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The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series Prepare for ancient mysteries innovative magic and heartpounding heistsBrandon SandersonComplex characters magic that is tech and vice versa a world bound by warring trade dynasties Bennett will leave you in awe once you remember to breatheTamora PierceIn a city that runs on industrialized magic a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itselfthe first in a dazzling new series from City of Stairs authornbspRobert Jackson Bennett nbsp Sancia Grado is a thief and a damn good one And her latest target a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevannes docks is nothing her unique abilities cant handle nbsp But unbeknownst to her Sancias been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving The Merchant Houses who control this magicthe art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentiencehave already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast remorseless capitalist machine But if they can unlock the artifacts secrets they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims nbsp Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead and the artifact for themselves And in the city of Tevanne theres nobody with the power to stop them nbsp To have a chance at survivingand at stopping the deadly transformation thats under waySancia will have to marshal unlikely allies learn to harness the artifacts power for herself and undergo her own transformation one that will turn her into something she could never have imagined
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The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series Prepare for ancient mysteries innovative magic and heartpounding heistsBrandon SandersonComplex characters magic that is tech and vice versa a world bound by warring trade dynasties Bennett will leave you in awe once you remember to breatheTamora PierceIn a city that runs on industrialized magic a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itselfthe first in a dazzling new series from City of Stairs authornbspRobert Jackson Bennett nbsp Sancia Grado is a thief and a damn good one And her latest target a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevannes docks is nothing her unique abilities cant handle nbsp But unbeknownst to her Sancias been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving The Merchant Houses who control this magicthe art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentiencehave already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast remorseless capitalist machine But if they can unlock the artifacts secrets they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims nbsp Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead and the artifact for themselves And in the city of Tevanne theres nobody with the power to stop them nbsp To have a chance at survivingand at stopping the deadly transformation thats under waySancia will have to marshal unlikely allies learn to harness the artifacts power for herself and undergo her own transformation one that will turn her into something she could never have imagined
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As a magical revolution remakes a city an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from the Hugonominated author ofnbspFoundrysidenbspand the Divine Cities trilogy nbsp Having narrowly saved the metropolis of Tevanne from destruction Sancia Grado and her allies have turned to their next task sowing the seeds of a fullon magicalindustrial revolution If they succeed the secrets behind scrivingthe art of imbuing everyday objects with sentiencewill be accessible to all of Tevannes citizens much to the displeasure of the robberbarons whove hoarded this knowledge for themselves nbsp nbsp But one of Sancias enemies has embarked on a desperate gambit an attempt to resurrect a figure straight out of legendan immortal being known as a heirophant Long ago the heirophant was an ordinary man but hes used scriving to transform himself into something closer to a god Once awakened hell stop at nothing to remake the world in his horrifying image nbsp And if Sancia cant stop this ancient power from returning Well the only way to fight a godis with another god
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on 1609 Winter of the Dead sold at 100.54 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
America comes of ageas seen through the eyes of its young foundersNat and Richard are two orphaned thieves on the streets of London When John Smith offers them passage as laborers on a merchant ship bound for the New World they jump at the opportunity What luck The land of Virginia is rumored to be paved with gold They will be rich But quickly the boys learn the awful truth blinded by greed and arrogance the settlers of the new English colony at Jamestown are unprepared for the brutal reality of frontier life Inadequate supplies illness petty squabbling malarial summer heat and bitter winter cold decimate the colony Those who escape death are reduced to chewing roots and shoe leather to surviveand in one horrific instance cannibalizing a corpseYet by spring more colonists arrive dreaming of paradise but finding a colony on the brink of starvationThrough it all Nat and Richard must fall back on their wits to survive
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We hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are created equal On his farm in Maryland sixteenyearold Caleb Jacobson hears rumors of an armed rebellion of the Massachusetts colonists against the oppressive tyranny of King George III and his soliders Educated in a small Quaker school Caleb has been taught that it is wrong to raise ones hand against another Yetnbsp Caleb is a free black living in a slave colony He knows firsthand the horrors and hardships of slavery and wonders what good an American victory will do if his fellow blacksincluding his best friend Gaddiremain shackled in bondage Then comes news that the British Governor Lord Dunmore promises freedom to any slave who joins his army against the Americans Can he be trusted to keep his work Or should Caleb support the colonists fight in hope of a better future for his people Caleb will have to choose
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Tells the story of Quaker leader William Penn founder of the Pennsylvania Colony whose ideas about government influenced the US Constitution Written in graphicnovel format
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English translation of bestselling Marathi biographical novel on the life of Revered Pandurang Shastri Athavale founder of Swadhyay Parivar who introduced universal way of life way of worship and way of thinking to achieve spiritual height Revered Pandurang Shastri Dadaji was an activist philosopher who formed the family parwar of millions of Swadhayees Worldwide He was recipient of 100s of awards including Magsaysay award Templeton Award Gandhi award Tilak award etc This novel is entirely based on his life thoughts and work Mr Kher had personal interviews with Rev Dada ji within the period of 3 amp half years and then and then he wrote this novel Hence this book presents firsthand information about Rev Dada ji and has become historical document of Rev Pandurang Shastris life and work
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Discover information, advice, and prices for A Place to Come To, priced at 101.15 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Robert Penn Warren April 24 1905 September 15 1989 was an American poet novelist and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935 He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the Kings Men 1946 and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979 He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Underbelly the Return of Jax sold at 26.32 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Over a billion beings perished during the Founders War and six years after its conclusion the major governments of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants have not fully recovered from the devastation During this rebuilding period a band of pirates known as the Talesian Brotherhood had grown from a minor irritation to an everincreasing threat to shipping lanes and isolated planets When the Brotherhood attacks a poorlydefended planet a number of Starfleet Security personnel are killed including their commanding officer Lt Tatiana ShushunovaNandi Little could the Brotherhood have guessed that her husband was once one of Section 31s most successful and lethal operatives He has now vowed to avenge his wifes death and destroy the Brotherhood With the help of his aging comrades once known as the Poison Clan and Starfleets youngest and most promising starship captain his plan for revenge has begun to take shape
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In an inspired restaging of Daphne du Mauriers classic Rebecca a young curator finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessorAt the Venice Biennale an aspiring assistant curator from the Midwest meets Bernard Augustin the wealthy enigmatic founder of the Nauk a cuttingedge art museum on Cape Cod Its been two years since the tragic death of the Nauks chief curator Augustins childhood friend and muse Alena When Augustin offers the position to our heroine who like du Mauriers original remains nameless she dives at the chanceand quickly finds herself well out of her depthThe Nauk echoes with phantoms of the pasta past obsessively preserved by the museums business manager and the rest of the staff Their devotion to the memory of the charismatic Alena threatens to stifle the new curators efforts to realize her own creative vision and her every move mires her more deeply in artistic erotic and emotional entanglements When new evidence calls into question the circumstances of Alenas death her loyalty integrity and courage are put to the test and shattering secrets surfaceStirring and provocative Alena is the result of anbspdelicious visitation of one of the most popular novels of the twentieth century on a brilliant and inventive novelist of the twentyfirst
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Over a billion beings perished during the Founders War and six years after its conclusion the major governments of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants have not fully recovered from the devastation During this rebuilding period a band of pirates known as the Talesian Brotherhood had grown from a minor irritation to an everincreasing threat to shipping lanes and isolated planets When the Brotherhood attacks a poorlydefended planet a number of Starfleet Security personnel are killed including their commanding officer Lt Tatiana ShushunovaNandi Little could the Brotherhood have guessed that her husband was once one of Section 31s most successful and lethal operatives He has now vowed to avenge his wifes death and destroy the Brotherhood With the help of his aging comrades once known as the Poison Clan and Starfleets youngest and most promising starship captain his plan for revenge has begun to take shape
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The American People Volume 1 sold at 22.45 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
The longawaited new novel by Americas master playwright and activista radical reimagining of our history and our hopes and fearsForty years in the making The American People embodies Larry Kramers vision of his beloved and accursed homeland As the founder of ACT UP and the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart Kramer has decisively affected American lives and letters Here as only he can he tells the heartbreaking and heroic story of one nation under a plague contaminated by greed hate and disease yet host to transcendent acts of courage and kindnessIn this magisterial novels sweeping first volume which runs up to the 1950s we meet prehistoric monkeys who spread a peculiar virus a Native American shaman whose sexual explorations mutate into occult visions and early English settlers who live as loving samesex couples only to fall victim to the forces of bigotry George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies and John Wilkes Booths motives for assassinating Abraham Lincoln are thoroughly revised In the twentieth century the nightmare of history deepens as a religious sect conspires with eugenicists McCarthyites and Ivy Leaguers to exterminate homosexuals and the AIDS virus begins to spread Against all this Kramer sets the tender story of a middleclass family outside Washington DC trying to get along in the darkest of timesThe American People is a work of ribald satire prophetic anger and dazzling imagination It is an encyclopedic indictment written with outrageous love
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In The Beautiful Novel and Strange Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism The third earl of Shaftesbury the founder of aesthetics replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty worship of God with a taste for a work of art William Hogarth reacting against Shaftesburys disinterestedness replaced his Platonic abstractions with an aesthetics centered on the human body gendered female and based on an epistemology of curiosity pursuit and seduction Paulson shows hogarth creating first in practice and then in theory a middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting Joseph Addisons category in the Spectator of the Novel Uncommon and StrangePaulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury and later Sir Joshua Reynolds and by current trends in art and literary history Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but also literary theory and practice Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding John Cleland Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followersThis is an important book The Beautiful Novel and Strange combines the pleasures of concretely detailed scholarship and intellectual polemic Paulson has an encyclopedic knowledge not only of eighteenthcentury literary and visual cultural forms but also of their most salient instances One of the most important achievements of his newest book is that it brings together two realms of critical discourse that are usually kept apart the historiography of aesthetic theory and the criticism of the novel Michael McKeon Rutgers University
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Augustus reconstruct the lost memoirs of Augustus true founder of the Roman Empire son of Julius Caesar friend and later foe of Mark Antony
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Oscar Kortico greatgrandchild of the founders of a small hamlet in the Cuban hinterland is a sardonic teller of talessome taller than othersof slavery revolution family secrets love and identity that span three generations One day Oscar wakes to find that he is alone in the world As the sole descendent of his family line he is not sure what to do or where to go but he holds fast to what his grandfather always told him No man knows who he is until he knows hispast the history of his countryAs Oscar sets out to find his ancestral village of Pata de Puerco and the meaning of the magical pigsfoot amulet he has inherited the search for his countrys hidden history becomes entangled with the search for the truth about himselfAmbitious in scope yet intimate in tone rippling with vitality and driven by passion full of dark comedy magical history and startling revelations Pigs Foot is a dazzling evocation of Cubas tumultuous historya spellbinding and unexpected debut from an author of many talents
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Golf is a tonic when played in meditation Rico Provasolis book about golf is a good one Michael Murphy author of Golf In The Kingdom cofounder of Esalen Institute Inspired by true events this story follows Ed Hipp meditation teacher turned golf coach as he shapes a motley crew of fourteen year old rookies and takes them to the playoffs for their Iowa state crown Beset by harassment local prejudice hostility from parents and a wife ready to quit the marriage Hipp follows his heart regardless of the inconvenience A fun ride as the nutty kids teach the high school conference that playing golf outside the box truly pays off
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In The Beautiful Novel and Strange Ronald Paulson fills a lacuna in studies of aesthetics at its point of origin in England in the 1700s He shows how aesthetics took off not only from British empiricism but also from such forms of religious heterodoxy as deism The third earl of Shaftesbury the founder of aesthetics replaced the Christian God of rewards and punishments with beauty worship of God with a taste for a work of art William Hogarth reacting against Shaftesburys disinterestedness replaced his Platonic abstractions with an aesthetics centered on the human body gendered female and based on an epistemology of curiosity pursuit and seduction Paulson shows hogarth creating first in practice and then in theory a middle area between the Beautiful and the Sublime by adapting Joseph Addisons category in the Spectator of the Novel Uncommon and StrangePaulson retrieves an aesthetics that had strong support during the eighteenth century but has been obscured both by the more dominant academic discourse of Shaftesbury and later Sir Joshua Reynolds and by current trends in art and literary history Arguing that the two traditions comprised not only painterly but also literary theory and practice Paulson explores the innovations of Henry Fielding John Cleland Laurence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith which followed and complemented the practice in the visual arts of Hogarth and his followersThis is an important book The Beautiful Novel and Strange combines the pleasures of concretely detailed scholarship and intellectual polemic Paulson has an encyclopedic knowledge not only of eighteenthcentury literary and visual cultural forms but also of their most salient instances One of the most important achievements of his newest book is that it brings together two realms of critical discourse that are usually kept apart the historiography of aesthetic theory and the criticism of the novel Michael McKeon Rutgers University
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New Years Eve 1975 Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala Their quest to track down the obscure vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the runThe explosive first long work by the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time Ilan Stavans Los Angeles Times The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America Europe Israel and West Africa This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism the beautiful Font sisters their father an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz a foulmouthed American graduate student a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade the greatgranddaughter of Leon Trotsky a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola and assorted hangerson detractors critics lovers employers vagabonds reallife literary figures and random acquaintancesA polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avantgarde The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original the first great Latin American novel of the twentyfirst century
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Dr Bill Brockton the founder of the worldfamous Body Farm is hard at work on a troubling new case A young mans battered body has been found in nearby Chattanooga and its up to the talented Dr Brockton to assemble the pieces of the forensic puzzle Brockton is brought into the case by the rising star of the states mechanical examiners Jess CarterJust as theyre on the verge of breaking the case open events take a terrifying turn Brockton has recreated the Chattanooga death scene at the Body Farm but a killer tampers with it in a shocking way placing another corpse at the setting confusing authorities and putting Brocktons career and life in jeopardy Soon Brockton himself is accused of the horrific new crime and the oncebeloved professor becomes an outcast As the net around him tightens Brockton must use all of his forensic skills to prove his own innocence before he ends up behind bars with some of the very killers hes helped to convictFlesh and Bone is another rollercoaster ride into the world of forensic anthropology its twists and turns marked by drama and pathos humor and grief families and friends and enemies With captivatingly real characters plus fascinating scientific insights drawn from the case files of a living forensic legend this astonishing novel confirms Jefferson Bass as one of our most talented authors of suspense
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on What in God s Name sold at 30.86 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Welcome to Heaven Inc the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky For as long as anyone can remember the founder and CEO known in some circles as God has been phoning it in Lately hes been spending most of his time on the golf course And when he does show up at work its not to resolve wars or end famines but to Google himself and read what humans have been blogging about himWhen God decides to retire to pursue his lifelong dream of opening an Asian Fusion restaurant he also decides to destroy Earth His employees take the news in stride except for Craig and Eliza two underpaid angels in the lowly Department of Miracles Unlike their boss Craig and Eliza love their jobs uncapping city fire hydrants on hot days revealing lost keys in snow banks and they refuse to accept that earth is going underThe angels manage to strike a deal with their boss Hell call off his Armageddon if they can solve their toughest miracle yet getting the two most socially awkward humans on the planet to fall in love With doomsday fast approaching and the humans ignoring every chance for happiness thrown their way Craig and Eliza must move heaven and earth to rescue them and the rest of us too
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