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Howard Thurman was a unique man-a black minister, philosopher, and educator whose vitality and vision touched the lives of countless people of all races, faiths, and cultures. Index; photographs. |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:51 | 1968. Steves older brother has just broken the news that hes quit college to enlist in the army. Before David departs for Vietnam in September, their father decides to send the brothers on a canoe trip down the Susquehanna River. Steve knows that David isnt happy abo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:51 | In his acclaimed debut collection The Incentive of the Maggot, Ron Slate delivered an ingenious and enigmatic account of the intersections of global, family and personal histories. Now, in The Great Wave, a more personal tone asserts itself as Slate fashions poignant... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Since its founding in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service has waged war on every imaginable ailment. When an epidemic hits, the EIS will be there to crack the case, however mysterious or deadly, saving countless lives in the process. Over the years they have succ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | American Rendering showcases twenty-four new poems as well as a generous selection from Andrew Hudginss six previous volumes, spanning a distinguished career of more than twenty-five years. Hudgins, who was born in Texas and spent most of his childhood in the South, ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | NATHANAEL WESTnovelist, screenwriter, playwright, devoted outdoorsmanwas one of the most gifted and original writers of his generation, a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces, Miss Lonelyhe... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | In his first volume of poetry since his tenure as poet laureate, Charles Simic shows he is at the height of his poetic powers. These new poems mine the rich strain of inscrutability in ordinary life, until it is hard to know what is innocent and what ominous. There i... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Fifteen-year-old Jason has fallen upon bad timeshis mother has died and his father has succumbed to mental illness. As he tries to hold his crazy father and their crumbling home together, Jason relies on a host of imaginary friends for guidance as he stumbles along t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | ';A mesmerizing, unsettling memoir about the ever-echoing nature of identitywritten in vivid, blooming detail.' Gillian Flynn, best-selling author of Gone Girl On October 17, 2002, David MacLean ';woke up' on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why h... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Harvard psychologist RichardWeissbourd argues incisively that parentsnot peers, not televisionare the primary shapers of their childrens moral lives. And yet, it is parents lack of self-awareness and confused priorities that are dangerously undermining childrens deve... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A triumph . . . a masterpiece full of fire and tragedy. Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than thirty years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are kno... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "e;Wizard"e; Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye,... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Meet Ginger Pye, the smartest dog you'll ever know. Jerry Pye and his sister, Rachel, feel pretty smart themselves for buying Ginger. It was the best dollar they ever spent. Ginger steals everybody's heart . . . until someone steals him! |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and househo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Hailed as "e;original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century"e; (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "e;fascinating psychological thriller"e; (The Baltimore Sun), this... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | In 1839, persecuted Mormons fled Missouri, across the Mississippi River, seeking freedom from violence. They hoped to find a safe haven on the banks of the river in an Illinois city that they called Nauvoo, the city beautiful.The Mormons did not flourish for long in ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | From the microcosmic wilderness of an overgrown back yard to the cool, glassed-in exhibits in a natural history museum, Swallow swoops and darts, tangling the lines we draw between the wild and the cultivated. In her debut collection, Miranda Field explores a world c... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | A New York Times Notable Book Nuanced and smart . . . Serber knows that neglect or disconnect doesnt always turn into trauma or damage. Life isnt algebra. Which events lead to pain, and which to growth and awareness, remains unpredictable. The one reliable truth is t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town--more than three hundred years ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | With his customary wit, humor, and irony, along with a fine sense of the period, Louis Auchincloss artfully brings to life an exciting and dramatic facet of eighteenth-century England. On the Continent, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, is laying waste to the lowl... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | For anyone who has ever loved a Jane Austen novel, a warm and witty look at the passionate, thriving world of Austen fandomThey walk among us in their bonnets and Empire-waist gowns, clutching their souvenir tote bags and battered paperbacks: the Janeites, Jane Auste... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Longlisted for the National Book Award';This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt.' Christian Science Monitor ';Masterly.' Wall Street JournalA dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military dire... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null}  | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Rodney Jones has been called "e;the supreme example of the southern human person speaking in American poetry"e; (Southern Review) and one of the nation's "e;best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets"e; (Poetry). Salvation Blues traces t... Полное описание |
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