 | El rabino / The Rabbi (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: February 28, 2009Noah Gordon nacio en Worcester (Massachusetts) en 1926. Tras licenciarse en Periodismo y Letras en la Universidad de Boston inicio una intensa labor de articulista que le llevo a colaborar con The Boston Herald y The Worcester Telegram. Antes de dedicarse a la escritura de relatos epico-historicos ejercio de periodista especializado en medicina. El reconocimiento internacional le llego con El medico novela que iniciaba la saga de la familia Cole. En la actualidad vive con su esposa Lorraine en Brookline Massachusetts con la que tiene cuatro hijos. Agnostico...
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 | Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain
Publication Date: April 1, 2009For 15 years Rev. Carroll Pickett worked as a chaplain in the Texas penal system, during which he saw 95 men put to death by lethal injection. Compiled here are his memories of his time on death row and of the men whom he supported through their final days, as well as the reasons why his experiences led him to oppose the death penalty as a punishment. The stories reveal the compassion that existed in even the hardest of criminals and provide a behind-the-scenes look into the U.S. prison system itself. Harrowing and moving, this is a unique and sometimes graphic...
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 | The Coming of the Magi (Next Phase Chronicles)
Publication Date: December 19, 2006| Series: Next Phase Chronicles The Coming of the Magi, book one of The Next Phase Chronicles, features three men, gifted in parallel world interaction and time travel, who facilitate a manipulation of the fourth dimension to reunite a family that was torn apart by tragedy. Who they really are, their true mission, and why they chose Laurie Foston to be a part of this dimensional shift is a mystery that Laurie must find out in due time. Meanwhile, conspiracies and triangular slave trading plots are laced with romance; and action on the high seas compiles a s...
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 | The Seventh Beggar
Release Date: January 27, 2005Set in the Chasidic world of Monsey, New York, a brilliantly original, provocative novel about storytelling and the limits of creation.The Seventh Beggar begins with a contemporary young man's obsession with the legendary nineteenth-century Chasidic master, Nachman of Bratslav-kabbalist, storyteller, and charismatic whose cult following persists to this day. The legends and life of Nachman inform the novel, in particular Nachman's famously unfinished "Tales of the Seven Beggars," which serves as the inspiration for Pearl Abraham's own bold and probing story ab...
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 | Ghost Road Blues
Release Date: June 1, 2006 Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel From a new master of horror comes an apocalyptic showdown between theresidents of a secluded, rural town and the deadly evil that confronts themwherever they turn . . . Evil Doesn't Die The cozy little town of Pine Deep buried the horrors of its past a longtime ago. Thirty years have gone by since the darkness descended and theBlack Harvest began, a time when a serial killer sheared a bloody swaththrough the quiet Pennsylvania village. The evil that once coursed throughPine Deep has been replaced by cheerful tour...
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 | Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness
Publication Date: September 26, 2007This is it true believers, the cross-over of the century begins here! The Marvel Zombies come face-to-face with Dynamite Entertainment's Ash from the Army of Darkness! Ash has faced legions of the undead before, but never like this...as he lands in the heart of New York just as the Zombie outbreak begins! See how his actions help turn more heroes and villains into Zombies! Under the watchful eye of Marvel Zombie guru Robert Kirkman, this might just be the comic event of 2007! Plus: The entire series will feature classic "homage" covers from painter Arthur ...
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 | Parabasis and Animal Choruses
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 | Journey of Decision: A Way of the Cross (Advent/Christmas)
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| Steck-Vaughn Short Classics: Student Reader 5pk Julius Caesar, Story Book (Short Classics Set 1)
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 | On the Nature of Things: De rerum natura
Publication Date: June 1, 1995| ISBN-10: 080185055X | ISBN-13: 978-0801850554Titus Lucretius Carus was probably born in the early first century B.C., and died in the year 55. Little is known of his life, although two tantalizing bits of gossip were passed on by St. Jerome: that he was poisoned by a madness-inducing aphrodisiac given him by his wife, and that his great poemOn the Nature of Things was posthumously edited by Cicero. For the latter assertion, writes Anthony Esolen in his introduction to the present volume, there is little evidence, and none whatsoever for the former.What doe...
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| Love Poems Pb (Phoenix 60p paperbacks)
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 | To a Blossoming Pear Tree
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 | The Cambridge Companion to Spenser (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Publication Date: July 2, 2001| ISBN-10: 0521641993 | ISBN-13: 978-0521641999In this accessible and rigorous introduction to Spenser, fourteen specially-commissioned essays provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through Spenser's poetry and prose, and provides extensive commentary on his life, the historical and religious context in which he wrote, his wide reading in Classical, European and English poetry, his sexual politics and use of language. A chronology and further readin...
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 | Writing Against Revolution: Literary Conservatism in Britain, 1790-1832 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| ISBN-10: 0521142199 | ISBN-13: 978-0521142199| Edition: 1 Conservative culture in the Romantic period should not be understood merely as an effort to preserve the old regime in Britain against the threat of revolution. Instead, conservative thinkers and writers aimed to transform British culture and society to achieve a stable future in contrast to the destructive upheavals taking place in France. Kevin Gilmartin explores the literary forms of counterrevolutionary expression in Britain, showing that while conservative movements were often inclined to trea...
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 | Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience
Publication Date: November 4, 2002| ISBN-10: 0521815819 | ISBN-13: 978-0521815819Jessica Feldman sheds a pragmatist's light on the relationship between the Victorian age and Modernism by dislodging truistic notions of Modernism as an art of crisis, rupture, elitism and loss. Feldman examines the works of John Ruskin (art critic and social thinker), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet and painter), Augusta Evans (best-selling domestic novelist)and William James (philosopher and psychologist) and relates them to select twentieth-century creations. ...
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 | The Lies That Bind: A Bibliophile Mystery
Release Date: November 2, 2010| Series: BIBLIOPHILE MYSTERY Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright returns home to San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class. Unfortunately, the program director Layla Fontaine is a horrendous host who pitches fits and lords over her subordinates. But when Layla is found shot dead, Brooklyn is bound and determined to investigate-even as the killer tries to close the book on her for good. ...
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 | Hamster and Cheese (Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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 | Gato Con Botas, El (Favorite Tale, Ladybird) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Kayaking and Rafting (Recreational Sport)
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 | If Nathan Were Here
Publication Date: April 2000| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up In If Nathan Were Here, author Mary Bahr gently explores the grief of a young boy whose best friend has died. With the help of an understanding teacher, a kind neighbor, and an empathetic parent, the boy finds ways to give expression to his questions and sorrow and to reach out to someone else who needs him. ...
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