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“gillian hanscombe”

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  • Figments of a Murder

    by Gillian Hanscombe ...
    A lyrical, passionate, and satirical novel that probes the ideologies of self, sex, stardom, and sisterhood as they are complicated by memories and money. ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue

    by Gillian Hanscombe ...
    Lesbians are often told that we have no culture, that we have no history, and yet lesbians are always rediscovering hidden histories, literary traditions, codes and behaviours that have been obscured, obliterated or proclaimed irrelevant. Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue challenges that version of the past, and Gillian Hanscombe has written an exhilarating and richly textured collection of poems. ... Read more

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    Poems 2010–2014

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin’s newest collection of poems, seeks meaning in an ever-connected world. In part evocative of Neruda’s Odes to Common Things and Mary Oliver’s poetic guides to the natural world, Le Guin gives voice to objects that may not speak a human language but communicate with us nevertheless through and about the seasonal rhythms of the earth, the minute and the vast, the ... Read more

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  • Here Comes Everybody

    An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    'My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who sees all his works available in paperback and is scared more of their content then their price. The appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke; the profundities are usually expressed in good round Dublin terms; Joyce's heroes are humble men. If there was ever a writer for the people, Joyce was that ... Read more

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  • Managing Monsters

    by Marina Warner ...
    In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination.She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and control; the current ... Read more

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  • Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour In Companion and Conversation

    by George Washington ...
    Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation is the name of a list best known as a school writing exercise of George Washington, who became the first president of the United States of America. Most of the 110 rules have been traced to a French etiquette manual written by Jesuits in 1595.As an exercise Washington hand copied Francis Hawkins' translation which was published in ... Read more

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  • It is about I

    by Gerald Charles Accom ...
    Societal problems are not new and were probably in existence for as long as humans have been around. If one could agree with Adler (2003: 3)that the first “humanlike creature, or hominid, was walking about in east Africa more than 5.5 million years ago,” one could argue that people have been trying to address societal issues for more than 5 million years and somehow, we still seem not able to get ... Read more

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  • The Book About Everything

    Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses

    Edited by Declan Kiberd, Catherine Wilsdon, Professor Enrico Terrinoni ...
    To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text.Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings them together is a common love of Ulysses.Joseph O'Connor considers the music-saturated Sirens ... Read more

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  • Kwan-yin

    Enriched edition. A Journey of Spiritual Discovery and Compassion in Early 20th Century China

    by Stella Benson, Noah Sterling ...
    Stella Benson's "Kwan-yin" presents a vivid exploration of spirituality and feminine power through its intertwining narratives set within the rich tapestry of Eastern and Western philosophies. The novel captures the essence of Kwan-yin, the Buddhist goddess of mercy and compassion, while employing an evocative prose style that blurs the boundaries between realism and mysticism. Benson's literary ... Read more

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  • Defending Marriage

    Twelve Arguments for Sanity

    by Anthony Esolen ...
    Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity is a rousing, compelling defense of traditional, natural marriage. Here, Anthony Esolen—professor at Providence College and a prolific writer uses moral, theological, and cultural arguments to defend this holy and ancient institution, bedrock of society—and to illuminate the threats it faces from modern revolutions in law, public policy, and sexual ... Read more

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  • Satellites Out of Orbit

    by Chris Wind ...
    This literary collection of prose pieces and poetry has five parts:I. Epistles: epistles written by Eve, Cain's wife, Noah's wife, Delilah, the Queen of Sheba, Mary, and others – as if they were feministII. Myths: the myths within the myths revealed – what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been the creations of a ... Read more

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  • Earth and Heaven

    An Anthology of Myth Poetry

    Edited by Amanda Jernigan, Evan Jones ...
    Jernigan and Jones celebrate the vitality and diversity of poetry inspired by, or in conversation with, myth. Looking back to the early 20th century and forward to the contemporary, Earth and Heaven gathers voices and stories as it moves through "four ages" of mythic history. This collection tells a story of its own about the stories we tell each other.Featuring poems by:Harry Thurston,Daniel ... Read more

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