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Blindsided by a Diaper
Over 30 Men and Women Reveal How Parenthood Changes a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
It used to be just the two of you. Now you have a baby, or maybe even a few kids, and the luxury of time—to frolic, talk, romance, and simply hang out—is gone, replaced by a big dose of chaos and the demands of little people who rule your home with small, adorable iron fists. Parenthood brings...
Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930
Struggles for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European Jewish Americans are important discourses offering a response to America’s norms of assimilation, rationalized progress, and control in the early...
by Dana King
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Penns River rarely sees two homicides in a year. Two in little over a week is almost too much for the police force to handle. The assigned detectives — Ben Dougherty, a former MP and Penns River native, and retired Pittsburgh cop Willie Grabek — find links to bind the two cases, but their investigation...
by Maggie Dana
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
Holly Chapman is determined to get her best friend, Kate McGregor, back at Timber Ridge. Angela Dean and her scheming mother are equally determined to keep Kate out. But thanks to unexpected help, Holly wins, and Kate returns to the barn in time for a surprise birthday party.
This isn’t...
by Maggie Dana
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
After flying home from Beaumont Park for their parents’ wedding, Kate McGregor and Holly Chapman are faced with Mrs. Dean’s grandiose plans to turn Timber Ridge into a millionaire’s playground and theme park. The girls can deal with an elite horse camp . . . but carnival rides and cotton candy...
by Maggie Dana
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Timber Ridge Riders, Book 3
Ages: 9-13
A movie is being filmed at Timber Ridge Stables and one lucky girl is actually going to be in it. Of course, Angela Dean wants the part, but Kate McGregor wants it even more. With the money from the movie Kate can make her special...
by Dana Goodyear
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
A wry and dark debut of sharply compressed lyrics by a precocious new voice in poetry.
These powerful poems are like wrecked pastorals whose narrator seeks temporary pleasure in wit, form, rhyme, or the borrowed weekend house. Inching toward consolation in the face of sudden loss, the poet...
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics
Themes from Kant and Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2001
Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination...
Exemplarity and Chosenness
Rosenzweig and Derrida on the Nation of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Exemplarity and Chosenness is a combined study of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) that explores the question: How may we account for the possibility of philosophy, of universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idiomatic and...
The Sixth Crisis
Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
There have been five central crises in America's post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth. Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapons capability, and the prospect of Israel launching air strikes to stop it, are ingredients for a conflict that could...
by Dana Meachen Rau, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist.
When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive...
The Silent Escape Through the Nights of the Kurdish Regions
Based on a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
It was very difficult time for the Kurds, because Kurdish people began a revolution against the Iraqi government. The Kurdistan leadership under Mustafa Barzani took arms struggle against the government, due the government denied the Kurdish rights such as autonomy. The Iraqi government attacked the...
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32 Stories by Persons of Interest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
**“Writers like T.C. Boyle and Cory Doctorow contributed to this surreal anthology of short stories that riff on our modern surveillance culture.” —**Entertainment Weekly
With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles...
Mama, I'm Not Gone
Losing a Child to Cancer – A Mother’s Compelling Journey through Grief, Spiritual Enlightenment and Healing Messages from the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
“We went about our daily lives as normally as possible but when it came down to the fighting, we maintained our quiet yet tenacious determination.” And so begins the tragic but inspiring saga of 12-year-old Darah Joseph, a top-flight competitive athlete who developed Ewing Sarcoma, a rare and aggressive...