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  Maria La Divina - A Novel of...

  Jerome Charyn

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  An intimate portrait of the world's most iconic opera singer 
   
  Maria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn's Callas springs to life as the headstrong, mercurial, and charismatic artist who captivated generations of fans, thrilling audiences with her brilliant performances and defiant personality. 
   
  Callas, an outsider from an impoverished background, was shunned by the Italian opera houses, but through sheer force of will and the power and range of her voice, she broke through the invisible wall to sing at La Scala and headline at the Metropolitan Opera, forging an unforgettable career. Adored by celebrities and statesmen, the notable and notorious alike, her every movement was shadowed by both music critics and gossip columnists—until, having lost her voice, she died alone in an opulent, mausoleum-like Paris apartment. 
   
  In Charyn's inimitable style, Maria La Divina humanizes the celebrated diva, revealing the mythical artist as a woman who survived hunger, war, and loneliness to reach the heights of acclaim.

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  A Portrait of the Artist as a...

  James Joyce

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  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce.    A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.    A Portrait began life in 1903 as Stephen Hero--a projected 63-chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style. After 25 chapters, Joyce abandoned Stephen Hero in 1907 and set to reworking its themes and protagonist into a condensed five-chapter novel, dispensing with strict realism and making extensive use of free indirect speech that allows the reader to peer into Stephen's developing consciousness. American modernist poet Ezra Pound had the novel serialised in the English literary magazine The Egoist in 1914 and 1915, and published as a book in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch of New York. The publication of A Portrait and the short story collection Dubliners (1914) earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism.

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  Sigurd's Swords

  Eric Schumacher

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  From bestselling historical fiction novelist Eric Schumacher comes the second volume in Olaf's Saga: the adrenaline-charged story of Olaf Tryggvason and his adventures in the kingdom of the Rus. 
   
   
   
  AD 968. It has been ten summers since the noble sons of the North, Olaf and Torgil, were driven from their homeland by the treachery of the Norse king, Harald Eriksson. Having then escaped the horrors of slavery in Estland, they now fight among the Rus in the company of Olaf's uncle, Sigurd. It will be some of the bloodiest years in Rus history. The Grand Prince, Sviatoslav, is hungry for land, riches, and power, but his unending campaigns are leaving the corpses of thousands in their wakes. From the siege of Konugard to the battlefields of ancient Bulgaria, Olaf and Torgil struggle to stay alive in Sigurd's Swords, the heart-pounding sequel to Forged by Iron.

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  The Souls Of Black Folk

  W.E.B. DuBois

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  W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.Earlier, Du Bois had risen to national prominence as a leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth, a concept under the umbrella of racial uplift, and believed that African Americans needed the chance for advanced education to develop their leadership.

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  Fiction Favours the Facts – Book...

  Mark Morgan, Cathy Morgan, Laura...

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  Fiction Favours the Facts - Book 3 
  Yet another collection of 22 Bible-based micro-tales. Some tell of little-known Bible characters, while others concentrate on an incident in the life of one of the more famous Bible characters. 
  This new collection of short stories visits the lives of Moses, David, Elijah, Jonah, Daniel, Jesus, Paul, Peter and others, often through the eyes of people who knew them. Eleven stories from the Old Testament matched with eleven from the New Testament, using contributions from three authors who love the Bible. 
  Written by Mark Morgan, Cathy Morgan and Laura Morgan (Bible Tales Online). 
  Stories included (written by Mark Morgan unless otherwise noted)... 
  Old Testament stories: 
  Mother-to-be 
  On dry ground 
  I was just thinking… 
  My son – given to God 
  Obed-edom 
  The God of Big Things (by Cathy Morgan) 
  What I have vowed, I will pay (by Cathy Morgan) 
  The Prophetess and the Book 
  Passover Preparations 
  Habakkuk’s Complaints 
  Fingers of fear 
  New Testament stories: 
  Anna 
  Preparing the way 
  A Samaritan Wedding 
  Drink my blood 
  A thankful Samaritan 
  Why won’t she help? 
  The plot that failed 
  Guarding the dying 
  The Tale of Tabitha (by Laura Morgan) 
  Outrage! 
  One wet night 
   

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  Short Stories Set in Boston -...

  Washington Irving, Nathaniel...

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  In the small state of Massachusetts sits its capital, Boston.  Famed seat of learning, of culture, of history, and a beacon for the ages.    
   
  Here, in this volume, authors of the stature of Willa Cather, Washington Irving, H P Lovecraft and more set carefully crafted characters into narratives set in this glistening city in ways that trouble, explore and bring new understanding as to why this city is such a draw for authors and their stories down the ages.  
   
  1 - Stories Set in Boston - An Introduction 
  2 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 
  3 - David Swan by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  4 - A Wagner Matinee by Willa Catha 
  5 - Pickman's Model by H P Lovecraft 
  6 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 1 by William Austin 
  7 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 2 by William Austin

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