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The Ages of Luluby Almudena Grandes, Sonia SotoISBN 0802133487 (0-8021-3348-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Antonio Gaudi: Master Architectby Juan Bassegoda Nonell, Melba LevickISBN 0789202204 (0-7892-0220-4)
Hardcover, Abbeville Pr
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The Arab Conquest of Spain 710-797by Roger CollinsISBN 0631194053 (0-631-19405-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road: 1567 1659by Geoffrey ParkerISBN 0521099072 (0-521-09907-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Warsby Geoffrey ParkerISBN 0521543924 (0-521-54392-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Barcelonaby Annelise Sorensen, Ryan ChandlerISBN 0789484323 (0-7894-8432-3)
Softcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
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Barcelona and Cataloniaby Dk Publishing, Inc, Roger WilliamsISBN 0789446200 (0-7894-4620-0)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Benjamin Franklinby Ingri D'AulaireISBN 060603515X (0-606-03515-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Blood Weddingby Ted Hughes, Federico Garcia LorcaISBN 0571190065 (0-571-19006-5)
Softcover, Faber & Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Wedding'Book summary:Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. Ted Hughes's version stays close in spirit and letter to the original Spanish. With marvellous directness, he fuses Lorca's vision to his own, and the result is a powerful poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English-speaking audience.[via]More editions of Blood Wedding:
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Bodas De Sangre / Blood Weddingby Federico Garcia LorcaISBN 071900764X (0-7190-0764-X)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Borgiasby Ivan CloulasISBN 0531151018 (0-531-15101-8)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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The Cambridge Companion to Velazquezby Suzanne L. StrattonISBN 0521669405 (0-521-66940-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Camino: A Journey of the Spiritby Shirley MacLaineISBN 0743400739 (0-7434-0073-9)
Softcover, Atria Books
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Typical of MacLaine, this is a personal story with enormous adventure, a smattering of flashbacks, and a hefty serving of cosmic revelations. Like a true pilgrim, MacLaine travels solo, willing to strip herself down to the backpacking essentials and find deeper meaning in all the bizarre, frightening, and coincidental events she encounters along the way. It is no small feat that this sixtysomething woman walked the grueling path in 30 days. Readers can expect vivid stories of stalking paparazzi, icy showers, bouts of hunger, lost paths, a worshipping young man, a deranged woman screaming in a roadside shelter, saintly truck drivers, a fellow pilgrim in a wheelchair, bouts of constipation and diarrhea, and a cosmic crescendo that will knock the socks of MacLaine's fans. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Caregiver's Manual: A Guide to Helping the Elderly and Infirmby Gene B. Williams, Patie KayISBN 0806515171 (0-8065-1517-1)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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The Carnivorous Lambby Agustin Gomez-ArcosISBN 0452258200 (0-452-25820-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Cien Anos De Soledadby Frederic SeamanISBN 0785950109 (0-7859-5010-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad'Book summary:A dense jungle of magic and literary gusto, this book pulls you in and engulfs you with its richness and beauty. Saying it is a story of a family is like saying the New Testament is a book about a carpenter. Following the family here reveals the history of several generations, and the passions, thoughts, and myths of a labyrinth of people, related and not. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a gifted writer, and nowhere does he write with the fervor that he does in One Hundred Years of Solitude, a pleasurable ride unmatched in modern literature. [via]
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Collected Traveler Northern Spain: An Isppired Anthology & Travel Resourceby Barrie KerperISBN 0609809784 (0-609-80978-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingwayby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684843323 (0-684-84332-3)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway/the Finca Vigia Editionby Ernest HemingwayISBN 0684186683 (0-684-18668-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Complete Spanish Cookbookby Jacki PassmoreISBN 0804818231 (0-8048-1823-1)
Hardcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain: 1031-1157by Bernard F. ReillyISBN 0631199640 (0-631-19964-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Count Julianby Juan GoytisoloISBN 067000586X (0-670-00586-X)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art And Gender in the Spanish Empireby Charlene Villasenor-BlackISBN 0691096317 (0-691-09631-7)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art And Gender in the Spanish Empire'Book summary:St. Joseph is mentioned only eight times in the New Testament Gospels. Prior to the late medieval period, Church doctrine rarely noticed him except in passing. But in 1555 this humble carpenter, earthly spouse of the Virgin Mary and foster father of Jesus, was made patron of the Conquest and conversion in Mexico. In 1672, King Charles II of Spain named St. Joseph patron of his kingdom, toppling St. James--traditional protector of the Iberian peninsula for over 800 years--from his honored position. Focusing on the changing manifestations of Holy Family and St. Joseph imagery in Spain and colonial Mexico from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, this book examines the genesis of a new saint's cult after centuries of obscurity. In so doing, it elucidates the role of the visual arts in creating gender discourses and deploying them in conquest, conversion, and colonization.
Charlene Villaseñor Black examines numerous images and hundreds of primary sources in Spanish, Latin, Náhuatl, and Otomí. She finds that St. Joseph was not only the most frequently represented saint in Spanish Golden Age and Mexican colonial art, but also the most important. In Spain, St. Joseph was celebrated as a national icon and emblem of masculine authority in a society plagued by crisis and social disorder. In the Americas, the parental figure of the saint--model father, caring spouse, hardworking provider--became the perfect paradigm of Spanish colonial power.
Creating the Cult of St. Joseph exposes the complex interactions among artists, the Catholic Church and Inquisition, the Spanish monarchy, and colonial authorities. One of the only sustained studies of masculinity in early modern Spain, it also constitutes a rare comparative study of Spain and the Americas.
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Daliby Kirsten BradburyISBN 0752555162 (0-7525-5516-2)
Hardcover, Parragon Inc
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Dangerous Summerby Ernest Hemingway, James A. MichenerISBN 0684837897 (0-684-83789-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Death and the Sun: A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spainby Edward LewineISBN 061826325X (0-618-26325-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Digital Fortress: A Thrillerby Dan BrownISBN 0786259795 (0-7862-5979-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Digital Fortress: A Thriller'Book summary:In most thrillers, "hardware" consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower rather than big firepower. It's an Internet user's spy novel where the good guys and bad guys struggle over secrets somewhat more intellectual than just where the secret formula is hidden--they have to gain understanding of what the secret formula actually is.
In this case, the secret formula is a new means of encryption, capable of changing the balance of international power. Part of the fun is that the book takes the reader along into an understanding of encryption technologies. You'll find yourself better understanding the political battles over such real-life technologies as the Clipper Chip and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) software even though the book looks at the issues through the eyes of fiction.
Although there's enough globehopping in this book for James Bond, the real battleground is cyberspace, because that's where the "bomb" (or rather, the new encryption algorithm) will explode. Yes, there are a few flaws in the plot if you look too closely, but the cleverness and the sheer fun of it all more than make up for them. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing and a lot of high, gee-whiz-level information about encryption, code breaking, and the role they play in international politics. Set aside the whole afternoon and evening for it and have finger food on hand for supper--you may want to read this one straight through. [via]
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Seville & AndalusiaISBN 0789404273 (0-7894-0427-3)
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The Dutch Revoltby Geoffrey ParkerISBN 0713910321 (0-7139-1032-1)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Encarnita's Journeyby Joan LingardISBN 0749082801 (0-7490-8280-1)
Hardcover, Intl Pub Marketing
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Espana En El Corazonby Pablo NerudaISBN 0685383571 (0-685-38357-1)
Softcover, Inter-Amer Development
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Eyewitness Top 10 Madridby Melanie Rice, Christopher RiceISBN 0789491877 (0-7894-9187-7)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Farewell Espana: The World of the Sephardim Rememberedby Howard M. Sachar, Luann WaltherISBN 0679738460 (0-679-73846-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Rememberedby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0679409602 (0-679-40960-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Remembered'Book summary:They number barely a million today, less than one-tenth of the world Jewish population. But long ago, on Iberian soil, they were the magisters of their people, and the leaven of Mediterranean civilization altogether. Such were the Sephardim, and in Moslem Andalusia they were renowned prime ministers and army commanders, distinguished scientists, belletrists, and religious scholars. In Christian Spain and Provence, their translators ignited Europe's twelfth-century renaissance, their revenue agents funded the economies of Aragon and Castile, and their astronomers and navigators plotted the explorations of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama.
From the late fifteenth century onward, in exile from their Spanish and Portuguese homelands, the Sephardim made their mark as viziers and intimate advisers of Ottoman sultans, as vastly esteemed physicians of Renaissance dukes and popes, and as dynamic importers and exporters in the Dutch maritime traffic. Whether as professing Jews or converted "New Christians," it was this protean minority that functioned as a self-contained international trading network, spanning the seas and oceans, pioneering the gem industry of Europe and the sugar and tobacco plantations of Brazil, and flourishing as merchant ship captains amid pirate-infested Caribbean waterways.
Farewell Espana transcends conventional historical narrative. With the lucidity and verve that have characterized his numerous earlier volumes, Howard Sachar breathes life into the leading dramatis personae of the Sephardic world: the royal counselors Samuel ibn Nagrela and Joseph Nasi, the poets Solomon ibn Gabirol and Judah Halevi, the philosophers Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza, the statesmen Benjamin Disraeli and Pierre Mendes-France, the warriors Moshe Pijade and David Elazar, the fabulous charlatans David Reuveni and Shabbatai Zvi.
In its breadth and richness of texture, Sachar's account sweeps to the contemporary era of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, poignantly traces the fate of Balkan Sephardic communities during the Holocaust -- and their revival in the Land and State of Israel. Not least of all, the author offers a tactile dimension of immediacy in his personal encounters with the storied venues and current personalities of the Sephardic world. Farewell Espana is a window opened on a glowing civilization once all but extinguished, and now flickering again into renewed creativity. [via]More editions of Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Remembered:
Folk Art of Spain and the Americas: El Alma del Puebloby Oettinger, Marion, Jr., Manuel B. Soriano, Stanley Brandes, Vicente R. Iborra, Maria A. PelauzyISBN 0789203782 (0-7892-0378-2)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Frommer's Barcelona, Madrid & Sevilleby Darwin Porter, Danforth PrinceISBN 0764561677 (0-7645-6167-7)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 061318114X (0-613-18114-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Heritage of Spanish Cookingby Alica Rios, Lourdes MarchISBN 0679416285 (0-679-41628-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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History Of The Conquest Of Peruby William H. PrescottISBN 0486440079 (0-486-44007-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Spainby Mireille MentreISBN 0500017328 (0-500-01732-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europeby Jonathan BrownISBN 069104497X (0-691-04497-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe'Book summary:Old master paintings are now considered to be the most valuable and prestigious of the visual arts, and the best examples command the highest prices of any luxury commodity. In this series of lectures Jonathan Brown tells in vivid detail the story of the rise of painting to this exalted status. The result is an exciting narrative of greed and passion, played out against a background of international politics and intrigue. This book, which is an essay in cultural and art history, is completed by a postscript showing why important old master paintings have now virtually disappeared from the art market.
The transformation of painting from an inexpensive to a costly art form reached a crucial stage in the royal courts of Europe in the seventeenth century, where rulers and aristocrats assembled huge collections, often in short periods of time. Brown traces this process in Madrid, Paris, London, and Brussels, beginning with the dispersal of the great English collections in the aftermath of the Civil War, including those of Charles I, the Earl of Arundel, and the Dukes of Buckingham and Hamilton. Hundreds of great pictures were all at once available to continental collectors and were acquired by Cardinal Jules Mazarin, Louis XIV of France, Archduke Leopold William of Austria, and Philip IV of Spain, as well as lesser-known collectors, including Everhard Jabach and Luis de Haro. Through comparative analysis of collecting and collectors at these courts, Brown explains the formation of new attitudes toward pictures, as well as the mechanisms that supported the enterprise of collecting, including the emergence of the art dealer, the development of connoisseurship, and the publication of sumptuous picture books of various collections.
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La Cocina De Mama: The Great Home Cooking Of Spainby Penelope CasasISBN 0767912225 (0-7679-1222-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Life of Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus: The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avilaby St. Teresa of AvilaISBN 072207901X (0-7220-7901-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Literature of the Spanish Peopleby Gerald BrenanISBN 0521043131 (0-521-04313-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Literature of the Spanish People: From Roman Times to the Present Dayby Gerald BrenanISBN 0521290430 (0-521-29043-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Locosby Felipe AlfauISBN 0679728465 (0-679-72846-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Los Caprichosby Philip Hofer, Francisco Jos±E De Goya Y Lucientes, Francisco Jos-E De Goya Y LucientesISBN 0486223841 (0-486-22384-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spainby Richard L. KaganISBN 0520201582 (0-520-20158-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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National Geographic Traveler Barcelonaby Damien SimonisISBN 0792253655 (0-7922-5365-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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National Geographic Traveler Berlinby Damien Simonis, Pierre AdenisISBN 0792262123 (0-7922-6212-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Illustrated with nearly 200 vivid, up-to-date photographs and detailed, full-color maps, National Geographic Traveler: Berlin is an indispensable guide to this sophisticated metropolis, from the massive Reichstag building to the complex of museums and gardens at the former royal palace at Charlottenburg; from the chic shops of Kurfürstendamm to Frederick the Great's sumptuous palaces at Potsdam.
After a detailed introduction to Berlin's unique history, food, land, and culture, author Damien Simonis explores each of the city's diverse neighborhoods. Among the sights: the fabled, tree-lined boulevard called Unter Den Linden; the Tiergarden, a large central park offering green relief; and the world-class museums clustered on Museum Island.
Special sidebars give comprehensive information on such topics as the Berlin Wall; the city's Jewish community; and the famous Christmas markets. Another favorite feature: mapped, guided tours that include a walk through Red Berlin and a drive through Mecklenburg's lake district, plus an "Excursions" chapter on the best day trips out of the city. In addition, a thorough Travelwise section provides recommendations for hotels and restaurants in all price ranges and in all areas. If you're bound for Berlin, National Geographic Traveler is your passport to a memorable trip. [via]More editions of National Geographic Traveler Berlin:
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One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory RabassaISBN 0679444653 (0-679-44465-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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It is typical of Gabriel García Márquez that it will be many pages before his narrative circles back to the ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Buendía, stands before the firing squad. In between, he recounts such wonders as an entire town struck with insomnia, a woman who ascends to heaven while hanging laundry, and a suicide that defies the laws of physics:
A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of the Turks, turned a corner to the right and another to the left, made a right angle at the Buendía house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the dining-room table, went along the porch with the begonias, and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano José, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Úrsula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread.
"Holy Mother of God!" Úrsula shouted.The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."
With One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez introduced Latin American literature to a world-wide readership. Translated into more than two dozen languages, his brilliant novel of love and loss in Macondo stands at the apex of 20th-century literature. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spainby Benjamin NetanyahuISBN 0679410651 (0-679-41065-1)
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The Practice of the Presence of God and the Way of Perfectionby Brother Lawrence, Teresa of AvilaISBN 0785242279 (0-7852-4227-9)
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Brother Lawrence decided that he needed to concentrate on a simple idea: loving God in whatever he did. This book is a record of the conversations and letters exchanged between Brother Lawrence and people in his community, who came to him for advice once they noticed his passionate living for God.
Although St. teresa of Avila lived and wrote almost four centuries ago, her superbly inspiring classic on the practice of prayer is as fresh and meaningful today as it was when she first wrote it. The Way of Perfection is a practical guide to prayer setting forth the Saint's counsels and directives for the attainment of spiritual perfection.
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The Queen's Foolby Philippa GregoryISBN 0743246071 (0-7432-4607-1)
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Mary and Elizabeth, the two young princesses, have a common goal: to be Queen of England. To achieve this, they need both to win the love of the people and learn how to negotiate dangerous political pitfalls. Gregory recreates this era with tremendous colour, and she makes the court an enticing but danger-fraught place. Into this setting comes the eponymous fool, the youthful Hannah, who (despite her air of guileless religiousness) is not naive. She soon finds herself having to deal with the beguiling but treacherous Robert Dudley. Dispatched to report on Princess Mary, Hannah discovers in her a passionate religious conviction (to return England to the rule of Rome and its pope) that will have fatal consequences.
From Tolstoy's War and Peace onwards, historical novelists have set fictitious characters among real-life personages with mixed success; the author's creations can often pale beside the historical figures. That is emphatically not the case here, and Gregory ensures that all her characters have a full and teeming life. Expect a major movie: something as colourful and exuberant as The Queen's Fool is a natural for screen adaptation. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Ruled Britanniaby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0451460847 (0-451-46084-7)
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No one, that is, except William Shakespeare, a playwright presented with the opportunity to pen his greatest work, a drama that will incite the people of Britain to rise against their persecutors-and change the course of history. [via]More editions of Ruled Britannia:
Salvador Dali: The Early Yearsby Ian Gibson, Rafael Santos TorroellaISBN 0500236895 (0-500-23689-5)
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Sharpes Goldby Bernard CornwellISBN 0670639435 (0-670-63943-5)
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The Song of Rolandby Robert HarrisonISBN 0451528573 (0-451-52857-3)
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The Song of Rolandby Leonard Bacon, DoverISBN 0486422402 (0-486-42240-2)
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Tirant Lo Blancby Joanot Martorell, Marti J. De Galba, David H. Rosenthal, Marti Joan de GalbaISBN 0801854210 (0-8018-5421-0)
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Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nationsby Miguel De UnamunoISBN 0691018200 (0-691-01820-0)
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A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age Of Enlightenmentby Christopher LowneyISBN 0743243595 (0-7432-4359-5)
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Wellington's Rifles: Six Years to Waterloo with England's Legendary Sharpshootersby Mark UrbanISBN 0802714374 (0-8027-1437-4)
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LA Chanson De Rolandby F. WhiteheadISBN 0631003908 (0-631-00390-8)
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