Tennyson: Selected Poems
10 best books like Tennyson: Selected Poems (Alfred Tennyson): The 120 Days of Sodom, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Parzival, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life, The Green Branch, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think
Author | Marquis de Sade |
ISBN | 1604594187 |
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming...
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Author | Marianne Williamson |
ISBN | 0060927488 |
Back by popular demand -- and newly updated by the author -- the mega-bestselling spiritual guide in which Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace.
Williamson reveals how we each can become...
Author | Wolfram von Eschenbach |
ISBN | 0140443614 |
Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chretien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King...
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Author | Angela Y. Davis |
ISBN | 0679771263 |
From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret...
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Author | Howard Pyle |
ISBN | 0451530241 |
In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle carries us back to the enchanting world of King Arthur and his Round Table. The book chronicles the adventures of Arthur as he draws the sword Excalibur from the anvil, proving his right to the throne, and as he courts and wins...
Author | Sidney Poitier |
ISBN | 0061357901 |
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguable the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Here, Sidney...
Author | Marianne Williamson |
ISBN | 0060816112 |
Bestselling author of Return to Love and Law of Divine Compensation, Marianne Williamson shows people how to live without fear or worry in The Gift of Change. The time in which we now live is more difficult and stressful than people are willing to admit. We live with an abiding sense of collective anxiety....
Author | Edith Pargeter |
ISBN | 0708830579 |
(2nd book of The Heaven Tree trilogy)
Young Harry Talvace, the son of Ralf Isambard's master-builder who raised the great church of Parfois and was put to death by his jealous patron, has grown up at the court of Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales. Deep in his heart he nurses a desire for vengence,...
Author | Pam Grier |
ISBN | 0446548502 |
Some may know her as hot, gutsy, gun-totin' Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, and Jackie Brown. Others may know her from her role as Kit Porter on "The L Word." But that only defines one part of the legend that is Pam Grier.
Foxy is Pam's testimony of her life, past and present. In it, she reveals her relationships...
Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think
Author | Cybill Shepherd |
ISBN | 0060193506 |
From Model to Moonlighting, from Elvis to Bruce Willis to motherhood to a behind-the-scenes inside view of network sit-com madness, the irrepressible show biz icon tells all in her own inimitable, no-holds-barred fashion.
-- Cybill is a bona fide star with millions of fans -- a hero to middle aged...
Author | Edith Pargeter |
ISBN | 0751504750 |
This is the last book of the Heaven's Tree Trilogy and it finishes the story of Harry Talvace, father and son. This is a historical fiction set in the early 13th century England and revolves around the border conflicts that took place at that time between the English and the Welch. The story meets my criteria...
Aghora: At the Left Hand of God
Author | Robert E. Svoboda |
ISBN | 0914732218 |
Aghora: At the Left Hand of God is the first book in the Aghora trilogy. Written almost entirely in Vimalananda's own words, it presents events from his life, tenets of his philosophy, and highlights from his spiritual practices. Designed partly to shock and partly to comfort, but wholly as an offering...