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When Francie and Colt Hart drive past an abandoned 150-year-old farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, they both fall head-over-heels in love with it -- but for entirely different reasons. Colt, an ambitious, hard-charging stock trader, sees it as a potential showcase for his wealth. Francie, long dependent on antidepressants, hopes it will inspire her to resume the literary life she abandoned when she married Colt ten years before; perhaps, she thinks,...
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Davey and Goliath volume 36
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While his friends get "Good Neighbor" balloons, Davey proves himself a real Good Neighbor by helping Mary, a little lost girl, find her way home.
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A study of how and why US-Latin American relations changed in the 1930s: "Brilliant... [A] charming and perceptive work."—Foreign Affairs
During the 1930s, the United States began to look more favorably on its southern neighbors. Latin America offered expanded markets to an economy crippled by the Great Depression, while threats of war abroad nurtured in many Americans isolationist tendencies and a desire for improved hemispheric relations. One...
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"The Good Neighbor" tells the story of a black couple with three sons. When the wife, Nyla, gets assaulted twice, she confides in her sister because she is afraid to tell anyone else. Even when someone confesses to the assault, she still asks that her sister keeps it a secret. Unable to stay quiet, her sister is determined to help Nyla find peace. As the complexities of the situation unfold, they both realize that no one is who they were believed...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Fred Rogers grew up in a wealthy family in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. His family had an extraordinary influence over his friends and neighbors, and almost everyone in Latrobe.
#2 The McFeely family, which included Fred Rogers's parents, was wealthy due to the industrial heritage of the Rogers family. The Rogers family philanthropy and the religious basis for it became...
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Father Knows Best volume 3
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Margret receives the title deeds to a second property; Jim suggests she take responsibility for cleaning and renting out the property. They meet the neighbor, Mr. Boomhauer, who is a very unpleasant man who does his best to talk down the property. Margret is served with court papers after she begins work on the property that endangers his rose garden. Margret goes to talk to Mr. Boomhauer to discover the real source of his concern is the fact Margret...
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Cultural diplomacy-"winning hearts and minds" through positive portrayals of the American way of life-is a key element in U.S. foreign policy, although it often takes a backseat to displays of military might. Americans All provides an in-depth, fine-grained study of a particularly successful instance of cultural diplomacy-the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA), a government agency established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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Mother of Exiles: Interviews of Asylum Seekers at the Good Neighbor Settlement House, Brownsville, Texas by James Pace brings a human face to the borderlands crisis. Through eighty-five poignant interviews of asylum seekers from Bangladesh, Cameroon, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, Pace provides unvarnished testimony of the sojourners' flight to the South Texas border (2018 - 2019), their detention...
51) Not a Good Neighbor: A Lawyer's Guide to Beating Big Insurance by Settling Your Own Auto Accident
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It's late. You're tired. After a long day, you just want to be home in time for dinner. As you enter an intersection, a truck barrels through a stop sign, smashing into your passenger side. Within seconds, every plan is changed, every project delayed, and every concern you had before this moment overshadowed by an uncertain future.
Following hours in the hospital and a wrecked car awaiting insurance-approved repairs, you're stuck. You're mad. And...
52) Report of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board to the President and Congress of the United States
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Good Neighbor Environmental Board
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2000
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Rept. / 118th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 118-168
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[U.S. Government Publishing Office]
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2023.
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Albert Whitman and Company
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2006
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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When Nicholas's injured ankle keeps him from playing soccer, he finds he can better understand the behavior of the neighbor who makes him angry, and learns that he can change his own behavior too.