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  The Light Princess

  George MacDonald

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  libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. 
  Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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  Swimming with the Blowfish -...

  Jim Sonefeld

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  The ultimate front-row seat to Hootie  the Blowfish and Jim “Soni" Sonefeld’s breathtaking path from addiction to recovery.For a time, there was no bigger band in the world than Hootie  the Blowfish—rock  roll’s unexpected foil to the grunge music that dominated the early ’90s airwaves. Jim Sonefeld, drummer and one of the group’s principal songwriters, reveals their humble beginnings, meteoric rise, Grammy Award–winning musicianship, sudden fall, and ultimate rebirth—and opens his heart to readers about addiction, recovery, and faith.Hootie’s debut album Cracked Rear View was one of the bestselling in the history of rock music. It saturated radio airwaves, television, and culture, and placed the quartet at the center of the American music conversation—for better and for worse. Though Jim enjoyed the perks that came with fame—the parties, the relationships, the money, the drugs and alcohol—eventually it all became a camouflage that hid a deeper spiritual malady. As his life careened toward disaster, he sought relief in twelve-step recovery, eventually devoting himself to a loving but by no means uncomplicated home life.Swimming with the Blowfish is an unpretentious, emotional story of one man’s spiritual path to a more fruitful life. Jim’s journey is staggering and redeeming, and ultimately as comforting as your favorite flannel shirt.

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  The Rivals - A Radio Dramatization

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of Restoration comedies) to counteract the sentimental mode. The Rivals (1775) was a qualified success: the suave young officer who is 'forced' by his father to marry the very girl to whom he is secretly engaged must always please; but first audiences were as uncertain as later critics about how to evaluate his neurotic friend Faulkland, who invents a series of caveats for his marriage to the earnest Julia. A country squire who becomes alarmingly foppish in town, an impetuous Irishman and the linguistically challenged Mrs Malaprop complete the cast.

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  Camille Pissarro - The Audacity...

  Anka Muhlstein

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  From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity. 
   
   
   
  The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French painting, he was a close friend of Monet, a longtime associate in Degas's and Mary Cassatt's experimental work, a support to Cézanne and Gauguin, and a comfort to Van Gogh, and was backed by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel throughout his career. Nevertheless, he felt a persistent sense of being set apart, different, and hard to classify. Settled in France from the age of twenty-five but born in the Caribbean, he was not French and what is more he was Jewish. Although a resolute atheist who never interjected political or religious messages in his art, he was fully aware of the consequences of his lineage. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on Pissarro's considerable body of work and a vast collection of letters that show his unrestrained thoughts, Anka Muhlstein offers a nuanced, intimate portrait of the artist whose independent spirit fostered an environment of freedom and autonomy.

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  Art of the Heart

  Mary Emmerling

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  The iconic symbol of love everlasting in charming, quirky, gorgeous collectibles. 
  As jewelry, fashion, and home décor, the stylized, iconic heart wins  us over. We wear it around our necks and on our classy cowgirl boots; it  enhances our horse gear and saddle bags; it distinguishes our style  from head to toe and lavishes our home with love and sweetness. Here are  more than 250 examples of the heart in exquisitely crafted silver and  myriad other materials, doing what it does best—capturing our hearts! 
  Mary Emmerling is the best-selling author of more than 25 books. She  was the creative director of Country Home Magazine for ten years. She  hosted HGTV’s Country At Home show, worked as the decorating editor for  House Beautiful, and was editor-in-chief of her own Mary Emmerling  Country Magazine for the New York Times. She now lives in Santa Fe. She  authored Art of the Cross and Art of Turquoise with Jim Arndt. 
  Jim Arndt is the author of How to Be a Cowboy and photographed Art of  the Cross, Art of Turquoise, and several Cowboy Boot books. He lives in  Santa Fe.

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  Up All Night - My Life and Times...

  Carol Miller

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  From “the voice that drew a generation of teenage boys to their radios,” a memoir detailing the veteran radio DJ’s career and celebrity relationships (New York Times). 
   
  Carol Miller is indisputably America’s premiere female rock ’n’ roll disc jockey, as her well-deserved induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame proves. 
   
  In her illuminating, fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking memoir, Up All Night, the legendary “Nightbird” tells the story of her colorful career—her rise to success in a male-dominated music industry; her close and personal dealings with rock royalty like Bruce Springsteen (whose music she first introduced to New York radio), Sir Paul McCartney, and Steven Tyler (whom she dated)—and details openly and honestly her battle against breast cancer for the very first time. 
   
  “Radio legend Carol Miller . . . the sultry-voiced and still-fabulous airwaves icon . . . is a beloved veteran of . . . classic rock.” —New York Post  
   
  “Entertaining . . . fiercely honest.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “[Miller’s] enthusiasm for rock ’n’ roll vividly colors her life. . . . Of interest to aspiring or working DJs.” —Kirkus Reviews

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