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Teddy - Bishopstone Station's Bear

by Sandra Gordon ...

A special teddy dreams of being reunited with his owner. Buried beneath layers of dust, cobwebs, clutter and lost property at the parcel office of disused Bishopstone Station, Teddy's hopes blossom as the old metal door finally rattles open.One snowy Christmas Eve, more than forty years earlier, Ian and Robert are sending their final notes up the chimney for Father Christmas. Ian is two years ... Read more

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A special teddy dreams of being reunited with his owner. Buried beneath layers of dust, cobwebs, clutter and lost property at the parcel office of disused Bishopstone Station, Teddy's hopes blossom as the old metal door finally rattles open.One snowy Christmas Eve, more than forty years earlier, Ian and Robert are sending their final notes up the chimney for Father Christmas. Ian is two years
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U.S. History at the 250th

From the Revolution to the History Wars

by Sandra Enríquez, Annette Gordon-Reed, Sandy Grande, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Erika Lee, Robert Parkinson, Marc Stein, William Sturkey ...

Series series History in the Headlines
The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. But does the nation begin in 1776, or do we trace its origins to some point earlier—for example, the arrival of the first enslaved people in 1619 or the initial settlement of Indigenous people? What’s at stake with establishing a date that marks the nation’s origins? Where does the history of the nation begin? In ... Read more

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The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. But does the nation begin in 1776, or do we trace its origins to some point earlier—for example, the arrival of the first enslaved people in 1619 or the initial settlement of Indigenous people? What’s at stake with establishing a date that marks the nation’s origins? Where does the history of the nation begin? In
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The Aging Auditory System

Edited by Sandra Gordon-Salant, Robert D. Frisina, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This volume brings together noted scientists who study presbycusis from the perspective of complementary disciplines, for a review of the current state of knowledge on the aging auditory system. Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is one of the top three most common chronic health conditions affecting individuals aged 65 years and older. The high prevalence of age-related hearing loss compels ... Read more

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This volume brings together noted scientists who study presbycusis from the perspective of complementary disciplines, for a review of the current state of knowledge on the aging auditory system. Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is one of the top three most common chronic health conditions affecting individuals aged 65 years and older. The high prevalence of age-related hearing loss compels
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The Future of Nursing Education

An International Utstein Report

by Gordon Lee Gillespie, Sandra Davis, Beverly Malone ...

The Future of Nursing Education: An International Utstein Report, provides the results of the NLN Utstein meeting in June 2025 in Helsinki, Finland. It offers guidance and practical strategies on a global scale for issues that impact nurse educators today and that will affect the next generation of nurse educators. It offers specific strategies that can be translated to the practice of nursing ... Read more

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The Future of Nursing Education: An International Utstein Report, provides the results of the NLN Utstein meeting in June 2025 in Helsinki, Finland. It offers guidance and practical strategies on a global scale for issues that impact nurse educators today and that will affect the next generation of nurse educators. It offers specific strategies that can be translated to the practice of nursing
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The Shy Single

A Bold Guide to Dating for the Less-than-Bold Dater

by Bonnie Jacobson, Sandra J. Gordon ...

Nearly 50 percent of adults in the United States describe themselves as chronically shy, and an even larger number are single. These numbers prove what we already know: There are a lot of us sitting home alone, letting the dating world pass us by. But it doesn't have to be that way!In The Shy Single, New York psychologist Bonnie Jacobson outlines her breakthrough program that helps shy men and ... Read more

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Nearly 50 percent of adults in the United States describe themselves as chronically shy, and an even larger number are single. These numbers prove what we already know: There are a lot of us sitting home alone, letting the dating world pass us by. But it doesn't have to be that way!In The Shy Single, New York psychologist Bonnie Jacobson outlines her breakthrough program that helps shy men and
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The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature

by Alan Jackson, Alex Lichtenstein, Alexander Macaulay, Angela Pulley, Anna Holloway, Barbara Wade, Brian Ferguson-Avery, Bruce Clayton, Carey Olmstead Shellman, Carl Weeks, Carlos Dews, Carmine Palumbo, Carol Andrews, Catherine Badura, Charlotte Pfeiffer, Clayton Morton, Craig Lloyd, Dana F. White, Darren Grem, David B. Parker, David Des Jardines, David Payne, David Rachels, Dede Yow, Derrick P. Alridge, Don Rhodes, Edna Acosta-Belen, Edwin T. Arnold, Francis Ticknor Mallard, Gary Kerley, Gary M Fink, Greg Lisby, Herbert Denmark, Herbert Shippey, Hubert H. McAlexander, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, James C. Cobb, James J. Lorence, James Murphy, Jan Whitt, Jane Thomas, Janet Gabler-Hover, Jarrod Atchison, John Kirk, John Mcleod, Joy Mallard, June Seese, Kay Beck, Keith Hulett, Kelly Gerald, Kenneth Janken, Kim Purcell, Lamar York, Leonard Ray Teel, Lesa Corrigan, Mae Claxton, Matthew Mancini, Megan Kate Nelson, Michael E. Price, Michael Jordan, Michael O'Dwyer, Miriam Terry, Philip Lee Williams, Qiana Whitted, R. Bruce Bickley Jr., Renee Pearman, Robert Hamblin, Robin Ogier Warren, Sam Prestridge, Sandra Hughes, Sarah Gordon, Scott Romine, Stephen Corey, Steven Harvey, Susan Henry, Suzanne Sowinska, Ted Spivey, Ted Wadley, Thomas Cooksey, Thomas L. McHaney, Valerie Frazier, Valerie Levy, Wayne Mixon, William Starr, Yi-Hsuan Tso ...

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present ... Read more

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Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present
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Grace and Mary

A moving story of memory, family and remembrance by ‘one of the best writers we have’ (Sunday Telegraph)

by Melvyn Bragg ...

Narrated by Gordon Griffin, Sandra Duncan ...

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7 hours 22 min

Could he not put together a memory for her? Perhaps he could become her memory. To build it from fragments, or make it up. And most of all bring back Grace. Her own mother.John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her receding memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs and questions from their shared past, ... Read more

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Could he not put together a memory for her? Perhaps he could become her memory. To build it from fragments, or make it up. And most of all bring back Grace. Her own mother.John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her receding memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs and questions from their shared past,
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This Boy

by Alan Johnson ...

Narrated by Alan Johnson ...

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7 hours 52 min

Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty, which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain, but in its transition from two-parent family to single mother and then to no parents at all...This is essentially the story of two incredible women: Alan's mother, ... Read more

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Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty, which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain, but in its transition from two-parent family to single mother and then to no parents at all...This is essentially the story of two incredible women: Alan's mother,
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Please, Mister Postman

by Alan Johnson ...

Narrated by Alan Johnson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 22 min

'A fascinating piece of social history' - Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times________In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill, and the local communit... ... Read more

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'A fascinating piece of social history' - Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times________In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious among the locals, in fact came as a blessed relief after the tensions of Notting Hill, and the local communit...
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Secrets of the Sea House

by Elisabeth Gifford ...

Narrated by Cathleen McCarron, Douglas Russell, Sarah Barron, Multiple Narrators ...

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10 hours 12 min

Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson takes up his new parish, an isolated patch on the Hebridean island of Harris. His time there will change his life, but the Sea House, on the edge of the dunes keeps its silence long after Alexander departs. More than a century later, Ruth and Michael buy the grand but dilapidated building for the family they hope to have. But their dreams are marred by a ... Read more

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Scotland, 1860. Reverend Alexander Ferguson takes up his new parish, an isolated patch on the Hebridean island of Harris. His time there will change his life, but the Sea House, on the edge of the dunes keeps its silence long after Alexander departs. More than a century later, Ruth and Michael buy the grand but dilapidated building for the family they hope to have. But their dreams are marred by a
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Harvest

by Jim Crace ...

Narrated by John Keating ...

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8 hours 31 min

A remote English village wakes on the morning after harvest, looking forward to enjoying a hard-earned day of rest and feasting. But two mysterious columns of smoke mar the sky, raising alarm and suspicion. The first column of smoke comes from the edge of the village land, sent as a signal by newcomers to announce their presence as per regional custom. The second smoke column is even more ... Read more

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A remote English village wakes on the morning after harvest, looking forward to enjoying a hard-earned day of rest and feasting. But two mysterious columns of smoke mar the sky, raising alarm and suspicion. The first column of smoke comes from the edge of the village land, sent as a signal by newcomers to announce their presence as per regional custom. The second smoke column is even more
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The May Bride

by Suzannah Dunn ...

Narrated by Lucy Scott ...

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9 hours 42 min

I didn't stand a chance: looking back over thirteen years, that's what I see. In the very first instant, I was won over, and of course I was: I was fifteen and had been nowhere and done nothing, whereas Katherine was twenty-one and yellow-silk-clad and just married to the golden boy...Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her eldest brother, Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf ... Read more

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I didn't stand a chance: looking back over thirteen years, that's what I see. In the very first instant, I was won over, and of course I was: I was fifteen and had been nowhere and done nothing, whereas Katherine was twenty-one and yellow-silk-clad and just married to the golden boy...Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her eldest brother, Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf
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