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Find love, friendship and prosecco – in the magical city of Venice Life is tough for Penny. A dead end job in a London café, a boyfriend in Australia (what could go wrong?) and an art career going nowhere. But then Penny is approached with an extraordinary proposition. It isn’t going to...

ABOUT THE BOOK Albert Pujols is the type of ballplayer who quietly goes about his business, which in his case means putting up offensive numbers unparalleled in baseball history. Thus far in his career, he has been a better hitter than baseball giants Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Babe Ruth....

Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.   Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...

Amy had it all – money, brains and beauty. And then the accident happened. Still recovering, this is Amy’s first time away from home. She heads for Spain, accompanied by the mysterious and troubled Luke. But, just like Amy, Luke finds he is also running from his past… 1314: A Templar...

From the Bible to The Secret. From Emerson to Eckhart Tolle. From churches to 12-Step to psychiatric couches. Offers of relief from a mind at war abound in every language and in every medium. From Seagram’s to CNN, Playboy to plastic surgery, the 4AM infomercial to anywhere-but-here. Are you tired...

With our world so storm-tossed and rudderless, this might just be the book for our times. Sun-drenched Tuscany is synonymous with the ideal life. But it didn't happen by chance. Since the Etruscans, the Tuscans have treated their breathtaking countryside with sagacious respect and, in hamlets...

**Gathered into one volume, the first four short story collections of T.C. Boyle, winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short Story T. C. Boyle** is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built up a body...

“In Syzygy, Beauty**, T Fleischmann re-imagines the essay, creating a spare little book that reads like a collection of prose poems.”** (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann builds an essay of prose blocks, weaving together observations on art, the narrator’s...

What do you call your fourth toe? Is there even a common name for it? There are over one million words in the English language, so why is it so hard to think of what that little piggy is called? It probably doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. What's important are the words that are readily available that society won't let us use or hear. The curse words.

Timeless Vintage Drinks and Cocktails Here's to You is a drinks and cocktail recipe book celebrating many of the world's renowned vintage drinks experienced through the eyes of W T McCleat.   Will a world traveler and bon-viveur enjoys the experience of the cultures he has met.  In his...

T. S. Eliot writes the letters contained in this volume during a period of weighty responsibilities as husband and increasing demands as editor and publisher. He cultivates the support of prominent guarantors to secure the future of his periodical, The Monthly Criterion, even as he loyally looks after...

Learn To Focus, Become Unstoppable And Easily Create The Lifestyle Of Your Dreams! I'm going to show you how everyday distractions are keeping you from living the life you really want to live. And by learning to focus the right way it will completely change the direction of your life. You...

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), course: Introduction to Language and Language Learning, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...

**“Writers like T.C. Boyle and Cory Doctorow contributed to this surreal anthology of short stories that riff on our modern surveillance culture.” —**Entertainment Weekly With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles...