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Horses are always a puzzle Posey can figure out. Love and life? Now, those pose a challenge.Posey Malone is heading home. With her horse trainer father gone to the great bookmaker in the sky, her love life in shambles, and her career as a copywriter low-income at best, she figures it's best for everyone if she just shacks up with her mother for a while. Abandoning New York City for the wilds of north Florida won't be easy, but Posey figures she can...
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We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship. But if the twentieth century meant the triumph of liberalism, as many intellectuals proclaimed, why have the era's darker impulses-ethnic nationalism, racist violence, and populist authoritarianism-revived?
The Project-State and Its Rivals offers...
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AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foodsincludes the first-person stories of seventeen junior farmers, volunteers, elders, and leaders revolutionizing urban farming in Baltimore City. These intergenerational voices explore how Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm has transformed their lives by restoring their community's access to healthy, affordable food and establishing safe "third places" where they grow together.
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In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of...
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Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly old-fashioned philosophical discourses, most notably dialectical criticism and utopian thought.
In Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism, Robert Tally surveys Jameson's entire oeuvre, from his early studies of Sartre and formal criticism...
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"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter-her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call "journalism." As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...
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"A beautiful love letter to Black joy, as a source of self-preservation and survival as well as a form of resistance"--
"The brainchild of educator and activist Kleaver Cruz, The Black Joy Project is an extension of a real-world initiative of the same name. It has become a source of healing and regeneration for Black people of all backgrounds and identities. Long overdue and somehow still worth the wait, The Black Joy Project is a necessary addition...
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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...
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The eyes of the Republic are everywhere…At the end of the 21st century, the future of humanity hangs in the balance, caught between the radioactive waste of a half century of nuclear wars and the repressive authority of the Republic. Angels sacrifice their wings to join a secret fraternity of freedom fighters, risking classification as mutants and consignment to the Republic's slave dens. Each warrior is a volunteer, but no angel anticipates the...
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New Year. New Resolution. New Romance?What happens when the best-laid plans break a friendship?As the twin sister of hockey's hottest forward, romance-loving Bree Karlsson is used to being ignored, leading to a New Year's resolution to not date any athlete in her attempt to find Mr. Right. But what happens when the man who might prove to be her personal Mr. Darcy is her brother's hockey-playing best friend?Mike Vaughan might be happy playing in Boston,...
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He'll prove his seduction theories work-;even on his pregnant best friend!
On TV, Dr. Dante Gates teaches the science of attraction. Now this wealthy genius is using his expertise on best friend Dr. Harper Livingston. His theory: one kiss will extinguish that distracting spark between them. Reality proves hotter than any fantasy...;until he learns Harper's expecting...;
She chose pregnancy by sperm donor before her best friend became Dr. Sexy....
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When Molly transformed herself into a striking redhead, the entire male population of Sydney stood up and took notice! But her new look was for Liam Delaney's benefit alone; she loved him and she wished he felt the same about her.
However it was passion that Molly inspired in Liam! And the fact that he thought she had another male admirer only made him desire her more. Though Molly had never rushed into a physical relationship with...
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Rex Carver mysteries volume 4
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The edge-of-your-seat third novel in the classic Rex Carver Mysteries, from the author of the Birdcage series.A missing bracelet gets Rex Carver, London PI, in a bind...
An antique gold python bracelet, with diamonds for eyes and emeralds for scales, has been stolen from the home of its owner. The insurance company accountable for the jewellery wants it found, sharpish, and hires private investigator Rex Carver to recover it.
When Carver discovers...
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