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A
wonderful collection of amusing, poignant animal photos and inspirational
text designed to lift the spirits of anyone who's got the blues. |
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Born the son of a Brahmin, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence,
and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising
future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded
him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual
gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around
by his desires. Like Hermann Hesse's other creations of struggling young
men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism.
His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of
enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating
nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with
the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from
the river. |
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In
the seemingly paradisal Wisconsin town of French Landing, small distortions
disturb the beauty: a talking crow, an old man obeying strange internal
marching orders, a house that is both there and not quite there. And roaming
the town is a terrible fiend nicknamed the Fisherman, who is abducting and
murdering small children and eating their flesh. The sheriff desperately
wants the help of a retired Los Angeles cop, who once collared another serial
killer in a neighboring town. |
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The
classic of suspense from Dean Koontz He's back--the terror that stalked
Hilary Thomas as a child is back in her life, in her house, at her bedroom
door. She killed him once. But he keeps coming back. Again. And again...
"An incredible, terrifying tale."--Publishers Weekly --This text refers
to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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With
AutoCAD 2000 For Dummies, you'll quickly discover just how easy it is
to create professional-quality designs and drawings. Authors Mark Middlebrook
and Bud Smith show you how to set up a design, draw and edit lines, add
text and dimensions, even incorporate AutoCAD documents into your Web
pages-all while avoiding those common "gotchas." Whether you're a new
AutoCAD user or you've just upgraded to AutoCAD 2000, this easy-to-use
reference delivers all the answers you need to get up to speed.
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The
past decade has been witness to a remarkable resurgence of interest in landscape.
While this recovery invokes a return of past traditions and ideas, it also
implies renewal, invention, and transformation. Recovering Landscape collects
a number of essays that discuss why landscape is gaining increased attention
today, and what new possibilities might emerge from this situation. Themes
such as reclamation, urbanism, infrastructure, geometry, representation,
and temporality are explored in... |
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Excerpt:
The hill
people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early
in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with
three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however,
was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could
be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could
be "good crop."
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The
25th Hour is a wonderfully written first novel that convincingly portrays
the New York City of Wall Street brokers and middle-class white drug dealers,
the new affluent class in a city where money can buy you almost anything
and is often the most important factor in young people's lives. Monty Brogan
is about to start his last day of freedom before turning himself into the
authorities and serving a seven-year term for drug dealing. He's a charming
young man who had always dreamed of being a fireman, following in the working-class
footsteps of his father, who has had to put up his bar in Queens as bond
so that his son can stay out of jail until his sentence begins. Monty, named
for Montgomery Clift, does not know how he managed to get himself into this
predicament. It was easy money and it carried so many perks, and you'll
feel more than a little sympathy for this young man who has managed to kill
his own dream for courtside seats at Madison Square Garden. |
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It
would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love with Rainer Maria
Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender
book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited
thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age.
Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a
former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough
to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we
get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.
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ute richcreek productions
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