Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless coming-of-age novel about friendship, rivalry, and adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace

When a likely lad from rural Australia met an adventurous young woman from regional New Zealand in Hong Kong, little did they know where their life of faith would take them.Following God’s Path is a true-blue trans-Tasman yarn about growing up in the 1950s and leaving home to pursue the call of God – wherever it may lead. From overseeing two Christian literature ministries and helping establish a successful Chinese church, to teaching Bible lessons in a small country school, there w...

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely,...

The story that inspired the bestselling classic A Separate Peace and two other coming-of-age tales exploring themes of disillusionment, self-discovery, and friendship, originally published in the 1950s.John Knowles’s A Separate Peace is an American classic; a timeless portrayal of adolescence and the loss of innocence that comes with it. Set in a New England prep school resembling Knowles’s own from boyhood, the novel resonated across generations....

The late Lenny Breau was admired throughout the world for his complex fingerstyle jazz stylings. The first part contains Lenny's guitar workshop dealing with Building the Blues; Three Against Two, and Harmonics at Work. Section 2 presents three great Lenny Breau solos (5 O'Clock Bells; Little Blues, and Freight Train). Written in notation and tablature.-Contains Lenny's "master class" on fingerstyle jazz guitar. 3 songs from book are not included on the audio files. Includes access to onli...

Devon School, an exclusive prep school for boys in New Hampshire, is a world unto itself. But it’s the summer of 1942, and the massive thundercloud of World War II threatens the school’s peaceful environment. Paralleling the war, where enemies real and imagined are sometimes collaborated with and sometimes destroyed, is the friendship between Gene and Phineas, two students attending the 1942 summer session at Devon. Their idyllic world begins to fall apart as the war escalates, and suspici...

The story that inspired the bestselling classic A Separate Peace and two other coming-of-age tales exploring themes of disillusionment, self-discovery, and friendship, originally published in the 1950s.John Knowles’s A Separate Peace is an American classic; a timeless portrayal of adolescence and the loss of innocence that comes with it. Set in a New England prep school resembling Knowles’s own from boyhood, the novel resonated across generations....

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, shamanism and ancient knowledge. Our Books are available in digital format. We have approximat...

When a likely lad from rural Australia met an adventurous young woman from regional New Zealand in Hong Kong, little did they know where their life of faith would take them.Following God's Path is a true-blue trans-Tasman yarn about growing up in the 1950s and leaving home to pursue the call of God - wherever it may lead. From overseeing two Christian literature ministries and helping establish a successful Chinese church, to teaching Bible lessons in a small country school, there ...

A celebration of the transformative effects of James Joyce’s time in TriesteJoyce in Trieste is a record of the transformation in text, meaning, and language that Trieste worked upon James Joyce. This volume begins with three path-breaking essays: Michael Groden’s discussion of the manuscripts acquired by the National Library of Ireland in 2002, Margot Norris’s introduction of the paradigm of “risky reading” to describe the provocative re-contextualization...

Famous Composers and Their Works (Vol. 1&2) is an expansive compendium of musical biography, criticism, and cultural history, presenting the lives and achievements of major Western composers within the broader evolution of art music. Written in an elevated yet accessible nineteenth-century scholarly style, the volumes combine anecdote, historical narrative, and aesthetic judgment, situating figures such as Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, and others within the traditions,...

Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of adolescence.