 | The Scent of Water: A Captivating Story Filled With English Charm, Luminous Wisdom, and Astonishing Spiritual Insight
Publication Date: October 31, 2011Goudge's singular gift is the depth and insight she brings to her characters. Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life-a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and music. But fleeting memories of a childhood visit to her father's elderly cousin out in the country are revived with the news that the woman has willed her home, the Laurels, to Mary. She makes an uncharacteristically sudden and life-changing decision to leave London for the country. The gradual unfolding of her understa...
 |  | Great Classic Stories: 22 Unabridged Classics
Publication Date: September 7, 2006A treasure-chest of the written and spoken word, this collection is read by brilliant actors who make this audio anthology a genuine treat for the listener. Includes tales by Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, and more: Reginald on House Parties by Saki; The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde; Tobermory by Saki; On Being Idle by Jerome K. Jerome; For Better or Worse by W. W. Jacobs; The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde; The Garden of Truth by E. Nesbit; The Cat That Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kiplin...
|  | Act of Mercy (Sister Fidelma Mysteries 08)
Publication Date: May 4, 2000| Series: Sister Fidelma Mysteries 08 When Sister Fidelma sets out on a pilgrimage in the autumn of AD 666, her main preoccupation is to reflect on her commitment to the religious life and her relationship with the Saxon monk, Eadulf, whom she has left behind. Complications arise during the first night on the ship when one of the pilgrims is apparently washed overboard. The discovery of a blood-stained robe raises the question of murder and Fidelma finds herself having to focus all her abilities on solving the mystery. Death dogs the tiny band of pilgrims in the ...
|  | The Shape Of A Man
Publication Date: August 6, 2012The shape of a man has been represented in photographs, paintings and books, yet what is that shape? Here are some clues. Draw from them what you will. When does a boy become a man? And what is the shape of a man? For he is more than the appendage between his legs, despite the incredible power that appendage exerts over his mind and will. Part of a man is primal and lustful. Part of a man is tender and romantic. Whatever the age, part of him has a driving need to satisfy his hidden desires, to fulfill his raw urges and to seek out those who can accommodate him...
|  | The American Idiom: A Correspondence
Publication Date: December 1990collected letters between poets Norse & Williams--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
| | Exploding Poetry: Baudelaire, Rimbaud
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|  | A Thousand Peaks : Poems from China
Publication Date: November 2001| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up A collection of thirty-five poems spanning nineteen centuries, representing both famous and lesser-known poets, including both the Chinese text and a literal translation. ...
|  | The Political Writings: Selected Aphorisms and Other Texts (Agora Editions)
Release Date: March 11, 2004| ISBN-10: 080148913X | ISBN-13: 978-0801489136Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish philosophy. This volume presents four of Alfarabi's most important texts, making his political thought available to classicists, medievalists, and scholars of religion and Byzantine and Middle Eastern studies.In a clear prose translation by Charles E. Butte...
|  | Off the Road: My Years With Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
Publication Date: June 1990This is Carolyn Cassady's story of her life at the centre of the beat generation. In 1948, at the age of 25, she married Neal Cassady. Less than ten years after their marriage, he had become a living legend, his wild spirit immortalized in the character of Dean Moriarty, the heroic traveller in Jack Kerouac's "On The Road". Carolyn Cassady reveals how she had to compete for Neal's attention with his friends and lovers. Their marriage at first alienated poet Allen Ginsberg, who wanted Neal to himself. Even after the civil ceremony, Neal continued to see and "test" o...
|  | The Pleasure of the Text
Publication Date: January 1, 1975What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge." --Richard...
|  | The Wild One
Publication Date: September 10, 2012Introducing the fourth smoking hot interracial romance in the 50 Loving States series, and the follow-up to the Amazon Bestseller, THE OWNER OF HIS HEART! After Layla Matthews chooses his identical twin brother over him, Andrew Sinclair moves to Montana, vowing to forget about the ex-girlfriend that got away. But when she shows up in Montana, sassier and sexier than he remembered, and seeking refuge on his guest ranch, he doesn't know how long he'll be able to keep that vow ... or resist setting her Montana nights on fire. The only thing is, this Layla Mat...
|  | Night's Nice
Publication Date: November 1, 2008| Grade Level: P and up Hop into bed,Turn over thrice,And whisper this softly:Night's nice, night's nice, night's nice.Good Night.NIGHT'S NICE will lull little ones to sleep with its soothing, sing-song text and picturesque, stunning nightscapes throughout. From moonlit treetops and city streetlamps to luminous fireworks on the 4th of July, Ed's watercolor illustrations poignantly capture the beauty of nighttime in this reissue of his classic children's story. (1993) ...
|  | A Day with a Miller
Publication Date: December 1997| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up...
|  | The American Heritage Student Thesaurus
Publication Date: July 10, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up This is the definitive thesaurus for middle school and high school students. No other book at this level offers as many synonyms, example sentences, or features.• 6,000 main entries, with more than 70,000 synonyms in all • Clear example sentences for every meaning of every entry word • Word Group features include related vocabulary for words with no truesynonyms ...
|  | Happy Halloween (Disney Babies)
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|  | Word is Very Near You
Publication Date: January 25, 1989An introduction to the practice of prayer with Scripture, this book includes a number of themes for prayer with suggested passages for meditation. Martin Smith believes that prayer is not an act we perform, but rather is a response to God’s reaching out to us. Through scriptural passages this book shows how the Bible can guide our prayer response and lead us from conversational prayer to meditative, receptive prayer with Scripture. This book is ideal for an ongoing Bible, prayer, or discernment group. ...
|  | Coming Out of the Dark: A Journey Out of Depression
Publication Date: June 1, 2004As a pastor’s wife, Mary Southerland had it all...a successfulcareer as a speaker, conference leader, and women’s ministry director, ahusband who led a growing church, and two kids who were the joy of her life.She kept all these things in balance until clinical depression brought herworld crashing down. Coming Out of the Darkchronicles Mary’s journey from despair to hope and is perfect foranyone who struggles with depressionthose who have loved ones dealing with depressionpeople who simply need encouragement in a dark time of lifeFor those w...
|  | Advertising Media Workbook and Sourcebook
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|  | The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
Publication Date: March 5, 2012"Cogent, well-written . . . critiques unalloyed globalization enthusiasts, taking aim at their desire to fully liberalize foreign trade ad capital movements." —Foreign AffairsIn this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik reminds us of the importance of the nation-state, arguing forcefully that when the social arrangements of democracies inevitably clash with the international demands of globalization, national priorities should take precedence. Combining history with insight, humor with good-natured critique, Rodrik ...
|  | Corporate Governance In Global Capital Markets
Publication Date: March 30, 2005The recent failures of Enron, WorldCom, and other large publicly traded corporations have catapulted the issue of corporate governance onto the international stage. In this timely book, Janis Sarra draws together the work of legal scholars and practitioners from across North America to provide a comprehensive analysis of corporate governance issues in global capital markets.The contributors to this collection explore the theoretical underpinnings of corporate governance and provide concrete illustrations of different models and their outcomes. While the perspe...
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