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1791, Mozart's Last Year

1791, Mozart's Last Year

H. C. Robbins Landon

One of the world's leading musicologists, H.C. Robbins Landon is justly renowned for his rare ability to communicate the excitement of discovery. This is a major contribution to the literature of Mozart.
The Mozart Essays

The Mozart Essays

Howard Chandler Robbins Landon

Collection of essays and articles on Mozart In The Mozart Essays, the renowned musicologist H. C. Robbins Landon, author of the internationally acclaimed 1791: Mozart's Last Year and Mozart: The Golden Years, and editor of The Mozart ...
Five centuries of music in Venice

Five centuries of music in Venice

Howard Chandler Robbins Landon

Eminent music historian H.C. Robbins Landon and acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich combine their talents in examining the unique role of music in the life of Venice and Venice in the life of music.
Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque

Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque

H. C. Robbins Landon

This book includes illustrations of eighteenth-century Venice and several newly translated letters.
Haydn, a Documentary Study

Haydn, a Documentary Study

Howard Chandler Robbins Landon

Numerous musical examples and illustrations support this concise account of the great Austrian composer's career
Five Centuries of Music in Venice

Five Centuries of Music in Venice

Howard Chandler Robbins Landon

This lavishly illustrated book examines the unique relationships between the life of Venice and the history of music.
Mozart and the Masons: New Light on the Lodge "Crowned Hope"

Mozart and the Masons: New Light on the Lodge "Crowned Hope"

Howard Chandler Robbins Landon

Briefly outlines the history of freemasonry, discusses Mozart's connection with the group, and looks at its influence on his work
Mozart: The Golden Years, 1781-1791

Mozart: The Golden Years, 1781-1791

Howard Chandler Robbins Landon

From the author of 1791: Mozarts Last Year and general editor of The Mozart Compendium, this international bestseller has received widespread critical acclaim.
Wishing For Us

Wishing For Us

Sydney Landon

Sydney Landon—New York Times bestselling author of The One for Me—delivers a new novel of love lost and found in her popular Danvers series.
Fierce Attractions

Fierce Attractions

Juliet Landon

Scandalous Innocent by Juliet Landon Phoebe shared more than her unruly dark curls with the ancestor whose portrait graced the walls of Ham House.
Baboushka and the Three Kings: Adapted from a Russian Folk Tale

Baboushka and the Three Kings: Adapted from a Russian Folk Tale

Ruth Robbins

Adapted from a Russian Folk Tale Ruth Robbins. juvenile Collection PZ s • ; • F- j SI 5-. COPYRIGHT 1960 BY RUTH ROBBINS FOR STORY, BY NICOLAS SIDJAKOV FOR ILLUSTRATIONS • PUI OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARO NUMBER: ...
Abounding Health Naturally

Abounding Health Naturally

Sharon Jean Wiginton

Eating for Health and Wellness, a CD set by Dr. Joel Robbins, DC, ND, MD Health through Nutrition, a CD set by Dr. Joel Robbins, DC, ND, MD Juicing for Health, a book and CD set by Dr. Joel Robbins, DC, ND, MD Attitudes and Health , a CD ...
Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins

Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins

The first ever collection of short fiction and nonfiction essays from one of the world's most beloved and original bestselling authors. Wild Ducks Flying Backward is classic Tom Robbins - and a must for fans and newcomers alike.
Memories of Another Day

Memories of Another Day

Harold Robbins

Harold Robbins, the world's most popular and captivating storyteller, has created what may well be the most significant book ever written about the rise of the labor unions.
Another Roadside Attraction

Another Roadside Attraction

Tom Robbins

Welcome return from the legendarily zany Tom Robbins.
Angel of the Cove

Angel of the Cove

Sandra S. Robbins

In the first book in the Smoky Mountain Dreams series, acclaimed author Sandra Robbins weaves a tale of love, loss, and God's faithfulness in every circumstance.
Beyond These Hills

Beyond These Hills

Sandra Robbins

In the third and final book in the Smoky Mountain Dreams series, acclaimed author Sandra Robbins brings a dramatic conclusion to the story of the families of Cades Cove.
Skinny Legs and All

Skinny Legs and All

Tom Robbins

In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel? From the Hardcover edition.
No Denying You: A Danvers Novel

No Denying You: A Danvers Novel

Sydney Landon

A Danvers Novel Sydney Landon. SIGNET ECLIPSE Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 375 Hudson Street, New York, NewYork 10014 USA|Canada|UK|Ireland|Australia|New Zealand|India|South Africa|China  ...
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

Tom Robbins

No novelist sees the world in all its mesmerising contradictions like Tom Robbins, the New York Times bestselling author of Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas.
Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua ...

Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua ...

Joel Robbins

Exploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the nature of cultural change more generally.
Tom Robbins: A Critical Companion

Tom Robbins: A Critical Companion

Catherine Elizabeth Hoyser

Presents a chronology of the life of American author Tom Robbins (1936- ), provided by Dale Kirby. Offers access to a bibliography and other related resources.
Pater to Forster, 1873-1924

Pater to Forster, 1873-1924

Ruth Robbins

In this essential guide, Ruth Robbins explores an era often named an 'age of transition' which exists uneasily between the apparent certainties of the Victorians and the advent of a Modernist aesthetics of instability.
B Is for Beer

B Is for Beer

Tom Robbins

Yes, believe it or not—but B Is for Beer is also a book for adults, and bear in mind that it's the work of maverick bestselling novelist Tom Robbins, inter-nationally known for his ability to both seriously illuminate and comically ...
Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library ...

Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library ...

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cases, such as Louise Robbins' study of the McCarthyism in libraries (Robbins 1996), coincidental evidence of the effects of persecution of gay library employees may surface in the course of another investigation entirely, and merely require ...
Fighting For You: A Danvers Novel

Fighting For You: A Danvers Novel

Sydney Landon

A Danvers Novel Sydney Landon. INTERMIX BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) LLC 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA USA • Canada • UK • Ireland • Australia • NewZealand• India • South  ...
Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance

Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theater, His Dance

Deborah Jowitt

Presents the life of Jerome Robbins who began as a modern dancer and went on to become an influential choreographer whose work changed the course of ballet and musical comedy in America.

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