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A Breath Of Snow And Ashes
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385340397 (0-385-34039-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldons bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time.

Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldons New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.

The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.

With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamies death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future. [via]
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- A Breath Of Snow And Ashes: ISBN 0385324162 (0-385-32416-2)
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Cliffscomplete Macbeth
by Sidney Lamb, Christopher Morrow

ISBN 076458572X (0-7645-8572-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.
CliffsComplete Othello makes you familiar with one of the most staged of all of Shakespeare's plays. Othello is a tale of love and betrayal, secrets, passion, and intrigue. Psychology and wit pit strength and virtue against jealousy and evil agendas. The results leave no winners, only tragedy in the lives of the jealous Moor, Othello, and his wife, Desdemona.
Enhance your reading of Othello and save valuable studying time all at once with CliffsComplete Othello. Additional features include:
A summary and insightful commentary for each scene
Bibliography and historical background on the playwright, William Shakespeare
A look at the historical context and structure of the play
Discussions on the play's symbols and themes
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!
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Dragonfly in Amber
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385335970 (0-385-33597-0)
Softcover, Delta

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From the author of outlander... A magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century scotland...for twenty years claire randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about james fraser, a scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, brianna, as claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden paris court of charles stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves [via]
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Drums of Autumn
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385335989 (0-385-33598-9)
Softcover, Delta

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Paperback Book Drums of Autumn is the fourth book in the Outlander series [via]
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El Salon De Ambar
by Matilde Asensi

ISBN 8408068563 (84-08-06856-3)
Softcover, Booket

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The Fiery Cross
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385336764 (0-385-33676-4)
Softcover, Delta

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The fiery cross, once used to summon Highland clans to war, now beckons readers to take up Diana Gabaldon's fifth installment in the Outlander series featuring the time-traveling Frasers. Historical fiction fans who have waited four long years since the publication of Drums of Autumn will thrill to Gabaldon's trademark detail and sensuality, both displayed liberally throughout the nearly 1,000 pages of The Fiery Cross. In this pre-Revolutionary War period, Claire Fraser and her husband, Jamie, have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in the bucolic beauty of North Carolina. But tensions both ancient and recent threaten not only Claire and James, but their daughter, Brianna, her new husband, Roger, and their infant son, Jemmy, as well as members of their clan. Gabaldon delivers on what she does best: poignant storylines, empathetic characters, meticulous detail, and searing passion. Savor every carefully chosen word, readers; it may be a long time until the next installment! --Alison Trinkle [via]
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
by Arthur Herman

ISBN 0609809997 (0-609-80999-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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"I am a Scotsman," Sir Walter Scott famously wrote, "therefore I had to fight my way into the world." So did any number of his compatriots over a period of just a few centuries, leaving their native country and traveling to every continent, carving out livelihoods and bringing ideas of freedom, self-reliance, moral discipline, and technological mastery with them, among other key assumptions of what historian Arthur Herman calls the "Scottish mentality."
It is only natural, Herman suggests, that a country that once ranked among Europe's poorest, if most literate, would prize the ideal of progress, measured "by how far we have come from where we once were." Forged in the Scottish Enlightenment, that ideal would inform the political theories of Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and David Hume, and other Scottish thinkers who viewed "man as a product of history," and whose collective enterprise involved "nothing less than a massive reordering of human knowledge" (yielding, among other things, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in Edinburgh in 1768, and the Declaration of Independence, published in Philadelphia just a few years later). On a more immediately practical front, but no less bound to that notion of progress, Scotland also fielded inventors, warriors, administrators, and diplomats such as Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Simon MacTavish, and Charles James Napier, who created empires and great fortunes, extending Scotland's reach into every corner of the world.
Herman examines the lives and work of these and many more eminent Scots, capably defending his thesis and arguing, with both skill and good cheer, that the Scots "have by and large made the world a better place rather than a worse place." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, David Bevington

ISBN 1402206887 (1-4022-0688-7)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc

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Shakespeare has been called the greatest writer in the English languagebut his language and settings can seem remote and forbidding. Welcome to Black Dogs Graphic Shakespeare Library, where each play comes to life in a new way, panel after illustrated panel.

King Lear is a story of kingship, honor, and bloody revenge. Graphic Shakespeare brings all of the action to vivid life while retaining every word of the original play. King Lear is illustrated in full color by Ian Pollack and includes a synopsis of the play, and an illustrated character list. Its a marvelous way to experience Shakespeare for the first timeor the tenthand is sure to be attractive to students and theatre fans alike. [via]
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Macbeth and Related Readings
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0395775531 (0-395-77553-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School

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Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: McDougal Littel (March 25, 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0395775531 ISBN-13: 978-0395775530 [via]
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Macbeth: Level 4
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ISBN 0582829992 (0-582-82999-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's best and most popular plays. It tells the bloody tale of Scotland's kings 1000 years ago - a tale of witches, murder, and the power of greed. [via]
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Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easy
by William Shakespeare, Tanya Grosz, Linda Wendler

ISBN 1599051346 (1-59905-134-6)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub

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One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Macbeth With Readers Guide
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0877208034 (0-87720-803-4)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

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Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser

ISBN 038531129X (0-385-31129-X)
Softcover, Delta

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Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death; her marriage to Bothwell, the chief suspect, that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth; the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her, and her execution at the age of forty-four. [via]
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Mary Queen of Scots
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517414244 (0-517-41424-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death; her marriage to Bothwell, the chief suspect, that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth; the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her, and her execution at the age of forty-four. [via]
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Mary Queen of Scots and the Historians
by Antonia Fraser

ISBN 0950244376 (0-9502443-7-6)
Hardcover, Royal Stuart Society

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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385319959 (0-385-31995-9)
Softcover, Delta

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Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach-an "outlander"-in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. [via]
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The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
by Arthur Herman

ISBN 1841152765 (1-84115-276-5)
Softcover, Fourth Estate

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'Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, Guardian A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Arthur Herman argues that Scotland's turbulent history, from William Wallace to the Presbyterian Lords of the Covenant, laid the foundations for 'the Scottish miracle'. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the eighteenth century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it. He follows the lives and work of thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, writers such as Burns and Boswell, as well as architects, technicians and inventors, and traces their legacy into the twentieth century. Written with wit, erudition and clarity, The Scottish Enlightenment claims the Scots' rightful place in the history of the western world. [via]
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Shakespeare's Macbeth
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 1594480087 (1-59448-008-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Introducing the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Editions from Riverhead [via]
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Tragedy of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1419185551 (1-4191-8555-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND WITCH. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun. FIRST WITCH. Where the place? SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath. THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth. FIRST WITCH. I come, Graymalkin. [via]
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Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh

ISBN 0393314804 (0-393-31480-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy. [via]
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Trainspotting: A Screenplay
by Irvine Welsh, John Hodge

ISBN 0786882212 (0-7868-8221-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books

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Trainspotting is based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. It is always nice to compare the book/screenplay or novel or whatever format the original is in, to the movie. As always things cut from the story when made into a movie - are in the book. [via]
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Voyager
by Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 0385335997 (0-385-33599-7)
Softcover, Delta

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An exceptionally well written time travel, adventure/romance book by a fascinating author [via]
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William Shakespeare's Macbeth
by Philip Page, Marilyn Petit

ISBN 0764131400 (0-7641-3140-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Macbeth y Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, Juan Alarcon Benito

ISBN 8484034216 (84-8403-421-6)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros

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Tambores De Otono
by Not Available

ISBN 8478886893 (84-7888-689-3)
Softcover, Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions

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The book is retained as new. In perfect condition [via]
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Transpoitting
by I. Welsh

ISBN 843396643X (84-339-6643-X)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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