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Marilyn Returns: A Flight of Fantasy

Marilyn Returns: A Flight of Fantasy

Lisa Capozzi

Lulu.com
2019
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A fantasy fiction tale set in the 21st century, about Alex, a St. Mary's University sophomore in Twickenham, England, who comes face-to-face with the ghosts of Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, James Dean and Charles Dickens during Alex's time travel adventures. When Alex uses the power of a family key gifted to her by Horace Walpole, the Earl of Orford, she travels back to Italy and meets Michelangelo while he is painting the Sistine Chapel in the 1500s. Laced with historical details and quotes including Marilyn Monroe's when she said, "We are all stars and each one of us deserves to sparkle." Marilyn Returns makes you feel like the author has channeled Marilyn's spirit and the spirits of other legendary figures who are filled with advice from the afterlife.
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A Taste for Gardening

A Taste for Gardening

Lisa Taylor

Routledge
2020
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Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in gardening and cultural identities. With an examination of aesthetic dispositions as a symbolic mode of communication closely aligned to peoples' identities and drawing on ethnographic data gathered from encounters with gardeners, this book maps a typology of gardening taste, revealing that gardening - how plants are chosen, planted and cared for - is a classed and gendered practice manifested in specific types of visual aesthetics. This timely and original book develops a new area within cultural studies while contributing to debates about lifestyle and lifestyle media, consumption, class and methodology. A must read for anybody concerned with or intrigued by the cultural construction of identification practices.
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A Well Mind

A Well Mind

Lisa Parkinson Roberts

Readhowyouwant
2021
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A Well Mind provides a holistic approach to mental wellness by showing how the processes of looking after your body can complement those of looking after your mind. Recent research has shown that through improving our eating, sleeping, and exercise habits, we can experience physical health benefits which lead to feeling better in our mind. In this guide, these processes are presented and explained clearly, ensuring they are accessible to anyone who wishes to improve their overall wellbeing. Author Lisa Parkinson Roberts has struggled with bipolar disorder for most of her life. Having found successful methods for coping, she aims to share these tools and her academic expertise with others. The result is a comprehensive guide to improving your wellbeing by eating well and maintaining healthy routines. Nutrition, sleep, stress management and exercise are investigated as tools to achieve optimal mental health and to help you to regain control of how you feel. Amidst a plethora of books on physical wellbeing and fitness, A Well Mind is a key step in the emergence of books with a primary focus on achieving mental wellness. We all want to feel better and thrive, rather than merely survive. However, our busy modern lives and altered food supply makes this difficult to achieve. Shaped by personal experience, this is the essential guide to feeling the best that you can in your mind.
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Genealogy of a Murder

Genealogy of a Murder

Lisa Belkin

WW NORTON CO
2023
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Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young police officer is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on leave from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realisation. He knows who the shooter is. In fact, the man—a prisoner out on parole—had called him only days before. By helping his former charge and trainee, the doctor, a believer in second chances, may have inadvertently helped set the murder into motion. And with that one phone call, may have sealed a policeman’s fate. Alvin Tarlov, David Troy and Joseph DeSalvo were all born of the Great Depression, all with grandparents who’d left different homelands for the same American Dream. How did one become a doctor, one a police officer and one a convict? In Genealogy of a Murder, journalist Lisa Belkin traces the paths of each of these three men—one of them her stepfather. Her canvas is large, spanning the first half of the 20th century: immigration, the struggles of the working class, prison reform, medical experiments, politics and war, the nature/nurture debate, epigenetics, the infamous Leopold and Loeb case and the history of motorcycle racing. It is also intimate: a look into the workings of the mind and heart. Following these threads to their tragic outcome in July 1960, and beyond, Belkin examines the coincidences and choices that led to one fateful night. The result is a brilliantly researched, narratively ingenious story, which illuminates how we shape history even as we are shaped by it.
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LGBTQ+ Health: A guide to inclusive nursing care

LGBTQ+ Health: A guide to inclusive nursing care

Lisa Cordery-Bruce

Elsevier Health Sciences
2026
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Filling a gap in the healthcare literature, LGBTQ+ Health: A Guide to Inclusive Nursing Care is a comprehensive, accessible, and timely resource for nurses and allied health professionals. This unique text helps both students and practitioners develop the skills they need to offer compassionate, relevant, and inclusive healthcare to this growing proportion of society. In one convenient reference, readers will find the information they need to provide a high level of care, enhanced by numerous powerful, meaningful stories of lived experiences from a wide variety of LGBTQ voices that support theory and nursing guidance. Begins with the history of LGBTQ+ healthcare and the trailblazers of the past, providing a foundation of understanding and knowledge and encouraging empathy in the reader Covers dozens of relevant, real-world topics related to LGBTQ+ inclusive care: Inequalities in Healthcare covers the role of stigma and discrimination; social determinants of health; barriers to gender-affirming care; mental health disparities; the roles of nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals; unconscious bias; and more A Focus on Care covers clinical topics such as gender services; fertility preservation; gender and the perinatal period; parenting; alcohol and substance abuse; sexual health; health promotion; end-of-life care; primary care; cancer services; and more Inclusive Practice covers cultural humility and reflective practice; LGBTQ+ staff; bullying in the workplace; increasing visibility and institutional support; intersectionality; supporting colleagues; caring for LGBTQ+ young people; and more Arranges chapters in a logical and clinically useful manner, covering history, inequalities faced by the LGBTQ+ population, and how the information and evidence informs inclusive practice Includes practical advice and suggestions based on robust and referenced evidence An excellent reference for clinical practice and coursework in nursing, midwifery, allied health, and social work, as well as continuing practice courses in health care management and community and public health nursing
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A Month of Summer

A Month of Summer

Lisa Wingate

BERKLEY BOOKS
2008
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An ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart in the first novel in the Blue Sky Hill series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours. Changes aren't in Rebecca Macklin's plans when she receives a long-distance call from the Dallas police. Her aging father has been found repeatedly wandering the city streets alone, and his wife has suffered a serious illness and landed in a nursing home. Despite the demands of the busy LA legal practice Rebecca shares with her husband, she must put aside old resentments and return to her childhood home. When Hanna Beth Parker hears about the arrival of her stepdaughter, Rebecca, who has stayed away for decades, she knows something is terribly wrong. Suddenly, the last person she'd ever turn to for help is the only one she can count on. But forging a relationship with Rebecca will require awakening old ghosts. In this moving story of separation and forgiveness, two women will unravel the betrayals of the past, examine the yearnings of the heart, and discover the truest meaning of family.
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Fear Nothing: A Detective D.D. Warren Novel

Fear Nothing: A Detective D.D. Warren Novel

Lisa Gardner

DUTTON
2014
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Detective D. D. Warren must consult one killer to catch another in this taut thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling "master of psychological suspense" (Associated Press). They were daughters of a monster--a father who slaughtered eight prostitutes before dying himself. Dr. Adeline Glen left the nightmare behind, and now she specializes in pain management. Her sister, Shana Day, followed in her father's violent footsteps, first killing at age fourteen and being incarcerated for more than twenty-five years. After a brutal attack, Boston Detective D. D. Warren needs Adeline's professional help to recover physically. But when a new psychopath known as the Rose Killer begins a reign of terror, D. D. must also consult the insane Shana--who claims she can help catch the madman. D. D. may not be back on the job, but she is back on the hunt. Because the Rose Killer isn't just targeting lone women; he's targeting D. D. And she knows there's only one way to take him down...
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A Gift to Give & Coloring Book

A Gift to Give & Coloring Book

Lisa Dubinski

Lulu.com
2010
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About a girl who loves someone a lot and wants to do something special for that someone, but doesn't know what to do. Searching for answers she finally comes up with an idea. It's all in your heart and mind, in finding the perfect gift someone will cherish for the rest of their lives.
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Captured In A Life Case For Truth

Captured In A Life Case For Truth

Lisa Leikam

Lisa Leikam
2020
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There's more to life than meets the eye. Lisa was finding life was filled with magical and mystical phenomenon's, signs, and revelations. She was finding love, angels, and guidance from Heaven, around her. Angels and loved ones crossed over, were perpetually close. She discovered, love never dies. It was eternal, and forever. The defined signs, and exemplary exhibits, were being compiled. And yet, there was that one unknown. The sign formed mysteriously, in their trashcan.She had shown photographs, and the trash can, to a multitude of diverse cultured people. None would have an answer on how the form, made of ashes, appeared or formed.It wasn't a normal thing to find; it wasn't made by the hands of man, machine, or nature. It's finding and appearance had always felt sacred, too her. Gambling, playing the odds for truth and meaning, led by her faith, Lisa finds herself an investigator in her own life. A truth-seeking case in what appeared before her. What she discovers and reveals is more than just a story. It's a healing, a transformation from illness into wellness, through faith and belief. It shows the mental truths and evidence of a single unknown word. And it can change one's life, health, and way of thinking. Was this a life path, predestined, where there are no coincidences, and everything in life was aligned and coordinated, in reason and purpose? Was she, in truth, answering a call with her story, in light of a spiritual purpose? The truth, lies within.
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We Are a Garden

We Are a Garden

Lisa Westberg Peters; Victoria Tentler-Krylov

Schwartz Wade
2021
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This lyrical and extremely timely picture book illuminates the many different migrants who have made their homes in North America through the centuries. Long ago a strong wind blew. It blew people, like seeds, to a new land. The wind blew in a girl and her clan, where herds of mammoths still wandered the frozen tundra. It later blew a boy and his family across frigid waters, and they spread across the new land. Over time, the wind continued to disperse newcomers from all directions. It blew in men who hoped to find gold, and slave ships, and immigrant families. And so it continued, for generations and generations. Here is a moving and tender picture book that beautifully examines centuries of North American history and its people.
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Little Pumpkin: A First Halloween Story

Little Pumpkin: A First Halloween Story

Lisa Edwards

Viking Books for Young Readers
2022
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Follow Little Pumpkin as she and Big Pumpkin prepare for a fun night with their fall friends With gentle, rhyming text, Little Pumpkin is perfect for the smallest readers to celebrate fall. While exploring the love between a parent and child, this board book is an excellent expression of love with a unique fall theme. Little Pumpkin and Big Pumpkin greet their nighttime friends, from bats to cats to owls and beyond. With a fun Halloween theme, this board book with a fun and special cover is perfect for little hands.
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Fear Nothing: A Detective D.D. Warren Novel

Fear Nothing: A Detective D.D. Warren Novel

Lisa Gardner

Penguin Publishing Group
2023
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In #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner's latest pulse-pounding thriller, Detective D. D. Warren must face a new fear as a serial killer terrorizes Boston. My name is Dr. Adeline Glen. Due to a genetic condition, I can't feel pain. I never have. I never will. The last thing Boston Detective D. D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice crooning in her ear. . . . She is later told she managed to discharge her weapon three times. All she knows is that she is seriously injured, unable to move her left arm, unable to return to work. My sister is Shana Day, a notorious murderer who first killed at fourteen. Incarcerated for thirty years, she has now murdered more people while in prison than she did as a free woman. Six weeks later, a second woman is discovered murdered in her own bed, her room containing the same calling cards from the first: a bottle of champagne and a single red rose. The only person who may have seen the killer: Detective D. D. Warren, who still can't lift her child, load her gun, or recall a single detail from the night that may have cost her everything. Our father was Harry Day, an infamous serial killer who buried young women beneath the floor of our home. He has been dead for forty years. Except the Rose Killer knows things about my father he shouldn't. My sister claims she can help catch him. I think just because I can't feel pain doesn't mean my family can't hurt me. D.D. may not be back on the job, but she is back on the hunt. Because the Rose Killer isn't just targeting lone women, he is targeting D.D. And D.D. knows there is only one way to take him down: Fear nothing.
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A Night to Die For

A Night to Die For

Lisa Schroeder

RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
2022
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When a boy finds a girl's body in the ditch on prom night...he becomes the primary suspect in her murder. Prom dreams. Prom Screams. Mario Woods is looking forward to one normal night before he graduates. He's spent most of high school riding solo. But when fate lands him a date for prom, he figures this might be his chance to be less of a loner. Only, prom turns out to be a disaster. Just when Mario thought the night couldn't get any worse, he sees something on the side of the road while driving home. That something is Prom Queen Maribelle Starr--murdered and left for dead. All Mario wanted was to go to prom...but somehow, he ended up in hell.
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A Copycat Conundrum (The Misfits)

A Copycat Conundrum (The Misfits)

Lisa Yee; Dan Santat

RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
2025
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When San Francisco is under strange attacks--like earthquakes affecting only two city blocks at a time--who're you gonna call? An elite team of crime-fighting underdogs, that's who The Misfits are on the case in this hilarious illustrated series "For any kid who's felt like a misfit, this crackling adventure packs a wallop " --Lincoln Peirce, creator of Big Nate Oof After solving the case of the Royal Rumpus, Olive Cobin Zang and her elite team of underdogs are on top of the world. As the awkward, crime-fighting Misfits, they're acing every mission thrown at them from NOCK (aka No One Can Know, the covert agency they work for). But when their classmate Zeke starts receiving threatening notes, the Misfits are stumped. They're no strangers to danger, but this case is a total head-scratcher. Who would target kind, friendly Zeke . . . unless he's not what he seems to be? At the same time, unusual earthquakes start shaking up San Francisco just as priceless art goes missing, and the Misfits are called to investigate. Is it a coincidence that the city is under attack while Zeke is getting mysterious messages? Or is it all just a cover for a scheme bigger than any they've faced before? For other Misfit adventures from Newbery Honoree Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, don't miss The Misfits #1: A Royal Conundrum
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