Renee: 1234 books

FIND YOUR SISTER Three words scrawled on a piece of paper just upended Abby Winchester's world. She'd never known she even had a sister. Abby's sure she'll learn the truth after traveling to the sleepy Texas town where she was born. And tall, brooding Clay Tanner may find the answers she needs,...

• Transgender protagonist/transgender author provides authenticity • Social tour-de-force wrapped in a chilling mystery • A novel exploding with diversity • Author is a LGBT/transgender activist and is well known in Chicago • Author has experience as a magazine writer and editor • Author...

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and...

Spare Parts examines major developments in the field of organ replacement that occurred in the United States over the course of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. It focuses upon significant medical and social changes in the transplantation of human organs and on the development and clinical...

There are two things we know when welcoming a puppy into our homes: they're adorable and they grow into much bigger puppies. If we're not careful when our puppies become fully grown dogs we may find they don't put away some of their once adorable puppy habits such as nipping at our hands or barking at...

Art Hats in Renaissance City is an anthology of the personal reflections and aspirations of four generations in the new ecostructure in Singapore, from those who help formulate policies to that of the individual artists, who have helped develop and build an exciting arts and cultural scene from scratch...

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized...

This collection of thoughtful reflections looks at events and activities of everyday life and discovers routes to spiritual practice and deeper, daily spirituality. At the behest of CREDO Institute, Inc., which hosts health and wellness conferences and is supported by the Episcopal Church Pension...

TOO MUCH TO LOSE Surgical resident Sheila Lindstrom's career is right on track, until a handsome bull rider lands on her operating table and smack in the middle of her carefully planned life. As a patient, Brady Sawyer is strictly off-limits; but as a man, he's hard to resist. Brady...

Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of cultural revival and political upheaval. At the heart of this history was the figure of Cuculain, the...

Do you have a family member in trouble because of gambling? Awareness of the gambler’s problems is growing. Yet when gaming and gambling turn ugly, family members – spouses, children, parents, siblings, close friends -- suffer significantly also. This book is an aid and support for these family...

This is the first analysis of periodicals’ key role in U.S. feminism’s formation as a collective identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five hundred different feminist newsletters and newspapers were published in the United States. Agatha Beins shows...

COSMIC ENCOUNTER brings you the experience of viewing the development of human spirituality through the eternal eyes of the universe. Its insight reveals a deeper understanding of where we have been and what we have become. These conversations with Orion also uncover an intriguing glance into the...

Plagued by nightmares?  Via was too until she was empowered with Lucid Dreaming. In The Good Night Fairy Helps Via Change Her Dream*, *REMy and her phantasmagorical friends help a young girl change her scary nightmare to happier, more playful dream with the powerful psychological experience...