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Dragon on a Pedestal (Xanth Novels)
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Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt): A Dad's Advice for Daughters
Philip Van Munching sounds like a pretty cool dad. True, he'd rather his daughters steer clear of drugs and alcohol and avoid having sex until after he's dead, but he's well aware of the fact that they're living in the real world. In Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (so they can look up your skirt), this father of two offers practical advice to teenage girls in a series of fresh and funny chapters on everything from Fate to Faith to Boyfriends, The Internet, and How to be Happy. Consider what he has to say about Tattoos: "If you ever seriously think about getting one do yourself a favor first. Go to the drawer where you keep your T-shirts and take a good look at them. What's on them? Got any designer names or funny sayings? Or do you have T-shirts with pictures of cartoon animals? Wait, of course you don't: you had the animal T-shirts a few years ago, but you've gotten rid of them. You outgrew them." To further prove his point, he suggests checking out "your folks' old high school yearbooks" for more evidence that what's cool today won't be forever. One thing his girls can likely count on to remain constant, however, is their dad's obvious love and respect for them, as Van Munching appears infinitely curious about their current lives and the challenges they will face in the future. - Patrick Jennings..
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Pedestal
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Pedestal: the Malta Convoy of August 1942
In the summer of 1942 one of the main issues in the balance was the fate of Malta. The island was still a bastion of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean and a constant threat to the supply route for the enemy land forces in North Africa. It bravely resisted every onslaught of the Axis powers, but food supplies were desperately short and fuel oil running low. In August of that year Operation Pedestal was launched - a last attempt to relieve Malta. Fourteen merchant ships were allocated to it and the Royal Navy provided the most powerful force ever to escort a convoy including four aircraft carriers. Operating from Sardinia and Sicily, the Germans and Italians let fly with their shore-based aircraft on an unprecedented scale. The losses on the British side were appalling, but the objective was achieved and the blockade of Malta was finally lifted. .
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Pedestals (A Jack Wilmont Thriller Book One)
The last year has been a nightmare for Jack Wilmont So when a serial killer after a year of nothing strikes on the first day of Jack's personal leave, he knows the nightmare is only beginning Jack agrees to look at the evidence, but his one good deed leads him into the case of a missing nine-year-old girl abducted from her home. Knowing he is in over his head, Jack does what comes naturally, he enlists the help of his former partner. When all fingers point to the girl's mother as the abductor, Jack must face his undeniable attraction to the suspect, while racing the clock to prove her innocence. The problem is, there are too many avenues to investigate, especially in an unofficial capacity. Faced with the uncertainties of both cases, Jack's ire is raised when the FBI swoops in to take over the serial case, but he refuses to give up, feeling in his gut that they are underestimating the killer. They know they are after a dangerous psychopath, but no one could have realized his brilliance or his position in the medical community. The plot they uncover is complex, sophisticated, and far more evil than anyone is prepared for..
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Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
The LDS Woman's Exponent of the 1800s promoted, in its masthead, "The Rights of the Women of All Nations " Editor Emmeline B. Wells was close friends with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Church President Joseph F. Smith supported women's liberation, criticizing women who "seem to glory in their enthralled condition and who caress and fondle the very chains and manacles which fetter and enslave them!" Not surprisingly, Utah women were the first in the U.S. to get the vote. Fast forward to the 1970s, and the sentiment changed as the LDS Church took a stand against feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment. In a bitter campaign that was sometimes public and sometimes behind the scenes, the church joined the national charge against the ERA. It is a fascinating story, superbly documented, with equally interesting views from both sides of the controversies, showing how a once radical church became a bastion of conservatism..
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