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Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia
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Product Description: This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of "Little Women", was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals...read more
By Richard Francis
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9780300177909 | Yale Univ Pr, October 25, 2011, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments.

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The Old Spring
By Richard Francis
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9781906994228 | Reprint edition (Tindal st Pr Ltd, October 1, 2011), cover price $12.95

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The Pit: The Road to Salvation
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Product Description: You're invited! This will be a very unusual and difficult read for many. So, if you feel inclined, do buckle your seatbelts and prepare yourselves for what may prove to be the ride of your life. If you stay for the entire event, you may not be quite the same person afterwards...read more
By Richard Francis
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9781439205891 | Createspace, August 12, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: You're invited!

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Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden
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Product Description: New England Transcendentalism was a vibrant and many-sided movement whose members are probably best remembered for their utopian experiments, their attempts to reconcile the contingent world of history with what they perceived as the stable and patterned world of nature...read more
By Richard Francis
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9780801430930 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: New England Transcendentalism was a vibrant and many-sided movement whose members are probably best remembered for their utopian experiments, their attempts to reconcile the contingent world of history with what they perceived as the stable and patterned world of nature.

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9780801473807 | Cornell Univ Pr, July 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: New England Transcendentalism was a vibrant and many-sided movement whose members are probably best remembered for their utopian experiments, their attempts to reconcile the contingent world of history with what they perceived as the stable and patterned world of nature.

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Team
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By Richard Francis
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9781598869972 | Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc, May 22, 2007, cover price $10.99

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Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience
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Documents the role of Samuel Sewall in the 1692 Salem witch trials, exploring his lesser-known contributions as a anti-slavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, and campaigner against periwigs, in a profile that offers insight into how he was swept up in the zeal that marked the trials and publicly apologized five years later. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
By Richard Francis
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9780007163625 | Fourth Estate, August 1, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Biographer and novelist Francis looks at the Salem witch hunt of 1692 with fresh eyes, through the story of Samuel Sewall, New England Puritan, Salem trial judge, antislavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, utopian theorist, family man.

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9780007163632 | Reprint edition (Perennial, August 1, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Documents the role of Samuel Sewall in the 1692 Salem witch trials, exploring his lesser-known contributions as a anti-slavery agitator, defender of Native American rights, and campaigner against periwigs, in a profile that offers insight into how he was swept up in the zeal that marked the trials and publicly apologized five years later.

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Luminous Ecstasies And Passions
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Product Description: SEX can be the most exquisitely beautiful expression of God (Love) in the cosmos. Or it can be a ghastly nightmare. In this spellbinding book, Richard Francis fascinates with alternations between sexuality and spirituality (Love)...read more
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9781401048938 | Xlibris Corp, January 1, 2001, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: SEX can be the most exquisitely beautiful expression of God (Love) in the cosmos.

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9781594535888 | Airleaf, December 31, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: SEX can be the most exquisitely beautiful expression of God (Love) in the cosmos.

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Teflonmind: Sex, Money, Life, and Detachment
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Product Description: Stonethrower is divided into two main sections. The first section is called THE PROBLEM. This part of the book will focus on the concept of fear and defenses and the way they operate (especially unconsciously) in our day-to-day lives...read more
By Richard Francis
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9781594532795 | Airleaf, May 30, 2004, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Stonethrower is divided into two main sections.

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Prospect Hill
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Product Description: It's 1970 and young Trevor Morgan has a magical smile and large ambitions. But his marriage is in crisis, and he seeks help from an unexpected quarter—feisty middle-aged May Rollins. May and Trevor are political enemies, at odds over a controversial plan to build council flats at Prospect Hill, but their relationship takes a shocking—and ambiguous—twist...read more
By Richard Francis
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9780007141104 | Fourth Estate in America, January 1, 2004, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: It's 1970 and young Trevor Morgan has a magical smile and large ambitions.

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Ann the Word: The Story of Ann Lee, Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers, the Woman Clothed With the Sun
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The author of Fat Hen and Transcendental Utopias offers an intriguing, definitive portrait of Ann Lee, the charismatic woman who became the founder of the Shakers, from her rise from humble English origins to become a visionary religious leader who transformed religious faith. Reprint.
By Richard Francis
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9780142002438 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The author of Fat Hen and Transcendental Utopias offers an intriguing, definitive portrait of Ann Lee, the charismatic woman who became the founder of the Shakers, from her rise from humble English origins to become a visionary religious leader who transformed religious faith.

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Ann the Word: The Story of Ann Lee, Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers
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The author of Fat Hen and Transcendental Utopias offers an intriguing, definitive portrait of Ann Lee, the charismatic woman who became the founder of the Shakers, from her rise from humble English origins to become a visionary religious leader who transformed religious faith. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
By Richard Francis
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9781559705622 | Arcade Pub, May 7, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Offers a portrait of Ann Lee, from her humble English origins to becoming a visionary religious leader who founded the Shakers.

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Luminous Ecstasies and Passions: Journeys into Afterlife
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Product Description: SEX can be the most exquisitely beautiful expression of God (Love) in the cosmos. Or it can be a ghastly nightmare. In this spellbinding book, Richard Francis fascinates with alternations between sexuality and spirituality (Love)...read more
By Richard Francis
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9780738841533 | Xlibris Corp, January 1, 2001, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: SEX can be the most exquisitely beautiful expression of God (Love) in the cosmos.

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I, Claudius and Claudius the God: And, Claudius the God
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Product Description: This text re-edits "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God" as part of the 21-volume Robert Graves Programme.
By Richard Francis and Robert Graves
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9781857542790 | Carcanet Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This text re-edits "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God" as part of the 21-volume Robert Graves Programme.

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Fat Hen
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Product Description: It's Stockport, 1948. Rose and Jack Willis, their son Donald, and Roses's father Ernie are leading apparently uneventful existences in a small terraced house. But things are not what they seem. Jack makes a discovery while moving a piano that enables him to create an alternative life for himself...read more
By Richard Francis
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9781857029383 | Fourth Estate Classic House, August 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: It's Stockport, 1948.

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Growing Rhododendrons
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9780864178985 | Kangaroo Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $24.95

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Negotiating Rapture: The Power of Art to Transform Lives
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Product Description: Conceived as a series of journeys akin to those of saints or shamans, Negotiating Rapture brings together the work of Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anselm Kiefer, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and Bill Viola...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Homi K. Bhabha (editor), Yve Alain Bois (editor), Richard Francis (editor) and Sophia Shaw (editor)
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9780933856400 | Museum of Contemporary Art, August 15, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Conceived as a series of journeys akin to those of saints or shamans, Negotiating Rapture brings together the work of Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anselm Kiefer, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and Bill Viola.

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Taking Apart the Poco Poco: A Novel
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Witnessing the tearing down of the dance hall where they first met, John and Margaret watch their marriage also crumble, until a whimsical act by the family dog sets off a series of events that affects the couple and their two children. 12,500 first printing.
By Richard Francis
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9780684803371 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Witnessing the tearing down of the dance hall where they first met, John and Margaret watch their marriage also crumble, until a whimsical act by the family dog sets off a series of events that affects the couple and their two children

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The Land Where Lost Things Go
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By Richard Francis
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9780856358869 | Carcanet Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $36.95

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Jasper Johns
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This volume reproduces and comments upon the artist's early transformation of commonplace images into art and his more recent works of ready-made images and illusionistic painting
By Richard Francis
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9780896594432 | Abbeville Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This volume reproduces and comments upon the artist's early transformation of commonplace images into art and his more recent works of ready-made images and illusionistic painting

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9781558592520 | Abbeville Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: This volume reproduces and comments upon the artist's early transformation of commonplace images into art and his more recent works of ready-made images and illusionistic painting

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Revolution
Tom Nobb and his son join George Washington's forces and become caught up in the turmoil of the Revolutionary War
By Richard Francis
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9780553257601 | Mti edition (Bantam Books, January 1, 1986), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Tom Nobb and his son join George Washington's forces and become caught up in the turmoil of the Revolutionary War

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