Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 25 February 2010
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The Dark Is Rising
On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. "When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone; Five will return, and one go alone.
Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money,Second Edition
In Thou Shall Prosper, Rabbi Lapin has done it again. This book tells it like it is in a helpful, honest, hopeful, informative way. He offers valid, useful information based on ancient wisdom and modern experience.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Added by: cordelia | Karma: 69.08 | Fiction literature | 13 February 2009
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Complete, unabridged. It’s a short story about a man, “born under unusual circumstances,” aging backwards, through a life that is as unusual as could be. "As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in a hospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known. I shall tell you what occurred, and let you judge for yourself."
100 Great Artists: A Visual Journey from Fra Angelico to Andy Warhol
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Other | 25 December 2008
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This book is intended to take readers on a wide-ranging journey through the story of western art, with the aid of one hundred examples of its leading exponents. For the most part, they have trained, inspired or influenced one another from the thirteenth century to the present day. It is a fascinating, ever-developing part of our lives that we shall never tire of looking at.