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Name of the World
The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who is lost in grief after an accident takes the lives of his wife and child and who must painfully and gradually rediscover life. Michael Reed is living a posthumous life. In spite of outward appearances--he holds a respectable university teverying position; he is an articulate and attractive addition to local social life--he's a dead man walking. Nothing can touch Reed, nothing can move him, although he observes with a mordant clarity the lives whirling vigorously around him. Of his recent bereavement, nearly four years earlier, he observes, 'I'm speaking as I'd speak of a change in the earth's climate, or the recent war.' Facing the unwelcome end of his temporary stint at the university, Reed finds himself forced 'to act like somebody who cares what happens to him. ' Tentatively he begins to let himself make contact with a host of characters in this small academic town, souls who seem to have in common a tentativeness of their own. In this atmosphere characterized, as he says, 'by cynicism, occasional brilliance, and small, polite terror,' he manages, against all his expectations, to find people to light his way through his private labyrinth. Elegant and incisively observed, The Name of the World is Johnson at his best: poignant yet unsentimental, replete with the visionary imaginative detail for which his work is known. Here is a tour de force by one of the most astonishing writers at work today. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460681002
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Blue Pastures
With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: of nature, of writing, of herself and those around her. She praises Whitman ('the brother I did not have') and denounces cuteness ('we are, none of use, cute'). She notes where the extraordinary is to be found ('it is more likely to stick to the risk-taker than the ticket-taker') and extols solitude ('creative work needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to'). Nature speaks to her, and she speaks to nature ('I put my face close to the lily, where it stands just above the grass, and give it a good greeting from the stem of my heart'). Says Mary Oliver, 'This book is biased, opinionated; also it is joyful, and probably there's despair here too - can a life slide forward sixty years without it? But the reader will find the pleasures more certain, and more constant, than the rills of despond. Thus it has turned out in my life so far, influenced by the sustaining passions: love of the wild world, love of literature, love for and from another person'. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460687101
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Reading Writing And Leaving Home Life On The Page
A collection of eleven essays by the award-winning author of The Curse of the Appropriate Man reflects on the art of writing and the relationship between fiction and life, in a volume that includes the tales of a scandal created by publication, a meditation on the mother-daughter bond, and the trials of teverying writing in order to pay the bills. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460687135
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Byrne's Complete Book of Pool Shots 350 Moves Every Player Should Know
Bestselling author, Hall-of-Famer, and master-teveryer Robert Byrne is back with his most impressive effort yet: an exhaustive compendium of more than 350 pool shots that will take its place among the game's classic instructional books. Ranging from tickys to double-kisses and from jump shots to diamond systems, Byrne's Complete Book of Pool Shots takes players on an accelerated trip from pool kindergarten to graduate school. Most of Byrne's expertly diagrammed shots are not widely known and many are described here for the first time-in many cases, these are the secrets of a lifetime. Players of every skill level, including the most advanced, will find their game greatly strengthened by the clever moves Byrne has assembled. For twenty-five years, Byrne's New Standard Book has been 'the definitive work on pool and billiards' (National Billiard Review). This new shot-by-shot reference will enable players to revery an even higher level. They'll have to read it before their opponents do. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460687577
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White On Black
Recounts how the author, a grandson of the Spanish Communist Party secretary general in 1960s Moscow, was abandoned to a life of institutions and orphanages due to his cerebral palsy and endured a childhood rife with neglect, emotional mistreatment, and small pleasures. Winner of the 2003 Russian Booker Prize. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 460843193
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Wireless Telecommunications Networking with ANSI-41
Explains the changes and operational details and protocol usage of the new ANSI-41 standard in non-technical terms. Shows how the ANSI-41 supports mobile telecommunications networking, with graphic illustrations of common signalling situations that expedite network implementation. Also includes numerous specific examples of protocol use. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461719260
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The Early History of Greater Mexico
Presented in an easy-to-follow chronological framework, this thorough and insightful survey offers a complete historical account of colonial Mexico from the period preceding European contact through the wars of independence in the early nineteenth century. Emphasizing regional diversity and development, it skillfully combines existing knowledge with the most recent scholarship in the field, guiding readers through Mexico's three centuries of colonial rule, and bringing history to life through the experiences of Mexico's indigenous peoples before, during and after the Spanish conquest. Considers the peoples and cultures who inhabited Mesoamerica before the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish conquest and subsequent c lashes and interactions among groups; the precocious economic and institutional development of the Kingdom of New Spain; the expansion of Hispanic society and culture from central Mexico into more remote areas; the growing complexity of society and economy over the centuries of Spanish rule. Presents intriguing recent trends in study, including the us - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461121759
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Unix Installation Security and Integrity
This book provides a detailed analysis of UNIX security facilities. Designed for system administrators and security managers, this guide covers TCP/IP, UUCP, and OSI networks and their security; progresses from file system security to account security to process security to network security; describes relevant system and library calls, and indicates how they may be used to interface with the security sub-system in the kernel; special chapter included on Trusted Systems; provides detailed descriptions of the various standards applied to UNIX security; provides information on UNIX viruses and Trojan Horses, and their prevention and detection; and also includes an Appendix on the Internet Worm. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461571666
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Big Red Barn
'Brown's melodic text is beguiling, while its subject--the big red barn that houses a menagerie of animals and their offspring--will have instant appeal to young children. Bond's newly added drawings have a simplicity that suits the story (about the cycle of a day on a farm). A welcome reprise'.--Booklist. Full-color illustrations. - Books Reading - New - 461718752
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Mouse Soup
A mouse convinces a weasel he needs the ingredients from several stories to make a tasty mouse soup. - Books Reading - New - 461718757
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
A young and very accommodating boy discovers you can never tell where it will stop if you give a lively, but demanding, mouse a cookie - Books Reading - New - 461718760
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Wringer
From Newbery Medal winner Jerry Spinelli comes a gripping tale of how one boy learns how not to be afraid. For as long as Palmer LaRue can remember, he has dreaded the day he turns ten--the day he'll take his place beside the other ten-year-old boys in town and become a wringer. Will he find the courage to stand up to his town? 1998 Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children's Books of 1998; 'School Library Journal' Best Books of 1997. - Books Reading - New - 461718762
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Little House on the Prairie
Laura and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. Sometimes pioneer life is hard but Laura and her folks are always busy and happy in their new little house on the prairie. - Books Reading - New - 461718765
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