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  • More to Life
    Janet Nichols Lynch
    Retired school teacher Colette Corbyn goes kicking and screaming into assisted living, when she has planned to live out her days in the privacy of her own home. As she begrudgingly settles into Shady Meadow, she makes an unlikely friend, Margaret, who claims the Women’s Movement demeaned women. A loud, obnoxious neighbor, Dottie, seems to be off her rocker, but she’s actually a...
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    14,98 €

  • Ellen of Allensworth
    Janet Nichols Lynch
    It’s 1913 in Oakland, California, and eight-year-old Ellen Jackson has white classmates who bully her and a teacher who believes Black children can’t learn. Ellen’s mother decides to move the family to Allensworth, the only town in California where Blacks own their own property and govern themselves, free of prejudice.Oakland is a bustling city with in-door plumbing and gas whi...
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  • Elizabeth Warren
    Janet Nichols Lynch
    Before Elizabeth Warren was a Senator from Massachusetts and a presidential candidate with a plan for everything, she was a girl from Oklahoma who dreamed of becoming a teacher.  Young Betsy Herring was an energetic tomboy and such a whizz in school, her second grade teacher looked her in the eyes and said, 'When you grow up, if you really want to, you can do something.'  Doing...
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  • Florence Price
    Janet Nichols Lynch
    Florence Price’s life is usually summed up by a single accomplishment-as the first African American female composer to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra in the United States. In fact, she composed over three hundred compositions, including four symphonies, two violin concertos, a piano concerto, piano and organ solos, string quartets, choral works, and numerous art...
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    14,03 €

  • Clara Schumann, Pianist and Composer
    Janet Nichols Lynch
    One spring day in 1824, four-year-old Clara Wieck sat in the nursery with her three younger brothers, Alwin, Gustav, and baby Victor. Alwin and Gustav babbled in baby-talk, Victor wailed, but Clara was perfectly silent. Clara was always quiet-mute. She had not yet spoken a word. Nearly five years old and not a single word out of her! The child must be simple. Maybe she was deaf...
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    7,46 €

  • Commie Pinko
    Janet Nichols Lynch
    It’s 1958, the Cold War is on, and McCarthyism causes ordinary citizens to be suspected of treason. In Berkeley, California, fourteen-year-old Donna is happily organizing the Ritchie Valens fan club, when her father, a physics professor at the University of California, comes under investigation by the FBI. Her rebellious older sister, Alice, joins a group of beatniks before she...
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    11,13 €

  • Wheel of Fire
    Janet Nichols Lynch
    Since girlhood, seventeen-year-old, aspiring detective Kori Lawton has been fascinated by the Church of Wheel of Fire and its raging bonfires that light the night sky near her home in California’s San Joaquin Valley. When Kori attempts to free another teen girl, Flicker, from the doomsday cult, she falls under the hypnotic spell of its enigmatic leader, Promus, as he plots his ...
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    11,00 €

  • Fresh Ink
    Janet Nichols Lynch
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    8,74 €

  • Write It! A Guide for Research
    Dawn Vaughn / Elizabeth Bankhead / Janet Nichols
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    29,23 €

  • Where Words Leave Off Music Begins
    Janet Nichols Lynch
    The fourteen stories in Where Words Leave Off Music Begins dramatize ways in which music seizes peoples’ lives and never lets go. In 'Perfect Match' twice-divorced Bernadine seeks passion in piano playing. In 'Recapitulation', while fleeing a peaceful anti-Nuke rally turned violent, Amelia reflects on her early years as a piano prodigy and contemplates what might have been. Chl...
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    10,37 €