Laura Brown
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In eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context for the understanding and representation of animal-kind, and the nonhuman animal has thus played a significant role in imaginative literature from that period to the present day. In Homeless Dogs and Melancholy...
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Do you know what hearing loss sounds like? I do. All my life I've tried to be like you. I've failed. So I keep it hidden. But on the day my world crashed down around me, Reed was there. He showed me just how loud and vibrant silence can be, even when I struggled to understand. He's unlike anyone I've ever known. His soulful eyes and strong hands pulled me in before I knew what was happening. And as I saw those hands sign, felt them sparking on me,...
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I'm ridiculously attracted to my best friend. Today is a bad day. The worst actually. After dealing with the constant manhandling that comes with being a cocktail waitress at a dive bar and surviving a date from hell, I see an eviction notice slapped on the door of my sketchy basement apartment. Great. When my best friend Devon shows up at my door and uses his stubborn charm (emphasis on stubborn) to get me to move in with him, I give in. We've had...
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The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that within eighteenth-century British literature, the human cultural imaginary can be seen, equally, as a counterhuman imaginary-an alternative realm whose scope and terms exceed human understanding or order.
Through...
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This Passover is starting to feel like the ten plagues might be coming back to haunt them before the weekend is over... one hilarious misstep after the next.
Gaby Fineberg just wants to get through Passover Seder without her "well meaning" family playing matchmaker. She needs a date, just for one simple meal-that includes singing, the history of her forefathers, and not one bit of yeast. The hot guy at her gym would be perfect. He probably hates...
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Their mothers are the worst matchmakers . . .
Mark Goldman has never gotten along with Shaina Fogel. Ever. Even when they were in diapers, their bestie mothers wanted them to grow up and get married. Not happening. Mark prefers his quiet, reserved life. But a family wedding is about to change everything Mark thought he knew about his archnemesis.
A week of wedding events with Mark Goldman? Shaina would rather have a week of root canals. Maybe the...
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CRUISE /krooz/ verb. 1. To sail in an area, especially for pleasure. 2. To look for someone... definitely for pleasure
Mackenzie Laurel is done with rotten lemons. Especially the guy kind. With no relationship, no job, and nowhere to live, Mac's leaving reality behind to go on a luxury cruise. A little fun in the sun wouldn't hurt. And a certain green-eyed passenger might just be the thirst-quenching lemonade she needs...
Cole Matterhorn isn't a...
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Izzy Fineberg can take on any challenge-and she's had some big ones lately. After one fateful night with the hottest Deaf man she'd ever met, Izzy found she was pregnant with his child. And she never caught his name. She's been doing the single mom thing for nine months now, and surely, nothing could be more challenging than that. But her first day at her new job, she meets her supervisor... and recognizes him immediately.
Nolan Holtzman never expected...
9) Wrong Number
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A stranger's NSFW text wasn't part of her plan...
Avery Bloom has her entire life mapped out... until a stranger mistakenly texts her a dick GIF that changes everything. When insomnia has her wide awake before starting a new job, his text is a welcome distraction. Soon Avery's dirty texting a stranger, and reveling in the freedom of being someone other than her usually-reserved self-someone who doesn't have a hearing loss and isn't trying to fulfill...
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Do you have trouble digesting the world around you?
The onset of digestive and gastrointestinal issues often begins in times of grief, abuse, or other major negative life events. When the mind can't digest its reality, the body stops digesting its food-literally.
In Beyond Digestion, Dr. Laura M. Brown, ND, exposes the many ways in which your gut health relates to the overall health of your mind, body, and soul.
Even your mood can be a reflection...
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An exemplary story of solidarity in action, Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit conveys the exhilarating experience of being part of paradigm-changing revolutions.
Bill Lankford visited Nicaragua in 1984 to see the Sandinista revolution for himself. What he found led this physics professor to volunteer his skills teaching at the Central American University in Managua. There, he and his students developed a solar cooking project which took on a life...
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Trillium sisters volume 1
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Pixel+Ink, a division of TGM Development Corp
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[2021]
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"Eight-year-old triplets Emmy, Clare, and Giselle are excited to celebrate Founding Day, the day their dad found them and they became a family. The girls want this year's celebration to be extra special. And Dad has a big surprise--trillium petal charms that he found with the girls. But when the girls' little brother, Zee, slips into the river while helping them plan a special surprise, something magical happens: The charms are drawn together, forming...
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Trillium sisters volume 3
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Pixel+Ink
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[2022]
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"When the Trills discover a rocky enclosure with natural hot spring while hiking, they realize it could be the location for the perfect new addition to the village--a spa! But all of the supplies they'll need aren't going to come cheap, so they decide they'll organize a fashion show to raise funds. . . As the local fashionista, Clare thinks she's the clear choice to be in charge. But instead of leading, she's just super bossy, refusing to listen to...
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Trillium sisters volume 2
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Pixel+Ink, a division of TGM Development Corp
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2021.
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"Wondering if their powers will return, Clare, Emmy, and Giselle throw themselves into preparations for Bestie Day, when everyone in Trillsville celebrates the special people in their lives. The girls are planning to make presents for one another from fallen flower petals. That way, they can enjoy the beauty around them without causing harm. But at the flower field, instead of finding beautiful blooms, the Trills find a big problem. Two girls from...
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Trillium sisters volume 4
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Pixel+Ink
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[2022]
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When strange things start happening around town, magical triplets Emmy, Clare, and Giselle, accompanied by their animal friends, follow clues to determine the culprit.
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"Sometimes what your life is missing is an eccentric group of older ladies to take you under their wing . . . When Raeley Ann Sutton's mama passes away and leaves her the house where she grew up, Rae can't imagine how the little old place might restore her broken life. Mourning the recent loss of her marriage, she takes the house and settles back in tiny, "one-horse Whitten" with her fourteen-year-old daughter, Molly Margaret, and their overweight...
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How would you feel if your two-year-old child was diagnosed as autistic and intellectually disabled? That he would go into his room and never come out, and would be institutionalized by age seventeen? This was the grim life sentence handed down to Lori and Jim Cairns regarding their son, JR. This diagnosis was made in 1996 - when little was known about autism, governments offered few helpful resources, and hope for recovery was disregarded as a myth,...
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Sugar! What's not to like? It's being touted as highly addictive and the biggest contributor to the current worldwide obesity epidemic. We used to think high in fat diet was to blame so who's the real bad guy? This series takes on world-leading scientists and the food industry in an attempt to understand the truth about sugar.