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Why are not more popular personal stories?

No hardboard books for preschoolers and younger children, I mean for adolescents, adults, everyone. I searched the web and found some websites not only on those elements, but those looking for them are almost nonexistent. And yet when I talk to people around the city, they like the idea of short stories for children adolescents and adults, particularly romantic adventures customized to give as wedding gifts. Why this difference between the attitude of web and attitude toward the real world this gift idea?

Ive never seen, but it sounds like a good idea to me. I wrote stories to people as gifts before. Poetry too. Pax – C

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Short Stories: Romantic-Historic and Inspirational Short Stories $13.99 Short Stories: Romantic-Historic and Inspirational Short Stories

Short Stories: Romantic & Virtuoso Violinpiec $11.99 Short Stories: Romantic & Virtuoso Violinpiec

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Fill-in-the-Blank Stories $10.98 Short, simple, and engaging, these cloze stories give children the repeated practice they need to master 100 key sight words. Children use a word bank and text and picture clues to fill in missing words that give each story meaning. A word search provides further practice in reading and spelling target words. Great for independent learning or homework For use with Grades KÐ2.

Love in a Mist: A Romantic Drama, in Familiar Blank Verse (1882) $22.95 Love in a Mist: A Romantic Drama, in Familiar Blank Verse (1882)

Love In A Mist: A Romantic Drama, In Familiar Blank Verse (1882) $18.96 Love In A Mist: A Romantic Drama, In Familiar Blank Verse (1882)

Acts of Love: Short Stories $14.99 Acts of Love: Short Stories

Short Stories: A Collection of Romantic Violin Pieces $75.03 Short Stories: A Collection of Romantic Violin Pieces

A Memory Of Love And Other Short Stories $13.95 A collections of short stories showing that even mature men in the fourth quarter of their lives still have a romantic spark. Stories also reflect the vast ethnic experiences of the author

Target Zero $14.48 Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero brings Cleaver’s controversial story into focus through his own words. This books charts Cleaver’s life through his writings: his quiet childhood, his youth spent in prison, his startling emergence as a Black Panther leader who became a "fugitive from justice" by the end of 1968, his seven-year exile, and his religious and political conversion following his return to the U.S. Target Zero, which brings together previously unpublished essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, is the most significant collection of Eldridge Cleaver’s writing since his bestselling book Soul on Ice (1968).

Romantic Stories Of Young Love (falcon Fiction Club) $2.38 Romantic Stories Of Young Love (falcon Fiction Club)

Fill-In-The-Blank Stories: Word Families: 50 Cloze-Format Practice Pages That Target and Teach the Top 50 Word Families $7.29 Short, simple, and engaging, these cloze stories give children the repeated practice they need to master words belonging to 50 different word families. Children use a word bank and text and picture clues to fill in missing words that give each story meaning. A word search provides further practice in reading and spelling target words. Great for independent learning or homework. For use with Grades K2.

True Love And Other Short Stories $9.93 True Love And Other Short Stories

Short Stories: Sex, Love and Relationships $14.99 Short Stories: Sex, Love and Relationships

A Memory of Love and Other Short Stories $17.14 A Memory of Love and Other Short Stories

Seven Faces Of Love: Short Stories. $5.75 Seven Faces Of Love: Short Stories.

Cactus Love: A Collection of Short Stories $1 Cactus Love: A Collection of Short Stories

True Love & Other Short Stories $75.03 True Love & Other Short Stories

The Love Ashram and Other Short Stories $37.95 The Love Ashram and Other Short Stories

Short Stories: Sex, Love And Relationships $15.04 Short Stories: Sex, Love And Relationships

Short Stories $17.99 Jon Anderson’s first project following his departure from Yes was to reunite with the equally airy Vangelis for a collaborative effort as Jon and Vangelis. Short Stories actually marks their second collaboration — the first took place on Vangelis’ 1975 album, Heaven and Hell, with the track “So Long Ago, So Clear.” The pair returns to that song’s successful formula of combining Anderson’s otherworldly voice with Vangelis’ pithy melodies in a few spots on their debut together, notably for the popular single “I Hear You Now” (which recalls Vangelis’ “To the Unknown Man”) and the middle section of “Far Away in Bagaad.” Otherwise, Short Stories favors amorphous arrangements that feature wisps of melody and little more (a style that has its precedent on Yes’ Tormato rather than their own solo work to date). The effect can be, frankly, underwhelming — “Curious Electric” and “Each and Everyday,” for example, seem content to settle for the happy accidents of collaboration rather than fusing their individual sounds into a cohesive whole. Despite a handful of nearly memorable moments, including the playful “Thunder” and the charming “Love Is/One More Time,” the pair would have had more success sticking to their established idioms — after all, China and Olias of Sunhillow were good albums — rather than trying to meet in some equidistant, ethereal plane. Given the record’s paper-thin arrangements, an appreciation for the music of Vangelis and Jon Anderson is no guarantee that Short Stories will please. ~ Dave Connolly, All Music GuidePerformers: Jon Anderson – Vocals; Raphael Preston – Guitar (Acoustic); Vangelis – Keyboards, Multi Instruments, Synthesizer

Stories For The Romantic Heart $13.95 Romantic hearts will leap at this special collection filled with heartwarming, tender stories of true love tested by time.

Stories for the Romantic Heart $3.48 Romantic hearts will leap at this special collection filled with heartwarming, tender stories of true love tested by time.

The Romantic $3.98 From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting goLouise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only—and incorrectly—“Louise knows how to work the washing machine.” Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise’s immediate devotion to the exotic, motherly Mrs. Richter is quickly transferred to her nature-loving, precociously intelligent son.From this childhood friendship evolves a love that will bind Louise and Abel forever. Though Abel moves away, Louise’s attachment becomes ever more fixed as she grows up. Separations are followed by reunions, but with every turn of their fractured relationship, Louise discovers that Abel cannot love her as fiercely and exclusively as she loves him. Only when she faces another great loss is Louise finally forced to confront the costs of abandoning herself to another.Skillfully interweaving the stories of Louise and Abel at different ages, Barbara Gowdy produces a powerful exploration of love’s many incarnations: a motherless daughter who yearns to be adopted, a husband eternally linked to a wife who has left him, a girl bewitched by the boy next door, a woman who refuses to let go of a magnetic, elusive man. Haunting and profound, The Romantic is a story about love in all its exquisite variations.

Short Stories for Long Rainy Days $3.48 This heartwarming collection of short stories is perfect for "want to" readers–those big on reading but short on time. From the story of an engaged couple looking for common ground amongst their dissimilarities to the account of a single mother’s thoughts as her daughter desires to meet the father who left them, this collection of inspirational short stories is sometimes lighthearted, sometimes humorous, and often poignant. Focusing on the joys and heartaches of love–romantic love, love for family members, love between friends, even the love of an elderly gentleman for his pets–Short Stories for Long Rainy Days will bring gentle smiles, soft chuckles, and even a few tears as readers experience the manifold facets of love.

Target Zero: A Life in Writing $11.05 Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. This book charts Cleaver’s life through his writings, bringing together previously unpublished essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems.

Point Blank (fbi Thriller) $2.44 The explosive action kicks off as FBI agent Ruth Warnecki hunts for Confederate gold in a West Virginia cave. She never expects to encounter the grisly murder that catapults her into a horrific plague of death, all centered on the prestigious Stanislaus School of Music.brbrAnd at Hooters Motel in Maryland, FBI agents Savich and Carver are nearly killed while attempting to rescue a kidnap victim. Instead of a hostage, all they see is a glowing-red timer and then a catastrophic explosion. They are then led to Arlington National Cemetery, but the search for the kidnap victim is cut short when Savich takes a fateful call on his cell, as a mysterious voice threatens to kill him and his wife.brbrPitted against an insane killer and his psychotic teenage girlfriend, Savich and Sherlock find themselves fighting a hate-driven villain with a very long memory.brbrPoint Blank is a nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat thriller, as exhilarating and terrifying as anything Catherine Coulter has ever written.brbrulliISBN13: 9781593557164liCondition: NEWliNotes:lia title=’Condition Guide’ href=’/content/Condition_and_Shipping_Guide.htm’ target=’_blank’Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices/a/ul

Romantic Short Stories $4.99 This book is in Good Used condition

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Short Stories Of Love, Faith And Humor $11.02 Buy and sell [Short Stories Of Love, Faith And Humor] at great prices.

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Memory Of Love And Other Short Stories $12.34 Buy and sell [Memory Of Love And Other Short Stories] at great prices.

Dangerous Curves Ahead: Short Stories $8.25 Ten romantic tales pack suspense and sizzle into a collection of contemporary short stories featuring ample heroines by the Queen of Rubenesque Romances, Pat Ballard. A healthy serving of entertainment and reminder that love comes in all sizes.Ten romantic tales by Ballard, the Queen of Rubenesque Romances, pack suspense and sizzle into a collection of contemporary short stories, featuring ample heroines .

Romantic Ghost Stories $11.96 Haunting stories that touch your heart. Stories of love perfect for Valentine”s Day.

Cuentos de amor/ Love Short Stories $26.92 Cuentos de amor/ Love Short Stories

Cuentos De Amor/ Love Short Stories $20.77 Cuentos De Amor/ Love Short Stories

When Any Kind of Love Will Do: Short Stories $8.96 When Any Kind of Love Will Do: Short Stories

Memoirs of Love: At Summer’s End and Other Short Stories $26.21 Memoirs of Love: At Summer’s End and Other Short Stories

Slaves of love and other Norwegian short stories $25.04 Slaves of love and other Norwegian short stories

Magical Journeys: A Collection of Short Stories on Friendship, Love an $22.26 Magical Journeys: A Collection of Short Stories on Friendship, Love an

Licks Of Love :short Stories And A Sequel, Rabbit Remembered $17.49 Licks Of Love :short Stories And A Sequel, Rabbit Remembered

Love on His Mind: Short Stories and Novellas $2.57 Love on His Mind: Short Stories and Novellas

Love Matters: Award winning Short Stories $7.7 Love Matters: Award winning Short Stories

Inspired By Faith, Love And Life: Poems And Short Stories $14.06 Inspired By Faith, Love And Life: Poems And Short Stories

Love in a Mist: A Romantic Drama, in Familiar Blank Verse $27.47 No Synopsis Available

Fill-in-the-Blank Stories: Sight Words: 50 Cloze-Format Practice Pages $11.99 Short, simple, and engaging, these cloze stories give children the repeated practice they need to master 100 key sight words. Children use a word bank and text and picture clues to fill in missing words that give each story meaning. A word search provides further practice in reading and spelling target words. Great for independent learning or homework For use with Grades KÐ2.

Fill-in-the-Blank Stories: Phonics: 50 Cloze-Format Practice Pages Tha $8.43 Short, simple, and engaging, these cloze stories give children the repeated practice they need to master key phonics skills. Children use a word bank and text and picture clues to fill in missing words that give each story meaning. A word search provides further practice in reading and spelling target words. Great for independent learning or homework. For use with Grades KÐ2.

Fill-in-the-Blank Stories: Word Families: 50 Cloze-Format Practice Pag $11.99 Short, simple, and engaging, these cloze stories give children the repeated practice they need to master words belonging to 50 different word families. Children use a word bank and text and picture clues to fill in missing words that give each story meaning. A word search provides further practice in reading and spelling target words. Great for independent learning or homework. For use with Grades KÐ2.

Target Practice $7.44 Target Practice brings together for the first time the complete short fiction that Rex Stout wrote for the popular All-Story Magazine, the famous journal which published the cream of his early writings. Including Secrets, the first crime fiction Stout wrote, and Justice Ends at Home, with a detective team foreshadowing Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, these 17 stories stand among the master’s best.

Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction $32.43 DIVDIVP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptThe modern idea of Victorians is that they were emotionless prudes, imprisoned by sexual repression and suffocating social constraints; they expressed love and affection only within the bounds of matrimony—if at all. And yet, a wealth of evidence contradicting this idea has been hiding in plain sight for close to a century. InIManly Love/I, Axel Nissen turns to the novels and short stories of Victorian America to uncover the widely overlooked phenomenon of passionate friendships between men./PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt /PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptNissen’s examination of the literature of the period brings to light a forgotten genre: the fiction of romantic friendship. Delving into works by Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, and others, Nissen identifies the genre’s unique features and explores the connections between romantic friendships in literature and in real life. Situating love between men at the heart of Victorian culture, Nissen radically alters our understanding of the American literary canon. And with its deep insights into the emotional and intellectual life of the period,IManly Love/Ialso offers a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century America’s attitudes toward love, friendship, marriage, and sex./P/DIV/DIVDIVDIVP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normalAcknowledgments/PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normalIntroduction/PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal /PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal1   What’s the Story? The Fiction of Romantic Friendship, Part I/PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal2   Odds ’n’ Ends: The Fiction of Romantic Friendship, Part II/PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal3   Sex and the City:ICecil Dreeme/Iand the Antebellum Sex/Gender System/PP style=MARGIN: 0in@@7=p£×ÿ¾Úð

Love Stories : 1841596027 $27.13 Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives together. An array of writers evoke a variety of moods, from the raw, erotic passion of Lawrence and Colette to the wickedlycynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl; from the agonizing madness of jealousy in Nabokov’s That in Aleppo Once … to romantic illusions in Scott Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams.Objects of passion range from a glamorous silent-movie star in Elizabeth Bowen’s haunting Dead Mabelle to a faithful ghost in Kawabata’s Immortality and a successful heart surgeon and serial husband in Margaret Atwood’s Bluebeard’s Egg. Jhumpa Lahiri plumbs the depths of a couple sundered by tragedy while Lorrie Moore movingly portrays a husband and wife brought together by it. Katherine Mansfield, Tobias Wolff and William Trevor explore the intricacies of long-term relationships, while Maupassant, Calvino and T. C. Boyle convey the elemental force of love in extremely different ways. Together these nineteen stories make an enticing gift for lovers at any stage of life. It is perfect for Valentine’s Day.

Short Stories: Romantic-historic and Inspirational Short Stories $15.1 No Synopsis Available

Classic Love Stories 1 $10.22 A great collection of short stories based on the theme of love….

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Love & Relationship Blank Journal $32.95 Love & Relationship Blank Journal

Treasury Of French Love Short Stories In French English $15.16 This book contains French love short stories in both French and English.

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Levels of Consciousness: Short Stories $27.15 In this heartwarming collection of original short stories, author, physician, and psychotherapist Mark Sicherman introduces us to endearing characters transformed forever by their experiences with serious illness. Although they all revolve around painful situations, the stories in this anthology abound with encouraging and inspiring lessons on the gifts of love, spiritual faith, and a positive attitude. Sicherman draws on more than thirty years of experience as a practitioner of mind-body medicine to demonstrate the power that every individual has within to treat and heal even the most serious illness. From the title story of a doctor powerless to help his comatose sister to the tale of romantic memories that rejuvenate an old man’s will to live, each vignette in Levels of Consciousness describes the ways in which different people cope with illness and pain. Whether it’s a young boy learning about courage in his first trip to camp or a woman finding out that angels truly do exist as she passes on to the next world, the message is one of hope and peace for anyone interested in how human beings experience-and ultimately transcend-the darker corners of life’s journey.

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Best Romantic Classics 100 $21.98 EMI’s Best Romantic Classics 100 may fulfill some listeners’ needs by providing the most familiar excerpts and short pieces of nineteenth and twentieth century “mood” music, but it is unsatisfying in several other aspects. First, anyone who wants complete works will be annoyed by the rather large number of extracted sections, which in most cases amount to little more than four or five minutes of the best-known thematic passages, culled from famous concertos, symphonies, sonatas, ballets, and operas that are much, much longer. While it is expected that only brief examples could be included in a six-disc collection of 100 tracks, it would have been preferable to have complete miniatures instead of token snippets. Second, the sound of the recordings varies substantially, depending on the session dates, venues, instrumentation, and recording technology, so the sonic depth, dynamics, textures, and timbres of the music can be quite realistic and brilliant on one track and dull and unimpressive on the next — the risk that must be run in putting together any large compendium of music. Third, the term romantic is used broadly here, so the pieces are not just picked from the Romantic or post-Romantic periods, as some might expect, but music was also chosen for being lyrical and expressive — in essence, romantic in feeling. Thus, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Leonard Bernstein, Stanley Myers, Thomas Newman, Michael Nyman, and James Horner are included for their love songs and film music of a passionate character, without much concern for observing categories or stylistic consistency. While this survey may give the listener a good idea of the variety of Romantic music, it delivers only a superficial sampling of recognizable fare that is well covered in numerous greatest-hits collections. ~ Blair Sanderson, RoviPerformers: Daniel Adni – Piano; John Aler – Tenor (Vocal); Dmitri Alexeev – Piano; Leif Ove Andsnes – Piano; Martha Argerich – Piano; Manuel Barrueco – Guitar; Hugh Bean – Violin; Beecham Choral Society – Choir, Chorus;

Treasury of Classic Spanish Love Short Stories in Spanish and English $4.68 This book contains short stories about Spanish love.

Love: Short Stories $8.96 This compelling and haunting collection of short fiction exposes issues of longing, obsession, and loss that undercut the perceptions of conventional romance and relationships between both lovers and strangers. Flailing characters reach desperately for each other and never quite connect; others reveal unmasked glimpses of themselves to total strangers in brief, everyday interactions. In the title story, the small act of an unlikely character exposes an unexpected dimension of love. In Surface Calm, a wife, bored with her everyday routines, is driven by loneliness to inflict pain on herself when her husband leaves on a business trip. Other stories in the collection explore similar juxtapositions of passion, horror, and spiritual transcendance.

Target $11.98 Target is one of those Tom Scott records that gets forgotten about a lot. Certainly it comes from the middle of the 1980s just before the GRP era, when Scott was still leading the Saturday Night Live Band on occasion and looking around for a new sound. It’s the sound of a restless musician who gets the pop game, or at least has gotten it and is not sure of where to shift his focus next. The band is big and full of killer players: Harvey Mason, Ernie Watts, Ian Underwood, Victor Feldman, Paul Jackson, Neil Stubenhaus, Jim Horn, Trevor Feldman, Pete Christlieb, and Michael Boddicker, among others. The sound is a tad warmer than what Atlantic was releasing at the time, too. But the material, as good as some of it is — like the funky title track — also contains half-hearted pop ballads like “Come Back to Me” with Kenny James on vocals. “He’s Too Young,” with a fine vocal performance by Maria Muldaur, is marred by a terribly dated — and it was for the time — synth drum sound. There is also a truly bizarre moment when Lee Ving, former lead singer of Los Angeles hardcore band Fear raps and plays blues harmonica on “Gotta Get out of New York.” Then there’s “Lollipoppin’” which, while it contains the same dumb synth drum sound, also has some killer Rhodes by Feldman, synth work by Underwood, and a happening keyboard bassline. The grooving muted horn section on this reading of Dan Peck’s “The Biggest Part of Me,” has a wonderfully soulful feel with great kit work by Mason. The horn arrangements are in the pocket but restrained, allowing that lithe melody to shine through and, along with the title cut, it’s a contender for best tune on the set. The set closes with the stone-gone funky groover “Burundi Bump” by Scott and Feldman with excellent basslines, pulsing Rhodes work, a boatload of percussion, and Mason running the ensemble from his kit; the entire tune is rhythm based. So Target is, ultimately, a mixed bag, a hold-over record that was throwing everything at the wall to see what worked. Interestingly, what did was the basis for Scott’s sound at GRP. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music GuidePerformers: Tom Scott – Lyricon, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Saxophone, Synthesizer, Wind; Judi Brown – Vocals (Background); Trevor Feldman – Fender Rhodes, Keyboards; Victor Feldman – Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Percussion, Piano, Synthesizer; Jerry Hey – Flugelhorn, Horn, Trumpet;

Stories $11.98 With his fourth album, Stories, David Blue joined Asylum Records, the label headed by David Geffen that had been set up to shelter singer/songwriters like Jackson Browne. For Blue, it was another welcoming home after stints at similarly artist-friendly Elektra and Reprise, and Stories was a continuation of his explorations of the personal relationships of sensitive people. The opening song was called “Looking for a Friend,” and that was a good introduction to an album that was about the ups and downs of friendship and the loneliness that sets in when friends are not around. Musically, the album was divided between its two LP sides, each containing four songs. On the first four, the arrangements tended to be limited to two acoustic guitars, while the second half used more extensive instrumentation, including Pete Jolly’s accordion on “Marianne,” the piano-with-strings “Fire in the Morning” (the chart done by Jack Nitzsche), the full-on rock band playing on “Come on John,” and piano/organ folk-rock for “The Blues (All Night Long),” with Ry Cooder adding slide guitar. Blue’s lyrical reflections, expressed in his matter-of-fact baritone, touched on experiences that ranged from temporary romantic contentment to suicidal urges. “It wasn’t easy, when I think about it/Living in the house of changing faces,” he sang in the chorus of “House of Changing Faces,” “I still have the tracks to remind me what life was like, high and wasted/When I wanted to die.” That wasn’t the only song to allude to drug use. The most explicit was “Come on John” (previously recorded by Helen Reddy), a cautionary tale for a friend that left little doubt about its subject when it began, “I’ve got a friend with a habit/A habit of runnin’ away/He says he can’t take it/But he takes it every day.” Musically, the song had the feel of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man,” but for once Blue didn’t sound so much like Dylan on Stories as he did like Leonard Cohen. In fact, there was one song that might have been a direct response to Cohen. It’s hard not to at least speculate that “Marianne” may share a subject with Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne,” particularly because of the musical similarity and because of the lines “I knew her from another song her older poet, he’d wrote before/We played in the morning, laughing on the floor/Till he came a-knocking on the Lower East Side door.” Although Blue, too, seemed not have stayed with her, he made a point of countering Cohen’s farewell, singing in the chorus, “Do not cry, you have helped me, I will not say goodbye.” Whether or not this is the same Marianne, however, she is another friend described by Blue in a series of songs about a community of companions who love and lose each other, yet whatever their fates, he seemed grateful to them all. [Rhino's Wounded Bird subsidiary reissued Stories on CD in 2006.] ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuidePerformers:

The Street of the Blank Wall; And Other Stories $15.37 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1916 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Foreign Language Study / General Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language History / General Language Arts

Popular Performer 1940s And 1950s Love Songs: The Best Romantic Classi $6.63 Rich textures, sophisticated harmonies and inventive rhythms make these arrangements ideal for hobbyists, advancing students, professional musicians or any iPopular Performer/i. Titles: Angel Eyes br* Catch a Falling Star br* A Certain Smile br* I Wanna Be Around br* Misty br* Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing br* Secret Love br* Taking a Chance on Love br* Three Coins in a Fountain br* Volare.ulliISBN13: 9780739056776liCondition: NEWliNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.lia title=’Condition Guide’ href=’/content/Condition_and_Shipping_Guide.htm’ target=’_blank’Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices/a/ul

Romantic Love and Sexual Behavior $175 Westerners believe that love makes life worth living; that sex is a natural desire different in kind from love; and that only cynics reduce our love life to a calculation of economic or genetic factors. In this volume, essays explore these and other assumptions about the relationship between romantic love and sex. This represents the first interdisciplinary social science study of love and sex. Contributors ask and answer questions such as: Is love just sex idealized, or is it a transcendent and divine emotion? Is love a cultural construct that is shared by members of the same culture, or is it a matter of personal taste? What keeps promiscuous people from using condoms even when they know they are at risk? Are black professional men so rare that their conceptions of love and sex differ from those of white professional men? Are brutal sexual fantasies an exclusively male domain, and are they always excluded from love fantasies among normal adolescents? Is divorce a culturally induced response to evolutionary reproductive strategies that compel individuals to maximize their genetic legacy? Are marriages or relationships less satisfying or stable when an actual mate falls short of the fantasy of the ideal mate? Is there a universal core to love and sex that is camouflaged by other cultural norms such as modesty and sexual segregation? Is rape perceived as more acceptable when the rapist says he was motivated by love? What do cult movements and romantic love have in common? As they attempt to answer these and other questions, the authors extend our understanding of the variety of ways that love and sex are conceptualized, connected, or separated.

Russian Short Stories $29.31 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOGOL (1809-1852) Nicolai Vasilievich Gogol was born in 1809 in the Ukraine, or Little Russia, which is that part of Russia bordering on Poland. He was of Cossack origin. At the age of twenty he went to Petrograd as a government clerk, an experience which gave him the material for his best short story, The Cloak. He interested himself in dramatics and the study of history, but failing both as an actor and as a professor of history, he devoted himself to literature. His first success came from a series of short sketches describing realistically the life and the people of Little Russia, with all their peculiar customs and superstitions. Through his intense love for his native Ukraine he imparted an atmosphere of vigorous truthfulness both to these sketches and to his first long story, Taras Bulba, based upon the early history of the Cossacks. His greatest work is Dead Souls?a long, rambling novel, poor in plot but rich in characterization. By means of some half dozen characters he gives a remorselessly vivid picture of various phases of Russian life, especially the general corruption of officialdom and the conditions among the landed proprietors and the serfs. Pushkin is said to have exclaimed, when his friend read the opening chapters to him, God! how miserable life is in Russia. Gogol wrote one successful play, Revizor (The Inspector- General). Its theme is similar to that of his stories. It is still popular on the European stage, and has been produced in English. Gogol is classed among the humorists of Russia, but his humor is of the grotesque type. He had a romantic jmagi- nattoa, but always-subordinated it to his desire for realism. With a Remarkable gift for description he combined a weirdsort of pathos; and these attributes gave unique distinction to his s…

Blank Generation $11.98 Richard Hell was one of the first men on the scene when punk rock first began to emerge in New York City as an early member of both Television and the Heartbreakers (he left both groups before they could record), but his own version of punk wasn’t much like anyone else’s, and while Hell’s debut album, Blank Generation, remains one of the most powerful to come from punk’s first wave, anyone expecting a Ramones/Dead Boys-style frontal assault from this set had better readjust their expectations. “Love Comes in Spurts” and “Liar’s Beware” proved the Voidoids could play fast and loud when they wanted to, but for the most part this group’s formula was much more complicated than that; guitarists Robert Quine and Ivan Julian bounced sharp, edgy patterns off each other that were more about psychological tension than brute force (though Quine’s solos suggest a fragile grace beneath the surface of their neo-Beefheart chaos), and while most punk nihilism was of the simplistic “Everything Sucks” variety, Hell was (with the exception of Patti Smith) the most literate and consciously poetic figure in the New York punk scene. While there’s little on the album that’s friendly or life-affirming, there’s a crackling intelligence to songs like “New Pleasure,” “Betrayal Takes Two,” and “Another World” that confirmed Hell has a truly unique lyrical voice, at once supremely self-confident and dismissive of nearly everything around him (sometimes including himself). Brittle and troubling, but brimming with ideas and musical intelligence, Blank Generation was groundbreaking punk rock that followed no one’s template, and today it sounds just as fresh — and nearly as abrasive — as it did when it first hit the racks. ~ Mark Deming, All Music GuidePerformers: Marc Bell – Drums; Richard Hell – Bass, Vocals; Ivan Julian – Guitar, Vocals (Background); Robert Quine – Guitar, Vocals (Background)

The Street of the Blank Wall: And Other Stories $24.88 The Street of the Blank Wall: And Other Stories

Primitive Love and Love-Stories V2 $22.99 An Analysis Of Romantic And Conjugal Love In Various Cultures.

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