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Twelve-year-old Kassy O'Roarke wants to win the Thompson prize at her school newspaper. Her pesky little brother Percy and his key-stealing ferret try to help . . . and that's when the trouble begins.Apollo the cougar cub goes missing from their family's petting zoo. Kassy puts her detective skills to the test to find him before Animal Control does. Can Kassy outsmart the dogcatcher and rescue Apollo before being grounded for life?Join Kassy's...

If Nancy Drew had a pesky little brother and lived in a petting zoo... meet Kassy O'Roarke.Pets are disappearing from Lemon Tree Heights. With her family's petting zoo at stake, Kassy has to stop the dognapping ring, and fast.Hot on the trail of a missing cockapoo, Kassy discovers a mysterious key and a treasure map hidden inside a wall. Just when she's close to cracking the case, her brother Crispy and his faithful ferret Freddie go missing. ...

What's the best way to purge an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, of course.Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover.At Ravenswick Abbey a charming South African war correspondent has tongues wagging. His friends say he's a crack huntsman. The War Office is convinced he's a traitor. Fiona thinks he's a ...

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If James Patterson and Janet Evanovich had a love child... Meet Jessica James!Jessica is back in award winning author Kelly Oliver's latest fast paced thrill ride. Donors to the new world class Chicago museum of Russian art are dropping like flies, and Jessica is at the center of the carnage. Can she track down the killer before she falls into his trap? Speaking of traps, this doozy puts Jessica in the middle of a love triangle she'd do anythi...

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In Vegas, the stakes are high and everyone's an illusionist.Sent off to Las Vegas in search of her biological father - a washed-up magician called The Mesmerizer - Jessica arrives in town penniless and with nowhere to turn. She ends up crashing on an old school friend's couch and getting a job as a hotel maid.Her first night on the job, she finds a naked guy in the bathtub with a note to call 911, and Jessica suspects her old friend McKenzie m...

What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless? In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a "response ethics" as an alternative to mainstream moral frameworks such as utilitarianism and Kantianism. Oliver's response ethics is grounded in an innova...

What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless? In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a "response ethics" as an alternative to mainstream moral frameworks such as utilitarianism and Kantianism. Oliver's response ethics is grounded in an innova...

Kelly Oliver (Edited By) Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, where she also holds appointments in the departments of African-American Diaspora Studies, Film Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. She is the author of more than one hundred articles, fifteen scholarly books, and three novels.Stephanie Straub (Edited By) Stephanie Straub is completing a PhD in English at Vanderbilt University.

Die 12-jährige Leah hat einen Herzenswunsch: Sie hätte so gerne ein eigenes Pony! Als sie eines Tages den Job als Aushilfe auf einer Ranch ihres Onkels annimmt, glaubt sie, ihrem Wunsch näher zu kommen. Auf der Ranch begegnet sie einem magischen Kobold und schlittert in das Abenteuer ihres Lebens - Zusätzlich auf dieser DVD befinden sich zwei Bonusfilme. Bonusfilm 1: The Little Unicorn / Bonusfilm 2: Against the World

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Using deconstruction, this book approaches contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death from cloning to capital punishment, and thereby, provides new insights into current debates from a perspective outside of mainstream philosophy with its assumptions of individual and political sovereignty.

Award-winning author Kelly Oliver takes thing up a notch, mixing medical thriller with murder.One minute Jessica is throwing down Fiery Mule Slammers with a hot intern from the medical school. The next she's waking up naked behind a dumpster in freezing Chicago, her clothes piled neatly beside her.She soon finds out she's one of Chicago's mystery 'dumpster girls' - top of their class, attractive college girls who are drugged and dropped uncons...

Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence-especially sexual violence-is an inevitable part of a woman's maturity. She discusses campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent policies.

Have we entered a historical moment of "post-feminism?" This volume presents a timely and convincing "no." These essays demonstrate that there is a new generation of French women who take up questions of equality and difference from a position distinct from either first or second wave feminism, a position that often attempts to move beyond the binary of equality and/or difference to a new form of the individual.

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

Nietzsche has the reputation of being a virulent misogynist, so why are feminists interested in his philosophy? The essays in this volume provide answers to this question from a variety of feminist perspectives.The organization of the volume into two sets of essays, "Nietzsche's Use of Woman" and "Feminists' Use of Nietzsche, " reflects the two general approaches taken to the issue of Nietzsche and woman. First, many debates have focused on ho...

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