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“An artist and writer of genius” (New Yorker) gives us a small-format edition of one of his favorite tales-a deliciously twisted comedy of manners .
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Raised in a lively and complex Catholic kome the author enters a Dominican convent in time for the 1960's to turn her world and her church upside down. A compelling and unflinching spiritual memoir and a tale of the times..
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"The Doubtful Strait" tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the "discovery" of the American continent to recent historical events. The early Spanish obsession with locating a waterway to the Pacific, the "doubtful" or "elusive" strait of the poem's title, becomes the object of repeated quests, the motivation for complex action, and the cause of war. Constructed almost entirely from unaltered fragments of documents and histories from the colonial era, the poem opens with Columbus's fourth voyage and concludes with the apocalyptic destruction of Le-n, Nicaragua, by the volcano Momotombo in 1603. A parallel plot tells the story of the political events and economic conditions of more recent Nicaraguan history, mainly of life under Anastasio Somoza and Luis Somoza Debayle, prefigured in the history of the notorious colonial governors of Nicaragua, Pedrarias D vila and Rodrigo de Contreras. Sweeping in its scope, "The Doubtful Strait" is a remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative of the Spanish encounter with Central America..
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The expedition stories in Safe Return Doubtful are hair-raising, and cover every aspect of the polar game: men, ships, sledges, rations, frostbite, scurvy and, always, the dogged search for the poles..
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Now available in paperback, this compelling chronicle of an oversubscribed waterway features the work of two highly acclaimed contemporary photographers and a talented essayist. Winner of the Wilbur S. Shepperson Humanities Book Award, A Doubtful River reveals the uses and abuses of the Truckee River and documents the continual debates over its distribution to meet diverse demands, ultimately asking the question of what will happen to the rapidly dwindling water supply of the arid West? Robert Dawson's and Peter Goin's eloquent photographs record unforgettable images of the Truckee's course from pine-clad mountains to the sagebrush-covered vastness of the high desert and the ways the river and the land beside it have been used and reshaped by human needs, greed, and carelessness. Mary Webb's essays offer a moving verbal counterpoint, focusing on the people who depend on and adjudicate the river's water. The sum of the elements of this book is a memorable picture of the complexity of water allocation in a region where conflicting traditions about the uses of the land and its resources, a rapidly growing population, and limited supply make water the most precious commodity of all..
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Recently identified by one of the world's leading handwriting experts, Shakespeare's lost masterpiece, coauthored with John Fletcher, involves a character from Don Quixote and features love gone awry, seduction, grave robbery, madness, ghosts, and murder. Original. IP. .
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Tilly accepts Rauwerd van Kempler's offer of marriage, knowing it is a practical arrangement, but she suddenly realizes that she wants more from their relationship, especially love. Reissue ".
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