Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: classics, enriched, times, hard
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 1416523731
ISBN-13: 9781416523734
This story of class conflict in Victorian England serves as a powerful critique of the social injustices that plagued the Industrial Revolution.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:• A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information• A chronology of the author’s life and work• A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s historical context• An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader’s own interpretations• Detailed explanatory notes• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the
Author: Tex S. Sample
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Keywords: mainstream, christians, amp, people, living, hard
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1993-05
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0687179319
ISBN-13: 9780687179312
"Through stories of hard-living people and pastors who minister with them, Tex Sample challenges mainline churches to break the yoke of middle-class captivity and join with the Christ who lives among the poor and marginalized."--Kenneth L. Carder, Resident Bishop, United Methodist Church.
Authors:James Quirk, Rodney D. Fort,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: ball, hard
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0691058172
ISBN-13: 9780691058177
What can possibly account for the strange state of affairs in professional sports today? There are billionaire owners and millionaire players, but both groups are constantly squabbling over money. Many pro teams appear to be virtual "cash machines," generating astronomical annual revenues, but their owners seem willing to uproot them and move to any city willing to promise increased profits. At the same time, mayors continue to cook up "sweetheart deals" that lavish benefits on wealthy teams while imposing crushing financial hardships on cities that are already strapped with debt. To fans toda
Author: Donald E. Westlake
Publisher: Leisure Books
Keywords: crime, case, hard, memory
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2010-03-30
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0843963751
ISBN-13: 9780843963755
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: classics, signet, times, hard
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0451530993
ISBN-13: 9780451530998
Reason, Facts, and statistics... Dickens’ scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideas—and ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination.
Author: Sara Paretsky
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: novels, warshawski, time, hard
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2000-09-12
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0440224705
ISBN-13: 9780440224709
Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky’s incomparable character V. I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994’s Tunnel Vision. Hard Time is the work of a master--a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably Paretsky’s best V.I. Warshawski novel yet. Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper’s staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.’s longtime friend an
Author: Sara Paretsky
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Keywords: novels, warshawski, time, hard
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-09-14
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0385313632
ISBN-13: 9780385313636
Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky’s incomparable character V. I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994’s Tunnel Vision. Hard Time is the work of a master--a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably Paretsky’s best V.I. Warshawski novel yet.Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper’s staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.’s longtime friend and
