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  Pretty Things

  by Sarra Manning

  Brie is in love with Lancôme Juicy Tubes, Louis Vuitton accessories, and Charlie, her gay best friend. Charlie is in love with 1960s pop art, 1980s teen movies, and serial heartbreaker Walker. Walker has only ever been in love with his VW Bug, until he meets Daisy. And Daisy is too busy hating everyone to know what love is. Friendships shift and relationship melodrama rules during a summertheater... (more)
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  The Parting of Friends: The Wilberforces and Henry Manning

  by David Newsome

  The history of 19th-century England abounds with great religious figures--Henry Manning, Samuel, Robert, and Henry Wilberforce, and John Henry Newman--and great religious turmoil. Here Newsome recounts the story of the Wilberforces and Manning, from its early hopes to its tragic, interpersonal dissolution. Foreword by Robert Runcie, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Illustrations.
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  The Last Chronicles of Ballyfungus

  by Mary Manning

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  All The Pretty Dead Girls

  by John Manning

  One By One...Two decades ago, at a private women's college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room. Her assailant was never found...They Disappear...Sue Barlow arrives at Wilbourne College twenty years later. When a classmate disappears, Sue thinks it's an isolated incident. But then two other girls vanish...And Die...As fear grows on campus, Sue begins to sense she's being watched.... (more)
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  Seducing Mr. Heywood : a regency romance

  by Jo Manning

  A Booklist Top 10 Romance of the Year Jo Manning's latest Regency romance is replete with period charm, lively dialogue, and fascinating detail. Lady Sophia Rowley, thrice married and thrice widowed, has returned to Rowley Hall to rusticate. Meeting vicar Charles Heywood, who was named guardian of her sons on the death of her third husband, she is at first angry . . . and then intrigued.
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  Eminent Victorians

  by Lytton Strachey

  Eminent Victorians, first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine. They were: * Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon The book made Strachey's name and placed... (more)
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  THE AGE OF WIKILEAKS: From Collateral Murder to Cablegate (and Beyond)

  by Greg Mitchell

  The acclaimed new book charts the incredible rise of WikiLeaks, and its political and media impact, from April 2010 to February 2011, written by award-winning author Greg Mitchell, whose daily WikiLeaks blog at The Nation has gained a vast worldwide audience. It includes gripping, revelatory chapters on every major WikiLeaks release of the past year, from Iraq and Afghanistan "war logs" to classified diplomatic... (more)
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  Closure

  by Lissette E. Manning

  Ben Morgan thought he had it all - fame, fortune, a beloved wife, and a loving family. His work kept him out of the country for long stretches at a time, but he did his best to provide for those he loved. He never imagined that his being away so much would have severe repercussions. When his life starts to shatter and his wife walks away without another glance, he's left to deal with the pain and sorrow of the... (more)
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  Object Oriented Perl: A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques

  by Damian Conway

  Discusses how to build objects for hashes, arrays, scalars, pseudo-hashes, subroutines, regular expressions, or typeglobs, master encapulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, and advanced topics such as operator overloading, tied variables, generic programming, and persistence. Softcover. DLC: Object-oriented programming (Computer Science).
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  The Ragamuffin Gospel

  Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

  by Brennan Manning

  Many believers feel stunted in their Christian growth. We beat ourselves up over our failures and, in the process, pull away from God because we subconsciously believe He tallies our defects and hangs His head in disappointment. In this repackaged edition-now with full appendix, study questions, and the author's own epilogue on "Ragamuffin Ten Years Later"- Brennan Manning reminds us that nothing could be further... (more)
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  Extending and Embedding Perl

  by Tim Jenness, Simon Cozens

  An explanation of how to expand the functionality and usefulness of the Perl programming language, this guide delves into the complex issues of using real code examples from the Perl source. Detailed is how to use Perl from C programs, such as writing interfaces to C libraries, techniques on implementing Perl callbacks for C libraries, passing Perl hashes and arrays between Perl and C. Additionally, developers... (more)
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  Data Munging with Perl

  by David Cross

  The Perl language is well suited for use with "data munging" tasks: those that involve transforming and massaging data. While Perl is commonly used for such tasks, there has been no book focused on the topic of munging. This book covers the basic paradigms of programming and discusses the many techniques that are specific to Perl. It also examines standard data formats such as text, binary, HTML, and XML before... (more)
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  Her Privates We

  by Frederic Manning

  First published privately in 1929 as "The Middle Parts of Fortune", "Her Privates We" is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of an ordinary private. This edition now restores all the 'prunings and excisions' that were made to the first edition because the bluntness of language was thought to make the book unfit for public distribution. An undisputed classic of war writing and a lasting... (more)