Literary Love

 

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- Love Letters: A Celebration of the Written Word

Love Poems (Paperback)

$11.95
ISBN-13: 9780811217293
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Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1/2008
Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winner's oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery re-imagining of the world. Mostly written on the island paradise of Capri (the idyllic setting of the Oscar-winning movie Il Postino), Love Poems embraces the seascapes surrounding the poet and his love Matilde Urrutia, their waves and shores saturated with a new, yearning eroticism.

$18.95
ISBN-13: 9781590305324
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Published: Shambhala, 12/2008
Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master's many volumes of work, focus on one of his greatest themes: how love grows and matures for those on the spiritual path.

$12.95
ISBN-13: 9781594745492
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Published: Quirk Books, 1/2012
Here are more than one hundred news stories of high-school sweethearts, college hook-ups, dating disasters, weddings, divorces, and restraining orders. From “18-Year-Old Miraculously Finds Soulmate in Hometown” to “Couple Forgets 70th Wedding Anniversary,” these reports capture the heartbreak and hilarity of the human experience.

$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781590309001
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Published: Shambhala, 12/2011
In the Buddhist tradition, love is not just a feeling but a way of being present with ourselves and others. This book offers practical advice on how to cultivate love, how to deepen it, and how to let it flower in our lives.

$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780738213873
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Published: Da Capo Lifelong Books, 1/2011
Dr. Gordon Livingston—a physician of the human heart, a philosopher of human psychology—offers an urgently needed meditation on who best (and who best not) to love. As in his previous books, Dr. Livingston demonstrates an unerring sense of what is important, providing readers with a much-needed alternative to the trial-and-error learning that makes wisdom such an expensive commodity.

$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780142404003
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Published: Puffin, 12/2006
Set to the tune of the song "Clementine," Alison Jackson tells the sweet tale of Valentine and her beau. Valentine goes about her day, doing chores around her mountain cabin, while her secret admirer is hard at work trying to ask her an important question. He tries many ways to contact her, including Morse code and smoke signals, but he can never complete his message. Will he ever be able to reach his beloved Valentine?

$12.99
ISBN-13: 9780307885111
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Published: Three Rivers Press, 6/2011
"What I love about this book is that it reminds us that we all need to laugh at ourselves. That, or maybe I'm just happy someone has done more embarrassing things than I have." -Stacy London, style expert and host of TLC's What Not To Wear

$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780670023226
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Published: Viking Adult, 12/2011
Thousands of women in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are living-and defining-a totally new love narrative. Whether they are already experiencing intimacy, joy-and great sex-or need the inspiration and support to go for it, readers will be energized by the stories of new ways of loving: relationships found (sometimes with younger men); rediscovered childhood sweethearts; long-standing ones enriched; and Internet adventures that feature choices and daring that would have been unimaginable not so long ago.

$49.95
ISBN-13: 9782080200815
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Published: Flammarion, 10/2011
This comprehensive, illustrated reference offers the essential building blocks and recipes for working with chocolate in the home kitchen. This cooking school in book form opens with 100 step-by-step techniques: chocolate basics (tempering, ganaches, pralines), candy fillings, decorations, doughs, creams and mousses, ice cream and sorbet, sauces, and baker’s secrets. Each method is explained in text and photographs; fourteen are further clarified on the ninety-minute DVD.

I Like You (Hardcover)

$6.95
ISBN-13: 9780395071762
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 6/1990
Here is the book that Romeo would have given Juliet, Charlie Brown would have given Snoopy, and you can give to some very special friend. This special book expresses the true meaning of friendship in a long list of ways with charming accompanying illustrations

$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780486991047
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Published: Dover Publications, 1/2011
Drawn from authentic valentines, postcards, and die-cuts of the early 20th century, this selection of more than 230 romantic greetings features Victorian-influenced images of children, cherubs, cupids, bouquets, and adorable animals.

$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780060731236
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Published: HarperCollins, 12/2006
One day it rains hearts, and Cornelia Augusta catches them. Each heart is special in its own way, and Cornelia Augusta knows exactly who to send them to.

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