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A fugitive noblewoman seeks refuge in a remote, and allegedly haunted, village. The sanctuary she finds with a shy scholar and two aides in disguise is shattered when a nefarious swordsman uncovers her identity, pitting the four against legions of blade-wielding opponents.
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Bellevue - Teen Non-Fiction
YA 741.5 M1278u
1 available
YA 741.5 M1278u
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Teen Non-Fiction
YA 741.5 M1278u
1 available
YA 741.5 M1278u
1 available
Goodlettsville - Teen Non-Fiction
YA 741.5 M1278u
1 available
YA 741.5 M1278u
1 available
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Examines comics as an art form by detailing the process of how comics are created by combining writing, art, genre, trends, subject matter, and themes.
103) The virgin suicides
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Eugenid
1 available
Fiction Eugenid
1 available
Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Eugenid
1 available
Fiction Eugenid
1 available
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Eugenid
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Eugenid
1 available
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The national bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters-beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys-commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together...
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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How can we go on living when things fall apart—when we are overcome by pain, fear, and anxiety? Pema Chödrön's answer to that question contains some spectacularly good news: there is a fundamental happiness readily available to each one of us, no matter how difficult things seem to be. To find it, according to traditional Buddhist teaching, we must learn to stop running from suffering and instead actually learn to approach it—fearlessly,
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Hermitage - Adult Non-Fiction
294.3 C5455w 1997
1 available
294.3 C5455w 1997
1 available
Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
294.3444 C5455w 2002
1 available
294.3444 C5455w 2002
1 available
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
Chödrön's advice for what to do when things fall apart, which is counterintuitive to our usual habits and expectations: move toward painful situations with friendliness and curiosity where, in the midst of chaos we can discover the truth and love that are indestructible.
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The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome by pain and difficulties. Chödrön discusses:
· Using painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and courage
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· Using painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and courage
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107) The yellow house
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Bellevue - Adult Biography
B B8738y
1 available
B B8738y
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Biography
B B8738y
1 available
B B8738y
1 available
Donelson - Adult Biography
B B8738y
1 available
B B8738y
1 available
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"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina."--