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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
This topically arranged volume of memorable and dynamic words covers an extraordinary range of subjects: love, coffee, death, football, poetry, politics, horses, money, and more than 1,400 others. Featuring approximately 16,000 quotations, including 10,000 new entries, it is the most complete collection in print.
The 2,600 women quoted here are writers and artists, scientists and musicians, lawyers and politicians, scholars and celebrities. They...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
William Tyce is growing up without parents, near a river in the rural Midwest. In a glossary-style list, he imparts his particular wisdom on subjects ranging from A to Z; his quest is to create a reference volume specific to his existence. As this quest takes him on a journey down the river by raft, he seeks to discover how his mother died and find reasons for his father's disappearance. But as he goes about defining his changing world, all kinds...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound...
Author
Series
Megan Clark mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime -- but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit...TANGLED UP IN MURDER...Excited about her latest writing assignment, Megan persuades the Murder by the Yard book group to accompany her on her research. Few of the bibliophiles have ever heard of string figures...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
[1950, ©1934]
Language
English
Description
Burmese Days is set in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada. The story involves U Po Kyin, a corrupt Burmese magistrate, who works to destroy the reputation of the Indian Dr. Veraswami, so he (Kyin) can be admitted to the European Club instead of the more likely Dr. Veraswami. The Doctor's main protection is his friendship with John Flory who, as a pukka sahib (European white man), has higher prestige. U Po Kyin, however, succeeds...
Author
Publisher
The Floating Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, "Critique of Practical Reason", published in 1788, is considered by many to be one of the most important works on the subject of moral philosophy ever written. Written several years after his first critique, "Critique of Pure Reason", this work addresses Kant's views on moral philosophy and what it means to be good and ethical. In this work, Kant explores his philosophy of the categorical imperative,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
Where do we come from? Why do stars shine and the seasons change? What is evil? Since the beginning of time, people have answered such questions by crafting imaginative stories that have served as religion, science, philosophy, and popular literature. In his irreverent a question-and-answer style, Davis introduces and explains the great myths of the world, as well as the works of literature that have made them famous. He tackles Mesopotamia's Gilgamesh,...
12) Trailin'
Author
Language
English
Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Trailin'!" by Max Brand. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author
Publisher
The Floating Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Edward William Bok
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works...
Author
Publisher
Wildside Press LLC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book is a how-to-do-it of black and white magic, and a how-it-is-done record, showing the magic at work of other times, peoples, places. Within these pages, you'll find special sections on methods of healing, matters of love, the divining arts, how to deal with demons, how to alter the form, how to gain wealth and importance, how to use talismans and how to use magic to create mischief. Here are charms that will chill your bones, answer your
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this completely updated and revised edition, Anthony Dias Blue, the renowned wine expert and author of the definitive wine reference American Wine: A Comprehensive Guide, offers consumers his authoritative ratings of more than 5,000 domestic vintages, listed in an accessible, alphabetical format by wineries and their products.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
More than 150 years after its original publication, BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. BARTLETT'S showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross,...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style's "Grammar and Usage" chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity. With The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, he has written the definitive guide for writers who want their prose to be both memorable and correct. Throughout the book Garner describes standard literary...
19) Cambridge Pieces
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
One of the leading critics and intellectuals of the Victorian era, Samuel Butler produced literary works in a wide range of genres, ranging from translations of ancient Greek texts to critical essays. This collection of short sketches and stories offers an accessible introduction to Butler's body of work.
Author
Series
Publisher
Travelers' Tales
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go encourages women of any age to see the world in a group, with a friend, or solo and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations of
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