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Book Lover's Page-A-Day 2008 Desk Calendar | Book Lover's Page-A-Day Calendar : Desk : 2008 Need a recommendation? Check out Stewart Lee Allen's The Devil's Cup, the fascinating story of how coffee shaped the world. You've never read Anne Tyler? Begin with The Amateur Marriage. Alfred Kinsey through the eyes of T. C. Boyle. Plus Sydney Sheldon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? and other summer beach reads, Michael Faber's intricately detailed Victorian page-turner, The Crimson Petal and the White, and the perfect Valentine's Day gift for curmudgeons: Against Love: A Polemic, by Laura Kipnis. This 2008 calendar is produced by Workman Publishing in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2008 Desk Calendar | Eats, Shoots & Leaves Calendar : Desk : 2008 This wordlover and wordsmith's calendar is based on the punctuation sensation Eats, Shoots & Leaves that hit number one on bestseller lists. With such observations as "people truly do not know their apostrophe from their elbow," Lynne Truss has made "the history of punctuation a subject at once urgent, sexy, and hilarious" (John Walsh, The Independent). This 2008 calendar is produced by Andrews McMeel in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Forgotten English 2008 Desk Calendar | Forgotten English Calendar : Desk : 2008 Language historian and collector of oddball antiquities of English, Jeffrey Kacirk has been at it again. The 2008 edition of this exceptionally popular desk calendar presents more peculiar, long-disused words such as manners-bit (a portion of a dish left by the guests, that the host may not feel himself reproached for insufficient preparation) and fletcherize (to chew thoroughly). The 314 entries (Saturdays and Sundays share a page and an entry) are supplemented by historical anecdotes, odd quotations, and/or the feast days of saints both familiar and obscure. Also included are yearly grids for 2008 and 2009, and pages for notes. This 2008 calendar is produced by Pomegranate in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Jane Austen 2008 Softcover Engagement Calendar | Jane Austen Calendar : Softcover Engagement : 2008 Few writers have stood the test of time with the style and warmth of Jane Austen. Her stories and characters continue to amuse and inspire us in the ways of love, friendship, and family. Quotations lovingly chosen from her stories and novels provide a year's worth of eloquent advice and keen wit. Collected here are favorite quotations from Austen's most cherished novels. This 2008 calendar is produced by Andrews McMeel in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Magnetic Poetry 2008 Wall Calendar | Magnetic Poetry Calendar : Wall : 2008 Combining poetic inspiration with magnetic appeal, the Magnetic Poetry Calendar makes composing poetry easy and fun. Inside, colorful pages feature brain-stimulating exercises, thought-provoking quotes, and favorite poems. And the attached magnetic board and 200 word tiles provide an open canvas for composing messages and poems, inspiring year-round creativity in the home or office. This 2008 calendar is produced by Magnetic Poetry in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Mark Twain 2008 Desk Calendar | Mark Twain Calendar : Desk : 2008 The cantankerous and ever-charming voice of Mark Twain has made him one of the most beloved figures in American letters. Mark Twain collects more than 300 quotations, axioms, sharp-eyed observations on human nature from his collected writings in a day-to-day calendar. This 2008 calendar is produced by Andrews McMeel in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Poetry Speaks 2008 Desk Calendar | Poetry Speaks Calendar : Desk : 2008 A year of poets and poetry based on the bestselling book with audio, bringing you short poetry from the greatest historical and contemporary poets, along with poets' thoughts and reflections on their craft and fascinating biographical information. Includes much-loved favorites and little-known works by well-known poets, and introduces the reader to many new talents working today. This 2008 calendar is produced by Sourcebooks in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Rumi 2008 Hardcover Engagement Calendar | Rumi Calendar : Hardcover Engagement : 2008 Let the words of Jelaluddin Rumi, the great 13th century Sufi poet, soothe your soul and transport you to the magical, mystical place where the soul yearns to return. Today, the spiritual poetry of Rumi is more needed and relevant than ever. Coleman Barks' lucid translations of Rumi are joined with the colored pencil drawings of Wendy C. Thompson.
This calendar features one week per page. Other features include monthly planning calendars, tabbed monthly sections, plenty of space for notes and addresses, and an elastic closure. This 2008 calendar is produced by Brush Dance in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Seasons 2008 Wall Calendar | Seasons Calendar : Wall : 2008 Experience the beauty of the seasons along with Emily Dickinson's poetic verse! These captivating images of New England, where Dickinson penned her poetry, make this a unique calendar to admire and treasure. This 2008 calendar is produced by Avalanche Publishing in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Shakespeare's Insults 2008 Desk Calendar | Shakespeare's Insults Calendar : Desk : 2008 The hand that penned all those love-struck sonnets also wrote some of the most memorably vile maledictions and lewd, scurrilous insinuations ever to grace the English language. Here are 314 brief excerpts from Shakespeare's plays (Saturdays and Sundays share a page and an excerpt) that, were they spoken in the real world, would likely cause a bard no end of trouble. Contextual notes, i.e., who is abusing whom, why, and in which play-support each quotation. Also included are yearly grids for 2008 and 2009, and pages for notes. This 2008 calendar is produced by Pomegranate in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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Shakespeare's Realm 2008 Wall Calendar | Shakespeare's Realm Calendar : Wall : 2008 In the four centuries since the death of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), his works have been performed by Kabuki actors and Claymation puppets; set to classical music and jazz; reworked by George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht; and filmed again and again. There is no escaping the man from Stratford-upon-Avon. Using the resources of the Library of Congress, this calendar synopsizes, explicates, and illustrates twelve Shakespeare plays. Book illustrations, engravings, and photographs capture artists' fanciful visions as well as theatrical performances. Historical events related to Shakespeare's realm are noted on the calendar days. This 2008 calendar is produced by Pomegranate in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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The Reading Woman 2008 Hardcover Engagement Calendar | The Reading Woman Calendar : Hardcover Engagement : 2008 This beautiful engagement calendar reproduces thirty-two painting, some by giants of European art, others by those less well known, depicting a woman engrossed in reading. Illuminating and amusing passages about reading, dating from the seventeenth century to modern times, accompany reproductions of works by Harriet Backer, Edward Burne-Jones, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gwendolyn Grant, August Macke, Jan Vermeer, and others. Also included are fifty-four weekly grids, twelve full-page monthly grids, lists of international holidays and international calling codes/time differences, double-page spreads of 2008 and 2009 yearly grids, pages for notes, and a personal information page. This 2008 calendar is produced by Pomegranate in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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The Reading Woman 2008 Wall Calendar | The Reading Woman Calendar : Wall : 2008 Painters throughout the ages have shown their models reading. They show us the sheer bliss of being totally absorbed in reading and to be in a world of one's own. This 2008 calendar is produced by Image Connection in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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The Reading Woman 2008 Wall Calendar | The Reading Woman Calendar : Wall : 2008 She sits in a garden, in a boudoir, on a front step, to all appearances the most conventional of women. But if we could glimpse what she's reading, we might be surprised. This calendar's twelve European paintings dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century all invite you to ponder: Who were these women? How did the printed word affect their lives? Among the sumptuous images: Piero di Cosimo's St. Mary Magdalene, Peder Severin Kryer's Roses [The Artist's Wife in the Garden at Skagen], and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Woman Reading. All are accompanied by selected quotes and literary excerpts on the subject of reading. This 2008 calendar is produced by Pomegranate in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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The Writer's Desk 2008 Hardcover Engagement Calendar | The Writer's Desk Calendar : Hardcover Engagement : 2008 Photojournalist Jill Krementz's acclaimed archive of more than 1,500 contemporary writers is the source of the photographs that illustrate her interviews with 26 of them in this handsome weekly engagement calendar. The calendar includes sections for Notes, Personal Data, Birthdays and Addresses as well as charts on World Time Differences, International Dialing Codes, plus much more. This 2008 calendar is produced by Barnes & Noble in the category Women's Literature calendars. |
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