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Bad Case Of Stripes
by David Shannon

ISBN 0439598389 (0-439-59838-9)
Softcover, Scholastic

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Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don''t like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact, she''s so worried that she''s about to break out in& a bad case of stripes! [via]
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Blue Castle
by L. M. Montgomery, Collett Tracey

ISBN 1550026666 (1-55002-666-6)
Softcover, Dundurn Group, The

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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Briefe
by Thomas Mann, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Heinrich Detering

ISBN 3100483235 (3-10-048323-5)
Hardcover, S. Fischer

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The Cancer Journals
by Audre Lorde

ISBN 1879960737 (1-879960-73-7)
Softcover, Aunt Lute Books

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Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet.Adrienne Rich

This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me.Alice Walker

The forthrightness and ferocity with which Audre Lorde greeted every social injustice is in full force in this courageous exploration.Amazon.com

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Includes photos and tributes to Lorde written after her death in 1992.
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Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
by Jean Shinoda Bolen

ISBN 0684835304 (0-684-83530-4)
Softcover, Scribner

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt

ISBN 0375701214 (0-375-70121-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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In December of 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, 43 year old editor in chief of Elle magazine in France, suffered a stroke which severely damaged his brain stem. After several weeks in a coma, he woke to find that he was one of the rare victims of a condition called "locked-in syndrome" or LIS, which had left his mind functioning but his body almost completely paralyzed. In a perverse sense he actually got fairly lucky because, unlike most victims, he was still able to move one eyelid. This allowed him to work out, with a speech therapist, a system of communication which entailed winking as someone slowly read through the alphabet. By using this code, he could painstakingly spell out words, sentences, paragraphs and, finally, this memoir. The title of the book refers to the metaphors he uses to describe his situation. The physical paralysis leaves him feeling as if he was trapped within a diving bell, as if there is constant pressure pinning his body into immobility. However, at the same time, his mind remains as free as a butterfly and it's flights are as random. In fact, he calls the chapters of this book his "bedridden travel notes" and, indeed, they eloquently relate his journey through memory. [via]
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Epileptic
by B. David, David B.

ISBN 2844140858 (2-84414-085-8)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books

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Everyman
by Philip Roth

ISBN 0307277712 (0-307-27771-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.

The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.

The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all. [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jill Muller

ISBN 1593082770 (1-59308-277-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble

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Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
by Ken Wilber

ISBN 1570627428 (1-57062-742-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Illness as Metaphor
by Susan Sontag

ISBN 0374520739 (0-374-52073-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Brimming with humane and original ideas about a disease and the modern condition, this classic essay and its sequel -- written 10 years later -- are compassionate exhortations and a liberating event. "Taken together, the two essays are an exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face of the lethal metaphors of fear." -- The Nation [via]
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Illness As Metaphor And AIDS And Its Metaphors: And, AIDS And Its Metaphors
by Susan Sontag

ISBN 0312420137 (0-312-42013-7)
Softcover, Picador USA

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In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers. [via]
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LA Montana Magica
by Thomas Mann

ISBN 8495971232 (84-95971-23-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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LA Peste
by Albert Camus

ISBN 2070360423 (2-07-036042-3)
Softcover, Gallimard

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La Peste est un roman dAlbert Camus publié en 1947 qui permit en partie à son auteur de remporter le prix Nobel en 1957. Il a pour théâtre Oran durant la période de lAlgérie française. Lhistoire se déroule dans les années 1940. Le roman raconte sous forme de chronique la vie quotidienne des habitants de la ville pendant une épidémie de peste qui frappe la ville et la coupe du monde extérieur. [via]
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Lessons in Taxidermy
by Bee Lavender

ISBN 1888451793 (1-888451-79-3)
Softcover, Akashic Books

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Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans

ISBN 014056439X (0-14-056439-X)
Softcover, Puffin

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No child could resist this adorable, 9-inch-tall, rag-doll-soft Madeline--complete with appendix-removal scar! This Parisian schoolgirl sports a jaunty felt hat with a trailing black ribbon, perfect for the mischievous redhead who is not afraid of mice and pooh-poohs the tiger at the zoo. Her blue sailor dress is removable for frequent scar viewing! Each doll comes in a big, splashy gift box (12 inches by 12 inches by 4 inches) with one unabridged paperback edition of Ludwig Bemelmans's original Madeline ("and that's all there is--there isn't any more"). (Ages 3 and older) [via]
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Madeline 72-Copy Mixed Floor Display
by Ludwig Bemelmans

ISBN 0140501983 (0-14-050198-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Madeline/Spanish
by Ludwig Bemelmans, Ernesto Livon Grosman

ISBN 067085154X (0-670-85154-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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This Spanish translation of the classic tale retains the charm of the original story--complete with fanciful rhyme, lovely settings, and the antics of Madeline. [via]
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Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods, A. S. Byatt

ISBN 1400044219 (1-4000-4421-9)
Hardcover, Everymans Library

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With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an "ordinary young man" who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas. [via]
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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult

ISBN 0743454537 (0-7434-5453-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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"New York Times" bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister -- and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.
"My Sister's Keeper" examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in "My Sister's Keeper, " Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity. [via]
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Paula
by Isabel Allende

ISBN 0060927208 (0-06-092720-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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"Listen, Paula. I am going to tell you a story so that when you wake up you will not feel so lost." So says Chilean writer Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits) in the opening lines of the luminous, heart-rending memoir she wrote while her 28-year-old daughter Paula lay in a coma. In its pages, she ushers an assortment of outrageous relatives into the light: her stepfather, an amiable liar and tireless debater; grandmother Meme, blessed with second sight; and delinquent uncles who exultantly torment Allende and her brothers. Irony and marvelous flights of fantasy mix with the icy reality of Paula's deathly illness as Allende sketches childhood scenes in Chile and Lebanon; her uncle Salvatore Allende's reign and ruin as Chilean president; her struggles to shake off or find love; and her metamorphosis into a writer. [via]
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The Plague
by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert

ISBN 0075536498 (0-07-553649-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College

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The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. [via]
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The Secret Garden
by Dalmatian Press Staff

ISBN 1577595556 (1-57759-555-6)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press

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Product Details Reading level: Ages 5 and up Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Dalmatian Press (November 2001) Language: English [via]
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Sense And Sensibility
by Jane Austen, Laura Engel

ISBN 1593080492 (1-59308-049-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly", she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon, however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr Willoughby, a new neighbour. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behaviour begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. misfortunes and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber, Amazon.com [via]
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Skating Shoes
by Noel Streatfield

ISBN 044047731X (0-440-47731-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The beloved Noel Streatfeild classic back in print!

It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnsons doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up by her wealthy aunt Claudia to be a skating champion. Although they have little in common, the girls form a fast friendship. Harriet is energized by talented, funny Lalla, and Lalla in turn blossoms under the affection of openhearted Harriet. The girls skate together more and more. But just as Lallas interest in skating starts to fade, Harriets natural talent begins to emerge. Suddenly Lalla and Harriet seem headed in two very different directions. Can their friendship survive? [via]
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
by Ann Patchett

ISBN 0060572159 (0-06-057215-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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What happens when the person who is your family is someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person you promise to love and to honor for the rest of your life is not your lover, but your best friend? In Truth & Beauty, her frank and startlingly intimate first work of nonfiction, Ann Patchett shines a fresh, revealing light on the world of women's friendships and shows us what it means to stand together. Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work was. In her critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, the years of chemotherapy and radiation, and then the endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long, cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this book shows us what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined. This is a tender, brutal book about loving a person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest. [via]
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom

ISBN 1568959672 (1-56895-967-2)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - MItch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. [via]
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Velveteen Rabbit

ISBN 1577592573 (1-57759-257-3)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Pr

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The Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams Bianco, David Jorgensen

ISBN 1591977576 (1-59197-757-6)
Hardcover, Spotlight

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The Velveteen Rabbit
by Pat Thompson, Ashley Crownover

ISBN 1577593758 (1-57759-375-8)
Softcover, Dalmatian Press

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Given as a Christmas gift to a young boy, the Velveteen Rabbit lives in the nursery with all of the other toys, waiting for the day when the Boy (as he is called) will choose him as a playmate.
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The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real
by Margery Williams Bianco, Donna Green

ISBN 1883746167 (1-883746-16-7)
Hardcover, Vermilion

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A stuffed toy rabbit (with real thread whiskers) comes to life in Margery Williams's timeless tale of the transformative power of love. Given as a Christmas gift to a young boy, the Velveteen Rabbit lives in the nursery with all of the other toys, waiting for the day when the Boy (as he is called) will choose him as a playmate. In time, the shy Rabbit befriends the tattered Skin Horse, the wisest resident of the nursery, who reveals the goal of all nursery toys: to be made "real" through the love of a human. "'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'" This sentimental classic--perfect for any child who's ever thought that maybe, just maybe, his or her toys have feelings--has been charming children since its first publication in 1922. (A great read-aloud for all ages, but children ages 8 and up can read it on their own.) [via]
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The Wings of the Dove
by Henry James, Bruce L. R. Smith

ISBN 1593082967 (1-59308-296-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

One of three masterpieces from Henry Jamess final, major phase, The Wings of the Dove dramatizes the conflict between nineteenth-century values and twentieth-century passions. Born to wealth and privilege, Kate Croys mother threw it all away to marry a penniless opium addict. After her mothers death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the opulent lifestyle her mother gave upon one condition. Kate must renounce the man she loves: the witty, good-looking, but poor, Merton Densher. Reluctantly agreeing, Kate finds herself becoming friends with the worlds richest orphan, Millie Theale. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she devises a plan of dizzying possibility for herself and Merton that should solve all their problems, but instead leads them down a path strewn with tragic, unexpected consequences.

First published in 1902, this rich and intriguing novel has lost none of its fascination and relevance a century later.

Bruce L. R. Smith is a Fellow of the Heyman Center for the Humanities of Columbia University. He has served as Professor of Public Law and Government at Columbia, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and as an official in the U. S. State Department. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and lectures widely on public affairs and literary topics.
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Written on the Body
by Jeanette Winterson

ISBN 0679744479 (0-679-74447-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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El Curioso Incidente Del Perro A Medianoche
by Mark Haddon

ISBN 8478889108 (84-7888-910-8)
Softcover, Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions

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2005 SALAMANDRA Spanish Edition SOFTCOVER [via]
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Encuentros Con Morrie
by Mitch Albom

ISBN 9580448671 (958-04-4867-1)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Norma USA

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En marzo de 1995, el escritor Mitch Albom viajó cerca de mil kilómetros para pasar una tarde con un hombre moribundo -Morrie Schwartz, su antiguo profesor de sociología- y encontró algo que no se esperaba. Aunque Schwartz estaba reducido a una silla de ruedas y se encontraba en las fases finales de una terrible enfermedad, estaba viviendo uno de los momentos más productivos de su vida: trabajando en un libro de aforismos, rodeado de amigos y estudiantes, difundiendo su sabiduría a través de un conocido programa de televisión. "Entonces pensé", dice Albom, "yo tengo 37 años y estoy en perfecto estado de salud. Él tiene 78 y se está muriendo; sin embargo, él parece definitivamente más feliz y satisfecho".
Éste fue el inicio de la serie de encuentros que dieron lugar a este libro y que constituyen la mayor lección que alguien puede recibir. En sus encuentros, que siempre tienen lugar los martes, Morrie y Mitch hablan sobre todas las cosas importantes de la vida, pero sobre todo Morrie comparte con su antiguo alumno lo que ha aprendido de la vida desde el momento en que supo que iba a morir. Y su mensaje, para sorpresa de todos, es una lección de optimismo, entereza, amor y generosidad. Al final, como dice Albom, "Encuentros con Morrie no es en absoluto un libro acerca de la muerte. Es un libro acerca de cómo vivir bien y encontrar la satisfacción".
"Mientras nos queramos unos a otros y tengamos presente el sentimiento del amor que tuvimos, podemos morir sin irnos del todo. Todo el amor que uno creó queda allí. Todos los recuerdos siguen allí. Uno sigue viviendo en los corazones de todos los que tocó y quiso mientras estuvo aquí... La muerte es el final de una vida, pero no de una relación", le dice Morrie a Mitch, en uno de sus últimos encuentros. [via]
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Gracia Y Coraje/ Grace and Grit: En La Vida Y En La Muerte De Treya Killam Wilber/ Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya
by Ken Wilber

ISBN 8488242255 (84-88242-25-5)
Softcover, Gaia Ediciones

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Es esta una obra sobre la filosofia perenne y la psicologia transpersonal, escrita por una mujer excepcional y por su esposo, uno de los mas lucidos pensadores de nuestro tiempo, pero no es solo eso.
Es un libro para apoyar y alentar a quienes padecen de una enfermedad terminal y sus acompanantes, es una conmovedoira historia de amor y una viva fuente de inspiracion para quienes se encuentran recorriendo un camino espiritual o se hayan en busca de si mismos. [via]
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La Montana Magica/The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann

ISBN 8435016269 (84-350-1626-9)
Softcover, Edhasa

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La acción de esta novela transcurre en un sanatorio de tuberculosos de Zauberberg, donde coinciden dos primos de caracteres muy distintos. És esta una novela de detalles más que de trama: el conocimiento de Claudia Chauchat o de una pareja de peculiares y enfrentados pensadores, los pequeños conflictos generados por la convivencia, el goteo constante de fallecimientos... El interés de la novela reside en la perfecta reproducción de la vida interior, afectiva e intelectual, de la amplia galería de personajes que despliega Mann ante los ojos del lector, todos ellos perfectamente individualizados e interesantes por sí mismo. "La montaña mágica" se cuenta entre las diez mejores obras literarias del siglo XX.

A hospital of tuberculosis patients in the mountains is the place chosen by the author to reflect the events that had a great effect on the first-quarter century European society. The characters synthesize the social trends and contradictions of that period. [via]
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Paula
by Not Available

ISBN 849759388X (84-9759-388-X)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que moría su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de si misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara la enfermedad. [via]
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Sentido y Sensibilidad
by Jane Austen, Clara Ituero Herrero

ISBN 8497646940 (84-9764-694-0)
Softcover, Edimat Libros, S. A.

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For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.

Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.

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Madeleine
by Ludwig Bemelsman

ISBN 2211021565 (2-211-02156-5)
Softcover, Archimede Editions

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Book Details:
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 8/1/2000
- Pages: 48
- Reading Level: Age 5 and Up
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Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon
by Jean-Dominique Bauby

ISBN 2221081722 (2-221-08172-2)
Hardcover, R. Laffont

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avec couverture illustrée d' un dessin en couleurs. [via]
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : A Memoir of Life in Death
by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt

ISBN 0375401156 (0-375-40115-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Briefe
by Thomas Mann, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Heinrich Detering

ISBN 3100483227 (3-10-048322-7)
Hardcover, S. Fischer

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