Acanthus mollis
A horticultural survivor from Ancient Greek and Roman times, Acanthus mollis is one of the great garden plants. It was so highly regarded in the ancient world that a motif shaped like an acanthus leaf was used to decorate the tops of Corinthian ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Survivor Island, Sabah
Brendon heads to the Survivor Island of Sabah to outwit, outlast and outplay! Are you ready to take the challenge? Heading to Tribal Council On Survivor Island Hanging around Brendon is about to be voted off Thursday, April 15, 2004 Brendon heads ... [... more]
Getaway |
Ann Louise Bardach
From America's number one Cuba reporter, PEN award-winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we've all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century's wiliest political survivor ... [... more]
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George R. Stewart
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world ... [... more]
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Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
The Squatter and the Don Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton "The Squatter and the Don, like its author, has come out a survivor," notes Ana Castillo in her Introduction. "The fact that it has resurfaced after more than a century from its original [... more]
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Peter Coyote
On his way to visit his recently divorced father in the Canadian mountains, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only survivor when the single-engine plane crashes. His body battered, his clothes in shreds, Brian must now stay alive in the ... [... more]
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June Sprigg
In Simple Gifts, June Sprigg tells the story of one of America's last Shaker communities--Canterbury Shaker Village, in Canterbury, New Hampshire--during its twilight years, and of its seven remarkable "survivor" women, who were among the last . [... more]
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Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
is a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. Her experiences are reflected in her poetry collection, Ghost Children, and in her Slava Trilogy, The Old Brown Suitcase, The Sunflower Diary, and The Lenski File. She lives in Vancouver. Compiled by Lillian ... [... more]
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K.J. Bishop
Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner, a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believes ... [... more]
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H. G. Adler
H. G. Adler, born in Prague in 1910, was the author of twenty-six books of fiction, poetry, philosophy, and history. A survivor of Theresienstadt, Adler is best known for his studies of day-to-day life there, as documented in Theresienstadt ... [... more]
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Patrick White
Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. He died in 1990. Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific ... [... more]
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Steven Farmer, M.A., M.F.C.C.
A history of a childhood abuse is not a life sentence. Here is hope, healing, and a chance to recover the self lost in childhood. Drawing on his extensive work with Adult Children, and on his own experience as a survivor of emotional neglect, ... [... more]
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