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"Book of Days is set in a small town dominated by a cheese plant, a fundamentalist church, and a community theater. When the owner of the cheese plant dies mysteriously in a hunting accident, Ruth, his bookkeeper, suspects murder. Cast as Joan of Arc in a local production of George Bernard Shaw's St. Joan, Ruth takes on the attributes of her fictional character and launches into a one-woman campaign to see justice done. In Book of Days, Lanford Wilson...
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A strange and complex story of love, betrayal, revenge and murder that centers on Cassie Spottwood, who at forty-two has for nearly twenty years lived a life of isolation, frustration and despair as the wife of an invalid. Then young, exotic Angelo Passetto arrives in her remote valley and agrees to stay, bringing to her the impossible dream of love.
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"David Kirp has collected a variety of stories from across America to recreate the immediate experience of community - tales that signify in their particulars, giving meaning to the much bandied-about idea of civic virtue. They paint a rich picture of how, for better and for worse, Americans live together."
"We meet two San Francisco families, one Nicaraguan and the other black, trying to live peacefully with each other; residents in the fire-ravaged...
8) Messenger
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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In this captivating book, cultural theorist Rushkoff reveals how corporations have come to dominate all aspects of life--including our inner lives--and what to do about it. In tracing the roots of corporatism from the Renaissance to today, Rushkoff reveals the way it supplanted social interaction and local commerce and came to be regarded as a pre-existing condition of our world.
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"This volume of essays is based on Singer's earlier works on the theory of human rights, notably her 1993 book, Operative Rights. It contains several chapters in which she criticizes conventional theories, traditional as well as contemporary, and provides further clarification of her own view. In addition, the book includes applications of Singer's theory to a wide range of topics and issues, including multiculturalism, minority rights, conflict resolution,...
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"All Kids Are Our Kids introduces forty Developmental Assets - building blocks of health development that are essential for all youth, regardless of their background. The challenge for all segments of the community - families, neighbors, schools, congregations, employers, youth organizations, and more - is to share in the responsibility for taking action to ensure that all kids have what they need to grow up healthy, successful, and caring. This new...
16) Elevation
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"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...
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Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Abdullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
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In Jamaica Plain, an unassuming neighborhood in Boston, we meet extraordinary individuals, including the protector of a local park, a master framer, an urban gardener, and a corporate lawyer turned community advocate. They become Kathleen Hirsch's guides, and ours, revealing the ancient truth that living well in community is as much about the personal choices we make to work, play, and associate in certain ways, as it is about the grassroots connections...
20) Community
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"The increasing individualism of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging in an increasingly insecure world and, in recent years, as an alternative to the state as a basis for politics. Far from disappearing, community has been revived by globalization and by individualism." "Gerard Delanty begins this introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of...
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