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A roofing family's bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar town-from Amy Jo Burns, author of the critically acclaimed novel ShinerIt's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men sta...

This book offers a new perspective on how Canadian women in the academy are re-conceptualizing and reconsidering their position as professionals. It examines central challenges associated with the lives of women scholars and higher education professionals, including their professional identity, institutional expectations, lessons learned throughout their career experiences in higher education, and navigating between multiple roles.In turn, the...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR"Amy Jo Burns writes a version of Appalachia that is one step removed from magic - all strychnine and moonshine and powerful wonder."-NPR "[A] wrenching testament, told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal. . . This is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories." -New York Times Book ReviewOn a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect...

Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches offers an all-in-one, classroom-vetted guide to integrate technology into the music classroom while keeping with core educational strategies.

Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches offers an all-in-one, classroom-vetted guide to integrate technology into the music classroom while keeping with core educational strategies.

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This book offers a new perspective on how Canadian women in the academy are re-conceptualizing and reconsidering their position as professionals. It examines central challenges associated with the lives of women scholars and higher education professionals, including their professional identity, institutional expectations, lessons learned throughout their career experiences in higher education, and navigating between multiple roles.In turn, the...

On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one young girl must defy her father to survive.An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, ...

A brilliant, blackly comic novel about one young woman's disintegrating family, her breakdown and ultimate recovery.

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN THE ELEMENTARY MUSIC CLASSROOM

A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quietAmy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents' generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn't quite a ghost town-only because many people had no choice but to stay. The year Burns tur...

A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quietAmy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents' generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn't quite a ghost town-only because many people had no choice but to stay. The year Burns tur...

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There have over the past two decades been numerous attempts to arrive at a chemical formula which reduces, without detrimental effects, the desire in human beings to consume more food than their bodies require. It goes without saying that obesity, with related consequences of life threatening illnesses, is one of the most serious crises faced within the developed world. This book, Controlling Appetite, describes a series of experiments conduct...