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Novie swore she'd never do two things in her lifetime: head up the family drug trade, or be some man's baby momma. Unfortunately, when she meets Genesis Kane, things don't go quite as she'd planned. Genesis is an attorney with a reputation for being a "piranha in pinstripes, " both in and out of the courtroom. With Novie's mother bugging her to help the family or disappear, and her father on a mission to keep reaping land, cars, and more side ...

Welcome to the fast-paced, high stakes world of Rasheed, an anti-hero you'll love to hate much like Scarface. Caught up in a game of fast money, faster women, and a hustler's dream, Rasheed's secrets and lies threaten to completely sever his alliance with his baby's mother, Michelle. Trapped in an emotional whirlwind of sex, love, and mistrust, Michelle attempts to hold the threads of their lives together. With the passing of each day, their b...

This book systematically examines the first terms of every president from FDR to Barack Obama and assesses the leadership style and policy agenda of each.

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For over fifty years Dr. Robert Spencer (1889-1969) practiced medicine in the small coal-mining town of Ashland, PA. As the only town doctor, he was known by everyone as a dedicated medical professional who spent long hours at his clinic, charged a modest fee for his services, never turned anyone away who couldn't pay, and was the person the townspeople turned to with their many ailments and injuries.But he also gained another kind of notoriet...

Il racconto italiano della Grande guerra configura una sequenza significativa di testi nodali scritti tra il 1914 e il 1921. Riproposte integralmente nella loro prima edizione, le opere prescelte compongono un polittico di narrazioni e di testimonianze quali furono originate dalla vastità dell'evento, sul campo, e nell'urgenza della scrittura immediata verso un lettore presente, prima che gli usi politici della memoria e dell'oblio rendessero ...

The author of Roadside New Jersey and The Great American Road Trip: U.S. 1, Maine to Florida goes south to explore the outrageous roadside attractions that have come to define the Sunshine State in this fun, full-color book.

A guide that offers a practical approach to functional capacity evaluations (FCEs) in relation to assessing patients' physical ability. It helps to enable the reader to know the differences between various functional tests to request the appropriate type, and design, interpret and apply FCEs to process workers' compensation and to rate disability.

This is a story that involves young love desperately trying to blossom during the latter part of WW2 and the tragedies and joys that occur while growing from young teens to young men and women. The reader will view how life was like in that time and place. Of families of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds came together with love and respect. Most of all the love that Esther and Joey share inspires and moves all those who come to know it.

Praise for the previous edition: New York Public Library "Best of Reference

When in 2003, President Bush bestowed a National Humanities Medal on Elizabeth (Betsey) Fox-Genovese, citing her as 'a defender of reason and servant of faith', he recognized the achievements of a uniquely accomplished American intellectual. Written by Betsey's husband of thirty-seven years, this title tells her story.

Designed to meet the needs of high school and college students as well as members of the general public seeking clear explanations of basic government and political topics, Encyclopedia of American Government and Civics is a comprehensive resource that is divided into nine sections containing more than 400 essay-length entries. Articles in this new three-volume encyclopedia address not only basic subjects covered in American government--from t...

THE GRANDSON OF MAFIA CRIME BOSS VITO GENOVESEMAKES A REMARKABLE DEBUT IN THIS SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER. A NOVEL ONLY HE COULD WRITE. It's March of 1963 in a quiet New Jersey shore community. Joseph Napolo is a young boy who cherishes his Pop Pop Carmine's Sunday visits to his parent's home. Joseph has come to understand that there is something special about his grandfather - the stories he tells, his friends that visit after dinner, how they kiss...

THE GRANDSON OF MAFIA CRIME BOSS VITO GENOVESEMAKES A REMARKABLE DEBUT IN THIS SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER. A NOVEL ONLY HE COULD WRITE. It's March of 1963 in a quiet New Jersey shore community. Joseph Napolo is a young boy who cherishes his Pop Pop Carmine's Sunday visits to his parent's home. Joseph has come to understand that there is something special about his grandfather - the stories he tells, his friends that visit after dinner, how they kiss...

Talks about a beloved American institution. This book provides information that you want to know where and how diners started, who invented eggs served in a skillet, why these twenty-four-hours-a-day eateries are so popular, or which one has the best French toast, Jersey Diners has the answers.

A leading historian examines the white Southern Christian response to slavery, military defeat, and emancipation. "A Consuming Fire" analyzes the strength, weakness, and failure of the struggle for reform and the nature and significance of Southern Christian orthodoxy and its vision of a proper social order, class structure, and race relations.

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This brief, thought-provoking text evaluates the performance of recent presidents from Johnson to Bush, finding that, overall, each has failed to live up to public expectations. Written by one of the top presidency scholars today, The Presidential Dilemma reflects on the idea that as our country's problems grow, our politicians seem to shrink. Arguing that American presidents of the last 40 years have largely failed to meet the needs, expectat...

Genetic specialists labeled her abnormal, deformed, arthritic, defective. She labeled herself... Nothing Short of Joy

In recent years American conservatism has found a new voice. But what seems new, Eugene Genovese shows us, may in fact have very old roots. Tracing a certain strain of conservatism to its sources in a rich southern tradition, his book opens a powerful perspective on the politics of our day. As much a work of political and moral philosophy as one of history, "The Southern Tradition" reconstitutes the historical canon, re-envisions the strengths...