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|  | Blended Medicine by Michael Castleman
Description not available.Discusses the best choices in mainstream and alternative therapies for treating over 100 health conditions and ailments. AUTHOR: Michael Castleman
PUBLISHER: Rodale Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Joan New, Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New
L---d! said my mother, what is all this story about?----A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick----And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard. It is appropriate that the last line of Laurence Sterne`s digressive, irreverent narrative should serve as the best introduction to the book. A classic of English literature, Tristram Shandy was published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767, at a time when the English novel was just beginning to acquire its distinguishing features thanks to Sterne`s contemporaries, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. Sterne borrowed some of his techniques from Rabelais, and some of his ideas from Robert Burton and John Locke. The bulk of this novel, however, attests to a rare creative faculty capable of parodying much of what would become the novelistic conventions of the 18th and 19th centuries, while at the same time broadening and exploring territory that has been rediscovered only in the 20th-century. Tristram Shandy ( Shandy meaning crack-brained, half-crazy ) narrates his own genesis and development, beginning with the moment of his conception--although his digressions prevent him from taking his evolution much beyond the age of two. Through his eyes we meet his father, Walter, who is eloquent, animated, and equally fond of discursive ventures into philosophy, history, medicine, and science, all at a breakneck pace; his uncle Toby, whose main distractions are his own accounts of military strategies which he acts out with his servant Corporal Trim; the confused Mrs. Shandy; the polemical and hasty parson, Yorick; the ignorant physician, Dr. Slop; and the intractable household servant, Obadiah. Stern`s abiding loyalty to the associative nature of ideas, to immediacy, has been singled out by critics as an early form of the stream-of-consciousness technique. The countless examples of Stern`s stylistic innovations--approximating the human mind`s tendency to disorder and reassemble reality, avoiding any consistent plot or conclusion, es AUTHOR: Joan New, Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Songs of Faith by Angela Johnson
As Doreen tries to adjust to her parents' divorce, her mother goes back to school, and her younger brother, Bobo, announces that he wants to be called Robert, then completely stops talking. This novel is set in 1975 Ohio. AUTHOR: Angela Johnson
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Complete Guide to Standard Script Formats, Pt. 1 by Hillis R. Cole, Judith H. Haag
Important as it is that there be a script, equally important is the necessity for that script to be written in the correct standard format appropriate for a given filming situation. This book gives step-by-step instructions on how to prepare your script in the standard format used in the industry. AUTHOR: Hillis R. Cole, Judith H. Haag
PUBLISHER: C M C Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Black & Blue by Anna Quindlen, Lili Taylor
An abused wife named Frannie leaves home with her young son, and lives under a new identity in Florida, where she tries to make a comfortable life for the two of them. She is always in fear that her husband will find her, however, and ultimately he does, but Frannie is resilient, and survives to go on to a new life. AUTHOR: Anna Quindlen, Lili Taylor
PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Hard Rain by Dinitia Smith
Description not available.Captain Jean-Luc Picard enjoys playing the part of Dixon Hill, a hard-boiled private detective, during his holographic excursions into 1940s San Francisco, but when the Enterprise loses power, taking it into a perilous zone of warped space and time, he discovers that his alter ego holds the key to survival as he journeys back in time and into a confrontation with a cold-blooded killer. Original. AUTHOR: Dinitia Smith
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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