Author: David M. Masumoto
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: family, farm, seasons, four, peach, epitaph
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-05-31
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0062510258
ISBN-13: 9780062510259

A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . . with poetic flair and a sense of humor" (Library Journal). Line drawings.

Author: Karen Mills-Courts
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Keywords: language, poetic, representation, epitaph, poetry
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1990-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0807116572
ISBN-13: 9780807116579

Author: Max Green
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press
Keywords: lost, touch, america, leaders, union, american, labor, epitaph
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 1996-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0844739960
ISBN-13: 9780844739960

No institution in America has changed more in the past 25 years, observes Max Green, than the American labour movements. Green documents the descent into radicalism of these unions and concludes that as currently constituted and led, they no longer serve the public or national interest.

Author: James Bishop
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: edward, abbey, legacy, life, desert, anarchist, epitaph
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0684804395
ISBN-13: 9780684804392

Through Abbey’s own writings and personal papers, as well as interviews with friends and acquaintances, Bishop gives us a penetrating, compelling, no-holds-barred view of tile life and accomplishments of this controversial figure.

Authors:Machado de Assis,  William L. Grossman, Susan
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: fsg, classics, novel, winner, small, epitaph
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374531234
ISBN-13: 9780374531232

In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph for a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history as well as “one of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature�?� (Salman Rushdie). Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was born in Rio de Janeiro. Among his many works are Philosopher or Dog? a

Author: Sean Gilsdorf
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: medieval, texts, translation, adelheid, epitaph, sanctity, lives, mathilda, queenship
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813213746
ISBN-13: 9780813213743

At the dawn of the second millennium, authors from monasteries in Burgundy and northern Germany recorded the lives and deaths of two powerful and pious women, Mathilda (d. 968) and Adelheid (d. 999). Both were extolled as saints, exemplary figures guided by God and witnessing to His grace. Unlike most other holy women, however, Mathilda and Adelheid were not ascetic nuns, but queens. They were deemed worthy of praise not only for their devotion to God and their lives of faith, but for integrating these traditional virtues with more "worldly" attributes: noble birth, royal marriage, political p