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Peace Like a River Leif Enger's best-selling debut is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, and a love story, in which what could be unbelievable becomes extraordinary. Enger brings us eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has reason to believe in miracles. Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been controversially charged with murder. Their journey unfolds like a revelation, and its conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, the most tragic of fates.
A Jacques Barzun Reader Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of more than thirty books has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility with words. In A Jacques Barzun Reader, Michael Murray has carefully selected from Barzun's oeuvre eighty of the most inventive, accomplished, and insightful essays, now available for the first time in one magisterial volume. The list of subjects covered has an amazing range: history, philosophy, literature, education, music and more. Jacques Barzun draws the reader into his enthusiasms with an infectious style and keen insights. A Jacques Barzun Reader is a feast for any reader.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn What happens when a young boy and a runaway slave escape together and set off to find freedom? In this classic American adventure, set on the great Mississippi river over a hundred years ago, Huck Finn tells his own story of the people they meet, and recounts with relish the comedy, danger and friendship which they find on their journey.
4 Blondes Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell returns to the playgrounds of Manhattan's powerful and beautiful with her sizzling sensation Four Blondes, which gives an insider's look at the romantic intrigues, liaisons, and betrayals among the elite. She chronicles the lives of four beautiful women; a model, a columnist, a socialite, and a writer; as they face turning points in which each must choose between her passions. Studded with Bushnell's trademark wit and stiletto-heel-sharp insights, Four Blondes serves up the zeitgeist and mores of our era with gossipy, scandalous verve.
A World Away A World Away opens at a remote beachfront cottage in the Hamptons during the Second World War. James and Anne Langer and their younger son, Jay, have moved here to care for James's aging father and to await word from their older son, Rennie, fighting somewhere in the Pacific. We soon realize that another battle is raging, this one on the domestic front, as the Langers' marriage threatens to unravel and Anne begins a clandestine affair with a soldier stationed nearby. As the story moves from Montauk to the Pacific and then to San Diego, where Rennie's wife gives birth alone, the novel takes on a larger scope, gathers power. This is a book about home and fear and hope during America's most trying time.
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon is an American epic of the old West for our own times. The narrator is Shed, or Duivichi-un-Dua, a half-breed bisexual boy who makes his living at the Indian Head Hotel in the little turn-of-the-century town of Excellent, Idaho. The imperious Ida Richilieu is Shed's employer, the town's mayor, and the mistress and owner of this outrageously pink whorehouse. Together with the beautiful prostitute Alma Hatch, and the philosophical, green-eyed, half-crazy cowboy Dellwood Barker, this collection of misfits and outcasts make up the core of Shed's eccentric family. And although laced with the ugliness and cruelty of the frontier West, Shed is raped by the same man who then murders the woman he thinks is his mother, and the Mormon townspeople bring a fiery end to Ida's raucous way of life, the love and acceptance that tie this family together provide the true heart of this novel. |
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Waiting for Godot A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line evolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone, or something, named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun form their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning.
The Deep Green Sea In The Deep Green Sea, Robert Olen Butler has created a memorable and incandescent love story between a contemporary Vietnamese woman orphaned in 1975, when Saigon finally fell to the Communists, and a Vietnam veteran who returns from America to a once war-torn land, seeking closure and a measure of peace. Slowly, they learn more of each other's pasts. Secrets are revealed: Ben's love affair with a Vietnamese prostitute in 1966; Tien's mixed racial heritage and her abandonment by her bar-girl mother, who feared retribution form the North Vietnamese for having given birth to one of the hated "children of dust." In Butler's hands, what follows conjures the stuff of classical tragedy and also achieves a classic reconciliation of once warring cultures. Infused with eroticism and with Butler's deep and abiding reverence for Vietnamese myth and history, The Deep Green Sea is a landmark work in the literature of love and war.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. "I stepped upon the land of my forefathers; but felt that I was a stranger in the land." With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplanted from Europe creates the first classic American short stories, Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The result was not only a hugely successful travel book; it exerted a strong formative influence on American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe to Henry James, and is well worth rediscovery in its own right today.
Zen Kobudo Kobudo, the famous armed Okinawan fighting art that utilizes common farming implements in combat, and Te, the ancient Okinawan art of armed and unarmed combat, are two of the world's most widely practiced yet least-understood martial arts. This book studies the individual Kobudo and Te systems as they are practiced in Okinawa today and discusses their various histories and the lives of the masters who have most influenced them. Spiritualism in the Okinawan arts is also covered in detail, as the author masterfully describes the mix of Zen and native beliefs that are vital to these arts, yet a component that has been all but ignored by previous researchers. This complete and wide-ranging study of Okinawan weaponry, history, and training is the ultimate guide to these important fighting arts.
Miles and Me Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate consideration of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis collaborator on Miles: The Autobiography, Troupe, one of the major poets to emerge from the 1960s, had exceptional access to the musician. This memoir goes beyond the life portrayed in the autobiography to describe in detail the processes of Davis's spectacular creativity and the joys and difficulties his passionate, contradictory temperament posed to the men's friendship. It shows how Miles Davis, as a black man and an artist, influenced not only Quincy Troupe but whole generations while forever changing the face of jazz.
Crashing The Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President In his scathing, honest account of the 2000 presidential race, Nader takes aim at those who have spoiled American democracy. |
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