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A group of former football players is set on playing again. Blind determination helps them become accepted into a semi-pro league whose schedule has them traveling the country in an old bus to play in different cities, and even a penitentiary.

Fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood are themes explored in this collection of poems, which are by turns tender, exuberant, and unsettling. Pitched against envious dead, these diverse narratives of birth and its consequences are rooted in literary and historical contexts--from Aristotle's theory of spontaneous generation to Lewis Carroll's Alice--that amplify the depth of the collection. These selections are an examinatio...

Everyday Life "introduces children to the vibrant world created by Shanghai's Jinshan artists. From a watermelon harvest to an autumn festival to a child's winter game, vivid, friendly peasant art brings everyday life in rural China into our lives. Simple, rhythmic poems, presented in English, Simplified Chinese, and Pinyin, beautifully accent each painting. "Everyday Life's" colorful, bustling illustrations will capture a child's imagination,...

Everyday Life "introduces children to the vibrant world created by Shanghai's Jinshan artists. From a watermelon harvest to an autumn festival to a child's winter game, vivid, friendly peasant art brings everyday life in rural China into our lives. Simple, rhythmic poems, presented in English, Chinese and Pinyin, beautifully accent each painting. "Everyday Life"'s colorful, bustling illustrations will capture a child's imagination, while descr...

In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon of exceptional scale, a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular press, this book examines the forms, meanings, and regulation of suicide from the seventeenth century to 1914, placing developments into a pan-European context. It argues against narratives of secular...

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John Sullivan embraced in his life the two main traditions in Irish history: both the Anglo-Irish, Church of Ireland tradition and the Catholic tradition. He was the son of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, studied in Trinty College, practiced as a lawyer in the English bar, and was known as 'the best dressed man in Dublin.' In his mid-thirties, John became a Catholic Jesuit. Most of the rest of his life was spent as a teacher and spiritual fath...

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Boys and girls ages 4 and up will eat up this series of fun, kooky, adventurous books. Arlo Ruffington is a 3 year old real dog living in the Midwest. The stories are sequential to Arlo and Timmy M's life. Your children will adore the ride and past times with Arlo and Timmy M. Sit back and enjoy these stories written to entertain and educate. The books are a riot as there is always more to come with these outlandish and hysterical tales.

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Lee Morrissey is Professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660-1760 (1999) and the editor of Debating the Canon: A Reader, from Addison to Nafisi (2005).

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Everyone born into this world has troubles. Doug Morgan learns to deal with them and looks forward to a fresh tomorrow. To complain about them is like picking a scab. The wound bleeds again as when it first happened Doug is intelligent and has the desire to get ahead. He proves himself numerous times while being a U.S. Marine and a police officer. He gives life his best but it doesn't pay off for him. A problem knocks him to his knees and the ...

Von einem Moment zum anderen steht alles auf dem Spiel und ein Albtraum beginnt. Doch wie weit geht man, um nicht alles zu verlieren?Neil und Abbey Warner sind glücklich verheiratet und leben ein zufriedenes Leben. Als ihre kleine Tochter plötzlich entführt wird, bricht eine Welt zusammen.Hilflos ausgeliefert müssen sie sich den Forderungen eines brutalen Psychopathen beugen - auch wenn sie dabei alles verlieren. In 24 Stunden müssen sie herau...

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