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“irene powell”

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  • Laughter & Tears

    Johanna's Story

    by Irene Powell ...
    Irene Powell's new book "Laughter and Tears" will inspire readers. New biography of the life of a wartime civilian hero and lifetime friend is certain to affect readers. LIVERPOOL, England -- Despite the seeming best efforts of generations, poverty, famine and war persist in the world. One has only to turn on the nightly news or read the headlines to know this is true. In her new book, "Laughter ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Saving International Adoption

    An Argument from Economics and Personal Experience

    by Mark Montgomery, Irene Powell ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2018International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall. Yet around the world millions of orphaned and vulnerable children need permanent homes, and thousands of American and European families are eager to take them in. Many government officials, international bureaucrats, and social ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Just Ignore Him

    A BBC Two Between the Covers book club pick

    by Alan Davies ...
    'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen Fry'This hugely affecting book is brave, insightful and, at times, funny about things it is hard to be funny about' Jo BrandThe story of a life built on sand. In the rain.In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • China's Hidden Children

    Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

    by Kay Ann Johnson ...
    In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Corruption

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in the contemporary world cannot be undervalued. In this Very Short Introduction Leslie Holmes considers why the international community has only ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing

    by Jacqueline Winspear ...
    **A 2021 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Critical/Biographical“Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in character and detail, history and humanity. Her writing is lovely, elegant and welcoming.”—Anne LamottThe New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Quality Education as a Constitutional Right

    Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools

    by Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Lisa Delpit, Joan T. Wynne, Ernesto Cortes Jr. ...
    In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for acampaignto guarantee a quality education for all children as a constitutional right—a movement that would “transform current approaches to educational inequity, all of which have failed miserably to yield ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ethical Loneliness

    The Injustice of Not Being Heard

    by Jill Stauffer ...
    Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political institutions that, in failing to listen well to survivors, deny them redress by negating their testimony and thwarting their claims for justice.Jill Stauffer examines the root causes of ethical ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Not Your Average Nurse

    From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the True Story of an Unlikely Girl and an Extraordinary Career

    by Maggie Groff ...
    To a young girl the life of a student nurse sounds exciting, but with long hours and short shrift it’s never easy. So when Maggie Groff embarks as a student nurse at London’s King’s College Hospital she must quickly get to grips with the demands of her chosen career. It’s sink or swim.In a delightful romp through time, played out against the march of feminism and the fashion, music and movies of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Outsiders Within

    Writing on Transracial Adoption

    Edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Sun Yung Shin ...
    Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in printMany adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within is a landmark publication that carefully explores this most ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Pamela's War

    A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands during the Second World War

    by Cherryl Vines ...
    It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a deathly hush has fallen. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, has declared that, despite the best efforts of the politicians of the day to ... Read more

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  • Democracy Despite Itself

    Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well

    by Danny Oppenheimer, Mike Edwards ...
    Why democracy is the most effective form of government despite irrational (and sometime oblivious) voters and flawed (and sometimes inept) politicians.Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevant information. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch with the will of the people. Elections can be determined by the design of the ballot and the gerrymandered ... Read more

    $15.99 USD