Dr No: Library Edition

Dr No: Library Edition Review

Dr No: Library Edition Overview

M called this case a soft option. Bond can't quite agree. The tropical island is luxurious, the seductive Honey Rider is beautiful and willing. But they are both part of the empire of Dr No. His obsession is power, and his gifts are pain-shaped.

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The Story of Philosophy: Library Edition

The Story of Philosophy: Library Edition Review

The Story of Philosophy: Library Edition Overview

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers -- Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James and Dewey -- The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the nonspecialist as well as Will Durant, and this book is a splendid example of his eminently readable scholarship. Durant's insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is a key book for any reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.

The Story of Philosophy: Library Edition Specifications

Easily the most engaging writer of Western intellectual history in the English language, Will Durant breathes life into philosophers and their ideas. He is colorful, witty, and above all, informative. Beginning with Socrates and ending with American philosopher John Dewey, Durant summarizes the lives and influence of philosophy's greatest thinkers, painting them with humanity and adding a few of his own wise platitudes. Seventy-some years after its first printing, The Story of Philosophy still stands as one of the best of its kind.

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Byzantium: Library Edition

Byzantium: Library Edition Review

Byzantium: Library Edition Overview

A stunning historical fantasy that brings ancient Byzantium to life.

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A Grief Observed (Library Edition)

A Grief Observed (Library Edition) Review

A Grief Observed (Library Edition) Overview

A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.

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C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it seem like he's got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt for the first time after his wife's tragic death. A Grief Observed contains his epigrammatic reflections on that period: "Your bid--for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity--will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high," Lewis writes. "Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me--out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is the book that inspired the film Shadowlands, but it is more wrenching, more revelatory, and more real than the movie. It is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings. --Michael Joseph Gross

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The Voyage Out: Library Edition

The Voyage Out: Library Edition Review

The Voyage Out: Library Edition Overview

A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, books, sex, love and marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer who she meets in Santa Marina. But their engagement is to end abruptly, and tragically. Virginia Woolf's first novel, published in 1915, is a haunting exploration of a young woman's mind, signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries and complexities of the inner life.

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The Last Trail (Library Edition) (Ohio River Trilogy (Audio))

The Last Trail (Library Edition) (Ohio River Trilogy (Audio)) Review

This classic western tail of men saving women, while being a great love story is also a wonderful adventure story. A classic cowboy\borderman fights indian to save the helpless beuty, but instead of man saving woman, it is reversed, when Helen saves Jonathan from his own unhappy life. I have loved this book since the first day my mother placed it in my hands to read, and although the original has a few lapses in storyline, they kill someone twice, the basic story structure is enjoyable. Having read this book close to a dozen times, I can recommend that every person who has never given westerns a try read this one.

The Last Trail (Library Edition) (Ohio River Trilogy (Audio)) Overview

The American Revolution is over, but the violence continues in the Ohio Valley. Jonathan Zane and Lewis Wetzel are in constant action trying turn the tide. But just when the beautiful Betty Sheppard convinces Jonathan to give up his lonely war, she is captured, and taken into the unknown wilderness.
Jonathan and Lewis set out on their last desperate journey to save her. The pair have to battle not only Indians and privation, but their own inner demons in this startling unexpected conclusion to the 'Ohio River Trilogy'.

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The Lords of Discipline (Library Edition)

The Lords of Discipline (Library Edition) Review

A frequent Audie finalist and Earphones award winner Dan John Miller delivers a riveting narration of the book many have called an American classic. Also a film actor and songwriter Miller gives eloquent voice to protagonist Will McLean who attends the South Carolina Military Institute, which is a fictional military school and said to be inspired by Conroy's personal experiences at The Citadel.

Not only is THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE extremely well performed but a new introduction read by Pat Conroy is included in this edition.

As compelling today as it was when it was first penned in 1980 this is the story of four young men, cadets at the Institute who have become blood brothers. Despite hazing, threats, mental duress, and violence Will McLean has reached his senior year. He has met and fallen in love with a beautiful young woman. Yet despite the challenges he has faced and the changes in his life Will remains very much his own person with a code of honor developed in his own mind and heart.

However, when the first black enters the Institute and Will is instructed to look after him Will discovers even more than he had ever imagined exists not only at the Institute but in Charleston.

With THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE Conroy, who also authored The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides, wrote a brilliant scenario, a vivid commentary, true and bold. This is a book that stands tall in the annals of American literature.

Enjoy!

- Gail Cooke

The Lords of Discipline (Library Edition) Overview

This is the powerful story of four cadets who have become blood brothers. Together, they will encounter the hell of hazing and the rabid, raunchy, and dangerously secretive atmosphere of an arrogant military institute. Pat Conroy sweeps us into the turbulent world of these four friends and deep into the heart of his rebellious hero, Will McLean. Immersed in a poignant love affair with a haunting beauty, Will must boldly confront the terrifying injustice of a corrupt institution as he struggles to expose a mysterious group known as 'The Ten.' Together, the four friends brace themselves for the brutal transition to manhood, which one of them will not survive. They will experience violence, passion, rage, friendship, loyalty, and betrayal.

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