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6861) Just one dance
Author
Series
Regency Romance Club volume 1
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Taylor Sparks is sick of swiping left or right. Online dating, where a casual glance at a profile forms your opinion of a person, has no sparkle. She has a business idea to make dating special -- the Regency Romance Club. Guests fall in love in the regency style, with grand balls and regency pursuits, while enjoying some of Britain's most magnificent stately homes. Jaq Bailey is mourning the death of her best friend. She wants to feel every inch...
Author
Publisher
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Linking powerful first-person narratives with structural analysis, The Pedagogy of Pathologization explores the construction of criminal identities in schools via the intersections of race, disability, and gender. amid the prevalence of targeted mass incarceration. Focusing uniquely on the pathologization of female students of color, whose voices are frequently engulfed by labels of deviance and disability, a distinct and underrepresented experience...
Author
Publisher
Benediction Classics
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne is described as the Shakespeare of American Literature. His novels and stories are mostly set in Puritan New England and are often dark, exposing the psychological complexity and evil within humanity. His literature contains layers of allegory which deepen and enrich the stories. This book contains three novel and three collections of Hawthorne's short stories. The novels are: The Scarlet Letter features the first heroine in American...
Author
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
"There is no more death. Immortality has long become like a move, although an expensive one. For the sake of buying immortality, all businessmen and pilots, heroes and criminals, men and women are ready for all businessmen and criminals. They still do not understand that, having resurrected, they will again be forced to accept the cruel rules of the game without rules. Because the worst is always ahead. Even after death ..." --
6865) Siempre el mismo día
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
A lo largo de veinte años, el mismo día (15 de julio) de cada año se revelan instantáneas de una relación improbable. Dex Mayhew y Em Morley enfrentan riñas y peleas, esperanzas y oportunidades perdidas, risas y lágrimas. Y a medida que se revela el verdadero significado de este día crucial, deben enfrentarse a la naturaleza del amor y de la vida misma. Una importante película de 2011 de Focus Features/Random House Films.
Over twenty years,...
Author
Publisher
Ėksmo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
"Chtoby zabytʹ o strashnoĭ tragedii, Violetta Tussen pereezzhaet v drugoĭ gorod i ustraivaetsi︠a︡ na dolzhnostʹ smotritelʹnit︠s︡y kladbishcha. Ona nadeetsi︠a︡, chto blizostʹ k smerti pomozhet eĭ vernutʹ interes k zhizni. Ponemnogu Violetta znakomitsi︠a︡ s zavsegdatai︠a︡mi ėtogo mesta. Kak s zhivymi, tak i s usopshimi. Zabota o nikh otvlekaet ee ot sobstvennogo gori︠a︡. Odnikh ona poit chaem v promozglyĭ denʹ i slushaet...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Having grown up on stories of her mother's wild youth in California, Elena Berg relocates from New England to the Bay Area in 2011 for a placement as an English teacher with Teach for America. Once there, she is eager to inspire a love of poetry and literature in her diverse but underprivileged students. Her own grandfather--a Holocaust survivor--was a storyteller and teacher who touched the lives of his students for years to come. Elena's mother...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Learn how Carol Danvers made the step up from Avenger to Earth's Mightiest Hero! At last, the ace pilot turned costumed powerhouse takes on the legendary mantle of Captain Marvel - and forges a new legacy! But although Carol has a bright future, she can't walk away from a challenge from her past. It's a firefight in the sky as the Banshee Squadron makes its debut! Then, what does Monica Rambeau, the former Captain Marvel, make of Carol's new moniker?...
Author
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Between 1854 and 1861, the struggle between pro- and anti-slavery factions over Kansas Territory captivated Americans nationwide and contributed directly to the Civil War. Combining political, social, and military history, Bleeding Kansas contextualizes and analyzes pre-war and wartime clashes in Kansas and Missouri and traces how these conflicts have been remembered ever since. Michael E. Woods's compelling narrative of the Kansas-Missouri border...
6870) Seoul before sunrise
Author
Publisher
Life Drawn, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Longtime friends Seong-ji and Ji-won are excited to begin university in Seoul, swearing to stay close in the big city, but from the moment they arrive, they begin to drift apart. Her focus split between her rigorous accounting program and her overnight job at a grocery store, Seong-ji tries to make peace with the loss. It's during her overnight shifts that she encounters an enigmatic young woman who spends her nights entering the empty homes of other...
Author
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Anne Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid world traveller ... and an unabashed lover of other women. In this bold new biography, prizewinning author Angela Steidele uses the diaries to create a portrait of Anne Lister as we've never seen her before: a woman in some ways very much of her time and in others...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring graphic novel about Jane Kendeigh, a nurse who helped wounded soldiers in combat zones during World War II. During World War II, the United States' fight against the Japanese on islands in the Pacific was intense and deadly. To help respond to casualties in battle, the U.S. Navy trained 122 nurses to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones. The first nurse to do so was Jane Kendeigh, a twenty-two-year-old woman from Ohio. In March 1945,...
6873) Legends of the Seminoles
Author
Publisher
[Pineapple Press]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book is an updated edition of the original 'Legends of the Seminoles,' detailing the beliefs and lifeways of the Seminoles of Florida, as well as being a delightful read for anyone interested in the first peoples of Florida. New contributions have been are included in this edition"--
6874) Becoming a composer
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
'Singer, composer, musician . . . Renaissance Woman of contemporary music.' - The Observer I am a composer. A composer of classical music. Quite honestly I am not quite sure how that happened to a girl born in Belize and brought up in Tottenham . . . It is clear that composing found me. It crept up on me and wouldn't let me out of its grasp. Now a leading international composer and a singer-songwriter, Errollyn Warren is as much at home in jazz and...
Author
Publisher
BuzzPop
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Acompaña a Moana en su viaje por los mares para salvar su isla en este cuento bilingüe basado en Moana de los Estudios de Animación Walt Disney. ¡El libro en inglés y español es perfecto para los fans de la película!
Set sail with Moana as she teams up with the demigod Maui to save her village and find her true calling. How far will Moana go?
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A critical reassessment of world-shaping Portuguese voyages of discovery that places these quests in historical context."
"The lasting impact of historic Portuguese voyages of discovery is unquestionable. The slave trade, the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, and the intercontinental spread of plants and animals all make clear these voyages' long-term global significance. Navigations reexamines these Portuguese quests by placing them in their medieval...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
La vieja señora vuelve a las andadas, y esta vez se traga una cuchara ... ¡Pero no creerás por qué esta anciana se tragó una cuchara, un tazón, un poco de harina, una bandeja y mucho más! ¡Lee el libro y descúbrelo! ¡Esta lectura, con las divertidas ilustraciones y un texto simpatiquísimo, seguramente se convertirá en un hermoso regalo navideño!
The old lady is at it again, and this time she's swallowing a spoon ... But you won't believe...
Publisher
Severin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Italiano
Description
At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron. With no leads and a theater full of suspects, police investigators lock the doors, put everyone back in their seats, and run the movie again. But will this shot in the dark reveal the real killer?'
Author
Publisher
Authentic Creations Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A zine filled with art, poetry, and a discussion of racism in art communities. This zine examines the visibility of the black figure in art, or rather the lack of, and the discussion of race in America. Empowering words, beautiful art, and sobering insights all combine to encourage reader's to seek their truth and recognize the power and beauty within themselves"--Microcosm Publishing website, viewed July 12, 2018
Series
World War 3 illustrated volume 53
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From personal testimonies to collective chronicles, over 30 artists and writers deploy graphic evidence that bodily autonomy is essential to the individual and to communities. Abortion is revealed as lived by generations before and after being legalized. The mythic roots of misogyny, the rigid rules of gender, are exposed as outdated shams. Brave new lives are charted through the wilderness of broadening possibilities and furious backlash. Artists,...
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