 | Otherwise Engaged
Release Date: March 15, 2005What if you could live the life you've always dreamed of -- but never pursued? What if your choices -- married or single, career or motherhood, city or country -- could be made all over again? Bestselling author Eileen Goudge ponders "what might have been" in this tender, provocative tale of two best friends who exchange lives -- and discover the surprising places where their deepest joys and satisfactions live.Jessie Holland is a journalist on the rise in New York City -- and she wouldn't trade her walk-up apartment or her 2:00 a.m. sushi takeout for anything. ...
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 | Princess Charming
Publication Date: September 1997Talked into a Caribbean cruise by her best friends, feisty P.R. executive and divorcee Elaine Zimmerman finds herself falling for gorgeous fellow passenger Sam Peck, but her vacation takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that a mysterious hit man, hired to kill someone's ex-wife, is on the ship. 50,000 first printing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Dark Angel (Casteel)
Release Date: May 25, 2011| Series: Casteel (Book 2) At last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed for...free from the scorn and contempt of her past!In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and most important, love. The pearls of culture, wisdom and breeding would now be hers. Soon she would make the Casteel name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family again.But even in the world of the wealthy, there were strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. ...
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 | A Kind of Hush
Publication Date: November 15, 1999Drawing on the author's own experiences and real-life events, A KIND OF HUSH is a shocking yet compelling account of child abuse on the streets. ...
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 | A Welsh Childhood
Publication Date: January 1, 1995Shadow of a Soul marks the premier appearance of Russian poet Bella Dizhur in English. It is also thefirst complete collection of her poetry in any language. Included, in facing page translations, are poems, (written over a period of 50 years before the book was published in 1990) some of which brought her sharp criticism in the Soviet Union: she was denounced for being the "Akhmatova of her time" and criticized for an "aesthetic pessimism."Included for the first time is the entire poem "Janusz Korczak," which won Dizhur the title of Korczak Laureate from the...
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 | Goethe's Faust: Theatre of Modernity
Publication Date: June 20, 2011Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centerpiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theater productions, press coverage and public discussions. Reflecting this renewed interest, leading Goethe scholars in this volume explore the play's striking modernity within its theatrical framework. The chapters present new aspects such as the virtuality of Faust, the music drama, the modernizati...
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 | Sophocles: Ajax (Bristol Greek Texts Series)
Publication Date: November 1, 1981| ISBN-10: 0862920094 | ISBN-13: 978-08629200980000000000000 0000000000 0000000000000 ...
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 | The Aeneid of Vergil (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture)
Publication Date: January 15, 2012| Series: Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture (Book 43) At the beginning of Vergil’s epic poem—long considered a classic of Western literature—the hero Aeneas escapes from the carnage of the Trojan War and embarks on a treacherous series of adventures that eventually lead him to the future site of Rome. Vergil renders Aeneas’ dramatic story in deceptively simple but powerful language, yet the poet’s style is often lost in translation. This magnificent new English translation of the Aeneid conveys the force of the original ...
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 | Poems For Josefina
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 | A Foretaste of Heaven: Friedrich H
Publication Date: January 1994| Series: Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und LiteraturUsing the critical approach of the New Historicism and the sociological insights of Ernst Troeltsch, this study addresses the complicated issue of how the German Romantic poet, Friedrich HÖlderlin, shifts religious vocabulary to the aesthetic realm, by examining his relationship to pietist groups in his native WÜrttemberg. The study is divided into three sections: 1) a literature review and methodological statement; 2) overview of the spectrum of positions represented within WÜrttember...
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 | The Learning Process: Some Creative Impressions
Publication Date: April 17, 2010Life is a continual process of change and discovery. This inspiring collection of poems expresses one man's response to his own life experiences. After a successful teaching career, author Ken Simpson overcame depression and became a cancer survivor. His poems reflect what he has learned about beauty and ugliness, corruption and violence, happiness and spirituality, and love and fallibility. From poems about his love of the sea to his travels in Europe to his humorous experiences as a teacher in the 1950s, Simpson shares his most intimate life lessons. Inspire...
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 | Letters and Letter-Collections (Typologie Des Sources Du Moyen Age Occidental)
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 | Singoalla (Swedish Edition)
Release Date: June 29, 2001This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1913 edition by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm. ...
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 | Wee Sing Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies
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 | Long Shot: Never Too Small to Dream Big
Release Date: September 22, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up Everybody told Chris that he was too small to play basketball. But he ignored them all...because he had big dreams.And, he loved the game....
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 | Eye of the Hurricane (Tales of the Empty Handed Master)
Release Date: January 1, 1992| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Chinese Dragons Tattoos (Dover Tattoos)
Publication Date: January 17, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Signs of Childness in Children's Books
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 | Lone Bean
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and upI have a flower name . . . but it is long and hard to spell and terrible. I'll never tell anyone what it is. Mom and Dad sometimes call me by my real name when I'm in big trouble, but otherwise I'm just called Bean. Bean Gibson is so excited about the first day of third grade, not even her m-e-a-n mean older sisters, Rose and Gardenia, can bring her down. But Bean's year gets off to a bad start—her best friend, Carla, has made a new best friend, and Bean has to begin music lessons. Bean picks the violin (the c...
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 | Onions and Garlic: An Old Tale
Publication Date: March 1, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up The youngest of a merchant's three sons proves that he is not as foolish as he was thought to be when he trades a sackful of onions for a fortune in diamonds. ...
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