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Visions Of God: Four Medieval Mystics and Their Writings

by Karen Armstrong

Published: 1994-11-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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The mystics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were, writes Karen Armstrong, like "the astronauts of our own day.  They broke into a new religion, blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self, a trail far from the beaten pilgrimage paths of Chaucer and Langland."  Mysti...

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Visions of Sugar Plums (A Stephanie Plum Holiday Novel)

by Janet Evanovich

Published: 2003

Paperback: 0 pages

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It's five days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn't got a tree. She hasn't bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with staggering shoppers. There's not a twinkle light anywhere to be seen in her apartment-and there's a strange...

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Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die

by David Kessler

Published: 2010-05-01

Hardcover: 192 pages

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David Kessler, one of the most renowned experts on death and grief, takes on three uniquely shared experiences that challenge our ability to explain and fully understand the mystery of our final days. The first is ?visions.? As the dying lose sight of this world, some people appear to be ...

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

Published: 2010-06-08

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Jennifer Egan pens a compulsively readable narrative centering on Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate young woman he employs. Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, but the reader does, along with the secret lives of a host of o...

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The Visitor

by Maeve Brennan

Published: 2001-11

Paperback: 96 pages

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This previously unpublished novella by the late Maeve Brennan is "an astonishing miniature masterpiece. [It] will stay with the reader forever."-Nuala O'Faolain. Maeve Brennan has been called one of the best Irish writers of stories since Joyce, and with The Visitor her oeuvre is immeas...

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Vista del amanecer en el tropico/ View of Dawn in the Tropics (Spanish Edition)

by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Frederic Amat

Published: 1998-06-30

Hardcover: 197 pages

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Thought-provoking stories capture the turbulent history of Cuba and the Cuban people, from the discovery of the beautiful island through the last year before Castro's revolution.

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Viva Matilde!: Sequel to Cafe Con Leche

by Jack Fernandez

Published: 2007-12-11

Paperback: 280 pages

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In his earlier novel, Caf¿ Con Leche, Jack Fernandez reported, as a newspaper item, the death of Matilde G¿mez, his hero and favorite character; the reader was not shown the body. Only after publication did Fernandez discover that Matilde did not die. At that point he undertook the sequel, Viva Matilde!...

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Vivaldi's Virgins LP

by Barbara Quick

Published: 2007-07-01

Paperback: 420 pages

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In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians ...

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Vivaldi's Virgins: A Novel

by Barbara Quick

Published: 2007-07-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In this enthralling new novel, Barbara Quick re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence. A story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies, Vivaldi's Virgins unfolds through the eyes of Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the elite musicians ...

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Vivir y morir en Dallas / Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse) (Spanish Edition)

by Charlaine Harris

Published: 2009-10-15

Paperback: 336 pages

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When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one deliciou...