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Successful African-American Men

From Childhood to Adulthood

by Sandra Taylor Griffin ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Statistics emphasize that one out of every five men is incarcerated. The background experiences of dysfunctional black men are often explored while few studies focus on the motivating triggers for high achieving black men.Successful African American Men: From Childhood to Adulthood is a unique study of the nurturing behavioral settings that high achieving black men used as adolescents and examines ... Read more

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Statistics emphasize that one out of every five men is incarcerated. The background experiences of dysfunctional black men are often explored while few studies focus on the motivating triggers for high achieving black men.Successful African American Men: From Childhood to Adulthood is a unique study of the nurturing behavioral settings that high achieving black men used as adolescents and examines
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Identity Research and Communication

Intercultural Reflections and Future Directions

by Keith Berry, Devika Chawla, Kent Ono, Krishna Pattisapu, Miriam Sobré-Denton, Jianhua Sun, Satoshi Toyosaki, Karma R. Chávez, Rachel Alicia Griffin, Maurice L. Hall, Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway, Brenda J. Allen, Bernadette Marie Calafell, Hsin-I Cheng, John T. Warren, Dr., Prof Richie Neil Hao ...

The concept of identity has steadily emerged in importance in the field of intercultural communication, especially over the last two decades. In a transnational world marked by complex connectivity as well as enduring differences and power inequities, it is imperative to understand and continuously theorize how we perceive the self in relation to the cultural other. Such understandings play a ... Read more

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The concept of identity has steadily emerged in importance in the field of intercultural communication, especially over the last two decades. In a transnational world marked by complex connectivity as well as enduring differences and power inequities, it is imperative to understand and continuously theorize how we perceive the self in relation to the cultural other. Such understandings play a
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Love, Mom

Inspiring Stories Celebrating Motherhood

by Nicole Saphier ...

Narrated by Nicole Saphier, Marguerite Gavin, Rachel Campos-Duffy, Janice Dean, Ainsley Earhardt, Jennifer Griffin, Carley Shimkus, Sandra Smith ...

Unabridged

6 hours 18 min

From Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier, comes an inspiring collection of powerful first-person stories celebrating motherhood, from Fox News personalities and extraordinary moms around America.Unmatched and unwavering, mothers are the embodiment of selfless, pure, and unconditional love. But so often, the sacrifices and triumphs of motherhood go unrecognized. Now, in Love, Mom, Fox ... Read more

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From Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier, comes an inspiring collection of powerful first-person stories celebrating motherhood, from Fox News personalities and extraordinary moms around America.Unmatched and unwavering, mothers are the embodiment of selfless, pure, and unconditional love. But so often, the sacrifices and triumphs of motherhood go unrecognized. Now, in Love, Mom, Fox
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Grace and Mary

by Melvyn Bragg ...

Narrated by Gordon Griffin, Sandra Duncan ...

Unabridged

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 ...

Unabridged

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
... Read more
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Harvest

by Jim Crace ...

Narrated by John Keating ...

Unabridged

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 ...

Unabridged

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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The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle

a story of love and belonging on the Isle of Arran

by Kirsty Wark ...

Narrated by Siobhan Redmond ...

Unabridged

12 hours 1 min

'ORIGINAL AND ENTHRALLING' Guardian'AFFECTING AND TENDER' The Times'COMPLETELY ENCHANTING' Penny VincenziElizabeth Pringle lived all her long life on the Scottish island of Arran. But did anyone really know her? In her will she leaves her beloved house, Holmlea, to a stranger - a young mother she'd seen pushing a pram down the road over thirty years ago. It now falls to Martha, once ... ... Read more

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'ORIGINAL AND ENTHRALLING' Guardian'AFFECTING AND TENDER' The Times'COMPLETELY ENCHANTING' Penny VincenziElizabeth Pringle lived all her long life on the Scottish island of Arran. But did anyone really know her? In her will she leaves her beloved house, Holmlea, to a stranger - a young mother she'd seen pushing a pram down the road over thirty years ago. It now falls to Martha, once ...
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How to be Both

by Ali Smith ...

Narrated by Katie Leung ...

Unabridged

8 hours 36 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of
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The Silence of the Sea

Thora Gudmundsdottir Book 6

by Yrsa Sigurdardottir ...

Narrated by Gabrielle Nellis-Pain ...

Series Audiobook 6 - Thora Gudmundsdottir
Unabridged

14 hours 44 min

Translated from Icelandic by Victoria CribbWINNER OF THE 2015 PETRONA AWARDA Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!The most chilling novel yet from the Queen of Nordic Noir, not to be missed for fans of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson.'Mummy dead.' The child's pure treble was uncomfortably clear. It was the last thing Brynjar - and doubtless the others - w... ... Read more

$38.99 CAD

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Translated from Icelandic by Victoria CribbWINNER OF THE 2015 PETRONA AWARDA Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!The most chilling novel yet from the Queen of Nordic Noir, not to be missed for fans of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson.'Mummy dead.' The child's pure treble was uncomfortably clear. It was the last thing Brynjar - and doubtless the others - w...
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