The Key to Nicholas Street


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A grisly murder reveals the hateful secrets that lie beneath a small town’s surface The locals call her the Ballou. An illustrator for a high-fashion magazine, she has been the talk of the upstate town of Sutton ever since she first appeared, paying cash for one of the finest houses on Nicholas Street. Daring, gaudy, and grand, she inspires envy in the women and lust in the men. And in one member of this quiet town, she is about to inspire murder. The trouble starts when her rakish New York lover moves in full time, scandalizing the prudish Ayers family next door. When the Ayers’ maid pays a social call to the Ballou, she finds her lying dead at the foot of a staircase—gray, cold, and fabulous no more. Suspicion falls on the Ayerses, whose starched exterior hides a wealth of ugly secrets. From this interlocking narrative told from the perspectives of the citizens of Sutton comes a reminder that no town is too small for murder.




Hollywood Highbrow


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Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.




Davis and Sherer Instructor's Manual to Accompany Applied Nutrition and Diet Therapy for Nurses, Second Edition


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Authored by a dietitian and a nursing instructor, this thoroughly revised second edition introduces nutrition and diet therapy as it relates to nursing practice. For this new edition, all chapters have been completely revised to incorporate information based on the most recent research, and new chapters have been added to reflect the latest developments in health care. This book provides a collaborative approach to nutritional care of clients with diverse backgrounds and nutritional requirements. The basic nutrition principles are presented in the nursing process format so the reader can easily apply them in providing nutrition support, performing client assessments, and giving client instruction.




Milly-Molly-Mandy's Family


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Milly-Molly-Mandy lives with her parents, her grandparents and her aunt and uncle in a little white cottage with a thatched roof. She loves to think of ways to surprise them, and they like to surprise her too! In these six lovely stories about the little girl in the pink-and-white frock and her family, read about Milly-Molly-Mandy’s adventures as she organizes a party for her grandparents, runs errands for the whole family, steals the show at the village concert and much more. These classic tales are as fresh and lively as when they were first written. Young readers will love discovering Milly-Molly-Mandy for the first time in a dainty, accessible format – and they’re sure to want to collect other titles in this charming series.







The Sex-Starved Marriage


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'Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache...' An estimated one in three couples suffer from problems associated with one partner having a higher libido than the other. Marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis has written THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE to help couples come to terms with this problem. Weiner Davis shows you how to address pyschological factors like depression, poor body image and communication problems that affect sexual desire. With separate chapters for the spouse that's ready for action and the spouse that's ready for sleep, THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE will help you re-spark your passion and stop you fighting about sex. Weiner Davis is renowned for her straight-talking style and here she puts it to great use to let you know you're not alone in having marital sex problems. Bitterness or complacency about ho-hum sex can ruin a marriage, breaking the emotional tie of good sex.




Orchestral Technique


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Journal


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PAPERBACK 8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94cm) 160 PAGE LINED JOURNAL/NOTEBOOK This sunflower design softcover lined journal can be used as a diary or notebook. Write all your plans, ideas, and notes into this XL notebook. Stylish, large, and beautiful. Size: XL - 8.5 x 11 inches. Inside: ruled on both sides, 160 pages. Cover: soft, matte. Perfect gift for a coworker, friend or relative for birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas or simply to give as a gift anytime of the year