 | Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
Release Date: April 24, 2012A New York Times bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the Pulitzer Prize–winning authorBethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father is a Calvinist minister who seeks to convert the native Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a prize in the contest between old ways and new, event...
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 | Doctor Zhivago (Vintage International)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Vintage International First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and V...
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 | Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mystery)
Release Date: March 4, 2003| Series: Gaslight Mystery Sarah Brandt, a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York City, has seen more than her share of joy and sorrow, birth and death. Now she will see for the first time how the squalor of the streets can breed madness and murder… The Prodigal Son Mission on Mulberry Bend stands as a refuge for girls who otherwise would have to live by selling the only thing they have of value—themselves. The work being done there so impresses Sarah that she volunteers to help out however she can—with clothes, with medical assistance, with...
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 | The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)
Release Date: August 12, 1986| Series: Lord of the Rings (Book 2) The prequel to The Lord of the Rings—The Hobbit—is now a major motion picture directed by Peter Jackson THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME The Fellowship is scattered. Some are bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some are contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam are left to take the accursed One Ring, ruler of all the Rings of Power, to be destroyed in Mordor, the dark realm where Sauron is supreme. Their guide is Gollum, deceitful and lust-...
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 | Lives of the Saints - Acting Edition
Publication Date: January 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0822217465 | ISBN-13: 978-0822217466THE STORIES: ENIGMA VARIATIONS. Zany hijinks as a pair of lookalikes named Bebe W.W. Doppel-g...
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 | Roots & Wings: Poetry From Spain 1900-1975 (Bilingual English/Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 1893996344 | ISBN-13: 978-1893996342| Edition: Bilingual “Spanish poetry in the twentieth century uniquely combines both primitive and sophisticated elements. It is as firmly rooted in folksongs and ballads as it is in wild surrealist imagery. The brilliant personalism and imaginative grace of Machado, Jimenez and Unamuno, the dazzling intensity of Lorca, the sweetness of Felipe, the disciplined fury of Hernandez—these represent a cultural force which has decisively influenced world literature. Hardie St. Martin’s collection is...
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 | A Charm of Finches: Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
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 | Land Dreaming: Prose Poems
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 | The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant
Publication Date: October 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0271018798 | ISBN-13: 978-0271018799| Edition: abridged edition In the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant named Benedetto del Massarizia. Benedetto knew how to read but not how to write. Infected by the urban habit of detailed personal record keeping, he asked various of his literate acquaintances to put into writing the details of his daily affairs. The resulting account books offer an unparalled glimpse into the economic and social world of late mediaeva...
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 | Mystical Languages of Unsaying
Publication Date: May 2, 1994| ISBN-10: 0226747867 | ISBN-13: 978-0226747866| Edition: 1 The subject of Mystical Languages of Unsaying is an important but neglected mode of mystical discourse, apophasis. which literally means "speaking away." Sometimes translated as "negative theology," apophatic discourse embraces the impossibility of naming something that is ineffable by continually turning back upon its own propositions and names. In this close study of apophasis in Greek, Christian, and Islamic texts, Michael Sells offers a sustained, critical account of how apophatic language works,...
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 | The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: And a Selection from the Letters of Marcus and Fronto (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 17, 1998| ISBN-10: 0192839071 | ISBN-13: 978-0192839077| Edition: New edition A. S. L. Farquharson's translation was originally published in 1944, as part of a major commentary on Marcus Aurelius' work.In this volume, Farquharson's work is brought up to date and supplied with an introduction and notes for the student and general reader.A selection of lively letters from Marcus to his tutor Fronto, most of which date from his earlier years, is also included. ...
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 | El vendedor m
Publication Date: October 1, 1997Hardcover edition of the Greatest Salesman on Earth --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Kiss of the Night (Dark-Hunter, Book 5)
Release Date: April 6, 2004Wulf is an ancient Viking warrior with a useful but extremely aggravating power-amnesia. No one who meets him in person can remember him 5 minutes later. It makes it easy to have one-night stands, but hard to have a meaningful relationship, and without true love he can never regain his soul. When he finally meets Cassandra, the one woman who can remember him, she turns out to be the princess of the cursed race he's sworn to hunt-and forbidden to him. The two of them must face ancient curses, prophecies, and the direct meddling of the Greek gods to find true happine...
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 | The Darkest Pleasure (Hqn)
Publication Date: January 1, 2010| Series: Hqn Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her--even defy the gods.Danika is on the run. For months she's eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won't rest until she and her family have been destroyed. But her dreams are haunted by Reyes, the warrior whose searing touch she can't forget. Yet a future together could mean death to all they both hold dear.... --This text refers to the Kindle Editi...
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 | Uncommon Clay
Publication Date: May 22, 2001| Series: Deborah Knott Mysteries Judge Deborah Knott of Seagrove, North Carolina, must unearth a local family's tragic past to find a vengeful killer in the eighth installment of the award-winning mystery series by Maron. ...
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 | The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: the Four Novels and the Fifty-Six Short Stories Complete Both Volumes
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 | The Usborne Book of Young Puzzle Adventures: Lucy and the Sea Monster/Chocolate Island/Dragon in the Cupboard (Usborne Young Puzzle Adventures)
Publication Date: March 1996| Age Level: 3 and up...
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 | A Guide Through Narnia
Publication Date: July 1, 2004A Guide Through Narnia was one of the first in-depth studies of C.S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia. The focus and organization of this revised and expanded edition is on why Lewis wrote the books as fairy tales, the best "Form" for his ideas. It is written for both students and scholars who want to expand their understanding of these popular classics.Chapters include:-Seeing Pictures: How the books were written, chronological summaries,publication history-Selecting the Ideal Form: Why Lewis chose the fairy tale form, fairy taleelements and style-Seeing Man ...
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 | Mystery of the Silver Coins (Viking Quest Series)
Release Date: September 1, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
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 | Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch
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