 | Sacajawea: The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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 |  | The Yard
Release Date: May 29, 2012Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own . . . one of the twelve . . .When Walter Day, the squad’s newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered det...
|  | The Honest Look
Publication Date: November 19, 2010| ISBN-10: 1936113112 | ISBN-13: 978-1936113118| Edition: 1 In becoming a scientist, Claire Cyrus hopes to escape the fate of her dead father, a brilliant but critically unsuccessful poet whose poverty and bitterness derailed her own strong talent for verse. Soon after moving from England to take up her first job in a start-up biotech company in the Netherlands, she finds herself an outcast in her strange new environment, shunned by her jealous colleagues and moving only on the fringes of the expatriate community. But when she makes an accidental discov...
|  | All the Pretty Girls
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|  | Blake and Freud
Publication Date: October 1980Examines Blake and Freud's" mappings of the human psyche". This book was praised by Harold Bloom when it first appeared. ...
|  | The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
Publication Date: August 22, 1996From the twelve days of Christmas to the Spring traditions of Valentine, Shrovetide, and Easter eggs, through May Day revels and Midsummer fires, and on to the waning of the year, Harvest Home, and Hallowe'en; Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. His comprehensive study covers all the British Isles and the whole sweep of history from the earliest written records to the present day. Great and lesser, ancient and modern, Christian and pagan, all rituals are treated with the same attention. The result is a colorful ...
|  | Four Sacred Plays
Publication Date: May 2, 2011This book contains four short plays by Sayers on a religious theme. The Zeal of Thy House was written for Canterbury Cathedral and dramatises an episode in its construction. The Devil to Pay is a reworking of the Faust legend. He That should Come is a nativity play, originally written for radio, in natural language. The Just Vengeance is about the spirit of a fallen airman, returning to Lichfield Cathedral, for which it was written. This new version from Oxford City Press is based on a high quality scan, carefully hand-checked to remove any scribbles, creases and...
|  | Offerings & Sacrifices: Reflections on Being Catholic
Publication Date: August 4, 2012Offerings & Sacrifices expresses in poetry and photographs what it means to be Roman Catholic.Some people are born into the Catholic faith; others spend decades wandering from church to church as they seek a loving, forgiving Christ. Two thousand years of church traditions and rituals can be daunting, but the tenets of peace, love, and community make the Catholic faith a sanctuary in the modern world. ...
|  | Concerning Love
Publication Date: February 15, 2000Kamal Bazzi's poetry explores complex human emotions, while also presenting them in a picturesque and artistic form. ...
|  | Red Lacquered Chopsticks
Publication Date: January 1, 2006Poetry. Asian Studies. This first volume of poetry bridges the spaces between cultures. From detailed observation and personal experience, with honesty and clarity, these poems reflect upon the poet's Asian and Western experiences. Ancient legends counterpoint modern observation; beauty and peace are offset by the raw reality of death and dying. Erudite and referential in both cultures, these poems are also intelligent and accessible. ...
|  | The Road from Hiroshima
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|  | Emily Dickinson Collected Poems :Complete and Unabridged
Publication Date: August 1991| ISBN-10: 1561380458 | ISBN-13: 978-1561380459From the Great Poets series--exquisite small-format collections of classic poetry enhanced by full-color reproductions of period art, and readable, scholarly introductions. 12 full-color illustrations. ...
|  | Coiling Eddies
Publication Date: July 26, 2012Jefferson N. Ambansom's Curling Waves encase daring thoughts, carefully crafted. Aquiline sweeps of cosmic concerns finely settle in topicality and style that refuse to fixate on the mundane. The work ill-conceals an over-dripping heart of man-kindness in pleas for wretches, ethereal nostalgia for goodness remembered, craving Divine mercy, and heart plight. Yet subdued sarcasm scathes fancy and foibles of thoughts and action. Overall, the works maturity, its gracious care for le mot juste, its reserved verve, bespeak more than long practice and promises of a bi...
|  | Explorations (Hudson River Editions)
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|  | Antologia critica del cuento hispanoamericano del siglo XX. 2. La gran sintesis y despues (COLECCION LITERATURA HISPANOAMERICANA) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Exclusive!: Hollywood Life Or Royal Wife?\Marriage Scandal, Showbiz Baby!\Sex, Lies And A Security Tape (Signature Select)
Publication Date: November 1, 2005| Series: Signature Select Book ...
|  | Heaven's Keep: A Novel
Release Date: July 13, 2010When a charter plane carrying Cork O’Connor’s wife, Jo, goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, Cork must accept the terrible truth that his wife is gone forever. But is she? In Heaven’s Keep, celebrated author William Kent Krueger puts his intrepid hero through the most harrowing mission of his life.In the dark days following Jo’s disappearance, Cork struggles to cope with his grief. Then two women show up at his doorstep with evidence that the pilot of Jo’s plane was not the man he claimed to be. It may not be definit...
|  | Rashomon Gate
Release Date: February 28, 2006A riveting historical mystery—the second in the Akitada series—set amid the exquisite ritual and refined treachery of eleventh century JapanFrom the author of The Dragon Scroll comes an ingenious new novel of murder and malfeasance in ancient Japan, featuring the detective Sugawara Akitada. The son of reduced nobility forced to toil in the Ministry of Justice, Akitada is relieved when an old friend, Professor Hirata, asks him to investigate a friend’s blackmail. Taking a post at the Imperial University, he is soon sidetracked from his primary c...
|  | Myka the Goddess Witch, Sea Enchanter, and Eunice Nereid of the Forest: Combo
Publication Date: July 10, 2012"Myka the Goddess Witch: Zeus Secret" When the father of all gods Zeus discovered his beloved daughter Athena was pregnant with Apollo’s baby, he ordered all gods and goddesses to keep it a secret because he wanted all mortals to believe Athena was an eternal virgin. The moment I was born Zeus gave me away to a loyal mortal 'witch' named Maia which means 'nursing mother'. My father Apollo had to have a special magic spell done by Maia because he was the god of truth who can’t speak a lie. Zeus also asked Maia to cast a spell on my mother so she wo...
|  | Superstars of USA Womens Soccer (Women Athletes of the 2000 Olympics)
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