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What do you do when you discover that your insignificant other is becoming more significant than your spouse? Richard Rossi works in HR at a Boston-based software company and prides himself on his understanding of the foibles and fictions we …
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The Making of a Master Shotgunner
Learn to point and shoot like a pro with these easy-to-follow tips.Here, point and shoot. These words from his father propelled Buz Fawcetts shooting success as a child, gaining him a number of High Gun awards at local trap clubs …
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Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's Mother
Little Womens Marmee is one of the most recognizable mothers in American literature. But the real woman behind the fictionLouisa May Alcotts own mother, Abigailhas for more than a century remained shrouded in mystery. Scholars believed that her papers were …
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'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020
A page-turning literary gem THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a beautiful and compelling story based on true events, perfect for …
View book details for The Ultimate Guide to Fishing Skills, Tactics, and Techniques
A Comprehensive Guide to Catching Bass, Trout, Salmon, Walleyes, Panfish, Saltwater Gamefish, and Much More
With fishing advice from such experts as Bill Dance, Roland Martin, Wade Bourne, Tom Rosenbauer, Kirk Deeter, Charlie Meyer, Conway Bowman, and Lamar Underwood, The Ultimate Guide to Fishing Skills, Tactics, and Techniques profiles all of the major gamefish in …
In a spectacular display of intelligence and feeling (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Paul Yoons collection of short stories ranges throughout the worldfrom the Hudson Valley to the Russian Far Eastacross periods of time after World War II, hailed as a …
A new award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of Touch. A young woman, asked at work to write a letter to an older man, does as she is told. So begins an enigmatic but passionate love affair conducted entirely in …
View book details for Meditations for Busy Moms
Reflections, Scripture, and Wisdom
You love your kids and you're not a grouch. But you do value order and like some sense of control over your time and your environment. Author Sandra Drescher-Lehman has been a parent long enough to voice the utter exhaustion …
With hunting advice from a wide variety of experts, including Steve Bartylla, Peter Fiduccia, Leo Somma, and John Trout, The Ultimate Book of Bowhunting focuses on the most traditional of hunting weapons: the bow and arrow. In this compendium of …
View book details for Juliet Saves the Day!
Ready-to-Read Level 2
Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet work with renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read thats based on the upcoming film, Sherlock Gnomes! Paramount Animations Sherlock Gnomesstarring Johnny Depp, Emily …
An ALA Morris Award Finalist! In this equal parts heartbreaking and joyful (School Library Journal) debut YA novel thats The Coldest Girl in Coldtown meets They Both Die at the End, a teen girl takes a trip to New Orleans …
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Diaries, Memoirs, and the History of the Self
Named an Outstanding Academic Title of the Year for 2013 by Choice.The self has a history. In the West, the idea of the soul entered Christianity with the Church Fathers, notably Augustine. During the Renaissance the idea of the individual …
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The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world …
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Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination
William Faulkner occupied a unique position as a modern writer. Although famous for his modernist novels and their notorious difficulty, he also wrote extensively for the "culture industry," and the works he produced for itincluding short stories, adaptations, and screenplaysbore …
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Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement
Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Each essay is a contribution to the history of the English novel, to our understanding of literature's place in cultural debate, and to women's studies. The …
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Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out
The first book-length scholarly examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience, 1801-1805How did Byron become "Byron"? In Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out, Paul Elledge locates one origin …
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Canadas Founding Debates, 1864-1999
July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and …
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The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73
Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of …
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Writing and the Sound of Feeling
Tone is often decisive in whether we love or dislike a story, novel, or even critical essay. Yet literary critics rarely treat tone as a necessary or important element of literary style or critique. There are surprisingly few analyses of …
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A Filmmakers Legacy
Taking at its starting point the idea that Kubrick's cinema has constituted an intellectual, cerebral, and philosophical maze in which many filmmakers (as well as thinkers and a substantial fringe of the general public) have gotten lost at one point …
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Comparative Ecclesiology
"Ecclesiology from below," as it operates in this work, is directed to history; it moves through the actual church of history to ecclesiology or to an understanding of the church both as it is and as it should be. In …
The interdisciplinary French-American thinker Rene Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the humanities in the last half-century. The title of Rene Girard's first book offered his own thesis in summary form: romantic lie and novelistic truth …
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Writing at the Iterative Turn
In This Is Not a Copy, Kaja Marczewska identifies a characteristic 'copy-paste' tendency in contemporary culture-a shift in attitude that allows reproduction and plagiarizing to become a norm in cultural production. This inclination can be observed in literature and non-literary …
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Untying 'the Knot'
Postwar Italian Art History Today brings fresh critical consideration to the parameters and impact of Italian art and visual culture studies of the past several decades. Taking its cue from the thirty-year anniversary of curator Germano Celant's landmark exhibition at …
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Why the Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter
In Holy Misogyny, bible scholar April DeConick wants real answers to the questions that are rarely whispered from the pulpits of the contemporary Christian churches. Why is God male? Why are women associated with sin? Why can't women be priests? …
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