 | Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses
Publication Date: January 12, 1994Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven, is renowned as the father of the "beat generation." His eighteen internationally acclaimed books -- including "On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Subterraneans, " and "Lonesome Traveler" -- were important signpost in a new American literature. Here, in "Mexico City Blues, " his only collection of poetry, his voice is as distinctive as in his prose; it roams widely across continents and cultures in a restless search for meaning and expression, giving the verse the unique qualities found in America's most dis...
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 | The Holland Family Saga Part One: They Don't Mind Dying
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 | Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau (Everyman's Library)
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 | Yukon Quest 3-in-1
Release Date: March 1, 2006| Series: Yukon quest Treasures of the North- Grace Hawkins flees north during the Alaskan gold rush to escape an arranged marriage with a sinister man. Will her new relationship with a young ship owner be threatened when her furious fianc tracks her down? Ashes and Ice- Heartbroken by loss, Karen Pierce is bound by a promise to watch over two young adults in her care. Together they journey north to the goldfields with the determined Adrik Ivankov as their guide. Will Karen find her way back to her once solid-faith...and into Adrik's arms? Rivers of Gold- Separated...
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 | Coble 2 in 1 - Without A Trace/Beyond A Doubt
Publication Date: December 27, 2008Taken from back cover: Set in the untamed beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Rock Harbor novels deftly draw readers into the life and operation of a canine search-and-rescue team as they help unravel the secrets of an enchanting wilderness. Without a Trace-- When a plane carrying Bree Nichols' husband and son disappears, her life changes forever. Her relentless determination to find them starts in an investigation that links their disappearance to a violent crime threatening to tear the peaceful town of Rock Harbor apart... Beyond a Doubt--When Bree ...
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 | The Book of the Dun Cow
Release Date: September 1, 2007Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the animals could speak, when Chauntecleer the Rooster ruled over a more or less peaceful kingdom. What the animals did not know was that they were the Keepers of Wyrm, monster of evil long imprisoned beneath the earth ... and Wyrm, sub terra, was breaking free. ...
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 | El Comando Tripulacion / Tribulation Force: Drama Continuo De Los Defados Atras (Left Behind) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Banquet for the Damned
Release Date: March 9, 2010Few believed Professor Coldwell was in touch with an unseen world—that he could commune with spirits. But in Scotland's oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light. Now, the young are being haunted by night terrors and those who are visited disappear. This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do a rootless musician and burned out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? This chilling occult thriller is both an homage to...
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| The Elder Edda and Early Forms of the Epic (Hesperides)
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 | Borrowed Water A Book of American Haiku
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 | Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy
Publication Date: September 13, 1999| ISBN-10: 0521576938 | ISBN-13: 978-0521576932| Edition: First Edition This is a full-length study of a topic of central importance to the development of Italian and European culture. The spread of printing to Renaissance Italy had a dramatic impact on all users of books. As works came to be diffused more widely and cheaply, and reading became a more popular activity, so authors adapted their writing and methods of publishing to the demands and opportunities of the new medium. Brian Richardson focuses on the interaction between the book industry and w...
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| Catalogue of maps, atlases, globes, geological and astronomical works
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 | Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium
Publication Date: June 29, 1989| ISBN-10: 0198146914 | ISBN-13: 978-0198146919The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire, between orbis and urbs.Philip Hardie's new work explores Virgil's poetic and mythic transformation of this imperialist ideology with reference to such traditions as the poet/cosmologer, the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry, poetic hyperbole, and the "universal expression." ...
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 | Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding
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 | The Medieval Greek Romance
Publication Date: October 6, 1996| ISBN-10: 0415120330 | ISBN-13: 978-0415120333| Edition: 2 First published by CUP in 1989, The Medieval Greek Romance provides basic information for the non-specialist about Greek fiction during the period 1071-1453, as well as proposing new solutions to problems that have vexed previous generations of scholars. Roderick Beaton applies sophisticated methods of literary analysis to the material, and the bridges of the artificial gap which has separated `Byzantine'literature, in a form of ancient Greek as both homogenous and of a high level of literary sop...
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 | Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Publication Date: September 1, 1994A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down. ...
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 | Bajo el brillo de la luna (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 2010Fue indiscutiblemente amor a primera vista. Pero Victoria Lyndon era solo la hija adolescente de un vicario ... mientras que Robert Kemble era el joven y apuesto conde de Macclesfield. Seguramente lo que sus padres entrometidos insistieron debe haber sido cierto, que el era un seductor temerario decidido a destruir su inocencia, y ella era una cazafortunas sin verguenza. Asi que sin duda fue lo mejor cuando sus planes de fugarse salio mal. / It was indisputably love at first sight. But Victoria Lyndon was merely the teenaged daughter of a vicar... while Rober...
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 | Indigo Summer (Kimani TRU (Quality))
Publication Date: February 1, 2007| Series: Kimani TRU (Quality) Fifteen-year-old Indigo Summer's world finally seems to be going in the right direction: She hooks up with the star linebacker on the high-school football team, gets a date for homecoming and makes the high-school dance squad all in the same week. But sometimes things are just too good to be true. After football star Quincy Rawlins abruptly dumps her for a girl who is willing to put out, Indigo's popularity and self-esteem take a nosedive. When her perfect world falls apart, Indigo turns to the one person who seems to have his ...
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 | Living in Defiance
Publication Date: April 2, 2009Is there such thing as coincidence? Or does God direct a man's steps?Charles McIntyre owns everything and everyone in the lawless, godless mining town of Defiance, Colorado. When three good, Christian sisters from his beloved South show up, stranded, alone, and offering to open a "nice" hotel, he is intrigued enough to let them stay...especially since he sees feisty middle sister Naomi as a possible conquest. But Naomi, angry with God for taking her husband, wants no part of Defiance or the saloon-owning, prostitute-keeping Mr. McIntyre. It would seem, however,...
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 | Brought In Dead (Nick Miller)
Release Date: December 7, 2004| Series: Nick Miller (Book 2) When a young woman commits suicide, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller follows a hazardous trail to find the powerful man responsible for the girl's fate, only to watch him walk out of court a free man. But the dead girl's father swears to exact justice--with or without the law on his side. ...
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