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Patrick Foster

If your home looks tidy for a day and then slides back, the problem is rarely effort. Papers gather, digital files scatter, and routines that worked last week stop working on a tired day. This book offers women with ADHD a calmer way to organize, built on persistence, clearer systems, and follow-through that survives real life.The approach draws on sisu, the Finnish idea of aimed persistence, explained honestly and without stereotypes or medical claims. You begin by separating orga...

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Patrick Foster

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Images of America

The Thomas B. Jeffery Company existed as an automobile maker from 1902 to 1916 and in that short span created a corporate foundation that would lead to successor firms Nash Motors, Nash-Kelvinator, American Motors, and Jeep. Thomas Jeffery named his automobile the Rambler, after the popular bicycles he manufactured prior to his car venture. The Rambler was a car of outstanding quality and reliability. From its first showing in Chicago in 1902, the Rambler stood out as an unusual value for ...

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Patrick R. Foster, Tom Glatch

Get an inside look at the American automaker that rose from the decline of a once-thriving independent auto industry to put up a valiant fight against Detroit’s Big Three automakers.In The Complete Book of AMC Cars: American Motors Corporation 1954-1988, authors Patrick Foster and Tom Glatch provide a thorough and fully illustrated review of all the production cars offered by AMC from its founding in 1954 to its demise in 1988, including:...

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Patrick Foster

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Robertson Dean

George W. Romney was a remarkable person. As chairman of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, he saved that company from sure destruction and led it to its greatest success. He later became the most popular governor in Michigan history, a Republican stalwart beloved in a Democratic state. He ran for the presidency in 1967 and served as Secretary of HUD in the first Nixon administration before leaving over concerns about the president.More than a mere list of accomplishmen...

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Patrick R. Foster

Renowned automotive writer Pat Foster celebrates the simple joy of hitting the highway in a vintage camper, trailer, RV, or van in this illustrated examination of their hardware and cultural histories.The look, the feel, and the sheer style of vintage campers and trailers are impossible to duplicate in sterile modern units. It’s little wonder more and more of us, from all walks and ages, are ditching the increasingly hectic modern life and rediscovering the...

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Adam Patrick Foster

It was supposed to be a walk in the park bank job. Until it wasn't. This is what happens when two strangers decide to rob the same bank, on the same day, at the same time. Forced to flee together, the two thieves make an escape run across country, collecting a hapless hostage along the way.The cops are the least of their problems. There's a whole horde of bloodthirsty fiends on their tail, from corrupt law enforcers to the Spanish and Italian mafias; who either want them dead, the ...

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Paul Mihailidis, Patrick R. Johnson, Bobbie Foster, Shannon Burth, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Melissa Tully

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Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education

Interrogating three core assumptions made within the field of media literacy—that media literacy practices empower individuals, support communities, and contribute to engaged citizenship within a democracy—this book presents a new framework for equitable media literacy practices.Using the results of a large-scale research project to interrogate these long-held assumptions and explore the connection between impactful media literacy practices and equity, the authors demonstrate the c...

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Adam Patrick Foster

Mary Magdalene doesn't mind her life as a Kedeshah; a high-class sex worker. But she yearns for something more. Through a charismatic yet substance abusive regular client by the name of Jesus of Nazareth, she believes the key to a new life lies in a partnership of theatrics with this lost soul.Using hired help and skills learned from an alchemist doctor, Mary invents a Messiah of mystery, a savoir who can perform miracles, and more importantly; an emissary to tell the disillusioned...

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Adam Patrick Foster

Kidnapping. Extortion. Murder. Fried Chicken.Pluck's Chicken Palace is one of the most successful fast-food restaurant chains in the world. Their signature Secret Sauce is the most popular item on the menu, and has been that way for over 60 years. No-one in the world knows the blend of complex ingredients except three people at one time, who are forbidden to travel together, not even be in each other's company to protect the recipe should one, or two, perish.A freak acciden...

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Robert Crais

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Mel Foster, Patrick Lawlor

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Cole and Pike

L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history and report back.It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that there's something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor's parents, and some are ending up dead.

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Terri Libesman, Greg Kelly, Lisa Young, Patrick O'Leary, Helen Richardon Foster, Linda Moore, Una Convery, Christine Beddoe, Jackie Turton, Suzanne Oliver, Goos Cardol, Chaitali Das, Gladis Molina, Shelly Whitman, James Reid, Nicky Stanley, Meredith Kiraly, Cathy Humphreys, Jason Squire, Pam Miller, Robert H. George, Deena Haydon, Gill Thomson, Rawiri Taonui

Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.This book takes an international perspective on child welfare, examining how global and national frameworks can be adapted to address the rights and best interests of children. Synthesising the latest international research, experts redefine the ...

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Mary Burton

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Samara Naeymi, James Anderson Foster, Andrew Eiden, Patrick Lawlor

An investigative reporter returns to the scene of a decades-old crime to put her own unsettled past to rest in this chilling suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.Cold case reporter Sloane Grayson has come to a small mountain town in Virginia to solve a mystery.Thirty years ago, her mother was one of four women who vanished during a music festival. The event’s promoter was eventually convicted of their murders, and Sheriff...