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 |  | Suitcase: A Journal of Transcultural Traffic, Volume 3
Publication Date: June 1, 1998The pages of Suitcase intertwine the freshest mix of writing, art, and photography from around the world. From Amos Oz's tale of epiphany at the border between Israeli desert and suburbia to Nuruddin Farah's account of surviving childhood, crocodiles, and colonialism in Somalia; from Jacques Derrida's reflections on politics and immigration in a new Europe to Seydou Keita's historic photographs of Mali's changing society, Suitcase's mix of international writing and art reflects a stangely familiar country in which cultures and perspectives jostle and complicate ...
|  | Far to Go
Publication Date: March 1996The stories of three American women span sixty years of historyand takes readers from Fran, who triumphed over tragedy to forge anempire, to Debbie, who fights a twenty-year battle for justice.Reprint. PW.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Where Lilacs Still Bloom: A Novel
Release Date: April 17, 2012One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through. German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century expectations for a simple housewife. Through the years, seasonal floods continua...
|  | Beyond the Reflection's Edge (Echoes from the Edge)
Release Date: May 6, 2008| Series: Echoes from the Edge (Book 1) Sixteen-year-old Nathan Shepherd has a great life traveling where the careers of his father, an investigator, and mother, a renowned violinist, take him ... until his parents are found murdered. Left with only a mirror and notes from his father's last case, Nathan goes into hiding at the remote country home of Tony, his father's college buddy, and Tony's teenage daughter, Kelly. The mysterious mirror must be a clue to what happened to his parents, and when images appear in it---people and things that don't exist---Nathan and Ke...
|  | Lord Of The World (Catholic Writers Series)
Publication Date: October 15, 1999| Series: Catholic Writers Series In this profound and prescient novel, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson gives us an imaginative foretelling of the end of the world. All stories, Aristotle said, have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but most ends are relative, the terminus of this chain of acts or that. But what of the end that terminates all human action as we know it, the end of time itself, the Second Coming? Since this novel appeared in 1906, many others have been devoted to nuclear disaster, destructive comets, and other hair-raising possibilities. What s...
|  | Insignificant Others: A Novel
Release Date: June 7, 2011WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOUR INSIGNIFICANT OTHER IS BECOMING MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN YOUR SPOUSE? Richard Rossi works in HR at a Boston-based software company and prides himself on his understanding of the foibles and fictions we all use to get through the day. Too bad he’s not as good at spotting such behavior in himself. What else could explain his passionate affair with Benjamin, a very unavailable married man? Richard is also not entirely available himself—there’s Conrad, his adorable if maddening partner to contend with. But when Conrad...
|  | Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir
Release Date: August 30, 1997"A MUST READ . . . This book [is] one of the best on that war in Korea. . . . A wonderful account of common, decent men in desperate action."--LeatherneckDuring the early, uncertain days of the Korean War, World War II veteran and company lieutenant Joe Owen saw firsthand how the hastily assembled mix of some two hundred regulars and raw reservists hardened into a superb Marine rifle company known as Baker-One-Seven.As comrades fell wounded and dead around them on the frozen slopes above Korea's infamous Chosin Reservoir, Baker-One-Seven's Marines trium...
| | Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings: Buddhist and Hindu Stories of Life
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| | Hadrian VII: Play
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|  | The Wizard of Oz (Wondrawhopper)
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|  | The Unswept Path: Contemporary American Haiku (Companions for the Journey)
Publication Date: September 1, 2005| Series: Companions for the Journey (Book 8) The Unswept Path is a diverse gathering of American poets who have chosen the haiku as one of the forms in which they write. This anthology presents the many faces of the haiku. Each poet chosen has worked the territory of the haiku into a personal landscape, and they offer a panorama of images and sound, joy and sadness, recollection and thought. The Unswept Path is wonderful introduction to the art of the haiku for the writer and reader alike. Contributors include: Christopher Herold, Elizabeth Searle Lamb, Wi...
|  | Selections from the Carmina Burana: A New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics)
Publication Date: May 6, 1986| Series: Penguin Classics This is a selection from the 13th century collection of secular Latin poems. Some are serious (eg "Crusade" poems) but the majority are light, including many love poems. A number of items from the Carmina are well known as text for Carl Orff's 'Scenic Cantata'. ...
|  | Love's Exquisite Freedom
Release Date: October 4, 2011The newest installment in Welcome Books' Art & Poetry series, Love's Exquisite Freedom pairs the lyrical grace of Maya Angelou with the exquisite art of Edward Burne-Jones. Angelou's poem of love's transcendent power finds a striking, sensual complement in Burne-Jones, a star of 19th century Britain's Aesthetic movement. Burne-Jones continually examined themes of love, while persuasively arguing for the value of art as an object of beauty. Fittingly, many of his works incorporate depictions of angels in various guises: as manifestations of love, redem...
|  | Love Falls in Love with Love
Publication Date: September 1, 2010This is a book for lovers those that are loved, those that have loved and those that dream of love.It combines the creative talent of an accessible poet and an engaging visual artist. The words evoke pure emotion and the sensitive images are diverse visions of the human form drawn from life. ...
| | Border sick call
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|  | The Evolution of the Book
Publication Date: April 23, 1998| ISBN-10: 0195118596 | ISBN-13: 978-0195118599| Edition: Highlighting Distinguished scholar and library systems innovator Frederick Kilgour tells a five-thousand-year story in this exciting work, a tale beginning with the invention of writing and concluding with the emerging electronic book. Calling on a lifetime of interest in the growth of information technology, Kilgour brings a fresh approach to the history of the book, emphasizing in rich, authoritative detail the successive technological advances that allowed the book to keep pace with ever-increasi...
| | Literature As Recreation in the Later Middle Ages
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|  | Tempted (Eternal Guardians)
Release Date: September 1, 2011| Series: Eternal Guardians "The sensuality of Sherrilyn Kenyon and the intensity of Patricia Briggs." —New York Times bestselling author Angie Fox "Elisabeth Naughton combines dynamic dialogue and sizzling romance with a wicked cool world. Do not miss this series." —New York Times bestselling author Larissa Ione DEMETRIUS—He's the hulking, brooding warrior even his fellow Guardians avoid. Too dark. Too damaged. And given his heritage, he knows it's best to keep everyone at arm's length. Isadora is missing. The words pound through his head ...
| | Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes
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