Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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Two Mexican-American brothers--Lorenzo, who becomes a farmer, and Vito, who gains fame as a boxer--take different paths in life after the brutal murder of their mother, only to have their journeys converge and bring them face-to-face with a common enemy.
Author: Angie Cruz Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250208440 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story “Will have you LAUGHING line after line...Cruz AIMS FOR THE HEART, and fires.” —Los Angeles Times "An endearing portrait of a FIERCE, FUNNY woman." —The Washington Post Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight. Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruz’s most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.
Author: Odessa Rose Publisher: La Caille Nous ISBN: 9780964763579 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Talented sculptress Tonya Mimms puts her artwork before everything, including her thirst for love. One drizzly morning she meets handsome accountant Malcolm Holland and beautiful bookstore owner Satin Pierce, and Tonya becomes the centerpiece of an erotic love triangle.
Author: Gail Crowder Publisher: ISBN: 9780983218517 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 74
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A Tall Glass of Water is a useful tool for any woman who can admit that she needs help putting her life into balance. Water is vital to sustaining human life. It plays a major role in our physical body's respiration, digestion, elimination, metabolism and homeostasis -- which is basically the balance of all the major systems. Without adequate amounts of water, dehydration begins and can be life-threatening. Gail Crowder offers practical tips to rehydrate those dry places that have shown up in your life because your energy is drained and your creativity has dried up while attempting to be 'everything to everybody all the time'. In A Tall Glass of Water, she acknowledges that the task of wearing multiple hats simultaneously can be very overwhelming for a woman. After sipping, gulping and sometimes choking on her own glass of water during her own life's journey trying to be the consummate wife, mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, employee and entrepreneur, Gail offers principles that have been proven to succeed. Are you dizzy from the dehydration due to the pressures pushing and pulling you in all directions? Be honest with yourself ......are you overwhelmed? Do you wish for more hours in the day? If so, immerse yourself in the pages of this book, soak up the theory and principles, and your refreshing will begin......Gail generously pours out the best practices for setting your life into balance. Drink at your own pace. Feeling a little thirsty? Remember......................... nothing quenches thirst like A Tall Glass of Water.
Author: Abi Curtis Publisher: ISBN: 9780995465756 Category : English fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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In the lower depths of a massive submarine, ship's zoologist Nerissa Crane takes an ultrasound of a heavily pregnant Asian elephant. The elephant conceived off-ship but, it transpires, was forced on board - along with Nerissa and a hastily assembled collection of humans and animals - by an apocalyptic environmental disaster that has flooded the earth. Nerissa is calm and solitary in her work and in navigating the trauma of her husband's presumed death in the floods; but when oneof her animal charges escapes, she is reluctantly forced to enter the ship's thrown-together communal world where she uncovers a shocking conspiracy that causes her to question who and what she is.
Author: Oba Olff Publisher: ISBN: 9780578512211 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 124
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This groundbreaking book explores the importance of Spiritualism especially for African Americans. As you read, you will gain a greater understanding of the foundations of Spiritualism and how to cultivate your spiritual court. Most importantly, this book dispels the boggy-isms improperly associated with every day cultural nuances practiced by African Americans.
Author: Pascal Richet Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118799399 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 1568
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This Encyclopedia begins with an introduction summarizing itsscope and content. Glassmaking; Structure of Glass, GlassPhysics,Transport Properties, Chemistry of Glass, Glass and Light,Inorganic Glass Families, Organic Glasses, Glass and theEnvironment, Historical and Economical Aspect of Glassmaking,History of Glass, Glass and Art, and outlinepossible newdevelopments and uses as presented by the best known people in thefield (C.A. Angell, for example). Sections and chapters arearranged in a logical order to ensure overall consistency and avoiduseless repetitions. All sections are introduced by a briefintroduction and attractive illustration. Newly investigatedtopics will be addresses, with the goal of ensuring that thisEncyclopedia remains a reference work for years to come.
Author: James E Shelby Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry ISBN: 1782625119 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 320
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This book provides a concise and inexpensive introduction for an undergraduate course in glass science and technology. The level of the book has deliberately been maintained at the introductory level to avoid confusion of the student by inclusion of more advanced material, and is unique in that its text is limited to the amount suitable for a one term course for students in materials science, ceramics or inorganic chemistry. The contents cover the fundamental topics of importance in glass science and technology, including glass formation, crystallization, phase separation and structure of glasses. Additional chapters discuss the most important properties of glasses, including discussion of physical, optical, electrical, chemical and mechanical properties. A final chapter provides an introduction to a number of methods used to form technical glasses, including glass sheet, bottles, insulation fibre, optical fibres and other common commercial products. In addition, the book contains discussion of the effects of phase separation and crystallization on the properties of glasses, which is neglected in other texts. Although intended primarily as a textbook, Introduction to Glass Science and Technology will also be invaluable to the engineer or scientist who desires more knowledge regarding the formation, properties and production of glass.
Author: Tatsuko Hatakeyama Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781536192148 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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In nature, green polymers (natural polymers) in plants and animals always coexist with water. The characteristic features of polymers organized in nature are difficult to understand without water. Specific features of green polymers are characterised via interaction with water molecules which strongly interact with the hydrophilic group of polymers. Molecular motion of the main chain of polysaccharides, whether extracted from wood, fungi, seaweed, or bacteria, is considerably enhanced in the presence of water. Not only in crystalline polysaccharides but also amorphous lignin, the effect of water on molecular motion is clearly observed by various experimental techniques. When the molecular motion of green polymers is investigated in the presence of water, molecular rearrangement occurs by the introduction of water into the system, and the higher-order structure is rearranged during molecular movement by heating conditions. Phase transition behaviour of water molecules is also affected in the presence of hydrophilic polymers, such as polysaccharides. Molecular enhancement of water molecules and hydrophilic polymers cooperate with each other and phase transition behaviour of the above system also corresponds to the above motion. Even the first-order phase transition of water is affected in the presence of polysaccharides. When glass transition behaviour of the natural polymer-water system is investigated, it is important to take into consideration the fact that the structural change of both components has necessarily taken place. In this book, the molecular relaxation of green polymers, especially the thermodynamic concept of green polymers and the bound water, will be described in Chapter 2. Various techniques to measure the glass transition of green polymers in dry and wet conditions are explained in Chapter 3. Special attention is paid to sample handling for controlling water content. Glass transition behaviour of various polysaccharides and model compounds is described in Chapter 4. An explanation of lignin and its synthetic model polymers is also given in Chapter 5.
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