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Alice nel paese delle meraviglie e Attraverso lo specchio | A oltre un secolo dalla sua pubblicazione, Alice, come romanzo e come personaggio, conserva ancora intatta tutta la sua freschezza, incantando non solo i piu giovani ma anche gli adulti, che nel suo mondo meraviglioso scoprono un altro se, pronto a sfidare ardui giochi linguistici, entusiasmanti trucchi psicologici, situazioni impossibili che mettono in discussione la realta e svelano l'irresistibile fascino dell'assurdo. In un romanzo in cui la sospensione dell'incredulita e d'obbligo, il gusto del gioco non puo essere dimenticato e va riscoperto con occhi che sappiano guardare al di la del consueto. Perche qui e l'essenza della vita, e forse tra i sogni segreti di tanti c'e proprio la tana di un coniglio bianco in cui perdersi, uno specchio al di la del quale riscoprire la bellezza della vita reale. E letteratura per ragazzi? E un libro da leggere punto e basta. | it |
Timepiece (Hourglass, #2) | A threat from the past could destroy the future. And the clock is ticking...
Kaleb Ballard's relentless flirting is interrupted when Jack Landers, the man who tried to murder his father, timeslips in and attacks before disappearing just as quickly. But Kaleb has never before been able to see time travelers, unlike many of his friends associated with the mysterious Hourglass organization. Are Kaleb's powers expanding, or is something very wrong?
Then the Hourglass is issued an ultimatum. Either they find Jack and the research he's stolen on the time gene, or time will be altered with devestating results.
Now Kaleb, Emerson, Michael, and the other Hourglass recruits have no choice but to use their unusual powers to find Jack. But where do they even start? And when? And even if they succeed, it may not be enough...
The follow-up to Hourglass, Timepiece blends the paranormal, science fiction, mystery, and suspense genres into a nonstop thrill ride where every second counts. | en |
Bridal Desires | Simone's delight at getting married to Daniel quickly subsides when he deserts her on their wedding night. Instead, she finds solace in the arms of Jim, her stepson that she's only just met for the first time. Gambling her marriage just hours after the ceremony, Simone asks her stepson to fullfill her ultimate bridal desire: to give her a child born out of forbidden love.
WARNING: This ebook is for adults only. Its 6000 words deal with the forbidden love of a bride for her stepson, described in full graphic detail.
Excerpt:
'Trouble in paradise?' he asked casually, turning around on his bar stool as his stepmom stepped closer in her wedding dress.
Simone didn't respond and threw herself down into one of the lounge chairs. Slowly Jim stood up and walked over to her. He sat down in the chair opposite hers, just like they had sat before Simone had gone to her room.
'Hey, what's up? Was it something he said?'
She looked up.
'He's not saying anything. Your dad's fast asleep. On his wedding night.'
Jim started to smile, but then corrected himself.
'I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh about this.'
He extended a hand to her.
'Come on, I can't stand to see you angry like this,' he said when Simone just looked at his hand instead of taking it.
She laid her hand in his and felt how strong his fingers were. When Jim stood up, she allowed him to gently pull her up with him. As he led her to the open area of the bar, she felt her anger slowly subside. He turned and looked her into the eyes.
'My dear, beautiful stepmother, may I have this dance?'
Simone knew that he was just flattering her to make her happy. She stepped up to him and laid her arm around his shoulder.
Apparently the single member of the bar staff that was still there had been watching what they were doing, and now turned up the music.
Jim pulled Simone closer, his hand on the small of her back, gently rubbing up and down with movements that were small enough to have Simone wonder whether he was actually moving his hand. He didn't say anything, but she could hear the sound of his breathing by her ear. She felt his slight stubble on her cheek.
For a few moments they just swayed along with the music, in each other's arms. There was no actual dancing going on, but Simone didn't mind. She was happy to be close to someone and able to press herself against him. For these few moments, she could forget her anger about her husband, and just empty her mind.
Simone was awakened from her mental rest by something Jim did. Or by something she thought Jim did. She could have sworn that he pressed the side of his lips against her cheek, as if to give her a kiss without her even noticing herself.
She raised her head from his shoulder and ran her hand down the sleeve of his grey jacket.
'Jim, I... We can't...' Simone didn't know what to say. Was she making more of this than there was to it? | en |
The Truth She Knew (The Truth Series #1) | "A bittersweet story of young love, independence, and soul-crushing manipulation. J.A. Owenby shines a light on the impact that mental illness can have on a family." --Dr. Sheri Kaye Hoff, PhD, Professional Life Coach
Mama didn't want me. In fact, she would've traded my soul back for someone different if God would've let her, but he didn't, so she was stuck with me.
For eighteen-year-old Lacey, life at home is a rollercoaster. She doesn't think she'll ever be good enough to truly deserve Mama's love.
But when Lacey enters college and meets Walker, everything starts to change. Suddenly, Lacey is face to face with the realization that maybe what she's always seen as normal really isn't. Her entire life--and everything she's ever believed about herself and her family--is abruptly hanging in midair.
Lacey is left facing two paths, and she has to make a choice. The first means walking away from everything she's ever known. The other means never really knowing the truth.
The Truth She Knew offers an honest and powerful glimpse into mental illness, the meaning of true love, and the psychological waltz that a daughter dances as she endures her mother's unpredictable emotions, manipulation, and abuse. | en |
Sjenovita međa (Sjenovita međa, #1) | U najsjevernijem dijelu Eiona lezi kraljevstvo Sjenovite mede, tik uz rub tajanstvene Sjenovite brane. Princa Barricka i princezu Briony, dvoje nespremnih petnaestogodisnjih blizanaca, dopao je neocekivani zadatak da savladaju prijetnje koje su se nadvile nad kraljevstvo njihova oca.
Epska prica o misteriji, ljubavi i izdaji, Sjenovita meda, prvi dio trilogije jednog od najpoznatijih pisaca fantastike, nominirana je za najbolju knjigu Udruzenja britanskih pisaca fantastike. Algoritam vam, u prijevodu Tajane Pavicevic i uz likovnu opremu Michaela Whelana, donosi novu sagu Tada Williamsa, ovaj put o carobnom svijetu Sjenovite mede. | Undefined |
La più amata | "Mi chiamo Teresa Ciabatti, ho quattro anni, e sono la figlia, la gioia, l'orgoglio, l'amore del Professore." Il Professore - un inchino in segno di gratitudine e rispetto - e Lorenzo Ciabatti, primario dell'ospedale di Orbetello. Lo e diventato presto, dopo un tirocinio in America, rinunciando a incarichi piu prestigiosi, perche e pieno di talento ma modesto, un benefattore, qualcuno dice, un santo. Tutti lo amano, tutti lo temono, e Teresa e la sua figlia adorata. E lei la bambina speciale che fa il bagno nella smisurata piscina della villa al Pozzarello, che costruisce un castello d'oro per le sue Barbie coi 23 lingotti trovati in uno dei cassetti del padre. Teresa: l'unica a cui il Professore consente di indossare l'anello con lo zaffiro da cui non si separa mai. L'anello dell'Universita Americana, dice lui. L'anello del potere, bisbigliano alcuni - medici, infermieri e gente del paese: il Professore e un uomo potente.
Teresa che dall'infanzia scivola nell'adolescenza, e si rende conto che la benevolenza che il mondo le riserva e un effetto collaterale del servilismo nei confronti del padre. La bambina bella e coccolata e diventata una ragazzina fiera e arrogante, indisponente e disarmante. Ingrassa, piange, e irascibile, manipolatrice, e totalmente impreparata alla vita. Chi e Lorenzo Ciabatti? Il medico benefattore che ama i poveri o un uomo calcolatore, violento? Un potente che forse ha avuto un ruolo in alcuni degli eventi piu bui della storia recente? Ormai adulta, Teresa decide di scoprirlo, e si ritrova immersa nel liquido amniotico dolce e velenoso che la sua infanzia e stata: domande mai fatte, risposte evasive. Tutto, nei racconti famigliari, e riadattato, trasformato. E questa stessa contrarieta della verita a mostrare un solo volto Teresa la ritrova quando si mette a scrivere, ossessivamente prova a capire, ad aggrapparsi a un bandolo e risalire alle risposte. Esagerazione, mitomania, oppure semplici constatazioni? Con una scrittura densa, nervosa, lacerante, che affonda nella materia incandescente del vissuto e la restituisce con autenticita illuminandone gli aspetti piu ambigui, Teresa Ciabatti ricostruisce la storia di una famiglia e, con essa, le vicende di un'intera epoca. Un'autofiction sincera, feroce, perturbante, che nasce dall'urgenza di fare i conti con un'infanzia felice bruscamente interrotta. | it |
Exalted Dreams of the First Age | Details Creation at the height of the First Age. Features everything players and Storytellers need to generate First Age Exalted characters, including high-Essence Charms for each Exalt type. Complete with stats for prominent Exalted of the period.
An alternate setting for use with Exalted Second Edition. Dreams of the First Age is a boxed set featuring the world of Exalted as it appeared during the wondrous golden era predating the Great Contagion and the Usurpation.
Includes:
*Lands of Creation, a 160-page setting book that details Creation as it was during the High First Age.
*Lords of Creation, a character resource that includes everything players and Storytellers need to generate First Age Exalted characters, including high-essence charms for each Exalt type and stats for prominent Exalts from the period.
*A 64-page guide to the city of Meru itself, jewel of Creation and capital of the Realm.
*Unique First Age battlewheel.
*First Age cloth map of Creation. | en |
Louise de la Vallière | Louise de la Valliereis the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonneand will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Set during the reign of Louis XIV and filled with behind-the-scenes intrigue, the novel brings the aging Musketeers and d'Artagnan out of retirement to face an impending crisis within the royal court of France. This new edition of the classic English translation is richly annotated and places Dumas's invigorating tale in its historical and cultural context.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Flash of Bright | When Percy is seventeen, his life changes irrevocably, from one moment to the next. | en |
Surprise! Surprise! | Hercule Poirot boards a bus and goes to the aid of a beauty in a beastly predicament. Miss Jane Marple cycles into a viper's nest of danger and intrigue. Mr. Parker Pyne takes a train to a mansion where a dance of diabolical deceit awaits him. Harley Quin motors to an isolated country inn for a rendezvous with eerie evil. -- And the one and only Agatha Christie offers thirteen unforgettable journeys from bewildering bafflement to startling solution for all who love a mystery. | en |
A World of Difference: Putting Christian Truth-Claims to the Worldview Test | Recent Barna research indicates that less than one in ten evangelical Christians hold a biblical worldview. A World of Difference seeks to change this disturbing fact by educating readers on how the Christian perspective is uniquely reasonable, verifiable, and liveable.
Author Kenneth Richard Samples faced a profound test of his own belief system during a personal life-and-death crisis. In A World of Difference, he uses nine distinct tests to compare the Christian worldview with current religious and philosophical competitors, including Islam, postmodernism, naturalism, and pantheistic monism. Samples tackles tough issues through this in-depth study of Christianity's history, creed, and philosophical basis. An excellent resource for readers who want their view of life and the world to make sense. | en |
Family Fortune (Southern Family Ties, #1) | Defying the restrictions of society, Emma Johnston plans to become a teacher and help broaden the lives of young women. Society, her father, and even her own heart betray her and leave her longing for a different life entirely.
After having run up considerable debt, Emma's father needs her inheritance from her maternal grandfather and he has a plan that seems guaranteed to get it for him, until Roger Starnes steps in and rescues her.
Together, the headstrong heiress and her protector scheme to stop her father and allow her to live her life, on her terms. | en |
Ali dan Nino | Sebuah kisah cinta yang amat menggetarkan, tentang dua anak manusia dari dua budaya yang berbeda, yang bertemu, berselisih, dan akhirnya mencoba saling menerima.
Pertama kali diterbitkan di Vienna pada tahun 1937, Ali dan Nino dianggap sebagai salah satu novel romantis yang paling bertahan lama pada abad ke-20 dan sering dibandingkan dengan Romeo dan Juliet, Gone with the Wind, atau Dr. Zhivago.
Ali Khan adalah seorang bocah muslim dari Azerbaijan, yang memiliki gairah warisan leluhurnya gairah kepada pesona gurun dan berbagai kisah kepahlawanan. Tapi, kekasihnya adalah seorang gadis Kristen yang cantik, Nino dari Georgia. Nino lebih memiliki kepekaan seorang Eropa.
Mereka berdua amat dekat sejak kecil, dan memadu kasih hingga dewasa--lepas dari segala penentangan masing-masing keluarga mereka. Sepasang kekasih itu menghabiskan hari-hari mereka di Baku di tepian Laut Kaspia. Tapi Baku adalah kota tempat dunia Timur dan Barat bertemu, dan mereka tak terhindarkan lagi terperangkap dalam berbagai kejadian seputar Perang Dunia Pertama dan Revolusi Rusia. | Undefined |
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession | A classic in the making -- an account of the biggest year in birdwatching history.
In the USA, some 50 million people lay claim to being bird-watchers or "birders," spending billions of dollars on birding-related travel and membership fees every year. A select, and utterly obsessed, few compete in one of the world's quirkiest contests -- the race to spot the most species in North America in a single year. And 1998 wasn't just a big year. It was the biggest. The Big Year is Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Obmascik's account of what was to become the greatest birding year of all time.
It was freak weather conditions that ensured all previous records were broken, but what becomes clear within the pages of this classic portrait of obsession is that while our feathered friends may be the objective of the Big Year competition, it's the curious activities and behavioural patterns of the pursuing "homo sapiens" that are the real cause for concern. It is a contest that reveals much of the human character in extremes. Such are the author's powers of observation that he brilliantly brings to life and gets under the skin of these extraordinary, eccentric and obsessive birders while empathizing with and eventually succumbing to the all-consuming nature of their obsession. The result is a wonderfully funny, acutely observed classic to rank alongside the best of Bill Bryson.
From the Trade Paperback edition. | en |
Io voglio (Gli Angeli Caduti, #1) | Caldwell, NY: Jim Heron fa il carpentiere, ha un passato avvolto nel mistero, si diverte con gli amici nella discoteca Iron Mask e di solito non pensa all'inferno o al paradiso. Ma un giorno, dopo un'avventura con una donna bellissima e pericolosa, ha un incidente mortale sul lavoro, e si ritrova in uno strano prato dove quattro uomini giocano a croquet. Sono angeli, e arruolano Jim per la lotta millenaria in corso tra angeli e demoni, in cui la posta in palio e la salvezza della terra. Jim potra tornare in vita e avra il compito di salvare sette anime da ciascuno dei sette vizi capitali. La prima e quella del ricchissimo Vin Di Pietro, e il suo peccato e l'avarizia. Mentre cerca di redimerlo, Jim si rende conto che il nostro mondo e pieno di angeli caduti e demoni che possono assumere le forme piu ingannevoli, come il corpo meraviglioso di una donna. "Io voglio" e il primo romanzo della nuova serie "Angeli caduti." | it |
Home Before Dark | A young girl returns to her father's tobacco farm homestead only to face a series of trials and responsibilities that test her maturity. | en |
Trains & Lovers | In the words of Alexander McCall Smith: "You feel the rocking of the train, you hear the sound of its wheels on the rails; you are in the world rather than suspended somewhere above it. And sometimes there are conversations to be had, which is what the overarching story in this collection is all about. It is a simple device: people brought together entertain one another with tales of what happened to them on trains. It takes place on a journey I frequently make myself and know well, the journey between Edinburgh and London. It is best read on a train, preferably that one." | en |
Λευκός Νίντζα | Etan enas nintza pou den mporouse pia na polemesei. Ki o monos tropos gia na xanakerdisei tis khamenes tou ikanotetes etan na anebei kai pali sto bouno Khontaka, opou prin apo khronia eikhe muethei sten arkhaia tekhne tou nintzoutsou,na xanadiabei to Pheggarolousto Monopati kai na prospathesei na xanabrei ton eauto tou. Ekei, sten pio psele korphe tou bounou, kato apo ten apeiletike skia tou Maurou Brakhou, o Nikolas Liner edose te makhe tes zoes tou. Palepse me tous phobous tou, sumphiliotheke me to skotadi, pethane kai xanagennetheke. Tora pia den etan enas aplos nintza, alla o phulakas ton smaragdion ton Tantzian. Tora pia etan etoimos na antimetopisei ton phobero ntorokouzai Sentzin Omouke, pou apeilouse na katastrepsei ola osa agapouse o Nikolas...
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Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly | Another thrilling mystery featuring Detective Sean Duffy and his most dangerous investigation yetBelfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave.Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs, and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece. | en |
Quote rosa. Donne, politica e società nei racconti delle ragazze italiane | "Quote rosa" e un'espressione che e diventata di uso comune, a indicare la difficolta delle donne a imporsi in ambito politico e sociale. Nata da un'idea di Gianluca Morozzi e Grazia Verasani, questa antologia e una raccolta tutta al femminile composta da quindici autrici under 35. L'obiettivo dell'antologia e quello di indagare attraverso lo strumento del racconto il rapporto delle donne con la politica, la societa e il mondo del lavoro in tutte le sue forme. In questo senso un'antologia al femminile vuole anche essere l'occasione per raccogliere materiale che esula dal territorio dei sentimenti, delle storie intime, del personale.
Le autrici:
Elena Battista, Susanna Bissoli, Francesca Bonafini, Stefania Bondini, Patrizia Caffiero, Barbara Delfino, Mascia Di Marco, Elisa Finocchiaro, Elisa Genghini, Deborah Rim Moiso, Viola Rispoli, Elisa Ruotolo, Daniela Russo, Federica Senigagliesi, Nadia Terranova, Grazia Verasani. | it |
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return | The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return
The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. This is a beautiful and intimate story full of tragedy and humour - raw, honest and incredibly illuminating. | en |
Never Let You Go | 11 hours, 56 minutes
A stunning and thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Chevy StevensThe author of Still Missing targets her readers with a novel that hits all the notes they have come to expect from her--and ratchets up the stakes even more. Lindsey Nash is starting over with her new life after leaving her abusive ex-husband who was sent to jail. She has her own business and is raising her teenage daughter who needs her now more than ever.When her husband is finally released, Lindsey believes she has cut all ties. There is no way he can ever find her and her daughter again. But she gets the sense that someone is watching her, tracking her every move. Her new boyfriend is threatened. Her home is invaded. Even her daughter is shadowed. Lindsey is convinced it's her ex-husband, even though he claims he is a different person and doesn't want to do her any harm. But can he really change? Is the one who wants her dead even closer to home than she thought? | en |
L'altra Venezia | <>
(dalla Prefazione di Raffaele La Capria)
Per il magistrale cantore del Mediterraneo, era inevitabile misurarsi con la sua citta piu emblematica e affascinante, sospesa tra la terra e il mare, tra l'Oriente e l'Occidente. Di questa Venezia, rappresentata innumerevoli volte fino a diventare quasi un luogo comune, Predrag Matvejevic e riuscito a cogliere immagini e sensazioni diverse, nuove e vere.
Perche non c'e solo la Venezia delle basiliche e dei grandi pittori, del leone alato e dei palazzi affacciai sul canale. Nell'Altra Venezia Matvejevic ci fa apprezzare le diverse sfumature di patine e dorature sul legno, sulla pietra, sul mattone. Esplora le antiche mappe anonime. Fa esplodere la magnificenza dei tramonti, ascolta la musica dei passi sui ponti, ci accompagna in giardini invisibili... Dettaglio dopo dettaglio, ricompone il disegno complessivo della citta e del suo mutare con lo scorrere del tempo e della storia.
Come ha scritto nella sua prefazione Raffaele La Capria, <>. | it |
Jubilæum | Novelledebut undersoger, hvad der sker med os, nar vi mister - vores barndoms uskyld, vores elskede eller vores forestilling om det perfekte liv.
I 19 korte noveller skildrer Jubilaeum hverdagens mirakler og trivialiteter, lyster og aengstelser i en genkendelig dansk virkelighed, hvor de naere menneskelige relationer - og tabet af dem - bliver afgorende, blandt andet for kvinden, der koger suppe til sin kaereste, selv om hun har en mistanke, for manden, som skal have sit forste barn, men mister modet, og for aegteparret, som ved, at de har taget hul pa deres sidste sommer sammen. | Undefined |
Camino Desolación | Una novela epica marciana
Alejada de ninguna parte pero a solo un paso de Paraiso, en algun lugar de la linea que la une con Sabiduria y donde nunca paran los trenes se hallaba Camino Desolacion, un pueblo que nunca deberia haber existido, ni siquiera en el Marte de aquella epoca, donde los milagros ocurrian cada dia. En realidad, era tan pequeno y estaba tan apartado que se le conocio tan solo por las historias que de el se contaban.
Todo empezo hace treinta anos con un hombrecito verde. Pero para cuando los hechos acabaron, por Camino Desolacion habian desfilado todos y cada uno de los prodigios y anormalidades concebibles en oferta: desde la Feria Ambulante y Fantasia Educativa de Adam Black (completa, con su propio angel cautivo), hasta el Asombroso Desprecio, Maestro Mutante del Centelleante Sarcasmo y Replica Rapida, sin olvidar (si alguien pudiera) el Asombroso Bazar Aereo de Persis Jirones, el martes de Cometas y el primer viaje tripulado a traves del tiempo de la historia... | es |
Little Whistle's Christmas | It's Christmastime in Toytown. Lights are twinkling, bells are jingling, and children can't wait for Santa and his sleigh to arrive. Presents are wonderful, of course, but Little Whistle and his friends need something else for Christmas. Will Santa answer their letter and make their wishes come true?
In Little Whistle's first holiday adventure, Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant and artist Tim Bowers once again bring the cozy world of Toytown to life--and capture the magical spirit of Christmas. | en |
Designed for Murder | Some fashion statements can kill...
Mika Ito combines her two favorite things in life--textile design and live-action role-playing (LARP)--by creating costumes for her fellow Magic Battledome gamers. Lately, someone's been assaulting LARPers and stealing their costumes. Concerned for the safety of her friends, Mika hires Maltese Security...only to discover that the lead investigator is the super-hot stranger she just hooked up with.
Carlos Castillo is all too familiar with Magic Battledome. A former legend in role-playing circles, he was all about gaming, until things went very, very wrong for him. Now he's forced to return to the game undercover--as Mika's boyfriend--to find some answers. Only playing "boyfriend" with his gorgeous one-night stand is more temptation than a guy can withstand...
Someone wants the costumes enough to kill for them. And when it comes to murder, nothing is what it seems... | en |
Evaluating Reference Services: A Practical Guide | For many users, library means reference. To make sure these library customers are satisfied with what the modern library has to offer, one of the leading reference researchers has outlined practical methods for evaluating reference services. | en |
It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey | Variously described as a work of genius, a pretentious wreck, a crucially important film, and a victim of its director's ego, among other things, It's All True, shot in Mexico and Brazil between 1941 and 1942, is the legendary movie that Orson Welles never got to finish. In this book, the most comprehensive and authoritative assessment of It's All True available, Catherine Benamou synthesizes a wealth of new and little-known source material gathered on two continents, including interviews with key participants, to present a compelling original view of the film and its historical significance. Her book challenges much received wisdom about Orson Welles and illuminates the unique place he occupies in American culture, broadly defined. | en |
Before I Forget: How I Survived a Diagnosis of Younger-Onset Dementia at 46 | 'Some days all I want to do is give up the constant, exhausting struggle and stop trying to be normal. But I can't. It's not in me to walk away from a fight. I'll keep fighting and telling my story. Before I forget.'
When she was just 46, Christine Bryden - a brilliant biochemist, science advisor to the prime minister and single mother of three daughters - was diagnosed with early-onset dementia. Doctors told her to get her affairs in order, as she would soon be incapable of doing so. Twenty years later, she is still thriving, still working hard to rewire her brain even as it loses its function.
The unusually slow progress of her condition puts Christine in a unique position to describe the lived experience of dementia, a condition that affects 1800 new Australians each week. She shares what it's like to start grasping for words that used to come so easily. To suddenly realise you don't remember how to drive. To be exhausted from the effort of thinking, smiling, talking; of trying to appear 'normal'.
In this moving, inspiring memoir, Christine looks back on her life, in an effort to understand how her brain - once her greatest asset, now her greatest challenge - works now. She takes us through being a gifted child and then a troubled adolescent, examines how she survived a destructive marriage while enjoying a high-flying career, and shares the steps she takes to maximise her brain function. This is Christine's legacy for people with dementia and those who care for them. | en |
Simfonia itinerantă | "Simfonia itineranta" este un roman complex, ciudat, despre anii de dinainte si de dupa o pandemie care ucide majoritatea populatiei de pe Terra, avand in centru destinele unei trupe de actori supravietuitori.
Planurile temporale se impletesc in mod armonios. Frumos scris, bine construit, nu este, cum s-ar putea crede, doar un roman postapocaliptic sumbru, ci ne ofera o viziune inedita despre un viitor distopic. | Undefined |
O Homem Que Mordeu o Cão - Os Clássicos | "O Homem que Mordeu o Cao - Os Classicos" e uma compilacao das melhores historias alguma vez publicadas em livro e de alguns textos ineditos.
O primeiro livro do Homem que Mordeu o Cao, publicado em 2002, ja vendeu 160 mil exemplares. A rubrica da radio comercial "O Homem que Mordeu o Cao" esta no ar desde 1997 e tem uma legiao de fas incondicional e muito atenta. | pt |
The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever | The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever is so bad, it could wake the dead...
After producing three horror films that went mostly ignored on YouTube, Justin and his filmmaking buddies decide it's time to make something epic. In fact, they're going to make The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever. They may not have money or a script, but they have passion. And, after a rash text message, they also have the beautiful Alicia Howtz as the lead.
Hemmed in by a one-month timeline and a cast of uncooperative extras, but aching to fulfill Alicia's dreams, Justin must face the sad, sad truth: he may, in actuality, be producing The Worst Zombie Movie Ever. | en |
The Vacationers | An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family's two-week stay in Mallorca.
For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated.
This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole. | en |
A Separate Peace | Now a modern classic, this story of two boys' friendship at an exclusive New Hampshire prep school as it parallels the inescapable and escalating atmosphere of World War II, is intense and engaging to the last word.
(c)2003 John Knowles; (P)2002 Audio Bookshelf | en |
Reflections from the Journey of Life: Collected Sayings of the Dalai Lama | Reflections from the Journey of Lifepresents quotations from the Dalai Lama selected from personal conversations with editor Catherine Barry. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama is known throughout the world for his promotion of justice, truthfulness, and compassion for all cultures, races, and religions. Inside these pages you will read the Dalai Lama's thoughts about:
*Happiness and Love
*Negative Emotions
*Responsibility and Interdependence
*Death
*Mind, Body, and Spirit
*Ethics and Science
*Religion
*Buddhist Teachings and Practices
The Dalai Lama is a symbol of peace and of the non-violent struggle against the repression of the Tibetan people. Buddhist tradition holds that the cumulated knowledge of all the Dalai Lamas is passed on to the next one. His wisdom comes not only from the knowledge bequeathed to him through lineage, but also from his life experiences and depth of empathy for humankind. The Dalai Lama shares his unparalled insight, tolerance, and understanding with a wide-ranging scope. | en |
Secrets of Romance (The Secrets, #7) | From best selling author Michelle Love...
An Alpha Billionaire Romance Part 7
With the arrival of Max's birth mother, something deep in Max changes.
He has no compassion or sympathy for the woman who chose drugs over him. He finds her disgusting and wants nothing to do with her.
Alexis's near death experience has left her with a calmness she'd never had before. Letting all her fears go, she wants to live every day she can being completely in love with Max.
His mother's arrival and how he acts about it makes Alexis uneasy.
She wants Max to find a place in himself where he can find some love for his mother, something he can't seem to do.
When things go badly,Max decides he can't allow his mother to stay with them anymore and sends her away never planning on her to return.
Alexis finds it hard to take and wonders how he'll deal with problems in their children, leaving her wondering about their real future together
** This is a hot and steamy romance series, ideal for fans of Ellie Danes, J.S. Scott, Cassie Cross, Hannah Ford, and Kelly Favor** | en |
The End of Boys | Peter Hoffmeister was a nervous child who ran away repeatedly and bit his fingernails until they bled. Home-schooled until the age of fourteen, he had only to deal with his parents and siblings on a daily basis, yet even that sometimes proved too much for him. Over the years, he watched his mother disintegrate into her own form of mania, while his father --a scholar and doctor who had once played semi-pro baseball--was strict and pushed Peter particularly hard. He wanted only the best from his son but in the process taught Peter to expect only the worst from himself. In the midst of his chaotic home life, Peter began to hear a voice--an insistent, monotone that would periodically dictate his actions. When Peter finally entered public school he started to break free from his father's control--only to fall sway to the voice more and more. His obsessive-compulsive behavior morphed into ruthless competition in sports and, ultimately, into lies, violence, and drugs.
The End of Boysfollows Hoffmeister to the very brink of sanity and back, in a harrowing and heartbreaking account of the trauma of adolescence and the redemption available to us all, if only we choose to find it. | en |
Superhero Syndrome (Solstice Survivors, #1) | Tess McBray was dying. The Solstice Syndrome had no cure, and she resigned herself to an early grave. But just when she gave up on survival, all her symptoms mysteriously disappeared.
All but one symptom, anyway. Something is wrong with Tess's hands. They absorb any material they touch, and her skin turns to wood, or steel, or concrete. It doesn't take this comic-book obsessed 21-year-old long to figure out what's going on: somehow, she's developed super powers. And she's not the only one; across the country, people are coming forward and sharing their gifts with the world. In her own city, where the police are battling a human trafficking operation, a masked vigilante called The Fox is saving lives and stopping criminals.
Tess doesn't know where she fits into this new, super-powered world. But when people around her start disappearing, she can't just sit on the sidelines. Teaming up with The Fox to create the world's first superhero duo might be the only way to rid her city of evil and save the people she loves most. | en |
Hue and Cry (Hew Cullan Mystery, #1) | 1579, St. Andrews. A thirteen-year old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St. Andrews and suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan, a young lawyer recently returned home from Paris, uncovers a complex tale of passion and duplicity, of sexual desire in tension with the repressive atmosphere of the Protestant Kirk and the austerity of the academic cloister. | en |
An Instance of the Fingerpost | We are in Oxford in the 1660s--a time & place of great intellectual, scientific, religious & political ferment. Robert Grove, a fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear about the events surrounding his death from four witnesses: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell & Charles II, a mathematician, theologican & inveterate plotter; & Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquary. Each witness tells their version of what happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth.
An Instance of the Fingerpostis a magnificent tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery story with a plot that twists, turns & keeps the reader guessing until the last page. | en |
Dancing Alone | Dancing Alone captures all faces of love in the most deceitful manner, for poems could have million meanings depending on how the readers read. Through poetry, this book shows how the presence and the absence of love could bring different emotions and different outcomes. In the end, love is a cycle that when it ends, in no time it will start again. | en |
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #6) | In this sixth novel in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe is busier than usual at the agency, when an unidentified intruder in her house on Zebra Road and the sudden appearance of a mysterious pumpkin add to her concerns. Also, things aren't running quite as smoothly as they usually do next door at Tlokweng Road Seedy Motors, where her husband, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, is overburdened with work even before one of his apprentices runs off with a wealthy woman. Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi has decided to take up dancing lessons. But what really threatens Precious' resolve is a visitor from her past who forces her to confront a secret of her own. And in the background of all this is Botswana, a country of empty spaces and echoing skies, a country so beautiful and entrancing that it breaks your heart. Mma Ramotswe has prepared the bush tea and is waiting for you to join her. She has much to tell you. | en |
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #6) | In this sixth novel in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe is busier than usual at the agency, when an unidentified intruder in her house on Zebra Road and the sudden appearance of a mysterious pumpkin add to her concerns. Also, things aren't running quite as smoothly as they usually do next door at Tlokweng Road Seedy Motors, where her husband, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, is overburdened with work even before one of his apprentices runs off with a wealthy woman. Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi has decided to take up dancing lessons. But what really threatens Precious' resolve is a visitor from her past who forces her to confront a secret of her own. And in the background of all this is Botswana, a country of empty spaces and echoing skies, a country so beautiful and entrancing that it breaks your heart. Mma Ramotswe has prepared the bush tea and is waiting for you to join her. She has much to tell you. | en |
الخواطر | Blaise Pascal's Pensees is a work of Christian apologetics and theology, written mostly in fragments of grouped and ungrouped thoughts, as Pascal died before the work was completed and arranged according to his intentions. Contains the famous Pascal's Wager. | en |
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2) | Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor of the only ladies' detective agency in Botswana. In Tears of the Giraffeshe tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a mark of 97 per cent), she also finds her family suddenly and unexpectedly increased by two.
From the Trade Paperback edition. | en |
The Full Cupboard of Life (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #5) | Mma Ramotswe is still engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening request made of him by Mma Potokwani. | en |
Reindeer with King Gustaf: What to Expect When Your Spouse Wins the Nobel Prize | The first of its kind to explore the Nobel Prize experience! "Dad, some guy is calling from Sweden." It was 2:30am on October 13th, 1998, the youngest son in the Laughlin house had answered the phone. His dad had just become a recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics.
Frantic and funny events of the next two months are chronicled as the Laughlin's academic household morphs into a madcap staging area for the family and thirty guests who will be in attendance during Nobel week. From tickets to Stockholm to clothing measurements, Nobel lecture preparations, attache assistance and a quick trip to the White House for a formal reception with President and Mrs. Clinton, readers will laugh out loud while gasping in awe.
The glorious Nobel ceremony and elaborate banquet is held each winter with a viewing audience of tens of millions. An intimate dinner with King Gustaf in his royal palace follows the Nobel evening in which Anita Laughlin finds herself the King's dinner partner for what becomes an evening of hilarious surprises, and yes, reindeer.
This book is laced with cartoons drawn by Bob Laughlin that evoke collective feelings of surprise and bewilderment as he and his wife ascend the steep learning curve of Swedish protocol together. | en |
Demon Witch (The Ravenscliff, #2) | Devon March matches wits and wizardry against a five-hundred-year-old evil in Demon Witch, the spine-tingling sequel to Sorcerers of the Nightwing. Long before the days of Madman Jackson Muir, a witch named Isobel the Apostate waged war upon her fellow sorcerers, the noble order of the Nightwing. Burned at the stake for her crimes, Isobel vowed to return and conquer the world. Now that she is back, the only person who can prevent hell on earth is fourteen-year-old Devon March. In a battle that takes him from modern-day Ravenscliff to Tudor England and back, Devon must unleash the Nightwing power within himself and call upon friendships in the strangest places to stand against an evil that has waited five centuries for revenge. For at Ravenscliff, friends come in all shapes and sizes -- and enemies are everywhere. | en |
Siege Perilous (Foreworld, #5) | Ocyrhoe, a young, cunning fugitive from Rome, safeguards a chalice of subtle but great power. Finding herself in France, she allies with the persecuted, pacifist Cathar sect in their legendary mountaintop stronghold, Montsegur. There she resists agents of the Roman Church and its Inquisition, fights off escalating, bloody besiegement by troops of the King of France, and shields the mysterious cup from the designs of many.
Percival, the heroic Shield-Brethren knight from The Mongoliad, consumed by his mystical visions of the Holy Grail, is also drawn to Montsegur--where the chalice holds the key to his destiny.
Arrayed against Percival and Ocyrhoe are enemies both old and new who are determined to reveal the secrets of the Shield-Brethren with the hope of destroying the order once and for all.
Alive with memorable characters, intense with action and intrigue, Siege Perilousconjures a medieval world where the forces of faith confront the forces of fear. Choices made by characters in The Mongoliadreach their ultimate conclusion in this fifth and concluding novel--and all of Christendom is at stake. | en |
Pearson custom anthropology: social and cultural anthropology: supplementary readings | The book consists of classical readings in social and cultural anthropology:
1. Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner
2. On joking relationships / A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
3. When brothers share a wife / Melvyn C. Goldstein
4. Arranging a marriage in India / Serena Nanda
5. The use and abuse of anthropology: reflections on feminism and cross-cultural understanding / Michelle Rosaldo
6. Some principles of exchange and investment among the Tiv / Paul Bohannon
7. Money is always personal and impersonal / Keith Hart
"Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom" : mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society / Beth A. Conklin
8. Betwixt and between : the liminal periods in Rites of passage / Victor Turner
9. The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events / E.E. Evans-Pritchard
10. No place to call home / Takeyuki Tsuda
11. McDonald's in Hong Kong : consumerism, dietary change, and the rise of children's literature / James Watson. | en |
Colț Alb | Nascut in tinuturile inzapezite din nordul canadian, Colt Alb, jumatate lup, jumatate caine, mosteneste ferocitatea si asprimea stirpei salbatice, dar ajunge sa descopere, sub influenta unui mediu prielnic, forta de nebiruit a devotamentului si a iubirii.
Puiul de lup Colt Alb traieste drama mai multor stapani care il trateaza cu asprime pana cand in final iubirea si atentia unui "om bun" fac din el un animal ascultator, capabil sa se sacrifice pe sine insusi in numele devotamentului. Surpriza ramane la indemana tuturor... | Undefined |
Fevre Dream | The vampire epic by best-selling author George R.R. Martin, presented as a graphic novel for the very first time!From George R.R. Martin, author of the New York Timesbest-selling novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, comes a moonlit tale of feuding vampire clans, death, and debauchery in the bayou! Set in 1857 along the muddy Mississippi, FEVRE DREAM introduces Abner Marsh, a remarkably ugly man who longs to captain the fastest steamboat on the river. When a pale, mysterious gentleman named Joshua - who keeps strange hours and stranger friends - approaches him with an offer of partnership, Abner's dreams appear to come true... though he may have unleashed a nightmare on the unsuspecting shores! Adapted by Hugo-nominated author Daniel Abraham and artist Rafa Lopez, this graphic novel stays faithful to Martin's original dark vision, immersing the reader in the tortures and joys of vampire society. Includes an original introduction by the legendary author! | en |
The Rainbow and the Rose | John Pascoe, a retired military flyer and commercial pilot, has crashed on a remote Tasmania mountain while attempting a rescue. Another pilot and friend, Ronnie Clark, volunteers to rescue the injured flyer. Through strange dreams that appear to Clark we glimpse Pascoe's past family life with its secrets. | en |
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Il desiderio di essere come tutti | I funerali di Berlinguer e la scoperta del piacere di perdere, il rapimento Moro e il tradimento del padre, il coraggio intellettuale di Parise e il primo amore che muore il giorno di San Valentino, il discorso con cui Bertinotti cancello il governo Prodi e la resa definitiva al gene della superficialita, la vita quotidiana durante i vent'anni di Berlusconi al potere, una frase di Craxi e un racconto di Carver...
Se e vero che ci mettiamo una vita intera a diventare noi stessi, quando guardiamo all'indietro la strada e ben segnalata, una scia di intuizioni, attimi, folgorazioni e sbagli: il filo dei nostri giorni.
Francesco Piccolo ha scritto un libro anomalo e portentoso, che e insieme il romanzo della sinistra italiana e un racconto di formazione individuale e collettiva: sara impossibile non rispecchiarsi in queste pagine (per affinita o per opposizione), rileggendo parole e cose, rivelazioni e scacchi della nostra storia personale, e ricordando a ogni pagina che tutto ci riguarda. <>. | it |
The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things | Sage Czinski is trying really hard to be perfect. If she manages it, people won't peer beyond the surface, or ask hard questions about her past. She's learned to substitute causes for relationships, and it's working just fine . . . until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. He's a little antisocial, a lot beautiful, and everything she never knew she always wanted.
Shane Cavendish just wants to be left alone to play guitar and work on his music. He's got heartbreak and loneliness in his rearview mirror, and this new school represents his last chance. He doesn't expect to be happy; he only wants to graduate and move on. He never counted on a girl like Sage.
But love doesn't mend all broken things, and sometimes life has to fall apart before it can be put back together again.
The Queen of Bright and Shiny Thingsis a story about love when you least expect it, from Ann Aguirre, the New York Times-bestselling author of the Razorland trilogy. | en |
Black Blood (Quentin Black Mystery #5.5; Quentin Black: Shadow Wars #1.5) | Is a vampire more or less dangerous when he's victim to a broken heart?
After Black spent weeks imprisoned and tortured by the evil vampire, "Brick," Miriam is still dealing with the fallout of her husband's nightmares and strange silences. When Black asks her to accompany him to New York for an extended business trip, Miri quickly agrees, but before they can leave, Brick ambushes them yet again.
This time, it's Miri he wants.
Kidnapped and blindfolded, she's positive he's using her as bait to lure her husband. But it turns out Brick wants her for an entirely different purpose, to act as psychic psychologist to his vampire girlfriend, Lila, who is suffering from trauma of her own.
Forced to work for a creature she despises, Miri finds herself drawn into his personal life in a way she never could have imagined or wanted, even as she fights to stay alive.
BLACK BLOOD is story in the Quentin Black Mystery world. It takes place between books five and six in the paranormal mystery romance series starring psychic detective, Quentin Black, and his partner, forensic psychologist Miri Fox.
Praise for JC Andrijeski's Writing
"Andrijeski delivers a whopper of an action flick..." ~ New Myths
"The sexual tension is scorching..." ~ The Muses Circle
"Amazing characters in an out-of-this-world scenario..." ~ The Indie Bookshelf
"The most impressive display of world-building I have seen in a while." ~ I (Heart) Reading | en |
Finding Mr. Brightside | Abram and Juliette know each other. They've lived down the street from each other their whole lives. But they don't really know each other--at least, not until Juliette's mom and Abram's dad have a torrid affair that culminates in a deadly car crash. Sharing the same subdivision is uncomfortable, to say the least. They don't speak.
Fast-forward to the neighborhood pharmacy, a year later. Abram decides to say hello. Then he decides to invite Juliette to Taco Bell.
To her surprise as well as his, she agrees. And the real love story begins. | en |
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Last Chance (Last Chance Rescue, #6) | NEVER SAY DIE
McKenna Sloan saved Lucas Kane's life and then vanished. Lucas moved mountains trying to find her again, and finally McKenna relented--for one fleeting night. The truth is, McKenna's life is all about the dark, deception-filled world of Last Chance Rescue, and for her, there's no hope of love or Lucas. But fate, and Lucas's determination, soon change everything. A kidnapped young woman, a lure to out a killer and the fierce need to bring a criminal to justice combine for one explosive event. For a woman who specializes in staying away from relationships and staying in the heart of danger, this is the most impossible mission of all. Because the odds are deadly, and the passion won't die.
Enjoy more Christy Reece thrills with these sizzling novels
From the Paperback edition. | en |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.'
An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s.
Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, Huck Finn, the town outcast and Joe Harper, his best friend. However, at the town graveyard, Huck and Tom witness a murder, carried out by local vagabond Injun Joe. They vow never to tell a soul about what they have seen and so begins their journey into adulthood as Tom wrestles with his own morality, guilt and anxiety.
A 'coming of age' tale, it is through Tom's adventures and relationships with others that he becomes more responsible and more aware of his own inner conflict. Through the central characters of Tom and Huck, Twain satirises the moral rigidity of society and adult hypocrisy, whilst at the same time giving a nostalgic portrayal of a young boy's journey into adulthood. | en |
Any Fin is Possible (My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish #4) | Frankie was a completely normal pet goldfish ... until Tom's evil-scientist big brother, Mark, tried to murder him with toxic gunge! Luckily Tom and his best friend Pradeep shocked Frankie back to life with a battery, and he's been their zombified fishy friend ever since.
When Pradeep and Tom take Frankie for a sleepover at the museum, history really does come to life as their evil big brothers try to reanimate the cursed Cat of Kings mummy. Dodging death-defying booby traps, can our fishy friend avoid becoming a mummified kitty snack?
In story two, there's something fishy going on at sports day. All the athletic kids seem to be losing their sporting abilities, while Tom's evil big brother Mark has suddenly become amazing at every single sport. Can Frankie help Pradeep and Tom to foil Mark's evil plans? Or will Mark and his pet vampire kitten, Fang, take home the gold? | en |
The Hall Speaks #fallsemester | Landon's new life should erase his past--a past too shameful to mention. He's found safety and a home in the most unlikely place. Residence Life.
Dedicating his days and nights to helping students does a little more than keep him out of trouble. Now, he has a reason to work hard, to laugh, to care. Everyone on campus knows Landon, and not just because he's a talented young professional.
Girls act weird around him. Their grins grow wider and words stumble out of their mouths if he looks at them. But his interest in relationships couldn't be lower. He's been girl-free for years, and has to keep it that way.
He can almost smell fall approaching as the semester begins. And with his nine resident assistants (RAs) in place, he's feeling ready for anything...except her.
He's falling hard for Alana, one of his student-staff. His girl-free plan shredded when they talk. Given in to this attraction would ruin his world. But living down the hallway from her could blur the boundary-lines to oblivion. If only he could tell Alana how he feels without looking like one of those creepy dateline guys.
At least his job serves as a necessary distraction from his heart.
A resident that overdoses on laced shrooms, sparks rumors that there's a campus drug ring in the hall. Then, a loner student lurks around--refusing to speak, may be the biggest threat of all. Landon and his staff will have to use more than the ResLife manual to get through fall semester.
*This new adult contemporary drama follows the lives of nine RAs and their supervisor Landon. Filled with all the adventure found living in a freshmen residence hall, inspired by real RAs and professionals. *
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Black Market | The breathtaking suspense of Kiss the Girlsand the authenticity of N.Y.P.D. Blue: Welcome to James Patterson's classic superthriller, Black Friday. A courageous federal agent, a powerful and resourceful woman lawyer - only they can possibly stop the unspeakable from happening. New York City is under siege by a secret militia group - and that's just the beginning of the relentless terror of Black Friday.I love to lose myself in a thriller -- especially the rare one that moves along like an out-of-control freight train. The thriller that actually got me started writing was The Day of the Jackal.
With Black Friday, I wanted to concoct a shamelessly manipulative story that the reader couldn't wait to finish, but didn't want to end. Now get on this freight train!--- James Patterson
Originally published in 1987 as Black Market, also by James Patterson. | en |
A Wish for Jamie | Dear Santa, I saw this nice little picture in the Suit section of the erotic photos, and kind of got me wondering. What do male employees do after hours?
If you could please stuff my stocking with a story using this picture you'd make my Christmas a little brighter!
Photo Description:A gorgeous, muscular man stands in the shadows. He is wearing dress slacks and a red neck tie with no shirt.
This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's "Stuff My Stocking"event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story.
Read the story anthology. | en |
Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2) | Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city is a thrill to Miri. She and her princess academy friends have been brought to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare for her wedding.There, Miri also has a chance to attend school-at the Queen's Castle. But as Miri befriends students who seem sophisticated and exciting she also learns that they have some frightening plans. Torn between loyalty to the princess and her new friends' ideas, between an old love and a new crush, and between her small mountain home and the bustling city, Miri looks to find her own way in this new place.
Picking up where Princess Academyleft off, and celebrating the joys of friendship, romance and the fate of fairy tale kingdoms, this new book delivers the completely delightful new story that fans have been waiting for. | en |
Boy In The Tower | When they first arrived, they came quietly and stealthily as if they tip-toed into the world when we were all looking the other way.
Ade loves living at the top of a tower block. From his window, he feels like he can see the whole world stretching out beneath him.
His mum doesn't really like looking outside - but it's going outside that she hates.
She's happier sleeping all day inside their tower, where it's safe.
But one day, other tower blocks on the estate start falling down around them and strange, menacing plants begin to appear.
Now their tower isn't safe anymore. Ade and his mum are trapped and there's no way out . . . | en |
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures | Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by a master storyteller. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw it coming - the vacuum cleaner, that is. As for self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, she has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You! so she is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight and misspelled poetry. And Flora will be changed too as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. | en |
The Weeping Woman | Winner of the prestigious Azorin Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar.
A writer resembling Zoe Valdes--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter--is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed with other mistress-muses, and their affair ended with her commitment to an asylum at the hands of Picasso's friends.
The writer's research centers on a mysterious trip to Venice that Dora took fifteen years later, in the company of two young gay men who were admirers of Picasso, including the biographer James Lord. After this episode, Dora cut off contact with the world and secluded herself in her Paris apartment until her death. "After Picasso, God," she would say. What happened in Venice? The more the writer investigates, the more she finds herself implicated in a story of passion taken to the extremes. In The Weeping Woman, prize-winning novelist Zoe Valdes narrates the journey of a woman who would do anything and everything for love. | en |
The Discerning Gentleman's Guide | "Choosing a wife is not a task that should be undertaken lightly."
Bennett Montague, sixteenth Duke of Aveley, is seeking the perfect bride. He's narrowed his search to five worthy "Potentials"...until the arrival of his aunt's companion unravels his carefully laid plans.
Having fought for everything she has, Amelia Mansfield is incensed by Bennett's wife-selection methods. But as she's forced to spend time in his company, she begins to see another side to Bennett--and that man is infinitely more tantalizing and enticing... | en |
Inside AA | This is about AA and How It works | en |
The Graveyard Apartment | A terrifying tale of a young family who move into an apartment building next to a graveyard and the horrors that are unleashed upon them.
One of the most popular writers working in Japan today, Mariko Koike is a recognized master of detective fiction and horror writing. Known in particular for her hybrid works that blend these styles with elements of romance, The Graveyard Apartment is arguably Koike's masterpiece. Originally published in Japan in 1986, Koike's novel is the suspenseful tale of a young family that believes it has found the perfect home to grow in to, only to realize that the apartment's idyllic setting harbors the specter of evil and that longer they stay, the more trapped they become.
This tale of a young married couple who are harboring a dark secret is packed with dread and terror, as they and their daughter move into a brand new apartment building built next to a graveyard. As strange and terrifying occurrences begin to pile up, people in the building begin to move out one by one, until the young family is left alone with someone... or something... lurking in the basement. The psychological horror builds moment after moment, scene after scene, culminating with a conclusion that will make you think twice before ever going into a basement again. | en |
My Name is Seepeetza | At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.
An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it. | en |
A Rebel's Daughter: The 1837 Rebellion Diary of Arabella Stevenson | After her father is jailed for taking part in the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion in Toronto, Arabella's upper-class mother is unable to cope. It is up to twelve-year-old Arabella to take care of herself and to pray for her father's safe return. | en |
Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir | The frontman of the classic rock band Aerosmith tells his story, including his rise to rock stardom in the 1970s, the band's drop in popularity, and its comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s. | en |
Radiance | Later, when Daisy remembered that night, she could smell the scent of honeysuckle at the window and see the moon on the floorboards. But in her memories Keiko wasn't bandaged: her face was broken down the middle, just like the moon. One half was pure and white, the other half mottled and porous. The unbroken side was as smooth as porcelain, terrifying in its brightness, but in every memory it was the pocked side that drew Daisy in. (From Radiance, p. 192)
It's 1952. Eighteen-year-old Hiroshima survivor Keiko Kitigawa arrives in New York City for surgery to cut away the scar marring her lovely face. Sponsored by The Hiroshima Project, Keiko is expected to be a media darling, "The Hiroshima Maiden," selected for her scarred beauty and for the talent she briefly revealed to Project doctors in Japan for putting words to the inexpressible horrors she has witnessed. But the Keiko who arrives in America does not perform as scripted, preferring to recall instead her grandfather's dappled gardens and tales of trickster foxes. Frustrated by her recalcitrance, the Project presses Keiko's suburban host mother, Daisy Lawrence, into duty, tasking her with drawing out the girl's horrific story, the one they need for the media circuit. When Daisy reluctantly agrees, she must fight to enter Keiko's sphere of intimacy, and is shocked by what she learns there.
Like Keiko, Daisy has a few surprises in store for the Project. Her gentle maternal character has been vouched for by her long-time friend Irene Day, the glamorous Manhattan women's columnist who recruited her. But even Daisy is taken aback by what bubbles up from beneath her calm domestic existence in Riverside Meadows, drawn to the surface by Keiko's presence. Life will never be the same.
Also deeply affected by Keiko's stay is Daisy's husband, Walter, a nearly extinguished literary light whose off-Broadway play once garnered critical acclaim. He has been fighting for years with a hopelessly unfinished manuscript, obsessing over the tragic story of a friend who fell victim to the turmoil of Stalinist Russia. But Walter is haunted by another event in his past, something that happened in the shadows of the McCarthy trials and that he has never divulged to his wife.
Keiko, bandaged after her surgery like the Invisible Man, becomes a conduit for secret grief. A barrage of letters and gifts from strangers arrive at their door. Riverside Meadows housewives, a photographer covering her story, and even a former Japanese-held POW heap their weightiest confidences upon her. Perhaps it is the force of her tragedy that pulls them in, or perhaps it is because her bandages make her seem like a blank receptacle for their own pain. Whatever the cause, Daisy finds it increasingly difficult to find the real Keiko beneath these burdens. But she will fight with all her strength to protect the girl, even at incalculable cost.
Set against the backdrops of the Atomic Age and McCarthyism, Radianceis a precise and nuanced rendition of an historic time, depicted through a highly intimate lens and driven by acts of great love, terrible betrayals and immense compassion. | en |
The Monster Within | The moment seventeen-year-old Samantha Thompson crawls out of her grave, her second chance at life begins. She died of cancer with her long-time boyfriend, Ethan, by her side--a completely unfair shot at life.
But Ethan found a way to bring her back, like he promised he would. Only Sam came back wrong.
She's now a monster that drains others' lives to survive. And after she kills, she's tortured by visions--glimpses into her victims would-have-been futures had she not killed them. Barely able to live with herself and trying to make things right, Sam ends up a pawn in a vicious game of payback within the local coven of witches.
But when the game reveals what Ethan had to do to save Sam, she must make a choice that will change all their lives forever. | en |
Nagios: System and Network Monitoring | Nagios: System and Network Monitoringshows how to configure and use Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool. Nagios makes it possible to continuously monitor network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.), host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.), and environmental factors (such as temperature). When Nagios detects a problem, it communicates the information to the sys admin via email, pager, SMS, or other user-defined method; current status information, historical logs, and reports can also be accessed via a web browser. Nagios System and Network Monitoringcovers the Nagios core, all standard Nagios plug-ins and selected third-party plug-ins, and shows readers how to write their own plug-ins. The book covers Nagios 2.0 and is backwards compatible with earlier versions. | en |
Outflow: outward-focused living in a self-focused world | Here is your field guide to not reaching, but lettingGod's love fill you with joy that flowsfrom you to your family, friends, neighbors, . . . world.
Written for everyday people, this book inspires readers to lead joyful, outward-focused lives, powerfully connected with family and friends...and in those connections, to naturally share God's love. It's a simple, organic strategy -- and Biblical.
Outflowinspires a vision for living an outward focused life and provides practical tools to make that vision a reality with:
A clear image (an overflowing fountain) that cements in the mind the five-step process by which readers can move from an inward to an outward focus 25 readings that support a five-week Outflowfocus, and Labs - practical activities readers can do to live an outward focus with their family, community, friends, and the world at large | en |
Guilt in Hiding (Martin Preuss Mysteries, #3) | The third entry in the Martin Preuss Mystery series finds the police detective called out to the streets of his suburban Detroit city to search for a van that has disappeared along with the woman who was driving and her passenger, a handicapped young man. Working through layer upon layer of secrets, Preuss exposes a multitude of contemporary crimes with roots in the twentieth century's darkest period. | en |
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: A Novel (Harold Fry, #2) | When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note to him had explained she was dying from cancer. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write a second letter; only this time she must tell Harold the truth. Composing this letter, the volunteer promises, will ensure Queenie hangs on. It will also atone for the secrets of the past. As the volunteer points out, 'It isn't Harold who is saving you. It is you, saving Harold Fry.'
This is that letter. A letter that was never sent.
Told in simple, emotionally-honest prose, with a mischievous bite, this is a novella about a woman who falls in love but chooses not to claim it. It is about friendship and kindness as well as the small victories that pass unrecorded. It is about the truth and the significance - the gentle heroism - of a life lived alone.
Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. She was wrong. It was just the beginning... | en |
Sons and Gunslicks | Where was Emily Greatheart? The pretty young lady from Denver, who had gone to Arizona to meet her dead fiance's mother, had vanished. Only a bloodstained jacket was found in an abandoned spring buggy hired from the Pike's Crossing livery stable. Emily was the daughter of Big Jack Greatheart, ex-marshal and one-time tamer of brawling boom-towns, but Big jack lay in his bed in Colorado, frustratingly crippled by arthritis and a shadow of his former self. So he called on unconventional detective Joshua Dillard, who followed a cold trail and hot impulses and was soon up to his reckless neck in two-fisted, lead-slinging trouble! | en |
The Marine's Baby | "The baby I'm carrying is not my husband's?"
In just a few months Caitlin Calhoun went from a wife to a widow to a mother-to-be. All she'd wanted was to honor her dead husband by having his baby. But that's not what she got.
Thanks to an unfortunate mix-up, her child's father is her husband's half brother, Lucky. So how does she break the news that he's about to become a father?
Family is the last thing the war-toughened Marine expected to have - not with all the bad blood in his own. But Lucky would never turn his back on a child...or the woman who's given him a second chance. | en |
The Confessions of Nat Turner | WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that still sear the collective psyches of both races. | en |
Bad Apple | When 15 year old Neal Marchal finds her neighbor murdered, she knows who did it. The why is the secret the family has been keeping forever. While Paul took an interest in Neal's musical education and taught her how to play the fiddle, he took her fatherless stepbrother, Joe, under his wing and all that implies. Joe's rage has always been barely beneath the surface and years ago, he pushed Neal under a tractor as a warning. The reminder to never reveal the secret is her limp.
While Joe was gone for five years, Neal made music a private and central part of her life. Now she has an opportunity to sing and perform but the threat remains even if Joe is a thousand miles away. Neal finds refuge in the family of the young man who wants her to join his band. It's like a dream to live with people who love each other. Neal blossoms. She has everything to live for--music, performing and a growing affection for the young man who pulled her to safety.
Then Joe comes home. Neal knows it's just a matter of time because she told. Joe's going to finish what he started 8 years ago. But this time Neal vows the outcome will be different. | en |
The Spider Jockey Academy: The Journey | The Spider Jockey Academy is not a school for the faint of heart. No bus takes you there; instead, you have to venture through some of Minecraftia's biggest wastelands to get to there. The few who are chosen end up dying before they can even set foot in the academy, and if they somehow survive, they have brutal teachers, a clique of students who despise them, and the toughest courses imaginable, all to earn the title of Spider Jockey. Who in their right mind would want to be a Spider Jockey? Find out in the first entry of this exciting new series! | en |
Životopis letícího ptáka | Hlavnim hrdinou je Michael Wronski, nejlepsi hrac fotbaloveho muzstva Newyorskych byku. Je ale take potomkem ruskych kozaku. Clovekem, ktery ho v zivote nejvice ovlivnil a pripravil na budouci sportovni uspechy, byl deda Wronski. Dedeckova smrt ale Michaela zasahla tak silne, ze na svoji minulost radeji zapomnel. S pribuznymi prerusil veskere kontakty a soustredil se jen na svoji karieru... | Undefined |
Duncan's World | Kyle MacDonald keeps his head down and tries to avoid making his father angry while traveling on the professional bull riding circuit. He's learned the hard way how his father deals with being upset. The only rebellion Kyle's allowed himself is helping out with the bulls after the event. It's on one such night that Kyle meets Duncan Hornsby.
Duncan's the reigning world Champion, and has everything he could want. Yet the shy young man whose father is Duncan's biggest rival catches his eye. Kyle makes Duncan feel protective and passionate. Even though he's seventeen years older than Kyle, Duncan's ready to risk rejection to see if Kyle's lips taste as sweet as they look.
Could a relationship grow between them amidst the macho atmosphere of bull riding and the danger presented by Kyle's father? Or will Kyle and Duncan prove that age doesn's count in matters of the heart? | en |
The Starter House | Starter House by Sonja Condit has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. | en |
501 Italian Verbs | Here is a fine quick-reference source for language students, teachers, and translators. The 501 most commonly used Italian verbs are listed in table form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all tenses, identified by English infinitive forms. Verbs are both regular and irregular, and are presented alphabetically for easy reference. Added material related to verbs and verb usage is also presented, including lists of hundreds more regular verbs, idiomatic verb usage, and more. | en |
The Afterblight Chronicles #1: The Culled | He made a stand against the end of the world... The Blight arose from nowhere. It swept across the bickering nations like the End of Times and spared only those with a single fortuitous blood type. Hot-headed religion and territorial savagery rule the cities now. Somewhere amidst the chaos a damaged man receives a signal, and with it the tiniest flicker of hope. The chance to rediscover the humanity he lost, long ago, in the blood and filth and horror of The Cull. An exciting series of high-action post-apocalypse fiction set in a world ruled by crazed gangs and strange cults - 'The Afterblight Chronicles' begins here! | en |
To Root, to Toot, to Parachute | Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of verbs, from toss and tumble, jump and jam, to whine and whisper, sleep and slam. | en |
Grabkammer (Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles, #7) | Als die Polizisten drei Schrumpfkopfe aus einem Hohlraum hinter den Mauern eines Bostomer Privatmuseums ziehen, wird Josephine Pulcillo schwindelig. Nicht, dass die junge - und verdammt gutaussehende! - Agyptologin noch nie Schrumpfkopfe gesehen hatte. Und auch der Umstand, dass neben den zwei traditionell hergestellten Menschenmumien eine von der rituellen Norm abweicht, lasst sie nicht erbleichen. Erschrocken ist sie erst, als die Ermittler eine Zeitung aus dem Innern ziehen: Sie stammt aus ihrem Heimatort und aus ihrem Geburtsjahr. Die Vergangenheit, so scheint es, holt Josephine Pulcillo unaufhorlich ein...
Der falsche Schrumpfkopf ist nicht der erste grausige Fund, der die Polizistin Jane Rizzoli und Dr. Maura Isles in dem mysteriosen und verwahrlosten Museum erwartet: Zuvor entpuppte sich auch eine korrekt nach den Massgaben des alten Agypten mumifizierte, in deren Mundhohle eine Munze eingenaht worden war, als Werk eines sehr modernen, gerissenen und wahnsinnigen Morders. Und dann wird im Kofferraum von Josephine Pulcillo auch noch eine Moorleiche gefunden, der zuvor beide Beine gebrochen worden waren...
Stuck fur Stuck entwickelt Grabkammerder US-amerikanischen Bestseller-Autorin Tess Gerritsen die geheimnisvolle Biografie Josephine Pulcillos, die mit ihrer Mutter schon seit Jahrzehnten ihre Identitaten wechselt. Als Pulcillo spurlos verschwindet, fuhrt die Spur die Ermittler zu einem raffinierten Morder, der mit der Vergangenheit seine ganz spezielle Rechnung offen hat. Auch wenn Grabkammerwegen eines etwas oden Einleitungskapitels erst ab Kapitel 2 so richtig in Fahrt kommt, lasst die Spannung danach nicht mehr nach. Nervenkitzel also von der vierzehnten bis zur letzten Seite! - Stefan Kellerer | de |
Night's Landing | New York Timesbestselling author Carla Neggers combines action, intrigue and romance like no one else in this classic tale.
Sarah Dunnemore has just returned to her family home in Tennessee when she gets news that her twin brother, Rob, has been seriously wounded in a sniper shooting in Central Park. She rushes to New York to be with him, only to come up against his no-nonsense partner. Deputy U.S. Marshal Nate Winter is the best, and he believes the official investigation is going in the wrong direction--especially when he learns that Sarah is extremely close to her family's famous neighbor: the president of the United States. Nate follows Sarah back to Night's Landing because he's determined to uncover the truth, and he will let nothing--not his and Sarah's growing attraction for each other, not the mounting danger they face--stand in his way.
Originally published in 2004 | en |
Schattenkrone - Royal Blood (Blood of Gods and Royals, #1) | Stell dir eine Zeit vor, in der die Menschen den Gottern gleichgultig sind, und das Bose an den Randern der Welt erwacht ...
Alex ist kurz davor, fur immer aus dem Schatten seines machtigen Vaters zu treten und der grosste Heerfuhrer aller Zeiten zu werden.
Seine Verbundete Kat hat einen Plan, von dem Alex niemals erfahren darf. Die beiden verbindet weit mehr als sie ahnen.
Wem kannst du trauen?
Und was ist am Ende starker?
Das Schicksal?
Magie?
Oder deine Feinde? | de |
Сегавечно | Segavechno
1. Neprekhodniiat nastoiashch mig, koito proticha vinagi, k'deto triabva, v prostranstvoto i vremeto.
2. S'vkupnostta ot vsichki takiva migove: minalo, nastoiashche i b'deshche.
V predishnite tri khaiku romana - ,,Chovek't, koito pisheshe khaiku", ,,Smeeshchiiat se Buda" i ,,Khaiku voini" - s'provozhdakhme avtora im Deivid Laniu v magichnite mu p'tuvaniia mezhdu s'vremennostta i drevna Iaponiia, rodinata na m'dri khaikupistsi.
,,Segavechno" e mnogo razlichen. Do goliama stepen biografichen, toi proslediava stranstvaniiata na edin prepodavatel, koito ne mozhe da reshi k'm koi sviat prinadlezhi - tozi na materialnoto i lineinoto ili na khaiku i magichnoto. Toi zhivee v segavechno - vseki moment se e sluchil, sluchva se i shche se sluchi, bez znachenie koga uzh triabva da se prikrepi k'm liniiata na vremeto. Vsichko e edno, vsichko e sega. Zatova Uchiteliat Chasha chai i v momenta izricha:
v liatnata prokhlada
v'rvia po moia p't
k'm ada
Sred stranitsite malko po malko kristalizirat geroite, koito po-k'sno (ili po-rano?) shche stanat gospozha Slivov tsviat, Z'bl'o, Gospodaria Kaga, Shiro, Kuro, Mido i ostanalite koloritni obrazi, naseliavashchi drevnoiaponskata vselena na Laniu. Tazi, koiato s'zdava s's svoiata pisalka ,,Bik". Sega. Vchera. Utre. Vinagi.
Segavechno. | Undefined |
Pride and Prejudice | ""It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is one of the best-loved novels of all time--and today, it's more popular than ever. When the wealthy and very eligible bachelor Charles Bingley purchases an estate in the Bennets' small town, he and the beautiful Jane immediately fall in love. But Bingley's arrogant friend Darcy just as quickly alienates Lizzy when she overhears him speaking dismissively of her. These first impressions have lasting repercussions for Jane, Elizabeth, and their whole family. Rich in wit and wisdom, humor and humanity, "Pride and Prejudice" takes a probing, entertaining look at the nature of love, money, and power in Georgian England. | en |