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by Paula F. Winskey, Roberta Gibson, D. R. Ransdell, Katherine Atwell Herbert, Mary Ball, Tim Moore, Millicent Eidson, Ruth Minerva Raz, Elaine A. Powers, Kris Neri, Kathy McIntosh, Conda Douglas, Jodie Snyder, James Blacksmith, Michael J. Ciaraldi, Kim McCavan ...

Looking for trouble? Tucson is a perfect backdrop for sun-drenched stories of murder, abduction, and finding the unexpected.Is that a whiff of grapes? Maybe it's the smell of rain on asphalt. Trouble comes in all kinds of forms - even some you'd never expect.Keep reading to find out what it's all about. Just be careful, the lightning can be frightening.... ... Read more

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Looking for trouble? Tucson is a perfect backdrop for sun-drenched stories of murder, abduction, and finding the unexpected.Is that a whiff of grapes? Maybe it's the smell of rain on asphalt. Trouble comes in all kinds of forms - even some you'd never expect.Keep reading to find out what it's all about. Just be careful, the lightning can be frightening....
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SAWUBONA: I SEE YOU

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In Nigeria, a perceptive boy understands how back-punishing women’s work is in sweeping inside and outside a village hut with a short-handled broom of natural fiber. Sympathetically, he builds a long-handled version for his mother and grandmother, opposing the group’s fierce clinging to an absence of support for local women. In Cape Town, South Africa, a girl dresses like a boy to be safe from ... Read more

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In Nigeria, a perceptive boy understands how back-punishing women’s work is in sweeping inside and outside a village hut with a short-handled broom of natural fiber. Sympathetically, he builds a long-handled version for his mother and grandmother, opposing the group’s fierce clinging to an absence of support for local women. In Cape Town, South Africa, a girl dresses like a boy to be safe from
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Surviving Dependence

Voices of African American Elders

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To date there has not been a clear look at the home care experience of older African Americans. "Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders" attempts to meet the need for recording and interpreting the ordinary life of elderly African Americans on their own terms, in their own surroundings, and in so far as possible, in their own words. Ball and Whittington's research is unique in two ... Read more

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To date there has not been a clear look at the home care experience of older African Americans. "Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders" attempts to meet the need for recording and interpreting the ordinary life of elderly African Americans on their own terms, in their own surroundings, and in so far as possible, in their own words. Ball and Whittington's research is unique in two
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Green Hills of Africa

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The book is divided into four parts, each of which describes a different stage of Hemingway's safari. In the first part, Hemingway sets the scene and describes his preparations for the trip. In the second part, he and his companions begin their journey and set up camp in the "green hills" of Africa. In the third part, Hemingway describes his experiences hunting game, including a memorable ... Read more

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Don Winslow’s acclaimed story collection, featuring “Crime 101,” soon to be a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, Monica Barbaro, Barry Keoghan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte.No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken . . .Hailed as “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Stephen King), #1 international bestseller Don Winslow returns ... Read more

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Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her - by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his 'wife number one', ... Read more

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Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia! and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove.In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author Orange World and Other Stories takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their ... Read more

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As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it—leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle ... Read more

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As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it—leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle
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A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today. Children born into disadvantage are, by the time they start kindergarten, already at risk of dropping out ... Read more

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