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Hardback. Condition: Good. From the acclaimed author of CLARA'S HEART and CLOUDLAND comes a rich, literary mystery based and united by two real events that occurred at Middlebury College; the disappearance of a student during winter break; and the vandalism of the Robert Frost Homestead located on one of the outer campuses.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. A quirky, YA novel about fighting the darkness -- whether it's cancer, abuse, or a bunch of sick freaks running a battle of the bands -- in the vein of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it. But in 2008, Washington policymakers were compelled to replace private risk-takers in the financial system with government capital so that money and credit flows wouldn't stop, precipitating a depression. Washington's actions weren't the start of government distortions in the financial industry, Nicole Gelinas writes, but the natural result of 25 years' worth of such distortions. In the early eighties, modern finance began to escape reasonable regulations, including the most important regulation of all, that of the marketplace. The government gradually adopted a "too big to fail" policy for the largest or most complex financial companies, saving lenders to failing firms from losses. As a result, these companies became impervious to the vital market discipline that the threat of loss provides. Adding to the problem, Wall Street created financial instruments that escaped other reasonable limits, including gentle constraints on speculative borrowing and requirements for the disclosure of important facts. The financial industry eventually posed an untenable risk to the economy -- a risk that culminated in the trillions of dollars' worth of government bailouts and guarantees that Washington scrambled starting in late 2008. Even as banks and markets seem to heal, lenders to financial companies continue to understand that the government would protect them in the future if necessary. This implicit guarantee harms economic growth, because it forces good companies to compete against bad. History and recent events make clear what Washington must do. First, policymakers must reintroduce market discipline to the financial world. They can do so by re-creating a credible, consistent way in which big financial companies can fail, with lenders taking their warranted losses. Second, policymakers can reapply prudent financial regulations so that markets, and the economy, can better withstand inevitable excesses of optimism and pessimism. Sensible regulations have worked well in the past and can work well again. As Gelinas explains in this richly detailed book, adequate regulation of financial firms and markets is a prerequisite for free-market capitalism -- not a barrier to it. …

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. When the body of a wealthy doctor is discovered in her high-rise apartment - all alone with the doors locked from the inside - nobody can understand how or why her life has been so suddenly cut short. It appears the murderer has scaled the ten-story building - and Detective Jacqueline "Jack" Kent should know. As an elite climber herself, it's a set of skills that only a handful of people have. This can't be the killer's first victim, and if Jack doesn't act fast, it won't be their last. Jack throws herself into the investigation, determined to beat the twisted killer at their own game. But the crime scene prompts troubling memories for Jack, who's still haunted by the death of the woman she loved- killed on a climbing expedition only months before. Night after night, Jack relives those final moments in her dreams. After another victim is found, it's clear that someone is trying to get Jack's attention. Could the killer be one of her own close circle of friends from childhood? As the lines between her personal and professional life blur, Jack must confront the demons of her past to stop a cold-blooded killer from striking again. Detective Jack Kent is a heroine who grabs you and doesn't let go. Partly set in the valleys of the Peak District, this is the first in an unputdownable new crime thriller series, perfect for readers who adore Angela Marsons, Rachel McLean and Sally Rigby.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. This is a critical examination of the nature and direction of English studies in America, demonstrating how English came to occupy its present place in the American educational system and diagnosing the educational illness the author perceives in today's English departments.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Each year, over 30% of adults ages 65 and over; suffer from fall-related injuries. Fall Injury Prevention for Older Adults will help you understand the causes of falling and provides tips for reducing the risk of falls. This guide will help make a difference today in the safety and well-being of yourself and those you love. I read every page of this book and now truly believe there is much we can do to prevent falls for older adults. This book is full of pertinent information, is easy to read, and is divided into useful sections so you can look up what you need to know as a family caregiver to help prevent falls. It's a resource everyone who is concerned about an older person's safety should take the time to read. -Maggie Marshall, Director of the Caregiver to Caregiver Network, SCRC, San Diego, California The most delightful thing about this book is that it emerges from the heartfelt interest on the part of the authors . This is all done in a very understandable manner . I have reviewed all the recommendations in this book and endorse them as consistent with modern, evidence-based medicine. -Vert Mooney, MD, Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Diego, and President of Measurement Driven Rehabilitation Systems.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don't imperil it. But in 2008, Washington policymakers were compelled to replace private risk-takers in the financial system with government capital so that money and credit flows wouldn't stop, precipitating a depression. Washington's actions weren't the start of government distortions in the financial industry, Nicole Gelinas writes, but the natural result of 25 years' worth of such distortions. In the early eighties, modern finance began to escape reasonable regulations, including the most important regulation of all, that of the marketplace. The government gradually adopted a "too big to fail" policy for the largest or most complex financial companies, saving lenders to failing firms from losses. As a result, these companies became impervious to the vital market discipline that the threat of loss provides. Adding to the problem, Wall Street created financial instruments that escaped other reasonable limits, including gentle constraints on speculative borrowing and requirements for the disclosure of important facts. The financial industry eventually posed an untenable risk to the economy -- a risk that culminated in the trillions of dollars' worth of government bailouts and guarantees that Washington scrambled starting in late 2008. Even as banks and markets seem to heal, lenders to financial companies continue to understand that the government would protect them in the future if necessary. This implicit guarantee harms economic growth, because it forces good companies to compete against bad. History and recent events make clear what Washington must do. First, policymakers must reintroduce market discipline to the financial world. They can do so by re-creating a credible, consistent way in which big financial companies can fail, with lenders taking their warranted losses. Second, policymakers can reapply prudent financial regulations so that markets, and the economy, can better withstand inevitable excesses of optimism and pessimism. Sensible regulations have worked well in the past and can work well again. As Gelinas explains in this richly detailed book, adequate regulation of financial firms and markets is a prerequisite for free-market capitalism -- not a barrier to it.…

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Condition: Good. Coming soon Daring to Fall for the Single Dad by Becky Wicks will be available Jul 23, 2024.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities more fully than previous books. For a time, it seemed as if anything were possible, that utopian visions could be borne out in the political, cultural, racial, or gender spheres. It was the year of the Tet Offensive, the Resistance, the Ultra-Resistance, the New Politics, Chavez and RFK breaking bread, LBJ's withdrawal, student revolt, barricades in Paris, the Prague Spring, SDS' sharp turn leftward, communes, the American Indian Movement, the Beatles' Revolution, the Stones' Street Fighting Man, The Population Bomb, protest at the Miss America pageant, and Black Power at the Mexico City Olympics. 1968 was also the year of My Lai, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Warsaw Pact tanks in Czechoslovakia, the police riot in Chicago, the Tlatelolco massacre, Reagan's belated bid, Wallace's American Independent Party campaign, Love It or Leave It, and the backlash that set the stage, at year's end, for Richard Milhous Nixon's ascendancy to the White House. For those readers reliving 1968 or exploring it for the first time, Cottrell and Browne serve as insightful guides, weaving the events together into a powerful narrative of an America and a world on the brink.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Clare Balding, TV presenter, sportswoman, bestselling author and national treasure spent her childhood falling off and getting back in the saddle. In her first non-fiction book for children, she shares her warm, funny and reassuring personal insights into what it means to make mistakes and be unafraid of failure.…

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Condition: Good. This richly detailed, well-documented history describes the life of the Squaxin spiritual leader John Slocum and the growth in the Pacific Northwest of his Indian Shaker Church (not to be confused with eastern Shakerism). Students of Native American religion and Christianity will find this a moving story both of assimilation and of the curing that is the Shaker Church's reason for being. The Indian Shaker movement began in 1882 when the charismatic but dissolute Slocum had a vision after a near-death experience. Later his church was led by his wife, Mary Thompson, and early-day leaders such as Mud Bay Louis and Mud Bay Sam. Today church members continue to combine Native American styles of singing, body movement, and verbal declarations with bell ringing, songs, burning candles, and shaking in a unique curing tradition that is honored outside the church particularly for its success in teaching against the use of alcohol. Intense community support, for both healer and patient, is a focal point in the lives of Shaker Church members. Their tradition has endured despite the important differences in members' tribal backgrounds and religious viewpoints chronicled in this up-to-date account by veteran scholars Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, the first outsiders to have access to church records.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND THE BUSINESS AND LIFESTYLE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind one of Britain's biggest business scandals, following Sir Philip Green's journey to the big time, the wild excesses of his heyday and his dramatic demise.Stunning praise for the book:'A detailed and entertaining dismantling of the 'king of the high street'' Guardian'Superb' Evening Standard'From the glitzy parties to the threatening phone calls, the larger-than-life characters to the speedy downfall, this real-life tale of hubris has all the elements of a Greek tragedy' City AM'Entertaining stuff, pacily written. Filled with colourful characters - and expletives' The Times'Shah has written a hard-hitting, often funny, ultimately sobering tale of how fortunes were made and lost in late 20th and early 21st century Britain' Financial TimesSunday Times Bestseller, June 2018.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. The first book in New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister's sexy, steamy Dragon Falls series. YOU FLIRT WITH FIRE.For Aoife Dakar, seeing is believing - and she's seen some extraordinary things. It's too bad no one else believes her claim that a supernatural murder occurred at an outdoor fair. Returning to the scene for proof, Aoife encounters a wise-cracking demon dog.and a gloriously naked man who can shift into a dragon and kiss like a god. Now thrust into a fantastical world that's both exhilarating and terrifying, Aoife is about to learn just how hot a dragon's fire burns.WHEN YOU DATE A DRAGONKostya has no time for a human woman with endless questions, no matter how gorgeous or tempting she is. He must break the curse that has splintered the dragon clans before more of his kind die. But his powerful attraction to Aoife runs much deeper than the physical - and there may be more to her than even his sharp dragon eyes can see. To survive the coming battle for the fate of his race, he needs a mate of true heart and soul.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Big Bear can't get to sleep. He's getting tired and grouchy. Maybe he needs something to snuggle up with--but where will he find one? One by one he asks the forest animals, and each of them describes what their own loveys look like. Before long Big Bear is on the right track. Something soft and cozy. just like his friend Little Bunny! Now Big Bear can fall asleep. Ruel, Adeline (illustrator).…