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Who is Mary Stark

By: Lloyd Kropp

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An epitaph on a tombstone: “Alleged name Mary Stark. Died January 1, 1966. An Unknown Life.” Of the three people most closely touched by Mary Stark, one is a young girl who learns—through her—what it means to be haunted. The second is an attendant in a mental hospital where Mary is a patient who to claims to know him; in searching for her in his memory, and in the record of his life as it is written or remembered by others, he finds clues to both their identities. And the third is a student at a small college who falls under the spell of Mary Stark, a woman whose bizarre powers almost destroy him. Who Mary Stark really is, what she represents, and how the enigma of her life is finally solved- these the suspenseful elements of this fascinating and ingenious novel.

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0307814971

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9780307814975

The Drift

By: Lloyd Kropp

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The Drift

By: Lloyd Kropp

Somewhere in the heart of the Sargasso Sea, according to legend, there lies a calm body of water where all the wrecked ships of history find their way. Peter Sutherland, a youngish college professor weathering his first divorce, takes a Caribbean cruise in search of relaxation. Suddenly, a violent storm comes up, and sweeps him out into the Atlantic, clinging to a small rowboat. After many days, he is rescuedby the gentle people who live on the Drift, a floating city of French brigantines, Spanish galleons, English caravels, and Portugese men-of-war, hidden for hundreds of years at the center of the Sargasso Sea. Although incredulous at first, Peter slowly falls under the spell of the beguiling paradise in which he has awakened, a process hastened by the presence of Pao, a bewitching, dark-haired girl of seventeen who hopes to charm him so completely that he will never want to leave her. As his love for Pao deepens, Peter's mind and senses grow strangely alive, and he finds himself immersed in a world of feeling and intuition he has never known. Both frightened and attracted by the power of the Drift, Peter must finally wrestle with the dilemma of how, and whether, to return to the land-locked life from which he has been both exiled and released. Beneath the hauntingly lovely surface of this novel, the author has dislodged some bedrock questions about the nature of man's life, and the choices with which we are all confronted. In Peter's agonizing attempt to decide whether the Drift is real or only a seductive hallucination, and in his dilemma of whether to stay or leave, the reader will find a disturbing echo of his own fantasies about what is "real", or possible, or even desirable, within the private Drift that each of us inhabits.

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Doubleday

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0307814963

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9780307814968

One Hundred Times to China

By: Lloyd Kropp

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One Hundred Times to China

By: Lloyd Kropp

Black-robed priests roam the countryside with shotguns. The Green Legionnaires break into houses. Acid rains ruin the forest of America, as hordes of refugees from the desolate northern cities travel south for the most terrible of winters. For Arthur Ferrier and his family, the pleasant town of South Haven has long been home. But what was once so familiar and comfortable has now been dissolved into a frightening strangeness. The local newspaper stops delivering, the power fails, and then come the food riots and the closing of the hospitals. For reasons no one really seems to understand, the centers of civilized life are breaking apart all around them. But Arthur remembers his father’s dream, and he fingers the key around his neck—a key that opens a lock to a door far away in the northern mountains, a place where he and Marilyn, his wife, hope to live and raise their children in peace. Thus begins the odyssey of the Ferrier family as they pursue their last hope: the safe haven prepared by a wise grandfather. It is a journey filled with adventure, peril, and desperate faith. And One Hundred Times to China is a novel of terror, courage, and one family’s fight for survival with life’s greatest gift as its only weapon—their love for one another.

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Doubleday

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030781498X

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9780307814982

The Cleopatras

The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

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The Cleopatras

The Forgotten Queens of Egypt

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name. In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic story of these seven incomparable women, vividly recapturing the lost world of Hellenistic Egypt and tracing the kingdom’s final centuries before its fall to Rome. The Cleopatras were Greek-speaking descendants of Ptolemy, the general who conquered Egypt alongside Alexander the Great. They were closely related as mothers, daughters, sisters, half-sisters, and nieces. Each wielded absolute power, easily overshadowing their husbands or sons, and all proved to be shrewd and capable leaders. Styling themselves as goddess-queens, the Cleopatras ruled through the canny deployment of arcane rituals, opulent spectacles, and unparalleled wealth. They navigated political turmoil and court intrigues, led armies into battle and commanded fleets of ships, and ruthlessly dispatched their dynastic rivals. The Cleopatras is a fascinating and richly textured biography of seven extraordinary women, restoring these queens to their deserved place among history’s greatest rulers.

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Basic Books

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1541602935

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9781541602939

Outcome Measurement in Psychiatry

A Critical Review

By: Lloyd I. Sederer

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Outcome Measurement in Psychiatry

A Critical Review

By: Lloyd I. Sederer

This remarkable volume offers a critical analysis of outcome assessment in psychiatry, which allows us to assess not only the measurable domains (i.e., symptoms, functioning, quality of life, and perception of care), but also the standards and instruments used to judge the quality of care.

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American Psychiatric Pub

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0880481196

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9780880481199

Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period

Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Alex McAuley

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Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period

Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III

By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Alex McAuley

Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is a cutting-edge exploration of ancient queenship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. This volume, the first full-length study of Kleopatra III and Kleopatra Thea and their careers as queens of Egypt and Syria, thoroughly examines the roles and ideology of royal daughters, wives, and queens in Egypt, the ancient Near East, and ancient Israel and provides a comprehensive study of the iconography, public image, and titles of each queen and their cultural precedents. In addition, this book also offers an introduction to the critical concept of the ‘High Hellenistic Period’ and the maturation of royal female power in the second century BCE. Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is suitable for students and scholars in ancient history, Egyptology, classics, and gender studies, as well as the general reader interested in ancient queenship, ancient Egypt, the Hellenistic world, and gender in antiquity.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351797441

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9781351797443

När vi var fåglar

By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

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När vi var fåglar

By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Det här är en spökberättelse, en kolonial thriller, en kärlekshistoria. Darwin och Yejide lär känna varandra på kyrkogården i Port Angeles, Trinidad. Båda har något som den andra behöver, och båda bär på familjehemligheter som de måste befria sig från. Darwin har vuxit upp som rastafari och har lärt sig att döden måste undvikas till varje pris, medan Yejide som alla kvinnor i sin släkt har ärvt förmågan att hjälpa döende själar till andra sidan. På den gamla mytomspunna kyrkogården tvingas de möta både det förflutna och framtiden samtidigt som staden håller på att explodera. Ayana Lloyd Banwos hyllade debutroman är magisk realism i modern tappning, en berättelse om sorg och återfödelse som för tankarna till Toni Morrison och Arundhati Roy.

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223

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Albert Bonniers Förlag

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9100802018

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9789100802011

Who is Mary Stark

By: Lloyd Kropp

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By: Lloyd Kropp

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The Drift

By: Lloyd Kropp

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By: Lloyd Kropp

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Who is Mary Stark

Who is Mary Stark

The Drift

The Drift

One Hundred Times to China

One Hundred Times to China

The Cleopatras

The Cleopatras

Outcome Measurement in Psychiatry

Outcome Measurement in Psychiatry

Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period

Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period

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Who is Mary Stark

Who is Mary Stark

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