| A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" Release Date: March 15, 1996Back by popular demand -- and newly updated by the author -- the mega-bestselling spiritual guide in which Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace.Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health, she shows us how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more ...
| | Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance Publication Date: 1998| ISBN-10: 0292728077 | ISBN-13: 978-0292728073In his books The Great Plains, The Great Frontier, and The Texas Rangers, historian Walter Prescott Webb created an enduring image of fearless, white, Anglo male settlers and lawmen bringing civilization to an American Southwest plagued with "savage" Indians and Mexicans. So popular was Webb's vision that it influenced generations of historians and artists in all media and effectively silenced the counter-narratives that Mexican American writers and historians were concurrently producing to claim their standing as "gent...
| | Contemporary Chicano Fiction: A Critical Survey (Studies in the Language and Literature of United States Hispanos) Publication Date: January 1986| ISBN-10: 0916950565 | ISBN-13: 978-0916950569criticism...
| | Culture of One (Poets, Penguin) Release Date: March 29, 2011| Series: Poets, Penguin A new collection that captures the austere serenity of the Southwest American desert. Award-winning, Paris-based poet Alice Notley's adventurous new book is inspired by the life of Marie, a woman who resided in the dump outside Notley's hometown in the Southwestern desert of America. In this poetical fantasy, Marie becomes the ultimate artist/poet, composing a codex-calligraphy, writings, paintings, collage-from materials left at the dump. She is a "culture of one." The story is told in long-lined, clear-edged poems deliberately stacked so...
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| | Skin Prayer Publication Date: October 1, 2002Doug Rice is haunted-by what we can only guess. He is trapped; he goes nowhere. He is a modern day hysteric, a psychoanalyst's dream. He writes the same thing over and over, runs the same spinning track, as if somehow, through the repetition of extremes, he could eliminate the trauma, break its foul-smelling, icy-fingered spell. Only it is a spell of beauty --the beauty that comes from devastation, from the constant struggle to rise again in that roaring fire's shouldered wake. You will find no plot or answers here, only the unbearable loss of abandonment and...
| | Big Country, Vol. 2: Stories of Louis L'Amour (West of the Tularosa, Home in the Valley, and West Is Where the Heart Is) Publication Date: January 1, 2010Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a big country needing big men and women to live in it. Here are three fine short stories about the West written by L'Amour, the most decorated author in the history of American letters.West of the TularosaWard McQueen, foreman for the Tumbling K, is accused of killing a nearby rancher and he s gong to need some help to prove his innocence.Home in the ValleyIf Steve Mehan can make it to Seattle from Sacramento on horseback and beat the steamer carrying some bad news, he can st...
| | The Conception: Greed and Desperation Publication Date: August 6, 2012The Conception is a novel based on the real-life desire of young people in Nigeria to travel outside their country by any means necessary to become rich. Some forcefully seize control and sell off their parents' properties to fulfill their desires. But the results can leave aged parents homeless. Frank is one such ambitious young man. Tall and handsomely built he is the youngest child of Pa Edomwonyi. Frank has a strong desire to succeed, convincing himself that he can lift his family out of a life of poverty and no longer just be seen as the baby of the famil...
| | Poesia cancioneril castellana (Nuestros clasicos) (Spanish Edition) ...
| | A Talent for Sadness ...
| | Khudozhestvennye sravneniia russkogo pesennogo eposa: Sistematicheskii ukazatel (Russian Edition) ...
| | English Monarchs and Their Books: From Henry VII to Charles II (The Panizzi lectures) ...
| | Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht (Oxford Monographs on Music) Publication Date: January 2, 1997| Series: Oxford Monographs on Music Son of a town trumpeter, Jacob Obrecht became one of the most prominent composers in Europe in the late fifteenth century. In Born for the Muses, Rob Wegman enlarges our picture of the social and cultural conditions that framed his world, drawing on a wealth of new archival sources and a newly discovered dated portrait that sheds light on his development as a composer. Obrecht's greatest contribution lay in the field of mass composition. In a penetrating stylistic analysis, Wegman treats each of the thirty-odd surviving ma...
| | The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) Publication Date: August 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0815321031 | ISBN-13: 978-0815321033| Edition: 1 In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: Chaucer and Medieval and Renaissance studies (Larry D. Benson, Heiko A. Oberman, Lee Patterson, and Aldo Scaglione), and English and American literary history (Sanford Budick, H. M. Daleski, Denis Donoghue,...
| | Chasing the Dime Release Date: August 25, 2003The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help a woman he has never met, he steps into a world of escorts, websites, sex, and secret passions. A world where his success and expertise mean nothing...and where he becomes the chief suspect...
| | In the Shadow of the Glacier (Constable Molly Smith) Release Date: October 15, 2007| Series: Constable Molly Smith (Book 1) Trouble is brewing in the small, bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia. An American who came to Trafalgar as a Vietnam War draft dodger has left land and money to the town. But theres a catch. The money must be used to build a garden to honor draft dodgers. ...
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| | Recipe and Craft Guide to Japan (World Crafts and Recipes) (World Crafts & Recipes) Publication Date: May 11, 2010| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
| | Roundup of the Street Rovers: Charles Loring Brace Publication Date: October 1, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up For Kip O'Reilly, life on the streets doesn't seem all that bad. At least he and the other rovers have each other, and that's more than enough to keep them happy--well, as long as they can steal to survive. Just selling newspapers doesn't quite cut it. When Kip is finally caught stealing one morning, he's sent to jail. Fortunately for Kip, Rev. Brace of the Children's Aid Society bails him out, but only on the condition he comes to live at the Boys' Lodging House and starts earning an honest wage. When the opportunity comes for the child...
| | Noah's Ark (Picture Yearling Book) Release Date: August 1, 1992| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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