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Scoundrels to the hoosegow Perry Mason moments and entertaining cases from the files of a prosecuting attorney / by Swingle, Morley

Table of Contents: “…The case of the Perry Mason moment -- The case of the dog on death row -- The case of the far-flung firearm -- The case of the shuddering door -- The case of the spiked milkshake -- The case of the camera-shy car thief -- The case of the cross-eyed juror -- The case of the Oprah appearance -- The case of the unlucky forger -- The case of the combat prosecutor -- The case of the fool for a client -- The case of the candid culprit -- The case of the millionaire murderer -- The case of the thug-tossed crack -- The case of the forgetful drunk -- The case of the girl in the shower -- The case of the stone-dead blood stone villain -- The case of the luckless lawyer -- The case of the embarrassing defense -- The case of the green-speckled coffee -- The case of the homicidal energizer bunny -- The case of the prancing mare -- The case of the considerate leaper -- The case of the weeping witness -- The case of the lead-footed physician -- The case of the titillating tape -- The case of the perforated patrol car -- The case of the battered bride -- The case of the shootout at the Super 8 Motel -- The case of the venomous voice -- The case of the pernicious protestors -- The case of the published prosecutor -- The case of the motivational message.…”
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Eduardo Barreiros and the recovery of Spain by Thomas, Hugh, 1931-

Table of Contents: “…-- Give to him who asks -- A clear, bright town -- The Spanish catastrophe -- People lived for politics -- There came forth from the soil armed men -- Red beret -- This cruel struggle -- Establishing a national syndicalist system -- The rich girl of the village -- Marching alone -- Transform your car to diesel -- Good-bye rivers, good-bye fountains, good-bye little streams -- A good source of income -- "Madrid! …”
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Orca echoes resource guide / by Van Tol, Alex, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…-- Classroom teaching ideas -- Literature circles -- Responding to literature -- Assessment -- Guided reading levels -- Books grouped by subject -- Book titles with themes -- Book summaries -- Index of teachers' guides -- A bee in your ear -- The big tree gang -- The birthday girl -- Bruno for real -- Captain Jake -- Cheetah -- Dimples delight -- Down the chimney with Googol and Googolplex -- A frog in my throat -- George most wanted -- George, the best of all! …”
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Eduardo Barreiros and the recovery of Spain by Thomas, Hugh, 1931-

Table of Contents: “…-- Give to him who asks -- A clear, bright town -- The Spanish catastrophe -- People lived for politics -- There came forth from the soil armed men -- Red beret -- This cruel struggle -- Establishing a national syndicalist system -- The rich girl of the village -- Marching alone -- Transform your car to diesel -- Good-bye rivers, good-bye fountains, good-bye little streams -- A good source of income -- "Madrid! …”
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Children's rights in Africa : a legal perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Mezmur -- Implementing the girl child's right to education in selected countries in Africa / Lea Mwambene -- Trafficking of children in Africa : an overview of research, international obligations and existing legal provisions / Jacqui Gallinetti and Daksha Kassan -- Intercountry adoption from an African perspective / Trynie Davel -- HIV/AIDS and children's rights in law and policy in Africa / Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Benyam D. …”

Orca echoes resource guide / by Van Tol, Alex, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…-- Classroom teaching ideas -- Literature circles -- Responding to literature -- Assessment -- Guided reading levels -- Books grouped by subject -- Book titles with themes -- Book summaries -- Index of teachers' guides -- A bee in your ear -- The big tree gang -- The birthday girl -- Bruno for real -- Captain Jake -- Cheetah -- Dimples delight -- Down the chimney with Googol and Googolplex -- A frog in my throat -- George most wanted -- George, the best of all! …”
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Cometh the hour / by Archer, Jeffrey

Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Outlaw gangs in an outlaw society : Borges' "The dread redeemer Lazarus Morell" and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The Irish immigrant : Asbury's Gangs of New York -- The draft riots : Baker's Paradise Alley -- Borges' "Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities" -- A heritage of guns : McMurtry's Anything for Billy -- The 1920s in Chicago : Farrell's Studs Lonigan -- Jewish gangs in Brownsville, 1944/45 : Shulman's The Amboy Dukes -- 1940s in Harlem : Wright's Rite of passage -- Nazis and gangs : Golding's The lord of the flies -- A girl gang in the 1950s : Oates' Foxfire -- The 1960s : S.E. …”
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Children's rights in Africa : a legal perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Mezmur -- Implementing the girl child's right to education in selected countries in Africa / Lea Mwambene -- Trafficking of children in Africa : an overview of research, international obligations and existing legal provisions / Jacqui Gallinetti and Daksha Kassan -- Intercountry adoption from an African perspective / Trynie Davel -- HIV/AIDS and children's rights in law and policy in Africa / Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Benyam D. …”

Cometh the hour / by Archer, Jeffrey

Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / by Reed, Ashley, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Writing Women's Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America -- "My Resolve is the Feminine of My Father's Oath" : Ritual Agency and Religious Language in the Early National Historical Novel -- "Unsheathe the Sword of a Strong, Unbending Will" : Sentimental Agency and the Doctrinal Work of Woman's Fiction -- "I Have Sinned against God and Myself" : Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women's Agency in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- "The Human Soul . . . Makes All Things Sacred" : Communal Agency in the Theological Romances of Harriet Beecher Stowe -- "I Have No Disbelief" : Women's Spiritualist Novels and Nonliberal Agencies -- Conclusion : Women's Religious Agency Today.…”
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Sisters of Salome by Bentley, Toni

Table of Contents: “…Intoxication 87 -- Chapter Eight. TheLittleDutch Girl 90 -- Chapter Nine. The Hindu Hoax 95 -- Chapter Ten. …”
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Scoundrels to the hoosegow Perry Mason moments and entertaining cases from the files of a prosecuting attorney / by Swingle, Morley

Table of Contents: “…The case of the Perry Mason moment -- The case of the dog on death row -- The case of the far-flung firearm -- The case of the shuddering door -- The case of the spiked milkshake -- The case of the camera-shy car thief -- The case of the cross-eyed juror -- The case of the Oprah appearance -- The case of the unlucky forger -- The case of the combat prosecutor -- The case of the fool for a client -- The case of the candid culprit -- The case of the millionaire murderer -- The case of the thug-tossed crack -- The case of the forgetful drunk -- The case of the girl in the shower -- The case of the stone-dead blood stone villain -- The case of the luckless lawyer -- The case of the embarrassing defense -- The case of the green-speckled coffee -- The case of the homicidal energizer bunny -- The case of the prancing mare -- The case of the considerate leaper -- The case of the weeping witness -- The case of the lead-footed physician -- The case of the titillating tape -- The case of the perforated patrol car -- The case of the battered bride -- The case of the shootout at the Super 8 Motel -- The case of the venomous voice -- The case of the pernicious protestors -- The case of the published prosecutor -- The case of the motivational message.…”
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Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Outlaw gangs in an outlaw society : Borges' "The dread redeemer Lazarus Morell" and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The Irish immigrant : Asbury's Gangs of New York -- The draft riots : Baker's Paradise Alley -- Borges' "Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities" -- A heritage of guns : McMurtry's Anything for Billy -- The 1920s in Chicago : Farrell's Studs Lonigan -- Jewish gangs in Brownsville, 1944/45 : Shulman's The Amboy Dukes -- 1940s in Harlem : Wright's Rite of passage -- Nazis and gangs : Golding's The lord of the flies -- A girl gang in the 1950s : Oates' Foxfire -- The 1960s : S.E. …”
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Heaven's Interpreters : Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America / by Reed, Ashley, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Writing Women's Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America -- "My Resolve is the Feminine of My Father's Oath" : Ritual Agency and Religious Language in the Early National Historical Novel -- "Unsheathe the Sword of a Strong, Unbending Will" : Sentimental Agency and the Doctrinal Work of Woman's Fiction -- "I Have Sinned against God and Myself" : Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women's Agency in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- "The Human Soul . . . Makes All Things Sacred" : Communal Agency in the Theological Romances of Harriet Beecher Stowe -- "I Have No Disbelief" : Women's Spiritualist Novels and Nonliberal Agencies -- Conclusion : Women's Religious Agency Today.…”
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Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Journey of song public life and morality in Cameroon / by Ignatowski, Clare A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Maïtené's modern life : song as negotiation of public morality -- "Better than family, better than girls" : the Tupuri Gurna Society -- Defying the modern : play of identities in Gurna dance exhortation ([b,hooked][o]'ge f[o]g[e]) -- "Telephone of the dance" : circulation of Gurna song discourse -- "Rise up, gather like storm clouds" : poetics of Gurna song (si[ng] gurna) -- "I become your boy" : power, legitimacy and magic in song composition -- Staging conflict through insult : competing systems of justice -- Multipartyism and nostalgia for the unified past : discourses of democracy in Gurna politics -- Conclusion.…”
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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / by Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.…”
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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / by Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.…”
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