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45) The book of love
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memories, this anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love. Here is a panorama of fine writing about love's many moods and majesties, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction, and marriage to the tempests of suspicions, jealousy, and heartache. Here is a treasury of more than two hundred selections - from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" to Elizabeth...
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Series
Language
English
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A collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of an "American Scholar." As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy that championed the individual, emphasized independent thought, and prized "the splendid labyrinth of one's own perceptions." He forged a style distinct from his European predecessors and defined what...
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Anyone who loves this joyous time of year will love these heartwarming and entertaining stories of family bonding, holiday hijinks, community spirit, and family and religious traditions. A fantastic holiday gift and a great way to start the season! Christmas is a merry and joyful time of year, full of family, friends, and traditions. You'll delight in reading these 101 holiday tales of inspiration, love, and wonder. Many will make you laugh out loud;...
Series
The women writing Africa project volume 2
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Professional chef and founder of OutlanderKitchen.com Theresa Carle-Sanders offers up this extraordinary cuisine for your table. Featuring more than one hundred recipes, "Outlander Kitchen" retells Claire and Jamie's incredible story through the flavors of the Scottish Highlands, the French Revolution, and beyond. Following the high standards for prodigious research and boundless creativity set by Diana Gabaldon herself, Carle-Sanders draws on the...
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Includes works such as Dream of the Rood, Beowulf, Cu Chulainn's Boyhood Deeds, Tristan and Ysolt, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and selections from the Canterbury Tales. Authors include: Bede, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Thomas Malory.
52) Chicken soup for the soul: the joy of Christmas : 101 holiday tales of inspiration, love and wonder
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Provides a roadmap for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars--and through walls--drawing on the unique insights of over 50 justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer advice, inspiration, and resources
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English
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"Geek-culture expert Ryan Britt takes us behind the pages and scenes of the science-fiction phenomenon Dune, charting the series' life from cult sci-fi novels to some of the most visionary movies of all time"--
Using original, deep-access reporting, extensive research, and insightful commentary, The Spice Must Flow brings the true popularity of Dune out into the light for the very first time. With original interviews with the beloved actors and directors...
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Encyclopedia Brown volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book
Author
Language
English
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"Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, [Rick Bragg] explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoon bread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of...
59) The Waves
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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The Waves by an English writer, who is considered as one of the most important modernist 20th Century authors and also a pioneer in the use of the stream of consciousness as a narrative device, Virginia Woolf.
It is an experimental novel which is considered a key text of the Modernist literary movement. Interspersed with lyrical descriptions of waves breaking against the shoreline, the novel traces the intertwining lives of six friends from childhood...
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
For the magazine's centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity Fair. Editor Graydon Carter introduces these fabulous pieces written between 1913 and 1936, when the magazine published a murderers' row of the world's leading literary lights. It features great writers on great topics, including F. Scott Fitzgerald on what a magazine should be, Clarence Darrow on equality, D. H. Lawrence on women, e.e. cummings on...
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