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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (Vintage International)

by Sandra Cisneros

Published: 2016-09-06

Paperback: 400 pages

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Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction From Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, a place where she could truly take root, has eluded her. In th...

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Petals in the Snow

by Jill M Bagurdes

Published: 2019-03-13

Paperback: 202 pages

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"Reagan . . . are you there?""Yes. I'm still here. Matthew, I can't come. I'm sorry." There was an awkward silence that seemed to last for hours.Finally Matthew said, "Okay, Reagan." And then as if he had one last card to play before the hand was over, he said, "He wanted to remind you about the rose...

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Underland: A Deep Time Journey

by Robert Macfarlane

Published: 2019-06-04

Hardcover: 496 pages

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National Bestseller From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet’s past and future.Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the i...

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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

by Mark Honigsbaum

Published: 2019-04-09

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A medical historian narrates the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease.Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical pro...

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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris

by Mark Honigsbaum

Published: 2019-04-09

Hardcover: 392 pages

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Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From pneumonic plague...

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The Interior Castle

by Teresa of Avila

Published: 2004-07-06

Paperback: 299 pages

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The acclaimed modern translation of St. Teresa of Avila's classic book on spiritual awareness and guidanceCelebrated for almost five centuries as a master of spiritual literature, 16th-century saint Teresa of Avila is one of the most beloved religious figures in history. Overcome one d...

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Saint Francis of Assisi: Brother of Creation (Contemplations & Living Wisdom)

by Mirabai Starr

Published: 2013-11-01

Paperback: 136 pages

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When a small village was plagued by a wild wolf, it is told that a humble friar named Francis came and met the predator with nothing but his gentle words?and turned the wolf from a menace to a welcome citizen. This graceful man, who spoke to each part of Creation as a sister or brother, ha...

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The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning

Published: 2013-01-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The love affair between two of the Victorian era's most famous poets is one of passion, tragedy, illness, and ultimately, endurance. Collected here for the first time in print are their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming love, and their forbidden marriage.

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Aurora Leigh (Oxford World's Classics)

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Published: 2008

Paperback: 408 pages

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Aurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an amazing verse novel which provides a panoramic view of the early Victorian age in London. T...

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Sonnets from the Portuguese: A Celebration of Love

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Published: 1986-08-15

Hardcover: 64 pages

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prolific writer and reviewer in the Victorian period, and in her lifetime, her reputation as a poet was at least as great as that of her husband, poet Robert Browning. Some of her poetry has been noted in recent years for strong feminist themes, but the poe...