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1997 Novel & Short Story Writer's Marketby Barbara KuroffISBN 0898797640 (0-89879-764-0)
Hardcover, F & W Pubns
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Alexander and the Magic Mouseby Martha Sanders, Philippe FixISBN 0828150060 (0-8281-5006-0)
Hardcover, American Heritage Press
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Ancient Man: A Handbook of Puzzling Artifactsby Arm Glen, William R. CorlissISBN 0915554038 (0-915554-03-8)
Hardcover, Sourcebook Project
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Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Floodby A. R. Millard, W.G. Lambert, Miguel CivilISBN 1575060396 (1-57506-039-6)
Hardcover, Eisenbrauns
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Before the Flood: Understanding the Biblical Flood as Recalling a Real-Life Eventby Ian WilsonISBN 0752846353 (0-7528-4635-3)
Hardcover, Orion
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The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church's Response to Extrabiblical Evidenceby Davis A. YoungISBN 0802807194 (0-8028-0719-4)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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The Boat of Many Roomsby J. Patrick Lewis, Reg CartwrightISBN 0689801181 (0-689-80118-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Boating for Beginnersby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0413590208 (0-413-59020-8)
Hardcover, Methuen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boating for Beginners'Book summary:Noah is a relatively ordinary man. He's a hard worker (he owns the thriving little pleasure boat company, Boating for Beginners), is slightly overweight and has a heart condition. In fact, apart from a bizarre antipathy towards frozen food, particularly Black Forest Gateau, he is Mr. Bog Standard. That doesn't stop him from recognising a good thing when he sees it though. So when he accidentally creates God "out of a piece of gateau and a giant electric toaster", he realises he's onto a winner. Within weeks, he's a cult figure, writes extravagant bestsellers-"Genesis", or How I did It and "Exodus" or Your Way Lies There--and has outlawed refrigerators and Black Forest Gateau. When Noah starts to turn his bestseller into a film, God feels left out and decides to liquidate the world. Noah has less than a week to fill his stage set (the ark) with animals and prepare for a flood. There are three women who find out what he's up to--Desi, Noah's daughter-in-law; Marlene, a transsexual potter, and Gloria, the thoughtful yet slightly unbalanced girl in charge of rounding up the animals. Gloria is the heroine of Boating for Beginners and it is her story that drives the rather fragmented narrative of this surreal satire. Bursting with ideas, Boating for Beginners rewrites religion and philosophy, while taking a pop at romantic fiction. It is perhaps Jeanette Winterson's most overlooked work and although not her best--turn to Oranges are Not the Only Fruit or Sexing the Cherry for that--Boating for Beginners is witty, playful and imaginative. --Jane Honey [via]
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The Children's Hospitalby Chris AdrianISBN 1932416609 (1-932416-60-9)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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Climates before and after the Genesis Flood: Numerical Models and Their Implicationsby Larry Vardiman, Institute for Creation ResearchISBN 0932766633 (0-932766-63-3)
Hardcover, Institute for Creation Research
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919by Stephen PuleoISBN 0807050210 (0-8070-5021-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn't known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster. [via]More editions of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919:
Deluge Story in Stoneby Bryon C. NelsonISBN 087123095X (0-87123-095-X)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina And the Failure of Homeland Securityby Robert BlockISBN 0805081305 (0-8050-8130-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Discovered: Noah's Arkby Ron WyattISBN 0942521439 (0-942521-43-9)
Softcover, World Bible Society
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Epic of Gilgameshby Maureen Gallery KovacsISBN 0804717117 (0-8047-1711-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epic of Gilgamesh'Book summary:This translation is a verse rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of Babylonian poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third millennium B.C. One of the best and most important piece of epic poetry from human history, predating even Homer's Iliad by roughly 1,500 years, the Gilgamesh epic tells of the various adventures of that hero-king, including his quest for immortality and an account of a great flood similar in many details to the Old Testament's story of Noah. Kovacs's edition is satisfying both for its engaging verse translation of the poem itself, as well as for the introduction and appendix that provide historical context, and not least for photographs of Mesopotamian art and of one the actual clay tablets. The tablet was broken into several pieces and incompletely reconstructed, demonstrating the difficulty of the translator's task. [via]
Epic of Gilgameshby GilgameshISBN 0848805011 (0-8488-0501-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Evolution of a Creationistby Jobe MartinISBN 0964366509 (0-9643665-0-9)
Softcover, Biblical Discipleship Ministries
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of a Creationist'Book summary:In his book, The Evolution of a Creationist, Dr. Jobe Martin chronicles his personal journey from traditional scientist to creationist. He was a traditional evolutionist, but it was his medical and scientific training that would go through an evolution when he began to study animals that challenged the scientific assumptions of his education. Dr. Martin has been exploring the evolution vs. creation debate for the past 20 years. His findings have been fascinating students around the world as he lectures on these remarkable animal designs that cannot be explained by traditional evolution. [via]
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Field Studies in Catastrophic Geologyby Carl R. FroedeISBN 0940384205 (0-940384-20-5)
Softcover, Inst for Creation Research
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Flash Floodby Susan SlaterISBN 1590580478 (1-59058-047-8)
Hardcover, Poisoned Pen Pr
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Floodby Alfred RehwinkelISBN 0570031834 (0-570-03183-4)
Softcover, Concordia Pub House
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Gems from Genesisby W.G. HeslopISBN 0825428254 (0-8254-2825-4)
Softcover, Kregel Pubns
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Genesis : An Expositional Commentary (Creation and Fall, Genesis 1-11)by James Montgomery BoiceISBN 0801011612 (0-8010-1161-2)
Hardcover, Baker Books
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Genesis: An Expositional Commentary Genesis 1v11by James Montgomery BoiceISBN 0801066379 (0-8010-6637-9)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Genesis: An Expositional Commentary Genesis 37-50by James Montgomery BoiceISBN 0801011639 (0-8010-1163-9)
Hardcover, Baker Pub Group
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Genesis Floodby John C. WhitcombISBN 0875523382 (0-87552-338-2)
Softcover, Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genesis Flood'Book summary:Presents a thorough system for unifying and correlating scientific data on the earth's early history. Proposes a biblically based system of creationism and catastrophism. Thoroughly documented. [via]
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Genesis in Space and Time; The Flow of Biblical Historyby Francis August SchaefferISBN 0877846367 (0-87784-636-7)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genesis in Space and Time; The Flow of Biblical History'Book summary:Genesis is a book of origins--the origin of the universe, the origin of life and the origin of man. It places man in his cosmic setting, shows his particular uniquness, explains his wonder and his flaw, and begins to trace the flow of human history through space and time. Many today, however, view this book as a collection of myths, useful for understanding the Hebrew mind, perhaps, but certainly not a record of what really happened. Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer challenges that view and shows how the first eleven chapters of Genesis stand as a solid, space-time basis for answering the tough questions posed by modern man. Francis August Schaeffer (30 January 1912 - 15 May 1984) was an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He is most famous for his writings and his establishment of the L'Abri community in Switzerland. Opposed to theological modernism, Schaeffer promoted a more historic Protestant faith and a pre-suppositional approach to Christian apologetics which he believed would answer the questions of the age. A number of Christian leaders, authors, and evangelists credit Schaeffer's ideas with helping spark the rise of the Christian Right in the United States and were strongly influenced by him. Among them are Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, Focus on the Family's James Dobson, the 700 Club's Pat Robertson, Prison Fellowship's Charles Colson, columnist Cal Thomas, preacher and author Tim LaHaye, former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Liberty University and Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell. [via]
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Genesis Record: A Scientific and Devotional Commentary on the Book of Beginningsby Henry M. MorrisISBN 0801060044 (0-8010-6004-4)
Hardcover, Baker Pub Group
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Gilgamesh: A New English Versionby Stephen MitchellISBN 0743261690 (0-7432-6169-0)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh: A New English Version'Book summary:An English-language rendering of the world's oldest epic follows the journey of conquest and self-discovery by the king of Uruk, in an edition that includes an introduction that places the story in its historical and cultural context. [via]
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrativeby Herbert MasonISBN 0618275649 (0-618-27564-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative'Book summary:Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original.[via]More editions of Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative:
God Does Immeasurably Moreby Bob RussellISBN 0874037840 (0-87403-784-0)
Softcover, Standard Pub
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The Great Alaskan Dinosaur Adventureby John Whitmore, Buddy Davis, Mike ListonISBN 0890512329 (0-89051-232-9)
Softcover, New Leaf Pr
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, And the Mississippi Gulf Coastby Douglas BrinkleyISBN 0061124230 (0-06-112423-0)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, And the Mississippi Gulf Coast'Book summary:In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast, from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama. First came the hurricane, one of the three strongest ever to make landfall in the United States -- 150-mile- per-hour winds, with gusts measuring more than 180 miles per hour ripping buildings to pieces. Second, the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half million homes, creating the largest domestic refugee crisis since the Civil War. Eighty percent of New Orleans was under water, as debris and sewage coursed through the streets, and whole towns in south-eastern Louisiana ceased to exist. And third, the human tragedy of government mis-management, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, implemented an evacuation plan that favored the rich and healthy. Kathleen Blanco, governor of Louisiana, dithered in the most important aspect of her job: providing leadership in a time of fear and confusion. Michael C. Brown, the FEMA director, seemed more concerned with his sartorial splendor than the specter of death and horror that was taking New Orleans into its grip. In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University, rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the Category 3 hurricane was like from every point of view. The book finds the true heroes -- such as Coast Guard officer Jimmy Duckworth and hurricane jock Tony Zumbado. Throughout the book, Brinkley lets the Katrina survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina. The Great Deluge investigates the failure of government at every level and breaks important new stories. Packed with interviews and original research, [via]
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High and Mighty: The Flood of '93 St. Louis Post-Dispatchby St. Louis Post DispatchISBN 0836280474 (0-8362-8047-4)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High and Mighty: The Flood of '93 St. Louis Post-Dispatch'Book summary:Book features stories and illustrations of photographs taken of the historic Mississippi River floods of 1993. Over 60 color illustrations / photographs of the flood waters, St. Louis skyline, destroyed levees, flooded farmland, aerial views, residents of the Midwest fighting the flood waters. Softcover. [via]
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Ice Age Caused by the Genesis Floodby Michael OardISBN 093276620X (0-932766-20-X)
Softcover, Inst for Creation Research
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ice Age Caused by the Genesis Flood'Book summary:Although a major mystery of uniformitarian history, the Ice Age is readily explained by the climatic consequences of the Genesis Flood-it was a short Ice Age of about 700 years, and there was only one Ice Age. We do not need the hundred thousand years for one ice age, or the few million years for multiple ice ages, as claimed by uniformitarian scientists. Even their claim of ancient ice ages in the hard rocks can be accounted for by gigantic submarine landslides during the Flood. The post-Flood rapid Ice Age can also account for a number of major mysteries and other interesting phenomena that occurred during the Ice Age, such as the Lake Missoula flood and the life and death of the woolly mammoths in Siberia and elsewhere. When we stick to the Genesis account of the Flood and the short scriptural timescale, major secular/uniformitarian mysteries are readily explained. [via]
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In Search of Noah's Arkby Charles E. Sellier, David W. BalsigerISBN 0917214013 (0-917214-01-3)
Hardcover, Sun Classic Books
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In Sunlight, In A Beautiful Garden: Library Editionby Kathleen CamborISBN 0060007575 (0-06-000757-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Sunlight, In A Beautiful Garden: Library Edition'Book summary:From the very start, we know that many of the characters in Kathleen Cambor's haunting first novel will die before it's over. This lends a sepia-toned dignity to what is already a fairly somber tale. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden tells the story of the Johnstown flood of 1889, in which over 2,000 people--mostly working folk, who had no say in the erection of the ill-considered South Fork dam--lost their lives. The author has enlisted a large cast, including real-life plutocrats Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie. But her focus remains on such fictional characters as Frank Fallon, a Civil War veteran enjoying a brief, platonic affair with the town librarian; his son Daniel, a labor organizer; and Nora Talbot, the science-minded daughter of a middle-class lawyer who comes to believe that the dam, built to create an upper-crust aquatic playground, is in danger of flooding the town below.
Cambor excels at depicting both the minor joys and the major tragedies in her characters' lives. Frank Fallon and his wife Julia, for example, have lost both of their children to diphtheria:
It meant something to Julia to be the one to wash the bodies before the undertaker came. To leave Caroline's sickbed long enough to tend to her two younger children. To fill the basin with water warmed by the wood stove, to smooth the hair, to touch and trace their flesh one last time, memorizing them again, as she had right after she had birthed them. Touching toes, chin, the curled cusp of ear, the rounded mound of cheek, the dips and promontories of their supple spines. Frank couldn't bring himself to watch.
Devotees of the historical novel will warm to Cambor's judicious use of period detail and her exacting prose, but may wish she had placed less emphasis on foreshadowing. We are told one too many times that the privileged men who built the dam had no interest in its structure or safety: "Someone should have been watching." On the other hand, Cambor has the good narrative sense to confine the flood itself and its horrific aftermath to the final pages of the book. There we are also given a glimpse of Nora Talbot in later life, marked by her youthful love affair with Daniel and by the waters that were--in every sense of the phrase--to part them. --Regina Marler [via]More editions of In Sunlight, In A Beautiful Garden: Library Edition:
Iowa's Lost Summer: The Flood of 1993by Michael Wegner, Iowa State University Press, Lyle Boone, Mike Wegner, Tim CochranISBN 0813818095 (0-8138-1809-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub Professional
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Johnstown Floodby David Willis McCulloughISBN 0671207148 (0-671-20714-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnstown Flood'Book summary:The history of civil engineering may sound boring, but in David McCullough's hands it is, well, riveting. His award-winning histories of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal were preceded by this account of the disastrous dam failure that drowned Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889. Written while the last survivors of the flood were still alive, McCullough's narrative weaves the stories of the town, the wealthy men who owned the dam, and the forces of nature into a seamless whole. His account is unforgettable: "The wave kept on coming straight toward him, heading for the very heart of the city. Stores, houses, trees, everything was going down in front of it, and the closer it came, the bigger it seemed to grow.... The height of the wall of water was at least thirty-six feet at the center.... The drowning and devastation of the city took just about ten minutes." A powerful, definitive book, and a tribute to the thousands who died in America's worst inland flood. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
Julieby Catherine MarshallISBN 0800785851 (0-8007-8585-1)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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La Granja / a Painted Houseby John GrishamISBN 8466602690 (84-666-0269-0)
Softcover, Downtown Book Center Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Granja / a Painted House'Book summary:A story inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas. Seven-year old Luke Chandler lives in a little house in the cotton fields which his family farms. When the cotton is ready for harvesting, the family hires workers to help. Luke sees and hears things which are keeps to himself and unfortunately these secrets threaten the crop.
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"&¿Quién piensa en abogados? Grisham no, desde luego, al menos en esta cautivadora novela. Aquí, en lugar de abogados, encontramos sufridos granjeros, jornaleros miserables y un niño que va creciendo a lo largo de un libro tan rico en incidentes y conflictos como es habitual en Grisham, y más dotado de matices que nunca... Unos personajes inolvidables, un estilo más limpio y poderoso que en ninguna novela anterior, y una impresionante evocación de un tiempo y de un lugar que convierten esta historia en un clásico americano."& Publisher&s Weekly [via]
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Sonby William Alexander Percy, Walker PercyISBN 0807100722 (0-8071-0072-2)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son'Book summary:Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (18851942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his lifealthough his life was exciting and variedbut rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. The 1973 introduction by Walker PercyWill's nephew and adopted sonrecalls the strong character and easy grace of "the most extraordinary man I have ever known." AUTHOR BIO: William Alexander Percy was the author of four books of poetry, and he practiced law in Greenville until his death, one year after the publication of his autobiography. Awarded the Croix de Guerre with gold star for his service in World War I, he also was one of the leaders in the succesful 1922 fight against the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville and headed the local Red Cross unit during the disastrous Mississippi River flooding of 1927. [via]
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Many Watersby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0312368577 (0-312-36857-7)
Softcover, Feiwel & Friends
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Many Waters'Book summary:We've all done it. In the frigid depths of winter we've wished we could be magically transported to someplace warm and sunny. But most people don't have genius parents who just happen to be working on a scientific experiment with time travel at the moment of our wish. Sandy and Dennys Murry, the "normal" boys in a family of geniuses, suddenly find themselves trudging through a blazing-hot desert, seeking a far-off oasis for shade. Their desperate wandering brings them face-to-face with history--biblical history. Soon they're feeling right at home with Noah and his family. Even so, the urgent question is, how will Sandy and Dennys get back to their own place and time before the floods--the many waters--come? As they begin to cross the invisible border into adulthood, the twins must confront their ability to resist temptation and embrace integrity.
In Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle continues the Murry family saga, which includes A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door; and A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award. L'Engle's mystical mix of science fiction and fantasy, time and space travel, history, morals, religion, and culture once again urges her many adoring readers to stretch their minds and hearts to understand why the world is the way it is. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Many Waters: ISBN 0440227704 (0-440-22770-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Many Waters: ISBN 0440405483 (0-440-40548-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Many Waters: ISBN 0440952522 (0-440-95252-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Many Waters: ISBN 0374347972 (0-374-34797-2)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus, Giroux - Many Waters: ISBN 0312368577 (0-312-36857-7)
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Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Ageby Charles H. HapgoodISBN 0932813429 (0-932813-42-9)
Softcover, Adventures Unlimited Pr
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Miss Twiggley's Treeby Dorothea Warren FoxISBN 1930900171 (1-930900-17-1)
Hardcover, Purple House Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Twiggley's Tree'Book summary:Why did Miss Twiggley live in a tree? Why did she send her dog, Puss, out to do the shopping? Why did she always run away and hide when people came to visit? And it was rumored that Miss Twiggley had even more peculiar habits...
Old Miss Twiggley
Was friendly with bears.
"They shed on the sofa," she said,
"But who cares?"And was it true, as the mayor's wife had heard, that she actually slept in her hat? "Simply disgraceful!" they said. But when a hurricane hits the town and the water rises, everyone is grateful to Miss Twiggley and her tree. Even better, Miss Twiggley herself learns a very important lesson, with a warm and happy ending. [via]
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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, And Othersby Stephanie DalleyISBN 0192835890 (0-19-283589-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, And Others'Book summary:The stories translated in this volume are all of ancient Mesopotamia, and they stand alongside the "Odyssey" and the "Arabian Nights" in being popular with an international audience at the dawn of history. The selection includes not only myths about the creation and stories of the flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the "Epic of Gilgamesh". This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man who has an enormous capacity for endurance and adventure, for joy and sorrow, a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley differ considerably from previous versions. As well as introduction and notes to each item, there is a glossary of deities, place-names, and key terms, together with a chronological chart, a map, and illustrations of some of the mythical monsters which feature in the book. [via]
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The Nine Tailorsby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0575014083 (0-575-01408-3)
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Noah and the Great FloodISBN 0896362701 (0-89636-270-1)
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Noah and the Great Floodby Mordicai GersteinISBN 0689813716 (0-689-81371-6)
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Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Studyby John WoodmorappeISBN 0932766412 (0-932766-41-2)
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Noah's Flood : The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed Historyby Walter Pitman, William RyanISBN 0684810522 (0-684-81052-2)
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Not Wanted on the Voyageby Timothy FindleyISBN 0670803057 (0-670-80305-7)
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A Painted Houseby John GrishamISBN 0613494512 (0-613-49451-2)
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Paradise to Prison: Studies in Genesisby John James DavisISBN 1879215357 (1-879215-35-7)
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Powers of Natureby National Geographic Society (U.S.)ISBN 0870442341 (0-87044-234-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Powers of Nature'Book summary:In vividly illustrated pages, this book brings you the latest information on nature's forces and their effects, and on our continuing efforts to understand the powers that shape our world. Seeking answers to these and other questions, the authors meet and talk with experts in the fields of climatology, volcanology, hydrology, research centers, where the scientists strive to understand the nature of earth's unruly forces. [via]
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The Rise and Fall of Civilization: From Creation Through the Floodby David HockingISBN 0880703083 (0-88070-308-3)
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed Americaby John M. BarryISBN 0684840022 (0-684-84002-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America'Book summary:When Mother Nature rages, the physical results are never subtle. Because we cannot contain the weather, we can only react by tabulating the damage in dollar amounts, estimating the number of people left homeless, and laying the plans for rebuilding. But as John M. Barry expertly details in Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, some calamities transform much more than the landscape.
While tracing the history of the nation's most destructive natural disaster, Barry explains how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood, and how the policies created to deal with the disaster changed the culture of the Mississippi Delta. Existing racial rifts expanded, helping to launch Herbert Hoover into the White House and shifting the political alliances of many blacks in the process. An absorbing account of a little-known, yet monumental event in American history, Rising Tide reveals how human behavior proved more destructive than the swollen river itself. [via]
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River Kingby Alice HoffmanISBN 0606252886 (0-606-25288-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The River King'Book summary:There are two things any reader can count on when coming to Alice Hoffman: her prose and a remarkable empathy for those who live on the fringes of society. In her 13th novel, the author turns both to good account. Set in a tony private school located in a small New England town, The River King traces an intricate weave of intersecting lives over the course of a year. The Haddan School, founded in 1858, has long been the scene of tragedy and wonder: during its first year a tremendous storm flooded the grounds, and more than a century later "frogs can be found in the plumbing; linens and clothes stored in closets have a distinctly weedy odor, as if each article had been washed in river water and never thoroughly dried." Then there are the glorious roses planted by Annie Howe, a villager who married the headmaster and later hanged herself; these flowers have an unusual effect on sensitive girls. "When such girls walked past the brittle canes in the gardens behind St. Anne's, they felt something cold at the base of their spines, a bad case of pins and needles, as though someone were issuing a warning: be careful who you choose to love and who loves you in return."
A cogent warning indeed, for as in all of Hoffman's novels, the question of whom one chooses to love and who loves in return is the crux of the matter. The River King revolves around triangles. First there is Betsy Chase, a young photography teacher at the Haddan School who has gotten herself engaged--almost accidentally--to a fellow faculty member, even as she is inexorably drawn to Abel Grey, a town policeman. Then there are Carlin Leander, a scholarship student, and her best friend, Gus Pierce. While Carlin is able to fit in, even attracting the interest of the most popular boy on campus, Gus is a defiant outcast, a tall skinny kid in a long black overcoat "who viewed his own life as a prison sentence and experienced his existence much as a condemned man might." Carlin's romance with the charismatic, cruel Harry McKenna creates a rupture between her and Gus, and fuels a mean-spirited practical joke with horrific consequences. In the aftermath of tragedy, each character's heart, conscience, and courage is tested in unexpected ways.
Hoffman spins her web of love and heartbreak and transcendence with a sure hand, and in the process creates characters so palpably human in all their petty flaws and small instances of heroism that one almost expects them to step out of the book and into the room. Indeed, if there is a flaw in The River King, it is that Alice Hoffman doesn't always trust the magic inherent in her characters, relying a little too heavily at times on somewhat precious invocations of the otherworldly. But this is a minor defect in an otherwise satisfying novel, one that will keep the reader spellbound by its emotional complexity and compelling story. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Rome Alive: A Source-Guide Tothe Ancient Cityby Danny P. Jackson, Thom Kapheim, Robert D. BiggsISBN 0865163529 (0-86516-352-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rome Alive: A Source-Guide Tothe Ancient City'Book summary:The longing stretch toward the infinite...the reluctant embrace of the temporal. This is the eternal lot of mankind. This is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Our revised 2nd edition of mankind's first epic features a lucid historical and cultural introduction by Dr. Biggs, a new interpretive essay on the themes of Gilgamesh by James G. Keenan and their echoes in other literature, and ancient world and original illustrations.
Though The Epic of Gilgamesh exists in several editions, this version has been undertaken with a very specific intent -- to remain faithful to the source material while attempting to convey the poetic scope of a work that is both lusty and tender and that retains the ability to arouse compassion and empathy in all who follow Gilgamesh on his journey. This edition aims to reanimate the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu for modern readers, bringing it new life through indelible poetic images.
For centuries the beginnings of the literary history of the West were defined by the Hebrew Bible--what most people call the Old Testament--and Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and Odyssey. These texts were once naively imagined to have come about in splendid isolation either as a miracle of divine creation or the spontaneous combustion of the ?Greek genius.? The mighty stream of words down over the millennia to our own time are so many generations of offspring still somehow beholden to their initial begetters. Thus do we construe Western Literature.
- from Ancient Epic Poetry Chapter 8: Gilgamesh
Charles Rowan Beye
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Secrets of the Lost Races: New Discoveries of Advanced Technology in Ancient Civilizationsby Rene NoorbergenISBN 1572581980 (1-57258-198-0)
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Drawing on the literature and art of the Chaldeans, Sumerians, Babylonians and others, Rene Noorbergen's contention is that a superior race of man was responsible for these scientific marvels that bear testimony to a civilization with technology comparable to our own. [via]
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The Sixteen Pleasuresby Robert HellengaISBN 1569470065 (1-56947-006-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sixteen Pleasures'Book summary:In 1966, 29-year-old Margot Harrington heads off to Florence, intent on doing her bit to protect its precious books from the great floods--and equally intent on adventure. Serendipity, in the shape of the man she'll fall in love with, leads her to an abbey run by the most knowing of abbesses and work on its library begins. One day a nun comes upon a shockingly pornographic volume, bound with a prayer book. It turns out to be Aretino's lost erotic sonnets, accompanied by some rather anatomical engravings. Since the pope had ordered all copies of the Sixteen Pleasures burned, it could be worth a fortune and keep the convent autonomous. The abbess asks Margot to take care of the book and check into its worth: "We have to be cunning as serpents and innocent as doves," she warns.
Soon our heroine finds her identity increasingly "tangled up" with the volume and with Dottor Postiglione, a man with an instinct for happiness--but also one for self-preservation. Margot enjoys the secrecy and the craft (the chapters in which she rebinds the folios are among the book's finest). Much of the book's pleasure stems from Robert Hellenga's easy knowledge, which extends to Italian complexities. Where else would you learn that, in cases of impotence, legal depositions are insufficient: "Modern couples often take the precaution of sending postcards to each other from the time of their engagement, leaving the message space blank so that it can be filled in later if the couple wishes to establish grounds for an annulment." Luckily, however, there are also shops that sell old postcards, "along with the appropriate writing instruments and inks."
Though The Sixteen Pleasures is initially in the tradition of American innocent goes abroad to encounter European experience, Hellenga's depth (and lightness) of characterization and description lift it high above its genre. And what better book than one about loving and loving books? [via]
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Spellcoatsby Diana Wynne JonesISBN 0671835998 (0-671-83599-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spellcoats'Book summary:A story set in the early days of Dalemark finds Tanaqui and her family in battle against the destructive mage Kankredin, in an adventure that helps shape the destiny of the land. Reissue. [via]
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Studies in Flood Geology a Compilation of Research Studies Supportingby John WoodmorappeISBN 0932766544 (0-932766-54-4)
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Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0821927361 (0-8219-2736-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'Book summary:At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.
Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.
One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirstby Diane Raines WardISBN 1573222291 (1-57322-229-1)
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The Waters Above: Earth's Pre-Flood Vapor Canopyby Joseph C. DillowISBN 0802491987 (0-8024-9198-7)
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The World That Perishedby John Clement WhitcombISBN 0801096901 (0-8010-9690-1)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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La Granja / a Painted Houseby John GrishamISBN 8466305920 (84-663-0592-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Granja / a Painted House'Book summary:A story inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas. Seven-year old Luke Chandler lives in a little house in the cotton fields which his family farms. When the cotton is ready for harvesting, the family hires workers to help. Luke sees and hears things which are keeps to himself and unfortunately these secrets threaten the crop.
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"&¿Quién piensa en abogados? Grisham no, desde luego, al menos en esta cautivadora novela. Aquí, en lugar de abogados, encontramos sufridos granjeros, jornaleros miserables y un niño que va creciendo a lo largo de un libro tan rico en incidentes y conflictos como es habitual en Grisham, y más dotado de matices que nunca... Unos personajes inolvidables, un estilo más limpio y poderoso que en ninguna novela anterior, y una impresionante evocación de un tiempo y de un lugar que convierten esta historia en un clásico americano."& Publisher&s Weekly [via]
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Het Water En De Herinnering: De Zeeuwse Watersnoodramp 1952-1993by Selma LeydesdorffISBN 9029027711 (90-290-2771-1)
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