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Alan Michael Parker's latest collection, The Age of Discovery, is a work of enduring beauty, filled with his signature tenderness and surprise. Parker's interests range from the Psalms to the Internet, from a woman stepping out her window to die to two men trying to learn how to live as they argue in a rowboat. With an eye on some of the greatest love poets (Amichai, Mistral, Neruda), Parker delivers a collection deep in empathy, rigorously at...

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KGB spy Aleksandra Zolotov has three secrets that may end her life. - She can see the future. - Her mission to seduce a powerful US Senator is doomed to fail. - To survive, she must sacrifice everything she's ever loved. In a world where her enemies are her only allies, Aleksandra plays a dangerous game of secrets, lies, and betrayal where one wrong move will leave her tortured, murdered, or worse. Will this broken product of a brutal system f...

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Verschwundene aufzuspüren gehört zum Alltagsgeschäft des heruntergekommenen Privatschnüfflers Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke). Er ist hinter dem Sänger Johnny Favorite her, dessen Spur sich vor zwölf Jahren in den Wirren des Krieges verloren hat. Den ersten Zeugen, den er in die Mangel nehmen will, findet Angel mit einer Kugel im Kopf. Auch zur ehemaligen Geliebten Favorites, einer attraktiven, aber auch sehr mysteriösen Wahrsagerin, kommt er zu s...

Verschwundene aufzuspüren gehört zum Alltagsgeschäft des heruntergekommenen Privatschnüfflers Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke). Er ist hinter dem Sänger Johnny Favorite her, dessen Spur sich vor zwölf Jahren in den Wirren des Krieges verloren hat. Den ersten Zeugen, den er in die Mangel nehmen will, findet Angel mit einer Kugel im Kopf. Auch zur ehemaligen Geliebten Favorites, einer attraktiven, aber auch sehr mysteriösen Wahrsagerin, kommt er zu s...

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In a story that could only be told by someone who was an insider, this book reveals the background behind major legislative achievements of U.S. Tribal Nations leaders in the 1970s and beyond. American Indian attorney and proud Chippewa Cree Nation citizen Alan R. Parker gives insight into the design and development of the public policy initiatives that led to major changes in the U.S. government's relationships with Tribal Nations. A valuable...

Introduces modern issues in the theory of algorithms, emphasizing complexity, graphs, parallel processing, and visualization. This book uses an appropriate subset of frequently utilized and representative algorithms and applications in order to demonstrate the unique and modern aspects of the C++ programming language.

Brings a uniquely global perspective to bear on modern verse. Readers will be delighted with this comprehensive volume, providing biographical information on the greatest poets of the century, and critical accounts of their work.

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In light of her impending death, thirteen-year-old Beatrice Danzig has changed her name to Christmas. She's at the center of Christmas in July, a novel in ten stories told by ten residents of suburban Saxon Hills: the bored wife of a senior softball slugger, a socialite with a glitter fixation, a beekeeping hermit, a young runaway who can't outrun her past. The novel explores each of these people's lives before and after meeting Christmas-as w...

Hast du Soul? Dann komm zu der Band, die mehr schuftet als jede andere auf dieser Welt! - Armut und Langeweile bringen Deco (Andrew Strong), den blutjungen Leadsänger mit der riesigen Soulstimme, und andere junge Musiktalente dazu, Dublins schwärzeste Garagenband zu gründen. Doch nach schweißtreibenden Probenmonaten und ersten umjubelten Auftritten stellen sich Probleme ein - und die Einsicht, dass Talent nun mal nicht alles ist...

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A debut novel in which an industrial downsizer faces small-town racism, political hardball, and the chance for love and redemption

From the highly acclaimed director of "Midnight Express" and" The Commitments" comes a sparkling story of a pickpocket's odyssey through America. During the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, seven-year-old Thomas Moran finds himself accidentally embarking on a career in pick-pocketing. In the following years he becomes a master of his dubious craft and grows to manhood traveling from state to state across America. His picaresque journey takes ...

An absurd look at democracy and bureaucracy, The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk

The last word on Sid Vicious - the world's most iconic punk figure