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Modern-Classics

2010

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Summary & Guide


BookRags - 2010
    56 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more – everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.

The Diary of Anne Frank: Interpretations (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)


Harold Bloom - 2010
    This invaluable new study guide contains a new selection of the finest contemporary criticism on The Diary of Anne Frank, plus an introductory essay from master scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology of the author's life, a bibliography, and an index for easy reference.

A Daily Dose of Sanity: A Five-Minute Soul Recharge for Every Day of the Year


Alan Cohen - 2010
    This collection of inspiring, poignant, and humorous real-life stories, coupled with uplifting insights, will show you how to keep your head on straight and your heart open no matter where you are or what you’re doing.In his uniquely warm and down-to-earth way, Alan Cohen teaches you through meaningful examples that you’re in the perfect position to use your talents and assets to turn your life into all you want it to be. Each day-of-the-year entry contains a theme, an elegant quotation, a true-to-life anecdote, a short lesson, a question for self-study, and an empowering affirmation. In the tradition of Alan’s highly popular award-winning book A Deep Breath of Life, you can use this book on a daily basis for a potent uplift and gain valuable tools to feel better, create career and financial success, deepen the quality of all of your relationships, and find personal fulfillment that lifts you far beyond what you’ve known in the past.

Flappers and Philosophers


F. Scott Fitzgerald - 2010
    Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of the glittering Jazz Age, through the lost hopes of the thirties, to the last, twilight decade of his life. It brings together his most famous stories, including 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'.

Danny 2.1 - Die Schwarze Engel


Chancery Stone - 2010
    Or of something darker than all three...Danny has been missing for six years, when one night, drunk and confused, Stephen thinks he sees him reflected in a bar mirror, like an apparition from the past.But surely he has imagined it? Danny haloed and burning above him like an avenging angel. Danny rescuing him from a midnight street in a sinister, dark car. Danny smelling as sweet as lemons and dressed all in black silk, as dry and caustic as Lucifer himself. Those drunken visions can't be true, can they?But Rab believes they must be, Stephen fears they might be, and Conley knows they are. Danny is back. And now there is one overriding question burning in all their minds. What has he been doing during those mysterious missing years? And with whom?Vulnerable, lost, and deep in mourning, Danny is ripe for the picking. But that shadowy other is ever-present, like an unspoken third, a revenant determined to be at the party, ruining their fun. Is the 'Schwarze Engel' real, or just a figment of Danny's diseased imagination? And, more importantly, can anyone finally set him free from it?