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30 Days to a Smart Family: A Powerful Way to Make Your Family Dreams a Realityby Paul Lewis, Thom BlackISBN 0310215854 (0-310-21585-4)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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The Act of Marriage After 40: Making Love for Lifeby Tim Lahaye, Beverly Lahaye, Mike YorkeyISBN 0310231140 (0-310-23114-0)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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The Alchemist's Daughter: A Novelby Katharine McMahonISBN 0307335852 (0-307-33585-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist's Daughter: A Novel'Book summary:There are long-held secrets at the manor house in Buckinghamshire, England, where Emilie Selden has been raised in near isolation by her father. A student of Isaac Newton, John Selden believes he can turn his daughter into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. Secluded in their ancient house, with only two servants for company, he fills Emilie with knowledge and records her progress obsessively.
In the spring of 1725, father and daughter begin their most daring alchemical experiment to datethey will attempt to breathe life into dead matter. But their work is interrupted by the arrival of two strangers: one a researcher, the other a dazzling young merchant. During the course of a sultry August, while her father is away, Emilie experiences the passion of first love. Listening to her heart rather than her head, she makes a choice.
Banished to London and plunged headlong into a society that is both glamorous and ruthless, Emilie discovers that for all her extraordinary education she has no insight into the workings of the human heart. When she tries to return to the world of books and study, she instead unravels a shocking secret that sets her on her true journey to enlightenment.
The Alchemists Daughter is a gripping, evocative tale. Set against the backdrop of eighteenth-century London society, it is an unforgettable story of one womans journey through a world of mystery, passion, and obsession.
Selden Manor was the crucible in which my father, the Gills, and I lived together. I peer into it now with the respectful caution with which I was taught to approach any volatile experiment. I am searching for a day to illustrate our life before 1725, the year when everything changed. And unlike the blacksmiths daughter, I am an expert in observation. I know what I am looking forbubbles of gas, a rise in temperature, an alteration in texturesmall indications of chemical change that mean something significant is happening. from The Alchemists Daughter [via]More editions of The Alchemist's Daughter: A Novel:
Art of Understanding Your Mateby Cecil G. OsborneISBN 0310306019 (0-310-30601-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Beloved Unbeliever: Loving Your Husband into the Faithby Jo BerryISBN 0310426219 (0-310-42621-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved Unbeliever: Loving Your Husband into the Faith'Book summary:Discover positive ways to approach the problem of being unequally yoked. Now there's help, truly godly help! Using the scriptural framework of love, Beloved Unbeliever shows how to love your husband into the faith. Jo Berry interviewed dozens of women who are married to unbelievers. They shared the greatest difficulties they encounter and practical ways to handle problems. You'll learn: - How to be a suitable helper - How to deal with hurts, heartaches, and hindrances - How to shoulder spiritual responsibility -- In addition, you'll find workshop questions on each chapter, so you can follow up on the chapter with individual or group study. Beloved Unbeliever will reassure you: happiness is possible in an unequally yoked situation. [via]
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Bible Study in Duetby Charlie W. Shedd, Martha SheddISBN 0310423805 (0-310-42380-5)
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Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils Of Queer Romance And The Confusions Of Christian Marriageby Mark D. JordanISBN 0226410331 (0-226-41033-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianityby Peter BrownISBN 0231061013 (0-231-06101-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Boundaries Face to Face: How to Have That Difficult Conversation You'Ve Been Avoidingby Henry Cloud, John TownsendISBN 0310221528 (0-310-22152-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boundaries Face to Face: How to Have That Difficult Conversation You'Ve Been Avoiding'Book summary:A practical handbook on positive confrontation by the authors of the award-winning and best-selling Boundaries. Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships. They have discovered that uncomfortable---even dangerous---situations can often be avoided or resolved through direct conversation. But most of us don't know how to go about having difficult conversations. We see confrontation as scary or adversarial. We're afraid to ask a boss for a raise or talk to a relative about a drinking problem, or even address a relational conflict with a spouse or someone we are dating. In Boundaries Face to Face authors Cloud and Townsend take the principles from their best-selling book Boundaries and apply them to a variety of the most common difficult situations and relationships. * Explains why confrontation is essential in all arenas of life * Shows how healthy confrontation can improve relationships * Presents the essentials of a good boundary-setting conversation * Provides tips on how to prepare for the conversation * Shows how to tell people what you want, how to stop bad behavior, and how to deal with counterattack * Gives actual examples of conversations to have with your spouse, your date, your kids, your coworker, your boss, your parents, and more From the Book Sometimes people get confused in a confrontation because the other person gets them off track. If that happens, remember this formula. Empathize with their feelings or position, and return to your issue. Here's an example. Joe: 'I can't believe you were offended by my comments. You joke around more than anyone here. That's pretty hypocritical.' You: 'I understand it's hard for you to see, and I'm glad you meant it as a joke and weren't trying to be hurtful. What I'm telling you, though, and what I don't want you to miss, is how it affected me. It hurt me and I don't want to be talked to like that.' [via]
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Boundaries in Dating: Making Dating Workby Henry Cloud, John TownsendISBN 0310200342 (0-310-20034-2)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Boundaries in Marriage Workbookby Henry Cloud, John Townsend, Lisa GuestISBN 0310228751 (0-310-22875-1)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No To Take Control of Your Lifeby Henry Cloud, John TownsendISBN 0310209749 (0-310-20974-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boundaries: When to Say Yes, When to Say No To Take Control of Your Life'Book summary:In order to call themselves good Christians, many people have drawn overly flexible boundaries (unwilling to say no, always accommodating others' needs) or overly rigid boundaries (to the point of being righteous and judgmental). Psychologists and inspirational speakers Cloud and Townsend show readers how to set reasonable boundaries in order to follow the true path of Christianity. This book has become immensely popular, most likely because it makes personal boundaries easier to define and is filled with spiritual purpose. Some cautions: the format can be overly self-helpish for such a complex discussion and the authors at one point imply that judicious spankings may be an acceptable form of setting boundaries with children. However, many Christians will probably find themselves grateful for this biblical context of boundaries. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Boundaries With Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Childrenby Henry Cloud, Lisa Guest, John Sims TownsendISBN 0310200350 (0-310-20035-0)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boundaries With Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children'Book summary:Since the 1992 release of their Gold Medallion Award-winning book, Boundaries, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend have heard these three questions rephrased thousands of times. As parents begin to realize the tremendous impact poor boundaries have had on their own lives, their concern naturally extends to their children. How can they help their sons and daughters form healthy boundaries that lead to well-rounded characters and successful adult lives? Now there are answers. Boundaries with Kids helps parents apply the Ten Laws of Boundaries (first described in Boundaries) to the challenges of raising children. In their popular, readable style, Cloud and Townsend help moms and dads make choices and develop a parenting approach that sees beyond the moment to the adults their children will become. For parents who want their kids to escape the struggles they themselves have experienced, here's an in-depth look at how to implement the preventive medicine of character development by establishing sound boundaries starting with the parents. Boundaries with Kids helps moms and dads learn how to bring control to an out-of-control family life set limits and still be loving parents define what legitimate boundaries are in the family transfer what they are learning as parents to help their children develop healthy boundaries. Illustrating its points with numerous case studies and anecdotes, Boundaries with Kids gives parents the can-do guidance they need in order to model healthy boundaries for their kids. This book may well be the best investment parents will ever make into the lifelong welfare of their children. [via]
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Boundaries with Kids : When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Livesby Henry Cloud, Lisa Guest, John Sims TownsendISBN 0310223490 (0-310-22349-0)
Softcover, Zondervan
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- Boundaries with Kids : When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives: ISBN 0310243157 (0-310-24315-7)
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Bring Home the Joyby Gary Smalley, Larry Crabb, Becky Tirabassi, Neil Clark Warren, Les Parrott, Roger Tirabaai, Kevin LemanISBN 0310234484 (0-310-23448-4)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Chapters on Marriage and Divorce: Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayhby Susan A. Spectorsky, Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Hanbal, Ibn RahwayhISBN 0292776721 (0-292-77672-1)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350428 (0-307-35042-8)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude'Book summary:Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo .
Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
City of the Mindby Penelope LivelyISBN 0233986618 (0-233-98661-8)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Clementine Churchillby Mary SoamesISBN 0304303216 (0-304-30321-6)
Hardcover, Cassell
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The Contraception Guidebook: Options, Risks, And Answers For Christian Couplesby William Cutrer, Sandra L. GlahnISBN 0310254078 (0-310-25407-8)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Contraception Guidebook: Options, Risks, And Answers For Christian Couples'Book summary:A Comprehensive Christian Guide to Contraception The Contraception Guidebook equips you to make fully informed decisions about the complex and deeply personal issue of contraception. Written in a personal, engaging style by a male obstetrician/gynecologist and a female educator and journalist, both theologians, this easy-to-read book is packed with the most current medical information on every option, old and new. You'll also learn the success rates, ethical considerations, and risk factors involved, gain insights from real-life couples facing different concerns, and obtain medically reliable and biblically sound wisdom for your questions. Each chapter ends with questions to help you and your mate communicate on key issues. [via]
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Couplesby John UpdikeISBN 0233960740 (0-233-96074-0)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Devotions For A Sacred Marriage: A Year Of Weekly Devotions For Couplesby Gary L. ThomasISBN 0310255953 (0-310-25595-3)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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Devotions For Sacred Parenting: A Year Of Weekly Devotions For Parentsby Gary L. ThomasISBN 0310255961 (0-310-25596-1)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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Digging to America: Library Editionby Anne TylerISBN 0307263940 (0-307-26394-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Divorce and Remarriage in the Churchby S EllisenISBN 0310355613 (0-310-35561-3)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Doctors' Marriages: A Look at the Problems and Their Solutionsby Michael F. MyersISBN 0306446189 (0-306-44618-9)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctors' Marriages: A Look at the Problems and Their Solutions'Book summary:Responding to demographic changes among physicians and six years of new experiences since the first edition, Dr. Myers has revamped his well received work. He includes new information on older physicians, gay and lesbian physicians, medical student abuse, economic strain on interns, depression, malpractice, ethical violations, and other stressors which may cause marital difficulties. Therapists seeking to council symptomatic physicians, as well physicians themselves, will find this a humane, readable, and useful book. [via]
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The English Marriage: What It Is like to Be Married Todayby Drusilla BeyfusISBN 029717682X (0-297-17682-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedyby Kirk OrmandISBN 0292760523 (0-292-76052-3)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy'Book summary:Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage.
Ormand takes a two-fold approach. He first explores the legal and economic underpinnings of Athenian marriage, an institution designed to guarantee the legitimate continuation of patrilineal households. He then shows how Sophocles' plays Trachiniae, Electra, Antigone, Ajax, and Oedipus Tyrannus both reinforce and critique this ideology by representing marriage as a homosocial exchange between men, in which women are objects who may attempt--but always fail--to become self-acting subjects.
These fresh readings provide the first systematic study of marriage in Sophocles. They draw important connections between drama and marriage as rituals concerned with controlling potentially disruptive female subjectivities.
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Family, Love, and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomenby M. Jeanne PetersonISBN 0253205093 (0-253-20509-3)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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First Years of Foreverby Ed Wheat, Gloria Okes PerkinsISBN 031042531X (0-310-42531-X)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Getting Ready for the Wedding: All You Need to Know Before You Say I Doby Les ParrottISBN 0310211484 (0-310-21148-4)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian Americaby Elaine Tyler MayISBN 0226511707 (0-226-51170-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Great Sexpectations: Finding Lasting Intimacy in Your Marriageby Robert Barnes, Rosemary J. BarnesISBN 0310201373 (0-310-20137-3)
Softcover, Zondervan
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Veniceby Margaret F. RosenthalISBN 0226728129 (0-226-72812-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Margaret F. Rosenthal draws a compelling portrait of Veronica Franco in her cultural social, and economic world. Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests. It is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and womenand her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporariesthat makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today.
Combining the resources of biography, history, literary theory, and cultural criticism, this sophisticated interdisciplinary work presents an eloquent and often moving account of one woman's life as an act of self-creation and as a complex response to social forces and cultural conditions.
"A book . . . pleasurably redolent of Venice in the 16th-century. Rosenthal gives a vivid sense of a world of salons and coteries, of intricate networks of family and patronage, and of literary exchanges both intellectual and erotic."Helen Hackett, Times Higher Education Supplement
The Honest Courtesan is the basis for the film Dangerous Beauty (1998) directed by Marshall Herskovitz. (The film was re-titled The Honest Courtesan for release in the UK and Europe in 1999.)More editions of The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice:
I'm More Than the Pastor's Wife: Authentic Living in a Fishbowl Worldby Lorna DobsonISBN 0310247284 (0-310-24728-4)
Softcover, Zondervan
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The Illustrated Odysseyby Homer, Tim Mercer, E. V. RieuISBN 0283985887 (0-283-98588-7)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Odyssey'Book summary:The most famous book in mythology, 251 pages of pure Grecian culture, gorgeous pictures of Greece, pottery, gods and goddesses throughout the book, easy read. [via]
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In Stitches: A Patchwork of Feminist Humor and Satireby Gloria KaufmanISBN 0253206413 (0-253-20641-3)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Infertility Companion: Hope and Help for Couples Facing Infertilityby William Cutrer, Sandra L. GlahnISBN 0310249619 (0-310-24961-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infertility Companion: Hope and Help for Couples Facing Infertility'Book summary:Endorsed by the Christian Medical Association. A Comprehensive Christian Guide to the Challenges of Infertility * Medical * Ethical * Emotional * Marital * Spiritual * Biblical Infertility changes everything, shattering dreams and breaking hearts. But hope is available---today more than ever. The Infertility Companion draws on the Bible and on current medical knowledge, including the latest research, to shed light on such questions as: *Can people of faith ethically use high-tech infertility treatments? *How do we make moral, biblical decisions about medical treatment, third-party reproduction, stem cell research, and embryo adoption? *Is God punishing me? *Does God even care? *Will adoption increase our chances of getting pregnant? *How can we reduce the stress of infertility on our marriage relationship? *How can we keep sex from becoming a chore? These theologically trained authors have taught at a variety of conferences on infertility, pregnancy loss, and adoption, and they have helped thousands of couples to face the future through their message of encouragement. The Infertility Companion includes discussion questions and a workbook suitable for individuals, couples, or small groups. Full of practical tips and true stories, this book will guide couples past the ethical pitfalls of assisted reproductive technologies as they travel the difficult road ahead. An all-encompassing guide for the Christian infertility patient. Where other books fall short, this 'companion' aids the patient not only with the physical and emotional aspects of this journey, but also helps answer the tough spiritual and ethical questions that arise in a couple's desire to conceive.---Julie Watson, Conceiving Concepts [via]
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Intimate Creativity: Partners in Love and Artby Irving Sarnoff, Suzanne SarnoffISBN 0299180549 (0-299-18054-9)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Joy That Lastsby Gary Smalley, Al JanssenISBN 0310242819 (0-310-24281-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Kill Your Darlingsby Terence BlackerISBN 0297646583 (0-297-64658-3)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Lady Of The Hallby Veronica HeleyISBN 031025079X (0-310-25079-X)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Lasting Marriages: Men and Women Growing Togetherby Richard A. MacKey, Bernard A. O'BrienISBN 027595076X (0-275-95076-X)
Softcover, Praeger Pub Text
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Lolitaby Vladimir Nabokov, Appel, Alfred, Jr.ISBN 0297819100 (0-297-81910-0)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Lolita:
Lost Women of the Bible: Finding Strength & Significance Through Their Storiesby Carolyn Custis JamesISBN 0310263905 (0-310-26390-5)
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Love Talk Workbook For Men: Speak Each Other's Language Like You Never Have Beforeby Les ParrottISBN 0310262127 (0-310-26212-7)
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Madame Curieby Eve Curie, Vincent SheeanISBN 0306810387 (0-306-81038-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Magdalena and Balthasar: An Intimate Portrait of Life in 19th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wifeby Steven OzmentISBN 0300043783 (0-300-04378-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Make or Break: An Introduction to Marriage Counsellingby Jack DominianISBN 0281040753 (0-281-04075-3)
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Marriage and the Family: A Christian Perspectiveby Stephen A. GrunlanISBN 0310363411 (0-310-36341-1)
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Marriage Savers: Helping Your Friends and Family Avoid Divorceby Michael J. McManusISBN 0310386616 (0-310-38661-6)
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Marriage, Divorce and the Church: The Report of a Commission Appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to Prepare a Statement on the Christian Doctrine of Marriageby Church of EnglandISBN 0281026343 (0-281-02634-3)
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Marriage, Faith and Loveby Jack DominianISBN 0232515484 (0-232-51548-4)
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The Mathematics Of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Modelsby John Gottman, James D. Murray, Catherine C. Swanson, Rebecca Tyson, Kristin R. SwansonISBN 0262572303 (0-262-57230-3)
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The Most Important Year in a Woman's Life/The Most Important Year in a Man's Life: What Every Bride Needs to Know/What Every Groom Needs to Knowby Robert Wolgemuth, Bobbie Wolgemuth, Mark DeVries, SusanISBN 0310240069 (0-310-24006-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Most Important Year in a Woman's Life/The Most Important Year in a Man's Life: What Every Bride Needs to Know/What Every Groom Needs to Know'Book summary:Your marriage could be one of history's great love stories! As newlyweds, it's time to ensure that your marriage can meet the challenges it will face right around the corner. Cultivating good habits during these first twelve foundational months of your marriage and knowing what to focus on will set the stage for years to come. Robert and Bobbie and Mark and Susan know that there's a big difference between preparation and actual experience. This is your guide to actually dealing with all the things that come after 'I do.' In this unique flip-over format, the chapter topics are the same but one half is written by men for the husband, and the other half is written from a women's perspective for the wife. As a couple, you'll each progress through your part of the book and meet somewhere in the middle. Become an expert on what really makes your spouse happy, and enjoy the benefits of a great partnership. Take an honest look at the family you grew up in: its unwritten codes, how it has shaped you, and the ways it affects your relationship with your mate. Learn how to speak each other's 'language' and appreciate the qualities each of you brings to your marriage. You'll also get an eye-opening look at communication skills, secrets for a great sex life, budget basics, dealing with in-laws, navigating tough times, and much more. Above all, you'll cultivate a spiritual unity that draws the two of you closer to each other as you draw closer to God. Start reading, and make this first year together what it was meant to be: the most important year in your life. [via]
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Navajo Kinship and Marriageby Gary WitherspoonISBN 0226904180 (0-226-90418-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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On Loveby Marie-Henri-Beyle StendhalISBN 0306801949 (0-306-80194-9)
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The Painted Veilby W. Somerset MaughamISBN 0307277771 (0-307-27777-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Portrait of a Marriageby Nigel Nicolson, V. Sackville-WestISBN 0226583570 (0-226-58357-0)
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Quartetby Jean RhysISBN 0233960503 (0-233-96050-3)
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Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plainsby Rachel Calof, J. Sanford RikoonISBN 0253209862 (0-253-20986-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains'Book summary:Calof's [story] has the electricity one occasionally finds in primary sources. It is powerful, shocking, and primitive, with the kind of appeal primary sources often attain without effort...it is a strong addition to the literature of women's experience on the frontier. - Lillian Schlissel [asking for approval to use quote]. In 1894, eighteen-year-old Rachel Bella Kahn travelled from Russia to the United States for an arranged marriage to Abraham Calof, an immigrant homesteader in North Dakota. "Rachel Calof's Story" combines her memoir of a hard pioneering life on the prairie with scholarly essays that provide historical and cultural background and show her narrative to be both unique and a representative western tale. Her narrative is riveting and candid, laced with humor and irony. The memoir, written by Rachel Bella Calof in 1936, recounts aspects of her childhood and teenage years in a Jewish community, (shtetl) in Russia, but focuses largely on her life between 1894 and 1904, when she and her husband carved out a life as homesteaders. She recalls her horror at the hardships of pioneer life especially the crowding of many family members into the 12 x 14O dirt-floored shanties that were their first dewllings. Of all the privations I knew as a homesteader, says Calof, the lack of privacy was the hardest to bear. Money, food, and fuel were scarce, and during bitter winters, three Calof households Abraham and Rachel with their growing children, along with his parents and a brother's family would pool resources and live together (with livestock) in one shanty. Under harsh and primitive conditions, Rachel Bella Calof bore and raised nine children. The family withstood many dangers, including hailstorms that hammered wheat to the ground and flooded their home; droughts that reduced crops to dust; blinding snowstorms of plains winters. Through it all, however, Calof drew on a humor and resolve that is everywhere apparent in her narrative. Always striving to improve her living conditions, she made lamps from dried mud, scraps of rag, and butter; plastered the cracked wood walls of her home with clay; supplemented meagre supplies with prairie forage wild mushrooms and garlic for a special supper, dry grass for a hot fire to bake bread. Never sentimental, Caolf's memoir is a vital historical and personal record. J. Sanford Rikoon elaborates on the history of Jewish settlement in the rural heartland and the great tide of immigration from the Russian Pale of Settlement and Eastern Europe from 1880ETH1910. Elizabeth Jameson examines how Calof Owrites from the interior spaces of private life, and from that vantage point, reconfigures more familiar versions of the American West. Jameson also discusses how the Calof's adapted Jewish practices to the new contingencies of North Dakota, maintaining customs that represented the core of their Jewish identity, reconstructing their Jewishness in new circumstances. [via]
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Remarriage After Divorce in Today's Church: 3 Viewsby Craig S. Keener, Gordon J. Wenham, William A. HethISBN 0310255538 (0-310-25553-8)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Renaissance Cross Stitch Samplersby Angela WainwrightISBN 0304346942 (0-304-34694-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Burton RaffelISBN 0300104537 (0-300-10453-7)
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Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our Soulsby Gary ThomasISBN 0310264510 (0-310-26451-0)
Softcover, Zondervan
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The Shooting Partyby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0233979336 (0-233-97933-6)
Softcover, Andre Deutsch
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Still Life With Husbandby Lauren FoxISBN 0307264912 (0-307-26491-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Though None Go With Meby Jerry B. JenkinsISBN 031024305X (0-310-24305-X)
Softcover, Zondervan
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As is typical of Jenkins, Though None Go with Me is a smooth narrative--unencumbered by extensive character development or numerous subplots--in short, a family saga that could easily be a one-night page-turner. Readers will certainly find themselves invested in this spiritually complex and highly likable heroine who somehow keeps her trust in God through the ultimate human struggles, including a shattered romance and the near death of her son. [via]
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Transparent Thingsby Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0297765140 (0-297-76514-0)
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An Unconventional Familyby Sandra L. BemISBN 0300090927 (0-300-09092-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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We Need to Talk: Opening the Doors of Communication With Your Mateby Robert Barnes, Rosemary J. BarnesISBN 031020805X (0-310-20805-X)
Softcover, Zondervan
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What Every Woman Should Know About a Manby James Leonard JohnsonISBN 0310266203 (0-310-26620-3)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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The White Peacockby D. H. Lawrence, Andrew RobertsonISBN 0246116471 (0-246-11647-1)
Hardcover, Granada
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 024113997X (0-241-13997-X)
Softcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
A Workshop on Bible Marriagesby Diane Brummel Bloem, Robert BloemISBN 0310213916 (0-310-21391-6)
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Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia MarquezISBN 0307350274 (0-307-35027-4)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de ejemplares de Cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el Premio Nobel de Literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a boca a boca como gusta decir el escritor son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, fantasías, obsesiones, tragedias, incestos, adulterios, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero. [via]More editions of Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude:
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Cujoby Stephen KingISBN 0307348245 (0-307-34824-5)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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