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: Hergesheimer, Joseph
It was, probably, Lee Randon realized, the last time he would play golf that year. He concluded this standing on a shorn hill about which the country was spread in sere diminishing tones to the grey horizon. Below, a stream held a cold glimmer in a meadow of brown, frost-killed grass; and the wind, the ...more »
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Model Number: BBSS0743293347DLDA
Author: Nicholson, Geoff
Though you might not encounter the subject in Artforum or stumble across it at Sotheby's, the thriving business of erotica is a mixture of sophistication and seduction, an underground world of eccentric artists and serious collectors. In Sex Collectors, Geoff Nicholson hunts down an assortment of these ...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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Author: de la Cuesta, Father Felipe Arroyo
Un libro del vocabulario o de frase de la lengua de Mutsun, hablado en la misión de San Juan Bautista, Alta California A Vocabulary or Phrase Book of the Mutsun Language, Spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista, Alta California Mutsun es uno de ocho dialectos de Ohlone/Costanoan que fueron hablados ...more »
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Model Number: BBAL1412113660DLDA
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: 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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