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Get your favorite book Victorian Fantasy for read online.

Victorian Fantasy
By:"Stephen Prickett"
Published on 2005-01-01 by Baylor University Press

Far from being just children's literature, Victorian fantasy is an art form that flourished in opposition to the repressive social and intellectual conditions of “Victorianism.” In this fully revised and expanded edition, Stephen Prickett explores the way in which Victorian writers used non-realistic techniques—nonsense, dreams, visions, and the creation of other worlds—to extend our understanding of this world. In particular, Prickett focuses on six writers (Lear, Carroll, Kingsley, MacDonald, Kipling, and Nesbit), tracing the development of their art form, their influence on each other, and how these writers used fantasy to question the ideology of Victorian culture and society.

This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

Get your favorite book The Diary of Thomas Minor, Stonington, Connecticut, 1653-1684 for read online.

The Diary of Thomas Minor, Stonington, Connecticut, 1653-1684
By:"Thomas Minor"
Published on 1899 by

This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword diary.

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Music in the World of Islam
By:"Amnon Shiloah"
Published on 2001-08-01 by Wayne State University Press

Provides basic musicological information about a vast variety of Middle Eastern musical genres within an ethnomusical context.

This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne for read online.

Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne
By:"Laura Matilda Towne"
Published on 1912 by

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword diary.

Get your favorite book Fantasy Life for read online.

Fantasy Life
By:"Matthew Berry"
Published on 2014-07-01 by Penguin

An inside assessment of the world of fantasy sports by the ESPN Senior Fantasy Analyst reveals the life-shaping impact of the multi-billion-dollar national pastime while chronicling his own rise to a leading figure in fantasy sports.

This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

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Killing Monsters
By:"Gerard Jones"
Published on 2008-08-04 by Basic Books

Children choose their heroes more carefully than we think. From Pokémon to the rapper Eminem, pop-culture icons are not simply commercial pied pipers who practice mass hypnosis on our youth. Indeed, argues the author of this lively and persuasive paean to the power of popular culture, even trashy or violent entertainment gives children something they need, something that can help both boys and girls develop in a healthy way. Drawing on a wealth of true stories, many gleaned from the fascinating workshops he conducts, and basing his claims on extensive research, including interviews with psychologists and educators, Gerard Jones explains why validating our children's fantasies teaches them to trust their own emotions and build stronger selves.

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

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Parrots of the World
By:"Joseph M. Forshaw"
Published on 2010-09-27 by Princeton University Press

From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world--and also among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, easy-to-use field guide covers all 356 species and well-differentiated subspecies of parrots, and is the only guide organized by geographical distribution--Australasian, Afro-Asian, and neotropical. It features 146 superb color plates depicting every kind of parrot, as well as detailed, facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status. Color distribution maps show ranges of all subspecies, and field identification is further aided by relevant upperside and underside flight images. This premier field guide also shows where to observe each species in the wild, helping make this the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the parrots of the world. The only parrot guide to focus on geographical distribution Covers all 356 species Features 146 color plates depicting all species and well-differentiated subspecies Provides detailed facing-page species accounts that describe key identification features, distribution, subspeciation, habitat, and status Includes color distribution maps Shows where to observe each species in the wild

This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book The World Book encyclopedia for read online.

The World Book encyclopedia
By:"World Book, Inc"
Published on 1987 by

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book A Friend for Zipper for read online.

A Friend for Zipper
By:"Heather Grovet"
Published on 2008-01-01 by Pacific Press Publishing

When Ruth-Ann's cousin Kaitlin gets a new pony, the girls try to figure out why the pony does not respond to their attempts to train it. Includes information about horse and pony health.

This Book was ranked 28 by Google Books for keyword friend.

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Notes from a Friend
By:"Anthony Robbins"
Published on 1995-08-01 by Simon and Schuster

Offers a path to life change through action and suggests techniques for taking control of one's life

This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword friend.

Get your favorite book Beyond the Marriage Fantasy for read online.

Beyond the Marriage Fantasy
By:"Daniel Beaver"
Published on 1995 by Harpercollins

A guide for couples presents guidelines for a healthy and satisfying marriage through giving up on unrealistic expectations, sharing emotional intimacy, developing communication skills, and avoiding destructive behavior. Reprint.

This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

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Modern Classics of Fantasy
By:"Gardner Dozois"
Published on 2014-10-28 by St. Martin's Press

While humanity has been telling fantastic stories for millennia, fantasy fiction has only come into its own as a genre in the latter half of the twentieth century, as the works of such writers as J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard have found a wide audience. This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy's heyday with 33 masterpieces of short fiction, ranging from 1940s stories by L. Sprague de Camp, H.L.Gold, Fritz Leiber, and Manly Wade Wellman to more recent tales by such towering modern talents as Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Tanith Lee, Michael Swanwick, Judith Tarr, Howard Waldrop, Jane Yolen, and Roger Zelazny. Just as Gardner Dozois's Modern Classics of Science Fiction has helped longtime fans and new readers alike discover the genre's finest short stories, so too shall this anthology allow readers to find in one volume more than two dozen masterworks of fantasy.

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

Get your favorite book The Diary of Mr. James Melvill, 1556-1601 for read online.

The Diary of Mr. James Melvill, 1556-1601
By:"James Melville","George Ritchie Kinloch"
Published on 1829 by

This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword diary.

Get your favorite book Diary of John Rous for read online.

Diary of John Rous
By:"John Rous","Camden Society (Great Britain)"
Published on 1856 by

This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword diary.

Get your favorite book Around the World in Eighty Days for read online.

Around the World in Eighty Days
By:"Jules Verne"
Published on 2005-03-01 by Collector's Library

Chronicles the adventures of English gentleman Phileas Fogg and his manservant, Passepartout, on their journey around the world in the late-nineteenth-century.

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book A Short History of the World for read online.

A Short History of the World
By:"Herbert George Wells"
Published on 1922 by

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book Fantasy and Horror for read online.

Fantasy and Horror
By:"Neil Barron"
Published on 1999-01-01 by

More than 2,300 works of fiction and poetry are discussed, each cross-referenced to other works with similar or contrasting themes. Winners and nominees for major awards are identified. Books that are part of a series are flagged, with a complete list of books in series included in a final chapter, along with a comprehensive list of awards, of translations, and of young adult and children's books.

This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

Get your favorite book On the Margins of the World for read online.

On the Margins of the World
By:"Michel Agier"
Published on 2008 by Polity

Translated from French.

This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book Staging the World for read online.

Staging the World
By:"Rebecca E. Karl"
Published on 2002-04-01 by Duke University Press

In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911. She argues that at this historical moment a growing Chinese identification with what we now call the Third World first made the modern world visible as a totality and that the key components of Chinese nationalist discourse developed in reference to this worldview. The emergence of Chinese nationalism during this period is often portrayed as following from China’s position vis-à-vis Japan and the West. Karl has mined the archives of the late Qing period to discern the foci of Chinese intellectuals from 1895 to 1911 to assert that even though the China/Japan/West triangle was crucial, it alone is an incomplete—and therefore flawed—model of the development of nationalism in China. Although the perceptions and concerns of these thinkers form the basis of Staging the World, Karl begins by examining a 1904 Shanghai production of an opera about a fictional partition of Poland and its modern reincarnation as an ethno-nation. By focusing on the type of dialogue this opera generated in China, Karl elucidates concepts such as race, colonization, globalization, and history. From there, she discusses how Chinese conceptions of nationalism were affected by the “discovery” of Hawai’i as a center of the Pacific, the Philippine revolution against the United States, and the relationship between nationality and ethnicity made apparent by the Boer War in South Africa.

This Book was ranked 33 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book Shared Fantasy for read online.

Shared Fantasy
By:"Gary Alan Fine"
Published on 2002-08-14 by University of Chicago Press

This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the patterns of interaction among players—as well as their reasons for playing.

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

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Franks and Saracens
By:"Avner Falk"
Published on 2010 by Karnac Books

This is the first and only book to examine the Crusades from the added viewpoint of psychoanalysis, studying the hidden emotions and fantasies that drove the Crusaders and the Muslims to undertake their terrible wars. The reader will learn that the deepest and most poweful motives for the Crusades were not only religious or territorial - or the quest for lands, wealth or titles - but also unconscious emotions and fantasies about one's country, one's religion, one's enemies, God and the Devil, and Us and Them. The book also focuses on the collective inability to mourn large-group losses and the collective needs of large groups such as nations and religions to develop a clear identity, to have boundaries, and to have enemies and allies. Motives which the Crusaders and the Muslims were not aware of were among the most powerful in driving several centuries of terrible and seemingly endless warfare.

This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

Get your favorite book Diary for read online.

Diary
By:"Chuck Palahniuk"
Published on 2004-09-14 by Anchor

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America’s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk’s most impressive work to date.

This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword diary.

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A World that was
By:"Ronald Murray Berndt","Catherine Helen Berndt","John E. Stanton"
Published on 1993-01-01 by UBC Press

This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia. In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged a young ethnologist, Ronald Berndt, to set up camp at Murray Bridge and to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that knowledge and they felt the burden of their unique situation. This book represents their concerted efforts to pass on the story to future generations. For Ronald and Catherine Berndt, this was their first fieldwork together in an illustrious joint career of almost fifty years. During long periods, principally until 1943, they laboured with pencil and paper to put it all down - a far cry from the recording techniques of today's oral historians. Their fieldnotes were worked into a rough draft of what would become, but not until recently, the finished manuscript. The book's range is encyclopaedic and engrossing - sometimes dramatic. It encompasses relations between and among individuals and clan groups, land tenure, kinship, the subsistence economy, trade, ceremony, councils, fighting and warfare, rites of passage from conception to death, myths, and beliefs and practices concerning healing and the supernatural. Not least, it is a record of the dramatic changes following European colonization. A World That Was is a unique contribution to Australia's cultural history. There is simply no comparable body of work, nor is there ever likely to be.

This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book Folktales Told Around the World for read online.

Folktales Told Around the World
By:"Richard Mercer Dorson"
Published on 1978-11-15 by University of Chicago Press

Collects folktales that have been taken back to their original oral telling from around the globe.

This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book Bloody News from My Friend for read online.

Bloody News from My Friend
By:"Siamantʻō","Peter Balakian","Nevart Yaghlian"
Published on 1996 by Wayne State University Press

A cycle of poems depicting the attrocities committed during the Armenian genocide.

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword friend.

Get your favorite book The Diary of a Young Girl for read online.

The Diary of a Young Girl
By:"Anne Frank","General Press"
Published on 2016-05-27 by GENERAL PRESS

The Diary of a Young Girl started two days before Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday. In 1942, the Nazis had occupied Holland, and her family left their home to go into hiding, as they were Jews. Anne Frank recorded daily events, her personal experiences and her feelings in her diary for the next two years. Cut off from the outside world, she and her family faced hunger, boredom, claustrophobia at living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. One day, she and her family were betrayed and taken away to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she eventually died. It is a record of a sensitive girl's tragic experience during one of the worst periods in human history. This diary is so powerful that it leaves a deep impact on the mind of its readers. Bestsellers at Amazing Discounts

This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword diary.

Get your favorite book The World of the Huns for read online.

The World of the Huns
By:"Otto Maenchen-Helfen"
Published on 1973 by Univ of California Press

An extensive study of the origins and culture of the mysterious Huns and the civilizations affected by their invasions

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword world.

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Mammal Species of the World
By:"Don E. Wilson","DeeAnn M. Reeder"
Published on 2005-11-16 by JHU Press

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This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword world.

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Jesus the Friend of Children
By:"Richard Hook","Frances Hook"
Published on 2006 by David C Cook

Richly illustrated by Richard and Frances Hook this classic children's book has been repackaged to introduce the favorite stories about Jesus' life to a whole new generation fo young readers.

This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword friend.

Get your favorite book How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend for read online.

How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend
By:"Monks of New Skete"
Published on 2001-05-15 by Little, Brown

For nearly a quarter century, How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend has been the standard against which all other dog-training books have been measured. This new, expanded edition, with a fresh new design and new photographs throughout, preserves the best features of the original classic while bringing the book fully up-to-date. The result: the ultimate training manual for a new generation of dog owners - and, of course, for their canine best friends. The Monks of New Skete have achieved international renown as breeders of German shepherds and as outstanding trainers of dogs of all breeds. Their unique approach to canine training, developed and refined over three decades, is based on the philosophy that \

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword friend.

Get your favorite book The Friend for read online.

The Friend
By:
Published on 1950 by

This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword friend.

Get your favorite book Fantasy for read online.

Fantasy
By:"Rosemary Jackson"
Published on 2013-10-08 by Routledge

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

Get your favorite book Diary of an Enlisted Man for read online.

Diary of an Enlisted Man
By:"Lawrence Van Alstyne"
Published on 1910 by

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword diary.

Get your favorite book The Harmony of the World for read online.

The Harmony of the World
By:"Johannes Kepler","E. J. Aiton","Alistair Matheson Duncan","Judith Veronica Field"
Published on 1997-01 by American Philosophical Society

The authors have presented and interpreted Johannes Kepler's Latin text to English readers by putting it into the kind of clear but earnest language they suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today.

This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword world.

Get your favorite book The Friend for read online.

The Friend
By:
Published on 1906 by

This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword friend.

Get your favorite book Fantasy for read online.

Fantasy
By:
Published on 2002 by Penguin

In four romance novellas, a Victorian widow auctions herself off, a naturalist explores her own wild side during a jungle expedition, a vampire encounters the one man who can save her, and a young woman heads for an all-male school to the man of her dreams.

This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

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The Diary of John Evelyn
By:"John Evelyn"
Published on 2004 by Boydell Press

Evelyn was at the centre of English social and political life in the17c, friend of Charles II, member of Royal Society.

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword diary.

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The Diary
By:"Søren Kierkegaard","Peter Preisler Rohde"
Published on 1960 by Citadel Press

Selections from the writings of the Danish philosopher covering the important events in his life, his relations with his father, the influence of other writers upon him, his engagement, and his quarrel with the Church.

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword diary.

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The Diary of Sir Henry Slingsby
By:"Sir Henry Slingsby"
Published on 1836 by

This Book was ranked 5 by Google Books for keyword diary.

Get your favorite book Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, Connecticut for read online.

Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, Connecticut
By:"Joshua Hempstead"
Published on 1901 by

This Book was ranked 8 by Google Books for keyword diary.

Get your favorite book How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy for read online.

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
By:"Orson Scott Card"
Published on 2001-09-15 by Writer's Digest Books

Offers tips and advice on writing science fiction, discussing the rules of fiction, and how to structure a successful story.

This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

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Friend of My Youth
By:"Alice Munro"
Published on 2012-04-25 by Vintage

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. \

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword friend.

Get your favorite book Only for the Eye of a Friend for read online.

Only for the Eye of a Friend
By:"Annis Boudinot Stockton","Carla Mulford"
Published on 1995 by University of Virginia Press

Known among the Middle Atlantic intelligentsia and literati as a witty and versatile writer, considered by George Washington and the Chevalier de La Luzerne a gracious and elegant host, Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801) wrote over a hundred poems on the most important political and social issues of her day. Only for the Eye of a Friend brings back into public view the works of a poet whose published works and manuscrits earned her, in her day, a wide audience among colonists and international readers alike. The quality and quantity of Stockton's literary output makes her an apt counterpart to he seventeenth-century predecessor Anne Bradstreet and the nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson.

This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword friend.

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The Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802
By:"James Woodforde"
Published on 2011-08-08 by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

A literary classic and a unique social portrait of 18th century english village life.

This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword diary.

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A Writer's Diary
By:"Virginia Woolf"
Published on 2003-03-31 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword diary.

Get your favorite book In the World for read online.

In the World
By:"John H. Timmerman","Donald R. Hettinga"
Published on 2004-09-01 by Baker Academic

Teaches students to write well and introduces them to quality classic and contemporary essays. Now revised and updated.

This Book was ranked 8 by Google Books for keyword world.

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Geronimo Stilton and the Kingdom of Fantasy #1: The Kingdom of Fantasy
By:"Geronimo Stilton"
Published on 2011-09-01 by Scholastic Inc.

Join Geronimo for his biggest, most fabumouse adventure yet! Dragons, mermaids, and much, much more await readers in this very special edition! I knew from the start that it was no ordinary day, but I certainly didn't expect to find a golden staircase in my attic. Up at the top, there was a door. And beyond the door was a world I never could have imagined -- the Kingdom of Fantasy! Along with my guide, a frog named Scribblehopper, I set off on an incredible adventure to save the Queen of the Fairies. But along the way, I had to face giant scorpions, witches, sea serpents, pixies, and dozens of other creatures that I had only ever heard stories about. Holey cheese, what a journey! Could I save the Queen . . . and my own tail?

This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword fantasy.

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The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
By:"Joel Krieger","Margaret E. Crahan"
Published on 2001-08-02 by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press

A one-volume, A-Z encyclopaedia designed as a comprehensive resource for understanding the complex terrain of world affairs.

This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword world.

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My Friend Dahmer
By:"Derf Backderf"
Published on 2012-03-01 by Abrams

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2013 ALA/YALSA Alex Award 2014 Revelation Award at Angoulême 2015 ALA/YALSA Alex Award (Excellence in Narrative Nonfiction) You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—seared himself into the American consciousness. To the public, Dahmer was a monster who committed unthinkable atrocities. To Derf Backderf, \

This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword friend.