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Anne Boyd

A fascinating glimpse into the world of Medieval Monasticism.Durham Cathedral is one of the most complete sets of monastic buildings in Europe, housing clues to the life of a prominent and thriving medieval Benedictine community.Through its buildings, and the books, treasures and records housed within, the world of Durham’s monastic past comes alive once more, offering clues to the history of this vital Norman stronghold, and providing a critical exemplar o...

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Ann Granger

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Judith Boyd

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Campbell and Carter mystery

When old Monty Bickerstaffe finds a dead body in his drawing room it comes as a nasty surprise. Monty lives alone in a crumbling Cotswold manor house and the last thing he wants is the police sniffing around his property. The identity of the corpse and how and why it was left in Monty's home remain a mystery. The locals swear they've seen nothing unusual and Monty's relatives claim they've never set eyes on the stiff before. But Inspector Jess Campbell is convinced that someone's lying and...

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Anne E. Boyd

Before the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female writers, regarding themselves as educators and businesswomen. During and after the Civil War, some women writers began to challenge this view, seeing themselves as artists writing for themselves and ...

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Anne E. Boyd, Martin T. Buinicki, Kathleen Diffley, Annamaria Formichella Elsden, Janet Gabler-Hover, Caroline Gebhard, Michael Germana, Carolyn Hall, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, John Lowe, Geraldine Murphy, Kevin E. O'Donnell, John H. Pearson, Timothy Sweet, Anthony Szczesiul, Cheryl B. Torsney

In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida. Born in New Hampshire in 1840 and raised in Ohio, she was the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper and was gaining success as a writer when she departed in 1873 for St. Augustine. During the next six years, she made her way across the South and reported what she saw, first in illustrated travel accounts and then in the poetry, stories...

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Wendy Austin, Cindy Ann Peternelj-Taylor, Diane Kunyk, Mary Ann Boyd

Thoroughly written, extensively updated, and optimized for today’s evolving Canadian healthcare environment, Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice, 5th Edition, equips students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to effectively care for diverse populations in mental health nursing practice. This proven, approachable text instills a generalist-level mastery of mental health promotion, assessment, and interventions in adults, families, children, adolescents, and old...

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Anne Boyd Rioux

“[An] affectionate and perceptive tribute.”—Wendy Smith, Boston GlobeIn Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, Anne Boyd Rioux brings a fresh and engaging look at the circumstances leading Louisa May Alcott to write Little Women and why this beloved story of family and community ties set in the Civil War has resonated with audiences across time.

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Barbara H. Berrie, Karin Leonhard, Caroline Fowler, Ittai Weinryb, Anne Lafont, David Bomford, Carolyn E. Boyd, Quincy Ngan, Gabriela Siracusano

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ART/WORK

A concise illustrated history of one of art’s most important and elusive elementsOver the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth, stones, bugs, and blood were the first pigments. New pigments were manufactured by simple processes such as corrosion and calcination until the Industrial Revolution introduced colors outside the spectrum of the natural world. Pigments brings together leading art histo...

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Lisa West, Etta Madden, Kristin M. Comment, Susan L. Roberson, Sidonia Serafini, Aaron J. Rovan, Kathryn McKee, Karen Tracey, John Lowe, Lisa Nais, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Katherine Barrett Swett, Heather Hartley, Edoarda Grego

The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar genres and unfamiliar characters began during the 1870s and extended until she died in 1894...

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Ann Granger

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Judith Boyd

It is the wettest winter on record and as Christmas approaches the rivers burst their banks and the farmers' fields lie under several feet of water. In the village of Weston Saint Ambrose, a young girl's body is seen floating downstream and when it becomes stuck under the jetty at a reclusive writer's home, the author is alarmed to discover that he recognises the victim of a brutal murder...(P)2015 Headline 2015

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Louisa May Alcott, Anne Boyd Rioux

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Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

A beautiful new Deluxe Edition of Alcott's beloved novel, with a foreword by National Book Award-winning author and musician Patti Smith. Nominated as one of America’s most-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadLittle Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. The beloved story of the March girls is a clas...

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Anne Boyd Rioux

"Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!" —Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American ModernismConstance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), who contributed to Henry James’s conception of his heroine Isabelle Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, was one of the most accomplished American writers of ...

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Constance Fenimore Woolson

To celebrate her forthcoming biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux has selected the best of this classic writer's stories.Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894) was one of the few nineteenth-century women writers considered the equal of her male peers. Harper & Brothers was so enamored of her work that the firm agreed to publish whatever she could write. In this gathering, Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Woolson's life, including "In ...