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Es el compendio de cuatro historias independientes: El último de la estirpe, narra las experiencias de Juan, el último hijo de una familia común, quien vive una infancia y adolescencia de culpa y no aceptación por ser homosexual. Al sentirse amado por Dios y enamorarse por primera vez de Orlando, su perspectiva de vida cambia. En terreno del enemigo, cuenta y alerta sobre la existencia y presencia sutil del mal, haciendo que dos mujeres se enfrenten...
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Exposed For All To See is a compilation of many thoughts, feelings and emotions that a woman goes through. It confronts the father that was never there. It expresses how it feels to be in love and how it feels to have love turn its back on you. It recognizes the many issues we as African-Americans have faced in history. As well as acknowledge Christ and the parts that many people played in making me the woman I am today. This book is about my journey...
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Published in 1869, two years after passage of the Reform Bill, this collection of essays is perhaps its author's most topical critical work. Arnold defines Culture as "the best which has been thought and said" and argues that, during a time of great social change and potential upheaval, the masses could be educated to become purposeful individuals and citizens through the use of a state-run school system. The ideas put forward in this book still incite...
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Published in 1918, with the subtitle "Essays on Existing," these six witty pieces admonishes the reader to respect the inner conscience for the sake of personal happiness. Bennett covers such subjects as running away from life, war-work, the diary habit, lecturing a young woman, being fussy, and the meaning of frocks.
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It is the winter of 1942 in NYC and Travis House, an experimental prison, where convicted women serve out the remainder of their sentences. A new resident, Agnieska Hajek becomes caught up in the secretive goings on at Travis House. Her main concern is the reunification with her son whom she gave birth to in Sivart Women's Penitentiary and was taken from her at three months old.
47) More
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This 1899 collection of humorous sketches includes "Some Words on Royalty," "Actors," "Madame Tussaud's," "Pretending," "An Infamous Brigade," "The Sea-Side in Winter," "Sign-Boards," "The Blight on the Music Halls," "Prangley Valley," "Fashion and Her Bicycle," "Going Back to School," "A Cloud of Pinafores," "At Covent Garden," and "The Case of Prometheus."
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This 1902 collection of papers is described by its author as having unique subjects, away from "the glitter and bustle of the more-frequented promenades of letters." Included are "Dr. Johnson's Haunts and Habitations," "Titled Authors of the Eighteenth Century," "A Walk from Fulham to Chiswick," and "'Vader Cats,'" among others.
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In Learning to Live, Douglas Palermo takes us on his personal journey for meaning, purpose, and enlightenment in an otherwise meaningless, fragmented, post-modern world. Through his personal writings (short stories, essays, articles, poems, etc. ) we follow Doug from being an 8th grade student all the way to being a teacher of 8th grade students-covering over twelve years in the process. We see Doug the high school student developing his writing skills...
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As the title suggests, the stories in this book are incidents that actually happened in the lives of people. The stories fall into different categories such as unexplained phenomenon, bizarre happenings, spiritual, horror, mystery, going beyond human limit, and a host of others. All these incidents have reason or reasons as to why they happened and embedded in these true incidents are values and as such, these experiences must be told and shared with...
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Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results.
With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of the great myths of Australian history.
Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Australia before Captain Cook, and that the Rum Rebellion was not caused by rum? And what about Banjo Patterson having written Waltzing Matilda? As...
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This collection of essays on ancient Greek mythology, art, and culture was posthumously published in 1895. The contents are "A Study of Dionysus: Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew," "The Bacchanals of Euripides," "The Myth of Demeter and Persephone," "Hippolytus Veiled: A Study From Euripides," "The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture," and "The Marbles of Aegina."
53) Genesis
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This book is a small collection of poems, composed by Late Col Surya Panda between 1979-1993, titled 'GENESIS'. Each poem is a jewel with his 'magnum opus'- Ode to the Ganges'.
Deeply philosophical with sombre musings, meditations and reflections on life, love, loss, war, peace, death and Nature. Some of them are almost prophetic, like a preview or trailer of his own demise years later. With a sense of 'Déjà vu' and epiphanic. Mature beyond his...
54) Love Bites
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Love is one of the most profound, mysterious, and complicated emotions known to human beings. There are many types of love, which can be, expressed in a number of ways. We seek to establish a means of relating to another to provide deep and meaningful fulfillment that nurtures and sustains us. Love is commonly, experienced by way of a romantic relationship with a partner with whom we feel compatible.
The emotion of love is most often, represented...
55) Books in General
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Published in 1920, these buoyant essays, which originally appeared in the New Statesman, display the author's critical analyses of men of letters and literature. Contents includes "Was Cromwell an Alligator?," "Mr. Barclay Sees it Through," "The Muse in Liquor," and "Wordsworth's Personal Dullness."
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This book is a true journal.Some of the names of people, streets, and places have been changed possibly making this reality based fiction.Writtenby a scorned woman to keep herself company the journal confronts a double standard and injustice one woman went through and her attempts to healherself through books and finally action.Strong feelings and sexuality are all aired about the life of a real person.This book is really about asabotage - a lie that...
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This book contains ten Uzbek short stories which have been translated into English. Each story is unique in its own way in that it portrays the cultural life of the Uzbek nation as well as the social and political events of Uzbekistan. These stories are translated to provide the English reader with information about Uzbekistan and its society. Some of the included stories were written by such famous writers as Abdulla Qahhar, Ghafur Ghulom, Sayed...
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In Torn Body, One Soul, four Palestinian writers sons and daughters of a Palestinian people torn apart tell their own tales of their predicament, estrangement, and marginalization, their expectations and visions in a new, magnified voice, first to their people, then to their nation, and to a wider English-speaking public. The seventh book in a series of volumes on Palestinian authors, this collection of short stories, translated and edited by Jamal...
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