 | Gita on the Green: The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance
Publication Date: January 15, 2000**Use copy in Blurb1Deep in India's past, Lord Krishna revealed the 700 verse Bhagavad-Gita, a spiritual poem containing universal, nonsectarian truths. In 1995, Steven Pressfield decided to introduce the Bhagavad-Gita to a contemporary audience, so he restructured the Gita in terms of a golf novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance. As he says, "In the Gita the troubled warrior Arjuna receives instruction from Krishna, Supreme Lord of the Universe, who has assumed human form as Arjuna's charioteer. Instead of a troubled warrior, it's a troubled golf champion (Ranu...
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 | The Day the Falls Stood Still (Voice)
Release Date: July 6, 2010| Series: Voice “A wonderful love story . . . Buchanan weaves Niagara Falls’ history and her storytelling together masterfully.”—Elle1915. Niagara Falls. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath, who has led a sheltered existence as the younger daughter of the director of the Niagara Power Company, meets Tom Cole by chance on a trolley platform and finds herself inexplicably drawn to him—against her family’s strong objections. Tom is not from their world. Rough-hewn and fearless, he lives off wh...
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 | The Importance Of Being Earnest
Release Date: November 27, 2011| ISBN-10: 1613821204 | ISBN-13: 978-1613821206The Importance of Being Earnest is an important play by Oscar Wilde, and is a comedy of manners that discusses the serious of society. Set in late Victorian England, the story is about the main charachter, John Worthing's, ficticious brother Ernest, which is the main source of the comedy in this work. This is an important play for those are fans of comedy plays and of course the works of Oscar Wilde. ...
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 | Supermodernprayerbook (Salt Modern Poets)
Publication Date: September 14, 2010| Series: Salt Modern Poets This collection is what everyone needs for modern life, a contemporary prayer book. Buy it and use it as a footprint for walking through each day, safe in the rhythms of each and every poem and the common denominator of hope they contain within. ...
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 | This Carting Life
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 0795701985 | ISBN-13: 978-0795701986Moving between vastly different landscapes, this collection of poetry encounters both the real and imaginary the world over from the U.S. and Cape Town to London and Russia. Against this backdrop of wandering, the varied themes include topics such as God, love, art, and politics. ...
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 | Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism)
Publication Date: April 28, 2005| ISBN-10: 0195169387 | ISBN-13: 978-0195169386| Edition: 1st This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramón Menéndez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with chivalric literature to Erich Auerbachs polemical study of Don Quixote as essentially a comic book by studying its mixture of styles, and include Leo Spitzer's masterful probe into the essential ambiguity of the novel through minute linguist...
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 | Antologia critica del cuento hispanoamericano del siglo XIX. Del romanticismo al criollismo (COLECCION LITERATURA HISPANOAMERICANA) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Selected Letters: Volume II, 1945-1957 (New Directions Paperbook)
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 | Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne: A Life in Letters
Publication Date: March 28, 2006An annotated selection of unpublished letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister. Retrieved from seven different libraries, this corpus of letters was preserved by the Manning family chiefly for their value as records of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work; but they ironically also illuminate the life and mind of a fascinating correspondent and citizen of New England with incisive views and commentaries on her contemporaries, her role as a woman writer, Boston and Salem literary culture, and family life in mid-19th-century America. This book illuminates Elizabeth...
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 | Paisaje de oto
Publication Date: September 1, 2009| Series: Serie Mario Conde (Book 6904) Una noche de otoño, unos pescadores descubren un cadaver en la playa del Chivo, en La Habana. La victima, Miguel Forcade Mier, ha sido asesinada con una saña brutal, casi inexplicable. Este crimen removera una antigua trama de corrupciones y viejas ambiciones frustradas, ya que, en efecto, en los años sesenta Forcade habia dirigido oficialmente las expropiaciones de bienes artisticos requisados a la burguesia tras la Revolucion. Pero, despues de acumular poder, influencia y, seguramente, no pocas envidi...
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 | The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women
Publication Date: January 5, 1999The Web of Iniquity is a study of detective fiction written by American women between the Civil War and World War II. Refuting the idea that no American detective fiction of substance was produced between the times of Edgar Allan Poe and Dashiell Hammett, Catherine Ross Nickerson shows how these women writers blended Gothic elements into domestic fiction to create a unique and all-but-ignored subgenre that she labels “domestic detective fiction.”This subgenre allowed women writers to participate in postbellum culture and to critique other aspects ...
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 | Black Ice (Young Sherlock Holmes)
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 | Black Panther by Jack Kirby, Vol. 2 (v. 2)
Publication Date: July 19, 2006| Grade Level: 4 and up Heroism seems to run in the Black Panther's family... but which way are the new heroes running? The King's favorite king returns in some of his earliest solo sagas! Mutated monsters menace the wondrous reign of Wakanda! Captivating Kirby classics not seen in nearly 30 years! Collects Black Panther #8-13. ...
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 | Mathematical Reasoning, Level C
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 | Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book (Dover Fashion Coloring Book)
Publication Date: August 31, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Rumulus, the Lonely Wolf (Tales of the Old Oak)
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