Sacred Fire


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Tinsley Swann is cursed to change into a beast for seven days, every seven years. She keeps her distance from the world, and has more of a relationship with the antique erotic postcards she collects. With the time of her transformation approaching, she finds herself torn between two women. One woman is Sandra, Tinsley's new boss, and the two are having an affair. Sandra glimpses her transformation and is kind, not frightened. The other woman, Leda, bears a striking resemblance to one of Tinsley's turn of the century postcards, and she becomes obsessed with the young woman. Tinsley must choose between these two women and ultimately two factions, one that will save the world, the other with plans to destroy it.




The Widower's Tale


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes: Seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement—reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. But his routines are disrupted when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife. With equal parts affection and humor, Julia Glass spins a captivating tale about a man who can no longer remain aloof from his community, his two grown daughters, or—to his great shock—the precarious joy of falling in love.




Kratos & Krater: Reconstructing an Athenian Protohistory


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Athenian governance and culture are reconstructed from the Bronze Age into the historical era based on traditions, archaeological contexts and remains, foremost the formal commensal and libation krater.







The Chukchee


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Fire in the Soul


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Do you know who you really are? Ionan thought he did. King of the West, that’s who he is. Though, having been sent to Camelot to grow up under the care and protection of his uncle, Uther Pendragon, being a king doesn’t count for much. Especially when your cousin Arthur is very much bigger and stronger than you are. But still, he is a King. Mostly. It is undeniably more exciting to be able to transform yourself into a wolfhound or eagle when you want to. Provided your uncle doesn’t catch you. So, that is who he is: Ionan, King of the West. Until he reaches his majority, manages to reclaim his throne from his sister and is presented with the Staff of Bran ap Idris. Now he is more than a mere changeling who can become a wolf should he wish; now he can become a winged horse or even a dragon. Though that, as it turns out, is only part of what he has inherited and so he still does not know who he really is.










The World's Literature


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The Keys of Power


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This book, first published in 1932, demonstrates how the control of certain ‘-isms’ has for long moulded the interpretation of Indian belief and ritual by Western writers particularly. In every chapter there is some new coordination, often iconoclastic of then-accepted theory, whilst the new wealth of customs carefully recorded is astonishing. Long disputed problems such as that of the Maratha ‘devak’, or that of the ceremonial sowing of seedlings known to Western scholars as the ‘gardens of Adonis’, have at last been settled through careful research.