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Sisters in Yellow

A Novel

by Mieko Kawakami ...

Translated by Laurel Taylor, Hitomi Yoshio ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s."I have a feeling I won’t forget Hana, perpetually running up life’s down escalator, willing to try anything to scrape together a little happiness." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“To read her work is ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s."I have a feeling I won’t forget Hana, perpetually running up life’s down escalator, willing to try anything to scrape together a little happiness." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“To read her work is
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Ruin

by Taylor Rose, Kenya Wright ...

Narrated by Lacy Laurel, Lance Greenfield ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Dark, Bloodied, & Bruised
Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

Cain.Phoenix is sinfully beautiful, but she stole from me. And, she didn't know that I was a monster. Now she's mine. Mine to break. Mine to cut. Mine to bleed.Phoenix.Cain is my torturer. A gorgeous psychopath. Coldhearted. Brutal. And deadly mysterious. But I'm determined to stand strong. To survive. To somehow not be destroyed. Yet he keeps cutting. He keeps digging, until buried, forgotten ... Read more

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Cain.Phoenix is sinfully beautiful, but she stole from me. And, she didn't know that I was a monster. Now she's mine. Mine to break. Mine to cut. Mine to bleed.Phoenix.Cain is my torturer. A gorgeous psychopath. Coldhearted. Brutal. And deadly mysterious. But I'm determined to stand strong. To survive. To somehow not be destroyed. Yet he keeps cutting. He keeps digging, until buried, forgotten
... Read more
Social Engagement & the Steps to Being Social

A Practical Guide for Teaching Social Skills to Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

by Kathleen Taylor, ORL/L, Marci Laurel, MA, CCC-SLP ...

Social Engagement & the Steps to Being Social is a unique, visual and easy to use model that was developed to guide assessment and intervention across severity levels and age groups for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This user friendly book defines social engagement in observable language and breaks down social skills into a series of clearly defined steps. Each step is further ... Read more

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Social Engagement & the Steps to Being Social is a unique, visual and easy to use model that was developed to guide assessment and intervention across severity levels and age groups for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This user friendly book defines social engagement in observable language and breaks down social skills into a series of clearly defined steps. Each step is further
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Someone to Cook For

by Maiko Seo ...

Translated by Laurel Taylor ...

“The book simmers with joy, wisdom, and delectable cooking.”—Christian Science Monitor**A light, humorous, amiably peopled, and tender novel about found families, the people who shape our lives, and the complexities of non-traditional family ties. **Yuko has had four different surnames and been brought up in several families. The parental figures in her life, despite not being related by blood, ... Read more

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“The book simmers with joy, wisdom, and delectable cooking.”—Christian Science Monitor**A light, humorous, amiably peopled, and tender novel about found families, the people who shape our lives, and the complexities of non-traditional family ties. **Yuko has had four different surnames and been brought up in several families. The parental figures in her life, despite not being related by blood,
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Give Me Children or I Shall Die

Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature

Edited by Laurel W. Koepf-Taylor ...

Series series Emerging Scholars
In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival. In such an economy, childrens labor contributes to the familys livelihood from a young age, rather than simply preparing the child for future adult work. Ethnographic research shows that this interdependent family life contrasts significantly with that of privileged modern Westerners, ... Read more

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In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival. In such an economy, childrens labor contributes to the familys livelihood from a young age, rather than simply preparing the child for future adult work. Ethnographic research shows that this interdependent family life contrasts significantly with that of privileged modern Westerners,
... Read more
History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. Together With the Process of Historical Proof

by Isaac Taylor, Laurel Emberford ...

History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times is a lucid nineteenth-century inquiry into how the writings of antiquity survived the hazards of copying, loss, translation, and scholarly mediation. Taylor explains the material passage from manuscript culture to modern readership, weighing evidence, textual corruption, and the principles by which historical authenticity is judged. ... Read more

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History of the Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times is a lucid nineteenth-century inquiry into how the writings of antiquity survived the hazards of copying, loss, translation, and scholarly mediation. Taylor explains the material passage from manuscript culture to modern readership, weighing evidence, textual corruption, and the principles by which historical authenticity is judged.
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The Medieval Mind (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages (Complete Edition)

by Henry Osborn Taylor, Laurel Emberford ...

The Medieval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages is an ambitious intellectual history tracing how classical inheritance, Christian doctrine, monastic discipline, scholastic reasoning, mysticism, and vernacular imagination shaped medieval Europe. Taylor writes in a richly synthetic, literary style, moving between theology, philosophy, poetry, and ... Read more

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The Medieval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages is an ambitious intellectual history tracing how classical inheritance, Christian doctrine, monastic discipline, scholastic reasoning, mysticism, and vernacular imagination shaped medieval Europe. Taylor writes in a richly synthetic, literary style, moving between theology, philosophy, poetry, and
... Read more
Bold Breaks

Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce

by Professor Anne Sokolsky, Dr. Sohyun Chun, Rebecca L. Copeland, Dr. Charo D'Etcheverry, Dr. Eleanor Hogan, Dr. Kaoru Tamura, Dr. Laurel Taylor ...

The various words for “divorce” in Japanese—*rien, enkiri, fūfu wakare, rikon—*reflect how the socially constructed institutions of marriage and family, along with their dissolutions, have been understood in Japanese history and jurisprudence. Employing a broad definition of divorce as the end of a romantic union sanctioned by law, social custom, or mutual agreement, Bold Breaks: Japanese Women ... Read more

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The various words for “divorce” in Japanese—*rien, enkiri, fūfu wakare, rikon—*reflect how the socially constructed institutions of marriage and family, along with their dissolutions, have been understood in Japanese history and jurisprudence. Employing a broad definition of divorce as the end of a romantic union sanctioned by law, social custom, or mutual agreement, Bold Breaks: Japanese Women
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The Mediaeval Mind (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages (Complete Edition)

by Henry Osborn Taylor, Laurel Emberford ...

The Mediaeval Mind (Vol. 1&2) is a vast intellectual history of Western Europe from late antiquity through the high Middle Ages, tracing the formation of medieval character through theology, monastic discipline, scholastic inquiry, poetry, mysticism, and romance. Taylor writes in an expansive, interpretive prose, combining close reading with sweeping synthesis. Rather than treating the Middle Ages ... Read more

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The Mediaeval Mind (Vol. 1&2) is a vast intellectual history of Western Europe from late antiquity through the high Middle Ages, tracing the formation of medieval character through theology, monastic discipline, scholastic inquiry, poetry, mysticism, and romance. Taylor writes in an expansive, interpretive prose, combining close reading with sweeping synthesis. Rather than treating the Middle Ages
... Read more
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Three Lives

by Gertrude Stein, Laurel Lefkow, Trei Taylor ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Trei Taylor ...

Unabridged

8 hours 49 min

Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych Three Lives portrays the lives of three working-class women in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint (Baltimore). A progenitor of the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique later adopted by Joyce and Woolf, Stein takes us into the minds of three distinct women, who are each trapped in their societal positions. ‘The Good Anna’ follows a stern but kind German ... Read more

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Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych Three Lives portrays the lives of three working-class women in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint (Baltimore). A progenitor of the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique later adopted by Joyce and Woolf, Stein takes us into the minds of three distinct women, who are each trapped in their societal positions. ‘The Good Anna’ follows a stern but kind German
... Read more

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Harlequin Special Edition January2021 - Box Set 1 of 2

by Michelle Major, Tara Taylor Quinn, Laurel Greer ...

Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes:HER TEXAS NEW YEAR'S WISH (A Fortunes of Texas: The Hotel Fortune novel)by USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle MajorWhen Grace Williams topples from the balcony at the new Hotel Fortune, the last ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes:HER TEXAS NEW YEAR'S WISH (A Fortunes of Texas: The Hotel Fortune novel)by USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle MajorWhen Grace Williams topples from the balcony at the new Hotel Fortune, the last
... Read more
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Top 10 Poets, The - The U S - Pennsylvania

Five poems each from best poets born in Pennsylvania

by Wallace Stevens, Hilda Doolttle, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Vincent Benét, Charlotte L Forten Grimke, James Bayard Taylor, Sarah Louisa Forten, Henry van Dyke, Louisa May Alcott, Florence Earle Coates ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow, Michael Lyons ...

Unabridged

1 hour 12 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more

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