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Clean Streets

Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism

by Patrick J. Carr ...

Series Book 8 - New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago’s South side to see how they tried to keep their streets safe. Carr details the singular event for this community and the resulting ... Read more

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With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago’s South side to see how they tried to keep their streets safe. Carr details the singular event for this community and the resulting
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Hollowing Out the Middle

The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America

by Patrick J. Carr, Maria J. Kefalas ...

Two sociologists reveal how small towns in Middle America are exporting their most precious resource—young people—and share what can be done to save these dwindling communitiesIn 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and ... Read more

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Two sociologists reveal how small towns in Middle America are exporting their most precious resource—young people—and share what can be done to save these dwindling communitiesIn 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and
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Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

by Robert R. Archibald, Patrick J. Boylan, David Carr, Helen Coxall, Chuck Dailey, Jennifer Eichstedt, Hilde Hein, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Lesley Lewis, Timothy W. Luke, Didier Maleuvre, Suma Mallavarapu, Terry L. Maple, Michael A. Mares, Jennifer L. Martin, Jean-Paul Martinon, Scott G. Paris, Jeffrey H. Patchen, Marilyn E. Phelan, Donald Preziosi, Franklin W. Robinson, Douglas Sharon, Sherene Suchy, Christy S. Coleman ...

What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a variety of disciplines to answer this essential question. Museum professionals offer their answers alongside philosophers, historians, political scientists, educators, sociologists, and others in a wide-ranging exploration of ... Read more

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What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century? In Museum Philosophy, twenty-four authors use the lenses of a variety of disciplines to answer this essential question. Museum professionals offer their answers alongside philosophers, historians, political scientists, educators, sociologists, and others in a wide-ranging exploration of
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Hero's Lot, The (The Staff and the Sword Book #2)

by Patrick W. Carr ...

Series Book 2 - The Staff and the Sword
Riveting Sequel from Christian Fantasy's Most Talented New VoiceWhen Sarin Valon, the corrupt secondus of the conclave, flees Erinon and the kingdom, Errol Stone believes his troubles have at last ended. But other forces bent on the destruction of the kingdom remain and conspire to accuse Errol and his friends of a conspiracy to usurp the throne.In a bid to keep the three of them from the axe, ... Read more

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Riveting Sequel from Christian Fantasy's Most Talented New VoiceWhen Sarin Valon, the corrupt secondus of the conclave, flees Erinon and the kingdom, Errol Stone believes his troubles have at last ended. But other forces bent on the destruction of the kingdom remain and conspire to accuse Errol and his friends of a conspiracy to usurp the throne.In a bid to keep the three of them from the axe,
... Read more
Cast of Stones, A (The Staff and the Sword Book #1)

by Patrick W. Carr ...

Series Book 1 - The Staff and the Sword
An Epic Medieval Saga Fantasy ReadersWill LoveIn the backwater village of Callowford, Errol Stone's search for a drink is interrupted by a church messenger who arrives with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Desperate for coin, Errol volunteers to deliver them but soon finds himself hunted by deadly assassins. Forced to flee with the priest and a small band of travelers, Errol ... Read more

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An Epic Medieval Saga Fantasy ReadersWill LoveIn the backwater village of Callowford, Errol Stone's search for a drink is interrupted by a church messenger who arrives with urgent missives for the hermit priest in the hills. Desperate for coin, Errol volunteers to deliver them but soon finds himself hunted by deadly assassins. Forced to flee with the priest and a small band of travelers, Errol
... Read more
A Draw of Kings

by Patrick Carr ...

Series series The Staff and the Sword
Dark Forces Have Gathered and the Final Battle for Illustra Has BegunTheir journey to Merakh should have made Errol and his companions heroes of the realm. Instead, they've been branded enemies of the kingdom.In the wake of the king's death, Duke Weir is ruling the country--and he intends to marry Adora to bring an heir from the royal line. With Errol and the others imprisoned and the identity of ... Read more

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Dark Forces Have Gathered and the Final Battle for Illustra Has BegunTheir journey to Merakh should have made Errol and his companions heroes of the realm. Instead, they've been branded enemies of the kingdom.In the wake of the king's death, Duke Weir is ruling the country--and he intends to marry Adora to bring an heir from the royal line. With Errol and the others imprisoned and the identity of
... Read more
Haunted Monterey County

by Patrick Whitehurst ...

Series series Haunted America
From the vistas of Big Sur to the streets of Monterey, the souls of the dead still linger. The Mission San Carlos Borromeo, today known as the Carmel Mission, is the site of numerous unmarked graves from centuries past. Montereyâ€™s Cannery Row once housed the lab of marine biologist Ed Ricketts, who was struck by a train there in 1948â€"some say on a quiet night you can still hear the sound of ... Read more

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From the vistas of Big Sur to the streets of Monterey, the souls of the dead still linger. The Mission San Carlos Borromeo, today known as the Carmel Mission, is the site of numerous unmarked graves from centuries past. Montereyâ€™s Cannery Row once housed the lab of marine biologist Ed Ricketts, who was struck by a train there in 1948â€"some say on a quiet night you can still hear the sound of
... Read more
The End of the Magi

by Patrick Carr ...

Following his vision of the coming Messiah, the prophet Daniel creates a select group of men who will count down the calendar to the arrival of Israel's promised king. Centuries later, as the day nears, Myrad, a young magi acolyte, flees for his life when his adoptive father and others are put to death by a ruthless Parthian queen.Having grabbed only a few possessions, Myrad escapes the city, and ... Read more

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Following his vision of the coming Messiah, the prophet Daniel creates a select group of men who will count down the calendar to the arrival of Israel's promised king. Centuries later, as the day nears, Myrad, a young magi acolyte, flees for his life when his adoptive father and others are put to death by a ruthless Parthian queen.Having grabbed only a few possessions, Myrad escapes the city, and
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Casket Case

A Novel

by Lauren Evans ...

Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins, Bailey Carr ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

**In this warm-hearted debut rom-com, a young woman returns home to run her family’s casket business and falls in love with a seemingly perfect stranger. But there’s just one problem . . . he works for Death.“A charming, original love story about grief. I loved it.”—Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year**Nora thought she was finished with Rabbittown, Alabama, for ... Read more

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**In this warm-hearted debut rom-com, a young woman returns home to run her family’s casket business and falls in love with a seemingly perfect stranger. But there’s just one problem . . . he works for Death.“A charming, original love story about grief. I loved it.”—Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year**Nora thought she was finished with Rabbittown, Alabama, for
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The Shock of Night

by Patrick W. Carr ...

Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

Series series Darkwater Saga
Unabridged

18 hours 18 min

When one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded, Willet Dura, reeve to the king of Bunard, is called to investigate. As he begins to question the dying priest, the man pulls Willet close and screams in a foreign tongue. Then he dies without another word.Willet returns to his task, but the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions without answers, and ... Read more

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When one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded, Willet Dura, reeve to the king of Bunard, is called to investigate. As he begins to question the dying priest, the man pulls Willet close and screams in a foreign tongue. Then he dies without another word.Willet returns to his task, but the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions without answers, and
... Read more
Fiction River: Past Crime

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by Fiction River, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Dory Crowe, Laura Ware, Kris Nelscott, Cat Rambo, Anthea Lawson, Brenda Carre, Patrick O'Sullivan, Richard Quarry, Lisa Silverthorne, Leah Cutter, Jamie McNabb, Lee Allred, M. Elizabeth Castle, Michele Lang, JC Andrijeski ...

Series Book 10 - Fiction River: An Original Anthology Magazine
Laws change from culture to culture, decade to decade. Strange laws make criminals of ordinary citizens. Like the Massachusetts woman whose brother asks her for help, slave hunters at his heels. Or the little Irish girl who needs to protect a priest from a different kind of hunter. Or the Native American detective searching New York’s Stonewall Bar for a ratfink on the night of a world-changing ... Read more

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Laws change from culture to culture, decade to decade. Strange laws make criminals of ordinary citizens. Like the Massachusetts woman whose brother asks her for help, slave hunters at his heels. Or the little Irish girl who needs to protect a priest from a different kind of hunter. Or the Native American detective searching New York’s Stonewall Bar for a ratfink on the night of a world-changing
... Read more
Coming of Age in America

The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Mary C. Waters, Patrick Joseph Carr, Maria Kefalas, Jennifer Ann Holdaway ...

What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places—New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota—to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding ... Read more

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What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places—New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota—to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding
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