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Charlotte M. Wright - Plain and Ugly Janes: The Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction

Charlotte M. Wright - Plain and Ugly Janes: The Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction

<P>This is the first study to define and explore the ramifications of a new character type in twentieth-century American literature-the Ugly ...

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Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a ...
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Latest review by msiduri May 9, 2012
"The subject of this book is Lia Lee, a Hmong child born in the States to parents who came to Califor..." Read full review

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Jason Rekulak - The Writer's Block

Jason Rekulak - The Writer's Block

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Writer's Block : Paperback : Running Press : 9780762409488 : 0762409487 : 17 Apr 2001 : To counteract writer's block, ...
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Latest review by AinsleyJo Oct 24, 2005
"It had been hot'n'sticky, and I had been busy--most times, with my nights and days being turned arou..." Read full review

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Susan K. Harris - 19Th-Century American Women's Novels: Interpretive Strategies

Susan K. Harris - 19Th-Century American Women's Novels: Interpretive Strategies

Beginning with Susannah Rowson's best-selling seduction novel Charlotte Temple (1791), and ending with Willa Cather's O Pioneers! (1913), Harris ...

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Taming of the Shrew

Taming of the Shrew

Four-page, laminated study guide, written so we can get a clearer understanding of the bards play. Act-by-act and scene-by-scene breakdown in clearly ...

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George Howard and Edward A. Delgado-Romero - When Things Begin To Go Bad: Narrative Explorations Of Difficult Issues

George Howard and Edward A. Delgado-Romero - When Things Begin To Go Bad: Narrative Explorations Of Difficult Issues

o bad. When Things Begin to Go Bad presents thirteen personal narratives focused on hope_rather than despair and darkness-and deals with issues ...
Kirk Ormand - Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy

Kirk Ormand - Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy

Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into ...

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Nancy Pearl - Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

Nancy Pearl - Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

Presents 170 themed reading lists designed for any type of reading, from "chick lit" to books on bicycling, covering a wide variety of tastes and ...
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Latest review by jpolhemus Dec 19, 2009
"I'm flighty, a regular flibbertigibbet (if you'll pardon the oxymoron). Reading reviews makes me wor..." Read full review

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Natalie Goldberg - Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

Natalie Goldberg - Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

From the author of the extraordinary Writing Down the Bones--a small press bestseller since its publication in 1986, with more than 250,000 copies in ...
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Latest review by obisan69 Apr 29, 2000
"I bought this book immediately after I finished "Writing Down the Bones." I knew that I h..." Read full review

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Patricia Francis Cholakian - Rape and Writing in the Heptameron of Marguerite De Navarre

Patricia Francis Cholakian - Rape and Writing in the Heptameron of Marguerite De Navarre

Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), the sister of the French king François I, composed the Heptaméron as a complex collection of seventy-two ...
Marjorie Garber - Shakespeare After All

Marjorie Garber - Shakespeare After All

Free Worldwide Delivery : Shakespeare After All : Paperback : Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc : 9780385722148 : 0385722141 : 15 Dec 2005 : ...
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Latest review by jc_hall Jun 30, 2006
"Make no mistake--this is one heavy tome. At a whopping 900 pages, this is not a volume to be read fr..." Read full review

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Marilee Lindemann - Willa Cather: Queering America

Marilee Lindemann - Willa Cather: Queering America

Electronics Cameras Computers Software Housewares Sports DVDs Music Books Games Toys in titles descriptions Company Info |Checkout Info |Shipping ...

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Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major - The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major - The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, <I>The New Lifetime Reading Plan</I> provides readers with brief, informative and ...
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Latest review by slarter Jun 14, 2004
"Every now and then I come across a literary reference or stumble into a conversation that reinforces..." Read full review

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Terry Mort - The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats

Terry Mort - The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats

The extraordinary life of Ernest Hemingway has been covered exhaustively by biographers, but Terry Mort details a fascinating episode which has been ...

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