By Karen E. Quinones Miller

ISBN-10: 0759567921

ISBN-13: 9780759567924

Regina Harris has been via all of it, orphaned at thirteen and compelled to exploit road wits to outlive. Now residing in Harlem together with her four-year-old daughter, she thinks her lifestyles has eventually stabilized--but the place there's Regina, there's consistently drama. She runs right into a former boyfriend and, opposed to her greater judgment and the recommendation of buddies, she resumes their steamy affair. Sparks fly while her U.S. Congressman ex-hubby makes a decision he wishes her again and her boyfriend comes to a decision he won't permit her pass. existence isn't any much less dramatic for her 3 top friends--Yvonne can't tear herself from a legal professional became violent junkie, Tamika and her kin are being detailed by way of highway thugs bent on revenge, and Puddin' nonetheless can't withstand utilizing any guy in her points of interest to aid undesirable conduct.

By Tabitha Sparks

ISBN-10: 0754668029

ISBN-13: 9780754668022

With the nature of the surgeon as her topic, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the wedding plot within the Victorian novel. As Victorians got here to phrases with the clinical revolution in drugs of the mid-to-late 19th century, the novel's revolutionary distance from the conventions of the wedding plot could be listed via a emerging id of the physician with clinical empiricism. A narrative's stance in the direction of clinical cause, Sparks argues, is published by means of the fictitious doctor's courting to the wedding plot. hence, novels that function romantic medical professionals nearly at all times deny the authority of empiricism, as is the case in George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart. by contrast, works comparable to Wilkie Collins's "Heart and Science", which spotlight clinically minded or maybe sinister medical professionals, uphold the choosing good judgment of technological know-how and, in flip, threaten the novel's romantic plot. by means of targeting the determine of the healthcare professional instead of on a systematic subject matter or clinical box, Sparks emulates the Victorian novel's personalization of tropes and trust platforms, utilizing the realism linked to the physician to chart the sustainability of the Victorian novel's imperative imaginitive constitution, the wedding plot. because the medical professionals Sparks examines more and more stand in for the encroachment of empirical wisdom on a morally formulated creative style, their alienation from the wedding plot and its interrelated decline succinctly bring in the tip of the Victorian period and the start of Modernism.

By John Wesley Powell

ISBN-10: 1559638729

ISBN-13: 9781559638722

John Wesley Powell was once an American unique. He was once the final of the nation's nice continental explorers and the 1st of a brand new breed of public servant: half scientist, half social reformer, half establishment builder. His paintings and existence show an enduringly precious frame of mind approximately land, water, and society as components of an interconnected complete; he was once America's first nice bioregional thinker.

Seeing issues entire offers John Wesley Powell within the complete variety of his achievements and pursuits, bringing jointly in one quantity writings starting from his gripping account of exploring the Colorado River during the Grand Canyon to his perspectives at the evolution of civilization, in addition to the seminal writings during which he units forth his principles on western cost and the allocation and administration of western resources.

The centerpiece of Seeing issues complete is a chain of choices from the well-known 1878 record at the Lands of the Arid zone and comparable journal articles within which Powell extra develops the topics of the file. In these, he recommends organizing the Arid Lands into watershed commonwealths ruled by way of resident voters whose interlocking pursuits create the exams and balances necessary to clever stewardship of the land. This was once the significant concentration of John Wesley Powell's bioregional imaginative and prescient, and it continues to be a version for governance that many westerners see as a doable way to the source administration conflicts that proceed to bedevil the region.

Throughout the gathering, award-winning author and historian William deBuys brilliantly units the ancient context for Powell's paintings. part introductions and broad descriptive notes take the reader throughout the evolution of John Wesley Powell's pursuits and ideas from his function as an officer within the Civil warfare via his critique of Social Darwinism and landmark categorization of Indian languages, to the climatic but eventually futile battles he fought to win adoption of his land-use proposals.

Seeing issues entire offers the essence of the extreme legacy that John Wesley Powell has left to the yank humans, and to humans in every single place who attempt to reconcile the calls for of society with the imperatives of the land.

By Paul Murgatroyd

ISBN-10: 900417561X

ISBN-13: 9789004175617

This quantity comprises an advent, the textual content of e-book four of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, statement, bibliography and index. even if, it isn't a customary philological remark. even though it comprises textual feedback (but purely the place that means and appreciation are considerably affected) and rationalization of feel and references (a important foundation for serious analysis), specially there's literary appreciation of Valerius' fourth ebook, which can help you to result in a revaluation of this mostly overlooked and unfortunately underestimated writer. The booklet signals readers to special features of Valerius' hugely highbrow poetry, akin to wit, humor, beauty, aspect, subtlety, narrative ability, and artistic engagement with forerunners, particularly Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil.

By Philip S. Alexander, Armin Lange and Renate J. Pillinger (editors)

ISBN-10: 9004187731

ISBN-13: 9789004187733

By Guy Goffette

ISBN-10: 2072497841

ISBN-13: 9782072497841

'Entre los angeles beauté que vous, Pierre Bonnard, m'avez jetée dans les bras, sans le savoir, et celle que vous avez aimée au lengthy de quarante-neuf années, il y a un monde, ou ce n'est pas de l. a. peinture.

Il y a un monde et c'est l'aventure du regard, avec ses ombres, ses lumières, ses injuries et ses bonheurs. Un monde en apparence ouvert et pourtant fermé comme une vie d'homme. Les clés pour y pénétrer ne sont pas dans les livres, pas dans l. a. nature, mais très loin derrière nos yeux, dans ce jardin où l'enfance s'est un jour assise, le cœur battant, pour attendre l. a. mer.

C'est là qu'il faut aller.

C'est là que Marthe m'a rejoint dans le musée à colonnade et m'a sauvé de los angeles solitude et de l'ennui où je mourais.'

By Edward W Abel; D A Armitage; Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain); et al

ISBN-10: 184755413X

ISBN-13: 9781847554130

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By Megan Chance

ISBN-10: 1612184847

ISBN-13: 9781612184845

Selected through Amazon's editors as a top ebook of the Month in Literature & Fiction, December 2012

In the mid-19th century, Leonie Monroe Russell works along her husband, Junius, an oysterman in Shoalwater Bay within the Pacific Northwest. At evening she maintains her father’s lifelong obsession: collecting artifacts and learning the local tradition that when thrived within the Washington Territory.

On her thirty seventh birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy sticking out from the riverbank bordering her property--a mummy that by way of all proof shouldn’t exist. As Leonie searches for solutions to the mummy’s origins, she starts to suppose a magical connection to it that defies all common sense. Leonie’s experience that otherworldly forces are at paintings purely grows whilst information of the impressive discovery brings Junius’s lengthy misplaced son, Daniel, to her doorstep. Upon his unforeseen arrival, a local elder insists that Leonie put on a different shell bracelet for cover. yet safety from whom? the mum? or even Daniel?

Leonie has consistently been an excellent daughter and stable spouse, yet for the 1st time, those roles don't appear to be sufficient. discovering the mum has replaced every thing, and now Leonie needs to come to a decision if she has the braveness to place apart the expectancies of others to be the girl she was once intended to be.

From award-winning writer Megan probability, Bone River is a haunting, lyrical story of ardour and identity.

By Matt Haig

ISBN-10: 1443404535

ISBN-13: 9781443404532

On a leafy road within the quiet village of Bishopthorpe there lives a really usual and averagely dysfunctional chuffed relatives. Peter Radley is the village surgeon, and his spouse Helen is a part of the neighborhood publication membership. Their young ones, Clara and Rowan, should be experiencing all of the hormonal agony of being little ones. . . yet that's just a common a part of starting to be up. notwithstanding, Peter and Helen have saved from the kids a life-changing kinfolk mystery.

One evening, while Clara unearths herself pushed to committing a bloodthirsty act of violence, her mom and dad react with resignation instead of horror. Peter and Helen needs to now clarify issues to their youngsters: why it's that their epidermis is so delicate to daylight, why all of them locate garlic so repulsive, why Clara's fresh determination to head vegan has been so damaging to her well-being . . . and different risks of being a kinfolk of abstaining vampires.

Reeling from their parents'revelation, and with the police ultimate in, Clara and Rowan are surprised through the additional discovery that in addition they have an uncle, a smooth-talking and decidedly energetic vampire who has been refrained from all of them their lives. but if he swoops into the village to save lots of the day, he unleashes a bunch of shadowy or even darker secrets and techniques that would convey the full Radley kinfolk both to reconciliation and readjustment . . . or to self-destruction.

By Jonathan Coe

ISBN-10: 0141916907

ISBN-13: 9780141916903

A contact of Love is Jonathan Coe's delightfully comedian and relocating novel approximately now not becoming in.

Robin, a postgraduate scholar in Coventry, has spent 4 and a part years now not writing his thesis. He and his educational colleagues, united through pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, as soon as spent hours discussing their theories, yet they someway by no means made it into print.

Now his unfinished thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, more and more apprehensive via an international he doesn't comprehend. His acquaintances have failed him and romance eludes him. His in basic terms outlet is his brief tales, scribbled in notebooks and expressing his mystery obsessions and frustrations.

Then, whilst an unlucky and embarrassing incident in a public park lands him in deep trouble, Robin's existence eventually spirals uncontrolled. . .

A contact of Love is an excellent, bittersweet booklet that might be loved by means of readers of David Nicholls, Nick Hornby and enthusiasts of comedian fiction.