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Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.)
Louise Erdrich Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060786469 Release Date: 2005-08-02 |
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The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families -- the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multigenerational portrait of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of anger, desire, and the healing power that is love medicine.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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Pure raw life.......2007-09-02
One of the best writers in American History.......2007-09-01
A Classic.......2007-08-04
Love Medicine Heals the Heart.......2007-03-23
Thoughts about book and reviews.......2007-03-22
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Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook (Casebooks in Contemporary Fiction)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0195127226 |
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Louise Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant and international acclaim. A short story cycle narrated by a variety of different characters, the book chronicles the intertwined histories of Chippewa and mixed-blood families in North Dakota over half a century, laying bare the ordeals and joys of twentieth-century Native American life. Like the other books in the series, this Casebook presents important background material to establish the context of the novel, interviews with the author, and pivotal critical responses to the work.Customer Reviews:
A scholarly compendium of literary criticism.......2001-10-15
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Medicine Hat: A Novel (Spanish Bit Series)
Don Coldsmith Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 080612959X |
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When Pipe Bearer, the young shaman of the Elk-Dog people dreams of a powerful spirit-horse--one bearing distinctive, hat-like markings on its head and ears--he knows he is being sent an important message. But he cannot interpret its meaning. Soon after, a colt is born bearing the exact markings he dreamed about and he is directed to undertake a long quest to the lands of the Pawnee and Lakota in order to learn the meaning of this event. Disguised as traders, he and his wife, Otter Woman, will encounter many wonders and not a few dangers before they discover the meaning of the colt with the Medicine Hat.Customer Reviews:
Refeshing and unique.......1997-07-16
For the first few days of their trek, nothing eventful occurs though they meet many people. Things dramatically change when an out of control prairie fire occurs. Pipe Bearer and Otter Woman manage to save themselves and help another couple fleeing the fire, Lone Walker and his wife Plum Flower. The foursome becomes friends and travels together in search of completing the unknown quest, knowing that more adventure awaits them before their journey is completed.
MEDICINE HAT is an exciting, insightful novel whose authenticity will thrill fans of Indian tales and historical fiction. The characters (primary and secondary) seem to be so life like and the trip so genuine, readers will believe they are along for the ride. This novel is not an action-packed, save the world thriller. Instead Don Coldsmith has painted a brilliant and charming story of Indian mysticism during the nineteenth century.
Harriet Klausner
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Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'
John Wiltshire Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521414768 |
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Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces, illness and health, in the novels, from complainers and invalids such as Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Woodhouse, to the frail, debilitated Fanny Price, the vulnerable Jane Fairfax and the "picture of health," Emma. The book draws on modern theories of the body, and on eighteenth-century medical sources, to give a fresh and controversial reading of familiar texts.Customer Reviews:
Thank You Mr Wiltshire!.......2000-05-16
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John Keith, intern (Candlelight romance)
Jeanne Judson Manufacturer: Dell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007HG7LW |
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Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865
Helen Small Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0198184913 |
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Love's Madness makes an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, Helen Small presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention. At the centre of the book are studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, but Small also brings out the historical and literary interest of hitherto neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and others. Stories about women who go mad when they lose their lovers were extraordinarily popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, attracting novelists, poets, dramatists, musicians, painters, and sculptors. The representative figure of madness ceased to be the madman in chains and became instead the woman whose insanity was an extension of her female condition. Love's Madness traces the fortunes of love-mad women in fiction and in medicine between about 1800 and 1865. In literary terms, these dates demarcate the period between the decline of sentimentalism and the emergence of sensation fiction. In medical terms, they mark out a key stage in the history of insanity, beginning with major reform initiatives and ending with the establishment in 1865 of the Medico-Psychological Association. This original and highly readable study challenges previous assumptions about the relationship between medicine and the novel. A major addition to nineteenth-century studies, it will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, feminism, social history, and the history of medicine.
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Nora Meade, M.D (Bantam Books)
Adeline McElfresh Manufacturer: Bantam Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007HLDRA |
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The Search for the Green River Killer, The BTK Murders, Vanished, Bitter Medicine, Dying for Daddy, Seeds of Evil, Cold Blooded, Blood Will Tell, Reckless, Death in Texas, Love Daddy (Set of 11 True Crime Novels by Carlton Smith)
Carlton Smith Manufacturer: St. Martins True Crime Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000VB4S0G |
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Honor & Glory: A Civil War Novel (Unabridged)
Kim Murphy Manufacturer: audible.com ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Download Similar Items: ASIN: B000LP5E32 |
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In the devastating aftermath of the clash at Fredericksburg, opposing armies lie in wait on the banks of the Rappahannock River. Two resourceful sisters are swept into the maelstrom--widening an ever-growing rift between family and loyalties. Betrothed to Major Samuel Prescott, Amanda sympathizes with the Union, while Alice struggles to find it within her heart to forgive the Northern forces that nearly destroyed her home. To make ends meet, she resorts to smuggling medical supplies for the Confederacy, and falls in love with Amanda's former beau, Colonel William Jackson. Will the sisters follow a treacherous path to bloody justice? Or unsung glory?Customer Reviews:
A momentous, sweeping, and emotional novel.......2004-06-12
Historical fiction at its finest.......2004-01-22
The novel opens after the bloody Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862 and focuses on two Virginian sisters, Amanda and Alice, the former of whom has experienced both widowhood and a new marriage since the war's start. Alice, the younger sister, finds difficulty in accepting her new brother-in-law's background and position in the war--and falls for a former love interest of Amanda's. Despite the familial tension, the two women's relationship grows stronger as they themselves gain strength, shedding Victorian morals and delicacies to do their part in helping ailing soldiers...and to protect their own lives and properties as the war stretches to 1865.
Each central character experiences dark depths of anguish at some point in the novel, yet Murphy also portrays supreme moments of joy that help them persevere and rise above their physical and/or emotional pain. Alice especially stands out as an exceptional character, transforming from a frivolous young lady to a multilayered, heroic woman. And the novel offers one of the most heart-stopping escape scenes ever written.
Either read with its predecessor, PROMISE & HONOR, or standing alone, HONOR & GLORY is an entertaining and emotional example of historical fiction at its finest.
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Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 05, Chapter 11)
Manufacturer: The Gale Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006G3JH Release Date: 2002-07-23 |
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Term paper due tomorrow? Need to cram for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary work?
Turn to "Novels for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by Thomson Gale--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: plot summary; character analysis; author biography; an overview of the novel's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more.
Why choose "Novels For Students"? Because no other source offers so much in such a compact package. Trust the experts: Thomson Gale--and "Novels for Students."
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Term paper due tomorrow? Need to bone up for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary work?
Turn to "Novels for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by the Gale Group--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: plot summary; character analysis; author biography; an overview of the novel's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more.
Why choose "Novels For Students"? Because no other source offers so much in such a compact package. Trust the experts: The Gale Group--and "Novels for Students."
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Sins of Summer
Dorothy Garlock Manufacturer: Warner Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0446606502 |
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Dory Callahan lives in a logging community in Idaho with her young daughter. She has raised the child by herself, all the while enduring stinging verbal abuse from her two brothers who humiliate and degrade Dory at every opportunity. When Ben Waller is hired to do some work for the lumber mill, he leaves his young, deaf daughter in Dory's care. It isn't long before the unlikely foursome forge a bond strong enough to stand up not only against Dory's brothers but against other, more sinister forces as well. Dorothy Garlock has long been one of America's favorite storytellers. In Sins of Summer, she delivers the emotional, heartwarming romance that her fans know and love. --Maudeen WachsmithCustomer Reviews:
Garlock Is A Storyteller!.......2006-03-14
Wonderful story.......2004-04-03
Have to agree..........2002-05-02
If you take a look at all the reviews that I've written so far, you'll see that most of the books are Dorothy Garlock books. When I picked up With Hope for the first time, I never even heard of her. I just found the book in a box of books at my mother's house, and I was looking for something different to read. I never imagined what effect it would have on me.
Now I probably read about twenty-five of the thirty plus books she has written... and this was since August 2001!!! For a person that doesn't read about two to three books a year, that should say a lot!!!
I've been passing each and every one of Ms. Garlock's books to my sisters, mother, and grandmother - after I finish each one. They like them as much as me, and the stories that I thought were great, but not her best, they liked even more. We all have different tastes, but we all love Ms. Garlock's stories!
Nevertheless, this story is just as action-packed, and romantic as all of her stories. You'll feel for the stress and terror that Dory felt each and every day of her life... finding relief only in her daughter and brother, James. Dory and James are up against the world, or so it seems, as they try and survive their day to day life, at the hands of their step-brothers, Louis and Milo. James, never really realizing how dangerous their lives were, until Ben comes to work at the logging mill run by Louis, Milo, and James.
Then the story is just like a ball of yarn coming unravelled, as it is rolled. Each event that occurs brings Dory and Ben closer together, as well as makes their lives more dangerous in the process.
There is also a mystery of the Ben's deaf daughter, and then the love she discovers in James. These two characters were so strong, and so enjoyable to read.... and easily could have been main characters in another story, without losing an ounce of charm.
This story is full of gunshots, murderers, a rapist, a questionable marshall, a mystery behind the mills accountant, and the strange family relationships and complications. Everything comes to a head, and you feel the tension of the family, then it slowly unravels leaving you in awe over the truths that are discovered.
Another Wonderful Book From Dorothy Garlock.......2001-05-05
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Ellery Queen's 11 Deadly Sins Anthology #60 SUMMER 1989
Elenor, Editor Sullivan Manufacturer: Davis Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000GQYB8K |
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Sins of a Shaker Summer
Manufacturer: Avon Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0739401394 |
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A Sister Rose Callahan mystery. Rose has just been appointed eldress of the community of Believers in a Kentucky Shaker village when two young girls die, and the community herb garden comes under suspicion.
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Sins of a Shaker Summer: A Sister Rose Callahan Mystery
Deborah Woodworth Manufacturer: Avon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0380792044 |
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Rose Callahan, newly appointed eldress of the community of Believers at the Kentucky Shaker viliage of North Homage, confesses to a nagging resentment toward Andrew, sent by the lead ministry in Mount Lebanon to act as trustee. She knows little about the man, except that he's taken charge of the Medicinal Herb Garden, over which Rose previously had control, and he's been expanding the tiny industry and experimenting with new medicinal herbs.Now two little girls have suddenly become deathly ill, and Rose's attention turns to the herb garden. Suspecting that the girls may have taken a notion to nibble on pretty but poisonous plants, she fears their hallowed land may have accidentally been turned into a killing ground. But as Rose investigates, mysterious death invades the gentle oasis of their spiritual world, and some chilling secrets come to light...secrets that bring Rose closer to a truth that even a nonviolent Believer might kill to keep.
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Charming Historical Mystery.......2001-09-26
For those who don't know, a Shaker is a member of a sect, like the Quakers, that began in the 1700s. The name "Shaker" referred to their spirit-inspired trembling, which you'll witness in the book. Today, their communities are almost nonexistent, but some Shaker villages have been restored for public view, particularly in the Northeast.
"Sins of a Shaker Summer" takes place in North Homage, Kentucky, during the 1930s when the Believer population was still existing. Sister Rose Callahan is the eldress of the village and the leading sleuth in this series. She's helped by a young friend of hers, Gennie Malone, who had once been part of the community but now lives "out in the world".
The mystery begins when two young girls are found ill after they ingested several poisonous plants on accident. Rose immediately suspects the four new Believers who have transferred from another Shaker village in New York. All of them have some knowledge of herbal medicine, but one individual remains a strong suspect: Patience McCormick. However, when Rose finds Patience dead with a wound to the back of her head, she realizes she was mistaken and that the killer will do anything to keep his/her secrets hidden.
"Sins of a Shaker Summer" is a charming historical mystery. There's nothing offensive in this book, so it's appropriate for all ages. If you've already read this third installment in the Sister Rose Callahan series, I would encourage you to read the other four books: Death of a Winter Shaker (#1), A Deadly Shaker Spring (#2), A Simple Shaker Murder (#4), and Killing Gifts (#5).
It's not necessary to know anything about Shakers before you approach this book. Their lifestyle is gradually explained throughout the book without it reading like a history textbook. Although the lifestyle didn't appeal to me, some readers will probably love their simple way of life.
While I was reading "Sins of a Shaker Summer", I kept thinking about the movie Witness starring Harrison Ford. It's the only film I'm aware of that involves another similar group: the Amish. I would recommend this movie if you like the Shaker / Amish theme, but only if you don't mind the extra sex and violence, which "Sins of a Shaker Summer" has none of.
A shakin' good read........1999-06-01
Historical mystery worth reading.......1999-01-30
In the Shaker village of North Homage, Kentucky seven-year-old Betsy and eight-year-old Nora becomes deathly ill from eating and/or drinking "pretend tea" and "magical flowers". When the two unconscious youngsters are found, the entire Shaker community becomes shaken by their tortorous struggle to survive. Eldress Rose Callahan believes the two little girls ate poisonous herbs found in the community's Medicinal Herb Shop that is experimenting on various formulas.
Rose begins her investigation by interviewing the sisters and brethren who work at the shop. Brother Andrew Clark heads the activity and shows proper deference to his equal. However, the other shop employees act as if they still feel the taint of the outsiders. Rose turns to a former protégé now living on the outside, who knows herbs, to help her discover the truth. However, even in the peaceful world of the nonviolent Believers, lives an individual who will kill anyone, including Rose, who
gets too close to their secret.
The Sister Rose Callahan series is always a delight as the novels provide readers with a wonderful mystery and fabulous insight into the bygone world of the Shakers. The current tale, SINS OF A SHAKER brings both elements together in a taut story line. The who-done-it is entertaining, but it is the beliefs and customs of the Shakers inside a fabulous mystery tale that makes Deborah Woodworth's novel worth reading.
Harriet Klausner
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SUMMER OF SIN
ORRIE HITT Manufacturer: SOFTCOVER LIBRARY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000RXC5FI |
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Summer of Sin
Manufacturer: Beacon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000BW11MS |
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Telling Summer Sins at Mount Melleray: A Collection of the Writings of Peggy Kennedy
Peggy Kennedy Manufacturer: Kennedy Family ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0953015513 |
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Three COMPLETE Series: SACRED SINS Series: (1) Sacred Sins; (2) Brazen Virtue; CELEBRITY MAGAZINE Series: (1) One Summer; (2) Second Nature; DONOVAN LEGACY Series: (1) Captivated; (2) Entranced; (3) Charmed; (4) Enchanted (Set of 8 Titles)
Nora Roberts Manufacturer: Various ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WS0RGW |
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Un Verano Sin Francesas/ A Summer Without French Women (Periscopio)
Pasqual Alapont Manufacturer: Edebe ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 8423680061 |
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The printer's role sin summer smog.(Environmental Picture): An article from: Printing News
Fred Shapiro Manufacturer: Cygnus Business Media ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008DY1ZY Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Printing News, published by Cygnus Business Media on July 7, 2003. The length of the article is 1489 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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