Ramny and the Sap of Love


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A story of a very deep frienship, sublime loves and abysmal obsessions. A young real estate manager visits an old friend of his family who months ago had bothlegs amputated, at the same time his wife and mother, hisonly two companions, died. The old man alone and desperate, tkae refuge in the solitude of his house and his thoughts, but Fernando begins a struggle to get him out of his voluntary confinement and rescue him from economic misery. Both begin to meet in the evening's in the old man's house to tell each stories of the loves they have in their lives. At the same time Fernando meets Ramny, a very young cousin, who is several years older than him, and with whom he falls madly in love, becoming so obsessed that he tries to commit suicide whe he sees that she's slipping through his fingers. In the end, the old man, recovered from his material and phsycological isolation, has to initiate the rescue of his young friend from the intricate world of his obsessions and the frantic desperation that keeps him trapped.




How I Managed To Live From My Books


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How I Got to Live off of My Books by Franklin A. Díaz Lárez Exhibition of the methods and techniques most used to sell and promote books in digital and paper format on demand. How I managed to live off of my books Exhibition of the methods and techniques most used to sell and promote books in digital and paper format on demand. It contains the narration of the steps that its author followed to make writing and publishing texts a way to earn a living without having to depend on any thing other than his own effort and dedication. Anyone who can write can make enough money to make this trade a way of life. This book explains how to do it. How I Got to Live off of My Books by Franklin A. Díaz Lárez Exhibition of the methods and techniques most used to sell and promote books in digital and paper format on demand. How I managed to live off of my books Exhibition of the methods and techniques most used to sell and promote books in digital and paper format on demand. It contains the narration of the steps that its author followed to make writing and publishing texts a way to earn a living without having to depend on any thing other than his own effort and dedication. Anyone who can write can make enough money to make this trade a way of life. This book explains how to do it.




The World America Made


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Robert Kagan, the New York Times bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, reaffirms the importance of United States’s global leadership in this timely and important book. Upon its initial publication, The World America Made became one of the most talked about political books of the year, influencing Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address and shaping the thought of both the Obama and Romney presidential campaigns. In these incisive and engaging pages, Kagan responds to those who anticipate—or even long for—a post-American world order by showing what a decline in America’s influence would truly mean for the United States and the rest of the world, as the vital institutions, economies, and ideals currently supported by American power wane or disappear. As Kagan notes, it has happened before: one need only to consider the consequences of the breakdown of the Roman Empire and the collapse of the European order in World War I. This book is a powerful warning that America need not and dare not decline by committing preemptive superpower suicide.




Perdita


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This thoroughly engaging and richly researched book presents a compelling portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author, described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a woman of undoubted genius.” One of the most flamboyant free spirits of the late eighteenth century, Mary Robinson led a life that was marked by reversals of fortune. After being abandoned by her merchant father, who left England to establish a fishery among the Canadian Eskimos, Mary was married, at age fifteen, to Thomas Robinson. His dissipation landed the couple and their baby in debtors’ prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry, gaining her the patronage of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. On her release, Mary rose to become one of the London theater’s most alluring actresses, famously playing Perdita in The Winter’s Tale for a rapt audience that included the Prince of Wales, who fell madly in love with her. Never one to pass up an opportunity, she later used his ardent and numerous love letters as blackmail. After being struck down by paralysis, apparently following a miscarriage, she remade herself yet again, this time as a popular writer who was also admired by the leading intellectuals of the day. Filled with triumph and despair, and then triumph again, the amazing, multifaceted life of “Perdita” is marvelously captured in this stunning biography.







The Red Cockade


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Adventures during the French Revolution as related by an aristocrat in sympathy with the people.




The Scott Chronicles


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A Muslim Missionary in Mediaeval Kashmir


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Biography of Shamsu'd Din Muhammad Araki, b. 1424 an Iranian Shi's Muslim missiionary of Nūrbakhshīyah, a sect of Sufism.




The Athenaeum


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The Athenaeum


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