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  • BEST SERVED COLD
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    BEST SERVED COLD
    DAVID P. WAGNER
    Revenge is a dish best served cold When an old college friend leading a religious tour in Assisi asks interpreter Rick Montoya to fill in for their guide who's gone missing, Rick is happy to oblige. He's looking forward to seeing his old friend, and the food and wine of Umbria sound like the perfect reward for a tense translation job he's just completed for the police in Palerm...

    $344.00

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  • CHECKERBOARD SQUARE
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    CHECKERBOARD SQUARE
    DAVID WAGNER
    During the past decade, homelessness became a widespread phenomenon in the United States for the first time since the Great Depression. The public frequently blamed the poor for their plight. Journalistic and academic accounts, in contrast, often evoked pathos and pity, regarding the homeless primarily as objects of treatment and rehabilitation. David Wagner challenges both of ...

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  • THE NEW TEMPERANCE
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    THE NEW TEMPERANCE
    DAVID WAGNER
    The war on drugs ... the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ... v-chips to control what children watch on TV ... censoring the Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads...bipartisan lectures about the dangers of teen sex ... constant warnings about food and fat ... all are examples of what David Wagner terms the "New Temperance." The New Temperance contrasts the new obsession with ...

    $1,240.00

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  • ORDINARY PEOPLE
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    ORDINARY PEOPLE
    DAVID WAGNER
    David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of "poverty" as people's lives change over the ...

    $1,420.00

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  • MIRACLE WORKER AND THE TRANSCENDENTALIST
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    MIRACLE WORKER AND THE TRANSCENDENTALIST
    DAVID WAGNER
    Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, remain two of the best-known American women. But few people know how Sullivan came to her role as teacher of the deaf and blind Keller. Contrasting their lives with Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, the era's prominent abolitionist, this book sheds light on the gender and disability expectations that affected the public perception of Sulli...

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  • UNLIKELY FAME
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    UNLIKELY FAME
    DAVID WAGNER
    This unique book depicts the stories of Americans born in poverty, who achieved national or international fame. Accessible to students and lay readers, this scholarly study describes poverty as a disability that typically stunts important areas of growth in childhood. Wagner shows how poverty hampers individuals and groups for their entire lives, even many of those who emerge f...

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  • TO DIE IN TUSCANY
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    TO DIE IN TUSCANY
    DAVID P. WAGNER
    "An armchair travelers delight"— Publishers Weekly One dead art collector and a gallery of suspects. This romantic weekend just turned deadly… Translator Rick Montoya is looking forward to a quiet weekend away with his girlfriend, Betta, an art fraud investigator for the Italian Culture Ministry. Their destination: the beautiful village of Urbino, home to Renaissance masters Ra...

    $324.00

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  • ROMAN COUNT DOWN
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    ROMAN COUNT DOWN
    DAVID P. WAGNER
    A prequel to the beloved Rick Montoya Italian mystery series, Roman Count Down brings the streets of Rome to life as translator Rick Montoya comes to grips with life as a resident of The Eternal City and investigates a brutal murder in an Italian adventure unlike any other Rick Montoya, eager to experience more of his Italian mother's culture, heads to Rome to start his own tra...

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  • COLD TUSCAN STONE
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    COLD TUSCAN STONE
    DAVID P. WAGNER
    "Perfect for readers who enjoy a complex puzzle, a bit of humor, and a fairly gentle procedural. Don't miss this one." — Library Journal, starred review Rick Montoya has moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He's settling in to la dolce vita when a school friend who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover ro...

    $263.00

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