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9781619020146 | Counterpoint, November 13, 2012, cover price $28.00

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Product Description: In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country, and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she set out to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye...read more
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9781582435176 | Counterpoint, September 1, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country, and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence.

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Product Description: Collaborating between leading scientists and literary authors, this unique experiment creates a new strain of science fiction by extending the repertoire of the genre beyond the common places of space travel, time travel, and artificial intelligence...read more
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9781905583195, titled "When It Changed: Science into Fiction: An Anthology" | 2 edition (Carcanet Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Collaborating between leading scientists and literary authors, this unique experiment creates a new strain of science fiction by extending the repertoire of the genre beyond the common places of space travel, time travel, and artificial intelligence.

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Product Description: More `modern traditional tales' from an acknowledged master of the genre, drawing on the author's deep knowledge of classical mythology and traditional stories from every continent. `Far North', based on an Inuit myth, is set among desperate women in the frozen north surviving against all odds...read more
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9781904559276 | Maia Pr Ltd, March 15, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: More `modern traditional tales' from an acknowledged master of the genre, drawing on the author's deep knowledge of classical mythology and traditional stories from every continent.

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Presents fifteen fairy tales, which include an encounter with a mermaid, an erotic adventure with a mysterious stranger, the story of a woman who learns to fly, and of another who transforms herself into a real fairy godmother. This collection of stories attempts to bring the magic of myth into the lives of modern women's lives.
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9781904559009 | Maia Pr Ltd, December 15, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presents fifteen fairy tales, which include an encounter with a mermaid, an erotic adventure with a mysterious stranger, the story of a woman who learns to fly, and of another who transforms herself into a real fairy godmother.

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Product Description: For Sara Maitland, the Scriptures, tradition, and the creation are sources of God's greatest gift to us-the desire and the ability to know something about God. In A Joyful Theology, Maitland makes a lively exploration of creation in order to learn more about the Creator...read more
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9780806644738 | Augsburg Fortress Pub, July 1, 2002, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: For Sara Maitland, the Scriptures, tradition, and the creation are sources of God's greatest gift to us-the desire and the ability to know something about God.

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Product Description: Defy the commonplace and predictable! The playful spirit grows in these beautifully photographed gardens, which delight with droll humor and visual enchantment. The unusual presentation of unique landscapes bypasses ordinary horticultural know-how and conventional design principles; instead it delves into the tradition of garden wit, illusion, and trickery...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780304354344 | Cassell, August 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Defy the commonplace and predictable!

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A new analysis of the first book of the Bible and its meaning for the world includes the full text of Genesis followed by essays exploring its main characters and major themes. Original.
By Lawrence Boadt and Sara Maitland (foreword by)
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9780312221041 | St Martins Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A new analysis of the first book of the Bible and its meaning for the world includes the full text of Genesis followed by essays exploring its main characters and major themes.

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Product Description: The ancient Greeks and Romans created the most enduring cultures known to humanity and a pantheon of gods who live on in some of the greatest myths ever told: of Athena, goddess of battle, of Dionysus, god of wine and fertility, and of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection...read more
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9780705435130 | Time Life Education, September 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The ancient Greeks and Romans created the most enduring cultures known to humanity and a pantheon of gods who live on in some of the greatest myths ever told: of Athena, goddess of battle, of Dionysus, god of wine and fertility, and of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection.

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Product Description: Ideas of holiness continue to haunt us even in this secular age. Too often banished from rational discourse, these ideas lurk like shadows in the imagination. In Virtuous Magic, a novelist and a poet describe the lives and legends of 45 holy women from the beginnings of Christianity until today, from Martha of Bethany and Mary Magdalene to Edith Stein, Dorothy Day, and the women religious and poverty workers martyred in El Salvador in 1980...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780826410740 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, February 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Ideas of holiness continue to haunt us even in this secular age.

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Amazon.com Review: English writer Sara Maitland tried to give a feminist slant to theology in her non-fiction work A Big-Enough God. In this collection of short stories, she does the same for a broad range of cultural narratives--from mythology, fable, and scripture to history, journalism, and fiction...read more
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9780805044126 | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories that sheds new light on the lives of women in works exploring such themes as magic, dreams, ritual, the supernatural, the accidents of history, and oppression

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9780805055290 | Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780805071207 | Henry Holt & Co, December 1, 1996, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9780853053521 | Arthur James, March 1, 1997, cover price $7.95

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9780819216922 | Morehouse Pub Co, February 1, 1997, cover price $2.00

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An uplifting and unorthodox book offers a bold, inclusive approach to spirituality informed by a fresh feminist sensibility and a profound respect for the power of science as well as the power of faith. Reprint. PW. LJ.
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9780805041835, titled "A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search for a Joyful Theology" | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1995, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A study of contemporary Christian feminist theology presents a spiritual journey that places God in the context of a laborer who works to establish ideal relationships with Her creations, from black holes to sea oysters.

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9781573225748, titled "A Big-Enough God: A Feminist's Search for a Joyful Theology" | Riverhead Books, December 1, 1996, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Essays developed from a Lenten series of lectures to Anglican clergy explore salvation, divine creativity, and joyful theology through the lenses of faith, science, and a feminist sensibility

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Product Description: The secrets of the Pharoahs come to life in this extraordinary package--a masterpiece of paper engineering that takes us on a fascinating tour through the world of ancient Egypt. For anyone young or old who wants to explore the mysteries of ancient Egypt, The Ancient Egypt Pack is a uniquely accessible guide...read more
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9780821223277 | Bulfinch Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The secrets of the Pharoahs come to life in this extraordinary package--a masterpiece of paper engineering that takes us on a fascinating tour through the world of ancient Egypt.

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A unique introduction to Greek mythology in the form of a hinged box containing an assortment of colorful items--marvels of paper engineering--includes a pop-up Trojan horse, a Hercules board game, a booklet, and much more. BOMC & QPB.
By Christos Kondeatis (illustrator) and Sara Maitland
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9780821222041 | Bulfinch Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A unique introduction to Greek mythology in the form of a hinged box containing an assortment of colorful items--marvels of paper engineering--includes a pop-up Trojan horse, a Hercules board game, a booklet, and much more.

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Unable to recall the accident on Mount Nyangani in which another hiker died and she injured her hand, Clare returns to Scotland, where her large, loving, and nosey family becomes unbearable
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9780805037791 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1995, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Unable to recall the accident on Mount Nyangani in which another hiker died and she injured her hand, Clare returns to Scotland, where her large, loving, and nosey family becomes unbearable

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After trying for five years to conceive a child, Elizabeth and Ian feel some psychological barrier is preventing their parenthood, and reexamine their marriage
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9780805038101 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 1995, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: After trying for five years to conceive a child, Elizabeth and Ian feel some psychological barrier is preventing their parenthood, and reexamine their marriage

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Product Description: This work sets out to challenge those who want a more imaginative, "bigger" spirituality, freed from the straightjackets of much contemporary doctrine and ecclesiology. It is grounded on the conviction that current developments in science, psychology and the arts, far from undermining faith, have encourage a revived and radical orthodoxy...read more
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9780264673318 | Geoffrey Chapman Mowbray, October 1, 1994, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: This work sets out to challenge those who want a more imaginative, "bigger" spirituality, freed from the straightjackets of much contemporary doctrine and ecclesiology.

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Unable to recall the accident in which two other hikers were lost and she lost her hand on Mount Nyangani, Clare returns to Scotland, where her large, loving, and nosy family becomes unbearable. By the author of Three Times Table.
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9780805025361 | Henry Holt & Co, February 1, 1994, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Unable to recall the accident in which another hiker died and she lost her hand on Mount Nyangani, Clare returns to Scotland, where her large, loving, and nosey family becomes unbearable

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During one extraordinary day, three women: grandmother Rachel--facing professional crises, mother Phoebe--struggling with possible breast cancer, and daughter Maggie--coping with coming womanhood, grapple with the turmoil of their lives and the complex relationship among them
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9780805029239 | Reprint edition (Owlet, December 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: During one extraordinary day, three women: grandmother Rachel--facing professional crises, mother Phoebe--struggling with possible breast cancer, and daughter Maggie--coping with coming womanhood, grapple with the turmoil of their lives and the complex relationship among them

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During one extraordinary day, three women-grandmother Rachel--facing professional crises, mother Phoebe--struggling with possible breast cancer, and daughter Maggie--coping with coming womanhood, grapple with the turmoil of their lives and the complex relationship among them
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9780805015768 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: During one extraordinary day, three women-grandmother Rachel--facing professional crises, mother Phoebe--struggling with possible breast cancer, and daughter Maggie--coping with coming womanhood, grapple with the turmoil of their lives and the complex relationship among them

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Documents all sides of the Rushdie controversy, providing an international chronology of events, early reviews of the book, and articles giving differing viewpoints
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9780815602484 | Syracuse Univ Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Documents all sides of the Rushdie controversy, providing an international chronology of events, early reviews of the book, and articles giving differing viewpoints

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By Sara Maitland (editor)
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9780860689584 | Virago Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $11.90

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The rape of one of her fellow sisters in a South American village brings Sister Anna dangerously close to a breakdown and she is moved to London, where she becomes involved in a very different kind of life
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9780825303500 | Beaufort Books, September 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The rape of one of her fellow sisters in a South American village brings Sister Anna dangerously close to a breakdown and she is moved to London, where she becomes involved in a very different kind of life

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