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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The Forum
Author: Eden
Author: Jim CracePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735247994
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden. The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they care for their orchards and the land, and give thanks for their good fortune, because they know that beyond the garden walls is a world where disease and hunger rampage. Eden is overseen by angels—their bodies covered in blue iridescent feathers, their beaks sharp and curved. It is a pleasant place where no one wants for a thing. But, as this story begins, something is wrong in Eden. Because years after Adam and Eve left the garden, another inhabitant has escaped… Weaving together elements of the dystopian, but never letting go of the sense of the sacred that saturates western myths of a perfect world before the fall, Eden manages to be both a critique of those stories and a sad reprise of their now-lost themes. In Crace’s wry, tender recreation, though, love does not bring the world crashing down. It is love that redeems it.
Report ... on the memorial of P.C. Bliss and G.F. Masterman in relation to their imprisonment in Paraguay
Author: United States congress, house of repres, comm. on foreign affairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
House Documents
Author: USA House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the Memorial of Porter C. Bliss and George F. Masterman, in Relation to Their Imprisonment in Paraguay
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paraguayan War, 1865-1870
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Fan's Guide to Gone With The Wind eBook Bundle
Author: Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493017012
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
For fans of Gone With the Wind on the 75th anniversary of the classic film, this three-volume eBook Collection pulls together two bestselling biographies, one of author Margaret Mitchell and one of film star Vivien Leigh, and combines them with The Complete Gone with the Wind Trivia Book to give readers a deep insight into the lives of those who created this timeless masterpiece.
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Author: Madame Vieux Carre
Author: Scott S. EllisPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628469587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Celebrated in media and myth, New Orleans's French Quarter (Vieux Carré) was the original settlement of what became the city of New Orleans. In Madame Vieux Carré, Scott S. Ellis presents the social and political history of this famous district as it evolved from 1900 through the beginning of the twenty-first century. From the immigrants of the 1910s, to the preservationists of the 1930s, to the nightclub workers and owners of the 1950s and the urban revivalists of the 1990s, Madame Vieux Carré examines the many different people who have called the Quarter home, who have defined its character, and who have fought to keep it from being overwhelmed by tourism's neon and kitsch. The old French village took on different roles—bastion of the French Creoles, Italian immigrant slum, honky-tonk enclave, literary incubator, working-class community, and tourist playground. The Quarter has been a place of refuge for various groups before they became mainstream Americans. Although the Vieux Carré has been marketed as a free-wheeling, boozy tourist concept, it exists on many levels for many groups, some with competing agendas. Madame Vieux Carré looks, with unromanticized frankness, at these groups, their intentions, and the future of the South's most historic and famous neighborhood. The author, a former Quarter resident, combines five years of research, personal experience, and unique interviews to weave an eminently readable history of one of America's favorite neighborhoods.
The Living Age
Author: News to Me
Author: Lawrence WoodPublisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 0664232264
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this book, author Lawrence Wood brings together insights from scripture with his own observations of the "real world" to create thirty-two reflections on the Christian life.