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Title
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Friendship Through Fantasy: Amity in the Novels of Tamora Pierce
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Author
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Johnson, Charlotte
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature
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Description
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Friendship is a strangely absent topic in the criticism of children’s and young adult (YA) literature. While ancient philosophers have tried to define this unique relationship, a more contemporary analysis that can account for changes in culture a...
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James no. 764
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Author
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Quitadamo, Melissa
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Creative writing
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Description
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Container No. 764 has malfunctioned and its occupant is awake. This was never supposed to happen. It’s to be expected such things would happen under a human’s supervision, but what excuse do the humanoids have? What of the Master Computer who was ...
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Let's Talk About Rape: Sexual Assault in Young Adult Literature
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Author
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Moore, Makayla
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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Sexual assault is an incredibly mature, sensitive, and disturbing topic to discuss, but it can be even harder to teach. However, by examining literature that depicts sexual assault, readers can develop empathy for the characters by understanding h...
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Looking Out From Another World
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Author
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McDonnell, James
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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Looking Out From Another World is a collection of five short stories that revolves around Charlotte. It features characters who are experiencing dramatic crises, both from within and without. They try to make sense and meaning out of these crises,...
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Mara's Inferno
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Author
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Massachi, Dina
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Creative writing
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Description
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Mara Weiss lives in her own private hell. Her father’s suicide left her alone with an unhinged mother. High school offers Mara no escape, and outside of school, Mara unsuccessfully clings to her first love. Feeling engulfed by rejection, Mara and ...
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Title
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Men of Violence
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Author
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Kessler, Cory
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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AbstractThe Cowboy Era in American history began following the end of the Civil War in the 1860s and lasted until the 1890s when much of the Western Frontier land was privatized and sectioned off by owners with the use of barbed wire. Despite the ...
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Title
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Needles and Dust
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Author
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Douglas, Charles
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
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Description
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Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...
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Title
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OWL-MAN: A HISTORICAL FICTION WORK IN 16TH CENTURY MESOAMERICA
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Author
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Hartis, Andrew
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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"Owl-Man: A Historical Fiction Set in 16th Century Mesomamerica" is the start of a novel that aims to take both the reader and central character through a karmic process of rebirth as it would be viewed under the lens of Mesoamerican thought. Sant...
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Title
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Poor-Branded Women
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Author
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Goodnight, Melissa
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Women's studies, Creative writing
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Description
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MELISSA ANN GOODNIGHT. Poor-Branded Women. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Poor-Branded Women is a collection of three creative nonfiction essays aiming to establish the idea that both morality and personal responsibility live on ...
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Title
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Realm Hopper Project: Out of Office, Into Hell
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Author
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Mauldin, Brandi
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Creative writing
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Description
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Cato and Remy are two demons forced to form an alliance when Cato’s life is on the line and Remy has no choice but to repay an old debt. They embark on a quest to find the Fates, the only ones who can set things right again. As they journey throug...
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Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction
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Author
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Rumfelt, Trina
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Literature, Religion
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Description
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TRINA RUMFELT. Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction (Under Direction of DR. MARK I. WEST)Katherine Paterson and Judy Blume both began their careers as children’s authors in the late 1960s and achieved success in t...
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Title
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Strength in Silver
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Author
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Seabrook, Raymond
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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ABSTRACTRAYMOND SCOTT SEABROOK. Strength in Silver. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Preliminary chapters to a historic novel, Strength in Silver follows the lives of three women of the same family over the course of more than one ...
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Student Perceptions of Translanguaging in the College Classroom
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Author
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Willey, Sarah
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Linguistics, Education
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Description
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This qualitative empirical study explores the perspectives of college students around translanguaging: a theory, practice, and pedagogy that has grown in popularity over the past decade, particularly within the field of applied linguistics. The ma...
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Title
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THE MAGIC OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES FOR STUDENT ATHLETES
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Author
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Morris, Julia
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Reading
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Description
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With the contemporary scandals that currently characterize university-sanctioned athletics and student athlete participants, this study is aimed at using Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s Harry Potter series, as exemplary of young adult literature, as a g...