From the highly praised author of Mona in the Promised Land and Who's Irish?- a generous, funny, explosive novel about the new "half-half" American family. Here is Carnegie Wong, second-generation Chinese American warm heart and funny guy. Here is his WASP wife, the delicious "za-za-vavoomy ...more »
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Author: Kingsley, Charles
Before I begin to lecture upon the Physical and Metaphysical schools of Alexandria, it may be better, perhaps, to define the meaning of these two epithets. Physical, we shall all agree, means that which belongs to [Greek text: phusis]; natura; nature, that which [Greek text: phuetai], nascitur ...more »
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Model Number: BBER0759265747DLDA
Author: Ashley, Ardythe
Romance naturally emanates from Venice, a city of passion and eroticism. This was the case for Mara, a Nebraskan writer who emigrated from the United States fourteen years ago. One of her newly published novels brings passion to her, when the son of an ex-lover comes looking for resolution. Having read ...more »
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Model Number: BBAL1412117925DLDA
Author: Lang, Andrew
The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of «Shakespeare's plays,» has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason to expect. Their methods, their logic, and their hypotheses closely resemble those applied by many ...more »
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Model Number: BBAL1412117836DLDA
Author: Lang, Andrew
In writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the text of the Poems. As to the Life, doubtless current anecdotes, not given in the Biography, are known to ...more »
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Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Product Info Les forçats héros des Souvenirs de la maison des morts sont des criminels par accident, comme Alexandre Pétrovitch Goriantchikov lui-même. more »
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Model Number: BBAL3894807881DLDA
Author: Geras, Adele
Willow Court schmückt sich zum Fest. Leonora, Tochter eines berühmten Malers, feiert ihren 75. Geburtstag. Und alle kommen ins herrschaftliche Anwesen am See. Ein Fernsehteam nimmt das Familientreffen zum Anlass für einen Film über das Leben des geheimnisumwitterten Künstlers Ethan Walsh, der seine Bilder ...more »
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Model Number: BBAL3894807040DLDA
Author: Heine, E.W.
Immer fängt alles ganz harmlos an. Etwa wenn ein Mann sich kühl zu seinem berechnenden Alltagsglauben bekennt, dann aber vor Gott auf die Knie fällt und ihn um die Rettung seines Lebens bittet - er braucht ein neues Herz. Tatsächlich erhört Gott seine Bitte, und der ahnungslose Leser wird von der makabren ...more »
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Model Number: BBR1400033047DLDA
Author: BAKER, NICHOLSON
Since the 1950s, our country's greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject ...more »
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Model Number: BBAL3894808403DLDA
Author: Heine, E.W.
Von E.W. Heines Kille Kille Geschichten kann man nie genug lesen: Elegante, leichtfüßige Miniaturen, die heiter und ungefährlich beginnen und mit einer rabenschwarzen Pointe enden. Seine Themen schöpft Heine aus dem riesigen Fundus menschlicher Gemeinheiten und Schwächen: Denn unter der scheinbar harmlosen ...more »
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Author: Leymarie , Serge
C'est l'été. On entend la mer. Il y a un hôtel blanc éclaboussé par la lumière. Il y a un homme et une femme. Il fait trop chaud. Trois jours sous la clarté cinglante du soleil. On sent l'odeur des pins. Trois jours pour qu'éclate enfin la vérité. A V., parmi les genêts et les pins. more »
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