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The books of May are here—fresh, fierce, and full of feels.

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Wedding season includes searching for a missing bride�and a killer . . .


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Sometimes the path forward begins with a step back.


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One island. Three generations. A summer that changes everything.


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A snapshot made them legends. What it didn�t show could tear them apart.


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This life coach will give you a lift!


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A twisty, "addictive," mystery about jealousy and bad intentions


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Trapped by magic, haunted by muses�she must master the cards before they�re lost to darkness.


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Masquerades, secrets, and a forbidden romance stitched into every seam.


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A vanished manuscript. A murdered expert. A castle full of secrets�and one sharp-witted sleuth.


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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


The Wine of Wisdom
Mehdi Aminrazavi

The Life, Work, and Legacy of Omar Khayyam

One World
June 2005
Featuring: Omar Khayyam
368 pages
ISBN: 1851683550
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography

Loved by the free-spirited, hated by his orthdox peers; a stranger both in his homeland and in the West: the complexities and contradictions surrounding the life of Omar Khayyam are reconstructed for the first time in this authoritative new book.

Engagingly written, this comprehensive study draws on a host of sources, placing Khayyam within the context of his own time, and exploring, through both the philosophy and the poetry, his lifelong preoccupation with such timeless themes as life and death, faith and reason, freewill and fate. Aminrazavi offers fresh insights, not only into the Ruba‘iyyat, but also into Khayyam’s lasting influence on Western literature from Mark Twain to T. S. Eliot, and his role in the creation of the Orientalist tradition.

With original renderings of Khayyam’s key philosophical works, and a full version of FitzGerald’s famous translation, this new biography will prove fascinating for general readers, while scholars and students will find this significant new contribution to the field of Persian Studies essential reading.

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