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Mary Gladstone : A Gentle Rebel Sheila Gooddie
Book Description An intriguing account of a woman at the heart of world politics, half a century before women had the vote The world was at a point of transition between the Victorian age and the modern world of the twentieth century. The Ottoman Empire was in decline, the European states were jostling for power in Africa, industrialization and the coming of the railway age had transformed society and the working man and woman were starting to fight for their right to education, suffrage and a better way of life. Mary Gladstone was daughter and private secretary to William Gladstone, the eminent Liberal Prime Minister of the later Victorian age. Throughout the 1880s and 1890s she was at the heart of British politics, campaigning for her father, dealing with official correspondence and controlling access to the Prime Minister as well as disseminating and controlling information from the PM both to the press and to his ministers. This biography......
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No Time For Lunch: Memoirs Of An Inner City Psychologist Thelma Alpert Blumberg
Book DescriptionThelma Blumberg has seen it all: children with elective mutism, children physically abused, children on drugs, children who create fear in others and children who live their lives in fear. The Baltimore City School system is a good place to find a cross-section of such children. The Jewish Day Schools also present experiences which keep a school psychologist on her toes. Working in Israel, in Kiryat Arba, among other places, Thelma sees what happens when shock and trauma become everyday occurrences. While in Israel, Thelma finds herself counseling children sent by their parents to "find themselves" ? to kick their drug habits and/or their non-responsiveness to Judaism, and come back home "cured". Through it all, Thelma has to care for her emotionally troubled son, making sure he has what he needs to confront his obstacles. How does she do it? That?s the secret of Thelma Blumberg....
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Lizzie McGuire: My Secret Journal (Lizzie Mcguire) Heidi Hurst
Book DescriptionTake a look inside Lizzie McGuire's secret journal, filled with her private thoughts about her most memorable moments-and those she'd much rather forget! Read the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about: MIRANDA AND GORDO:The best buds a girl could have KATE: The queen of mean ETHAN CRAFT: sigh JUNIOR HIGH: It's all about survival of the fittest. PARENTS: Could they be any less cool? FASHION: The do's and the definitely do not's! AND MUCH MORE! PLUS: Disturbing evidence that Lizzie's weasel brother Matt has been reading her journal!...
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Dueno de Mi Corazon / Owner of My Heart Jo Beverly
Book DescriptionAimery de Gaillard es un hombre con el corazon partido en dos: por un lado, mantiene el juramento hecho al duque de Normandia, ahora monarca de Inglaterra, pero por otro defiende a los campesinos ingleses de las injusticias de sus nuevos senores. Vive en un continuo peligro, pero sus verdaderos problemas empiezan el dia en que conoce a una mujer hermosa e indomita como no ha visto otra. Su pasion se torna ira cuando descubre que ella es, a los ojos del pueblooprimido, una normanda tan despiadada y cruel como los demas invasores. Aimery entabla una lucha entre su irrefrenable deseo y su causa por la libertad, mientras el amor y el odio se confunden en una obsesion mas peligrosa que el filo de una espada. UN GUERRERO CON EL ALMA DIVIDIDA... Hijo de un noble normando y de una dama inglesa, Aimery es un hombre atrapado entre dos mundos. Ante su familia es un miembro de la nueva aristocracia que ha......
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The Broom of the System David Foster Wallace
Book Description Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is thebewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore?s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau, and boss, Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous, and her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho- babble, Auden, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of hisgeneration brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality....
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