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Author: Alyce F. Norris Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1483649393 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 287
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Just when she thought it was over, Michelle Andrews found herself facing more dramatic changes in her life; ones that involved a marriage request, a murder, and a four generation secret. Her friendship with Dr. Peter Driscoll was becoming more than comfortable and after getting settled in her own condo and learning how to live alone and loving it, Pete proposed. Her time as a volunteer at a Woman's Shelter opened up a whole new world of relationships creating a circle of friends that didn't know they were related, except by the appearance of a mystifying birthmark. The sudden appearance of a dead body, the collapse of a long standing business and the people involved, began to twist and turn until Michelle finds herself in the middle of a police investigation, friends in jeopardy and the answer to a long lost child. The Wall Between Us is the story of Michelle's struggle for a normal life and the simple things in that life being plagued with outrageous events.
Author: Alyce F. Norris Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1483649393 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 287
Book Description
Just when she thought it was over, Michelle Andrews found herself facing more dramatic changes in her life; ones that involved a marriage request, a murder, and a four generation secret. Her friendship with Dr. Peter Driscoll was becoming more than comfortable and after getting settled in her own condo and learning how to live alone and loving it, Pete proposed. Her time as a volunteer at a Woman's Shelter opened up a whole new world of relationships creating a circle of friends that didn't know they were related, except by the appearance of a mystifying birthmark. The sudden appearance of a dead body, the collapse of a long standing business and the people involved, began to twist and turn until Michelle finds herself in the middle of a police investigation, friends in jeopardy and the answer to a long lost child. The Wall Between Us is the story of Michelle's struggle for a normal life and the simple things in that life being plagued with outrageous events.
Author: Matthew Small Publisher: Legend Press Ltd ISBN: 1910266310 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 114
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“The biology of Israel/Palestine simply and beautifully revealed,” from the author of Down and Out Today: Notes from the Gutter (Jon Snow, journalist and presenter). Writer Matthew Small traveled to the Holy Land to further his understanding of the enduring conflict between Israel and Palestine. While there, he discovered beauty, fear and suffering like nowhere else in the world. In these honest and evocative reflections, Small retells his experiences of crossing into the West Bank to work the olive harvest with Palestinian farmers. He relates his encounters with organizations that are determinedly working to sow the seeds of peace in soils that are deeply scarred by suffering and war. While reliving these unforgettable experiences, through his writing he struggles to find why the wall between these two groups of people exists. Deciding to join a group of international and Israeli volunteers, Small attempts to show that, despite the ongoing occupation, peace is not lost, but still to be discovered. “Matthew Small, despite the horror of both the war, and the wall, works and travels both sides of the divide, and brings us to an understanding of where the seeds of peace can yet be found.”—Jon Snow, journalist and presenter “What is really refreshing about this book is the way Small writes from a very personal perspective, often admitting in his diary entries that he’s unsure what to write or how he feels about the situation. His emotion surrounding his visit and the people living amongst the occupation every day is portrayed in a gritty, raw way.”—The Bookbag
Author: Haru Tsukishima Publisher: Kodansha America LLC ISBN: 164212804X Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 173
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Makoto Sakurai finally starts dating her childhood friend, Reita Kikuchi. As the two inch towards a real romantic relationship, a distant cousin of Makoto's shows up unexpectedly and starts making waves… Follow their adventure in the sixth installment of this hilarious love story full of Reita's egoism, the "wall thing," and heart-pounding, butterfly-inducing romance!
Author: Wendy Sanford Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1647421683 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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From an author of the best-selling women’s health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a life-long friendship across racial and class divides. A white woman’s necessary learning, and a Black woman’s complex evolution, make These Walls Between Us a “tender, honest, cringeworthy and powerful read.” (Debby Irving, author, Waking Up White.) In the mid-1950s, a fifteen-year-old African American teenager named Mary White (now Mary Norman) traveled north from Virginia to work for twelve-year-old Wendy Sanford’s family as a live-in domestic for their summer vacation by a remote New England beach. Over the years, Wendy's family came to depend on Mary’s skilled service—and each summer, Mary endured the extreme loneliness of their elite white beachside retreat in order to support her family. As the Black “help” and the privileged white daughter, Mary and Wendy were not slated for friendship. But years later—each divorced, each a single parent, Mary now a rising officer in corrections and Wendy a feminist health activist—they began to walk the beach together after dark, talking about their children and their work, and a friendship began to grow. Based on decades’ worth of visits, phone calls, letters, and texts between Mary and Wendy, These Walls Between Us chronicles the two women’s friendship, with a focus on what Wendy characterizes as her “oft-stumbling efforts, as a white woman, to see Mary more fully and to become a more dependable friend.” The book examines obstacles created by Wendy’s upbringing in a narrow, white, upper-class world; reveals realities of domestic service rarely acknowledged by white employers; and draws on classic works by the African American writers whose work informed and challenged Wendy along the way. Though Wendy is the work’s primary author, Mary read and commented on every draft—and together, the two friends hope their story will incite and support white readers to become more informed and accountable friends across the racial divides created by white supremacy and to become active in the ongoing movement for racial justice.
Author: Paul M. Farber Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469655098 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 1961 and its dismantling in 1989 are broadly understood as pivotal moments in the history of the last century. In A Wall of Our Own, Paul M. Farber traces the Berlin Wall as a site of pilgrimage for American artists, writers, and activists. During the Cold War and in the shadow of the Wall, figures such as Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde weighed the possibilities and limits of American democracy. All were sparked by their first encounters with the Wall, incorporated their reflections in books and artworks directed toward the geopolitics of division in the United States, and considered divided Germany as a site of intersection between art and activism over the respective courses of their careers. Departing from the well-known stories of Americans seeking post–World War II Paris for their own self-imposed exile or traveling the open road of the domestic interstate highway system, Farber reveals the divided city of Berlin as another destination for Americans seeking a critical distance. By analyzing the experiences and cultural creations of "American Berliner" artists and activists, Farber offers a new way to view not only the Wall itself but also how the Cold War still structures our thinking about freedom, repression, and artistic resistance on a global scale.
Author: Jay J. Van Bavel Publisher: Little, Brown Spark ISBN: 0316538426 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 272
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A “fascinating” (Charles Duhigg) and “must-read” (Annie Duke) “page-turning package” (Publishers Weekly starred review) for understanding identity and showing how our groups have a powerful influence on our feelings, beliefs, and behavior—and can inspire both personal change and social movements. If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing—often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even against your wishes—to reflect the interests of the groups you belong to. In The Power of Us, psychologists Dominic Packer and Jay Van Bavel integrate their own cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to explain how identity really works and how to harness its dynamic nature to: Boost cooperation and productivity Overcome bias Escape from echo chambers Break political gridlock Foster dissent and mobilize for change Lead effectively Galvanize action to address persistent global problems Along the way, they explore such seemingly unrelated phenomena as why a small town in Germany spent decades divided by shoes, why beliefs persist after they are disproven, how working together synchronizes our brains, what makes selfish people generous, why effective leaders say “we” a lot, and how playing soccer can reduce age-old conflicts. Understanding how identity works allows people to take control, moving beyond wondering, “Who am I?” to answer instead, “Who do I want to be?” Packed with fascinating insights, vivid case studies, and a wealth of pioneering research, The Power of Us will change the way you understand yourself—and the people around you—forever.
Author: Leopoldo Y. Yabes Publisher: UP Press ISBN: 9715420850 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 800
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This anthology is a collection of some sixty-six short stories written in English by Filipino authors within the forty years following the introduction of English in the Philippines.
Author: Derek H. Davis Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199716935 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 592
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Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex. Scholars working in this area have backgrounds in law, religious studies, history, theology, and politics, among other fields. Historically, they have focused on particular angles or dimensions of the church-state relationship, because the field is so vast. The results have mostly been monographs that focus only on narrow cross-sections of the field, and the few works that do aim to give larger perspectives are reference works of factual compendia, which offer little or no analysis. The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States fills this gap, presenting an extensive, multidimensional overview of the field. Twenty-one essays offer a scholarly look at the intricacies and past and current debates that frame the American system of church and state, within five main areas: history, law, theology/philosophy, politics, and sociology. These essays provide factual accounts, but also address issues, problems, debates, controversies, and, where appropriate, suggest resolutions. They also offer analysis of the range of interpretations of the subject offered by various American scholars. This Handbook is an invaluable resource for the study of church-state relations in the United States.
Author: Alyce F. Norris
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Author: Derek H. Davis