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The Complete Plays Of Sophocles
The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides not only in the number of plays he wrote but also in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven works in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, saw life steadily and saw it whole.
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Anna karenina
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society) would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life, haunted by thoughts of suicide, Levin's struggles echo Tolstoy's own spiritual crisis. But Anna's inner turmoil mirrors the own emotional imprisonment and mental disintegration of a woman who dares to transgress the strictures of a patriarchal world. In Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism and created a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince and the Pauper is a delightful satire of England
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Time Flies
WE'RE ALL GETTING OLDER, AND BILL COSBY KEEPS GETTING BETTER America's best-loved humorist, media personality and bestselling author now brings his unique warmth, wisdom and wit to a subject common to all: aging. From five to fifty and beyond, Bill Cosby takes us on a hilarious romp through the trials and tribulations of growing
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Success Is Never Ending Failure Is Never Final
Each of us has experienced "down times"-setbacks at work, in relationships in our inner lives- times where nothing seems to go right. Most of us have also felt as if we've failed at times, as well. But what is the difference between those who succeed and those who fail? the answer is simple: attitude. In the practical and empowering new book Dr. Robert H Schuller, the host and master of possibilities of the weekly telecast The Hour of Power shows how to overcome the fear and the groundless excuses that keep us from success, fulfillment, and happiness. Here Dr. Schuller reveals his own unique formula for never ending success: The 10 steps for turning your dreams into reality The amazing power of possibility thinking The 22 stops on the roadmap to success The 4 C's of "Success thinking" How to Banish "Impossibility thinking " from your life The "Miracle ingredients" of faith and hope ...and much more Your dreams Dr. Schuller tells us, no matter how impossible are the seeds of your success! now can learn how to nurture and cultivate your possibilities uproot the negatives, and watch your dreams blossom into reality.
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The Greatest Salesman in The World
You are holding in your hands an almost impossible dream, finally become reality ... the sequel to the inspirational classic that has touched more lives in the past two decades than any other motivational work in the world. More than 9 million people continue to find solace and hope in The Greatest Salesman in the World, the gripping tale of a little camel boy, Hafid, who becomes the greatest salesman in the world through following the principles in ten special scrolls of success. And now, at last, the world will discover what happens to the greatest salesman when he finally emerges from his lonely retirement to commence a new career. At first he finds failure -- until he receives a special gift from someone he has not seen in half a century. He then returns triumphantly to his homeland to write his own Ten Vows of Success to be shared with all who seek a better life -- including you.
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No More Letting Go
for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict
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Future Shock
Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations--ever our patterns of friendship and love. Future Shock vividly describes the emerging super-industrial world--tomorrow's family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, life-styles and human relationships--all of them temporary. Future Shock illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage and, above all, change everyone who reads it.".
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50 Great Short Stories
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world
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A New Leash on Life
Dog trainer Jane Connor has always preferred the company of canines, so when her kennel is destroyed in an Arizona wildfire, she finds her whole world in ashes. Jane managed to rescue all the animals, but her status as a local hero won't pay the bills. Soon she's reluctantly agreeing to work on a reality TV series about life on the dog show circuit-starring herself and her golden retriever, Shadow. Jane has complete confidence in Shadow's star quality-until she sets eyes on their chief competitor:an irritatingly perfect little papillon! Worse, the dog is attached at the leash to hunky Cole Forrest. Jane can hardly hide her attraction off-camera, so how will she conceal it from a national audience? It's exactly the kind of distraction she doesn't need. But in a summer of surprises, Jane just might discover that an old dog learn new tricks-when love is the treat.
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Natchez flame
A woman of courage and honor. She sold everything she owned to go west and marry a powerful land baron she'd never seen. But Priscilla Wills hadn't counted on the gunfight--or the gun--fighter--who would change her life: the tall, broad-shouldered man who killed her guardian in self-defense. Reluctantly he agreed to take her through the dangerous Texas back country to her fiance's ranch. She hadn't planned on a journey that would take her into a stranger's soul as he delivered her into another man's waiting arms. A man who lived by the gun. He was an outlaw--yet Brendan Trask unleashed in the prim and proper Priscilla a fiery passion that matched his own. But a man running for his life couldn't afford a woman who hungered for the security that only her wealthy fiance could provide.
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Life's not Fair But God Is Good
There's no doubting that life can be tough and sometimes even seems downright unfair. But Dr. Robert H. Schuller, the world's premier positive thinker, has great news. Even when life is toughest, even when you're battling more than your share of disappointments, you can rise above adversity and find new hope and true happiness Dr. Schuller shows you know to keep your faith in good times and bad. You'll discover how to turn disappointments into stepping-stones to success. Five self-esteem boosters that can give you the confidence to turn your dreams into reality. Six easy steps for unlocking the tremendous healing power of prayer. The nine commandments of thankful to restore your positive outlook on life. How to keep your goal in sight, even when obstacles get in the way. . .and much more! Life may not always be fair, or easy, but you can triumph over any obstacle that comes your way if you remember these simple but powerful life
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And then You Die
Bess Grady has heard the unmistakable sound before. She knows what it means. But not even the eerie lament of the howling dogs can prepare her for what has taken place in the small village. The seasoned photojournalist had been sent there on an easy assignment, and now she has stumbled upon something she was never meant to see. National ads, including "USA Today". She expected sunshine and balmy breezes. What she saw was everyone's worst nightmare.Bess Grady has heard the unmistakable sound before. She knows what it means. But not even the eerie lament of the howling dogs can prepare her for what has taken place in the small village. The seasoned photojournalist had been sent there on an easy assignment, and now she has stumbled upon something she was never meant to see. Amid chaos and fear, she joins forces with an intimidating stranger, a man whose alliances are unclear but whose methods have a way of leaving bodies in his wake. For what she has witnessed is only the first stage in a plan of terror that may kill us all. And she has no choice but to stop it--or die trying....
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No One To Trust
THIS TIME THERE'S NOWHERE TO RUN... NO PLACE TO HIDE... NO WAY OUT OF HIS DEADLY GAME... He is the most terrifying of killers: ruthless, cunning, charismatic. And he has the means to get whatever he wants. And what he wants most is Elena Kyler. Trained as a sniper by the military, Elena didn't need anyone to survive. But now she finds herself on the run from one dangerous man and turning for help to another. Sean Galen was a man without illusions. He knew it was only desperation that caused Elena to accept his help--a mother's desperation to save her young son from a psychopath. Soon a trail of horrifying murders will follow them across country to a shattering showdown. Here a master killer plans for Elena to commit the ultimate act of betrayal. Only then will he take the one thing she'll have left to give: her life.
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Sons and Lovers
Since its publication in 1913, D. H. Lawrence's powerful and passionate third novel stands as one of the greatest autobiographical novels of the twentieth century. Here is the story of artist Paul Morel as a young man, his powerful relationship with his possessive mother, his passionate love affair with Miriam Leivers, his intense liaison with married Clara Dawes. Here, too, England's Derbyshire springs to life with both is sooty mining villages and deep green pastures, a setting as full of contrasts as the deep emotions that rule this remarkable book. Sons and Lovers is rich with universal truths about relationships; moreover, it brims with what Alfred Kazin has called Lawrence's "magic sympathy, between himself and life." Continues Mr. Kazin: "No other writer of his imaginative standing has in our time written books that are so open to life...Since for Lawrence the great subject of literature was not the writer's own consciousness but consciousness between people, the living felt relationship between them, it was his very concern to represent the 'shimmer' of life, the 'wholeness'...that made possible his brilliance as a novelist."With an Introduction by John Gross
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The Hammer of God
In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky and sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization. While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a sign from God, the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately search for a way to avoid the inevitable. On board the starship Goliath Captain Robert Singh and his crew must race against time to redirect the meteor form its deadly collision course. Suddenly they find themselves on the most important mission in human history--a mission whose success may require the ultimate sacrifice.
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Blind Alley
Her job is to put a face on the victims of violent crimes. But as forensic scupltor Eve Duncan works on the skull of a newly discovered victim, she's about to get the shock of her life. The murdered Jane Doe's face has been erased beyon recognition. But whoever killed her wasn't trying to hide her identity. The plan is far more horrifying. For as Eve's skilled hands reveal the murdered girl's face, she recognizes someone she knows all too well. Someone who isn't dead. YET! To stop this twisted psychopath, Eve must put her own life in the balance. But that's not the worst of it - when her adopted daughter Jane reveals a bizarre connection to the case, Eve can't stop her from joining the hunt for the killer. A hunt that will lead to a terrifying confrontation........
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Foundation
One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves--or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.
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If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!
“The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being. A fresh, realistic, approach to altering one’s destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddahrtha, the Wife of Bath, Don Quixote… the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespaere, Kafka, Nin, Dante and Jung… a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape everyman’s journey through life.
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The Ugly Duckling
If fate suddenly made you more beautiful that you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare? The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only in fairy tales. Nell Calder deserved a happy ending. Instead, her descent into terror has just begun. Her attacker is still on the hunt, determined to finish what he's started. And Nell, protected by a new face, is just as determined to fight back and take her revenge. But to catch her prey, she will have to expose herself--even if it makes her a killer's prime target.
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Mila 18
It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy—and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling story of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most controversial of Lawrence's books,Lady Chatterly's Loverjoyously affirms the author's vision of individual regeneration through sexual love. The book's power, complexity, and psychological intricacy make this a completely original work—a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life.
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The Dogs Of War
In a remote corner of Zangaro, a small republic in Africa, lies Crystal Mountain. At certain times of the day the mountain emits a strange glow. Only Sir James Manson knows why. The mountain contains ten billion dollar's worth of the world's most valuable mineral, platinum. "Not only exciting but truly surprising"--Atlantic. Now the only question is, how to get hold of it. Sir James knows how. Invade the country with a band of savage, cold-blooded mercenaries. Topple the government and set up a puppet dictatorship. Unleash the dogs of war."