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Amy, My Daughter

Amy, My Daughter

Mitch Winehouse

The intimate, inside story of the ultimately tragic life of multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse (“Rehab,” “Back to Black”) is told by the one person most able to tell it—Amy’s closest advisor, her ...
You Should Pity Us Instead: Stories

You Should Pity Us Instead: Stories

Amy Gustine

Amy Gustine's short fiction has appeared in theKenyon Review,North American Review,Black Warrior Review, the Massachusetts Review, and many other places. She lives in Ohio.
Musical (African) Americanization in the New Europe: hip ...

Musical (African) Americanization in the New Europe: hip ...

J. Griffith Rollefson

Amy Louise Wood builds on Harris's work, suggesting that: "In this way, the black 'criminal' was not ritually expunged from the community. Indeed... the rituals surrounding the lynching ensured that the (now disintegrated) black body was ...
Amy's Slippers

Amy's Slippers

Mary Chapman

Amy's Slippers. Amy's mum is fed up with dirty footprints on the carpet, but Amy says that she can't find her slippers.
The Little Black Book of Shots and Shooters: A Drinker's ...

The Little Black Book of Shots and Shooters: A Drinker's ...

Eric Furman

The Little Black Books The Little Black Book of Barbecue The Little Black Book of Beer The Little Black Book of Burgers The Little Black Book of Casino Games The Little Black Book of Chocolate The Little Black Book of Cocktails The Little ...
Amy's Moon

Amy's Moon

Amy Middlebrook

We all watch the beautiful moon at night. But what if the moon watches back? In the delightful children's story Amy's Moon, one night the moon looks in at Amy's family through the windows of her house on his magical journey through the sky.
The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree: A Novel of ...

The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree: A Novel of ...

Amy Thomas

A Novel of Sherlock Holmes Amy Thomas ... 3GX www.mxpublishing.com Digital edition converted and distributed in 2012 by Andrews UK Limited www. andrewsuk.com © Copyright 2013 Amy Thomas The right of Amy Thomas to be identified ...
Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance

Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance

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DeFrantz revisits the dances of several black male twentieth-century choreographers, particularly Alvin Ailey, in "Simmering Passivity: The Black Male Body in Concert Dance." He finds that many African-American men created images of themselves on stage that both reinscribed and subtly shifted long- standing stereotypes of the black body. Amy Koritz, like Manning, examines race in Martha Graham''s work, although her project is quite different. She views several of Graham''s dances ...
How to Be Black

How to Be Black

Baratunde Thurston

Have you ever been called “too black” or “not black enough”? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? Have you ever heard of black people? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you.
Amy's Slippers

Amy's Slippers

Mary Chapman

Amy's mum is fed up with dirty footprints on the carpet, but Amy says that she can't find her slippers. Now, if only she had some magic ones - wouldn't that be great? Guess what is waiting for her when she gets home from school?
Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom

Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom

Amy Borkowsky

" Amy also reveals the stories behind the messages and shares calls not available on CD, each one brimming with the worry and annoying comments only a loving mother could dish out.
Amy Snow: A Novel

Amy Snow: A Novel

Tracy Rees

'A sparkling and compelling mystery. Amy Snow captured our hearts from the very first page' Richard and Judy. Abandoned on a bank of snow as a baby, Amy is taken in at nearby Hatville Court.
Stanford

Stanford

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Lastly, a hearty thank you to Amy Jen Su for her tireless work as our Class Notes co-correspondent. Amy is taking leave from her correspondent duties to spend more time with her family. Amy had an extraordinary ability to ferret out classmate  ...
Amy Chua: Life of a Tiger Mother: The life and times of Amy ...

Amy Chua: Life of a Tiger Mother: The life and times of Amy ...

Debbie J.

ABOUT THE BOOK Amy Chua was a wellrespected and highprofile Yale Law Professor who published two bestsellers yet, no one seemed to have taken much notice of her.
Amy's Three Best Things

Amy's Three Best Things

Philippa Pearce

Amy wants to stay three nights with her granny - all by herself Granny gives her a lovely time, but each night Amy feels homesick. Luckily, she has brought three things with her which help in remarkable ways.
Ending Addiction for Good: The Groundbreaking, Holistic, ...

Ending Addiction for Good: The Groundbreaking, Holistic, ...

Richard Taite

When Amy Green's daughter said, “Mom, you're an addict and you need help,” Amy called it “the most mortifying moment of my life.” At fiftysix years old and with no family history of addiction, Amy simply couldn't believe that shehad become ...
If I Knew Then

If I Knew Then

Amy Fisher

The Amy Fisher case became an international obsession; in the United States, she was the subject of three major TV movies, a musical, books and even trading cards. Now aged 30, in If I Knew Then Amy tells her own story for the first time.
Inspector McLean Ebook Bundle:

Inspector McLean Ebook Bundle:

James Oswald

He searched first for the name Amy Prendergast, then Amy Calton and then, in a flash of inspiration, Amy Prendergast-Calton. Eventually he found a collection of obscure obituaries, indexed by someone with clearly far too much time on their ...
The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies

The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies

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The global landscape of crossborder reproductive care: Twenty key findings for the new millennium. Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 24(3), 158– 163. Amy C. Steinbugler Amy C. Steinbugler Steinbugler, Amy C. Interracial.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler - A 15-minute Summary & Analysis

Yes Please by Amy Poehler - A 15-minute Summary & Analysis

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Important People Amy Poehler: Amy Poehler is the author of Yes Please. She is a writer, actress, and comedienne who has worked with the comedy theater groups , Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade, and starred on the televisions ...
The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889

Amy Levy

Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide at the age of 28 in 1889.
Assessing the Teaching of Writing

Assessing the Teaching of Writing

Amy E. Dayton

with his wife Amy and four kids. Amy C. Kimme Hea is a writing program director and an associate professor of rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of English at the University of Arizona and author of Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of  ...
Loving Amy: A Mother's Story

Loving Amy: A Mother's Story

Janis Winehouse

But who was the real Amy? Amy's mother, Janis, knew her in a way that no-one else did. In this warm, poignant and, at times, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals the full story of the daughter she loved.
Campaign and Election Reform: A Reference Handbook

Campaign and Election Reform: A Reference Handbook

Glenn H. Utter

Douglas. J. Amy. (b. 1951). Douglas Amy, an expert on electoral voting systems, is an advocate for election reform and the use of proportional representation in U.S. elections. In 1981 Amy ...
The Language of Strong Black Womanhood: Myths, Models, ...

The Language of Strong Black Womanhood: Myths, Models, ...

Karla D. Scott

Black women—a survival strategy well documented as feminist (Collins, 2000). Blogging while Black (and feminist?) Christelyn Karazin in a Madamenoire post on The New Black Feminist says Black feminist bloggers “are going beyond just ...
Amy Fisher: My Story

Amy Fisher: My Story

Amy Fisher

Currently serving a five-to-fifteen-year sentence for first-degree assault ("If you're a celebrity prisoner, they make life very tough on you"), Amy has finally told her side of the story, in full and fascinating detail, to veteran ...
How to Be Black (Enhanced Edition)

How to Be Black (Enhanced Edition)

Baratunde Thurston

Also, all instances of the color black have been rendered in an enhanced extra-black version just for this edition. Have you ever been called "too black" or "not black enough"? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person?
Supplement to The Stegall family of Pontotoc County, ...

Supplement to The Stegall family of Pontotoc County, ...

Charline Roye Henderson

AMY OAKES (MYERS) 1. Moses 2. Thomas 3. Jeremiah Green, Sr. 4. James Morrison (Jim) 5. Margaret Clementine 6. Amy Oakes Amy Oakes b. 21 Apr. 1887 Pontotoc Co., MS; d. 15 July 1974 (died in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico)  ...
Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality ...

Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality ...

Cristina L. H. Traina

Brown, Amy Benson. “Sweet Release.” In The Reality ofBreastfeeding: Reflections by Contemporary Women, edited by Amy Benson Brown and Kathryn Read McPherson, 31–34. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1998. Brown, Amy Benson, and ...
Ask Amy Green: Wedding Belles

Ask Amy Green: Wedding Belles

Sarah Webb

Amy’s mom is getting married!

who called from an unknown number?