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In Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region, Diane Elizabeth Johnson explores the use of language in public spaces in four areas of the Pacific in which colonization has played a major role: Hawai'i, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Tahiti. She does so in a way that is both scholarly and accessible.

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From the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a sly, subversive, and utterly delightful comedy of contemporary manners. Lorna Mott Dumas, small, pretty, high-strung, is the epitome of a successful woman-with lovely offspring and grandchildren, a French husband, a delightful house, and an independent career as an admired art lecturer. She has both an uncomplicated, sociable nature and an intellectual life. But then Lorna decide...

This funny word search for kids ages 8-10 has taken the coolest and smart reading and vocabulary skills for kids in the world and turned them into fantastically-fun, creative logic seek and find books for kids 8-10 that have been specially designed to give to any brain games lover an interesting, relaxing and super-fun experience. Designed to lasts a long time, providing hours of activity for kids.The key-features of this premium cool logic pu...

Lucy Mae Johnson's life journey will make you appreciate miracles, challenges, overcoming obstacles, and above all, love. Her journey will make you smile, laugh and cry and appreciate the power of faith in God. Lucy was a friend, comrade, spiritual guide, and as her daughter lovingly calls her, "mother hero." She always wanted to document her life story and provided her only daughter with a great oral history of her growing up in the rural sou...

In Linguistic Landscaping and the Pacific Region, Diane Elizabeth Johnson explores the use of language in public spaces in four areas of the Pacific in which colonization has played a major role: Hawai'i, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Tahiti. She does so in a way that is both scholarly and accessible.

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From the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a sly, subversive comedy of contemporary manners, morals, (ex)marriages, and motherhood (past, present, and future)--about an American woman, an art lecturer, in her sixties, leaving her 20-year marriage to her French second husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up a life (hardly recognizable) she left behind and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildre...

When it's dark and it's raining, you never know what might happen! A single raindrop could be the beginning of something scary, fun, and way out of control, all at the same time. The kids are getting ready for bed when-what do they see? A very small person inside a raindrop, Sogger! He looks cute so they let him in the window, but then, he jumps around, and suddenly, the whole house is topsy-turvy, upside down, and soaking wet! How will they g...

Why did Cora Lee's mother disappear? A quirky private investigator attempts to help a homeless 8-year-old find her missing mother. What could possibly go wrong? "It's okay to be silly, " eight-year-old Cora Lee says as she watches Jack fumble his way forward to find the answers. Jack doesn't care much for kids, but when Cora Lee walks into his office alone, he can't resist her quirky smile. Struggling to save enough for first and months last m...

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. "Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous, everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table-a qu...

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A strange thing started happening to me a few months back. I found myself waking up around 5:00 a.m. or so several mornings with a strong need to study Bible on a particular subject or maybe a special scripture. I found myself pouring out my heart into written devotionals. I write about depression, anger, love, trust, finding new siblings, and always trusting in God for the strength and guidance through each new journey. The more I allowed the...

I began in 2017 to write a year's worth of weekly devotionals. I was totally amazed at how the Holy Spirit worked (and continues to work) in using my life experiences to, hopefully, help others. The first book with twenty-six devotionals was released in May 2018. This book contains devotionals twenty-seven through fifty-two. My prayer is that these devotionals will bless your life and help you as you are "Walking with God." The Holy Spirit con...

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A strange thing started happening to me a few months back. I found myself waking up around 5:00 a.m. or so several mornings with a strong need to study the Bible on a particular subject or maybe a special scripture. I found myself pouring out my heart into written devotionals. I write about depression, anger, love, trust, finding new siblings, and always trusting in God for the strength and guidance through each new journey. The more I allowed...

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST"If one were to cross Jane Austen and Henry James, the result would be Diane Johnson."-San Francisco ChronicleThe national bestseller and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Naomi Watts and Kate Hudson!Called "stylish... refreshing... genuinely wise" by The New York Times Book Review, this delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder follows smart, sexy, and impeccably dressed A...

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