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Cowritten with Nanette Fondas. Ideas for transforming the workplace to fit today’s workforce In this book, Blades and Fondas offer business professionals an...
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The Uglies: A Crime Saga
The place: America. The time: closer than we may like to think. Unemployment is in high double-digits. The stench of violent discontent smokes the air. The 1930s...
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I’m a California kid, great-grandson (on one side) of pioneers, forty-niners, homesteaders, farmers, and fortune seekers, and (on the other) devout New Englanders...
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In this fifth edition of Play at the Center of the Curriculum, we reaffirm our commitment to play in the early childhood classroom.  The natural link between...
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A book of poems and collages that, as J Ruth Gendler writes in the Foreword, "illuminate our condition, point toward the mysterious and the real, name sufferings,...
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Awaken Your Senses
Perhaps you've been missing out. God has given us five senses and a brain with two sides. Yet we often approach God in one way only: through words that are...
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Renegade Poetics, by Evie Shockley
Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s Renegade...
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A lively, inventive tale of Isaac that follows him beyond Genesis into the 21st century. After being spared from Abraham's blade, he's been granted eternal youth...
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A quest to find the perfect wedding gift for a mysterious cousin leads a Minneapolis couple to question their own ideas and ideals regarding marriage. A humorous (...
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Jean Rubin, a Women and Literature teacher at the community college, has three months to plan her twenty something daughter Lara's wedding...
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Loyal to the Sky
While many people are highly critical of corporate globalization, they don't necessarily know much about anti-globalization movement. But as Marisa Handler has...
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The Bostons
Carolyn Cooke's stories have been featured in several volumes of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. Her debut collection...
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A young American flees to Wiesbaden, Germany where he develops an obsession with the spa water, leading to a surreal journey into the occult.
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At Face Value: My Triumph Over A Disfiguring Cancer
Twenty years old and a junior at the University of California, Berkeley, Terry Healey seldom faced adversity or difficulty. He was confident and not concerned about...
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A merging of genre opposites, cozy and noir, and winner of Spinetingler's Cozy Noir contest. Read the story online at Spinetingler Magazine, December 2006.
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On a lonely road in the wilderness an accident occurs that will change the lives of the people in a nearby town. Ana, a thirteen-year-old, finds the body of a dying...
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This is a selection of excerpts which will appear in my forthcoming book, Delusionism. In the book, I aim to serve up an irreverent take on self-help literature,...
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A Woman's Place is in The Kitchen
This book tells a story that needs to be told. In fact, it tells many stories of women in the culinary industry. It is about many women -- chefs and cooks -- who...
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