When a department store clerk plunges to her death, detective Mark East must discern whether foul play was involved. "A treasure of a mystery novel." — The New York Times Book Review.

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This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. Some readings would see Barbie as reproducing ethnicity and gender in a particularly coarse and damaging way - a cultural icon of racism and sexism. Rogers develops a broader, more challenging picture. She shows how the cultural meaning of Barbie is more ambiguous than the narrow, appearance-dominated model that is attributed to the doll. For a start, Barbie′s sexual identity is not clear-cut. Similarly her class situation is ambiguous. But all interpretations agree that, with her enormous range of lifestyle `accessories′, Barbie exists to consume. Her body is the perfect metaphor of modern times: plastic, standardized and oozing fake sincerity.

For those who suffer with noisy neighbors, bullying bosses, inconsiderate drivers, revolting relatives, or faithless lovers, this little kit promises to impart the stress-relieving benefits of revenge therapy. The life-enchancing kit comes with a full-color guide to a huge range of tension-relieving techniques plus a revenge doll and color-coded pins.

I am drawn to the concept of the Heldin family and your main character, Hilda, as she moves through life and faces different questions and experiences. Amy Gingerich, Editorial Director, The Herald Press In the early 1900s, fourteen-year-old Hilda Heldin offers God a promiseshe will give her heart to Jesus if He heals her ailing mother. But God does not make bargains. Not long after Hildas mother dies, her father, a Mennonite preacher and Minnesota farmer prays for a new wife. Worried that his three children need a mother, he pens a letter to Ukrainian schoolteacher Leah Loewen, a spinster he knows. Before long, they are marriedeven as Hilda and her younger sister still struggle with their grief. Hilda must meet the challenges of her Mennonite faith and life on the prairie, she finds the strength to endure weather catastrophes, world wars, birth, and deathall while maturing into adulthood and discovering her true identity. Heldin tells an unforgettable tale of a brave womans compelling, coming-of-age journey as she tries to come to terms with the faith that governs her life.