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Love. War. Pain. Passion. Relationships lost. Romance rekindled. Many generations of Americans have struggled with sending loved ones into battle and taking care of them when they return. Yet all of the stories in this collection have the same theme-whether they are about World War II, Vietnam, or the Gulf War-love is critical to our survival. It makes most, stronger. It makes some heroes. No matter if a soldier is fighting a "good" war, or a politically...
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El cuento del cortador de bambú (Taketori monogatari) narra la historia de la princesa Kaguya. La pequeña, de tamaño tan diminuto que cabe en la palma de la mano, es milagrosamente descubierta en el interior de un tronco de bambú por el anciano leñador Okina, quien la criará junto a su esposa como si de su propia hija se tratase. La princesa crecerá y se convertirá en una hermosa joven cuya excepcional belleza atraerá a multitud de pretendientes,...
43) Egil's Saga
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The oldest transcript of "Egil's Saga" dates back to 1240 AD. Anonymously written, this epic Icelandic saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet, Egil Skallagrissmon. It recounts Egil's progression from youthful barbarity to mature understanding as he struggles to defend his honor in a running feud with the Norwegian king, Erik Bloodaxe and fight for the English king, Athelstan in his battles against Scotland....
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Este libro es la palabra del Anticristo. Quien lo lea, tendr La Marca de La Bestia y ser condenado por toda la eternidad. La intencin del Anticristo es guiar a la humanidad a una nueva era de Iluminacin, el prximo paso en la evolucin de toda la especie, pero las personas que estn encadenadas a creencias antiguas no podrn reconocer esto. As es, yo soy El Anticristo. Despus de todo este tiempo, finalmente est sucediendo. Se deca que yo traera respuestas...
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The author of this Icelandic saga is unknown, yet was likely written in the mid-13th century. "Eyrbyggja" begins at the time of Iceland's settlement, but most of the events throughout take place towards the end of the 10th century and early 11th century. The title means the saga of the inhabitants of Eyrr, a farm on Snaefellsnes in Iceland. Throughout the tale, the Ere-Dwellers are confronted by tragedy and death, which result in ghosts, eerie occurrences,...
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An important work of Spain's Golden Age of literature as well as the first known picaresque novel, "Lazarillo de Tormes" portrays the clever ploys of a young Salamancan boy determined to outsmart his long string of masters. This Spanish novella was first published in 1554, during the Spanish Inquisition, by an author who wished to remain anonymous due to the work's heretical content. Young Lazarillo is an improbable hero of his time, for he comes...
47) Laxdaela Saga
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As in the case with many other Icelanders' sagas, the author of Laxdaela is unknown, but believed to have been composed in the middle of the thirteenth century. The tale has often been regarded as curiously feminine and speculated to have been written by a woman. The Laxdaela Saga, a story of the men and women of the Salmon River valley, is of an Icelandic family that relates the history of some five or six generations of prominent individuals descended...
48) Njal's Saga
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Considered to be one of the finest of the Icelandic sagas, "Njal's Saga" (or "The Story of Burnt Njal") was written sometime in the thirteenth century by an unknown author and is the longest and most developed of the sagas. The source material for the saga was historical but probably drawn largely from oral tradition. The story relates events that took place between 960 and 1020, involving blood feuds in the Icelandic Commonwealth. It features memorable...
52) Lucy in the Sky
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A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal.
The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life . . . but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste-and liked it. Really liked it.
Social drinking and...
53) Jay's Journal
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Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambitions. He was happy. And he thought he could handle anything.
He was wrong.
When Jay falls in with a crowd that's dabbling in drugs and the occult, he finds himself in over his head and doing things he never thought possible. Fascinated by the dark arts and in love with a dangerous girl, Jay falls deeper and deeper into a life he no longer recognizes...
55) BuchstabenBande, Spaßhase, Pfeffernase, morgen kommt der Osterhase! - Schräge Geschichten für den
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Da lachen ja die Hühner - und wir gleich mit! Denn beim Hören dieses Osterhörbuchs bleibt garantiert kein Hühnerauge trocken! Mit schrägen Geschichten über das Osterschwein oder das goldene Drachenei im Osternest und spannenden Funfacts über die Osterzeit wird das Warten auf den Osterhasen zu einem tierischen Vergnügen!
Zum Geschichtenschmökern laden u. a. Mara Andeck, Lucy Astner, Akram El-Bahay und Gesa Schwartz ein. Ein toller Osterspaß...
58) Letting Ana Go
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In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction.
She was a good girl from a good family, with everything she could want or need. But below the surface, she felt like she could never be good enough. Like she could never live up to the expectations that surrounded her. Like she couldn't do anything to make a change.
But there was one thing she could control completely: how much she ate. The less...
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It is the story of Jack's house, or even of Jack who built the house, and shows how the house is indirectly linked to other things and people, and through this method tells the story of "The man all tattered and torn", and the "Maiden all forlorn", as well as other smaller events, showing how these are interlinked.
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Excerpt: "I began these memoirs when about twenty-five years old, having from youth kept a diary of some sort, which perhaps from habit made me think of recording my inner and secret life. When I began it, I had scarcely read a baudy book, none of which excepting "Fanny Hill" appeared to me to be truthful, that did, and it does so still; the others telling of recherche eroticisms, or of inordinate copulative powers, of the strange twists, tricks,...
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