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A businesswoman finds new life and love after she resigns from her job and relocates to upstate New York to help her cousin run a small bookstore .
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The Saga of Nova Septima, the first installment of a new trilogy by Linda Williams, follows in the footsteps of many great classics of the fantasy genre. From The Well at the World?s End by William Morris over a century ago, to the spellbinding classics of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin, George R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, and now Linda Williams, the literary landscape of the fantasy has served as a magnet for the imagination inspired longing within all of us. It attracts us, calling us forth upon an heroic quest whereby we can hope to be magically transformed and restored to the tranquility and order which lie at the very center of every human soul. In that sense the world of fantasy is the world of myth still among us, updated by centuries of narrative tradition and the marvels of modern science. George Bernard Shaw, a great playwright of the last century, once suggested that immature artists are those who are merely influenced by their predecessors, whereas it is the sure mark of the mature artist to be able to selectively steal from the riches of the past. Linda Williams is a great literary artist of this century who aptly balances novelty with tradition in creating a story that will delight both the young and the young at heart alike. Join Asha and her band of young companions, which also includes a delightful dog named Nog and a marvelous mule named Heggo, as they make their way from their home in Teletsos to a far off land in the north. This is where salvation lies, both for themselves and their world. On their way to their ultimate destination they encounter many marvels and must overcome many hardships. Their battle however is more than just an epic struggle between Davidic youth and goodness and the ancient evil of a Goliath who would prey upon all weakness in its unrelenting pursuit of power. As in all good fantasy stories victory must be accompanied by mastery over the self within as well as the enemy without. Through all sorts of fa.
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While recovering from radiation therapy, Suzanne Strempek Shea heard from a friend who was looking for help at her bookstore Shea volunteered, seeing it as nothing more than a way to get out of her pajamas and back into the world. But over the next twelve months, from St. Patrick's Day through Poetry Month, graduation/Father's Day/summer reading/Christmas, and back again to those shamrock displays, Shea lived and breathed books in a place she says sells "ideas, stories, encouragement, answers, solace, validation, the basic ammunition for daily life.".
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Sub-Saharan Africa (Africa) is the world s biggest development challenge Much of the continent missed two decades of economic progress between 1975 and 1995, with the result that average income per person was virtually unchanged between independence and the turn of the 21st Century. Lagging behind the rest of the developing world in nearly every indicator of human well being, it is also the continent where, on current projections, most of the World Bank millennium development goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be met. Yet, there is renewed hope in recent years. Since the mid-1990s, an acceleration of economic growth in much of Africa has produced rising incomes and faster human development. This growth acceleration has raised questions and expectations about Africa s development. Is there a turnaround in Africa s economy? What will determine whether growth persists? Africa at a Turning Point looks at interrelated aspects of Africa's recent economic revival. It examines Africa's recent growth in the context of its long history of growth accelerations, and collapses and seeks to answer several questions - Is Africa indeed at a turning point? Have African countries learned from past policy and institutional mistakes? And are the economic fundamentals finally pointing towards more sustainable growth? It deals with the continuing importance of donor flows for Africa, addressing such issues as managing and delivering greater aid, and the history and volatility of donor flows. As crude oil prices reach new highs, it also addresses the impact of commodity price shocks on output variability in African countries; how oil exporting countries can manage their new oil wealth; and the possible economic and distributional impacts of higher oil prices on oil importing countries..
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By the early 1920s, "ladies magazines" (fujin zasshi) had become a distinct category in Japanese publishing. Women's periodicals increasingly influenced intellectual discourse, the literary establishment, and daily life. Turning Pages makes sense of this phenomenon through a detailed analysis of several interwar women's magazines, including the literary journal Ladies' Review, the popular domestic periodical Housewife's Friend, and the politically radical magazine Women's Arts. Through a close examination of their literature, articles, advertising, and art, the book explores the magazines as both windows onto and actors in this vibrant period of Japanese history.

Turning Pages considers the central place of representations of women for women in the culture of interwar Japan and our understanding of Japanese modernity. Whether a magazine focused on "the modern girl," "the factory girl," "the woman writer," or "the housewife," the transformation of women's lives depicted in its pages was central to Japan's representation of its own modernity in the 1920s. Turning Pages demonstrates, too, the importance of such factors as editing, layout, and conditions of reception when interpreting the relationship between readers and mass media documents. Taking a holistic approach to the texts and using tools of historical, literary, and cultural analysis, the author examines the triangular relationship among consumers, producers, and the texts themselves.

Women's magazines in modern Japanese literature were significant not only for the opportunities they afforded women writers but also for their often underestimated institutional and financial support of the literary community as a whole. In the 1920s, a new generation of writers, among them Tanizaki Jun'ichirô and Satô Haruo, relied on the growing market of women readers and the magazines they read. This new medium came to play a major role in! discussions on how literary value, both aesthetic and political, should be determined, and Turning Pages demonstrates the importance of gender in how the literary world thought about genre categories and literary merit.

This insightful and engaging book will be of interest to students of Japanese literature, women's studies, and modern history..
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This law school study aid identifies the various factual contexts that give rise to extent-of-liability issues, and then examines the different tests courts use to place limits on tort liability It then applies these tests to the factual scenarios to see how well they work. Three basic approaches are discussed—the risk-foreseeability test, imposing liability based on what a "reasonable defendant" should have anticipated, miscellaneous hindsight tests, and the duty-risk test, which makes extent of liability a question of law. Also covers how these approaches square with notions of economic efficiency, corrective justice, and the smooth functioning of the judicial process..
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