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Things I'll Never Say

Stories About Our Secret Selves

by Ann Angel, Ron Koertge, Chris Lynch, Ellen Wittlinger, Louise Hawes, Cynthia Leitich Smith, J. L. Powers, Varian Johnson, Mary Ann Downing Rodman, Zoe Marriott0, Kerry Cohen1, erica l. kaufman2, E. M. Kokie3 ...

Fifteen top young-adult authors let us in on provocative secrets in a fascinating collection that will have readers talking.A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Off-limits hookups. A parent whose problems your friends won’t understand. Everyone keeps secrets—from themselves, from their families, from their friends—and secrets have a habit of shaping the lives around them. ... Read more

$13.69 USD

Fifteen top young-adult authors let us in on provocative secrets in a fascinating collection that will have readers talking.A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Off-limits hookups. A parent whose problems your friends won’t understand. Everyone keeps secrets—from themselves, from their families, from their friends—and secrets have a habit of shaping the lives around them.
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Help Me!

One Woman's Quest to Find Out if Self-Help Really Can Change Your Life

by Marianne Power ...

Narrated by Marianne Power, Mary Power ...

Unabridged

11 hours 21 min

I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books promised.For years Journalist Marianne Power lined her bookshelves with dog-eared copies of definitive guides on how ... Read more

$29.99 USD

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I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books promised.For years Journalist Marianne Power lined her bookshelves with dog-eared copies of definitive guides on how
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Faeries Never Lie

Tales to Revel In

by Nafiza Azad, Holly Black, Dhonielle Clayton, Tessa Gratton, Kwame Mbalia, Ryan La Sala, L.L. McKinney, Anna-Marie McLemore, Kaitlyn Sage Patterson, Rory Power, Chloe Gong, Christine Day ...

Series Book 3 - Untold Legends
A collection of fun and thought-provoking short stories that center faeries of varying genders and cultures, described by Kirkus Reviews as "a tantalizing taste of trickery and enchantment!"There’s something to be said for starting your first day in faerie boarding school, for chasing a faerie through Chang’an during the Tang Dynasty, for searching for the missing part of your throuple who may ... Read more

$11.99 USD

A collection of fun and thought-provoking short stories that center faeries of varying genders and cultures, described by Kirkus Reviews as "a tantalizing taste of trickery and enchantment!"There’s something to be said for starting your first day in faerie boarding school, for chasing a faerie through Chang’an during the Tang Dynasty, for searching for the missing part of your throuple who may
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Earth Stewardship

Linking Ecology and Ethics in Theory and Practice

Edited by Ricardo Rozzi, F. Stuart Chapin III, J. Baird Callicott, S.T.A. Pickett, Mary E. Power, Juan J. Armesto, Roy H. May Jr. ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and what we could do together. Today, inter-hemispheric, intercultural, and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth Stewardship are an imperative. ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and what we could do together. Today, inter-hemispheric, intercultural, and transdisciplinary collaborations for Earth Stewardship are an imperative.
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Parenting and the Child's World

Influences on Academic, Intellectual, and Social-emotional Development

Edited by John G. Borkowski, Sharon Landesma Ramey, Marie Bristol-Power ...

Series series Monographs in Parenting Series
Stimulated by the publication of The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, Parenting and the Child's World was conceived around the notion that there are multiple sources of influence on children's development, including parenting behavior, family resources, genetic and other biological factors, as well as social influences from peers, teachers, and the community at large.The text's 39 ... Read more

$80.99 USD

Stimulated by the publication of The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, Parenting and the Child's World was conceived around the notion that there are multiple sources of influence on children's development, including parenting behavior, family resources, genetic and other biological factors, as well as social influences from peers, teachers, and the community at large.The text's 39
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Norse Mythology

Tales of the Gods, Sagas and Heroes

by Mary Litchfield, Sarah Powers Bradish, Abbie Farewell Brown, William Morris, Edward Ernest Kellett ...

The myths and legends of the Norsemen have entertained both old and young alike for hundreds of years.This fascinating collection contains stories retold from the Icelandic Eddas, the principal sources of knowledge of Norse mythology, and the Sagas of the ancient world of the Vikings.Following the deeds of the powerful Norse gods, such as Odin, Thor and Loki, and filled with a host of fantastic ... Read more

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The myths and legends of the Norsemen have entertained both old and young alike for hundreds of years.This fascinating collection contains stories retold from the Icelandic Eddas, the principal sources of knowledge of Norse mythology, and the Sagas of the ancient world of the Vikings.Following the deeds of the powerful Norse gods, such as Odin, Thor and Loki, and filled with a host of fantastic
... Read more
The Making of Urban America

by Eric Avila, Timothy M. Collins, Daniel Czitrom, Leslie M. Harris, Arnold R. Hirsch, Michael B. Katz, Randall M. Miller, Edward K. Muller, Gary B. Nash, Mary E. Odem, Kathy Peiss, Madelon Powers, Joel A. Tan, Dominic A. Pacyga, Thomas J. Sugrue ...

The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the ... Read more

$129.59 USD

The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the
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Finding Freedom in God's Illogical Ways

A Journey of Discoveries

by Sister Mary Francis Power ...

Narrated by Sister Mary Francis Power ...

Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

At the age of 56, she retired as a federal government manager, leaving behind a six-figure salary and great benefits, to make drastic changes in her life. Was this logical or reasonable? She had experience in accounting, finance, policy, procedures, real estate, supervision, and management. What was it that enticed a veteran, mother, grandmother, and successful business woman, who still had a ... Read more

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At the age of 56, she retired as a federal government manager, leaving behind a six-figure salary and great benefits, to make drastic changes in her life. Was this logical or reasonable? She had experience in accounting, finance, policy, procedures, real estate, supervision, and management. What was it that enticed a veteran, mother, grandmother, and successful business woman, who still had a
... Read more
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Return to Gone-Away (Unabridged)

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by Elizabeth Enright ...

Narrated by Emma Jordan, Donnie Goldberg, Charles Nicoll, Mary Powers ...

Unabridged

4 hours 40 min

When Portia Blake and her family came back to Gone-Away Lake, it was to move into an old house locked up tightly for nearly half a century. Next to discovering Gone-Away the summer before, nothing so exciting had ever happened to Portia and her cousin Julian. Then began an enchanted summer of exploration and discovery, as the old house slowly revealed its surprises and its treasures. This is the ... Read more

$4.99 USD

When Portia Blake and her family came back to Gone-Away Lake, it was to move into an old house locked up tightly for nearly half a century. Next to discovering Gone-Away the summer before, nothing so exciting had ever happened to Portia and her cousin Julian. Then began an enchanted summer of exploration and discovery, as the old house slowly revealed its surprises and its treasures. This is the
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The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Volume 14

by Alastair Gunn, Abraham Elder, William Henry Farn, Dudley Costello, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Anna Maria Hall, William Henry Wills, Ellen Wood, Mary Ann Bird, Dinah Maria Mulock, William Fulford, Anne Sarah Bushby, Ada Trevanion, George MacDonald, Eliza Craven Green, George Augustus Sala, Frances Browne, John Berwick Harwood, Frances Power Cobbe, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon ...

Series Book 14 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Wimbourne Books presents the fourteenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 14 contains stories published in the first half of the Victorian age (1837 to 1869). Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in social norms, the almost ... Read more

$2.67 USD

Wimbourne Books presents the fourteenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 14 contains stories published in the first half of the Victorian age (1837 to 1869). Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in social norms, the almost
... Read more
Community Music in Oceania

Many Voices, One Horizon

by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Melissa Cain, Diana Tolmie, Anne Power, Mari Shiobara, Professor Dawn Bennett0, Dr. Jennifer Cattermole1, Naomi Cooper2, Dr. Eugene Dairianathan3, Gillian Howell4, Associate Professor David Lines5, Dr. Chee Hoo Lum, PhD6, Dr. Christian Mau, PhD7, Phil Mullen8, Dr. Karyn Paringatai9, Associate Professor Te Oti Rakena0, Dr. Julie Rickwood1, Dr. Kirstin Robertson-Gillam, PhD2, Joanne Ruksenas3, Assistant Professor Leonard Tan Yuh Chaur4, Jennifer Walden5 ...

Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon makes a distinctive contribution to the field of community music through the experiences of its editors and contributors in music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music performance. Covering a wide range of perspectives from Australia, Timor-Leste, New Zealand, Japan, Fiji, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Korea, the essays ... Read more

$28.49 USD

Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon makes a distinctive contribution to the field of community music through the experiences of its editors and contributors in music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music performance. Covering a wide range of perspectives from Australia, Timor-Leste, New Zealand, Japan, Fiji, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Korea, the essays
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A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon (Unabridged)

by James Elroy Flecker ...

Narrated by Jacqueline Thomas, Berta Powers, Mary Fletcher ...

Unabridged

22 min

In the ethereal glow of a sickle moon, a ship sails towards an enigmatic isle. Aboard, a cast of characters with intertwined destinies embark on a journey that will forever alter their lives. As the ship approaches its destination, secrets unravel and passions ignite. A young woman, torn between love and duty, must confront her past. A disillusioned poet seeks solace in the island's beauty. And a ... Read more

$5.99 USD

In the ethereal glow of a sickle moon, a ship sails towards an enigmatic isle. Aboard, a cast of characters with intertwined destinies embark on a journey that will forever alter their lives. As the ship approaches its destination, secrets unravel and passions ignite. A young woman, torn between love and duty, must confront her past. A disillusioned poet seeks solace in the island's beauty. And a
... Read more