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  • VOLUNTARY WORK IN THE WELFARE STATE
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    VOLUNTARY WORK IN THE WELFARE STATE
    MARY MORRIS
    First Published in 1998. This is Volume XVII of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Voluntary work is undertaken for three main reasons; first, there are jobs to be done which cannot be or at least will not be done by paid personnel; second, the opportunity to give service meets a personal need felt by individual people; and third, v...

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  • COGNITION IN ACTION
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    COGNITION IN ACTION
    ALAN F. COLLINS / PHILIP LEVY / PETER E. MORRIS / MARY M. SMYTH
    This revised textbook is designed for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. It approaches cognitive psychology by asking what it says about how people carry out everyday activities: how people organize and use their knowledge in order to behave appropriately in the world in which they live.; Each chapter of the book starts with an example and then uses this to introduc...

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  • A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE
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    A HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE
    MARY MCGARRY MORRIS
    A man returns to his hometown after twenty-five years in prison, in this "richly atmospheric" novel by the acclaimed author of Songs in Ordinary Time ( The Washington Post). After decades in prison for a senseless juvenile murder, Gordon Loomis returns home to find his old neighborhood blighted by drugs and poverty. Desperate for work, he takes a job at the same rundown market ...

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  • FIONA RANGE
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    FIONA RANGE
    MARY MCGARRY MORRIS
    In this "complex, compelling" novel by the New York Times–bestselling author, a troubled woman uncovers the mysteries of her own past ( Kirkus Reviews). Abandoned by her young mother, unsure of her father's identity, and raised by her prominent aunt and uncle, thirty-year-old Fiona Range has developed a high threshold for emotional pain. Her recklessness, generosity, and poor j...

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  • SELECTED NOVELS VOLUME ONE
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    SELECTED NOVELS VOLUME ONE
    MARY MCGARRY MORRIS
    Two powerful novels from "a superb storyteller": An Oprah's Book Club selection and New York Times bestseller plus a National Book Award–nominated debut ( The Washington Post).   The highly acclaimed novelist Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed as "a credible heir to Carson McCullers . . . a wise, unsentimental portraitist of the lonely, the damned, the desperate and the incomp...

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  • SELECTED NOVELS VOLUME TWO
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    SELECTED NOVELS VOLUME TWO
    MARY MCGARRY MORRIS
    Two unforgettable novels from the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection, Songs in Ordinary Time, "a writer to reckon with" ( The Washington Post).   The highly acclaimed novelist Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed as "a credible heir to Carson McCullers . . . a wise, unsentimental portraitist of the lonely, the damned, the desperate and the in...

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  • THE LOST MOTHER
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    THE LOST MOTHER
    MARY MCGARRY MORRIS
    Abandoned by his wife, a man tries to protect his family during the Great Depression, in this "powerful" novel by the bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time ( Publishers Weekly).   During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers along with the rest of the country, and Henry Talcott, with only occasional work as a butcher, is reduced to moving into a tent on the edge of...

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  • A DANGEROUS WOMAN
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    A DANGEROUS WOMAN
    MARY MCGARRY MORRIS
    The "compelling, suspenseful" novel of a vulnerable misfit in a small town by the New York Times–bestselling author of Light from a Distant Star ( Publishers Weekly).   Named one of the five best novels of the year by Time magazine, A Dangerous Woman is the story of the damaged and emotionally unstable Martha Horgan, an outcast in her small Vermont town. She stares; she has vio...

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  • VANISHED
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    VANISHED
    MARY MCGARRY MORRIS
    National Book Award Finalist: A man, woman, and child are bound by a desperate need—and a terrible secret—in this suspenseful, "astonishing" novel ( Vogue).   Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away,...

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  • SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME
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    SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME
    MARY MCGARRY MORRIS
    This New York Times bestseller of a troubled family in 1960s Vermont is "teeming with incident and characters, often foolish, even nasty, but always alive" ( The New Yorker). It is the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. With no help from her alcoholic ex-husband, Marie Fermoyle is raising three children on the edge of poverty. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alice, is becomi...

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