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The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

A Novel

By: John Rechy

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The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

A Novel

By: John Rechy

“A funny, sexy, far-fetched coming-of-age story” from the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of City of Night (The Washington Post). John Rechy—described by Gore Vidal as “one of the few original writers of the last century”—delivers a riotous bildungsroman that pays homage to the classic eighteenth-century picaresque. Loosely inspired by Fielding’s Tom Jones, The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens follows the journey of handsome Lyle Clemens as he travels through the religious fundamentalist world of Texas to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas and the enticing traps of Los Angeles’s mythologies. As Lyle approaches adulthood, everyone wants him to be something he’s not. His beautiful mother wants to make him into a reflection of the cowboy who abandoned her; a group of avaricious fundamentalists plot to convert him into “the Lord’s Cowboy” to rouse their televangelical empire to new frenzied heights; and the lovely Maria wants him to fulfill her varying fantasies of “true love.” When Lyle leaves home to make his own destiny, he encounters a gallery of charlatans and wistful souls, quirky gamblers, aging starlets, and wily pornographers. The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens is “a potent compound of both sex and rapture . . . sly, smart, sexy and laugh-out-loud funny, but it is also tinged with sorrow and ultimately elevated into the realm of magic” (The Los Angeles Times Book Review). “Ambitious and very funny . . . a tall tale, a simultaneously sweet and vicious satire of contemporary America . . . a comic tour de force and, at the same time, a truly heartfelt book.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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1555847285

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9781555847289

Euphrates Expedition

By: John. S. Guest

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Euphrates Expedition

By: John. S. Guest

First published in 1992. This book invites the reader to cast the mind a hundred and fifty years back to a short span of time between 1829 and 1842. This was an exciting period when Britain’s might, demonstrated to the world at Trafalgar and Waterloo, was fortified by leadership in steam technology and was given a new direction by the liberal philosophy that British statesmen, thinkers and poets proclaimed at home and abroad. The Euphrates expedition was an attempt by well-intentioned British governments to achieve a geopolitical end by a technological means. The objective was to halt Russian expansion in the Near East, where some observers saw a threat to Britain’s control of India.

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223

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Routledge

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1317726855

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9781317726852

Why Religions Matter

By: John Bowker

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Why Religions Matter

By: John Bowker

John Bowker demonstrates why we need to examine both negative and positive aspects of religion to understand religion in the modern world.

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361

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Cambridge University Press

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110708511X

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9781107085114

Encyclopedia of Religions

By: John G. R. Forlong

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Encyclopedia of Religions

By: John G. R. Forlong

From a decree of Charlemagne in 789 A.C. we see that human sacrifices were still common in his barbarous empire. especially among pagan Saxons. They did not begin to die out till the 9th century. Unable to prevent the sacrifice of cattle at ancient shrines, Gregory I (600 A.C.) instructed his missionaries that these were to be offered up to God and to Christ, at the new churches which often were the old sacred circles... -from "sacrifice" This 1906 classic of comparative literature, hard to find in print today, was the first English-language project to approach the world's religions from an anthropological perspective. The work of thirty years for Scottish author JAMES G. R. FORLONG (1824-1904), it was originally published under the now-antiquated title A Cyclopedia of Religions and produced at the author's own expense, so strongly did he feel about the need for it despite the reluctance of the publishing houses of the day to produce it. A road engineer by trade, Forlong traveled the world, learning seven languages and becoming an avid amateur student of native culture-his labor of love was gathering, in this three-volume set, a comprehensive, academic knowledge of the totality of human religious belief. Volume III: N-Z includes entries on such gods, peoples, places, practices, symbols, and concepts as: Na'aman, naga, oaths, and Odin pagoda, Pantheism, and Quakers Ra, runes, Shin-to, and Sophists talisman, Tertullian, unicorn, and Upanishads vana, wells, Yggdrasil, and Zeus and much more.

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538

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1605204897

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9781605204895

Stolen

By: John Wilson

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Stolen

By: John Wilson

On a visit to a seaside town in Australia, fifteen-year-old Sam meets Annabel, who works at the local museum. Annabel's interest in history is infectious, and Sam soon finds himself eager to hunt for the remains of a famous shipwreck that is thought to be hidden nearby. When a storm exposes a structure, Sam and Annabel are convinced it's the fabled ship. Soon all of the museum staff are at the site to check it out. But the same storm also destroys the museum's power and, when the alarms aren't working, someone steals the museum's most treasured artifact, worth millions. Sam and Annabel are convinced they can help and search for the thief. They soon begin to suspect that there may be a link between the fabled shipwreck and the recent theft.

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Orca Book Publishers

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1459803787

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9781459803787

Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South

1815 to the Present

By: John G. Crowley

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Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South

1815 to the Present

By: John G. Crowley

A superb study of Primitive Baptist belief and practice in a specific region of the South. Expands our knowledge of an often neglected group."--Bill Leonard, Dean, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University Between 1819 and 1848, Primitive Baptists emerged as a distinct, dominant religious group in the area of the deepest South known as the Wiregrass country. John Crowley, a historian and former Primitive minister, chronicles their origins and expansion into South Georgia and Florida, documenting one of the strongest aspects of the inner life of the local piney-woods culture. Crowley begins by examining Old Baptist worship and discipline and then addressing Primitive Baptist reaction to the Civil War, Reconstruction, Populism, Progressivism, the Depression, and finally the ferment of the 1960s and present decline of the denomination. Intensely conservative, with a strong belief in predestination, Old Baptists opposed modernizing trends sweeping their denomination in the early 19th century. Crowley describes their separation from Southern Baptists and the many internal schisms on issues such as the saving role of the gospel, the Two Seed Doctrine, and absolute as opposed to limited predestination. Going beyond doctrine, he discusses contention among Old Baptists over music, divorce, membership in secret societies, sacraments administered by heretics, and rituals such as the washing of feet. Writing with insight and sensitivity, he navigates the history of this denomination through the 20th century and the emergence of at least twenty mutually exclusive factions of Primitive Baptists in this specific region of the Deep South.

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278

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University Press of Florida

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0813065135

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9780813065137

Miscellanies. Stories and Essays

Vol. III

By: John Hollingshead

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Miscellanies. Stories and Essays

Vol. III

By: John Hollingshead

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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389

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368842161

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9783368842161

Royal Naval Biography Supplement

Or, Memoirs of the Services of All the Flag-Officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired-Captains, Post-Captains, and Commanders

By: John Marshall

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Royal Naval Biography Supplement

Or, Memoirs of the Services of All the Flag-Officers, Superannuated Rear-Admirals, Retired-Captains, Post-Captains, and Commanders

By: John Marshall

A monumental collection of biographies of contemporary naval officers, with details of their careers, first published between 1823 and 1830.

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472

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Cambridge University Press

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1108022758

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9781108022750

The Real Shelley

Volume 2

By: John Cordy Jeaffreson

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The Real Shelley

Volume 2

By: John Cordy Jeaffreson

Reproduction of the original: The Real Shelley by John Cordy Jeaffreson

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3734010535

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9783734010538

D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912

The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

By: John Worthen

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D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912

The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

By: John Worthen

Originally published in 1991, the first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence reveals a complex portrait of an extraordinary man.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521437725

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9780521437721

Color and Culture

Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

By: John Gage

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Color and Culture

Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

By: John Gage

An encyclopaedic work on color in Western art and culture from the Middle Ages to Post-Modernism.

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Univ of California Press

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0520222253

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9780520222250

Drawing Spiders Volume 1 - How to Draw Spiders For the Beginner

By: Adrian Sanqui,John Davidson

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Drawing Spiders Volume 1 - How to Draw Spiders For the Beginner

By: Adrian Sanqui,John Davidson

TABLE OF CONTENTS Drawing tools Parts of a Spider Peacock Spider Gasteracantha Arcuata Brazilian Pinkbloom Tarantula Black Widow Author Bio Publisher

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Mendon Cottage Books

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1310827672

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Book's by John Peacock

The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens

Euphrates Expedition

Euphrates Expedition

Why Religions Matter

Why Religions Matter

Encyclopedia of Religions

Encyclopedia of Religions

Stolen

Stolen

Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South

Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South

Miscellanies. Stories and Essays

Miscellanies. Stories and Essays

Royal Naval Biography Supplement

Royal Naval Biography Supplement

The Real Shelley

The Real Shelley

D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912

D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912

Color and Culture

Color and Culture

Drawing Spiders Volume 1 - How to Draw Spiders For the Beginner

Drawing Spiders Volume 1 - How to Draw Spiders For the Beginner

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