWatch, NPR, Cosmopolitan magazine, and the New York Times. Coauthor of Her Place at the Table and an internationally recognized speaker, Frohlinger draws from her experience as an attorney to help women get to yes in all aspects of life.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Self-Help", "Relationships" ]

[ "Prekindergarten Essentials includes fun practice pages to help children learn these skills: -colors -shapes -opposites -handwriting -counting -the alphabet Filled with skill-building practice and real-world activities, Prekindergarten Essentials prepares children for success both in and out of the classroom.", "Give children the building blocks for classroom success with Prekindergarten Essentials. This workbook supports learning in three key areas: -reading -math -basic skills", "Designed to support independent thinking and discovery, Prekindergarten Essentials offers opportunities to learn off the page, engaging children in active learning while promoting critical thinking, creativity, and communication.", "The Essentials series for prekindergarten to second grades helps build a strong foundation for a successful educational journey. Each practice page features a “One Step Further” activity to encourage children to apply skills to everyday experiences. The books include fun puzzles and mazes in a bonus “Games and Activities” section." ]

[ "From the Back Cover", "Building a strong foundation for learning is an essential part of your child's future. Give your child the building blocks he or she needs to develop 21st century skills with Prekindergarten Essentials!", "Prekindergarten Essentials promotes learning and fu" ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Activities, Crafts & Games" ]

[ "Eagle Blue", "follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day of practice in late November to the Alaska State Championship Tournament in March. With insight, frankness, and compassion, Michael D'Orso climbs into the lives of these fourteen boys, their families, and their coach, shadowing them through an Arctic winter of fifty-below-zero temperatures and near-round-the-clock darkness as the Eagles criss-cross Alaska in pursuit of their-and their village's-dream." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "Starred Review.", "Eight miles above the Arctic Circle, there's a village with no roads leading to it, but a high school basketball tradition that lights up winter's darkness and a team of native Alaskan boys who know \"no quit.\" D'Orso (coauthor of", "Like No Other Time", "with Tom Daschle) follows the Fort Yukon Eagles through their 2005 season to the state championship, shifting between a mesmerizing narrative and the thoughts of the players, their coach and their fans. What emerges is more than a sports story; it's a striking portrait of a community consisting of a traditional culture bombarded with modernity, where alcoholism, domestic violence and school dropout rates run wild. One player compares Fort Yukon to a bucket of crabs: \"If one crab gets a claw-hold on the edge... and starts to pull itself out, the others will reach up and grab it and pull it back down.\" Among D'Orso's unusual characters are the woman who built a public library in her home, the families who adopt abandoned children, and, of course, the boys for whom \"hard\" has an entirely different meaning (e.g., regularly trudging through \"icy darkness\" to board flights to Fairbanks for games). With a ghostlike presence, D'Orso lends a voice to a place that deserves to be known.", "(Mar.)", "Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Review", "“D'Orso magnificently chronicles the ups and downs and dramas and comedies on the road, on the basketball court and in the village of Fort Yukon.", "Eagle Blue", "is at once a riveting sports story and an incredible exploration of the collision of cultures on one of the planet's few remaining frontiers.” ―", "Seattle Post Intelligencer", "“[A] heartfelt homage to a proud, indigenous people who hope to soar with their Eagles, a fleeting escape from the lives often battered by more than the Artic winds.\" [3 1/2 stars]” ―", "People Magazine (Critic's Choice)", "“D'Orso, a veteran journalist, spent a season with [the Fort Yukon Eagles], attending every practice and game, and came back from the cold with a fascinating book.” ―", "Oregonian", "“The best book on Alaska since Jon Krakauer's", "Into the Wild", ".", "” ―", "Orlando Sentinel", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "From The Washington Post", "You can't help losing your heart to the Gwich'in kids of Eagle Blue, Michael D'Orso's captivating literary documentary of the 2004 Fort Yukon High School basketball season. The Gwich'in are Indians, not Eskimos or Inuit; though nowadays many of them are children or grandchildren of interracial marriages, they are related to the Navajo and the Apache. Their town lies just inside the Arctic Circle, 150 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, and in 2004 their high school had an enrollment of 32. Fort Yukon is not free of the alcoholism, cultural confusion and defeatism that poison so much of Native American life. \"That's one thing that really sucks about life here, [a student named Matt Shewfelt] will tell you straight up. Whenever someone tries to do something worthwhile, to make something of themselves -- and this is true of the grownups as well as the kids -- it seems like everyone else tries to pull them back down.\"", "But the town has a tradition of good basketball, thanks in no small part to coach Dave Bridges, who has repeatedly taken his boys to Anchorage for the state tournament in their small-school division. The 2004 crop showed exceptional promise. They weren't tall -- only two players were a bit over six feet -- but they were fast, with some standout shooters, especially from beyond the three-point line. They had bench strength, and, at Bridges's insistence, they were in terrific shape. (Before the season was over, they came from behind to win more than once, their stamina helping them overtake wobbling opponents.)", "D'Orso is such a spirited writer that he could surely make the reader empathize with boys from any of the teams Fort Yukon played over the season, including the one from a town of Russian Old Believers where the people still wear Amish-like garb. But he persuades us that there was something special about these Eagles, a blend of selflessness and maturity that kicked in when the boys took the court. Many of them came from broken homes, or had grown up seeing their once-athletic fathers go to seed, or had themselves already gotten into trouble. The boys might claim that they shot hoops to attract babes, but for virtually all of them, basketball -- with its excitement, its wholesome relief from domestic anxieties, its opportunity for travel outside of bush Alaska -- was the most enriching part of life. Previous teams had come so close to winning state so often that a current of hope seemed to ripple through the cold Fort Yukon air: This might just be the year.", "D'Orso ably sketches the mentality of rural interior Alaska: a combination of fascination with the urban world (the sweetest kid on the team affected gangsta outfits and lingo) and disdain for city slickers who think they can just waltz into the backcountry. For example, the players couldn't figure out the fuss over Chris McCandless. He, you may recall, was the young man who in 1992 hitchhiked to Denali National Park, intending to live off the land despite his utter unpreparedness. After he was found dead of starvation, two books were written about him. According to D'Orso, the boys on the team considered McCandless \"an idiot -- the same kind of idiot who's been coming up to Alaska forever, all the way back to the gold-rush days. . . . What galls the hell out of the people who live here . . . is the lack of respect shown by these backpackers and hippies and seekers-of-truth who have no idea what they're in for in roadless Alaska and don't take the time or the trouble to find out.\"", "D'Orso also has a gift for bringing ball games to life. He dwells on the Eagles' attempts to implement their coach's perennial strategy, which is to force the other team to play Fort Yukon's game, not the one they've grown comfortable with. And D'Orso brings to life the \"run,\" in which a combination of steals, fouls by the other team and a three-pointer or two can propel a team from a few points back to a few points ahead in a matter of seconds. Reading Eagle Blue has the same nerve-wracking effect as watching a real-life game in which someone you know and love is playing.", "You can flip to the back of the book and find out how the Eagles' 2004 season turned out, but I wouldn't advise it. Better to take each game as it comes, living the season much as did the boys themselves in D'Orso's sensitive, exhilarating account.", "Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle Copyright 2006, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Review", "“D’Orso magnificently chronicles the ups and downs and dramas and comedies on the road, on the basketball court and in the village of Fort Yukon.", "Eagle Blue", "is at once a riveting sports story and an incredible exploration of the collision of cultures on one of the planet's few remaining frontiers.”—", "Seattle", "Post Intelligencer", "“[A] heartfelt homage to a proud, indigenous people who hope to soar with their Eagles, a fleeting escape from the lives often battered by more than the Artic winds.” [3 1/2 stars]—", "People Magazine", "(Critic’s Choice)", "“D’Orso, a veteran journalist, spent a season with [the Fort Yukon Eagles], attending every practice and game, and came back from the cold with a fascinating book.”—", "Oregonian", "“The best book on Alaska since Jon Krakauer’s", "Into the Wild", ".", "”—", "Orlando", "Sentinel", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "From", "Booklist", "*Starred Review* Everything in Alaska's bush is tough, from earning a living to surviving the elements. One thing that helps citizens in the isolated, mostly Native American bush communities cope with the long winters is high-school basketball. Fort Yukon High School had 32 students enrolled in 2004, and of those, 14 boys and 7 girls were on the respective basketball teams. The boys program is one of the most successful in the state: the preceding eight seasons, they won regional titles and most recently advanced to the finals before losing. With the OK of school officials and the players, D'Orso imbedded himself with the team for the 2004-05 season. He lived in a small Fort Yukon cabin, attended all the practices and games, and tried to learn as much as possible about the culture of the town in which the players live. The result is a thoroughly fascinating mix of sports and cultural anthropology. The basketball narrative is fascinating as D'Orso examines the team dynamic, a la John Feinstein, but the real beauty of the book emerges in the contextual portrait of life in a small bush town where the traditions of hunting, trapping, and fishing are slowly eroded by the culture of snowmobiles, video games, and television. An inspiring, sometimes disturbing portrait of a culture in crisis.", "Wes Lukowsky", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "About the Author", "Michael D'Orso", "is the author of more than a dozen books, including", "Plundering Paradise", ",", "Like Judgment Day, Like No Other Time", "(with Tom Daschle), and", "Walking with the Wind", "(with John Lewis).", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Read more" ]

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[ "“Part detective tale, part thriller…touching and genuine.” —", "The New York Times", "#1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them.", "#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER", "THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER", "SOMETIMES GROWING UP  MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.", "LATER", "is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel", "It", ",", "LATER", "is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears." ]

[ "Review", "#1 on The New York Times bestselling Paperback Trade Fiction list #1 on The Washington Post Paperback Bestsellers list#1 on the Toronto Star's list of Bestselling Original Fiction in Canada\"Part detective tale, part thriller...touching and genuine.” --", "The New York Times", "\"There’s classic King here for fans... a thrilling whodunit.\" - Associated Press“King’s writing in LATER is as clean, direct and evocative as it’s ever been…the crime-driven plot is propulsive [and] some of the lines just take your breath away…you’re in the hands of a master storyteller.” -", "Washington Post", "\"Delivers his signature twists and turns....An eerie, enthralling tale.\" -Woman's World Magazine (Best Books to Read )\"Crave chills and thrills but don’t have time for a King epic? This will do the job before bedtime. Not that you’ll sleep.\"  -Kirkus\"Gory and unnerving, this twisty chiller has sufficient sins and revelations to keep readers pursuing the action to its breathless conclusion. King fans are in for a treat.\" -Publishers Weekly \"An entertaining and breezy read, with the stellar storytelling that has justly made King a literary legend.\" - AARP Magazine\"", "Later", "is a horror story, but it’s also a proper thriller, told by a master of his craft.\"—", "The Guardian", "\"King’s tics and tricks are all in bloom: folksy dialogue, cockeyed worldview, rising tension, pure evil, etc. \" - Philadelphia Inquirer\"A Joy to read...some of King’s best writing...If you haven’t read a King novel for a while due to timeconstraints, or you would like an introduction to the man at or near the top of his game, pick LATER as your delightful literary poison.\" - BookReporter\"LATER is top-notch Stephen King and one of the most memorable works in his long and storied writing career. The tale calls to mind many of his prior works and is the only other story next to the classic IT to refer to ‘deadlights’ --- a word that should cause icy chills to run down the spine of any faithful King reader.\" - BookReporter\"A satisfying tale about facing demons—both those we can see and those that lurk in the darkness.\" - Foreword Reviews \"Later is yet another example of Stephen King’s special ability to tell a story that’s both simple and compelling. Entertaining and thought-provoking, it’s a must-add to your 2021 reading list.\" - New York Journal of Books\"A powerful testament to [King’s] storytelling prowess\" - Bookbub\"Sharply developed characters, steady incorporation of supernatural elements, and building suspense, make for [a] great read\" - Borg.com\"A horror story [that] is really more of a genre-bender, combining the horror with a sensitive coming-of-age tale and an old-school crime thriller. [A] most ingratiating mix.\" - Booklist Starred Review\"There's classic King here for fans... A thrilling whodunit.\" - ABC News", "\"Later", "is a horror story, but it’s also a proper thriller, told by a master of his craft.\" - The Guardian\"King at his absolute best.\" - Daily Mail\"Classic King with a twist.\" - Barnes & Noble feature \"Toggle[s] between thrills and feels, all the while slowly dialling up the terror as only [King] can.\" - Amazon Book Review Best Mysteries of March\"King delivers both a terrifying and touching story.\" - The Hollywood Reporter \"Thrills by the dozen.\" - International Express Books to Read in 2021\"An instapurchase.\" - HorrorDNA\"A standalone King that combines his mastery of multiple genres.\" - The Reel Bits \"A fresh new story for modern audiences.\" - ScreenRant\"Convey[s] the same loss-of-innocence theme at which King excelled in his classic novella, The Body... If you’re a King fan, you’ll not regret reading it.\" - Cinema Sentries \"[King's] clear love of noir fiction joins forces with his horror bona fides and his still-strong ability to capture the fundamental truths about being a child, resulting in a lean and propulsive read.\" - The Maine Edge\"The truth of the matter is, I enjoyed LATER more than any other Stephen King in quite a while because it’s short and to the point. It’s a fast read, easily knocked out in a few hours, and there are some truly creepy and horrific moments that leave the reader thinking about certain scenes long after the book is done.\" - Bookgasm\"King veterans absolutely must add this to the collection.\" - Movie Nooz", "\"", "Absolutely riveting read....and memorably terrifying.\" -Cemetery Dance\"A terrific tale of secrets held by both the living and the dead.\" - Floriday Times-Union\"King once again demonstrates his ease at depicting younger characters and getting credibly inside their heads...Classic Stephen King\" - SciFi Bulletin \"Once you pick up this book, putting it down will be near impossible. The action and dialogue interspersed with spine-chilling terror are engaging from beginning to end. It is a superb addition to the seemingly endless bibliography of this great storyteller.\"   - San Francisco Book Review (5 stars)\"King's freakish storytelling powers are on full display here, with the strictures of the pulp novel keeping the action moving from chapter to chapter.\" - Toronto Star", "Amazon.com Review", "Editors' pick: King dials up the terror while delivering thrills", "and", "feels in this touching supernatural thriller about a boy facing down evil.\"—Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "About the Author", "Stephen King", "is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide best-sellers. King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.", "--This text refers to the", "mass_market", "edition.", "Read more" ]

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[ "David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form. Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's greatest stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family." ]

[ "Review", "The most perfect of all the Dickens novels. --Virginia Woolf - From the Trade Paperback edition.", "From the Back Cover", "'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel.", "About the Author", "Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England,where his father was a naval pay clerk. He received some education at a small private school but this was curtailed when his father's fortunes declined. More significant was his childhood reading, which he evoked in a memory of his father's library: 'From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time. When Dickens was ten the family moved to Camden Town, and this proved the beginning of a long, difficult period. When he had just turned twelve Dickens was sent to work for a manufacturer of boot blacking, where for the better part of a year he labored for ten hours a day, an unhappy experience that instilled him with a sense of having been abandoned by his family. Around the same time Dickens's father was jailed for debt in the Marshalsea Prison, where he remained for fourteen weeks. After some additional schooling, Dickens worked as a clerk in a law office and taught himself shorthand; this qualified him to begin working in 1831 as a reporter in the House of Commons, where he was known for the speed with which he took down speeches. By 1833 Dickens was publishing humorous sketches of London life in the Monthly Magazine, which were collected in book form as Sketches by 'Boz' (1836). These were followed by the publication in instalments of the comic adventures that became The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837), whose unprecedented popularity made the twenty-five-year-old author a national figure. In 1836 he married Catherine Hogarth, who would bear him ten children over a period of fifteen years. Dickens characteristically wrote his novels for serial publication, and was himself the editor of many of the periodicals in which they appeared. Among his close associates were his future biographer John Forster and the younger Wilkie Collins, with whom he collaborated on fictional and dramatic works. In rapid succession he published Oliver Twist (1838), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), and Barnaby Rudge (1841), sometimes working on several novels simultaneously. The appearance of A Christmas Carol in 1843 sealed his position as the most widely popular writer of his time; it became an annual tradition for him to write a story for the season. He continued to produce novels at only a slightly diminished rate, publishing Dombey and Son in 1848 and David Copperfield in 1850, his personal favorite among his books. From this point on his novels tended to be more elaborately constructed and harsher and less buoyant in tone than his earlier works. These late novels include Bleak House (1853), Hard Times (1854), Little Dorrit (1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1861). Our Mutual Friend, published in 1865, was his last completed novel, and perhaps the most somber and savage of them all. Dickens had separated from his wife in 1858. He had become involved a year earlier with a young actress named Ellen Ternan and the ensuing scandal had alienated him from many of his former associates and admirers. He was weakened by years of overwork and by a near-fatal railroad disaster during the writing of Our Mutual Friend. Nevertheless he embarked on a series of public readings, including a return visit to America in 1867, which further eroded his health. A final work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, a crime novel much influenced by Wilkie Collins, was left unfinished upon his death on June 9,1870, at the age of 58.", "Read more" ]

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[ "The only Apple-authorized guide to Final Cut Express HD 3.5, this book delivers the techniques you need to make movie magic with DV or HDV footage. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in an aspect of video editing and finishing, with hands-on projects to complete as you go. All the files you need are on the included DVD-ROM. You'll learn how to make effective edits and adjust them precisely; create polished transitions and sophisticated composites; add audio tracks, titles, and speed and motion effects; then color-correct and finish your video for export to DVD or the Web. Whether you're a student, a devoted amateur who's serious about digital video, or a professional who needs a comprehensive editing program for your home computer, you'll find everything you need to learn Final Cut Express HD 3.5 within the pages of this book. DVD-ROM includes lesson and media files for over 20 hours of training." ]

[ "About the Author", "Diana Weynand is a producer, director, editor, and co-owner of Weynand Training International (www.weynand.com), which is a leader in providing training services and curriculum development to the entertainment industry as well as being an Apple Authorized Training Center. Diana was supervising editor for the Barbara Walters Specials and received an Emmy nomination for the PBS series “Cinematic Eye,” which she directed and co-produced. Diana helped to develop postproduction workflows for reality television shows such as Real World, where she also served as an online editor. She has written several books, including Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 5, Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors, How Video Works, and is a co-author of The Secrets of Videoblogging." ]

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[ "An informative and inspirational guide to a powerful form of creative expression,", "The Stencil Graffiti Handbook", "is invaluable to designers, street artists, and aspiring guerrilla marketers alike.", "With current political and cultural climates across the globe growing more uncertain, a new generation of artists, designers, and communicators are using stencil art on the walls of towns and cities to voice thought-provoking messages and ideas. Exploring the medium’s applications within grassroots activism and the contemporary craft scene, Tristan Manco returns to the streets and brings this thriving art form to life.", "Exploring both process and results, this book delves into stencil art’s essential elements―place, space, technique, and subjects―before taking to the streets to see how, where, and why stencil graffiti is exhibited. Having accumulated an extensive network of street art contacts through more than two decades of immersion in the scene, Manco has scoured the globe for today’s most interesting stencil artists―those who operate outside the mainstream market of “urban art” and beneath the radar of everyone but the truly aware.", "Featuring studio visits with artists and step-by-step instructional illustrations by the renowned Columbian art collective Stinkfish,", "The Stencil Graffiti Handbook", "is a must-have for anyone with an open mind and rebellious spirit.", "430 color illustrations" ]

[ "About the Author", "Tristan Manco", "is the author of many graffiti and street art titles, including", "Stencil Graffiti", ",", "Street Logos", ",", "Graffiti Brasi", "l,", "Street Sketchbook", ", and", "Street Sketchbook: Journeys", ". Manco leads workshops on street art practices and is a regular lecturer at schools and colleges, as well as being a sought-after consultant and speaker at street art conferences." ]

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[ "This Comprehensive Owner’s Guide to the Miniature Schnauzer serves as a complete introduction to one of the world’s most popular terrier breeds. Hailing from Germany, the Fatherland of all three schnauzer breeds, the Miniature Schnauzer has been a favorite in the United States since the mid 1920s when it was first accepted by the American Kennel Club. The book begins with a solid chapter on the breed’s history, tracing its origins in Europe, its development in America and the United Kingdom, illustrated with historical dogs and important paintings that depict the breed. The chapters on characteristics and the breed standard encapsulate all of the virtues of this robust and active dog, offering sound advice about which owners are best suited to the breed.New owners will welcome the well-prepared chapter on finding a breeder and selecting a health, sound puppy. Chapters on puppy-proofing the home and yard, purchasing the right supplies for the puppy as well as house-training, feeding, and grooming are illustrated with handsome Mini adults and puppies bursting with personality, intelligence, and mischief! In all, there are over 135 photographs in this compact, useful, and entertaining volume. The author’s advice on obedience training the Miniature Schnauzer, a breed that has its own ideas and can pose a challenge to novice owners, will help readers better mold and train their dogs into the most socialized, well-mannered Minis in the neighborhood. The extensive chapter on healthcare provides up-to-date detailed information on selecting a qualified veterinarian, vaccinations, parasites, infectious diseases, and more. Sidebars throughout the text offer helpful hints, covering topics as diverse as historical Mini kennels, toxic plants, first aid, crate training, carsickness, fussy eaters, and parasite control. Fully indexed." ]

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[ "On April 28, 1946, a small group of American wives and children arrived at the port of Bremerhaven, West Germany, the first of thousands of military family members to make the trans-Atlantic journey. They were the basis of a network of military communities--\"Little Americas\"--that would spread across the postwar German landscape. During a 45-year period which included some of the Cold War's tensest moments, their presence confirmed America's resolve to maintain Western democracy in the face of the Soviet threat.", "Drawing on archival sources and personal narratives, this book explores these enclaves of Americanism, from the U.S. government's perspective to the grassroots view of those who made their homes in Cold War Europe. These families faced many challenges in balancing their military missions with their daily lives during a period of dynamic global change. The author describes interaction in American communities that were sometimes separated, sometimes connected with their German neighbors." ]

[ "Review", "“Lemza presents an engaging account of US military personnel, civilians, and their families as they lived in West Germany during the Cold War. One of the monograph’s strengths is the prodigious research that it evidences...a useful and stimulating work. Highly recommended”―", "Choice", "; “a significant and insightful study of the American military experience on this frontier of the Cold War….[the] depth of research is very impressive…superbly researched and well-crafted study”―", "International Journal of Military History and Histiography", ".", "About the Author", "John W. Lemza, Ph.D., retired after serving more than 20 years in military service including eight years abroad in Europe and Asia. His research interests are Post-1945 American cultural, social and political history. He lives in Midlothian, Virginia." ]

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[ "The first and only guide to fully explore the Bay Area's campgrounds and backpacking trips, and to describe the best overnight excursions for locals and visitors alike. Every public campground in the North Bay, East Bay, South Bay, and Santa Cruz Mountains is included (more than two dozen unique destinations). For backpacking trips, over 30 backcountry trail camps and more than 200 miles of trail are featured. Matt Heid simplifies an overnight getaway with this comprehensive guide and includes: in-depth descriptions of campgrounds, driving directions, facilities, parking, regulations, and fees, as well as other indispensable tips for when it's best to go; where the serenity, beauty, and ecodiversity are greatest; and how to avoid crowds and make reservations" ]

[ "Review", "\"...one of the Bay Area's most knowledgeable hikers.\" --", "Sierra Club Yodeler", "\"...the first comprehensive camping guide focused on the Bay Area.\" --", "Oakland Tribune", "\"For those wishing to experience the Bay Area's natural wonders, [Heid's] latest book will prove to be an indispensable guide.\" --", "Hills Newspapers, The Montclairion", "\"Heid's book is well written, exceptionally organized and chock-full of helpful information...an excellent reference book.\" --", "Fremont Bulletin", "\"The maps are exemplary....Some of the photographs, you might expect to find on gallery walls.\" --", "Bodega Land Trust", "\"[Heid] has lots of ideas for quick camping escapes. He's no help at all with excuses to stay home.\" --", "Marin Independent Journal", "About the Author", "Matt Heid holds a degree in Earth & Planetary Science from Harvard Universitry and has been hiking the trails of California for more than 20 years. His first book, 101 Hikes in Northern California, received Honorable Mention in the 2001 National Outdoor Book Awards." ]

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[ "This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work." ]

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[ "Books", "Politics & Social Sciences", "Social Sciences" ]

[ "Lucy Tate is on the run. After witnessing the brutal murder of her parents, she's spent five years in hiding -- taking on different personas and faking her way through life. The authorities can't be trusted, so she remains in the shadows, always one beat ahead of the man who is forever hunting her. That is, until she meets Zach Schultz, a senior at Monte Vista High and the one guy she can't bear to leave. Suddenly her natural instincts to lie, steal, and run are overshadowed by something else...the desire to stay. It's her one shot at a normal life. Curious by nature, Zach is immediately drawn to the new girl at school. How can a person look both confident and vulnerable all in the same moment? Determined to learn more about her, he tries to get close, but is thrown into a world of lies and confusion. The only thing that becomes apparent is that discovering the truth may get him killed.", "The explosive conclusion to Lucy's story is Set Me Free - already available online." ]

[ "Review", "\"I was drawn into this book immediately. The puzzle that is Lucy and all she has to go through is amazing....", "I love the characters and how they relate to each other. I can't wait to read the second book in this series when it comes out.\"", "Kathy Wideman, Book Reviewer", "\"I Know Lucy is probably my favorite Melissa Pearl novel yet. The thing I love about Melissa is how she always manages to find some new and exciting concept with every series she writes and creates such a convincing world within the series.\"", "Lindsey Coolidge, Book Reviewer", "From the Author", "I KNOW LUCY TEASER...", "LUCY...", "Sobs worked their way out of her as she propelled her body down the dark street. She couldn't bang on anyone's door asking for assistance. Her parents had just been murdered by someone powerful. An officer of the law! That's what he'd called himself!Worse still, he was crooked and she was screwed.As her feet pounded the pavement, ducking into the shadows at any opportunity, Lucy knew one thing. She was on her own. And if she was going to survive at all, she needed to keep running." ]

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[ "Books", "Romance", "Romantic Suspense" ]

[ "Text: English, Italian (translation)" ]

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[ "Most managerial accounting texts emphasize the mechanics of managerial accounting. While important, mechanics are not enough. To solve business problems, students need to understand how managerial accounting can improve decision-making, and when and where a particular tool or technique is appropriate.", "Balakrishnan’s", "Managerial Accounting 1", "st", "edition", "presents accounting information in the context of business decision making. It combines the traditional topics of managerial accounting with a strategic framework that shows students how to construct decision models and measure information. By linking business decisions with accounting information students will be motivated to learn and make more informed decisions. Balakrishnan will appeal to courses where there is a true focus on decision making and accounting is placed within a business context." ]

[ "About the Author", "Ramji Balakrishnan", "is the Carlson-KPMG Professor of Accounting and the Director of the RSM McGladrey Institute for Accounting Research and Education at the University of Iowa. Dr. Balakrishnan has a B.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Madras in 1977, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1979, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1986. He is a Certified Management Accountant and is a recipient of the Robert Beyer Bronze Medal. He joined the University of Iowa in 1986 and has been there since except for a year at Georgia State University. A top-rated teacher and researcher, Dr. Balakrishnan has published his research in premier journals such as", "The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Journal of Management Accounting Research", "and", "Accounting Horizons", ". Along with Dr. Sivaramakrishnan, he won the 2003 Best Paper award for notable contribution to the management accounting literature. Dr. Balakrishnan serves on several Editorial Boards and has served as Associate Editor. He has taught managerial accounting at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels, and has published several teaching cases. He was the President of the Management Accounting Section of the AAA for 2005-2006.", "Konduru “Shiva” Sivaramakrishnan", "is currently a Professor and C.T. Bauer Endowed Chair in Accounting at the C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. He received his BTech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology 1977, Madras, an MBA from Xavier Institute, Jamshedpur, India, in 1982, and a Ph.D. in Accounting and Information Systems from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in 1989. Prior to his current position, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, and Professor and Philip Ljungdahl Chair in Accounting at Texas A&M University.  Dr. Sivaramakrishnan has significant research and teaching accomplishments. His research has appeared in premier journals such as", "The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.", "Along with Dr. Ramji Balakrishnan, he won the 2003 Best Paper award for notable contribution to the management accounting literature. Shiva serves on several editorial boards, and is currently an Associate Editor of the", "Journal of Management Accounting Research", ". He has won numerous awards for teaching excellence at both undergraduate and graduate levels.", "Geoffrey B. Sprinkle", "is an Associate Professor, Whirlpool Faculty Fellow, and Chair of the Honors Program at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Dr. Sprinkle has both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Accounting from Arizona State University, and his Ph.D. from The University of Iowa. Geoff is a Certified Public Accountant, earning the Gold Medal in the state of Arizona on the May, 1989 CPA exam and the Elijah Watts Sells award nationally. He primarily teaches managerial accounting to undergraduates and is the recipient of numerous school-wide and university-level teaching awards.  Dr. Sprinkle’s writings focus on motivation and coordination problems within organizations, including performance-evaluation and reward systems. His work has been published in journals such as", "The Accounting Review", ",", "The American Economic Review", ",", "Accounting, Organizations and Society", ",", "Journal of Accounting Research", ",", "Behavioral Research in Accounting", ",", "Issues in Accounting Education", ", and", "The", "Journal of Management Accounting Research", ".  He also currently serves on the Editorial Boards of", "The Accounting Review,", "The British Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations and Society,", "and", "The Journal of Management Accounting Research", "." ]

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[ "Books", "Business & Money", "Accounting" ]

[ "From Boulevard Park and Memorial Field to Security Service Field (formerly Sky Sox Stadium), Colorado Springs is a baseball town. Professional baseball arrived in 1901; the Brown Bombers, a semiprofessional black team, came in the 1940s; and the original Sky Sox won the Western League Championship in 1953, 1955, and 1958. Local players such as Ed Kent, Bill Everitt, Jim Landis, Sam Hairston, Connie Johnson, Vinny Castilla, and Todd Helton have made it to the major leagues. Rich \"Goose\" Gossage, a Colorado Springs native, went directly from Class A ball to the Chicago White Sox, starting his hall-of-fame career in 1972." ]

[ "About the Author", "Colorado Springs sports historian and author Roger P. Hadix has collected rare photographs from each decade of the late 19th and 20th centuries, chronicling the national pastime as played throughout the Pikes Peak region. For the past 19 years, Hadix has also lived the history by playing vintage base ball with the Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Photography & Video" ]

[ "Book 2 and the exciting conclusion of the Tsezar Bratva duet", "He gave me a chance at happily ever after. And then he snatched it all away.", "COURTNEY", "Did the man of my dreams sell me to the monster of my nightmares?I don’t want to believe it.But no matter how hard I pinch myself, the horrors won’t go away.The facts are this:I’m locked on a ship with my daughters, bound for a slave auction half a world away.I’m surrounded by killers. Imprisoned by a psychopath.And Dmitry is nowhere to be found.All I have left is one desperate hope:Will my husband come to save us?Or was our love a lie all along?", "A dark mafia single dad romance from bestselling author Nicole Fox." ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]

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[ "Books", "Self-Help", "Relationships" ]

[ "A collection of thoughts, quotes, poems and ramblings about life, passion, lovers, dreamers, and the girls who have inspired me in my younger years of romanticism." ]

[ "About the Author", "Dubbed the Urban Gypsy, Davin Kane is the wanderlust alter ego of artist David Born. An entrepreneur, community activist, poet and humble jerk, Davin writes about life, love, traveling and the people we meet in between." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Poetry" ]

[ "One of", "The Washington Post", "'s 10 Best Books of 2021 *", "One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 *", "New York Times", "Book Review Editors' Choice *", "Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize", "“Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of", "Little Fires Everywhere", "“", "Sanjena Sathian’s", "Gold Diggers", "is a work of 24-karat genius.” —Ron Charles,", "The Washington Post", "How far would you go for a piece of the American dream?", "A magical realist coming-of-age story,", "Gold Diggers", "skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition.A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but mostly, Neil just wants his neighbor across the cul-de-sac, Anita Dayal.When he discovers that Anita is the beneficiary of an ancient, alchemical potion made from stolen gold—a “lemonade” that harnesses the ambition of the gold’s original owner—Neil sees his chance to get ahead. But events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart. Years later in the Bay Area, Neil still bristles against his community's expectations—and finds he might need one more hit of that lemonade, no matter the cost.Sanjena Sathian’s astonishing debut offers a fine-grained, profoundly intelligent, and bitingly funny investigation into what's required to make it in America.", "Soon to be a series produced by Mindy Kaling!" ]

[ "Review", "“Sathian’s satire is pitch perfect . . . savagely funny. The comedic grotesque register gives way, at times, to an authentic and heartrending melancholia . . . [M]agnificent—canny and moving and just plain fun . . . Sathian’s movement toward fantasy in the story’s second half is a wise, satisfying turn. Her prose lifts off: there’s a delight she takes in writing humorously about magic that shows off the scope of her immense talent . . . [a] firm critique of secondhand striving and cutthroat ambition.” —", "Anita Felicelli,", "The Los Angeles Review of Books", "“This novel deftly weaves together magic and history to produce a compelling coming-of-age story.”", "—The New Yorker", "“", "Gold Diggers", "is a delightful concoction of the best of South Asia’s literary offerings, reminiscent of Hanif Kureishi’s irreverent humour in", "The Buddha of Suburbia", "and, more recently, the magic realism of Mohsin Hamid’s", "Exit West", "and Salman Rushdie’s work. . . . Sathian brings a golden touch to the 21st-century Indian American novel—stretching it through a reimagining of history and mythology, yet holding it close to her chest.” —", "Sana Goyal,", "The Guardian", "“Sanjena Sathian’s", "Gold Diggers", "is a work of 24-karat genius . . . remarkable . . . Sathian’s effervescent social satire breaks the bonds of ordinary reality and rises to another level . . . Like Aimee Bender, Karen Russell and Colson Whitehead, she’s working in a liminal realm where the laws of science aren’t suspended so much as stretched . . . dazzling . . . Looking up from the pages of this sparkling debut, I experienced something like the thrill the luckiest 49ers must have felt: Gold! Gold! Gold!”", "—Ron Charles,", "The Washington Post", "“[A]chingly real reminders of what it was like to be an adolescent in post-9/11 America, feeling the weight of your parents’ dreams on your shoulders . . . The tension Sathian builds is one of teenage insecurity swelling into adulthood, until disillusion overthrows the tyranny of American perfectionism . . . exquisite prose humming with contagious anxiety.”", "—Lauren Christensen,", "The New York Times Book Review", "“This terrific debut novel uses heists and alchemy to deconstruct immigrant ambition, striving, and sin . . . The project of", "Gold Diggers", "is to deconstruct that dream [of America]. But what makes the novel so compelling is the playfulness with which Sathian deconstructs it. You feel for the characters and the ways they have been warped by their pursuit of greatness and the ways they are haunted by their sins—but also, there are heists and alchemy. It’s a blast.” —", "Constance Grady,", "Vox", "“Full of voice . . . rollicking, at times painful, and ultimately intensely satisfying . . . One of the wonderful things about Sathian's writing is how imperfect she allows Neil to be: he can be shallow, vain, awkward, and selfish. Yet it's so easy to root for him, because he's just so terribly alive, his adult narration inhabiting his teenage self honestly, without sugarcoating.”", "—Ilana Masad, NPR", "“Sanjena is way too young to have published such an amazing novel about a group of South Asian teenagers and the quest for their identity in the U.S., yet she pulls it off effortlessly, complete with references to TCBY and other 1990s favorites.” —", "Zibby Owens, Good Morning America", "“Highly anticipated . . . Funny and exciting, it’s an entertaining new twist on the immigrant experience.” —", "Lesley Kennedy, CNN", "“Crackles with sarcasm and wit . . . a dazzling tale. Local readers will delight in Sathian’s artful depiction of metro Atlanta circa 2006, as well as her take on the struggles of being a member of a minority community during the post-9/11 Bush era.” —", "Anjali Enjeti,", "Atlanta Journal Constitution", "“Read", "Gold Diggers,", "a fantastical and darkly funny commentary on the American Dream.” —", "Book Riot", "“A dazzling and delightful work of fiction by an exciting new literary talent . . . Sathian has produced a beguiling elixir with", "Gold Diggers", ", skillfully stirring myth into a playful yet powerful modern-day examination of the American dream and the second-generation citizens who pursue it. A fabulist amalgam of", "The Great Gatsby", "and", "The Catcher in the Rye", ", it’s an engrossing cautionary tale as well as a shrewd appraisal of what we consider success—and the moral sacrifices we make to achieve it. Imaginative and intoxicating,", "Gold Diggers", "richly rewards its readers.” —", "Stephanie Harrison,", "BookPage", "“Dazzling . . . the sharp characterizations bring humor and contemplation in equal measure, touching on the pressures Neil and Anita face to produce a legacy that honors their parents’ sacrifices. Sathian’s bildungsroman isn’t one to miss.” —", "Publishers Weekly", "\"Out of [a] nugget of magical realism, Sathian spins pure magic . . . Filled with pathos, humor, slices of American history, and an adrenaline-pumping heist, Sathian's spectacular debut also highlights the steep costs of the all-American dream . . . Pure gold . . . YAs will find much to embrace in Neeraj’s dynamite and touching quest to find himself.\" —", "Booklist", "(starred review)", "“A refreshing tweak of the assimilation novel . . . Sathian artfully and convincingly conjures [this] world . . . Sathian has a knack for page-turner prose, but the story has plenty of heft. A winningly revamped King Midas tale.” —", "Kirkus", "“In a perfect alchemical blend of familiar and un-,", "Gold Diggers", "takes a wincingly hilarious coming-of-age story, laces it with magical realism and a trace of satire, and creates a world that's both achingly familiar and marvelously inventive. Written with such assurance it's hard to believe it's Sanjena Sathian's debut, this is a dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise novel about the seductive powers—and dangers—of borrowed ambition.” —", "Celeste Ng, author of", "Little Fires Everywhere", "“", "Gold Diggers", "is so many things—truly funny, insightful, smart, and filled with wonderful characters. I loved reading this novel, and loved watching Neil Narayan grow up and grapple with the America his immigrant parents believed in. Neil's journey to figuring out what he believes, which includes a multi-layered exploration into the properties of gold, and his strange and wonderful friendship with his next door neighbor, Anita, make this story unmissable.” —", "Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of", "Dear Edward", "“Is the American dream about hard work and sacrifice or is it about the lure of the Gold Rush, of quick riches there for the taking? Greed, regret and love are all at work here in Sathian’s completely original, utterly absorbing, complex and confident debut novel. A bravura performance from an exciting new voice.” —", "Karen Joy Fowler,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "The Jane Austen Book Club", "“What a dynamic and exciting debut! Sathian builds such an inviting world of layers and times, all knit together by voice, vibrant imagery and palpable groundedness. A total delight.” —", "Aimee Bender, author of", "The Butterfly Lampshade", "“Sanjena Sathian's", "Gold Diggers", "is a sparkling treasure, hilarious and full of insight.”", "—", "Rajesh Parameswaran, author of", "I Am an Executioner", "“I’m not sure if I should praise Sanjena Sathian for spinning such a lively and nervy narrative or thank her for her generosity as field guide, bringing me deep into Indian-American family life and the underbelly of Silicon Valley optimization culture. A tenderly imaginative tale of ambition and the burden of tradition,", "Gold Diggers", "is the American novel we need right now. Bracingly original, riveting to the last drop.” —", "Lauren Mechling, author of", "How Could She", "“Sanjena Sathian's", "Gold Diggers", "made me feel utterly inadequate as a writer. Her writing is engaging and the lush world she creates within the novel was a great joy to explore. We'll be hearing from her for years to come.” —", "Sopan Deb, author of", "Missed Translations", "“From Bombay to the Bay Area, Sanjena Sathian’s expansive debut novel upends our ideas of what it takes to make it in America. Smart, funny, and completely engrossing,", "Gold Diggers", "is everything a novel should be.” —", "Andrew Ridker, author of", "The Altruists", "“Searching, intelligent, with a premise as flawless as the gold at its center,", "Gold Diggers", "follows a generation whose ambitions are shaping the America we live in today. As imaginative as it is idea-driven, as compassionate as it is angry, part heist novel, part coming of age story, part ghost story, romance, and tragedy, it renders all its opposites in a fast-paced, perfectly crafted crucible of a plot. This is a perfect first novel: brilliant, funny, and secretly, privately, quietly romantic. A Great American Novel for the 21st century.” —", "Amy Parker, author of", "Beasts and Children", "and winner of the Calvino Prize", "“Vivid, delightful, and wonderfully weird,", "Gold Diggers", "glitters with a unique and stirring brilliance. Sanjena Sathian is an incredibly exciting new writer!” —", "Dan Chaon, author of", "Ill Will", "and National Book Award Finalist", "“", "Gold Diggers", "is a knock-out—a hilarious send-up of the immigrant pressure to succeed and the challenges of growing up with a hyphenated identity in the American South. It’s also a devastating meditation on history, love, grief, wealth, and familial bonds. Whether you want to laugh or cry, meet ghosts, plan a heist, or live forever, you can find what you’re looking for in these sparkling pages.” —", "Maria Kuznetsova, author of", "Oksana, Behave!", "“", "Gold Diggers", "is an auspicious—auriferous?—debut. Part coming-of-age story about the immigrant experience, part Gogolian heist comedy about soul-sapping gold, it’s also a timely satire of greed, status anxiety, Ivy striving, and the long nightmare of the American dream. The novel is particularly brilliant and funny on the different forms that ambition takes, and the different ways it can deform you. It’s an enviably smart and ambitious critique of envy, smarts, and ambition, which inspires some of the same jealousy it diagnoses. Like Sathian’s characters, you almost want to drink whatever jewelry she was wearing while writing it.” —", "Bennett Sims, author of", "White Dialogues", "About the Author", "A Paul and Daisy Soros fellow,", "Sanjena Sathian", "is a 2019 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a reporter in Mumbai and San Francisco, with nonfiction bylines for", "The New Yorker,", "The New York Times, Food & Wine", ",", "The Washington Post", ", Vox, TIME, and more. Her award-winning short fiction has been published in", "The Atlantic", ",", "Conjunctions", ",", "Boulevard, Joyland, Salt Hill,", "and", "The", "Master's Review", ".", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Chapter 1.", "When I was younger, I consisted of little but my parents' ambitions for who I was to become. But by the end of ninth grade, all I wanted for myself was a date to the Spring Fling dance. A hot one. The dream was granted, by chance. Finding myself unaccompanied in the final days before the event, I begged my neighbor and childhood best friend, Anita Dayal, to take pity on me. Fine; I could be her \"escort,\" she allowed, putting the word in air quotes as we readied for that rather fateful night.", "Before the dance, I was set to meet Anita and our crowd at the mall. We'd take photos outside the TCBY, all trussed up in our Macy's finery. My mother deposited me on a median in the middle of the parking lot, early, then sped off to my older sister's picture party. Prachi had been nominated for Spring Fling court and was living a more documentable high school life. Prachi, the Narayan child who managed to be attractive and intelligent and deferential to our cultural traditions to boot, was headed to Duke, we were all sure. Earlier that day, cheeks blooming with pride, my mother had fastened a favorite, slim gold chain of her own, gifted by our nani, around Prachi's neck. My sister kissed my mother's cheek like an old, elegant woman and thanked her, while I waited to be dropped into my own small life, in an ill-fitting suit.", "I waited on the median, growing anxious. There was no sign of Anita. I paced and fidgeted, watching the others pin corsages and boutonnieres, and readied myself, after fifteen minutes, then twenty, to give up and trek down one of those horrible sidewalk-less stretches of great Georgia boulevard back home to Hammond Creek. I was already turning away from the fuss, attempting to loosen my father's congealed-blood-colored tie, when Anita and her mother screeched up in their little brown Toyota. I knocked my knee against the concrete dolphin-adorned fountain and shouted, \"Shit!\"", "A wall of mostly Indian and Asian parents regarded me with a collective glare. Yes, I consisted largely of my parents' ambitions, but some part of me was also made of the ogling, boggling eyeballs of the rest of our community.", "And another part-a significant part-was Anita, who was now stepping out of the double-parked car, smiling blithely. Anita had bright eyes: muddy brown, lively, roving, liable to flick over you quickly, as though there was something else more interesting or urgent in your vicinity. It made you want to stand squarely in her line of vision to ask for her full attention; when you got it, it felt like the warming of the late-morning summer sun.", "\"Neil, I", "told", "her we were late, but stubborn girl wouldn't listen!\" Anita's mother, Anjali Auntie, said. She was dressed like she planned to attend the dance herself, in a bright green sheath framing her breasts, a dress that reminded me she was unlike other mothers.", "\"I got invited to Melanie's picture party first,\" Anita said. \"I IM'd you!\"", "A betrayal: cherry-cheeked and universally admired Melanie Cho had laughed off my invitation to the dance weeks before, leaving me itchy with self-loathing. Anita's grin-the grin of the newly anointed popular-matched the crystal studding along her bright blue bodice.", "Anjali Auntie positioned us shoulder-to-shoulder. Anita linked her arm through mine so the insides of our elbows kissed. This was how we'd been posed in Diwali photos as kids, when our families got together and Prachi dressed Anita up as Sita and assembled a paper crown for me, her spouse, Lord Rama. The posture suddenly seemed foreign.", "There was no time to be angry. I smiled. In the photos, I am washed out. She, in electric blue and crystal, beams, her eyes settled somewhere just above the camera lens.", "The dance: People were learning to inch closer to each other, and some girls didn't mind the short guys' heads bobbing below theirs, and some guys didn't mind the girls with braces. The teachers on chaperone duty patrolled the bathrooms, where kids who were not my crowd might engage in \"nonsense,\" as my mother put it,", "nonsense", "that was inaccessible to me at the time.", "As with any other event at Okefenokee High School, the room was semi-segregated. A handful of white kids mosh-pitted in the middle of the party; others made their way to those nonsense-filled bathrooms or the parking lot. The good-looking Indian and Asian girls hung by the long banquet table. The debate, math Olympiad, robotics, etc., Indians and Asians were the likeliest ones to be bopping around, because though none of us could really move, the dancing offered a prescribed activity for the evening, a script. I depended on scripts in those days, before anyone asked me to invent my own life.", "I followed Anita onto the floor, expecting to join the circle dancing around Hari Chopra, who was attempting to prove his B-boy abilities to the Kanye song that was ubiquitous that year, flicking a finger across an imaginary flat-brimmed hat in the warm-up. But Anita veered toward a cluster of girls that included my sister and Melanie. I stopped at the edge of the squeaky gym floor in my dress shoes, which were vast, boatlike, slippery, and made me sweat.", "\"Anita,\" I whispered frantically, but she mouthed, Just a second, and darted into the girl cluster-as though she was crossing the finish line in a race I hadn't known she was running. She'd grown spritely and uncatchable lately, always squinting at a secretly looming horizon line.", "I didn't see my date again until the end of the evening, let alone dance with her. The ghost of her touch on me-the inside of her elbow against the inside of mine-lingered on my skin. I felt insubstantial.", "I spent the party with Kartik Jain and Manu Padmanaban and Aleem Khan and Jack Kim and Abel Mengesha (who was Ethiopian but clocked most of his time with the Asians), avoiding Shruti Patel, with whom Manu had agreed to come, and whose electrified bristly hair and eager gopher teeth discomfited us. Jack was counting the girls he'd made out with at computer camp the year before, in an effort to overcome the fact that he was here tonight alone. I had been at that camp and knew the single kiss he'd received was dumb luck, the result of a double dog dare.", "I was supposed to return home with Anita and her mother at ten-their house sat catty-corner from ours in the Hammond Creek cul-de-sac. Ten; I only had to last till ten. I watched the egg-shaped clock on the wall above the banquet table tick. I drank the sugary punch; it stained my tongue Coke-can red.", "Just before nine thirty, people began to gather for the announcement of Spring Fling royalty. At the swell of a tantalizingly sex-infused slow song-", "Crash into me, and I come into you", "-I went looking for Anita. I wound through the gym, all elbows and too-long hair that curtained the top of my vision. No Anita. No Prachi. I sidestepped out of the gym and down the hallway carpeted in green and gray-the swampy colors of Okefenokee High School. It occurred to me that I might find the girls in the parking lot. The parking lot, full of", "nonsense", ".", "I pushed open the first door I encountered, missing, in my annoyance, the sign that read EMERGENCY EXIT. The alarm wailed. People's hands flew to their ears, and heads turned toward me. A white guy gripped a handle of some clear verboten substance. Someone cursed. Someone shrieked. Someone laughed. I stood mute as they scattered. When Coach Jameson came striding outside to bust up the party, he noted my presence, held up a large, meaty finger, and said, \"Wait there.\" I froze, darkened by the shadows behind the gym.", "Girls were crying. Not Anita, I don't think. It took a lot to make her cry. From somewhere came my sister's voice, in the buttery lilt that never failed her: \"Coach, I just came out here to find my necklace, it fell off, it's my grandmother's, you know I don't drink-\"", "\"I'll ask, missy,\" he said. \"What were you doing to cause you to, ahem, lose a necklace?\"", "I shuddered and didn't catch Prachi's reply because Anita stood behind me, propping open the door whose alarm had at last been killed.", "\"Neil, get inside, you'll get in trouble,\" she whispered. Her glossed lips quivered and for a moment I was suffused with a premonition that something phantom wished to be spoken aloud but that no one-not me, not the people around me-could find the language. Anita clamped her mouth shut and blinked very fast, as though beating back that ghost, and there we remained, still rooted to our finite asphalt selves.", "I said Prachi was out there and it didn't sound good. \"The coach already saw me,\" I added. \"I'm not supposed to move.\"", "\"Are you", "kidding", "me, Neil?\" Anita was framed in the doorway as the hallway light streamed out around her. \"My mom's waiting, like, right now.\"", "\"I wasn't drinking.\"", "\"I", "know", "you weren't drinking,\" she said. No, more like-\"I know you weren't drinking.\" I wondered how she had come by all her new wisdom, how she had grown so fast, so far ahead of me. \"Did", "you", "set off the alarm?\"", "I nodded miserably.", "\"Dude,\" Anita said. \"People go out the food delivery door.\" She pointed. She spoke rapidly, percussively, with a bravado that might have masked her nerves at being so near", "trouble", ".", "\"C'mon, kid.\" Coach Jameson led his small troupe of prisoners inside, beckoning me with that meaty finger, holding the alcohol pinched in his other hand like a used rag. The captured students followed, heads bowed-two white guys I didn't know, Katie Zhang, Mark Ha, Prachi. My sister mouthed, What? at me while Coach Jameson looked Anita up and down and added, \"And you, rubbernecker.\"", "\"I just got here, coach,\" Anita said. Her voice caught in her throat before she switched to a clipped tone like the sort my mother used on work calls. I could feel her straining to be someone with whom she had not yet become fully acquainted. \"Actually, we were trying to leave. My mom's outside, you can ask her-\"", "\"Y'all well know not to be in the parking lot.\"", "\"I just got worried, see,\" she tried again, in a slightly sharper pitch. \"Because-\"", "\"What's your name?\"", "\"Anita Dayal.\"", "\"And yours?\"", "\"Neil Narayan.\"", "He repeated. \"Anita Dial. Neil Nay-rannan. Y'all're freshmen?\"", "\"Yes, sir,\" Anita said.", "\"Stay away from this crowd,\" Coach Jameson said grandly. \"Getcherselves home.\"", "He escorted his captured cool kids past us. The scent of our innocence-or mine, anyway-was strong enough to overpower everything else.", "Some kids my age drank alcohol, but I was afraid to, not because of the things the health class teacher cautioned would happen to your body and brain but because of my mother's warnings that engaging in", "nonsense", "could abort all you were supposed to become, could in fact abort the very American dream we were duty-bound to live out. Take the case of Ravi Reddy, whose parents had shipped him to Hyderabad to finish high school upon smelling beer on his breath. No one had heard from Ravi since, but my mother had hinted that she and my father were not above taking a leaf out of the Reddys' book.", "I would not have wished such a fate on anyone, let alone my sister, so I said to Anita, \"Can you get your mom to wait two minutes? My sister lost our grandmother's gold necklace, and she'll be even more screwed.\"", "Anita bit her lip. Something shifted in her posture, brought her into a new alertness, like when she was asked a question to which she knew the answer in algebra.", "\"Oh.\" She retrieved her pink flip phone from her fake-pearl-encrusted purse. \"Mama. Coming. But Prachi lost this gold necklace, and Neil-\" A pause. She hung up. \"My mom says be quick.\"", "\"My sister doesn't drink.\" I held up a flashlight that connected to my Swiss Army knife and house keys. Nothing showed itself on the asphalt, just the black Georgia ground beneath the black Georgia sky. Puddles of yellow lamppost light revealed the riddled texture of the parking lot. There were no secrets here; in this stupid place, what you saw was what you got.", "\"All of them drink,\" Anita said, peeling away. \"You can't run in that crowd and not drink.\" Did", "Anita", "drink? A pang in my chest-for wasn't she now in", "that crowd", "? \"She ditched with Hudson Long because she knew she was going to lose Spring Fling Princess.\"", "\"She lost?\" I sighed. Even if Prachi escaped Coach Jameson, she'd be smarting from defeat. I didn't fancy enduring one of her performances of grief, wherein she refused to make eye contact with us for days, or ensured I overheard her vomiting in the bathroom. \"See anything?\"", "\"Nah,\" Anita called, a little nasally.", "I cast my light beneath the dumpster, knelt and got a smashing stench of cafeteria chili and old bananas and a number of other smells both animal and human. I covered my nose, stood, ran the beam in a long line like a searchlight hunting a fugitive in desolate farmland, sweep, one, sweep, two, but nothing on the asphalt glinted like gold. \"Nothing?\" I called.", "\"Nothing.\" Anita was kneeling by the wretched emergency exit door and reaching for something on the ground.", "\"Is that it?\" I half jogged over.", "\"Nope,\" she said. \"It's not here.\"", "I was right next to her now. \"You didn't find it?\"", "\"I just said I didn't. My mom's gonna be mad; we have to go.\"", "\"Your mom's never mad.\" I waved my hand dismissively. Anjali Auntie was", "different", "-a given-and Anita could not believably invoke her as a threat. \"What's in your hand, Anita?\"", "For her fist was clenched, her knuckles bloodless. She looked ready to slug me.", "Her jaw tightened. Then she growled through her teeth, as though she'd been trying to tell me something and I'd been too dense to hear it. \"Neil, you are such a", "freak", "! Prachi lost her necklace because she's", "drunk", "and making out with Hudson Long, and I've got enough to worry about without helping you fix her", "shit", ".\"", "She opened the door and stomped over the green-and-gray carpeting. I followed. I couldn't do anything but slide into the back of the Toyota. Anita and her mother sat in wooden silence up front. Anjali Auntie's eyes landed searchingly on mine in the rearview mirror a few times before settling sidelong on her daughter's taut expression. Her own face remained impassive; I could not tell if she was surprised at the coldness between Anita and me.", "Back home, in my room, I wrenched myself free from my father's tie and tried to fall asleep as the landline rang and heels sounded below me - Prachi coming home, Prachi in trouble, my parents' voices rising. (\"Who were you with? \"Open your mouth, show yourb breath!\" \"Where's Ajji's - ?\" \"Ayyayyo!\" \"You'll jolly well tell us -!\") Prachi, the golden child, fallen from grace, some essential blessing lifted from her.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Crossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from a tree—these are images associated with the African American experience of nature. Over the decades, many African Americans have come to accept that natural areas are dangerous. Unfamiliar with the culture's rich environmental heritage, people overlook the knowledge and skills required at every turn in black history: thriving in natural settings in ancestral African lands, using and discovering farming techniques to survive during slavery and Reconstruction, and navigating escape routes to freedom, all of which required remarkable outdoor talents and a level of expertise far beyond what's needed to hike or camp in a national forest or park.", "In", "Rooted in the Earth", ", environmental historian Dianne D. Glave overturns the stereotype that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. In tracing the history of African Americans' relationship with the environment, emphasizing the unique preservation-conservation aspect of black environmentalism, and using her storytelling skills to re-create black naturalists of the past, Glave reclaims the African American heritage of the land. This book is a groundbreaking, important first step toward getting back into nature, not only for personal growth but for the future of the planet." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "As thousands of African-Americans in the Gulf deal with the effects of the oil disaster, Glave documents the bond with nature that has long been part of the black experience. Drawing on Africa and African art, literature, history, and theology, Glave adds texture to her story. Chapters begins with fictional vignettes reflecting the author's own journey through her material, a \"quilt work designed from this detective's loving labor to reveal the thoughts of farmers, artists and novelists dotted throughout the South.\" Passages from Zora Neale Hurston, Frederick Douglass and others gives voice to the community; for Douglass, the ocean signified freedom, despite the many Africans who crossed these waters in conditions unfit for animals. And Anna Comstock, an instructor at Cornell, opened a Nature Study School in 1897 and published her Handbook of Nature Study in 1911, which inspired teachers in the field. Today, Glave points out that First Lady Michelle Obama cultivates a vegetable garden on the grounds of the White House, bringing the stewardship full circle. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.", "From", "Booklist", "A history of abuse during slavery and sharecropping has bequeathed many African Americans with mixed feeling about things having to do with the earth, the result being a relatively low profile on issues involving the environment. Glave debunks that notion with a history and perspective on an environmental heritage dating back to African religious and cultural traditions through early environmentalists including George Washington Carver. Glave presents the troubled history of environmental exploitation of blacks—many black neighborhoods are often located in polluted environments—against long traditions of nature as a source of sustenance and healing for a people who often had few other resources. Beginning each chapter with a fictionalized vignette to provide historical context, Glave discloses the little-known history of African American involvement in the environment from Atlantic Ocean explorer Abubakari II to Booker T. Washington, who put emphasis on agriculture at Tuskegee Institute. Glave draws on personal perspectives and oral and recorded histories to detail the ways that the history of Africans in America is rooted in the earth. --Vanessa Bush", "Review", "\"This will interest young readers studying environmental history; an important addition for all library collections.\"", "—Library Journal", "\"Draws on personal perspectives and oral and recorded histories to detail the ways that the history of Africans in America is rooted in the earth.\"  —", "Booklist", "\"I love it! Especially the juicy first-person accounts from enslaved and free black people that convey the depth of the relationship between them and the land . . . [The author] has done our country and the world an incredible service.\"  —Audrey Peterman, coauthor, with Frank Peterman,", "Legacy on the Land: A Black Couple Discovers Our National Inheritance and Tells Why Every American Should Care", "\"In reclaiming the black heritage of the American landscape,", "Rooted in the Earth", "takes us beyond the hurt and struggle of people and nature and leaves us clean for the continuing journey like bare feet in the soil, fresh fruit, and sassafras leaf stems chewed like gum as a kid.\"  —Jarid Manos, author,", "Ghetto Plainsman", "; founder/CEO, Great Plains Restoration Council", "\"This book is a compelling look at American history and its impact on African Americans and their relationship to the natural world. As part of the up and coming majority it is their influence and political power that will determine the sustainability of America’s environmental protection policies, which influence an entire planet.\"  —Dudley Edmondson, author,", "Black & Brown Faces in America's Wild Places", "\"For those who have felt that Blacks are unduly disconnected from the land, this book is both a roadmap and a welcome home sign.\"  —Majora, urban revitalization strategist and host, Eco-Heroes and The Promised Land", "About the Author", "Dianne D. Glave teaches in the department of history at Morehouse College. She is the coeditor of", "To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Rooted in the Earth", "Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage", "By Dianne D. Glave", "Chicago Review Press Incorporated", "Copyright © 2010 Dianne GlaveAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-55652-766-1", "Contents", "Preface, Introduction: PEOPLE AND CURRENTS, 1 The Atlantic Ocean: CURRENTS OF LIFE AND DEATH, 2 Topography: NAVIGATING THE SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE, 3 Religion: SHOUTING IN THE WOODS, 4 Resistance: REBELLION, SUSTENANCE, AND ESCAPE IN THE WILDERNESS, 5 Preservation: BLENDING THE PRACTICAL AND THE PURIST, 6 Conservation: AN AFRICAN LEGACY OF WORKING THE LAND, 7 Children: DREAMING AND DANGER IN WOODS AND FIELDS, 8 Nature Study: OBSERVING, CLASSIFYING, AND UTILIZING THE NATURAL WORLD, 9 Women and Gardening: A PATCH OF HER OWN, 10 Environmental Justice: FREE TO BREATHE, Conclusion: HERITAGE AND THE FUTURE, Acknowledgments, Resources, Notes, Further Reading, Photo Credits, Index, CHAPTER 1", "The Atlantic Ocean", "CURRENTS OF LIFE AND DEATH", "The ocean is calm as an aged woman sitting in the shade of her wraparound porch, then fearsome as a man with a gun battling in the trenches at war, and later truculent as a two-year-old child writhing on the floor demanding she have her way. Zeus, a young black boy enslaved in Alabama, knows the idiosyncrasies and uncertainties of seafaring life. In 1771 Matthew Samford gave his brother, Captain Marshall Samford, the seven-year-old Zeus, to the heartache of Zeus's parents, Joseph and Lois. To these white men, Zeus was just another enslaved child sold off or given away as a gift, simply chattel.", "The boy begins his travels as a personal servant twenty miles north of Mobile, boarding the merchant ship", "Pegasus.", "At first, Zeus's duties are limited to tending to the needs of Captain Samford, who requires constant attention, including grooming, cleaning, and feeding. As the boy grows older, his duties shift to those of chief cook. He is fortunate in that, before he was given away, he had sat in the kitchen with his mother and picked up cooking skills, duties most often confined to women on farms and plantations. Only men compose the ship's crew, so Zeus's cooking skills are welcomed as he supervises the chief steward and steward's assistant in the galley.", "Blacks are often limited to cooking and cleaning on ships, but Zeus dreams of being one of the few blacks to captain his own ship, envisioning himself at the helm of a vessel cutting through the choppy waters of the Atlantic. He cooks in large pots over the stoves in the blistering galley in the Caribbean's tropical zone. Alternately, when the", "Pegasus", "sails through the cold, dark waters off the shores of England, he finds a bit of warmth by the stove. Thankfully the rolling waters do not trigger seasickness. Zeus stands on the deck in the worst weather with the wind driving rain into his chest. He sees spinner dolphins and humpback whales rising to the surface from the deep Caribbean waters and watches for hours the jumps, spins, flips, and turns of these sea creatures.", "During his shore leaves in the Kingston harbor in Jamaica, Zeus wanders through the fishing shanties. The fishermen live on the edge of the harbor and walk quickly to their small boats, which are filled with nets and hooks. Wading on the beach, Zeus sees a two-foot parrot fish in the shoals, shallow sandbanks. Its mouth is white and black, and its upper body, from the dorsal and caudal fins down to the lateral line, is a brilliant blue; the remainder of the lower body to the pectoral and pelvic fins is yellow and red. Zeus also spends his downtime sleeping on the white sand, which is covered in seashells and skittering crabs. He sometimes finds extra work like caulking ships so he can earn money to purchase his freedom in the future.", "* * *", "For this one imagined tale there are many true maritime narratives by and histories of African Americans, such as that of Olaudah Equiano, who braved the Arctic, and Nancy Prince, a black woman who ventured to Russia and Jamaica. Other African American adventurers on the high seas include Harry Dean, James Forten, Paul Cuffee, John Jea, and William B. Gould. People of the African diaspora purposefully took to the Atlantic Ocean currents, including the North Equatorial and South Equatorial, on every manner of vessel from canoes to sloops, men-of-war, schooners, and whalers. According to the whims and desires of whites, others of the diaspora were also scattered across and tossed along the currents that drew ships to the Americas and Europe — all part of the Atlantic slave trade.", "In", "Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail,", "W. Jeffrey Bolster argues that for many seafaring blacks, the ocean represented livelihood, empowerment, and identity, not enslavement and victimization. \"An image of manacled ancestors crammed together aboard slave ships has triumphed as the association of African Americans and the sea,\" writes Bolster. This image of African Americans as victims rather than survivors with power is much different from the reality of black sailors during the Civil War who, Bolster argues, \"were central to African Americans' collective sense of self, economic survival, and freedom struggle — indeed central to the very creation of black America.\" The legacy of black sailors persisted beyond the Civil War to the present: African Americans have continued their seafaring as part of the modern United States Navy.", "The Atlantic slave trade from the late sixteenth to the mid–nineteenth century spanned the Middle Passage and the Civil War, with its naval battles during the age of sail, and ushered in a nascent maritime globalization through commercial, whaling, and military seafaring. Africans on commercial passenger and merchant ships dramatically and irrevocably expanded the boundaries and meaning of environment as they pushed off from African shores and stepped onto landscapes that were new to them in the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. Their travels on the Atlantic Ocean were complicated as they sought adventure, experienced oppression, and resisted subjugation.", "Seafaring supported a global economic system of mercantilism based on silver and gold bullion in exchange for American and European goods. The labor of enslaved Africans and African Americans supported this economic system into the nineteenth century. From this labor, whites cultivated cotton, tobacco, sugarcane, and indigo that they traded to Europeans. These goods were transported by ships on which blacks were free or enslaved crew members. Black sailors worked in an exploitative and racist economic system in which whites profited at the expense of others.", "Seafaring blacks were at times victimized, but they also aimed to control their destinies. For example, they served as cultural conduits, traveling the oceans and connecting blacks to one another on land. London was the economic center of the Atlantic slave trade and the hub for information carried by word of mouth and through objects gathered by black seafaring people. Blacks used the ocean as a low-tech Internet of sorts to carry foreign goods and news, including the latest on the abolition movement.", "Long before the age of sail, ancient Africans paddled and rowed small and large canoes and navigated their own ships on the waters, many of the latter fitted with sails. Africans arrived by ship in Central and South America, predating the Spanish and Portuguese invasion of the Americas and the Caribbean.", "In the early fourteenth century, Abubakari II, a ruler of Mali, conferred with and was influenced by scholars at the University of Timbuktu who argued the world was round, countering medieval European scientists and philosophers, many of whom supported the world-is-flat theory. Ivan Van Sertima in", "They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America", "says, \"Water fascinated Abubakari the Second — spacious, mobile, brooding bodies of water. Water was like stored grain at Niani, for it took a full day for the servants to fill the royal jars in the river Kala and return with them to the palace.\" The fruit of Abubakari's oceanic fascination was a fleet set to sail on the Atlantic Ocean into the unknown. Abubakari's foray speaks to how people, including Africans, were bound by a desire to find and explore new places. The ocean was the means of transport that often took center stage, though voyagers faced danger and perhaps death.", "Abubakari sent four hundred ships to the coast from Mali, located in the interior of West Africa, via the Senegal River. They sailed westward, crossing the Atlantic for the Americas. It was a formidable passage, worsened since the final destination was Brazil, at a distance of more than four thousand miles.", "Imagine these ships tossing in the churning waves, the rain coming down from above, blinding the Africans manning the sails. The women and children huddled together in the hold against the storms. Keep in mind that, according to Van Sertima, African \"men were more terrified of the sea than the vast, blinding plains of the Sahara\" and \"the Arabs called the ocean 'the green sea of darkness'\" as the Africans ventured forward with nothing but the horizon and water stretching ahead and behind. One captain returned to Mali, frightened when the fleet was hit by a storm. The rest of the fleet might have survived and sailed farther, on to South America after braving the storm.", "Such a setback did not dull the lure of the sea for Abubakari, who continued to gaze westward across the land of Mali to the Atlantic Ocean and the nameless places beyond. He organized a second fleet that he led himself, leaving his brother to rule Mali. As had been true of the last voyage, some of the ships were filled with cargo — enough food and water for shiploads of people on a long journey. Abubakari never returned to Mali, though griots still tell his story through oral traditions practiced today in Africa.", "Both of Abubakari's fleets sailed the North Equatorial current, streams that flow clockwise, drawn by the earth's rotational pull, beginning in West Africa and ending in the Americas. Abubakari and the other sailors and passengers probably stepped onto the silvery white sands of Brazil. Some may have looked longingly back for a few moments at the azure blue water and the rough surf tinged white with foam, wondering about the rivers, fields, lakes, savannahs, and forests left behind in Africa. Ahead of them, though, was the edge of the vast Amazon basin. Who knows how many varieties of plants, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and insects lived in the forests before so many species were eradicated through the twenty-first century?", "The climate was tropical, ninety degrees Fahrenheit at its hottest, with drenching rain that turned to high humidity at the end of a shower or storm. In the Amazon, depending on how deep the explorers ventured in, they most likely saw rainforests, savannahs, and the massive Amazon River with its many tributaries threading even farther and wider into lakes, swamps, and bogs. The length has been measured at approximately four thousand miles but has varied, since rivers shift over time. They would have encountered an astounding biodiversity in the forests — a high of seventy degrees Fahrenheit under the canopy — that included mangrove, fig, palm, mahogany, and Brazil-nut trees. In the freshwaters of the basin were crocodiles, tree frogs, stingrays, and dolphins. Parrots, macaws, and monkeys populated the trees. Jaguars and anteaters moved on the ground beneath the understory of the Amazon forests. Lizards, snakes, katydids, grasshoppers, butterflies, and moths moved from the trees to the ground and back again.", "Back in Africa, the ancients made short forays, paddling in canoes gutted and carved out of trees for fishing, exploring, and simply traveling in order to trade from the shores. From the sixteenth century, the origins of the Atlantic slave trade, free Africans working as middlemen used canoes to transport to European ships the \"goods\" — their fellow Africans — destined for trade in the Americas. In small vessels, the Africans expertly braved the shallow waters and swelling waves that Europeans could not navigate with large ships. Many different ethnic groups, from the Mandinka to the Ashanti, were forced on a frightening and mysterious voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas under the tyrannical control of whites, including the Portuguese and the British.", "An estimated twenty million Africans took countless one-way voyages via the Middle Passage, an arduous trip with health and environmental implications that severely rearranged and transformed their lives. Africans vomited because of the effects of the rolling ocean. They suffered — and many died from — the bloody flux, a gory diarrhea. The people were raped, contracting syphilis — at its worst, resulting in dementia and death — from the European sailors. As many as four hundred Africans were chained to one another, head to toe, in the hold of a ship in a suffocating space as high as a coffin and only as wide as a body length. Skittering and creeping about the closed, suffocating hold were vermin like roaches, lice, rats, and mice. Gruel was ladled out into grasping hands and stuffed into gaping mouths in the center of crazed, terrorized faces. The smell was a noxious jumble to the senses — rotted food, body odor, foul feces, ammonia-steeped urine, and congealed blood. The worst were the dead bodies decomposing in that organic stew for days before the whites removed them. Water was rationed and often ran out long before the ships landed in the Americas. Some of the few comforts, if madness had not taken over, were fresh ocean air, the spray of salt water, and glimpses from the deck of whales and dolphins breaking the surface of the water.", "Some Africans documented their own Middle Passage journeys. Ayuba Suleiman Diallo came from a Senegambian family of Muslim clerics, all of whom were educated and literate in Arabic. Representing his father, Diallo met a British ship at the outlet of the Gambia River in West Africa to sell two enslaved Africans in 1730. Failing to make an exchange that benefited his father financially, Diallo moved on. Though admonished by his father not to do so, Diallo crossed the Gambia River — which served as a partition against the Mandingoes, an aggressive people — where he finally sold the Africans. Ultimately, Diallo himself, adorned in gold and defenseless, was an attractive target; he was captured and sold by the Mandingoes to the British, who were waiting where the Atlantic Ocean and the Gambia River met.", "As a devout Muslim, Diallo prayed to God, or Allah, the requisite five times a day. His prayers may have also helped ease the emotional strain of being enslaved aboard the British ship", "Arabella —", "ironic since he had been selling enslaved people himself. Perhaps he prayed for protection from the crashing waves and churning waters surrounding the vessel. Thomas Bluett, an antislavery advocate and author of Diallo's memoir, traveled with Diallo, ensuring safe passage to England. Bluett wrote, \"During the Voyage, he was very constant in his Devotions; which he never omitted, on any Pretense, notwithstanding we had exceeding bad Weather all the time we were at Sea.\"", "Diallo landed in Maryland, an alien landscape, and quickly charmed the whites around him with his education and knowledge of trade. As a result, they allowed him to contact his father to request money to be freed. Bluett later describes how Diallo, upon entering the English Channel, sought to fix his surroundings firmly in his mind for future use as a bridge between African and English culture:", "By his good Nature and Affability he gained the good Will of all the Sailors, who (not to mention other kind of Offices) all the way up the Channel fhewed him the Head Lands and remarkable Places; the Names of which Job wrote down carefully, together with the Accounts that were given him about them. His Reafon for doing, he told me, was, that if he met with any", "Englisfhman", "in his Country, he might by their Marks be able to convince him that he had been in", "England.", "Diallo might have believed that having knowledge or experience in common with the Europeans would protect him from enslavement in future encounters. In 1734, Diallo landed where he had begun, in Africa, after sailing the reverse Middle Passage — an exception rather than the rule for the millions of Africans stolen from Africa — returning to his homeland and father.", "Diallo calmly sought solace from God during his voyage, but Olaudah Equiano had a more mixed experience. Equiano was from Benin, also in West Africa, and was born in 1745. His memories of the Middle Passage from childhood were of being snatched and kidnapped from his home by other Africans and forced to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Equiano says, \"One day, when we had a smooth sea and moderate wind, two of my wearied countrymen who were chained together (I was near them at the time), preferring death to such a life of misery, somehow made through the nettings and jumped into the sea.\"", "Perhaps the fear of open water prevalent among contemporary African Americans has its origin in the Middle Passage, echoes of psychological terror and torture at the hands of whites. I remember when I worked at a university and a staff member was planning a trip for African American teens, to venture out by boat into the Louisiana marshes. He asked me to talk to a mother who refused to let her son out on the water. This was back in 2004 when many of the marshes were in such a state that it was like being out in open water in the Gulf of Mexico. My colleague became angry when I explained that I would not try to change the woman's mind because stories or phantoms of stories about seafaring terrors going back to the Middle Passage might have been handed down to her, causing her fear of open water.", "(Continues...)", "Excerpted from", "Rooted in the Earth", "by", "Dianne D. Glave", ". Copyright © 2010 Dianne Glave. Excerpted by permission of Chicago Review Press Incorporated. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.", "Read more" ]

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[ "In seventeenth-century Valladolid, Spain’s new capital, Miguel Cervantes is busy writing his comic masterpiece,", "Don Quixote", ", which is being issued in installments. It is quickly making him the most popular author in the country, when three potential disasters strike: Cervantes discovers that there is a real Don Quixote, just like the character he thought he’d invented; a jealous poet concocts a scheme involving one of the novel’s other characters to make Cervantes a laughingstock; and Cervantes falls in love with a beautiful, widowed, but un-available duchess. Many duels, misunderstandings, politicking, and betrayals later, Don Quixote himself comes to Cervantes’ rescue.This sparkling tale of crazed knights, thwarted love, and literary rivalry is set against the back-ground of a mighty empire suffering from a century of reckless wars and a ruling hierarchy stultified by patronage and ritual. Peopled with an engagingly idiosyncratic cast that ranges from a Machiavellian duke to a misanthropic poacher, this charming story is imbued with the spirit, verve, and humor of the great novel to which it pays playful tribute.", "Tilting at Windmills", "is a dazzling evocation of Cervantes’ life and times, and a brilliant weave of fact, fiction, and farce." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "What if Don Quixote appeared in the flesh, riding backwards on a noble steed and peeking out from under a makeshift helmet at his creator, Miguel de Cervantes? A meeting between the two literary greats is the creaky premise of this novel, but Branston's tale takes on a merry life of its own, proving itself no feeble pastiche. A formal introductory letter from \"Cervantes\" himself may discourage casual readers, but the author soon introduces a cast of deliciously human characters and unleashes them on one another in a tale of literary intrigue. Cervantes is hard at work on his masterpiece when his friend Pedro, a buffoonish aspiring merchant with a marked resemblance to Sancho Panza, confesses that the stories he has told Cervantes about a mad old knight are actually true, and the model for the character of Don Quixote is a real man. Cervantes is naturally eager to meet the errant knight, and his wish is fulfilled when the mad and maddening Don Quixote appears to defend Cervantes against an evil poet who is out to one-up the writer with a manuscript supposedly written by Don Quixote's love, Dulcinea. Once the old hero and Cervantes are in the same quarters--be it tavern or holy site or both--the dialogue sparkles and good writing conquers evil as true farce takes hold. This is a rollicking, earthy, compulsively readable take-off on the 17th-century classic. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "From", "Booklist", "In a truly inspired flight of fancy, Branston has created a fictionalized account of how the comic masterpiece", "Don Quixote", "came into being. It's the seventeenth century, and Miguel Cervantes is alive and well, writing and publishing in highly anticipated episodes what will become his masterwork--but there are many obstacles in his path. First and foremost, the character of Don Quixote is discovered to have a counterpart in the real world, a mad knight of a forgotten age who is obsessed with chivalry. The second impediment, a beautiful duchess who scorns Cervantes for his loyalty to an emperor whom she blames for the death of her soldier husband (Cervantes falls madly in love with her). And, finally, the plotting of the jealous Ongora, a scheming, vicious, dandy of a poet who would do anything to see Cervantes destroyed. Fortunately for Cervantes, his own creation, Don Quixote, comes to his aid, and their interactions make this novel an ingenious mesh of fact and fiction that reflects the romance and satire of the original story to which it pays tribute.", "Jerry Eberle", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "Review", "“[A] lively pastiche that includes fine Cervantian comic stereotypes, feisty, foul-mouthed Iberian babes, and a vivid portrait of seventeenth-century Spain.” —", "The Guardian", "“Very entertaining and at times hilarious.” —", "The Historical Review", "“There is much here to enjoy. . . . [Branston’s] love of Cervantes shines through this affectionate homage.” —", "Sunday Telegraph", "“An inventive, beautifully written piece of literary fiction.” —", "Good Book Guide", "About the Author", "Julian Branston divides his time between London and California. This is his first novel.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Before You Go Any Further . . .", "Some remarks from the author of", "Don Quixote", ", one Miguel Cervantes, deceased, and an explanation of the present volume", "As it has pleased God to reveal early in my life His profound mastery over the fate of all human beings, I renounced any aspiration for fame from my writings to fulfill one single aim, that is, to reveal a little of God’s intelligence to his obstinate, graceless, and ungrateful creations. It was allowed, a little, in my long life to reveal some of this in my two novels of", "Don Quixote", ". But my character, circumstances, and a divine requirement that an equal if not surmounting purity of spirit should accompany any such aspirations meant that this accomplishment could occur only late in life. After the publication of the", "Don Quixote", "books, my life shortly thereafter ended, and I had not so much influence on the outcome and development of my novels. Yet new knowledge will produce fruit, even in the desert, and these novels of mine have since been published in many other languages than my purest Castillian, languages I had never heard of. This is a paradox, for many do not understand my books, as they were a hurried creation, and a dying man can only blunder at his final duties. However, as there exists no facility whereby history might burnish its better moments, it falls on a few who receive the inspiration such a work affords to renew the source. These recipients know that it is a task, inherited by every human being, whether they know it or not, that they strive to honor the divine in all things, for it is the promise of God to raise everything after him.And so, humanity has a debt in my favor. For no sooner had the first part of", "Don Quixote", "been published, than a dozen paltry and malicious counterfeits tried to take its place. More conflict took place between rival booksellers of these and my works—a war between my purest concept and the influence of unsound and criminal editions—than ever existed between Turk and Christian. In the time that it takes to write this sentence, these shadows of their better—the hidalgo Don Quixote—spurned their pages and, like rebellious children, inclined to dictate their own destinies. Before my creation could be fully rounded, and to protect the content already published, I was forced to write a sequel to the first book that was but an end to one of the choicest of all characters.However, though it suited divine ends that a hurried conception should be followed by a faster end, it was allowed that there must be some resolution to my novel’s inspiration. Therefore an individual has been elected to deliver another addition to my life’s work, intended as a companion to the originals, both in spirit and humor. And as my main character has already found an end, then this freshest episode must make an addition without intruding into the exploits of the noblest buffoon in history. The deliberation of this newest episode is the work of this author to engender.This new author is an individual aloof from my history and origin. His mind has never found a true purchase in a worthy ideal, while his character has the same wildness, uncertainty, and manifest despairs that once afflicted my soul. Yet this flawed pupil is as suitable to the purpose of God as is the sunrise, or the ebb and flow of the sea. Therefore the birth, progress, and resolution of the adventures contained in the following pages have my blessing but not my hand. His heart then must find partner with God, his mind turn the mill of phrases, and his pen enact the spirit of lucid and genial comedy.", "Redoubtable Pedro", "Pedro, redoubtable trader, visits a print shop and inquires after the first episodes of a new comic romance.", "Given Pedro’s ambition to be the world’s finest merchant in traded goods, it gratified him, on his morning walk through the lower quarter of Valladolid—the new hub of the Spanish Empire—to see his neighbors and acquaintances carrying full to overflowing shopping baskets. And further that many of them would frequently and cheerfully greet him by his first name and make a reference to their latest business dealings. Someone might say, “Your eggs made an emperor’s breakfast, friend Pedro, and did you find a worthy pair of legs for those stockings?” or, “Tell your wife and daughters to come for their fittings, friend Pedro, for that lace would be a fortune for any milliner.”Occasionally there would be complaints, but to these Pedro would willingly listen, for he believed that his reputation depended not only on his successes, but also on the speed with which he allowed and redressed his mistakes. And to this he added a firm patience, for he would always have to remind his partners in trading that nothing was for free, and that he required something for himself. If there was any labor involved, for example, harvesting oranges or pulling carrots, this meant “something extra” for him. People liked him, therefore, because he facilitated their needs, he knew everything about everyone without harm to anyone, and he never failed to deliver a little more than what was requested. With a pleasant rough-cast manner and the immediate poetry of argot in his speech, people thought of him as being friendly, fair, and, above all, a genius of surprises.Pedro was not a family man. His wife was a worthy Catholic matron, the mother of six healthy daughters, yet their names Pedro found hard to recall, and their birthdays he never remembered. His body was a mere visitor to his family and home because his spirit was dedicated to his ambition. This was difficult to discern, since he liked to pass the time eating, drinking, and conversing with his friends and acquaintances. When asked about his family, he would say, “The emperor can raise an army, a general can raise a siege, a wit can raise a snicker, but I can hardly raise six daughters, and not one of them thanks me for being their father. All the money I have goes to combs and petticoats. Now, about that row of cabbages I know you have in your garden strip. It would please the parson’s soul, God save him, to have those for an excellent soup that is the speciality of his housekeeper, and is so good a medicine, so it is said, that it can cure winter and bring on the spring. Now if you would give me those to give to him, then he will give your boy Bible lessons and say special prayers for you at Mass. But if you have the mind that your own prayers are good enough, and that the parson, heaven bless his kindness and excuse his feeble wits, can say no more prayers on your behalf than God himself, then he will also teach your daughter a lesson or two on the church organ. Let me come tomorrow morning, and relieve you of the burden of those cabbages!”So in a time of uncertain economy, when the ship could sink or the harvest could fail, Pedro knew how do without the money that nobody had.But there was a Pedro that no one could guess at. In part because he had never fully expressed another of his ambitions even to himself, and because his family, friends, and acquaintances would rather consider him as the cipher of a likeable trader and unwilling husband than as someone with aspirations that were abstract and out of the ordinary. For Pedro wanted to be mayor. It troubled him little that this ambition was inappropriate—a peasant-farmer, recently moved to the city, could never be considered for so high an office—or that the status he sought was so specific; it was not to be rich, to be famous, to be powerful, but to be mayor. How had this ambition arisen? A delighted recipient of several jars of the best olive oil had said, “Friend Pedro, if you wanted to become mayor, I would cast my vote for you.” And as is the case with some casual remarks, it had special meaning, and the idea took root in Pedro with surprisingly little doubt attached to it. It was the natural end, in his mind, to his assiduous work on a thriving assortment of trades and connections. In this aspect of his life there were few disappointments, and this helped him forget the neglect of his family, to ignore the many Masses that were said on his behalf by his wife, and to remain deaf to the caustic remarks of his six—or was it seven?—daughters.On this particular morning, there was much to look forward to, both in satisfaction and challenge, because Pedro was about to visit Robles the printer, the one person who adamantly refused to trade with him, and after that meet with another person, an author, with whom he was enjoying a so far admirably and mutually proffitable business venture, only this time, one that produced actual hard cash.Pedro entered the cool of the print shop from the dusty hustle of the street. The printer’s boy scrambled from a stool, and Robles appeared, trimmed and alert, already in inking sleeves and holding a gathering of papers.“Let me know the figures,” said Pedro, “for I am on my way to my friend Cervantes, and as he lives more by night than by day, I can provide the fire for his inspiration this evening.”“Well, you have your own space in the window, and not an hour goes by when someone does not buy the latest episode,” said Robles. “Look, here in my hand, another dozen gatherings for printing.”“Then let me take money to him as well,” said Pedro, “for he has more debt than a cemetery has stones, and despite his cheerful character, he does have the melancholy.”“I do believe,” said Robles, giving Pedro a small bag of coins, “that success breeds melancholy. You must tell your friend that writing comedies is the saddest activity for any man, and working through nights, with no one to talk to but the moths around your candle, is a sure route to desolation. Tell him to come and have dinner with me.”“I know his reply,”...", "Read more" ]

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[ "It's 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis, a dilapidated Hyde Park mansion, and hopefully her reputation at the same time." ]

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[ "Women Gone Wild The adventures of two city slickers who leave their urban footprints behind and learn to love rattlers, bears, pot growers, two dachshunds and each other. Anyone who's ever dreamed of chucking it all and moving to the country will find Women Gone Wild a funny, provocative and engaging story. And it's all true. Writer Jane Futcher and her partner, Erin, haven't a clue what they're getting into when they buy 160 acres in the mountain wilds of inland Mendocino County. Starting with a tent, then a little cabin, and finally a house off the grid, six miles down a dirt road, the two women and their miniature long-haired dachshunds face fears, phobias and close encounters with rattlesnakes, bears, wild horses, pot growers and each other. Idyllic? Hardly. Worth it? Absolutely!" ]

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[ "*** PLEASE NOTE *** This is not the most current version of this curriculum. The current edition of this title is no longer sold through this link. You can find it on Amazon, published 9/6/2020. Sixth in a series designed to teach technology by integrating it into classroom inquiry. The choice of hundreds of school districts, private schools and homeschoolers around the world, this nine-volume suite is the all-in-one solution to running an effective, efficient, and fun technology program for kindergarten-eighth grade (each grade level textbook sold separately) whether you're the lab specialist, IT coordinator, or classroom teacher. The 32-week technology curriculum is designed to be completed in about 45 minutes a week (though this may vary, depending upon your student group). Textbook includes: * 233 images * 24 assessments * 14 pedagogic articles * 21 posters * Grade K-6 wide-ranging Scope and Sequence * Grade K-6 technology curriculum map * 32 weeks of lessons * Certificate of Completion * monthly homework (3rd-8th only) * posters ready to print and hang on your walls Each lesson is aligned with both Common Core State Standards and National Educational Technology Standards and includes: * academic applications for lessons * additional resources * assessment strategies * big idea * class exit tickets * class warmups * Common Core Standards * domain-specific vocabulary * emphasis on comprehension/problem-solving/critical thinking/preparing for career and college * essential question * examples * focus on transfer of knowledge and blended learning, collaboration and sharing * grading rubrics * homework * how to extend learning * ISTE Standards * materials required * problem solving for lesson * skills required for lesson and learned during lesson * steps to accomplish goals * teacher preparation required * time required to complete Scaffolded lesson plans include: * Blogs * Coding/Programming * Digital Citizenship * Digital Tools in the Classroom * End-of-Year Challenge * Google Earth * Graphs * Graphic Organizers * Graphics and Photoshop * Internet Search * Intro * Keyboarding * Keyboarding and Science * Organizing Ideas * Problem Solving * Slideshows * Spreadsheet formulae and summative * Tables * Trifolds, Newsletter, Calendar * Website Evaluation * What Have I Learned * Writing with Graphics Please be aware: Look Inside feature isn't always up-to-date with this edition's content. AND: Images in print book are black and white--not color. For questions: visit the publisher's website at structuredlearning dot net." ]

[ "Review", "I have been teaching for 20 years. This year I am in two new schools and was assigned to teach 1st through 8th grade technology. I see the 1st through 5th graders once a week. There was no curriculum, just curriculum ideas. I searched for the first half of the school year and was very frustrated by the lack of coherence in my lessons, and then about a month ago, found the Structured Learning Technology series. It has been a lifesaver for me. Even though I have only used 3 or 4 lessons, it has made my job so much easier. The students enjoy the activities. For me, the scope and sequence makes sense. The NETS standards are on every lesson making it easier to fit into my state standards. Each lesson builds on another. I am starting every grade at the 1st grade level and quickly progress through the lessons depending on skill levels. Students are excited about learning. We are using tools that are available to everyone. There are some software specific lessons but can be accomplished with a comparable software. It is up to date. The students are learning. They are problem solving. They are taking responsibility for their learning and are asking questions. There are less discipline issues because they are engaged. The progression makes sense. I only wish I had more time with each grade. But because I only have once a week, I give them an introduction and then know that the next year (the next series) will expand on the previous instruction. Customer service is an A+. They are knowledgeable and friendly. They are patient. They are prompt. I recommend this series to anyone who is teaching technology. (My two schools are listed below with an email for each school. I teach at Boyceville in the mornings with grades 7-8, along with high school, and teach in Prairie Farm in the afternoon with grades 1-12) --Connie, 20-year classroom teacher<br \\><br \\>I have ...ordered online the K-5 books. Love them. --Teachers Pay Teachers Customer<br \\><br \\>I have ...ordered online the K-5 books. Love them. --Teachers Pay Teachers CustomerI have ...ordered online the K-5 books. Love them. --Teachers Pay Teachers CustomerI have ...ordered online the K-5 books. Love them. --Teachers Pay Teachers Customer", "About the Author", "Ask a Tech Teacher is a group of technology teachers who run an award-winning resource blog. Here they provide free materials, advice, lesson plans, pedagogical conversation, website reviews, and more to all who drop by. The free newsletters and articles help thousands of teachers, homeschoolers, and those serious about finding the best way to maneuver the minefields of technology in education." ]

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[ "For one or two semester courses in the History of Photography.", "A chronological history of photography ranging from the medium’s beginnings to the present, with emphasis on the major inventions and image makers and the social and cultural settings in which photography flourished.", "The book was written to introduce students to photography. It does not require that students possess any technical know-how and can be taught without referring to techniques in photography. Incorporating the latest research and international uses of photography, the text surveys the history of photography in such a way that students can gauge the medium's long-term multifold developments and see the historical and intellectual contexts in which photographers lived and worked. It also provides a unique focus on contemporary photo-based work and electronic media." ]

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[ "The Dreamcatcher visits a young boy named Jimmy and takes him on a scenic tour through the universe. Jimmy gets to see the universe as nobody has seen before." ]

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[ "Lunacy was Nate Burke€™s last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he€™d watched his partner die on the street €“ and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town. Aside from sorting out a run-in between a couple of motor vehicles and a moose, he finds his first few weeks on the job are relatively quiet. But just as he wonders whether this has been all a big mistake, an unexpected kiss on New Year€™s Eve under the brilliant Northern Lights of the Alaska sky lifts his spirit and convinces him to stay just a little longer. Meg Galloway, born and raised in Lunacy, is used to being alone. She was a young girl when her father disappeared, and she has learned to be independent, flying her small plane, living on the outskirts of town with just her huskies for company. After her New Year€™s kiss with the Chief of Police, she allows herself to give in to passion €“ while remaining determined to keep t" ]

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[ "A Word a Day", "contains 365 carefully selected words that will enhance and expand your vocabulary, along with their meanings, origins and sample usage and fascinating word-related facts and trivia.", "It is estimated that on average an", "English-speaking adult", "has acquired a functioning vocabulary of", "25,000 words", "by the time they reach middle age. That sounds like a lot— and more than enough for the daily purposes of communicating with each other in speech and writing. However, it is hard to feel quite so sanguine about our word power when considering those 25,000 words account for", "less than fifteen per cent", "of the total words in current usage in the English language. Furthermore, new words are created all the time and, as the word pool flourishes, can we afford to allow our vocabulary to stagnate? Logophile Joseph Piercy has the answer: a simple challenge to learn", "A Word a Day", "from this user-friendly onomasticon (that’s a word list designed for a specific purpose—in case you were wondering …).", "Each of the 365 words", "have been", "carefully selected", "for their", "elegance", "and", "pertinence", "in everyday situations and every entry contains a clear and concise outline of meaning, origin and sample usage in context, alongside fascinating word related facts and trivia.", "A Word a Day", "is a treasure trove of fascination and fun for all language lovers—delve in and enhance your vocabulary." ]

[ "About the Author", "Joseph Piercy", "is the author of", "1000 Words You Should Know", "and", "The 25 Rules of Grammar." ]

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[ "As the protective barrier around Valdemar begins to crumble, and the realm becomes imperiled by the dark magic of Ancar of Hardorn, Princess Elspeth, begins a quest to defend her threatened kingdom. 35,000 first printing." ]

[ "From Publishers Weekly", "In this sequel to Winds of Fate, Elspeth, heir to the throne of Valdemar, develops into a strong practitioner of magic under the tutelage of Darkwind k'Sheyna. Accepted as a member of the k'Sheyna clan of the Tayledras, magicians who cleanse lands damaged in the long-ago Magic Wars, Elspeth takes her turn in patrols searching for the vanished Falconsbane, an evil Adept who almost destroyed the clan, its Heartstone, and Darkwind's father Starblade. While Elspeth and Darkwind slowly and contentiously come to love each other, her companion Skif seeks the Changechild Nyara, daughter of Falconsbane, who turned against him to save the Vale of the k'Sheyna and then fled into the wilderness with the enchanted sword Need. Aided by the powerful but mysterious mage Firesong k'Treva, the Vale fights off another attempt at destruction by Falconsbane, while still greater powers put in an appearance and set the stage for the Mage Wind trilogy's projected third title. This is a charming, colorful and romantic coming-of-age tale, deeply imbued with the concept of responsibility as well as the imagined pleasures of power. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From Library Journal", "Elsepth, herald and heir to the throne of Valdemar, seeks to learn the long-forgotten skills of magic by studying with the reclusive Hawkbrothers of the embattled Pelagir Hills. When a powerful mage known as Falconsbane attempts to destroy her adopted clan, Elspeth must use her new talents in a deadly battle to save the people she has come to love. Lackey's talent for world building comes to the fore in her vivid description of the Hawkbrothers' culture, while her strength of characterization remains constant. Fans of the popular Valdemar series will create a demand for this solid fantasy.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "About the Author", "Mercedes Lackey", "is a full-time writer and has published numerous novels and works of short fiction, including the best-selling", "Heralds Of Valdemar", "series. She is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots. She can be found at mercedeslackey.com.", "Read more" ]

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[ "This first definitive retrospective of the Easy-Bake® Oven celebrates its journey from children's toy to pop culture icon. The book explores the innovation, history, economics, commerce, advertising, and marketing behind the toy's 50 year history." ]

[ "From the Author", "How has a plastic toy oven powered by a standard incandescent light bulb become a cultural icon? Pop-culture pundits often say that trends fade quickly and ultimately make a comeback every 20 years or so. The Easy-Bake Oven belies this notion. Its staying power has been consistent for 50 years, with more than 30 million ovens sold. Nearly anyone born since 1955 has some memory of baking with an Easy-Bake. The oven allowed children to experience the delight of serving up miniature culinary concoctions while indulging in eating raw batter. For generations, the Easy-Bake Oven has taken and continues to take \"playing house\" to a level of realism that is nearly impossible for a child to hope for. The ability to bake and serve real food from a working oven without the supervision of a parent or the fear of fire is one of the most wonderful gifts a toy company (in this case, Kenner Products) has given to youth. I was the youngest in a family of five children and did not have an Easy-Bake Oven to call my own. That honor fell to my three older sisters who, in 1971, were given reign over an avocado-green model (which made for quite a contrast with our harvest gold-themed kitchen). Despite ruling the Easy-Bake roost (and continually telling me that I was adopted--a story for another time), my sisters often let me participate in their baking sessions. I vividly recall peering through the watch-it-bake window, waiting impatiently as the light bulb worked its magic on the just-add-water mixes we had prepared. The results never looked like the pictures on the box, but they were delicious, and they were ours! As I started to pay homage to those memories, this book rather unexpectedly became something more. It became an exploration of innovation, history, economics, commerce, advertising, and marketing. The story of the Easy-Bake Oven is a microcosm of post-war America. It demonstrates how the energies of technical innovation shifted after the war effort toward consumers. It traces the birth and evolution of a new popular culture that celebrated American invention and playfulness while reinforcing family-oriented values and traditional gender roles. On a more personal note, this book also became a collage of many things that I enjoy: nostalgia, an affinity for vintage toys, a heavy dose of baking, and a love of dessert. My hope is that you will enjoy this retrospective as much as I have enjoyed bringing it to life.", "About the Author", "Todd Coopee is an award-winning author, toy historian, and entrepreneur. He is founder and editor-in-chief of ToyTales.ca, an online publication that covers toys and games past and present. His research and writing centers on \"toy nostalgia\"--the objects that inspired curiosity, thought, and experimentation during the formative years of popular culture in North America, through to the present day." ]

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[ "OUT OF PRINT.", "Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure - new revised edition ISBN: 978-195472-096Evidence - new revised edition ISBN: 978-1954725058" ]

[ "From the Author", "OUT OF PRINT.", "Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure - new revised edition ISBN: 978-1954725096Evidence - new revised edition ISBN: 978-1954725058", "From the Back Cover", "OUT OF PRINT.", "Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure - new revised edition ISBN: 978-1954725096Evidence - new revised edition ISBN: 978-1954725058", "About the Author", "Since 1991,", "Sterling Test Prep", "prepares students for academic success.", "Sterling Test Prep", "publishes more than 140 study aids for high school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Our writers, contributors, and editors are highly educated in sciences and humanities, with extensive classroom teaching and research experience. They are experts on preparing students for standardized tests, as well as undergraduate and graduate admissions coaching.Sterling Test Prep supports environmental organizations committed to conservation, ecological research, and preservation of vital natural resources. A portion of our profits is donated to help these organizations continue their critical missions. Your purchase helps support global environmental causes.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Callie plans on a smooth senior cross country season - then finds herself holding the keys to the nuthouse when she agrees to be team captain.Her coach expects her to blend the girls into a championship-caliber team to take on perennial champs, Fairchild Academy. Callie escapes into her running even as running the team makes her crazy. Mark, the boy's team captain, makes her crazy, too. Callie struggles to manage the team but Mattie, a fast redhead with an eye on Mark, complicates everything.Callie never backs off a challenge but can she pull them together with the State meet just around the corner?A humorous peek inside one girl's dream to guide her team to the winner's podium, Finishing Kick takes an inspirational look into girls cross country.Ten percent of the profits of Finishing Kick will be donated back to local cross-country programs." ]

[ "Review", "\"Finishing Kick describes a fictional year of a girl's high school cross country team. Duffau, an ultrarunner, father and coach, knows young people, team politics and school gossip, but mostly knows running and accurately describes summer training, team workouts and inspiring racing scenes as the team heads to state championships.\"  - Running Times \"Paul really understands both running and kids and tells a great story about magic season for a high school cross country team - the joy and rewards of effort regardless of talent.\"  - Proactive Coaching\". . . it made me wish I had run cross country in high school. This is a book I'd feel good about giving my daughter to read.\" Jill, JillWillRun", "About the Author", "Based in Washington State, Paul Duffau's professional accomplishments include winning numerous awards in his inspection service, an appointment to the Washington State Home Inspector Advisory Licensing Board by Governor Gregoire in 2010, and an appointment to the State Building Code Council by Governor Inslee in 2013. He actively manages a thriving commercial and residential inspection service based in Washington State. An avid runner, marathoner and ultramarathoner, and part-time junior high cross-country coach, Duffau's running novels and stories touch on the human side of running. He also writes crime fiction, humorous short stories, and, with his wife, stories benefiting the animal welfare community. For even more information, and to follow current projects and adventures, check out what he's up to at PaulDuffau.com." ]

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[ "Journey around the globe to gaze up at towering redwoods, marvel at monkey puzzles, and find out which tree has fish swimming around its roots.", "Discover trees that give us beautiful flowers, delicious treats, and life-saving medicines―and bizarre trees with bloodred sap, fruit that can be used as soap, or even burned as candles. Learn how trees communicate with each other and how they helped us journey to the farthest reaches of our world. Bursting with blossom and the rustling of leaves, explore the tallest, the smallest, and everything in between.", "Includes a stunning central gatefold that opens out to reveal all 80 trees and how they relate to each other. Focus spreads explore subjects such as the life cycle of trees, how they communicate with each other, why trees are vital to the Earth's health, and their importance to us.", "A visual celebration of the huge variety of trees found across the globe, from those you know to those you almost certainly don't!" ]

[ "About the Author", "Ben Lerwill", "is a multi-award-winning travel writer based in Oxford. He has written for publications and websites including national newspapers,", "Rough Guides, National Geographic Traveller", ", and many more. His children's books include", "Wildlives", "(Nosy Crow, 2019) and", "Climate Rebels", "and", "Wild Cities", "(both Puffin, 2020).", "Kaja Kajfež", "is an illustrator from Croatia. Having studied at University North in Croatia, she set up her own studio, focussing on illustration, lettering and surface pattern design. Besides doing her dream job, Kaja loves to take long walks in nature, scroll through old picture books, listen to online concerts and spend time with her dog." ]

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[ "In the first two books of his acclaimed Christopher Marlowe Cobb series,", "The Hot Country", "and", "The Star of Istanbul", ", Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler captured the hearts of historical crime fiction fans with the artfulness of his World War I settings and his charismatic leading man, a Chicago journalist recruited by American intelligence.In", "The Empire of Night", ", it is 1915, and President Woodrow Wilson is still assessing the war's threat to the United States. After proving himself during the", "Lusitania", "mission, Kit is now a full-blown spy, working undercover in a castle on the Kentish coast owned by a suspected British government mole named Sir Albert Stockman. And Kit is again thrown together with a female spy—his own mother, the beautiful and mercurial Isabel Cobb, who also happens to be a world-famous stage actress. Starring in a touring production of", "Hamlet", ", Isabel's offstage role is to keep tabs on the supposed mole, an ardent fan of hers, while Kit tries to figure out Stockman's secret agenda. Following his mother and her escort from the relative safety of Britain into the lion's den of Berlin, Kit must remain in character, even under the very nose of the Kaiser." ]

[ "Review", "“[A] thrilling historical series. . . . Mr. Butler does a terrific job of depicting both the journalist’s facility for teasing information from his subjects and the spy’s incessant fear of being discovered. There’s something almost magical about the way the author re-creates this 1915 milieu.”—", "Wall Street Journal", "“", "The Empire of Night", "is a cracking good spy thriller, with a cast of memorable characters and a terrifically suspenseful plot that will have you casting the movie as you read. And Butler’s elegant writing elevates the book—he is a master of everything from lyrical description to believable dialogue.”—", "Tampa Bay Times", "“", "The Empire of Night", "is a smart and layered yarn . . . propulsive reading . . . Butler has developed a knack for snapping off taut, Hammett-esque sentences at tense moments. . . . Butler is determined to show that genre fiction can be intellectually rich.”—", "Star-Tribune", "(Minneapolis)“Butler combines fascinating historical detail about the pre-WWI period with genuine suspense and a tongue-in-cheek wit that gives the whole a uniquely tart flavor. The multilayered, adversarial relationship between Kit and Isabel grows more fascinating with each installment and will leave readers eager to learn more.”—", "Booklist", "(starred review)“Exciting . . . the period details are spot on. . . . This tale of shifting allegiances and worldwide consequences enthralls.”—", "Publishers Weekly", "“[An] elegant thriller. . . . A meticulously researched page-turner that will appeal to spy novel buffs and lovers of historical novels, as well as any general reader intrigued with the power struggles of World War I. If you’ve never read a novel by Butler—one of the great stylists writing today—you’re in for a treat with", "The Empire of Night", ".”—Huntington News“Butler's continuous pressure on the suspense makes the novel a page-turning, nail-biting experience, and his use of short, crisp sentences magnifies the tension.”—Readers Unbound“An engrossing thriller. Cobb’s traversal of the German countryside is tension-laden, and the finale wrongfoots with unexpected twists. Well-acted, center-stage entertainment.”—Crime Book Beat“Deliciously captivating. . . . I can hardly wait for the next in the series.”—", "Arab Voice", "About the Author", "Robert Olen Butler", "is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of over a dozen novels, including", "Hell", ",", "A Small Hotel", ", and two previous installments of the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series,", "The Hot Country", "and", "The Star of Istanbul", ". He is also the author of six short collections and a book on the creative process,", "From Where You Dream", ". He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "The Empire of Night", "A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller", "By Robert Olen Butler", "Grove Atlantic, Inc.", "Copyright © 2014 Robert Olen ButlerAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-0-8021-2323-7", "CHAPTER 1", "I know a stage-door Johnny when I see one, and I know a tough guy. This was no Johnny. I had my reasons not to look at the facade of the Duke of York's and perhaps that's how I came to notice him down the alleyway on the south side of the theater. The midsummer's late sunlight was almost gone and the play-going crowd was hubbubbing at the front doors, and here was this lurker in the shadows, around the corner, on the way to where only the company of actors was supposed to go. He'd crammed a bouncer's body into a three-piece serge and his trilby hat was pulled down and tipped forward.", "I gave off pretty much the same impression, I realized, but I wouldn't want to see somebody like me down this alley either. He was turned sideways and looking in my direction, probably thinking similar thoughts.", "There was nothing to do about it. Sniffing around on the sly for my government while still trying to more or less sniff the same way for my newspaper had made me excessively suspicious of my fellow man. I would have been a busy guy indeed if I'd tried to deal with every mug who put me on edge.", "The trilby and I stared at each other for a long moment, and then he broke the gaze and slid away down the alley, fading into the shadows. I shrugged him off and figured it was time to go to my seat. Which meant I had to face the wired sign thrusting out over the Duke of York's portico. In my coat pocket was a ticket for the front row of the stalls, so I had to deal with this.", "I turned.", "The theater event of the decade, for a limited run only, was ringed in electric lights: Isabel Cobb is Hamlet.", "My fifty-six-year-old mother.", "When this ticket showed up on a bellhop tray at my hotel without a note, it took me by surprise. As close as I'd been to the theater all my life, I'd been unaware that the theatrical event of the decade was about to happen in London, much less that it involved my mother. I hadn't heard from or about her for fifteen months. A couple of years ago she retired from the legitimate theater, refusing to carry on in a profession that no longer let her pretend she was a twenty-year-old beauty. She was still pretty much a beauty. But she wasn't Juliet anymore. Or even Kate in", "Shrew,", "which an audience in Memphis finally, infamously, made clear enough to her, summer before last.", "There would be no older-woman roles for her, by god. She would rather leave it all behind. But here was a clever way around that problem. She was playing the most famous man in the history of the stage. A young man, even.", "Under the portico now, I found myself on the edge of a gaggle of shirtwaisted women, talking low among themselves, a few with a bit of purple, green, and white ribbon pinned near the heart. Suffragettes, their focus shifted by the war. Instead of marching and chaining themselves to railings, they were starting to drive trams and buses and work in factories. Some of these women near me even gave off a whiff of sulfur from a munitions plant, their hands and faces beginning to turn faintly yellow from the chemicals.", "As we pressed together through the doors and into the foyer, my mother's name floated ardently out of these voices. Their new exemplar. She was to be a man. To be and not to be, of course. But tonight a man.", "I sat on the right end of the first row, very near to her as she came downstage, alone and soliloquizing, wishing that her too too sallied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into dew. I was trying hard to relinquish myself to the illusion of the stage, trying to forget who, in life, this was before me.", "To my surprise, this was not difficult. Isabel Cobb was indeed a man. She was a small and slim Prince Hamlet, her hair cut shoulder length and died dark blond and worn loose and wavy, as a young man of the time might, being hatless in distracted grief, and though my mind knew how tightly my mother was wrapped inside her black doublet and though I recognized her voice, which was always low and a little husky even as a woman, and though I recognized those vast, dark eyes as the maternal origin of my own, she convinced me.", "And I wondered: did she convince herself? Perhaps. I heard no tang of irony in her voice as she, being a man, a son, railed against a mother's hasty sexuality. And though this Hamlet before me was believably his own man, he and his qualms reminded me of my mother. Not that I shared the prince's vehemence. But as he rolled the word \"frailty\" in his mouth like an overripe grape and then named it \"woman,\" stirring the suffragettes in the crowd to a titter, I stopped seeing the play. I lifted my eyes from Hamlet's indictment of his mother and looked up, far up into the fly galleries — uniquely visible to the residents of the front row — and to the catwalk there, its pin rail wrapped with thick hemp ropes. The catwalk was empty and my mind lifted much farther than the flies: I stood outside a room at the Gilsey House in New York. Though it could have been a room in any of a hundred hotels or boarding-houses around the corner from a hundred theaters in a hundred cities on the headliner circuit, where one of the great stars of the American stage and her son lived while she worked. The star was my mother, and she was my father too, my Gertrude and King Hamlet both, though my actual father was no king, was not even a ghost, was an unknown to me, to this very day. But what son needed a father with a mother who could convincingly become anyone?", "This flash of memory, me standing in the hushed and carpeted hallway of New York's Gilsey House, could have been any from a multitude of memories of my childhood or adolescence in any of those other hotels, but in the front row of the Duke of York's it was the Gilsey and I'd just turned thirteen and my cheek was still damp from her kiss and she expected me, as always, to understand that she was about to shut the door in my face and send me away — it had been thus for as long as I could remember — I was much younger than this when I'd first been cooingly sent away from her door — and at the Gilsey House her leading man had pitched in, had given me a wink and a nod and a", "Good lad,", "and her play — what was it? a Clyde Fitch, perhaps — had run a tryout month in Boston where I'd been bid a similar affectionate adieu in the hallway outside a room in the Hotel Touraine with a different leading man, and I liked this Boston guy okay, and I thought he and I would have this understanding for as long as the play ran, which everyone hoped would be at least a year in New York. But the producer canned him before the play left Beantown, and this guy at the Gilsey was a new wink and a new nod. My mother always seemed to have a hasty hankering for her leading men. And I always seemed to be seeing them off together at a hotel door and then turning and walking away. Having quickly learned not to linger, not to listen.", "All this ran quickly and hotly and stupidly in me from the front row of the Duke of York's, so it took me a moment to realize what I was looking at. The guy from the alley was on the catwalk. Once I focused on him, I could picture the last few moments. He'd eased out slow to a place at the rail. And now he squared around to look down to the stage where Hamlet was finishing his soliloquy, bidding his heart to break, and this guy had a real intense interest in this Hamlet, who was my mother.", "I had a real intense interest in", "him.", "I concentrated on his face as he watched Hamlet greet Ophelia with feigned madness. I wanted to read his eyes, but they were a little too far away, and I wasn't looking straight into them. But the stillness of him, the casual privilege of his pose, made them seem hard, as insolently hard as his stare from the alleyway. Shakespeare and Isabel Cobb faded into a buzz in my head as I focused on this man and on my instinct that he was up to no good.", "And then he turned his attention to me, casually, as if he'd known I was there all long.", "We had a second extended face-off.", "I was right about his eyes. They seemed dead, these eyes. As dead as a bullet casing.", "He returned his gaze to my mother.", "I was tempted to slip from my seat — right that moment, with Hamlet tormenting the girl he loved — and go through the stage access door into the wings and find my way up to the flies.", "And then do what?", "Cool off now,", "I told myself. For weeks I'd been sitting in a London hotel room preparing for the next assignment. Necessarily so. But I'd been idle for too long. This guy reminded me what my body had been trained for and primed for. Which, however, certainly", "hadn't", "been to cause a public ruckus over some lug because I didn't like his looks or his sneaking around.", "I lowered my face. I concentrated on Hamlet advising his girl to be off to a nunnery and then making a flourish of an exit. A few moments later, with Ophelia still boohooing about her boyfriend's madness, I looked up once more into the flies.", "He was gone.", "I let it go.", "At the first intermission, after Hamlet vowed to catch the conscience of the king, I went out of the theater and down to the side alley and smoked a cigarette there, watching the shadows, waiting for a tough guy in a trilby. Nothing doing.", "Back in the theater, through to the next curtain, I kept a frequent but fleeting eye on the flies. No sign of him, and now Hamlet was swearing that his thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth. At the beginning of the act I'd have embraced that recommendation. As the curtain came down for the second intermission, I'd finally been able to drift in the other direction. So I went out and smoked another Fatima and kept my back to the suffragette chatter nearby on the sidewalk and thought about how my mother was indeed Hamlet, as it said rimmed in electric light above my head, and she was a good one, neatly balancing the classic introspective inaction with the strength to kill.", "Inside the theater once more, she held my undivided attention through to the prince's last words —", "the rest is silence —", "and in the script there is but a single word of stage direction:", "Dies.", "For most actors who have taken on Hamlet, the rest is", "not", "silence. The rattling or sighing or moaning or gasping are considered by the usual tribe of actors to be the sweet dessert to a long night of emoting. I feared for my mother now, in spite of the surprising subtlety of her performance so far, feared for her excesses. And she surprised me once more by dying with simply an exquisite lifting of the face to the spotlight and a closing of the eyes and, thereby, an ineffably rendered release of spirit.", "I admired her performance, but I did not like to witness this, in much the same way as I did not like her closing a hotel room door upon me. I felt she had left me forever. And with her death upon my mind — for it was hers as well as Hamlet's that I was thrumming to — I lifted my own face once more, to the flies.", "And there he was. He was watching once again at the railing, and as my mother played at death he leaned toward her and his jacket gaped briefly and showed a holstered pistol on his left side. I wished ardently that I was carrying my own.", "From the early days of my reporting career I got close to a fair number of criminals. Tough guys, all of them. Tempered-steel tough. But I'd heard a number of them talk about their mothers, think about their mothers, and inevitably these tough guys turned into simpering idiots of a variety of sorts, from weak to reckless.", "So it was that even as I wished I had my own pistol with me I was grateful I didn't. I felt trigger-itchy at that moment and it was possible my hand would have drawn my Mauser and would have pushed the safety button and would have waited for the slightest movement of this lug's right hand toward his pistol, with the wrong kind of look on his face, and I would have shot him. Maybe not aiming to kill. Maybe just to disable that right arm.", "Without this option, however, I clearly understood that shooting him would have been the wrong thing to do. At least till his pistol was out and coming to bear on her. And then I would have simply killed him.", "CHAPTER 2", "As it was, he didn't do anything but watch for the last few moments of the play. Then the curtain fell, and when it rose and the calls began, he was gone for good.", "The audience clapped loudly and the rest of the cast came and bowed and lined up on the sides and they joined the applause as my mother appeared. She bounded downstage center and the women in shirtwaists and suffragette ribbons all stood up and cried, \"Bravo! Bravo!\" and my mother bowed deeply to them as a man and then she straightened and flounced her hair and she curtsied as a woman. The suffragettes cried, \"Brava! Brava!\"", "All the while, the rest of the viewers were applauding loudly, some of them rising to their feet as well. As did I. My mother did not look my way.", "A boy brought roses from the wings.", "I'd seen bigger ovations for my mother, but the few actresses who'd done Hamlet before had been pilloried in the press and heckled from the cheap seats. I hadn't read her reviews, but I heard not a single rude sound from this audience, and that seemed a triumph to me.", "I lingered to let the crowd murmur its way out of the auditorium after Mother had finally stopped taking bows and the house lights had come on. Then I crossed before the front row. But instead of going left, up the aisle to the exit doors, I went to the right, up the steps and through the stage access door and into the wings with its smells of greasepaint and sweat and dust burning on the electric stage lights. The actors had all vanished, and squaring around before me was a lanky man in shirt sleeves and bow tie. The stage manager, I assumed.", "I was ready to explain myself to him, why I felt privileged to go through an unauthorized door and head straight to the dressing rooms, but he immediately said, \"Mr. Cobb.\"", "\"Yes,\" I said.", "\"Would you like to see your mother?\"", "\"I would.\"", "\"This way.\" He turned on his heel to lead me toward a door at the back wall.", "I stepped up quickly to walk beside him.", "\"There was a man with a gun up on your fly floor,\" I said. \"Are you surprised?\"", "He stopped. He turned to me.", "\"A gun?\" he said.", "\"Inside his coat.\"", "\"Yes,\" he said. \"I'm surprised.\"", "\"Do you know who he might have been?\" I asked.", "The stage manager hesitated at this. He was thinking in ways that I could not clearly interpret. Then he said, \"Not if he was in my flies.\"", "\"And if he hadn't gotten that far?\"", "\"Your mother has fans.\"", "This was no fan.", "He turned and moved on. \"Please follow me,\" he said.", "Something was odd here, but I didn't push the point.", "As we passed through the doorway at the back of the stage wings, I said, \"How did you know me?\"", "\"Your mother has a picture of you in her dressing room.\"", "This didn't surprise me.", "I followed him along a short passageway and we cut back at the next turning and entered an enclosed staircase.", "Her dressing room was on the second floor. The door was ajar and emitting female laughter.", "The stage manager knocked and the laughter faded.", "\"Prithee show thyself,\" my mother called out, using the lowest Hamlet register of her voice.", "More female laughter.", "The stage manager leaned his head past the edge of the door to look in. \"Your son,\" he said.", "I did not hear her reply, if she made one. Perhaps she gestured. The stage manager pulled back at once and opened the door and I stepped in.", "She sat with her back to her makeup mirror, still in her costume of trunk hose and doublet, the doublet unbuttoned, however, showing a finely embroidered lace blouse beneath, straight from a Mayfair shop no doubt, her own private joke throughout the night's portrayal of Hamlet, a secret assertion of her modern womanhood. She was flanked by four suffragettes, two on each side, their uniform dark skirts and white shirtwaists making them look like a ladies string quartet about to go off to play in a palm court at a local hotel.", "I stopped a single pace into the room, my hat in my hand. My mother rose. Quite formally, even solemnly. Then she took a step forward and opened her arms. \"My darling Kit,\" she said.", "I came to her and we hugged and she smelled of greasepaint and mothball camphor and she felt all bones and sinew inside her man's clothes.", "\"Isn't he handsome, my dears?\" she said.", "The women simply made little muttering sounds in response, ready for the vote but not for boldly voicing the sort of sentiments my mother was challenging them to have.", "I focused on her suffragettes, as my mother resisted my incipient withdrawal from her arms, assessing them as she would have them assess me.", "(Continues...)", "Excerpted from", "The Empire of Night", "by", "Robert Olen Butler", ". Copyright © 2014 Robert Olen Butler. Excerpted by permission of Grove Atlantic, Inc.. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Paganism is one of the world's fastest-growing religions, practised in a huge variety of ways.", "The Paganism Reader", "provides a definitive collection of key sources in Paganism, ranging from its ancient origins to its twentieth-century reconstruction and revival. Chronologically organized sections include extracts from ancient Greek, Norse and Celtic literature, inspirational texts from the early twentieth-century, writings by leaders of the Pagan revival, and newer perspectives showing the diversity of Paganism today. Witchcraft, nature religion, shamanism and goddess worship are considered, as is the influence of environmental and feminist movements. Fully introduced, with editors' prefaces to all extracts and suggestions for further reading, this comprehensive book is an invaluable guide to Paganism and critical issues in its study." ]

[ "Review", "'The end result is an overview of paganism and neo-paganism that provides some interesting insights and comparisons between ancient and modern views. Highly recommended.'", "-", "The Cauldron", "'The Paganism Reader", "is a laudatory first attempt at summarizing via primary texts the scope of revived Paganism/Neopaganism. It will be useful not only for undergraduate and graduate courses, but undoubtedly for thoughtful Neopagans interested in the history and diversity of their worldviews.'", "-", "W. Michael Ashcraft,", "Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions", "About the Author", "Chas S. Clifton teaches at the University of Southern Colorado in Pueblo & has written widely on paganism. Graham Harvey lectures at King Alfred's College in Winchester & is editor of Shamanism: A Reader (Routledge, 2002)" ]

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[ "The morning after helitack pilot Ed Kline's friendship with a female wildland firefighter turns hot, he receives a text from a phone number he's never seen:Bad thg 1 wkI leve I dieCops evry1 diesHelp L 47033012Could the L mean his adult son Lewis? You're a hero, Lewis wrote to him before disappearing a year ago, but the country you fought for doesn't exist. Then a \"bad thg\" happens. A group calling itself the PUMAs--Patriots United Militia of America--assassinates two Washington State senators the same day it perpetrates a deadly armored truck robbery. Unnerved, Ed jeopardizes his new relationship, his career, and his sanity while trying to rescue a son who might be one of the killers, trying to escape them, or both." ]

[ "About the Author", "Rick E. George writes suspense with substance. Vengeance Burns Hot is his debut novel Another novel, Cooper's Loot, is forthcoming by The Wild Rose Press. He has been a sports writer, a wildland firefighter, and an educator. He lives with his wife April in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state.", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition." ]

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[ "Do you desire to know God more intimately, understand His character in a deeper way, or learn to pray and praise more effectively? Focusing on twenty character traits of God, you will research the Scriptures to learn more about each attribute. Then you will rehearse each trait by answering personal questions and penning a prayer to God. To help you remember each trait in your daily life, Jacqueline has provided a practical, hands-on activity that will \"Remind You\" of who God is. As you journey through this study, you will discover how God's character can fill you with praise, send the enemy running, and unleash His power and presence in your daily life." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Christian Living" ]

[ "The Alabama 4th Infantry regiment was organized at Dalton, Georgia, May 2, 1861, and proceeded at once to Virginia. Mustered into service for twelve months at Lynchburg, May 7, it proceeded to Harper’s Ferry. It soon after fell back to Winchester, where it became part of Gen. B. E. Bee’s Brigade - of which the 2nd and 11th Mississippi, 1st Tennessee, and 6th North Carolina were the other regiments. Following Bee’s death, the 4th served for a short time under Gen. W. H. T. Whiting, then was assigned to Law’s Brigade which consisted of the Fourth, Fifteenth, Forty-fourth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eight Alabama regiments.Battles of the AL 4th Infantry RegimentMalvern Hill 1 July 1862Hazel River & Manassas Junction 22 August 18622nd Battle Of Manassas 30 August 1862Chantilly 1 September 1862Investment of Harper's FerrySharpsburg 17 September 1862Fredricksburg 15 December 1862Suffolk May 1863 Gettysburg 1863Battle MountainChickamauga 19-20 September 1863Brown's Ferry & Lookout Valley 27 October 1863 Knoxville 17 Nov.- 4 Dec. 1863Bean's Station 14 December 1863The Wilderness (5-7 May)Spottsylvania (8-18 May)Hanover Court House (30 May)2nd Battle Of Cold Harbor (1-12 June)Petersburg DefenseDeep Bottom (14-18 August)Fussell's MillAppomattox.Companies Of The AL 4th Infantry RegimentCo. \"A\", Governor's Guard (Dallas County) -- Thomas J. Goldsby (promoted); Reuben Vaughan Kidd (KIA, Chickamauga); Jason M. West (wounded, Hanover Junction) Co. \"B\" (Macon County) -- Thomas B. Dryer (dropped, 21 April 1862); E. Jones Glass (resigned, 10 March 1863); Bayless C. Brown (KIA, The Wilderness) Co. \"C\" (Dallas County) -- N. H. R. Dawson (dropped, 21 April 1862); Alfred C. Price (KIA, Gaines' Mill [died, 7 July 1862]); Major D. Sterrett (wounded, Malvern Hill; retired, 24 Jan 1863); Frank C. Robbins (wounded, 1st Cold Harbor, Knoxville; captured, Knoxville) Co. \"D\", Canebrake Rifle Guards (Perry and Marengo counties) -- Richard Clarke (dropped, 21 April 1862); Thomas K. Coleman (promoted); James Taylor Jones (wounded, The Wilderness) Co. \"E\", Conecuh Guards (Conecuh County) -- Pinckney Downie Bowles (promoted, 22 Aug 1862); William Lee (KIA, Malvern Hill); James W. Darley (wounded, The Wilderness); Archibald D. McInnis Co. \"F\" (Madison County) -- Gustavus B. Martin (KIA, Seven Pines); W. W. Leftwich (KIA, Gettysburg); James H. Brown (wounded, The Wilderness) Co. \"G\", Marion Light Infantry (Perry County) -- Porter King (dropped, 21 April 1862); William Mack Robbins (promoted, 3 Oct 1863); Henry H. Moseley (wounded, Knoxville, and captured); Martin T. Billingsley (KIA, Chickamauga) Co. \"H\", Lauderdale Volunteer Dragoons (Lauderdale County) -- Robert McFarland (dropped, 21 April 1862); Hesley Armistead (KIA, 1st Cold Harbor); William F. Karsner Co. \"I\", North Alabamians (Madison County) -- Edward Dorr Tracy (transferred to 12th AL Regt; promoted); Lawrence Houston Scruggs (wounded, Malvern Hill, Sharpsburg; promoted, 30 Sept 1862); Watkins Harris (dropped, 6 June 1864) Co. \"K\", Larkinsville Guards (Jackson County) -- Lewis E. Lindsay (KIA, 1st Manassas); John D. Ogilvie (died in service, 27 April 1864); James H. Young (declined, 21 April 1862); W. H. Robinson (wounded, 1st Cold Harbor, and retired); James Sullivan (KIA, Sharpsburg); James H. Keith (KIA, Fredericksburg); William H. Robinson (resigned, 28 July 1861); A. C. Murray (resigned, 28 July 1861); Robert P. Jones (retired, 24 Feb 1865)" ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Americas" ]

[ "Packed with hundreds of handy hints and nifty tricks to keep the classic collectible Mustangs looking sharp and running great. Every pre-1973 Mustang owner will enjoy these great articles compiled from Hot Rod magazine that show them how to do it right and save money." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Action & Adventure" ]

[ "Meet Miss Love Jones is not your everyday ordinary chick. She is not only beautiful but talented and extremely outgoing. From someone on the outside looking in, you would think that she has everything together, yet and still she is struggling with her identity and trying to find herself inside of her crazy and mixed up life. Battling all of her problems, not to mention dealing with her over the top family, it seems as if she is going to lose her sanity at times. Come and take an emotional roller coaster ride with me as we take an inside look at the lives of the hilarious Jones family. ARE YOU REDDY?" ]

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[ "Books", "Humor & Entertainment", "Humor" ]

[ "Norby, a robot, Jeff, his human friend, and Oola, their pet, encounter a missing princess and save a kidnapped dragon from the planet Jamya" ]

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[ "Books", "Science Fiction & Fantasy", "Science Fiction" ]

[ "The Wildlife Gardner is a book which helps you to create wildlife habitats in your very own garden, and is very handily split into sections on shelter, food and water. Kate gives advice on the best nectar and pollen plants to grow, dos and don'ts of bird feeding and organic methods of pest control. There are also 10 step-by-step projects that will help encourage wildlife into your garden, such as: creating a bumblebee nester, making a green roof and building a hedgehog box. With step-by-step pictures to help you follow the instructions, these homely creations are all achievable in a weekend and are suitable for even the smallest gardens.Also included is a mini field guide, which will help you to identify the birds and other creatures that you are likely to spot in your garden. Kate gives tips on particular species, explaining what to look out for and how to cater for specific birds, mammals, bees, butterflies, moths and pond life.The Wildlife Gardener is a passionately written, practical book that is essential reading for those who would like to make homes for wildlife in their garden." ]

[ "Review", "This one-stop guide to gardening with wildlife in mind is a must-have for any gardening library.", "Gardeners World", "“Inspired and inspiring, \"The Wildlife Gardener\" is an extraordinary and thoroughly 'user friendly' instructional guide that is beautifully and profusely illustrated throughout. An engagingly written and consistently engaging study, \"The Wildlife Gardener\" is unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Gardening instructional reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.”", "Midwest Book Review", "December 2017", "About the Author", "Kate Bradbury is an award-winning author and journalist, specialising in wildlife gardening. She edits the wildlife pages of _Gardeners’ World Magazine_ and regularly writes articles for the _Daily_ and _Sunday Telegraph_, _The Guardian, RHS magazine The Garden_ and _BBC Wildlife_ and _BBC Countryfile_ magazines. In 2015 she became the first Butterfly Ambassador for conservation charity _Butterfly Conservation_, and she writes a quarterly column for its members’ magazine, Butterfly.Kate regularly talks at events and festivals, and appears on radio including _BBC Gardeners’ Question Time_. She also makes wildlife gardening videos for gardenersworld.com.She lives and breathes wildlife gardening, and is currently transforming a tired north-facing patio garden into a wildlife oasis, where she hopes to attract a wealth of creatures including frogs, toads, newts, birds, beetles, hedgehogs, butterflies, not to mention her very favourite, and first love: bees.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "The Wildlife Gardener", "Creating a Haven for Birds, Bees and Butterflies", "By Kate Bradbury", "Pen and Sword Books Ltd", "Copyright © 2017 Kate BradburyAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-5267-1289-9", "Contents", "Introduction: The Wild World On Your Doorstep, Chapter 1 Where To Start: Creating Wildlife Habitats, Chapter 2 Introducing ..., Birds, Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles, Insects – Bees and Wasps, Butterflies and Moths, Beetles, Flies, Bugs, Pondlife, Creepy Crawlies, Chapter 3 Plants, Chapter 4 Trouble Shooter, List of Wildlife Organisations, Wildlife Gardening Suppliers, Acknowledgements, CHAPTER 1", "Where To Start: Creating Wildlife Habitats", "Habitat: the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism", "Our gardens provide wildlife habitats in their own right, but the trees and shrubs, pond, lawn and borders within them loosely represent traditional habitats such as the woodland edge, hedgerows, wetlands, scrubland and meadows.", "You probably picked up this book because you'd like to share your plot with wildlife, but have you considered which wildlife? You may want to encourage hedgehogs to breed under your shed or a garden full of song birds. Perhaps you'd rather spend your summer evenings watching bats fly above you, or your summer days watching bees and butterflies visit your flowers.", "Location is also a factor. Try to find out which species are living locally – whether you can attract hedgehogs, slow worms and bats, or if creating habitats for frogs and blue tits is more realistic. Most gardens are visited by bees and butterflies, but these are typically sun-loving insects. Can you give them what they need?", "IT'S NO SACRIFICE", "You don't need to dedicate your whole garden to wildlife, turn it into a messy tangle of brambles or stop gardening altogether. You can do as much or as little as you would like to. Gardening for wildlife can involve as little as allowing a strip of grass to grow long and tussocky, or planting a particular type of tree or a small hedge. Maybe you just want to grow the best plants for pollinators. It's your garden; it's up to you.", "PROVIDE WILDLIFE CORRIDORS", "It may seem obvious, but the first thing to do is physically open your garden to wildlife. You might see your plot as an individual, closed space, but many wild species see it as just one part of a much larger habitat, which not only includes your nextdoor neighbour's plot but could also include the gardens in the adjoining streets. Birds, bees and butterflies should easily access your garden, but what about animals that walk, crawl, slither or hop? Look around and ask yourself, 'how will frogs find my pond, how will hedgehogs access my borders?'", "Providing a way in (and out) essentially increases the availability of food and shelter to garden wildlife. A hole under a fence is normally all that's needed – simply dig one on either side. You can also remove the lowest slat of a fence panel. Walls are more tricky, but it's not impossible to knock out a brick or two without damaging the structure. If you're worried your dog might run amok in neighbouring gardens, just make sure the hole is smaller than the dog – reinforce it if necessary. Hedgehogs only need 5in/13cm to squeeze through. Talking of neighbours, why not encourage them to make holes beneath their boundaries, too? A whole street of linked gardens means your local hedgehogs need never see a car again.", "Choosing Your Habitats", "No matter how big or small your garden, you can create a variety of habitats for wildlife. Even small steps such as growing a greater variety of flowering plants or composting your garden waste can make a difference.", "In creating habitats for wildlife you are providing shelter, food or water, or a combination of the three. One habitat may not meet every need of one animal, but it can fulfil some needs of many. For example, a pond provides shelter for frogs, toads and newts to breed, but it also provides drinking water for birds and hedgehogs and a hunting ground for grass snakes. Larger ponds may even attract the Daubenton's bat, which has evolved large, hairy feet for the special task of scooping insects off the water's surface.", "Outside breeding season, frogs spend the majority of their lives on land, sheltering in damp, secluded spots such as a log pile. They may eat other inhabitants of the log pile as well as take shelter, so this habitat meets more than one of their needs. A log pile is also a good habitat for wood-boring beetles, wood mice and wrens, and all for different reasons.", "So, if you like frogs (or just want them to polish off your slugs and snails), then it's a good idea to dig a pond, but it's also worth providing habitats for them on land. But if frogs aren't high on your list of species to attract, digging a pond might still be a sensible option if you want to cater for other species.", "Creating one habitat provides a piece of the jigsaw puzzle of needs for two, three, or even a hundred species. We can fit the pieces together to create a mosaic of habitats within our gardens, or team up with our neighbours to spread it over a wider area. As such, garden habitats can comprise different habitats that appeal to a number of species. You simply need to establish which species you're most interested in attracting and adjust your garden accordingly.", "Shelter", "I once spotted a queen bumblebee zig-zag into the garden and squeeze herself into my willow fence a second before the heavens opened. I fetched an umbrella, popped on some Wellington boots and ventured out into the rain. Wet tyres amplified the noise of traffic on the road; people ran into doorways shrieking and laughing; and I stood, a small puddle forming beneath me, rain hammering down on my umbrella, watching a bee.", "I stayed for a while, barely sheltered from the rain myself, while the bumblebee snuggled up in the thatch. She had obviously been there before; parts of the fence had started to become wet but not the area sheltering her. I went inside, occasionally returning to find her still there, before she moved on. The bad weather had lasted for hours and the bee stayed longer, but she will have eventually risen, sleepily hauling herself out of her den and off on her way. I'd never thought of the willow fence as being anything more than a barrier between me and the area beyond the garden, but now I viewed it in an entirely new light: as shelter.", "Shelter includes space to hide, breed, feed and hibernate, and can be provided by anything from a pile of plant pots to a purpose-built 'hibernaculum'. Almost every part of your garden may be home to some creature or other; even a well-mowed lawn is home to leatherjackets and ants, and therefore provides food for starlings, blackbirds and green woodpeckers. Even a paved area can be home to worms, ants, centipedes and solitary bees. And a willow fence can shelter bumblebees from the rain.", "Yet almost every area of our gardens can be improved for wildlife. A bare fence or wall will provide opportunities for insects to bask in the sunshine. Spiders and other invertebrates may hide in the cracks, and mason bees might make little nests for their young. But if we grow a choice selection of climbing plants up the wall it will come to life. Birds will nest in thickets of honeysuckle and ivy, bees and butterflies will feed from the flowers and moths will lay eggs on the foliage.", "Shelter also includes the following.", "A Hedge", "A mixed, native hedge attracts anything from nesting hedgehogs to bees, moths and butterflies, not to mention all the insects that are relied on by other species for food. As well as nesting in, and feeding from it, birds will use a hedge to dive into to escape danger; a bird table placed near a hedge will attract many more visitors than one it in the middle of a lawn with no nearby cover.", "For the best wildlife potential, chose varieties such as hawthorn, beech, spindle, blackthorn, hazel, holly, field maple and buckthorn. You can add interest by growing clematis and honeysuckle through the thicket, or planting low-growing flowers along the base. Avoid trimming the hedge until late winter and its berries will provide an additional food source when insects are in short supply, and allow leaf litter to accumulate beneath it.", "A Compost Heap", "A pile of rotting plant matter is a central hub where bacteria, yeasts and fungi, and worms, centipedes and woodlice help return nutrients to the soil. Because of all of the smaller creatures a compost heap attracts, it becomes a feeding ground for anything from beetles to birds, slow worms, frogs and hedgehogs.", "A large, open pile is the most wildlife-friendly composting option as it's easily accessible. If you'd rather contain your heap, a slatted wooden box is the next best thing as many species can still access the goods within. Theoretically, a closed, plastic bin is the least wildlife-friendly method of composting. But it needn't be a 'closed shop'; simply raise the bin on bricks so amphibians, reptiles and small mammals can enter and exit easily. These bins can be the warmest of all, so if access is easy, you may attract a family of slow worms.", "Position your heap in a sunny part of the garden and add grass clippings and other garden waste, as well as cardboard, newspaper and kitchen scraps (including eggshells but excluding dairy products, cooked food and meat). Keep the waste moist, but not waterlogged, and turn the heap to aerate it if it appears to have stopped breaking down. If you do need to turn the heap, try to do so in April, as you're less likely to disturb hibernating animals and most species won't yet have started breeding. But, regardless of your timing, make sure you check the heap beforehand and go in carefully; garden forks can easily spear frogs and hedgehogs.", "A Log Pile", "Replicating a habitat traditionally found in woodland, a log pile attracts a huge variety of wildlife. If you have the resources it's a good idea to use wood from local, native trees, but such logs can be difficult to get hold of, especially if you have a small, urban garden. My log pile is made from prunings from fruit trees on my allotment, half of which I leave there and the other half I carry the half mile home to my garden. It's teeming with beetles, woodlice, centipedes and other invertebrates, and may eventually attract amphibians and small mammals. If the best thing you can do is buy a bag of logs destined for a wood-burning stove then so be it – removed from the bag and piled in a corner they will make a wonderful habitat. Partially bury the bottom layer and fill a few gaps with fallen leaves, moss and soil to attract the greatest number of species.", "A Leaf Pile", "A leaf pile, too, replicates conditions found naturally in woodland, where leaves fall from trees and eventually break down to condition the soil. While they're breaking down, they provide habitats and feeding opportunities for wildlife, which in turn help recycle nutrients.", "The easiest way to recreate this process is to gather fallen leaves from your lawn and sweep them under your hedge or to the back of your borders. You can also make a wire cage for your leaves using wooden posts and chicken wire. Worms, beetles and other invertebrates should still be able to access the pile easily, while a gap at the bottom will provide access to hedgehogs and amphibians.", "Project: Make a Log Pile", "Your log pile needn't be a messy affair – they can be attractive and interesting to have on display. If you have room, consider making two piles, one in a shady spot and another in a sunny part of the garden. Those in shady corners will remain damp and cool, appealing to beetles, woodlice and amphibians, while log piles in sunny locations will warm up and dry out quickly, providing the perfect basking spot for insects and common lizards. Any wood with bark still intact will offer nooks and crannies to squeeze into.", "If you don't have a hedge or room for a large metal cage, simply gather leaves from your lawn and pop them into permeable jute sacks (or plastic bags with holes punched in), then store them behind your shed for two years. Hedgehogs and amphibians won't seek refuge in the sacks, but detritivores and their predators will still use the resulting leafmould when it's emptied out on to your borders, and it will give your soil a lovely boost, too.", "TIP: Sadly, hedgehogs and toads can't tell the difference between a lovely bespoke hibernaculum and an unlit bonfire. Making the bonfire immediately before lighting or even dismantling it and reassembling prior to striking the match can literally save lives.", "Project: Make a Mini Hibernaculum", "Hibernaculum: the winter quarters of a hibernating animal It's not as enticing as a great big leaf pile, but little hibernacula like this plant pot filled with leaves can provide short-term shelter for a variety of invertebrates.", "Simply fill a plant pot with fallen leaves and half bury it in the ground. Pack as many leaves as you can into the pot to provide the most protection from the elements, and angle it to make sure it doesn't become waterlogged. You can provide even more protection by adding a layer of leaves or sticks above the pot.", "Long, Tussocky Grass", "Left unmown, a grassy strip will quickly erupt into a busy habitat for hundreds of species. Pollinators will visit flowers that may now flourish, while seeding grasses and dandelions will provide food for sparrows and goldfinches. Butterflies and moths may breed in the long grass and hedgehogs, frogs, toads and newts may use it to find food and shelter from predators.", "You only need a small strip to make a difference and it needn't be unattractive. Why not make a feature of the habitat, leaving a circle of meadow around a gnarled old apple tree, or cut shapes or a maze for children to run through?", "Project: How to Make a Mini Cairn", "Creating shelter can often help you as much as the wildlife. A pile of stones in your border will provide a habitat for frogs and newts, but it will also bring them closer to the slugs and snails ravaging your plants.", "There's no real art to this, simply choose some nice rocks or large stones and pile them up in your border. Find a shaded spot so the stones don't bake whatever is sheltering inside, and leave lots of gaps for wildlife to squeeze through. Mosses and liverworts will naturally colonise the stones, but you could speed things along by adding a little soil and moss of your own if you have some to hand.", "1 Make a circle of stones and gradually start building up layers to make a pile. Aim for a sturdy triangular shape.", "2 Fill in some cracks with a little soil and pieces of moss, to give the pile a 'worn' look and encourage further moss growth.", "How often you cut the grass is up to you, but do check the area thoroughly beforehand. You may consider raising the blade height of your mower so caterpillars and other insects can burrow into the thatch.", "Spent Plants", "In the wild, plants slowly break down during autumn and winter, helped along by frost and snow. Many have disappeared into the soil or the mouths of earthworms, woodlice and millipedes by spring, and new growth conceals any last skeletal remains. Yet, while plants are breaking down, they provide shelter for wildlife such as ladybirds and other insects, which sneak into seedheads and tuck themselves into hollow plant stems or among fallen leaves.", "Yet, in gardens, so many insects end up on compost heap in autumn and winter, where they might be exposed to damp conditions and therefore put at risk of developing fungal diseases. By simply leaving your borders intact you can dramatically improve the chances of many species making it through to spring – not to mention earn yourself a grand view of birds eating from the seedheads you've left standing. You don't need to leave the whole border as it is – maybe you could just clear space around the edges to plant spring bulbs, or leave one untidy area concealed at the back.", "Artificial Shelter", "Natural nesting opportunities for birds and bees are few and far between, so by providing artificial means in our gardens we can directly improve their chances of successful breeding.", "Bird Boxes", "More than sixty bird species are known to use nest boxes, with blue tits being the most likely, followed by great tits and coal tits, nuthatches, house sparrows, starlings, robins and house martins. Not only do boxes provide shelter in the breeding season, but birds may also use them to shelter from the cold in winter. Swifts, house martins, house sparrows and starlings are all in decline, so provision of nest boxes for them could make a huge difference to local populations.", "It's important to choose the right spot for your box, as prospecting birds are unlikely to nest somewhere with strong sunlight, a prevailing wind or where there's a lot of other bird activity (for example, if the box is too near a feeding station). It's generally advised to place the box in a north-easterly direction, but if tall buildings provide shade and shelter from the wind, then you don't need to stick to the north-easterly rule. And remember: birds don't read books. If they don't take residence after a couple of years then move the box to another part of the garden – who knows, for whatever reason the birds might like it there better, even if it's the busiest, noisiest and windiest part of the garden.", "Project: How to Make a Bird Box", "Bird boxes are easy to make. Each species has different nesting requirements and no one size fits all, so decide which you'd most like to cater for before you start. It's also a good idea to choose the location of the box before you get to work: do you have a fence post the box will screw into easily, or will you need to tie it to a tree? (Please don't nail it to a tree.)", "(Continues...)", "Excerpted from", "The Wildlife Gardener", "by", "Kate Bradbury", ". Copyright © 2017 Kate Bradbury. Excerpted by permission of Pen and Sword Books Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Science & Math", "Biological Sciences" ]

[ "Give her a Journal instead of a card!", "This half lined and half blank Unicorn Journal will be perfect for your Girl’s Birthday or Holiday present.", "You can use this book for:", "Creative ideas like drawings, doodles, poems, songs, etc", "Creative ideas like drawings, doodles, poems, songs, etc", "Having your stories and sketches in one place", "Having your stories and sketches in one place", "School, homework, notes, ideas, thoughts, dreams and prayers", "School, homework, notes, ideas, thoughts, dreams and prayers", "Scroll up and click the \"Buy Now\" button to get your book delivered to you today!", "This book is available in other covers & sizes; pick the color you want, copy/paste the numbers below into the Amazon search field to go straight to your book:", "5 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781790332274, (black) 9781790331680, (pink) 9781731266439", "5 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781790265633, (black) 9781790265015, (pink) 9781731323255", "6 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781790332564, (black) 9781790331925, (pink) 9781731247407", "6 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781731275424, (black) 9781790266081, (pink) 9781731323026", "7 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781790333394, (black) 9781790332946, (pink) 9781731246936", "7 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781790267200, (black) 9781790266807, (pink) 9781731322517", "8 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781790334001, (black) 9781790333707, (pink) 9781731246516", "8 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781790268672, (black) 9781790268085, (pink) 9781731322135", "9 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781790335237, (black) 9781790334711, (pink) 9781731240491", "9 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781790269457, (black) 9781790269051, (pink) 9781731321510", "10 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781790342822, (black) 9781790335817, (pink) 9781731239914", "10 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781790275175, (black) 9781790269839, (pink) 9781731320933", "11 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781731096982, (black) 9781790158096, (pink) 9781731095336", "11 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781731141767, (black) 9781731143914, (pink) 9781731142511", "12 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781790343843, (black) 9781790343102, (pink) 9781731238900", "12 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781790292059, (black) 9781790291786, (pink) 9781731320599", "13 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781790344369, (black) 9781731167200, (pink) 9781731238122", "13 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781790292462, (black) 9781790292257, (pink) 9781731319005", "14 and Wonderful Large: (blue) 9781790347131, (black) 9781790344956, (pink) 9781731235350", "14 and Wonderful Small: (blue) 9781790293018, (black) 9781731267146, (pink) 9781731285478" ]

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[ "(Instrumental Play-Along). These great book/CD packs let you play solo with full-band accompaniment tracks to 11 top worship songs. Includes: Ancient of Days * Come, Now Is the Time to Worship * Draw Me Close * Firm Foundation * I Could Sing of Your Love Forever * My Life Is in You, Lord * Open the Eyes of My Heart * The Potter's Hand * Shout to the Lord * Shout to the North * We Fall Down." ]

[ "About the Author", "Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts." ]

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[ "Offering streamlined coverage with an applied approach, Project Management in Practice, 4th Edition focuses on the essentials of project management. This concise, hands-on text is ideal for a one semester project management course, or as a module on project management. This textbook is organised around the project management life cycle and it provides students with essential project management concepts." ]

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[ "This book is a unique compilation of some rare details pertaining to the Hindu deity Bhairava. The book also contains Mantras and describes in detail on how to worship this powerful deity. The book is an eye-opener on Lord Bhairava and is translated from the Tamil book 'Kaakum Deivaam Sri Maha Bairavar'." ]

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[ "Based on Hasbro, Inc.'s G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero line of military-themed toys. Published by Marvel Comics from 1982 to 1994, and top-selling subscription title in 1985." ]

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[ "Get Rich, Don't BitchToday, more than ever before, wealth is something every woman has the power to create. Yet Jean Chatzky constantly hears all the excuses why women can’t and don’t master their money. Now, she reveals the secrets and the strategies she created to take control of her own money–strategies through which she gained her “money confidence.” It’s time for you to find yours!In", "Make Money, Not Excuses", "Jean shares these valuable lessons:• Where to start• How to get over your “I’m not smart enough to deal with money” feelings• Why being a “good-enough investor” will make more money for you in the long-term (while trying to be a “great investor” will drive you crazy)• How (and where) to save your money• Why women make better investors––and higher returns––than men• How to track where you’re overspending• How to pay off your debtJean is unsurpassed in her ability to explain money and investing in simple, straightforward ways. Here she breaks down the scariest parts of dealing with money–from investing in stocks to saving for your retirement–and makes them practical, easy, empowering, and, yes, even enjoyable. This is your road map to real wealth.“Chatzky writes like the smart, candid best friend you wish you had.”–Newsweek" ]

[ "Review", "Praise for Jean's Work:“Simply brilliant.” —Robert T. Kiyosaki, author of", "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", "About the Author", "Jean Chatzky is the editor at large for", "Money", "magazine and is the financial editor for NBC’s", "Today show", ". She is a columnist for", "Time", "magazine, the", "Daily News", ", and", "Travel + Leisure", ". She is also the host of an upcoming PBS weekly series,", "Jean Chatzky’s Your Money", ", and the author of four books, including the bestseller", "Pay It Down!", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "$$$$$$$$$$$CHAPTER 1$$$$$$$$$$$ “I Don’t Know Where to Begin” Don’t Bitch Getting Over the Unknown I am one of the fortunate people who really like what they do for a living. One of the main reasons I enjoy my work is that it takes me out into the world. About once a month I travel to far-flung places such as Phoenix (Arizona), Pasadena (California), Fort Worth (Texas), or Fort Wayne (Indiana) to talk to groups of people—often groups of women—about money. My favorite part of these journeys isn’t the half-hour or so prepared speech I get to give. It’s the question-and-answer session that comes after. Some of the questions are always regional (“Is now a good time to buy a house in this market?” or “What do you think of the future of the big national corporate conglomerate that just happens to be based three miles down the road?”). But others are so wide-ranging I can count on them being raised whether I’m holding court in Detroit, Duluth, or Des Moines. Someone generally wants to know: “What’s the best way to choose a financial adviser?” Someone else typically asks: “Should I be buying long-term-care insurance for me or my parents?” But the question I get asked more than any other—the one I get asked every single time—is the following. It’s never first. In fact, it’s often last . . . as if the person speaking waited until the moderator said, “We have time for only three more.” It usually comes out of the mouth of someone who feels a little silly asking it—who prefaces her question with an apology to me and the rest of the audience for being “so basic.” And it goes like this: I don’t even know where to start. I mean, really. I feel like I know so little about my money that I don’t even know where to begin. Can you point me to a book or a magazine or a website or something that can get me going? Sometimes, the floodgates really open, and the questioner ends with the complete truth, confession-style: “I’m tired of feeling like a total idiot about my money.” I have to admit, the person who asks this question immediately becomes my favorite person in any crowd. Not just because she dug deep and was honest about wanting help. But because now that she’s revealed that she’s looking for help, I can do something for her. As I collected—via e-mail—letters and excuses from women around the country about why they don’t take a more active role managing their money, this feeling of total inadequacy popped up again and again. From young women, older women, women with college and graduate degrees, women in the workforce, stay-at-home moms . . . in other words, from all types of women, in all parts of the country. This one, from Rebecca, a stay-at-home mom, is typical: For anything else in my life, I would get on the Internet, read some articles, talk to some people I know, and make a decision. But I’m paralyzed when it comes to money. I don’t even know where to start. Jennifer, a publicist, put it even more succinctly: I don’t know where to begin. This Is Where You Begin You’re in the right place: This is where you start. In this chapter, I’m going to give you a set of tools you can rely on to make any financial decision, to sound brilliant defending why you’re making it, and to quickly get on the road to a richer life. But first, let’s explore why you can’t get started with your money. Rebecca put it really well when she said: “For anything else in my life, I would get on the Internet, read some articles, talk to some people I know, and make a decision.” That, in a nutshell, is how women make nearly every large, important decision. We do our homework using the resources at our fingertips—the Internet, newspapers, and magazines. We tend to be consensus builders so we gather the opinions of the people we trust most: our mothers, sisters, and girlfriends. We take our time readying a case we could defend in the toughest of courts, and then (only then) do we pull the trigger. Most of the time, as we’ve learned through experience, that sort of decision making works fine. Say you’re an East Coaster trying to plan a vacation for your family of five. You know you want to go to the beach in December. So you hop on the Internet and go to a site like weather.com. You learn that at that time of year Florida’s weather is inconsistent but the Caribbean can be counted on for sun. Your spouse wants a direct flight, so that eliminates a few of the smaller islands. You both want a short flight, so you focus in on Puerto Rico. Next you surf to tripadvisor.com to see what people are recommending as kid-friendly places to stay. You narrow your search to a Westin and a Hyatt. Finally, you talk to your friends who have been to Puerto Rico, settle on a hotel, book flights, and emerge confident you’ll have a great vacation. And that’s, as I said, a fairly large, important, expensive decision. You make smaller decisions with confidence every single day. Paper or plastic? Grey’s Anatomy or Law and Order? Coke, Pepsi, or—what the heck—Fresca? You blow through them as though they’re absolutely nothing. If, occasionally, you hit a stumbling block—heels or flats? pants or a skirt?—a little trial and error (or a call to a close friend) does the trick. Why are you able to make these decisions—large and small—with such aplomb? Because you’ve learned, over the course of your life, that for you there are right and wrong answers. Fresca gets drunk in your house; Pepsi sits in the pantry. Grey’s Dr. McDreamy does more for you then Law’s not-so-dreamy detectives. Unless you’re fighting a spouse over the remote, there’s no argument. One is better. One is right. Yet in the world of money—particularly in the world of investing—there are few right answers. Which stock is the best one to buy? Which mutual fund will rise the fastest? People may claim to know (just turn on CNBC and you’ll see a dozen of them within an hour), but no one really does. That makes it tough to get to the starting line, particularly for women. We like to know the outcome before we make any decision. That’s why we not only cook from recipes but prefer that those recipes come from Julia or Martha or Rachael because we’ve learned that we can trust them. We may loooove Tom Hanks as much as we love our spouses, but we’re willing to spend $10.50 for a ticket to his latest picture only after we’ve read a handful of uncontested reviews. Everything from the books we select for our book clubs to the doctors we see for our children gets sliced and diced and picked apart and commented on before we step up to the plate. And women not only need more information but need it to be broken down into small, digestible pieces. Along the way, if we’re not convinced of a particular piece, we stop and ask for help—we’d prefer it from trusted sources. (Figuring out how to get good help is such a conundrum for women that I deal with that matter specifically in Chapter 9.) Not surprisingly, it takes women longer than men to make most decisions. Not just about money, about everything. Men don’t need to know the answer before they tackle the question. They tend to say, “Gimme the facts, gimme the figures, gimme the logic and the rationale, and let me build a machine.” It’s very much a left-brain approach. They work from start to finish, from left to right, from point A to point B. If they like Denzel Washington, knowing that Denzel Washington is in a new movie is enough to make them buy a ticket. If the end result isn’t totally to their liking, they either fiddle with the decision to make it more acceptable or—more likely—figure out a way to defend it, convincing everyone around them (and themselves in the process) that the outcome was precisely the result they had in mind all along. And there are other complicating factors: •The world of money has its own vocabulary. Don’t worry, I define terms—in English—beginning on page 251.) •The world of money is shrouded in secrecy. Some progress has been made, but talking about financial things—how much credit card debt you’re carrying, the size of your student loans—just isn’t polite. If the number is too high, friends will think you’re bragging. If it’s too low, they’ll think you’re asking for a handout. Nobody wins. •The world of money involves higher stakes than picking a movie to see on date night. When you’re deciding whether to contribute to a 401(k) and how to invest the money you’re contributing, whether to refinance the mortgage, whether to accept a new job, whether to buy life insurance, or whom to name as guardian for your kids in your will, money decisions tend to be important, potentially life-changing decisions. And there are no right answers. Of course you’re stuck. The Power of “Good Enough” The logical next question is: How do you get unstuck? Step one is getting yourself to acknowledge—no, more than that—to really believe, that in this particular area of your life, you do not have to be right. Yes, you heard me correctly. You don’t have to be right. Not only that: You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to be the best. You don’t have to be at the top of some class. You don’t have to be the smartest. You don’t have to be the winner. You don’t have to prove yourself. You don’t have to do better than your neighbors or your parents or your siblings or your friends. Instead: You have to be good enough. And you have to believe that good enough is just fine. What does that mean in real terms? It means your investments don’t have to do better than the market as a whole or better than other people’s investments. They simply have to do well enough to meet your goals. It means you don’t have to save more or spend more or make more than anyone else. It means you have to negotiate these areas of your life well enough to secure your happiness and make yourself comfortable. You do not have to justify your financial life. Not to the markets. Not to your friends. Not to your relatives. And, most certainly, not to the men in your life who may not understand how you can sit there, perfectly satisfied with your “good enough” portfolio, without reaching for the stars. (Try not to blame them. It’s in their DNA, just as not taking so many risks that you can’t sleep at night is in yours.) I know this sounds foreign. We live in a world where relativity is key to our sense of inner peace. It’s not enough to be thin or smart or funny. You have to be thinner or smarter or funnier than someone else. The problem is, in the world of money this kind of measuring up won’t make you rich. It will make you poor. Why? Because it will entice you to behave in one of two ways, neither of them any good for your wallet. Either you will go overboard in your quest for wealth, taking risks that are both unnecessary and unwise (Amazon at $400, anyone?). Or you will become so convinced of your inability to be richer than the next guy or gal that, once again, you will become stuck. The truly great thing about “good enough”—and the reason it is so powerful—is that it allows you to get to the starting line in a way that waiting for the ultimate, best possible result does not. Take an example that you may have faced dozens of times in the past couple of years: refinancing your mortgage. Say you’re sitting with a $200,000 30-year fixed-rate home loan at 63/4 percent. Rates have fallen to 6 percent. Refinancing now would save you $98 a month—the difference in your $1,297 monthly payment and the $1,199 new one. But some “experts” have been quoted in the paper saying they see rates falling to 5 percent, maybe even lower. Do you refinance now? Or do you wait? If you’re expecting the best possible ultimate result, you are stuck. What if tomorrow rates fall farther? Then you’ll be kicking yourself, won’t you? But if you’re a believer in the power of “good enough,” you forge ahead. And then—guess what? Starting tomorrow, you pay nearly $100 less a month. Over the life of your loan, that means you’ll save $35,314 in interest alone. If you put the money you’re saving into an IRA or other account where it can grow tax-free, at the end of those thirty years you’ll have a fat $147,126 in addition to your paid-off house. Map to a Million How much more money could you save if you made the little changes I’m going to suggest to you throughout this book? How much richer could you be? I want you to see the answers in straightforward numerical terms. I want you to see the actual dollars—and in some cases cents. So throughout the chapter I’ve sprinkled lots of little Maps to a Million. Unless otherwise noted, I’ve calculated returns at 8 percent and assumed that the savings invested were tax-deferred. Follow the actual steps and you’ll see the wealth start to add up. Then, starting on page 241, you can see exactly how fast incorporating a few of these steps into your life really does add up to a million—or more! Refinance a $275,000 mortgage Prior rate:63/4 percent Monthly payment:$1,783 New rate: 6 percent Monthly payment: $1,648 Annual savings: $1,620 10-year savings: $24,997 20-year savings: $80,182 30-year savings: $202,674 If the rates fall to 5 percent—or lower—as the “expert” predicted, you can always refinance again. But what if rates don’t fall that far? What if the “expert”—because in this world of no right answers even “experts” can be off-base—got it wrong? In the world of ultimate perfection, you would lose. But in the world of “good enough,” you still would come out a winner. Who Are You Doing This For? You! My aim is to make you feel like a winner. I want to make you feel better about yourself and your life. But in order to do that, I need your help. The unfortunate truth is that taking control of your financial life won’t work until, like a good diet, you are doing it for yourself. You may be able to lose five pounds for your husband or your doctor. But you’ll keep them off only if you’re doing it for yourself. You can buy a book on money management because it makes your partner happy to see you walking into the business section of your local bookstore. But you’ll read it and follow its advice only if you’re doing it for yourself. Sound selfish? It’s the furthest thing from selfish. Becoming financially self-sufficient is like giving a huge gift to the people you love. It means you will not be a burden to your parents or your children. If you are in a committed relationship, having a handle on your own money makes you a full partner rather than an associate. (And no, having more than enough money to live on doesn’t mean you don’t have to take the reins. Do you think your grown children relish the thought of taking over your checkbook because you never learned how to pay bills during your long marriage? Think again.) You are taking control of your money because doing so will make you feel happier and smarter, more confident, more content, and more useful. Having a little extra money in your wallet will not make you feel more satisfied with your life. What you do with the extra money will do that. Having better control of that money, however, will make a huge difference in how you view yourself and your place in the world. The folks at Real Simple magazine did a study in which they asked women to describe in a word or two what they’d need to feel successful. Here is what the respondents said: Happiness80% Peace of mind75% Fulfillment71% Self-confidence71% Freedom70% Balance70% Learning to manage your own money can help you achieve about every one of those line items. For JoAnn, who is 68 and retired, it did precisely that. Here is her story: During my growing-up years, there was very little money to manage. At the age of 10, I asked my parents to give me the money that they would have spent on my clothes and allow me to do my own purchasing. I was unhappy with the things my mother bought for me in a very low-end department store in Detroit. I felt that I could do a better job. I found I could buy three semi-attractive outfits instead of the six cheaper ones that my mother purchased. Each year, I added a few better things and even managed to snag a much-lusted-after cashmere sweater on sale. I was very proud. Lack of money continued into my married years, this time accompanied by bill collectors. It was a time of minimum payments on credit cards and trying to meet the needs of the children. And it was very depressing and stressful for the whole family. I took a minimum-wage job when the youngest child went to kindergarten. The job had health benefits and a pension to make up for the low salary. My husband felt that every cent I earned was needed to reduce our debt and run our family. I made a decision on my own, however, and signed up at work to purchase a $25.00 U.S. Savings Bond every two weeks. Each time I was promoted or received a raise, I invested most of that money in more and higher-denomination bonds. Over the years, I quietly accumulated the unimaginable (to me) sum of $100,000. My husband and I managed, through both of our jobs, to resolve our money problems and shortages. Today, the bonds are untouched in a safety deposit box for use in case of an unexpected major expense or a future big surprise for the kids! It was a difficult time for me, and I never want to be poor again. In recent years, I have left most of the money management to my husband. I am knowledgeable about my life-time pension, I know when the Social Security checks are direct-deposited, and I know where our money is invested. And I also know I could carry on financially in the future if I had to. Can you imagine: $100,000-plus on $25 twice a month. Yet JoAnn did it. How? By taking control of her life. By taking control and starting to save even when her husband thought the money would be better spent in other ways. By doing what she knew was the right thing for herself, her future, and her kids. And how did managing her own money make JoAnn feel? “Very proud,” she said. JoAnn had every right to feel proud. And you can feel that way, too.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Patrick Collins is seven years old, and on his Christmas list are only three items. He wants the army to find his father. He wants to leave his grandfather's house. And, for reasons even he doesn't understand, he wants the soldier that's tucked away in his grandfather's attic. Set at Christmastime in 1943, The Unfinished Gift tells in an engaging, simple style the story of a family, and reminds us of the surprising things that affect powerful change in our hearts--like a young boy's prayers, a shoebox full of love letters, and even an old wooden soldier, long forgotten. This nostalgic story of forgiveness will engage readers everywhere." ]

[ "Review", "4.5 Stars, Top Pick - \"Walsh paints a wonderful picture of life in America during WW2. The characters are richly developed, and the story about love and forgiveness are not to be missed.\" --RT Book Reviews Magazine\"The Unfinished Gift is one for the keeper shelf! Dan's book is a fabulous story of redemption and forgiveness. Couldn't put it down and it made me cry which is hard to do.\" --Colleen Coble, Bestselling Author, The Lightkeeper's Daughter", "From the Back Cover", "Can a gift from the past mend a broken heart?Ian Collins is an old man without his son. Patrick Collins is a young boy without his father. On his Christmas list are only three items. He wants the army to find his father. He wants to leave his grandfather's house. And he wants the dusty wooden soldier in Grandfather's attic--the one he is forbidden to touch. Set in December of 1943,", "The Unfinished Gift", "is the engaging story of a family in need of forgiveness. With simple grace, it reminds us of the small things that affect powerful change in our hearts--a young boy's prayers, a shoe box of love letters, and even a half-carved soldier, long forgotten. This nostalgic story of reconciliation will touch your heart.", "About the Author", "Dan Walsh is the award-winning author of", "The Unfinished Gift", ",", "The Homecoming", ", and", "The Deepest Waters", ". A member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Dan served as a pastor for 25 years. He lives with his family in the Daytona Beach area, where he's busy researching and writing his next novel.", "Read more" ]

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[ "35 step-by-step card-making projects for children aged 7+", "35 step-by-step card-making projects for children aged 7+", "Whatever the occasion, you’ll find the right card to make in", "My First Card-Making Book", ". In", "Chapter 1, Everyday Cards,", "there are lovely ideas such as the felt flower card, patchwork card, and button nest card. The cards in", "Chapter 2, Fun Cards,", "will help you bring a smile to someone’s face with ideas including the finger puppet card and lollipop card. You can make the holidays really special with the creative cards in", "Chapter 3, Festive Cards,", "including the cut-out bauble card, cosy fur-trimmed cards, and cute and easy color-in Christmas card. Finally, in", "Chapter 4, Special Occasions,", "you’ll find celebratory cards to mark special occasions such as getting married or having a baby, as well as Easter and Valentine’s Day cards. Each of the projects is broken down into simple illustrated steps and has a skill rating, starting with very easy and progressing as you become more experienced at card-making. Get started now, and make someone’s day with a home-made card, crafted with love." ]

[ "Book Description", "35 step-by-step card-making projects for children aged 7+", "About the Author", "Welcome to CICO Books – we are an independent publisher of innovative and beautiful books on craft, interiors, mind, body, spirit & health as well as gorgeous gift books and vibrant stationery.", "We aim to capture, in words and pictures, those elements of life that give the greatest pleasure: from crafting gorgeous items with a personal touch to setting up a garden farm and creating a home that makes you happy every time you open the front door." ]

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[ "This book provides comprehensive coverage of the methods and issues in the current practice of forensic anthropology. It introduces students to all the major topics in the field, with material ranging from the attribution of ancestry and sex, to various forms of bone trauma, to identification through radiography.", "Introduction to Forensic Anthropology", "uses the terminology and best practices recommended by the Scientific Working Group for Forensic Anthropology (SWGANTH). The fifth edition has been fully updated in light of recent developments, incorporating new and improved methods as well as fresh data. The section on human osteology and odontology in particular has been expanded.", "This accessible and engaging text", "offers an array of features to support teaching and learning, including:", "boxed case studies", "boxed case studies", "extensive figures and photographs", "extensive figures and photographs", "chapter summaries and student exercises", "chapter summaries and student exercises", "a glossary of terms", "a glossary of terms", "further resources via a companion website.", "further resources via a companion website." ]

[ "Review", "A superb update of one of the most comprehensive introductory texts for teaching forensic anthropology, especially in North America. Intended for undergraduate students, this richly illustrated and easy to read compendium remains the go-to single reference for students, instructors, and professionals interested in the basics of forensic anthropology.", "Michael Pietrusewsky, University of Hawaii at Manoa, U", "SA", "About the Author", "Steven N. Byers", "has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico (UNM), USA. Now retired, he worked for a number of years on various campuses of UNM, teaching courses in Forensic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, and Archaeology. He is currently serving on the Anthropology Consensus Body of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Standards Board, in addition to focusing on Southeastern United States bioarchaeology. Byers’ publications with Taylor & Francis include", "Introduction to Forensic Anthropology", "(in its 5th edition), and", "Forensic Anthropology Lab Manual", "(in its 4th edition)." ]

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[ "What is a family? Once, it was said to be a father, mother, boy, girl, cat and dog living in a house with a garden. But as times have changed, families have changed too, and now there are almost as many kinds of families as colours of the rainbow - from a mum and dad or single parent to two mums or two dads, from a mixed-race family to children with different mums and dads, to families with a disabled member. Mary Hoffman takes a look through children's eyes at the wide varieties of family life: from homes, food, ways of celebrating, schools and holidays to getting around, jobs and housework, from extended families, languages and hobbies to pets and family trees - and she concludes that, for most people, their own family is the best one of all! With Ros Asquith's delightful pictures, this book takes a fresh, optimistic look at families of today." ]

[ "Review", "\"This clever book is taking a truly 21st Century look at family life… In spite of managing to reflect the reality of life for all families, the book refrains from making value judgements. No family is depicted as better or worse than any other – just different.\"", "'It’s a book packed with detail, humour and interest, reminding us that there is no such thing as ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’ – we are all equal. ..In terms of diversity in its widest sense, books simply don’t get much more inclusive than this.'", "'Useful, funny and truthful'", "'Useful, funny and truthful'", " 'A wonderfully entertaining celebration of the huge diversity found within contemporary families.'", "'Itâ??s a book packed with detail, humour and interest, reminding us that there is no such thing as â??normalâ?? or â??abnormalâ?? â?? we are all equal. ..In terms of diversity in its widest sense, books simply donâ??t get much more inclusive than this.'", "\"This clever book is taking a truly 21st Century look at family lifeâ?¦ In spite of managing to reflect the reality of life for all families, the book refrains from making value judgements. No family is depicted as better or worse than any other â?? just different.\"", "About the Author", "MARY HOFFMAN", "is the internationally acclaimed author of over 100 books for children, ranging from picture books to teenage fiction. Her first picture book for Frances Lincoln,", "Amazing Grace", ", has become a classic which, with its sequels in the series, has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. Mary’s other picture books for Frances Lincoln include", "The Colour of Home", "with Karin Littlewood and", "An Angel Just Like Me", "with Cornelius van Wright, as well as the hugely successful", "The Great Big Book of Families, The Great Big Book of Feelings,", "and", "Welcome to the Family", ", all with Ros Asquith. Their next title together will be The Great Big Body Book. Mary Hoffman lives in Oxfordshire. For more information about her books visit her website:", "www.maryhoffman.co.uk", "ROS ASQUITH", "has been a", "Guardian", "cartoonist for 20 years, and has written and illustrated over 70 books for young people, including the bestseller", "The Great Big Book of Families", ", with Mary Hoffman, the Teenage Worrier series,", "Letters from an Alien Schoolboy", "-which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize- and her debut picture story book", "It’s Not Fairy", ". Ros lives in north London with her husband and two sons. For more information about Ros, visit her website: www.rosasquith.co.uk" ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Growing Up & Facts of Life" ]

[ "Drawing on indigenous belief systems and recent work in critical \"race\" studies and multicultural-feminist theory, Keating provides detailed step-by-step suggestions, based on her own teaching experiences, designed to anticipate students' resistance to social-justice issues and encourage them to change. She offers a holistic approach to theory and practice." ]

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[ "Books", "Politics & Social Sciences", "Social Sciences" ]

[ "The Vocabulary Expander: Common Core Standards Reading for Literature and Language Grades 6 - 8 is a vocabulary-centred approach to developing essential understanding and skills for students in Grades 6 to 8. It provides full coverage of core standards for Reading for Literature and Language, as well as support for all ‘recognize and correct’ areas of Language Progressive Skills. Packed with engaging and precisely focused tasks and games, it offers a comprehensive coverage of these core standards with 389 tasks and more than 2500 practice questions. It includes literary extracts from more than 80 well-known texts, including novels, short stories, poems and plays from the 18th to 21st century." ]

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[ "Books", "Reference", "Words, Language & Grammar" ]

[ "Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edition. Fast delivery through DHL/FedEx express." ]

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[ "Although Bradley's dad is not the most normal looking father in town and has a rather frightening pair of teeth, he is a very good father, and Bradley does not really mind the things that others see because he loves him for who he is." ]

[ "From School Library Journal", "Grade 2-4-Bradley Fentriss describes life with his father, who is far from ordinary. In fact, he is a large, hairy monster with fangs and claws. Though his appearance is alarming, in all other ways he is a gent who is punctiliously polite to everyone and a loving father to his son. Bradley's diary entries are arranged into five chapters that detail buying school clothes, Parent-Teacher night, trick-or-treating, home repairs, and a winter picnic. While the events are rather tame, a monster dad gives them an unusual, often humorous twist. Conford taps into the popularity of horror fiction but with a light touch. While at times her message that behavior matters more than looks gets somewhat muddled, it is clear that Mr. Fentriss is liked by everyone who knows him. However, the diary format doesn't fit the narrative: all of the entries are told in the present tense and rely heavily on dialogue. Neither Bradley nor his father comes across as a fully drawn character, but the relationship between them is warm and funny. Newsom's eye-catching jacket and full-page pen-and-ink illustrations will attract and hold young readers. While this is not Conford at her best, children will be drawn by the premise of the story and find the father-son relationship appealing.", "Maggie McEwen, Coffin Elementary School, Brunswick, ME", "Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Growing Up & Facts of Life" ]

[ "Meet Horton Moon, a street-wise (if improvident) family man trying to get by as best he can in Depression-era Minneapolis. Beside the hard times, Moon does battle with his own demons: a fickle heart, a taste for the drink, and a bad habit of slipping rather too easily from one side of the law to the other. When he meets a remarkable young girl newly arrived in the city from the Dakota plains, Moon falls in love and falls off the edge. His marriage disintegrates, he loses his job and his bearings, and he steps into a dark underworld of crime and retribution." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Genre Fiction" ]

[ "The Classic", "Notebooks & Journals", "is perfect for writings, drawings, notes, musical compositions, or anything else you choose.", "Many artists, musicians, writers and thinkers over the past have used notebooks and journals to hold sketches, musical passages, stories and thoughts; among them: Frida Kahlo, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Charlotte Brontë, Kurt Cobain, Ludwig Van Beethoven and Ralph Waldo Emerson.", "Keep a record of your reflections on the road.", "Details:", "Sizes: -Pocket 4 x 6 inches - 10.16 x 15.24 centimeters (A6) -Large 5,5 x 8,5 inches - 13.97 x 21.59 centimeters (A5) -Extra Large 7 x 10 inches- 17.78 x 25.4 centimeters (B5)", "Cover: Full-color laminated cover, Matte finish.", "Interior: 100 pages of good quality white paper.", "Page Design: Plain Notebook (blank pages). Ruled Notebook (composition notebook). Squared Notebook (yeah squares!). Musicians Notebook (blank sheet music manuscript book)." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Music" ]

[ "The action-packed sequel to Ted Thackrey Jr.'s Edgar Award-nominated classic.The Preacher, the ex-priest and Vietnam vet turned professional gambler, is playing in the highest stakes poker game ever dealt. His opponents are mobsters, arms dealers and terrorists. The jackpot is an atomic bomb. And if he loses, the entire city of Las Vegas will be dealt the Dead Man's Hand.\"The Preacher is distinctive and unique...with doses of subtle and sarcastic humor.\" Bookgasm\"This is a book that has a lot going for it. It has a noirish sensibility and some darn good writing.\" Bill Crider, the Anthony and Derringer Award-winning author of Outrage at Blanco" ]

[ "About the Author", "Ted Thackrey Jr. was a Korean War vet, an author and newspaper reporter who, after stints at several newspapers, ended up in 1968 at the Los Angeles Times, where he became known over the next two decades for his colorful news stories, columns, and obituaries. His cult classic The Preacher was an Edgar Award finalist and led to two sequels and a feature film." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Action & Adventure" ]

[ "2020 American Fiction Award winner for Best Medical Thriller", "Doctors go to medical school to save lives… right?", "When Matthew Preston was eight, his father was shot and killed in rarefied Pacific Palisades by Ted Nash, a home burglar who happened to be the Preston’s neighbor. Though Nash was sentenced to life in San Quentin, Matthew’s lifelong obsession is to somehow get into the prison, gain access to Nash, and exact the ultimate personal revenge. He devises a plan to become a prison doctor to gain access to Nash.", "While in medical school, Matthew falls for brilliant classmate Torrey Jamison from poverty-stricken East Palo Alto. Torrey is battling her own demons, having been raped by a school counselor while in high school. Matthew is focused on vigilantism; but he loves Torrey who is morally opposed to killing for any reason—or so she thinks." ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]

[ "The unique body-typing program that teaches you how to: Lose weight Achieve your ideal body shape Target your trouble spots Boost your energy Eliminate food cravings forever Feel better than you ever thought possibleDo you crave coffee and sweets--or a nice thick steak?Do you get love handles--or jiggly pockets on your thighs? Are you quick-tempered--or impatient and easily depressed?Believe it or not, your answers to these and other questions posed in this breakthrough book will help you discover which of the four basic \"Body Type\" categories you fall into--the first step toward determining what you need to do to lose weight and look and feel better than ever.More than just a diet, Dr. Abravanel's one-of-a-kind plan is a complete health, fitness, and nutrition program that first teaches you how to determine your body type and then custom-tailors a three-step weight-loss plan and exercise regimen just for you. Using the latest scientific research, Dr. Abravanel has revised and expanded this successful strategy to make it even more effective and easy to follow.This revolutionary program includes: A newly revised Body Type questionnaire you can do at home A detailed list of foods you should avoid--and those you must eat A four-week eating plan, complete with daily menus and recipes A guide to supplements, herbal remedies, and exercise routines for each Body Type A Long Weekend of Rejuvenation to purify your system and clear your mindNow, to find out which Body Type you fall into, turn to the first page...." ]

[ "From the Inside Flap", "The unique body-typing program that teaches you how to: Lose weight Achieve your ideal body shape Target your trouble spots Boost your energy Eliminate food cravings forever Feel better than you ever thought possibleDo you crave coffee and sweets--or a nice thick steak?Do you get love handles--or jiggly pockets on your thighs? Are you quick-tempered--or impatient and easily depressed?Believe it or not, your answers to these and other questions posed in this breakthrough book will help you discover which of the four basic \"Body Type\" categories you fall into--the first step toward determining what you need to do to lose weight and look and feel better than ever.More than just a diet, Dr. Abravanel's one-of-a-kind plan is a complete health, fitness, and nutrition program that first teaches you how to determine your body type and then custom-tailors a three-step weight-loss plan and exercise regimen just for you. Using the latest scientific research, Dr. Abravanel has revised and expanded this successful strategy to make it even more effective and easy to follow.This revolutionary program includes: A newly revised Body Type questionnaire you can do at home A detailed list of foods you should avoid--and those you must eat A four-week eating plan, complete with daily menus and recipes A guide to supplements, herbal remedies, and exercise routines for each Body Type A Long Weekend of Rejuvenation to purify your system and clear your mindNow, to find out which Body Type you fall into, turn to the first page....", "From the Back Cover", "The unique body-typing program that teaches you how to: Lose weight Achieve your ideal body shape Target your trouble spots Boost your energy Eliminate food cravings forever Feel better than you ever thought possible Do you crave coffee and sweets--or a nice thick steak?Do you get love handles--or jiggly pockets on your thighs? Are you quick-tempered--or impatient and easily depressed? Believe it or not, your answers to these and other questions posed in this breakthrough book will help you discover which of the four basic \"Body Type\" categories you fall into--the first step toward determining what you need to do to lose weight and look and feel better than ever. More than just a diet, Dr. Abravanel's one-of-a-kind plan is a complete health, fitness, and nutrition program that first teaches you how to determine your body type and then custom-tailors a three-step weight-loss plan and exercise regimen just for you. Using the latest scientific research, Dr. Abravanel has revised and expanded this successful strategy to make it even more effective and easy to follow. This revolutionary program includes: A newly revised Body Type questionnaire you can do at home A detailed list of foods you should avoid--and those you must eat A four-week eating plan, complete with daily menus and recipes A guide to supplements, herbal remedies, and exercise routines for each Body Type A Long Weekend of Rejuvenation to purify your system and clear your mind Now, to find out which Body Type you fall into, turn to the first page....", "About the Author", "Elliot D. Abravanel, M.D., is known as a founder of holistic medicine. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1969. For many years he served Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as head of medical staff and as Professor of Medicine at Maharishi European Research University, where he pursued reseearch on the relationship between consciousness and ideal health. In 1975 he opened a private medical practice in Beverly Hills, California, where he developed the Body Type System. He is the author of three books:", "Dr. Abravanel's Body Type Diet and Lifetime Nutrition Plan", ",", "Dr. Abravanel's Body Type Program for Health, Fitness and Nutrition", ", and", "Dr. Abravanel's Anti-Craving Weight Loss Diet", ", as well as numerous medical publications. He now divides his time between writing, lecturing, and research. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Weiyi Xu.Elizabeth King Morrison is a writer and educator who specializes in the creation of individual health and nutrition programs. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of two books on Transcendental Meditation in secondary education. She co-authored all three Body Type books with Dr. Abravanel, and has trained many health professionals in the Body Type System. She lives in Eureka, California, with her husband, the writer Ralph Morrison.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Most people today believe that to be slim is necessarily to be healthy. They are mistaken: Most diets are so unhealthy as to be useless in the long run. In fact, most diets aren't even useful in the short run, even for weight loss, because the lost weight invariably comes right back.Occasionally, a diet will work for some lucky dieter. But for every dieter who loses weight, there are hundreds more who fail. And no one ever explains why a diet works, when it does, or why it fails.The Body Type Diet answers these questions. Body Type Dieting is not just another peel-away-the-pounds fad. Rather, it is a systematic medical program relating different types of diet to different types of body, in order to enable each individual to find the diet that will be effective, safe, and healthy for him or her.", "HOW I DISCOVERED THE IMPORTANCE OF BODY TYPES", "I developed the concept of the Body Type Diet and Lifetime Nutrition Plan more than twenty years ago, when I was a young doctor with a busy general practice. Unlike medical specialists, who focus their attention on one system of the body or another, I was a generalist, accustomed to looking at my patients as whole people in whom all parts of the body have to work together for health. Naturally one of the problems often presented to me was the problem of overweight, and I was often asked for advice about diet. Since the importance of maintaining one's ideal weight is, from a health standpoint, beyond dispute, I determined to find a way to help my patients achieve this goal.But I was not fully satisfied with any of the diets available at that time. What struck me was that while one or two patients would lose weight on one or the other of the many popular diets that exist in the marketplace, most of them either failed to lose, or lost weight and quickly gained it back.I decided to take a closer look at those of my patients who did lose weight successfully, and to isolate those factors that were the keys to success.Two patients who happened to come to my office on the same day, illustrated clearly what I discovered. The two were both women, good friends who had decided to diet together for mutual reinforcement. Both had managed to lose about nine pounds; one wanted to lose six more, the other sixteen more pounds. Both had been on a popular diet that was low in protein and fats and high in complex carbohydrates. But there the similarity ended.The first patient, whom I will call Anna, was the one within six pounds of her weight goal, and she looked very well. She had lost her weight from the right places--her hips and thighs, rather than her face, which had never been fat. She told me that she felt healthy and vigorous even though she was dieting, and she looked that way, too.The second patient, Joanne, was a contrast to Anna in almost every way. She retained \"pockets\" of fat on her outer thighs, which, she told me, she'd been unable to lose. Her face was gaunt and she had a pasty, unhealthy color. Moreover, she was having difficulty sticking to her diet, and was constantly suffering from an intense craving for sweets.What was particularly interesting to me was that both women had followed exactly the same diet. I knew them both, and was confident that Joanne had not been \"cheating\"; she was highly motivated to lose weight. Obviously, the difference was not in the diet but in the dieter, or rather in the interaction of dieter and diet. The way the diet worked for Anna was obviously not the way it worked for Joanne.Examining the two women, I discovered that their bodies were indeed very different. Anna had a very steady, strong metabolism. She had excellent digestion, was active all day, and had relatively little variation in her energy level. Joanne was a very different type; she was livelier than Anna, but more given to ups and downs in energy. She had intense nervous energy, but tended to \"crash\" in the late afternoon if she wasn't careful. She drank a lot of coffee and diet cola to keep herself going. In short, she was more high-strung and more delicate than Anna.I decided to put Joanne on a completely different diet from the high-carbohydrate one that had seemed to work for Anna. The diet I selected was high in protein, lower in carbohydrates, and eliminated all caffeine drinks. The idea of this diet was to provide a steadying balance for her delicate, high-strung system. Meanwhile, I told Anna to continue as she had been, until she had lost the rest of her excess weight.To my delight, Joanne responded beautifully to her changed program. After just a week on the diet she began to look healthier. Her face, which had been so gaunt, filled out and her cheeks were rosy. But more important to her, she began to lose the pockets of fat on her thighs. Within four weeks she had lost the entire sixteen pounds. Five years after that memorable month, she was still at her ideal weight.Anna, meanwhile, continued on her high-carbohydrate diet and by the end of the next week she had lost her remaining six pounds. Now both women had dieted successfully--but on diets that, like their metabolisms, were diametrically different.The conclusion reached from Joanne, Anna, and thousands of other patients over the years was that success in dieting depends on the particular character of the dieter's metabolism. If this vital factor is not considered, the diet will inevitably fail. Without a system for determining what type of body a dieter has, dieters and their physicians alike are at the mercy of chance and guesswork.", "THE FOUR BODY TYPES", "Individuals process foods differently--this much is common knowledge. We have all observed that some people can eat much more than others without gaining weight. Also, some people need more of different kinds of food--more protein, more carbohydrates, or more fats. And some people are affected adversely by foods that other people tolerate well.These facts are indications of a vitally important truth: Each person has his or her body type, based upon how food is metabolized in the body. There are a number of traditional systems for classifying individuals according to body type. Perhaps the best known is the classification into ectomorph (the slim, rangy person), endomorph (the rounder, plumper person), or mesomorph (the thicker, more muscular person), developed by Dr. William Sheldon in his book", "The Atlas of Man", ". The limitation of this system is that it is purely descriptive; it doesn't tell why a person is slim, round, or muscular.Another system is that used in classical Chinese medicine, which classifies bodies according to which of the five \"elements\" (earth, water, fire, air, or ether) predominates. While this system has a good deal of value and is useful in certain courses of treatment, I wanted to find one that would be both highly accurate and easier to use. The same consideration applied to the Ayurvedic or classical Indian system, in which individuals are classified into types according to their balance of", "doshas,", "or elements:", "vata, pitta,", "and", "kapha.", "Again, Ayurveda is a highly refined and developed system of medicine, but it requires years of study to use correctly. I wanted a system that would use recognizable Western terms, be in full agreement with my scientific and medical knowledge about the body, and be readily understandable by lay person and physician alike. In short, I wanted a system that would prescribe the right diet while accurately describing the body type.I set about to develop such a system. I began to classify individuals according to which of their four major glands--the pituitary gland, the thyroid gland, the adrenal glands, and the gonads or sex glands--was most active, or dominant, in their metabolism. According to this system, I could then classify a person as a \"Pituitary Type,\" a \"Thyroid Type,\" an \"Adrenal Type,\" or a \"Gonadal Type.\"The inspiration for my system of body types came from Henry Bieler, M.D., a great physician and nutritionist, and author of Food Is Your Best Medicine. Dr. Bieler shows in this book how it is possible to distinguish between individuals with a dominant thyroid and a dominant adrenal gland on the basis of fairly obvious physical characteristics. Dr. Bieler's \"thyroid type\" is slender, fine-boned, long-limbed--much like the classic ectomorph. His \"adrenal type\" is squarer in shape, thicker and more solid, and closely resembles the classic mesomorph. Dr. Bieler also suspected that there might be a third body type, the pituitary type, but he was not certain of this and did not fully define what this type would look like.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Health, Fitness & Dieting", "Diets & Weight Loss" ]

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[ "\"Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.\" 1 Peter 2:21 What must it have been like to draw near to Christ as he drew near to the cross? Reflecting on Michelangelo's majestic", "Pieta,", "in which Mary gathers the suffering Jesus into her arms, Ken Gire offers seven meditations on a costly discipleship that invites us to take up our cross and follow our Savior―through death to life everlasting." ]

[ "Review", "\"Gire is a wordsmith, a superb story teller, yet always with Christ at the centre. This is a book I will use next Holy Week. A prayer concludes each meditation, as well as a list of questions for reflection/conversation, so it could easily be used as a Lenten study. Finally, Gire's book makes me think about faith, of 'the unseen': if Gire could write a gem of a book without having seeing the moving Pieta, what does that say about our faith in whom we cannot see?\" (Rev. Barbara Allen, Insights, July 2012)\". . . this book can be commended as a creative and largely successful foray into one of the greatest divine mysteries in its implications for us all.\" (Robert W. Yarbrough, Themelios, November 2012)\"I eagerly await any book from the pen of Ken Gire. To me he has written some of the finest devotional thoughts and books in the past decade. His writing speaks to the heart, soul and mind.\" (H. Norman Wright)\"Ken Gire carves out words the way an artist carves a masterpiece.\" (John Trent)\"Ken Gire is a man who walks with God. He listens to his life and to the voice of God through all his experiences. As a result, Ken's gift of writing has had a profound impact on me and many others at our church. We reserve a special place on our bookshelves for the writings of Ken Gire, returning there often to be inspired by his powerful and honest use of story and image. When Ken has come to speak, his words have refreshed our souls, always providing us with a new way to look at the human condition and our quest to connect more deeply to God.\" (Nancy Beach)\"I'm just a writer; Ken Gire is a real writer.\" (Max Lucado)\"If there is such a thing as the gift of writing, it is my opinion that Ken Gire has it. Creative, colorful, lucid and easy to read, he has developed a firm grip on this elusive craft, much of which cannot be taught. In athletic terms, the man's a natural.\" (Charles R. Swindoll)", "About the Author", "Ken Gire", "is the author of numerous books, including the Moments with the Savior series and", "Windows of the Soul." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Christian Living" ]

[ "Having spent many hours in the Registry of Deeds I thought it may be useful for others to see thenotes I took on the Leahy deeds / Wills and marriage articles, and also notes on some Privately held deeds. This is a rich genealogical sourceoften overlooked or sometimes avoided as some of the text and language can be difficult to interpretand understand. I appreciate that not everyone has the money or time to come to Dublin and spend daysin the Registry of Deeds to extract this useful information. I systematically went through every Index of sellersfrom 1708 to 1950 and recorded every Leahy / Lahy / Lahey / Lahee / Laghy name and in most cases made notes on the deed (those with no notes have the book No, Page No and Memorial No recorded for the reader to order if of interest). In most cases I recorded the people (and any stated relationships) and land areas covered, acerage amounts and monetary values mentioned. Some deeds of particular interest to me have been transcribed in full.I have set them out in date order and indexed other surnames (witnesses, buyers, solicitors etc.) thatoccur in the deed. It should be noted that Leahys may also be recorded as 'buyers' however there areonly Indexes for the 'Sellers' names. I hope the information will be of use to genealogists somewhere." ]

[ "About the Author", "David has a B.Sc. in Psychology and M.Sc's in Ergonomics and Computing. Born in Northern Ireland but currently residing in Bristol (U.K) and working in the area of Ergonomics. David has been interested in Genealogy for years. The lack of own family knowledge of the Leahys history encouraged him to go on a gealogical quest to document this history before it is lost forever. Contact him at cavanleahys@gmail.com" ]

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[ "Books", "History", "Europe" ]

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[ "Soul Physicians provides a relevant, in-depth theology of biblical counseling. Just as medical students examine the anatomy of the human body, so soul physicians need to understand the anatomy of the human soul. Soul Physicians offers a theological foundation for the ministry of biblical counseling, soul care, and spiritual direction, equipping the counselor to make Christian counseling truly Christian." ]

[ "About the Author", "Robert W. Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC, served for over a dozen years as chairman of the master of arts in Christian counseling and discipleship (MACCD) department at Capital Bible Seminary. He is now professor-at-large in that department. Through the MACCD, Bob has equipped thousands of pastors and professional counselors for biblical ministry. In his three pastoral ministries (one as senior pastor and two as associate pastor), Bob has equipped hundreds of lay people as biblical counselors and spiritual friends. In each church, Bob launched and led the LEAD Ministry: Lay Encouragers and Disciplers. In his role as founder and CEO of RPM Ministries (rpmministries.org), Bob is known for his Christ-centered, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally-informed approach to equipping local churches for biblical counseling and spiritual formation. Through RPM Ministries, Bob has consulted with scores of churches and para-church groups, walking them through his “4E” model for launching and leading lay equipping ministries. Bob is the executive director of the Association of Biblical Counselors’ Center for Church Equipping. He also serves as the launch director for the Biblical Counseling Coalition. Bob is a book reviewer for Discerning Reader. He’s also the biblical counseling and pastoral ministry reviewer for The Gospel Coalition.Dr. Kellemen received a B.A. degree in pastoral ministry from Baptist Bible College (Clarks Summit, Pa.), he earned a Th.M. in theology and biblical counseling from Grace Theological Seminary (Winona Lake, Ind.), and he received a Ph.D. in counselor education from Kent State University (Ohio). Bob is a licensed clinical professional counselor in the state of Maryland. Bob has authored more than 75 published articles. He is also the author of five books: Soul Physicians: A Theology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction (BMH Books), Spiritual Friends: A Methodology of Soul Care and Spiritual Direction (BMH Books), Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction (Baker Books), Sacred Friendships: Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith (BMH Books), and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting (BMH Books), scheduled for release in March 2010. Bob and his wife of twenty-nine years, Shirley, live in Crown Point, Ind. They are parents of two adult children. Josh is 25, married to Andi, and is in his second year in law school. Marie is 21, and is a senior at Purdue University, majoring in chemistry. In all his free time, Bob runs daily, plays in a men’s softball league, and coaches high school wrestling." ]

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[ "Books", "Christian Books & Bibles", "Ministry & Evangelism" ]

[ "Emma Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murder stories. She looks at the work of those writers who have addressed the \"unspeakable subject,\" examining whether same-sex desire is freakish or omnipresent, holy or evil, as she excavates a long-obscured tradition of (inseparable) friendship between women, one that is surprisingly central to our cultural history. Donoghue explores the writing of Sade, Balzac, Hardy, Wilkie, Sayers, Highsmith and more to reveal the half-dozen contrasting girl-girl plots that have been told and retold over the centuries; the paranormal identities assigned to women who desire other women; the ubiquity of same-sex attraction in crime fiction; and the contemporary narratives of coming out privately and publicly.", "Inseparable", "is a revelation of a centuries-old literary tradition — brilliant, amusing, and until now, deliberately overlooked." ]

[ "Review", "\"Happily, Donoghue is a critic who doesn’t fear slumming in the land of potboilers... Donoghue’s adroit commentary, along with her chronologically organized bibliography, makes", "Inseparable", "necessary for scholars and enlightening and often amusing for anyone else.\" – The New York Times Book Review\"A thorough and fascinating piece of criticism, as satisfying as her fiction\" – Now (Toronto)\"Meticulously, even painstakingly researched... an expert and innovative analysis... chock full of interesting information, a needed footnote to the history of Western literature.\" – Toronto Sun\"A highly enjoyable romp through literary history that reads like good journalism rather than academic textbook... Donoghue’s great skill is that she remains totally focused on her six plots through an amazingly broad time period... It has the dizzying effect of bringing something that’s always been in our shared peripheral vision – hazy and intangible until now – sharply into focus.\" – Xtra (Toronto)\"As readable as it is rigorous... What’s so refreshing about", "Inseparable", "is that, while it’s clearly the work of a bona fide scholar... it still manages to be both witty and entertaining. The writer is like that favorite college professor who, in her genial unstuffiness, breathes the kind of life into her subject that keeps students riveted from the first word.\" – Edge\"A thorough, intelligent researcher... a disarming, often funny historian.\" – San Francisco Chronicle\"Emma Donoghue’s pedigree as a literary critic, novelist, scholar, and (it should go without saying) passionate reader makes her the perfect tour guide. Equally at home with Ovid and Rita Mae Brown, she is generous with her insights, providing helpful context... Brilliant, insightful, and frequently funny,", "Inseparable", "is sure to bring new readers to the world of classic literature.\" – The Gay and Lesbian Book Review\"Thorough, scholarly and consistently entertaining\" – Booklist\"Indispensable\" – Library Journal", "From the Back Cover", "Emma Donoghue, consummate scholar and novelist of astonishing originality, examines how desire between women in literature has been portrayed—from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from cross-dressing knights to contemporary murderesses. Donoghue excavates the long-obscured tradition of friendship between women, one that is surprisingly central to our cultural history. From Chaucer and Shakespeare, Sade, Balzac, Thomas Hardy and Radclyffe Hall to Agatha Christie, Patricia Highsmith and Sarah Waters,", "Inseparable", "is a landmark exploration of love between women in Western literature, and a highly entertaining investigation of the \"unspeakable subject.\"" ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "History & Criticism" ]

[ "If you could relive your childhood, would you? What if you had no choice?On the thirty-fifth anniversary of his parents' mysterious drowning, Jack Koryan returns to his family beach cottage. During a swim, Jack is attacked by a school of rare jellyfish whose toxic stings put him in a coma for three years.When he awakens, he finds that the jellyfish toxin has left him with an extraordinary memory that impresses his doctors. This discovery is complicated by flashbacks: some, pleasant childhood vignettes, others, confusing flashes of violence that leave him quaking in horror.Jack wonders if he's losing his mind, but that fear is dispelled by Rene Ballard, a pharmacologist working on the world's first cure for Alzheimer's Disease. She wants to test Jack because the basis of the drug is the very jellyfish toxin that sent Jack into a coma. And, while several test patients have miraculously regained functionality, others are also experiencing dangerous flashback seizures.Ballard's revelation sets Jack on a quest to discover what is happening to him. He and Rene uncover a sinister pattern of lies and deceit that has left behind a trail of bodies, and several elderly patients stuck in a past that they cannot emerge from--or don't want to.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied." ]

[ "Review", "\"", "Flashback", "is one of the best medical science thrillers I have ever read. With an amazing attention to detail Gary Braver has woven together a story that is as timely as it is gripping and as telling as it is touching. This one's a page turner with a point.\"--Michael Connelly,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "The Narrows", "\"", "Flashback", "grabs you by the throat, and the heart, from the first page to the last. The superb writing carries you away into a world of inexplicable acts perpetrated by our common man. Chilling!\"--Ridley Pearson,", "New York Times", "bestselling author of", "The Body of David Hayes", "\"A knockout. Braver has written a brilliant cautionary tale. At once chilling and heartening,", "Flashback", "is thriller fiction at its best.\"--Robert B. Parker on", "Flashback", "\"", "Flashback", "combines an irresistible premise with the medical intrigue of Robin Cook and the scientific plausibility of Michael Crichton--a powerful, gripping, and moving tale with a beating heart.\"--Joseph Finder, author of", "Paranoia", "\"", "Flashback", "'s compelling, fact-based medical thriller resonates with the clear pure notes of reality and positively blurs the line between reality and imagination. Braver has created a fictional world you are dying to believe in.\"--Lewis Perdue,", "New York", "Times", "bestselling author of", "Perfect Killer", "\"Gary Braver does it again. Another taut, suspenseful medical thriller from the new master of the genre. Strong characters, a powerful plot . . . you won't want to put the book down until you're done.\"--William Martin, author of", "Back Bay", "and", "Harvard Yard", "From", "Booklist", "Rene Ballard is a pharmacologist monitoring the medication of hundreds of nursing-home patients. After a patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease somehow escapes from her residence and kills someone, Rene learns that the woman was part of a group of patients testing a new drug that could be a cure for Alzheimer's. Meanwhile, Jack Koryan, a healthy young man, is in a deep coma after being stung by a rare jellyfish. When other Alzheimer's patients taking the new drug begin displaying frightening delusional side effects, and Jack awakes with unusual powers of memory, Rene suspects this revolutionary cure may not be all it's cracked up to be. At once a fast-paced medical thriller and a thoughtful rumination on the nature of memory (look out, Michael Crichton).", "David Pitt", "Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "About the Author", "Gary Braver is the award-winning author of six critically acclaimed thrillers including", "Elixir", ",", "Gray Matter", ", and", "Flashback", ", which was recipient of the 2006 Massachusetts Honor Book Award for Fiction--a first for a thriller--and which in a starred review", "Publishers Weekly", "called “an exceptional medical thriller.” His novels have been translated into five languages, and three have been optioned for movies. Under his own name, Gary Goshgarian, he is an award-winning professor of English at Northeastern University where he teaches courses in Modern Bestsellers, Science Fiction, Horror Fiction, and Fiction Writing. He has taught fiction-writing workshops through out the United States and Europe for over twenty years. He is the author of five college writing textbooks.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "From Publishers Weekly", "Starred Review.", "So many dreams—it's hard to pick out the right one,\" reads the epigraph from E.B. White for Braver's exceptional medical thriller, a timely story about how the human brain deals with memory, the current possibilities of developing a drug that cures Alzheimer's disease, and how the search for such a drug leads to greed and murder. On a trip back to Cape Cod on the anniversary of his mother's death by drowning, Jack Koryan, a prep school teacher turned restaurant owner, is stung by a school of rare jellyfish, whose toxins send him into a three-year coma. Haunted by dreams and memories that may or may not be real, Jack wakes to discover that he's of great interest to pharmacologist Rene Ballard, who's testing those same toxins on Alzheimer's victims with extraordinarily successful results—though some have also committed acts of inexplicible violence. A strong plotter, Braver writes clear, clean prose that heightens the suspense. Under his expert guidance, Koryan and Ballard explore a scientific mystery that is touching and believable. With this latest book, Braver (", "Gray Matter", ") marks himself as a worthy successor to Robin Cook, Michael Crichton and Tess Gerritsen. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.", "--This text refers to an alternate", "kindle_edition", "edition.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]

[ "A Second Course in Statistics: Regression Analysis, Seventh Edition", ", focuses on building linear statistical models and developing skills for implementing regression analysis in real situations. This text offers applications for engineering, sociology, psychology, science, and business. The authors use real data and scenarios extracted from news articles, journals, and actual consulting problems to show how to apply the concepts. In addition, seven case studies, now located throughout the text after applicable chapters, invite readers to focus on specific problems." ]

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[ "Books", "Science & Math", "Mathematics" ]

[ "The best-selling first edition of", "Law 101", "provided readers with a vividly written and indispensable portrait of our nation's legal system. Now, in this revised edition, Jay M. Feinman offers an updated survey of American law, spiced with new anecdotes and cases, and incorporating freshmaterial on topics ranging from the President's war powers, to intellectual property, standard form contracts, and eminent domain. Here is an exceptionally clear introduction to law, covering the main subjects found in the first year of law school, giving us a basic understanding of how it all works. Readers are introduced to every aspect of the legal system, from constitutional law and the litigation process to tortlaw, contract law, property law, and criminal law. Feinman illuminates each discussion with many intriguing, outrageous, and infamous cases, from the scalding coffee case that cost McDonald's half a million dollars, to the sensational murder trial in Victorian London that led to the legal definitionof insanity, to the epochal decision in", "Marbury v. Madison", "that gave the Supreme Court the power to declare state and federal laws unconstitutional. He broadens the reader's legal vocabulary, clarifying the meaning of everything from \"due process\" and \"equal protection\" in constitutional law, to thedistinction between \"murder\" and \"manslaughter\" in criminal law. Perhaps most important, we learn that though the law is voluminous and complex, it is accessible to all. Everyone who wants a better grasp of current legal issues--from students contemplating law school, to journalists covering the legislature or the courts, to fans of Court TV--will find here a wonderful source of information: a complete, clear, and colorful map of the American legal system. \"An entertaining and informative introduction to the law.... For journalists, those interested in the law, and fans of television law dramas, this book should be required reading.\"--", "Library Journal" ]

[ "About the Author", "Jay M. Feinman", "is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University School of Law at Camden. An expert on contract law, tort law, legal education, and legal theory, Feinman is the author of five books and more than fifty articles. He lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey." ]

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[ "Books", "Law", "Law Practice" ]

[ "Alfonzo Diaz has the quintessential New York City swagger and tough attitude borne from growing up in a neighborhood where respect hinge's on how much you're feared. The only male role-model in Alfonzo's life is his beloved Uncle Al, until he's murdered in an unsolved double homicide. Alfonzo soon discovers his fate was written the moment he emerged from the protection of his mother's womb. Lies, greed and a quest for power that began on the shores of Sicily, has reached a bloody hand to strike down a Nuyorican perched to inherit a mafia empire! A contemporary mafia series, listed in The Guardian's article as one of the, \"Gems In Indie Publishing.' The Alfonzo Series:Ascension: Volume IIAnarchy: Volume IIIAtonement: Alfonzo Volume IVAwakening: Volume VAnnihilation: Alfonzo Volume VIAftermath: Alfonzo Volume VIIAffirmation: Alfonzo Volume VIIIAssociates: Alfonzo Volume IXAnimus: Alfonzo Volume X" ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]

[ "Task-based language instruction has proven to be highly effective, but surprisingly underutilized. Theory can only go so far and hands-on experience can greatly speed and enhance the learning of a second language. Nineteen talented instructors who have successfully implemented task-based programs explain the principles behind the programs, discuss how problems were resolved, and share details on class activities and program design. Each chapter takes the reader through the different stages in designing and setting up such programs, adjusting them, and appraising and testing them in normal classroom conditions. This book covers TBI syllabus and program design and is based on actual classroom experience. Any one of the courses or programs discussed can serve as models for others. Many of the contributors are highly respected practitioners who are presenting their programs for the first time, while others are regular participants in today's ongoing dialogue about teaching methods.Full of concrete, adaptable models of task-based language teaching drawn from a number of countries and eleven different languages―including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Korean, Spanish, and Ukrainian―", "Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education", "presents proven, real-world, practical courses and programs; and includes web-based activities. It demonstrates useful and practical ways to engage students far beyond what can be learned from reading textbook dialogue. TBI involves the student directly with the language being taught via cognitively engaging activities that reflect authentic and purposeful use of language, resulting in language-learning experiences that are pleasurable and effective.For all instructors seeking to help their learners enhance their understanding and grasp of the foreign language they are learning,", "Task-Based Instruction in Foreign Language Education", "is a rich and rewarding hands-on guide to effective and transformative learning." ]

[ "Review", "\"A worthy addition to task-based literature and can be recommended without hesitation to EFL practitioners. Its marriage of theory, practice, and examples provides a highly stimulating resource for those whose job is to do rather than to talk about doing.\"―", "Korea TESOL Journal", "\"An invaluable resource, made even more so by the thoughtfulness of the chapters. Rather than offering prescriptive plans, these authors share the thinking behind their decisions and thereby provide generous insights into incorporating TBI in many different circumstances. Any teacher who wishes to improve student's fluency will find inspiration and guidance in this volume.\"―Patricia Chaput, professor of the Practice of Slavic Languages, Harvard University", "\"An eminently useful contribution to the field of language pedagogy combining the theoretical background of task-based instruction (TBI) with many examples of actual language learning tasks in a variety of languages, at a wide range of levels, at a number of different programs. Includes much information difficult to obtain elsewhere, such as using the Internet to implement TBI and training teachers in TBI.\"―Cornelius C. Kubler, Stanfield Professor of Chinese and chair, Department of Asian Studies, Williams College", "\"The introductory chapter, an overview of task-based instruction (TBI), and the ensuing chapters and descriptions of the practical application of TBI in various language programs provide a valuable pedagogical resource for instructors of all languages. The concrete examples given in each chapter illustrate the levels of creativity that can be accomplished in the language classroom.\"―Frank J. Miller, professor of Slavic languages and Russian Language Coordinator, Columbia University", "\"Leaver and Willis have assembled a distinguished and varied cast of authors, covering languages and programs not frequently treated in U.S. publications on foreign language methods and techniques. While much attention continues to be spent on variations on proficiency in foreign language education, they shift our attention to task-based instruction and present both theoretical and practical considerations for teachers, scholars, and program coordinators. They take great care to offer recommendations for students/learners as well as teachers in discussing this innovative type of foreign language instruction. Finally, most impressive about the volume as a whole is the considerable amount of space devoted to the incorporation of technology and internet resources in task-based foreign language programs.\"―Thomas Jesús Garza, Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin", "About the Author", "Betty Lou Leaver", "is associate dean of Global Education and dean of New York Institute of Technology campuses in Jordan. She has introduced task-based instruction into several foreign language programs, including the Defense Language Institute, the American Global Studies Institute, NASA, the American Language Center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and the American Language Center in Chisinau, Moldova. She has also provided assistance to programs using TBI in Brazil, Turkmenistan, Japan, and Korea.", "Jane Willis", "is a visiting fellow at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, where she taught in the Masters in TESOL/TESP distance learning programs, specializing in course and materials design and lexical studies. She has taught English to European and Asian students and has educated teachers in Africa, Cyprus, Iran, and Southeast Asia. She began experimenting with task-based English teaching in 1982 in the British Council Teaching Centre in Singapore. She is the author of", "A Framework for Task-based Learning", "and coauthor of", "English for Primary Teachers", "." ]

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[ "Books", "Reference", "Words, Language & Grammar" ]

[ "Learn all about little David and the big giant Goliath in this board book with an amazing pull out section. Read the story in the first four spreads, and then find out what happens at the end as four pull-out board sections are extended from the back of the book! Features Chris Embleton-Hall's distinctive artwork. Also available in the Candle Pull-Out series: Noah and the Animals, Jonah and the Big Fish" ]

[ "Book Description", "How tall is Goliath?", "About the Author", "Josh Edwards has written a number of Bible stories and innovative activity books for kids, building on his experience as a teacher and artist, and as a father of three rapidly-growing children. A Londoner by birth, residence and preference, he has travelled widely and always loved booksand reading.Chris Embleton-Hall is an English based artist specializing in children's illustration who uses a mixture of digital styles, most recently incorporating pattern and texture. He spent hours of his spare time as a child drawing with his granddad, before studying for a degree in illustration." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Religions" ]

[ "Kids love dinosaurs and here is a wonderful new format that will help bring the Dinosaurs alive!", "– Each dinosaur will be featured on a double page spread with a die-cut element of the dinosaur popping off the edges of the page." ]

[ "About the Author", "Paul and Paul are the writing team behind Nifty Plates and The Nifty Fifty State Flags – they have a wonderful way of taking non-fiction, and engaging children into the process of learning." ]

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[ "Books", "Children's Books", "Animals" ]

[ "Writing and languages, the trials of death and family, and the daydreamers and drifters of the New South form some of the subjects in this collection of stories" ]

[ "From Library Journal", "Having a first novel ( Edisto , LJ 3/15/84) nominated for an ABA award is a hard act to follow, but Powell's subsequent works continue to establish his reputation as a literary wordsmith of the first order. Typical is anything but a typical collection of short stories--it's a dazzling display of verbal pyrotechnics and literary lunacy, mordantly outrageous Southern Gothic wit, and incidents that transcend reality and take on an irrepressible logic of their own. The title story, selected for The Best American Short Stories of 1990 , is a gem of modern madness played out by a down-and-out Texas realist. \"The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping\" is a Florida-based love story unlike any other romantic tale, yet the characters are so real and true that they linger in the mind. Powell rises above the easily applied label \"Southern writer\"; he is a brilliant crafter of words. Recommended.", "- Judith F. Bradley, Acad. of the Holy Cross Lib., Kensington, Md.", "Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.", "From Kirkus Reviews", "This first collection by the author of Edisto and A Woman Named Drown is an odd and arresting mix of full-length stories and lots of little pieces--none of them conventional by any means, and all of them typical of Powell's goofy, southern-inflected lust for language. Powell's snippets include a number of fractured profiles of strange people and places gone weird. There are: ``Dr. Ordinary'' and his litany of the things he finds odious; ``General Rancidity,'' hated all over his military base because ``only the truly rancid themselves could run with him''; ``Mr. Nefarious,'' who smiles about his girlfriend and a fancy outdoor bench; ``Mr. Desultory,'' who gives in to regression because he cannot do things in succession; and ``Miss Resignation,'' who loses at Bingo so much she decides to smoke the cards. Powell clearly agrees with the notion voiced here that ``character is nothing but warts.'' Place fares poorly too: ``Kansas'' is defined by the absence of farming; ``Texas'' is a list of things done and some know-nothing aphorisms; ``South Carolina'' finds the pickup-driving narrator molesting a belle at a fancy cotillion; and ``Florida'' is a drunk lament about what used to be. In Powell's mordant and absurd world, you watch a flood (``Flood'') and a body floats into your arms; you work as a roofer and your buddy decapitates himself in a fall on the job (``Wayne's Fate''); you ramble and drink in the woods, and someone offers perversion (``Proposition''). Faulknerian style and subject come in for some direct ribbing. ``Wait'' sidetracks a rococo turn about a bulldog and a corncob with some plain talk; and ``Lebove and Son,'' a postscript to The Hamlet, considers the consequences of literary revelation. Not quite so academic, but metafictional in their own bizarre way, are ``Mr. Irony,'' a tale of ``low-affect living edged with self-deprecating irony''; and ``Mr. Irony Renounces Irony,'' the confessions of a style abuser. The much- reprinted title story is the narrative of a true underground man, an admitted ``piece of crud'' and unemployed steelworker who thinks he's just ``Typical.'' Lyrically intense and full of the surreal juxtapositions you find in the flotsam of floodwaters: stories at once edgy and exuberant. --", "Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "United States" ]

[ "This elegant and theoretically informed book, illustrated with forty-five photographs, explores the cultural significance of six exhibitions or new museum installations, all opening in Paris between mid-1937 and early 1938: the commercially oriented world's fair titled L'Exposition Internationale des Art et Techniques; the historical Musée des Monuments Français; the ethnographic Musée de l'Homme; two massive art retrospectives, one sponsored by the state of France and the other by the municipality of Paris; and L'Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme.", "James D. Herbert capitalizes on the proximity of these disparate exhibits to show how they competed with and yet also complemented one another in visually rendering the full scope of human accomplishment through time and across the globe. In this task, Herbert argues, they both succeeded and failed in interesting and productive ways. He asserts that the exhibitions projected and, in a sense, created (created precisely through the act of projection) the real world that they ostensibly only represented.", "In fact, Herbert argues, the exhibitions developed a particular sense of French national identity―one that, in managing to be at the same moment both inwardly focused and beneficently expansive, would present a vivid contrast to the growing German nationalism of the Third Reich. His epilogue takes a final look at these issues from the perspective of Jean Cocteau's 1950 film", "Orphée", ". A ground-breaking work in cultural history,", "Paris 1937", ", with its insightful examination of objects from a variety of fields, is a pioneering text in the field of visual studies." ]

[ "Review", "A critical perspective which is both specifically original and consistent with recent studies of Universal Exhibitions and of the strategic design of the modern Museum.... Even those not entirely comfortable with the ramifications of the 'unseen gods' figured in the displays of the 1930s will learn much from the detailed analysis of those representations and their intersecting semiotics and ideologies.... It is not merely its 45 fascinating archival photographs which leave one with the sense of the 'visual command'... which the author himself brings to his subject. To look at 1937 through his eyes, and then across to Eiffel's negating panoptic tower, is to ensure that the view from the Trocadero will never be quite the same again.", "―", "Journal of European Studies", "Herbert has... placed his historical narrative within a poststructuralist synthesis of his own devising that is... brilliant.... Read as a historical narrative that presents valuable insights in somewhat unexpected ways, it is enormously satisfying and deserves attention.", "-- Jerry Cullum ―", "Art in America", "In his thought-provoking and ambitious new book, James D. Herbert offers a penetrating analysis of... the 1937 Exposition internationale des arts et techniques and five contemporaneous museum installations and exhibitions that either complemented it or parodied it.... The strength of Herbert's study is... to demonstrate how, taken together, the exhibitions in fact presented a surprisingly cohesive and complementary series of images.... In its diligent research and thoughtful exposition across disparate fields,", "Paris 1937", "is a substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of modern exhibition history. Herbert's book should have an impact not just on the critical examination of installations but more broadly on how we discuss the complex relationship between images in the public sphere and the formation of identity.", "-- Adam Jolles ―", "Modernism/modernity", "Review", "Paris 1937", "is a cultural history focused on a particular space in Paris at the end of the 1930s in which fine art and the spectacle of culture were mobilized to do a certain kind of job. Herbert has an almost insatiable appetite for research. He is a historian who has found a way to put theory to use in a manner that is fully integrated with the text. His approach opens up avenues of engagement with new problems and issues in art and cultural history.", "-- Fred Orton, University of Leeds", "About the Author", "James D. Herbert is Professor and Chair, Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine. He is the author of", "Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics", ".", "Read more" ]

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[ "Books", "Reference", "Writing, Research & Publishing Guides" ]

[ "NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST!", "SUTTER KEELY. HE’S the guy you want at your party. He’ll get everyone dancing. He’ ll get everyone in your parents’ pool. Okay, so he’s not exactly a shining academic star. He has no plans for college and will probably end up folding men’s shirts for a living. But there are plenty of ladies in town, and with the help of Dean Martin and Seagram’s V.O., life’s pretty fabuloso, actually. Until the morning he wakes up on a random front lawn, and he meets Aimee. Aimee’s clueless. Aimee is a social disaster. Aimee needs help, and it’s up to the Sutterman to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. But Aimee’s not like other girls, and before long he’s in way over his head. For the first time in his life, he has the power to make a difference in someone else’s life—or ruin it forever.Now a major motion picture -- one of the most buzzed-about films at Sundance, starring Shailene Woodley (star of", "The Fault in our Stars", "and", "Divergent", ") and Miles Teller (star of", "Whiplash", ")." ]

[ "Review", "Starred Review,", "Publishers Weekly", ", November 17, 2008:", "\"[A] smart, superbly written novel.\"", "Starred Review,", "The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books", ", February 2009:", "\"A sobering look at the rationalizations of a teenage alcoholic.\"", "About the Author", "Tim Tharp lives in Oklahoma", ",", "where he teaches at Rose State College. He is also the author of the YA novel", "Knights of the Hill Country,", "an ALA–YALSA Best Book for Young Adults. He lives in Midwest City, Oklahoma.", "Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.", "Chapter 1So, it's a little before ten a.m. and I'm just starting to get a good buzz going. Theoretically, I should be in Algebra II, but in reality I'm cruising over to my beautiful fat girlfriend Cassidy's house. She ditched school to get her hair cut and needs a ride because her parents confiscated her car keys. Which I guess is a little ironic considering that they're punishing her for ditching school with me last week.Anyway, I have this sweet February morning stretching out in front of me, and I'm like, Who needs algebra? So what if I'm supposed to be trying to boost the old grades up before I graduate in May? I'm not one of these kids who's had their college plans set in stone since they were about five. I don't even know when the application deadlines are. Besides, it's not like my education is some kind of priority with my parents. They quit keeping track of my future when they divorced, and that was back in the Precambrian Era. The way I figure it, the community college will always take me. And who says I need college anyway? What's the point?Beauty's all around me right here. It's not in a textbook. It's not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight--warm but not too brash. It's not like winter at all. Neither was January or December for that matter. It's amazing--we couldn't have had more than one cold week all winter. Listen, global warming's no lie. Take last summer. You want to talk about getting a beating from the heat. Last summer was a hardcore pugilist. I mean, burn-you-down-to-the-roots-of-your-hair hot. It's like Cassidy says--global warming's not for lightweights.But with this February sun, see, the light's absolutely pure and makes the colors of the sky and the tree limbs and the bricks on these suburban houses so clean that just looking at them is like inhaling purified air. The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.I prefer drinking my whisky mixed, so I pull into a convenience store for a big 7UP, and there's this kid standing out front by the pay phone. A very real-looking kid, probably only about six years old--just wearing a hoodie and jeans, his hair sticking out every which way. Not one of these styling little kids you see in their brand-name outfits and their TV show haircuts, like they're some kind of miniature cock daddy. Of course, they wouldn't know what to do with a girl if she came in a box with the instructions on the lid like Operation or Monopoly, but they have the act down.Right away, I take to this kid, so I say, \"Hey, dude, aren't you supposed to be in school or something?\" and he's like, \"Can I borrow a dollar?\"I go, \"What do you need with a dollar, little man?\"And he's, \"I'm going to buy a candy bar for breakfast.\"Now that gets my attention. A candy bar for breakfast? My heart goes out to this kid. I offer to buy him a breakfast burrito, and he's okay with that as long as he gets his candy bar too. When we come back out, I look around to size up what kind of traffic the kid's going to have to negotiate in his travels. We live just south of Oklahoma City--technically it's a whole different city, but with the urban sprawl you can't tell where one leaves off and the other begins--so we have a lot of traffic zipping around here.\"Look,\" I tell him as he drips egg down the front of himself. \"This is a pretty busy intersection. How about I give you a ride to wherever you're going so some big rig doesn't barrel down and flatten you like a squirrel.\"He looks me over, sizing me up just like a squirrel might actually do right before deciding to scamper off into his lair. But I'm a trustworthy-looking guy. I have no style either--just a pair of reasonably old jeans, beat-up sneakers, and a green long-sleeve T-shirt that says Ole! on the front. My brown hair's too short to need much combing, and I have a little gap between my two front teeth, which gives me a friendly, good-hearted look, or so I'm told. The point is I'm a long way from scary.So the kid takes a chance and hops into the passenger side of my Mitsubishi Lancer. I've had it for about a year--it's silver with a black interior, not new or anything but pretty awesome in a basic kind of way.\"My name's Sutter Keely,\" I say. \"What's yours?\"\"Walter,\" he says around a mouthful of burrito.Walter. That's good. I've never known a little kid named Walter. It seems like an old man's name, but I guess you have to start somewhere.\"Now, Walter,\" I say, \"the first thing I want you to know is you shouldn't really take rides from strangers.\"\"I know,\" he says. \"Mrs. Peckinpaugh taught us all about that at Stranger Danger.\"\"That's good,\" I say. \"You should keep that in mind in the future.\"And he goes, \"Yeah, but how do you know who's a stranger?\"That cracks me up. How do you know who's a stranger? That's a kid for you. He can't comprehend that people might be dangerous just because you haven't met them yet. He's probably got all sorts of sinister ideas about what a stranger is--a black, slouchy hat and raincoat, a scar on the cheek, long fingernails, shark teeth. But think about it--when you're six years old, you haven't met all that many people. It would be pretty mind-_boggling to go around suspicious of ninety-nine percent of the populace.I start to explain the stranger thing to him, but his attention span isn't all that long and he gets sidetracked watching me pour whisky into my big 7UP.\"What's that?\" he asks.I tell him it's Seagram's V.O., so then he wants to know why I'm pouring it in my drink.I look at him and he has this authentic interest in his big, round eyes. He really wants to know. What am I going to do, lie to him?", "Read more" ]

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[ "Forsaken Hearts A Tale of Katriana & Nicholas", "is the story of Katriana Novair, a young and fiery woman with a destiny that extends to all creatures of the world and forges a new war into existence.Never having the ability to let the death of her husband and son go, Katriana is driven to seek revenge in any way she can whether or not it pushes her to the limits of her own mortality. For every victory she has a small part of her beloved Nicholas and Remmy back.Determined that she will never love again, Katriana finds herself back where it all started, her heart torn between the love she thought she knew and love she cannot pull herself away from. Through these trials an old rival creates chaos and puts her destiny into alignment." ]

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[ "Books", "Literature & Fiction", "Mythology & Folk Tales" ]

[ "Edición ilustrada.¿Cómo es posible que un directivo no sepa lo que es un ser humano? Este libro expone lo que un directivo debe saber para comprender qué es una persona. Recomendable para todos.Constituye una introducción fácil a la novedosa propuesta antropológica de Leonardo Polo." ]

[ "Review", "JUAN FERNADO SELLÉS (ESPAÑA): Esta obra es netamente inconforme con las antropologías al uso [...] Se centra más bien en el núcleo personal [...]El autor se apoya en el que pasa por el mejor pensador que ha descubierto y perfilado con más hondura el compuesto humano, Leonardo Polo (1926-2013), de quien el autor fue -y sigue siendo- discípulo [...]Con la exposición coherente de las tres capas precedentes se corrigen por elevación muchos problemas modernos formulados a la hora de encarar la vida humana que abocan a un callejón sin salida: la autorrealización, la pretensión de sí, el egoísmo e individualismo, el colectivismo tan impersonal como irresponsable, los agnosticismos e indiferentismos... modos todos ellos, al fin y al cabo, despersonalizantes, es decir, de pérdida progresiva del ser y sentidos personales, a la par que deshumanizantes en el comportamiento social humano. Es hora de decir basta a estos errores y de subsanarlos por elevación en la vida personal de cada quién.[...] la exposición que el autor realiza en esta obra es ascendente, pedagógica, pues hace asequibles a un público muy amplio los grandes descubrimientos antropológicos, exponiéndolos con muchos recursos didácticos añadidos. Sólo resta animar al lector a que lleve a cabo una experiencia personal con lo que descubra en estas páginas y consecuentemente que aporte su sentido y valor irrepetible a su propio trabajo organizativo, desde el plano familiar al social, pasando por el de las instituciones intermedias, pues dada su inmensa valía, todos pueden aportar y de todos cabe aprender. ...............", "From the Author", "En este libro expongo lo que un directivo debe saber para comprender qué es una persona. Recomendable para todos. Constituye una introducción fácil a la novedosa propuesta antropológica de Leonardo Polo, el autor que tal vez mejor ha formulado la intimidad de la persona.El cimiento a partir de cual entender mejor a las organizaciones.", "From the Inside Flap", "Recomendable para cualquier persona, que quiera entender mejor a los demás y a sí misma. Especialmente relevante para directivos, y cualquier persona con funciones de ayuda a otros: médicos, psicólogos, coach, etc.", "About the Author", "MBA (IESE), filósofo y doctor por la Universidad de Navarra. Profesor del PAD-Escuela de Dirección de la Universidad de Piura.", "Read more" ]

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[ "Science Fiction wargame rules for large skirmishes, based on the popular", "Rampant", "system.", "Xenos Rampant", "is a setting agnostic, large skirmish, miniature wargame for fighting science fiction battles using 28mm figures. Developed from the award-winning ruleset", "Lion Rampant", ", the core mechanics featured within will be instantly recognisable to those familiar with the other", "Rampant", "systems, while still being accessible to new players.", "Xenos Rampant", "contains all the rules, army lists, and scenarios required to fight science fiction battles as well as a whole host of subgenres including: raygun gothic, post-apocalyptic, weird war, near future. So, whatever your science fiction preference, the rules can cover it – just let your imagination run rampant." ]

[ "About the Author", "Daniel Mersey", "has spent more than three decades leading miniature armies to spectacular defeat on tabletop battlefields. He has won no medals and his armies will never salute him. Daniel has been writing books, gaming articles, and rulesets since the 1990s. His rulebooks for Osprey Publishing include two Origins Award-nominated titles,", "Lion Rampant", "and", "Dragon Rampant", ", and the UK Games Expo Judges' Award-winning", "Rebels and Patriots", "(with Michael Leck). In 2021, Daniel was appointed as the University of Edinburgh's first ever Games Designer in Residence.As for many wargamers, it was", "HeroQuest", "and", "Space Crusade", "that drew Richard Cowen into the hobby in the early 1990s… and he has never managed to leave. Richard has written fan rules and fiction for decades, with a passion for simple yet evocative systems that can translate science fiction books and films to the tabletop. Much of his recent work has been posted on his blog (richardcowen.wordpress.com) and he is also working on a series of novels in a Fantasy World War I setting.Mike Doscher is a concept artist and illustrator living in the American Midwest. While growing up in California he acquired an interest in both art and how machines worked. Discovering digital art in college, he left ceramics behind and joined the game industry where he remained for fifteen years and counting." ]

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[ "Books", "Science Fiction & Fantasy", "Science Fiction" ]

[ "Have you ever thought that playing word games could hurt you?", "It’s totally true for this", "Stuffed Thanksgiving Mad Libs", "! Why? Your jaws will ache from laughing too much after playing the word games stuffed in the book. It can also be a thankful gift for your beloved ones to spread more happiness during the festive time!", "Get the book, gather around, and create your own silly Thanksgiving stories today!", "Stuffed Thanksgiving Mad Libs includes:", "Thanksgiving stories: 30 fill-in stories related to the most thankful season of the year.", "Thanksgiving stories:", "30 fill-in stories related to the most thankful season of the year.", "Language arts practice: Mad Libs are a great choice to enhance reading comprehension, grammar skills, and expand lexical resources.", "Language arts practice:", "Mad Libs are a great choice to enhance reading comprehension, grammar skills, and expand lexical resources.", "Hilarious jokes: 30 jokes about Thanksgiving will add up a little more unexpected joy.", "Hilarious jokes:", "30 jokes about Thanksgiving will add up a little more unexpected joy.", "Fun with friends and family: Each game is a chance for friends and family members to work together to create unique Thanksgiving stories!", "Fun with friends and family:", "Each game is a chance for friends and family members to work together to create unique Thanksgiving stories!" ]

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[ "Faith on the March by A.H. Macmillan. Recounting of the history of the Watchtower, Jehovah's Witness' movement in an autobiographical style by A.H. Macmillan, who worked with Charles Taze Russell, \"Judge\" Joseph F.Alexander Hugh Macmillan (June 2, 1877 – August 26, 1966), also referred to as A. H. Macmillan, was an important member of the Bible Students, and later, of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He became a board member of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1918. He presented a history of the religious movement in his book Faith on the March, published in 1957." ]

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[ "Books", "Biographies & Memoirs", "Leaders & Notable People" ]

[ "Accent on Achievement is a revolutionary, best-selling band method that will excite and stimulate your students through full-color pages and the most complete collection of classics and world music in any band method. The comprehensive review cycle in books 1 & 2 will ensure that students remember what they learn and progress quickly. Also included are rhythm and rest exercises, chorales, scale exercises, and 11 full band arrangements among the first two books. Book 3 includes progressive technical, rhythmic studies and chorales in all 12 major and minor keys. Also included are lip slur exercises for increasing brass instrument range and flexibility. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. Accent on Achievement meets and exceeds the USA National Standards for music education, grades five through eight. This title is available in SmartMusic." ]

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[ "Books", "Arts & Photography", "Music" ]

[ "The body of a young man is discovered in a terraced house in East Manchester. DCI Tom Caton is drawn inexorably into the dark side of the internet where nothing is as it seems, and where lurks a threat to his own happiness, and that of those closest to him. In two weeks Tom and profiler Kate Webb are due to tie the knot. An appointment that she fears he may never keep.Part police procedural, part thriller, part mystery, this rich tapestry of a novel delves into the threats that face everyone who uses those social media that have become an essential part of our everday existence.Number 8 in the bestselling DCI Tom Caton Manchester Murder Mysteries." ]

[ "About the Author", "Bill Rogers is the British Crime Fiction author of the bestselling DCI Caton Manchester Murder Mysteries. His first novel \"The Cleansing\" received the ePublishing Consortium Writers Award 2011, and was shortlisted for the Amazon Breakthrough Debut Novel Award, and the LongBarn Books Debut Novel Award. In addition to the nine bestselling crime novels he has written \"Breakfast at Katsouris\" an anthology of short stories, \"The Cave\" a novel for teens, young adults and adults, and \"Caton's Manchester\" - a unique guide to the City of Manchester, England, through a series of walks incorporating crimes scenes in his novels. A former Principal Inspector of Schools for the City of Manchester, Bill lives in and works in the North West of England.", "--This text refers to the", "paperback", "edition." ]

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[ "Books", "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense", "Thrillers & Suspense" ]