Shayna


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Escaping religious persecution after a pogrom against Jews in Ukraine in 1919, Shayna, a seventeen-year-old, along with her orphaned four-year-old nephew, her fiancé and his mother begin a treacherous journey to reach safety in America.The novel portrays the Yiddish culture of the shtetl and New York's Lower East side as the reader comes to know little Dovid, who lives with the trauma of losing his family; Yussi, who believes God has forsaken him in this new country; and his mother, Manya, who struggles to find a way to fit in America.Shayna's courage and determination hold them together and weaves a rich fabric from their separate threads to make a loving family, a safe place from which to build a new life in a new country.




Shayna


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After an unexpected enemy tragically outcasts her into the wild, young 7-year-old Shayna must find her way through ice, blood, and tears in order to fight for her survival and discover the truth behind the disappearance of her father and the secrets to the wealthy estate of the city of Hemisturn.




The Story of My Life - By Shayna


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The story of my life is about dog racing and a good deal more. It is about cruelty, the human capacity for cruelty towards human animals and animals of other species. Dog racing, commonly known as Greyhound racing, is not a sport because no legitimate sport uses enslaved/involuntary participants and murders many of them once they start losing and no longer are competitive and profitable. Dog racing is, in fact, a deadly form of entertainment, as are horse racing, dog fighting, cock fighting, hunting and circuses that use enslaved other-specied animals. Incidentally, I remember Greta talking about a form of entertainment that was popular in Ancient Rome and which took place in public arenas. There enslaved humans known as gladiators were forced to engage in deadly combat against each other to the delight of cheering crowds. Often the losing gladiator was killed outright, and sometimes he lived depending upon the mood of the spectators. Unlike some spectator sports whose fans identify with and form emotional attachments to the athletes, dog racing fans care little or nothing about the Greyhounds. This detachment can be attributed to the racers' short racing careers; some race for just one season or part of a season at a specific track, and then are shipped elsewhere. But let's return to my story. Please know that I am real, as are other characters. On the other hand, some characters are not real. They are fictional. And although some of the events discussed in Part One are based on real happenings, some are not, and Part One is a work of fiction. In conclusion, I hope with all my heart that this book touches the hearts and minds of its readers. - Shayna Lanesboro, MA (1998)




Shayna Gladstone: in Search of the Scientist


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After escaping her elementary school gym class, Shayna Gladstone is almost crushed by a giant hot air balloon. She makes the acquaintance of the Balloon Lady of Terramanna, and as fate would have it, Shayna is just the young girl shes been looking for! Terramanna is the world of fun, frivolity, and merriment; however, an Age of Gloom approaches, and only Shayna can stop it. An ancient prophecy from the Terraman Oracle tells of a hero who will save Terramanna from the Age of Gloom. The foretold heros name is Shayna; could little Shayna Gladstone be the hero they seek? She agrees to go back to Terramanna with the Balloon Lady in her huge hot air balloon, but theres trouble when they arrive. A very famous scientist, Minnie Maudde, has gone missing They suspect the evil Falco, who is trying to bring about the imminent Age of Gloom. In order to restore fun and frivolity to Terramanna, Shayna must swallow her fears and find the scientist. Will she be brave enough to face Falco and save Terramanna? Her journey takes her into the depths of a new, magical world, and soon, it becomes personal, as Shayna realizes the Gladstone family has a big secret!




Politics as Sound


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Uncompromising and innovative, hardcore punk in Washington, DC, birthed a new sound and nurtured a vibrant subculture aimed at a specific segment of the city's youth. Shayna L. Maskell explores DC's hardcore scene during its short but storied peak. Led by bands like Bad Brains and Minor Threat, hardcore in the nation's capital unleashed music as angry and loud as it was fast and minimalistic. Maskell examines the music's aesthetics and the unique impact of DC's sociopolitical realities on the sound and the scene that emerged. As she shows, aspects of the music's structure merged with how bands performed it to put across distinctive representations of race, class, and gender. But those representations could be as complicated and contradictory as they were explicit. A fascinating analysis of a punk rock hotbed, Politics as Sound tells the story of how a generation created music that produced--and resisted--politics and power.




The Purple Palace & Other Poems


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The Purple Palace & other Poems is the debut Poetry collection by Artist Shayna Klee. The semi-autobiographical book is divided into two parts and takes place between two countries; Part I, "is a cloud a living thing?", takes place during the Author's tumultueuse teen years with tropical Florida as a backdrop. Part II, "Inside my Shell", explores themes of transformation as the Author creates a new life for herself in Paris, France. The poems in this collection explore the surreal rollercoaster of youth, the performance of identity, being an outsider and the tension between romantic idealism and the dystopic world in which the author finds herself. Her approach to her work as a visual artist is mirrored in her poetry style, which is accompanied by all original illustrations by the Author.




Hot & Cold


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He's hot, he's cold, he's everything I desire.Boys. Men. Whatever you want to call that seemingly foreign species. I've always been lost with what to do in their presence. There is no hope for the mess that is me, Lexie Harper. Maybe college will be different.Bumping into Liam-literally-seems kismet. The perfect first boyfriend for a girl like me. He hits all the marks, yet something seems to be missing from this puzzle.Then there's Josh. I'm free to be who I want with him; the pieces all fit so effortlessly. Unfortunately, it's forbidden for us to be together, which makes him shut me out. Despite this, I have a yearning for him that burns hotter every time we collide.While my mind bounces between both men, I'm left needing to make a decision. Being the girl who always plays it safe, the direction seems obvious.That is, until Josh and I are thrown together for my first college project and I learn desire consumes us both. Maybe it's time I broke the rules and let my heart make the choice.Can I handle the on-again, off-again relationship with the one who sets my soul on fire?




Hearts of Metal Boxset: Vol 1-3


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Three rockstar romances with heroes to adore and heroines to admire. A heavy metal fansite owner gets the chance to become a roadie for her favorite band. She's determined to be one of the guys and fight her attraction to the sexy lead singer. A bass player auditions a beautiful, damaged woman to replace his band's deceased guitarist. He claims he's doing it to repay a favor, but he has other, secret motives. One of the most worshipped singers in the metal world rescues a woman from attackers. When she faints in his arms, he decides to bring her home. Books included are Kissing Vicious, With Vengeance, and Rock God. Also includes a teaser for the heavy metal Christmas novella, Metal and Mistletoe! Subgenres: rockstar romance, workplace romance, contemporary romance, new adult romance “Hearts of Metal is a rock series that is not to be missed.”—Kara’s Books "Whether you're a romance novel fan looking for a different genre to explore, or a romance virgin who loves loud and heavy rock music and is interested in novels set inside that world (as someone who worked for years on a heavy metal magazine, I can vouch for the accuracy of her research), I couldn't recommend this series more highly." --JJ Adams: Hot Metal Magazine




Glannon Guide to Contracts


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Thoroughly teaching all legal terrain through which your first-year contracts course will lead you, the Fourth Edition of The Glannon Guide to Contracts will stand by your side as a constant course companion. Its user-friendly style, its stories, its scenarios, and its illustrations, make contract law come alive, turning your course into an adventure of intellectual fun as, meanwhile, you learn the law of first-year contracts--all of it. Like all Glannon Guides, this book is interactive; it's replete with multiple choice problems--one after another, after another--each one requiring that you take hold of human dealings and events and apply to them the law you've learned, with each problem followed by elaborate analyses as to why--exactly why--the right answers are right, and why--exactly why--the wrong ones are wrong. For the first-year law student, The Glannon Guide to Contracts cuts a clear and lighted path from the first day of class to the final exam. New to the Fourth Edition: Discussion of the Supreme Court overruling of Roe v. Wade Revisions and updates to the examples throughout Professors and students will benefit from: A friendly, engaging teaching style that quickly draws students close to the subject of contracts. Exhaustive coverage of all first-year contract law Multiple choice problems and analyses that unceasingly put the students' learning to the test to shore up and sharpen their mastery of the law and its application Suitability to professors' diverse organization of their syllabi, whether they begin their courses with contract formation, consideration, or remedies




No Substitute


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First loves never last . . . except when they do.When Amy Welsh returns to Goose Bay as a substitute teacher, she has no intention of seeing Quentin Macmillan, the man who once left her waiting in the rain clutching her suitcase and dreaming of becoming his wife. Seventeen years later, his teenage daughter shows up in Amy's class with plans to reunite her widowed father with the woman he has always loved. When the assignment is forgiveness and healing, will this young teacher pass the test?