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The best assassination in the nation / by Cohen, Joshua,author.;
"Benjamin Gold is damaged goods. After he cracked up in the war and was discharged into a psych ward, his rich wife dumped him. Right after that, the white-shoe law firm that never hired Jews dumped him too; without powerful in-laws, it didn't matter how many cases he won or how much he shortened his name. Unemployable as a lawyer, he wound up working as a private eye - and not exactly at the top of the profession. Drunk and anorectic, his only remaining friends are bartenders and bottles. After a long string of jilted wives and small-time scams, Gold isn't expecting the beautiful daughter of his legal hero to show up in his office. Especially not with a crazy theory that her father - recently shot dead, supposedly in a random robbery - was in fact assassinated by order of Cleveland's biggest tycoon, Clayton Forsythe.To prove Judith Sorin's case, Benjamin Gold has to navigate a web of lies and evasion, a legal establishment that's been bought and paid for, disappearing witnesses, the FBI, surprisingly polite thugs, and the Forsythes - who just happen to be his former in-laws. A tall order for anyone, and Benny Goldstein has never been lucky.."--Publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Veterans; Jewish men; Private investigators; Alcoholics; Lawyers; Murder;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Disruptive acts : the new woman in fin-de-siècle France / by Roberts, Mary Louise,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new woman," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered non-traditional marriages, and some took up with the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teaching. All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living unconventional lives and doing supposedly "masculine" work outside the home." "Mary Louise Roberts examines a constellation of famous new women active in journalism and the theater, including Marguerite Durand, founder of the women's newspaper La Fronde; the journalists Severine and Gyp; and the actress Sarah Bernhardt. Roberts demonstrates how the tolerance for play acting in both these arenas allowed new women to stage acts that profoundly disrupted accepted gender roles. The existence of La Fronde itself was such an act, because it demonstrated that women could write just as well about the same subjects as men - even about the volatile Dreyfus Affair. When female reporters for La Fronde put on disguises to get a scoop or wrote under a pseudonym, and when actresses played men on stage, they demonstrated that gender identities were not fixed or natural, but inherently unstable. Thanks to the adventures of new women like these, conventional domestic femininity was exposed as a choice, not a destiny."--Jacket.
Subjects: Durand, Marguerite, 1864-1936.; Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923.; Gyp, 1849-1932.; Séverine, 1855-1929.; Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935; Feminism; Sex role; Feminism.; Women's movement.; Gender roles.;
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The Damascus way [large print] / by Bunn, T. Davis,1952-(CARDINAL)349241; Oke, Janette,1935-(CARDINAL)504519;
In this riveting drama of the early church, Jacob, a young caravan guard, delivers messages among the new followers as he learns what it means to be a Christian--and to love and trust the young Greek girl who is neither accepted by the Jews or the Gentiles.Julia has everything money can buy...except for acceptance by either the Gentiles or the Jews. Her Greek father already has a wife and family, leaving Julia and her Hebrew mother second-class citizens. But when they are introduced to followers of the Way, they become part of that community of believers. Abigail's brother, Jacob, now a young man, is attempting to discover his own place as a Christian. He is concerned that being more serious about his faith means trading away the exhilaration of his current profession as a caravan guard. Hired by Julia's father to protect the wealthy merchant's caravans on the secretive "Frankincense Trail"--undercover transport of this highly valuable commodity--Jacob also passes letters and messages between various communities of believers. He is alarmed to find out that Julia, hardly more than a girl, is also a messenger. Can their immediate mistrust be put aside to finally bring their hearts together?
Subjects: Bible fiction.; Christian fiction.; Large print books.; Bible.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The Rembrandt book / by Schwartz, Gary,1940-author.(CARDINAL)183396; Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)169817;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-376) and indexes.Introduction. The Rembrandt facts ; Caveat lector: an instructive case ; Taking our terms from Rembrandt -- A Dutch artist's life. The Republic ; Leiden ; Artistic traditions inherited ; A brief life ; Key dates ; Art and faith -- Family, loved ones, households. The vanishing van Rijns and ascendant Uylenburghs ; Saskia ; Hendrickje ; Titus ; Households -- Craft. The studio ; An illustrated glossary of Rembrandt's drawing techniques ; Drawings ; Pen and ink ; Ink and wash ; White watercolor or body color ; Dry media: Black chalk, Charcoal, Red chalk, Silverpoint ; Mixed media ; Mechanical treatments ; Techniques not used ; An illustrated glossary of Rembrandt's etching techniques ; Rembrandt's technique as a painter: Support and priming, THe paint layers ; Form ; Color ; Light ; Observation ; Preparatory drawings ; Storytelling ; The non finito look -- Earning and spending. The market ; Art as a profession and a livelihood ; Pupils and assistants ; Buying and paying for a house and its contents -- Patrons. Leiden patrons ; Patrons in The Hague ; Great Amsterdam and Rembrandt's small part of it ; The new market ; The Kloveniersdoelen ; The Staalhof ; The town hall ; The Trip House ; Rulers and leaders ; Men of the cloth ; Patricians ; Military men ; Merchants, manufacturers, tradesmen and professionals ; Scholars and poets ; Artists and collectors -- Landscape. Rembrandt dips his toes in the water ; A start on dry land ; Bible stories in space ; Rembrandt and no longer Rembrandt ; A smattering of landscape paintings ; Lost landscapes ; How and where did Rembrandt make his landscape drawings? ; Rembrandt's working walks ; The Amstel then and now ; Two drawings of the guild hall of the Bergen merchants and their dates ; The sublime and the ridiculous at De Omval ; Outdoor printmaking? ; The drawings ; Landscape and love life ; Country houses and Rembrandt's finances ; Is that all there is? ; Animals -- Humankind. The senses and the passions ; Crafts and trades ; Beggars ; Readers and writers ; Sleepers ; Foreign ways ; Near yet not quite there: Rembrandt and the Jews ; Vices and virtues, thought and action -- Man and god. The holy family ; Christ's ministry ; Passion, death and afterdeath ; Divine intervention ; Holy people ; Moral examples from the Old Testament ; The man of God: Simeon -- Afterlife -- Rembrandt as a Christian rhetorician of the brush.
Subjects: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Tracing your ancestors in the National Archives / by Bevan, Amanda.(CARDINAL)224979; Bevan, Amanda.Tracing your ancestors in the Public Record Office.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This seventh edition, the first since the Public Record Office became The National Archives, includes updates throughout on the census and records of inheritance, births marriages and deaths of Britons overseas, immigration, the army, merchant seamen, the poor, crime, justice and more; a new text feature showing how each record can be accessed, whether online, as documents, microfilm, etc; a new index to record series; and an additional chapter on accessing other archives.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; National Archives (Great Britain);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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