Emily Durante
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
Beth A. Bechky is the Seymour Milstein Professor of Ethics, Corporate Governance, and Strategy at New York University. An organizational ethnographer, she explores the ongoing interplay of occupations and new technologies at work.
A rare behind-the-scenes look at the work of forensic scientists
The findings of forensic science-from DNA profiles and chemical identifications of illegal drugs to...
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Whether valorized, as the heartland or derided, as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notorious, when COVID-19 infections skyrocketed among workers in meatpacking plants and Americans feared for their meat supply. But, the Midwest is not simply the place, where animals are fed corn and then butchered. Native midwesterner Kristy Nabhan-Warren spent years interviewing Iowans, who work in the meatpacking industry, both native-born residents...
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American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts both law and democracy. Today their cowboy confrontations threaten public lands, wild species, and American heritage.
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Linda Olson and her husband, Dave Hodgens, were young doctors whose story had all the makings of a fairy tale. But then, while they were vacationing in Germany, a train hit their van, shattering their lives-and Linda's body. When Linda saw Dave for the first time after losing her right arm and both of her legs, she told him she would understand if he left. His response: "I didn't marry your arms or your legs. If you can do it, I can do it."
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"The attempt to understand the desires related to radical, risky acts like climbing to 29,028 feet as well as the everyday participation in and fascination with extreme lifestyles lays at the heart of this book and the extreme adventure narratives it studies. The American Adrenaline Narrative identifies and examines such stories' desiring natures and considers how perilous outdoor adventure tales, what the author terms "adrenaline narratives," simultaneously...
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"The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him an Electoral College victory affected by the Russian trolls and hackers? Trump had denied it. So too has Vladimir Putin. Others cast the answer as unknowable. Drawing on path-breaking work in which she and her colleagues isolated significant communications effects in the 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns, the eminent...
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Describes the author's experiences as a middle-aged mom whose initial resolve to train for and complete the Iditarod failed when her dogs refused to finish the race, detailing how she overcame daunting challenges to succeed during a second attempt. --Publisher's description.
48) Whisper My Name
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Photographer Samantha Blakely is stunned when her dear friend leaves her the controlling interest in her family business, a magazine conglomerate: the same one that owns the magazine where Sam has just landed her dream job. Then she meets her new boss, Christian Delaney, and his mere gaze leaves her wanting more. How can she tell him that she's 'the' Sam Blakely who inherited the legacy he'd thought was his? If he discovers the truth, he'll probably...
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Civil war reenactors have set up camp on the grounds of Marshfield Manor. The group is very believable, especially when the unrest spills out of the barracks and inside the sumptuous mansion. Grace Wheaton, the curator and manager of the manor, manages to settle a minor squabble, but loses the war when actor Zachary Kincade is found stabbed to death.Jack Embers, the groundskeeper, falls under suspicion when he's linked to the death of Zachary's brother...
50) Fortune's Pawn
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Devi Morris isn't your average mercenary. She has plans. Big ones. And a ton of ambition. It's a combination that's going to get her killed one day-but not just yet. That is, until she gets a job on a tiny trade ship with a nasty reputation for surprises. The Glorious Fool isn't misnamed; it likes to get into trouble, so much so that one year of security work under its captain is equal to five years everywhere else. With odds like that, Devi knows...
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Faulty grammar can slow you down and diminish your credibility as a business writer. Essential Grammar has just one objective: to help you use correct English in the documents you write for work. Correct writing is an excellent way to boost your professional credibility. Here are some of the skills the book helps you master: - Writing grammatically correct sentences. - Using the right forms of pronouns and verbs. - Distinguishing between commonly...
52) You're Kitten
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What do you get when you mix up a dead mobster, a snarky feline familiar, and a sudden marriage proposal?
If you're Ruby Diamond, witch of Fiddler's Cove, Connecticut, you get a whole lot of problems.
It seems like everyone in town wanted Benito Lombardi dead. How can Ruby sift through the clues and navigate the biggest decision of her life at the same time? Everything she's been working for comes to this one last case. The stakes are so high.
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Maddie gets rattled by a candy-coated murder
It's Wine and Chocolate Days in San Benedetto, and paranormal museum owner Maddie Kosloski has sweet dreams about her new Magic of Chocolate exhibit. Her latest attraction is a haunted Mexican whisk called a molinillo that rattles if someone lies. When Maddie visits the town's new boutique chocolate shop, she finds one of the owners dead and covered in melted cocoa.
Maddie's determined to catch the killer,...
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The bestselling author of the Manor House Mysteries and the White House Chef Mysteries returns with a mix of murder and mayhem for curator Grace Wheaton.
Now that Grace Wheaton has officially been named heir to Bennett Marshfield's fortune, her usually busy schedule has become a juggling act. In addition to her duties at Marshfield Manor, she's bankrolling her roommates' refurbished wine shop, Amethyst Cellars. Grace is excited to check out the rustic...
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In Rising, Wood reflects on the seventy days she spent on Everest and on the pivotal experiences and influences that brought her to that staggeringly beautiful and austere corner of the world. Beyond the physical hardships, she faced personal challenges as an outlier in the male bastion of Himalayan climbing. These were compounded by the vexing presence of her past mentor and lover with his new girlfriend on the American team climbing on the same...
56) Ordinary
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"I think your issue is less about localized behavior and more about human nature. I've seen the history books. Someone always has to be better. Someone always has to conquer. "Ally and her friends are once again leaving the comfort of home and setting their sights on the Southern City. Does it exist? Will Ally find what she is looking for?Someone will become Exceptional. Someone will die. New friends will be made. Old friends will be lost.
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Ever wondered what it's like to be born into a family of assassins? Gin Bombay knows, and now she's sharing her family's deepest, darkest secrets...
The Bombay Family Bedtime Stories continue with My Heroes Have Always Been Hitmen! Four more family stories have been released from the vault, including Rio Bombay-wanna-be cowboy and wild west gunslinger, Caspian-the first Bombay to have to take out another Bombay, Aberdeen-the hoop-skirted Antebellum...
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Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone, especially the ladies. So when he was found with a bullet wound in the face and his throat slashed, the brutal murder sent shock waves throughout his community. Who could have done something so sinister?But soon a suspect was singled out-Jodi Arias. A beautiful, aspiring photographer, Jodi...
59) Grace Sees Red
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The bestselling author of the Manor House Mysteries and the White House Chef Mysteries is back with another nail-biting murder mystery for curator Grace Wheaton.
Grace Wheaton, curator and manager of Marshfield Manor, and her benefactor, Bennett Marshfield, are discussing how to help her roommates Bruce and Scott with their wine shop troubles when Grace's trusted-if testy-assistant, Frances, calls, saying she needs some assistance of her own. Arriving...
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Missi Bombay invents things-fatal flowers, Jell-O bullets, stroke-inducing panty hose, and other ways to kill a target without leaving any trace behind. Living a solitary life on her family's island, she's a great asset to her family of assassins. Unfortunately, the family that kills together also meddles together, and when Missi's mom decides her daughter's life is a little too solitary, she packs Missi off the Costa Rica for an undercover assignment...