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This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson’s ...

This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson’s ...

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Fassler, Joe. “Marilynne Robinson on Democracy, Reading, and Religion in America.” The Atlantic (May 16, 2012). n. pag. Web. 11 Aug. 2014. Fay, Sarah. “ Marilynne Robinson: The Art of Fiction No. 198.” Paris Review 186 (Fall 2008): 37–66.
Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and ...

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and ...

Marilynne K. Roach

Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials.
Contesting Christendom: Readings in Medieval Religion and ...

Contesting Christendom: Readings in Medieval Religion and ...

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Roach. Historians have long debated the appearance of significant dissident and heretical groups in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The most ... The following selection by Andrew P. Roach is a good example of this point of view. Roach ...
The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a ...

The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a ...

Marilynne K. Roach

The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of archival research--including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents--newly found cases and court records.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science.
Lila

Lila

Marilynne Robinson

Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Orange Prize-winning Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence.
A Study Guide for Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead"

A Study Guide for Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead"

Gale, Cengage Learning

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson was published in 2004 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, amid widespread acclaim. This epistolary novel presents a sympathetic portrait of Reverend John Ames, who writes about his life and his ...
Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

Mary Roach

Along the way she encounters electromagnetic hauntings, out-of-body experiences, ghosts and lawsuits: Mary Roach sifts and weighs the evidence in her hilarious, inimitable style.
Zoological Catalogue of Australia:

Zoological Catalogue of Australia:

James K. Lowry

... A.M.E. Roach DERMAPTERA by G. Cassis PHASMATODEA by J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach EMBIOPTERA by G. Cassis ZORAPTERA by T.R. New Published 2 September 1998 24 ORTHOPTERA 24.1 Ensifera 24.2 Caelifera ...
Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex And Science

Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex And Science

Mary Roach

Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach.
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Mary Roach

" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we ...
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach

Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth-can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
Crustacea: Malacostraca : Phyllocardia, Hoplocardia, Eucarida

Crustacea: Malacostraca : Phyllocardia, Hoplocardia, Eucarida

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... D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach DERMAPTERA by G. Cassis PHASMATODEA by J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach EMBIOPTERA by G. Cassis ZORAPTERA by T.R. New Published 2 September 1998 24 ORTHOPTERA 24.l Ensifera ...
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Mary Roach

In this international bestseller, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis' doctor, ...
Zoological Catalogue of Australia

Zoological Catalogue of Australia

P. J. F. Davie

... J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach DERMAPTERA by G. Cassis PHASMATODEA by J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach KMBIOPTERA by G. Cassis ZORAPTERA by T.R. New Published 2 September 1998 24 ORTHOPTERA ...
Hemiptera

Hemiptera

Gerasimos Cassis

Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach DERMAPTERA by G. Cassis PHASMATODEA by J. Balderson, D.C.F. Rentz & A.M.E. Roach EMB1OPTERA by G. Cassis ZORAPTERA by T.R. New Published 2 September 1998 24 ORTHOPTERA ...
The Warren Companion: The Definitive Compendium to the Great ...

The Warren Companion: The Definitive Compendium to the Great ...

David A. Roach

The Definitive Compendium to the Great Comics of Warren Publishing David A. Roach, Jon B. Cooke .... By the late '50s, Fleetway Publications like Valentine, Mirabelle, Roxy, and Marilyn were almost entirely Spanish-drawn, and S.I. was ...
Home

Home

Marilynne Robinson

Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story.
The Givenness of Things: Essays

The Givenness of Things: Essays

Marilynne Robinson

These seventeen essays examine the ideas that have inspired and provoked one of our finest writers throughout her life.
Gilead

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

You might not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed moved and ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the novel from within' Neel Mukherjee, The Times 'Writing of this quality, with an authority as ...
When I Was A Child I Read Books

When I Was A Child I Read Books

Marilynne Robinson

Clear-eyed, eloquent and profoundly insightful, with these essays Robinson demonstrates once again why she is one of our best-loved writers. 'Like Wollstonecraft, Robinson's intellect is threatening.
Drowning in Rational Discourse: Strategies of Survival in ...

Drowning in Rational Discourse: Strategies of Survival in ...

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I will then investigate the ways in which women negotiate rationality both within and beyond the social structure through analysis of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks. Introduction ...
Housekeeping

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

From the Orange Prize winning author of Home Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.
A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson

A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson

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From an exploration of the democratic potential in being a "housekeeper of homelessness" to a study of models of action against racial injustice, this volume provides fascinating new insights into Robinson's work and how it reflects and ...
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

Marilynne Robinson

Ten essays explore a range of social, political, religious, and cultural issues of the present day, sharing the author's thoughts on Darwinism, McGuffey readers, and the religious right.
Grunt

Grunt

Mary Roach

Beyond weapons and strategy, this is about the other side of war – how scientists protect soldiers from panic, exhaustion, heat and noise.

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