The Gina Gallo Mysteries Ebook Bundle

The Gina Gallo Mysteries Ebook Bundle
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Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9781459824065
ISBN-13 : 1459824067
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gina Gallo Mysteries Ebook Bundle by : Melodie Campbell

Follow along as reluctant mob goddaughter Gina Gallo gets dragged into one wild scheme after another by her bumbling mob family that never gets it right. This digital bundle includes the entire Gina Gallo Mystery series: The Goddaughter, The Goddaughter's Revenge (winner of the Arthur Ellis and Derringer Awards), The Artful Goddaughter, The Goddaughter Caper, The Bootlegger's Goddaughter and The Goddaughter Does Vegas. "Campbell's comic caper is just right for Janet Evanovich fans. Wacky family connections and snappy dialog make it impossible not to laugh." —Library Journal "The finest compact mystery series out there. The writing is polished, the funny bits sneak up on you and you've been had then had again before there's time to recover...A miniature gem, the work of an author at the absolute top of her game." —Canadian Mystery Reviews "Delivers a lot of tongue-in-cheek one-liners and a type of slapstick comedy one might expect in some mobster movies...Give this to readers who enjoy a deliciously funny tale." —VOYA

A Toast to Bargain Wines

A Toast to Bargain Wines
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781439195185
ISBN-13 : 1439195188
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis A Toast to Bargain Wines by : George M. Taber

The highly acclaimed author of "Judgment of Paris" explores the thriving business of bargain wines and offers his recommendations for the best values. Casual wine-drinkers and wine connoisseurs alike will benefit from this insider's guide to finding and enjoying good wine--at a great price.

Tangled Vines

Tangled Vines
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9781250033222
ISBN-13 : 1250033225
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Tangled Vines by : Frances Dinkelspiel

Noted California historian rips the oh-so-laid-back label off the California wine trade to show the violent and obsessive world underneath

Borderlands

Borderlands
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1879960958
ISBN-13 : 9781879960954
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Borderlands by : Gloria Anzaldúa

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez and Norma Cantú. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences growing up near the U.S./Mexico border, BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of borders as psychic, social, and cultural terrains that we inhabit and that inhabit us all. Drawing heavily on archival research and a comprehensive literature review while contextualizing the book within her theories and writings before and after its 1987 publication, this critical edition elucidates Anzaldúa's complex composition process and its centrality in the development of her philosophy. It opens with two introductory studies; offers a corrected text, explanatory footnotes, translations, and four archival appendices; and closes with an updated bibliography of Anzaldúa's works, an extensive scholarly bibliography on Borderlands, a brief biography, and a short discussion of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Papers. "Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pèrez's meticulous archival work and Norma Elia Cantú's life experience and expertise converge to offer a stunning resource for Anzaldúa scholars; for writers, artists, and activists inspired by her work; and for everyone. Hereafter, no study of Borderlands will be complete without this beautiful, essential reference."--Paola Bacchetta

Salt Sugar Fat

Salt Sugar Fat
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Publisher : Signal
Total Pages : 461
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ISBN-10 : 9780771057090
ISBN-13 : 0771057091
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Salt Sugar Fat by : Michael Moss

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry -- and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to addict us. Salt Sugar Fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential ingredients, over the past five decades, to dominate the North American diet. This is an eye-opening book that demonstrates how the makers of these foods have chosen, time and again, to double down on their efforts to increase consumption and profits, gambling that consumers and regulators would never figure them out. With meticulous original reporting, access to confidential files and memos, and numerous sources from deep inside the industry, it shows how these companies have pushed ahead, despite their own misgivings (never aired publicly). Salt Sugar Fat is the story of how we got here, and it will hold the food giants accountable for the social costs that keep climbing even as some of the industry's own say, "Enough already."

Simple Gifts

Simple Gifts
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9780743442237
ISBN-13 : 0743442237
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Simple Gifts by : Judith McNaught

4 Heartwarming Christmas Stories.

Cooking Data

Cooking Data
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9780822371823
ISBN-13 : 0822371820
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Cooking Data by : Cal (Crystal) Biruk

In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data are never clean; rather, they are always “cooked” during their production and inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce them. Examining how the relationships among fieldworkers, supervisors, respondents, and foreign demographers shape data, Biruk examines the ways in which units of information—such as survey questions and numbers written onto questionnaires by fieldworkers—acquire value as statistics that go on to shape national AIDS policy. Her approach illustrates how on-the-ground dynamics and research cultures mediate the production of global health statistics in ways that impact local economies and formulations of power and expertise.

Deadly Deception

Deadly Deception
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Publisher : Peltec Publishing Company
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 0964231611
ISBN-13 : 9780964231610
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Deadly Deception by : Robert E. Willner

The Norton Field Guide to Writing

The Norton Field Guide to Writing
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Publisher : W. W. Norton
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0393919560
ISBN-13 : 9780393919561
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The Norton Field Guide to Writing by : Richard Harvey Bullock

Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail--and now the number-one best seller.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 681
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ISBN-10 : 9781317200857
ISBN-13 : 1317200853
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization by : Leanne Hinton

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and language policy; language in educational institutions and in the home; new methodologies and venues for language learning; and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.