Xlibris jun 2005 (13 résultats)
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Award-winning translator Peter Hargitai celebrates 100 years of Attila József (1905-1937) in this new selection of 100 poems. His previous selection, Perched On Nothing's Branch (1986), enjoyed a remarkable run of five editions and won for him the Academy of American Poets' Landon Translation A…ward. His translation of Attila József is listed among the world classics cited by Harold Bloom in The Western Canon. Praise for Peter Hargitai's translation of Attila József: 'These grim, bitter, iron-cold poems emerge technically strong, spare and authentic in English, and they are admirably contemporary in syntax.' --MAY SWENSON in Citation for the Academy of American Poets 'A rich nuanced translation by Peter Hargitai. These poems are ageless, mirroring the human conditions and focusing in humankind's existential loneliness.' --MAXINE KUMIN 'I have long thought of Attila József as one of the great poets of the century, a tragic realist whose work beautifully redeemed the unbearable conditions of the life to which history condemned him. These new translations by Peter Hargitai will be welcomed by József's admirers and will certainly add to their number.' --DONALD JUSTICE '[Other] translations of József's work are stiff and academic, whereas peter Hargitai's versions are colloquial and emotionally charged as the originals. Reading them one lapses into the silence that attends the reception of all great poetry.' --DAVID KIRBY.
- Couverture souple
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A WOMAN OF TODAY IS CALLED ON TO HELP A WOMAN OF THE PASTHave you ever walked down a street and tried to picture it in an earlier, simpler time Have you ever imagined yourself actually living in the past Elizabeth Charles, a New York social worker specializing in child abuse, is walking to her next ca…se on the streets of New York's Lower East Side when her eyes seem to betray her. A street sign changes its name, then back again: St. James Place. The phantom sign sticks in her head, and thus begins a journey through time and emotion that takes her back to the New York of the early 20th century where she confronts the issues of that day, which are strangely familiar to her: domestic violence, women's rights, and the stubborn gulf between wealth and poverty. She encounters a woman who survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911 and Elizabeth is recruited to help this phantom from the past right a terrible injustice. St. James Place is a novel about the possibility of life after death, the existence of the spirit world, and how, at times, we are allowed to tap into both. A novel of suspense, romance, and history, St. James Place. appeals to readers fascinated by the mysteries of those who have gone before us.Set in old New York, present-day New York, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, this is thriller about good versus evil in which a woman of today is called upon to help a woman from the past.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The Honeymoon Car is a love story about two couples - decades apart - who are drawn together in an extraordinary way. Out of the mists of time, a pristine Packard Super 8 pulls up to the main entrance of a fashionable lakeside resort. How could curious onlookers know its young passengers have come fro…m a wedding that occurred fifty-three years earlier From their own tragic experiences with loss, Larry and Molly Hill have learned how love can heal. Now, possessing a revelation powerful enough to even survive death, they have returned with a message that can change troubled lives forever.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Honeysuckle is the bitter sweet story of little Bobby torn from his familiar surrounding with his bothers and carted off to live with a cruel stepfather in post World War II Mississippi. The entire household feels the weight of Big Jim's oppressive hand, but no more than Bobby who is forced to endure…the sting of his physical and psychological torment. Bobby finds the love of a childless black couple who nurture and guild him through his involuntary servitude. Honeysuckle is the tale of personal triumph of a boy who choose not to be hardened by his experiences but rather to learn and listen to those who teach and guide him; especially his guardian angel.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - PSYCHOLOGY/SELF-HELP (outside the inner square)HEAL SPIRITUALLY!What are the attitudes of healing yourself spiritually . Acquire secrets of the pyramid. Effectively address shadow and dark emotions. Learn surrender and manifestations of release. Transparency, transcendence, transformation. Bring spiri…tual healing to children. Create true grace, self-forgiveness, and redemption. Nurture your playfulness, faith, love and joyThis book can help you face, and work through, fears and feelings that hold you back from break-through growth. A down-to-earth companion for the lofty road of a spiritual journey, the author's message is conveyed through personal stories, reflections, and life lessons learned. Seeing through the eyes (and other senses) of a fellow human being makes it easier to take a next step in one's own quest. Advice, tools and strategies are embedded in engaging vignettes of conversation, travel, friendships, experiences with spiritual or 'body' work in many traditions, favorite poems and songs, and accounts of people as they live through catastrophic events such as 9/11 and California fires.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This is a tree book unlike any other. While trees have long been celebrated, their widespread admiration usually produces those field guides we all know, describing habitat, form, leaf and bark, meant to be carried with us as we wander the fields and woods, or, more rarely, those handsome books dedica…ted to arboreal beauty and character, such as those of Thomas Pakenham filled with fine photographs of extraordinary specimens. Absent from the literature of trees, however, is a survey of those that have been created by and exist only in the human imagination. These are the truly remarkable ones, including one that is the source of life, another the source of the knowledge of good and evil; some that have a human ancestry, others human characteristics; one that is soundless, another that speaks of the future, and still another that encompasses the entire world. That we cannot touch their bark, clasp their trunks or see their foliage and fruit only addes to their appeal, for they exist only in our minds.Gathered here are some of these extraordinary artifacts of the imagination produced, during man's long journey from the far past to the present, on the real trees that have sheltered and nourished us, physically and intellectually, enabled us to cross the oceans and both warmed and inspired us. That a mystical, atabistic bond exists between us and these aristocrats of the vegetable kingdom is evidenced whenever we stroll under a redwood or yew or enter a forest.This is a field in which you know more than you think you do. The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil are obvious examples. Mythology provides us with Yggdrasil, the Norse world tree and the arboreal metamorphoses described by Ovid. Other specimens have roots in literature, philosophy, history, and folklore, and, as befits a new guide to imaginary beings, there are several that have only just been discovered.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Johnny' is the concluding book of the Johnson Family saga. Like the first two books in the series, 'Booker' and 'Leroy', it deals with the life of the Johnson family, an African American family that lives in France.The novel begins after Johnny's prostate gland has been surgically removed because of…cancer. The prospect that he will eventually die of the ailment does not bother him as much as the possible permanent loss of sexual potency. However, the experience does remind him that he is mortal which causes him to review his life. He concluded that the greatest threat to his serenity during the time that he has left is the imminent lost of love and respect of his grand children. Johnny's goal becomes to transform himself from ghetto to mainstream. The first part of the book deals with Johnny's early life. He is born in a small town on the Chattahoochee River in Alabama. His scholastically and religious education are described as well as his ambitions and frustrations. He is saved from a impending mediocre life by enlisting in the Marines. In Korea, he becomes a war hero that later enables him to find decent employment in his hometown. He marries Louise, a local girl and yields to pressure from her for a honeymoon in Paris. The couple like Paris so much that they decide to remain there. After two children, Leroy and Booker, the couple falls apart. The social pressures leading to the rupture are described. In Paris, the couple is acutely aware of their relative poverty and low cultural level. Johnny feels that they should concentrate on accumulating wealth whereas Louise desires to improve their social status. Johnny becomes a dealer in stolen merchandise, mostly items stolen from the US army by soldiers. He and a French partner later open a cabaret for African American soldiers in Paris, which expanded into a series of bars, and other small businesses in the Paris area. Louise becomes increasingly cosmopolitan while serving as an international civil servant with UNESCO. Their different situation and prospective gradually makes life together untenable. Louise abandoned him and their children to follow her lover to Miami. The contrast between the perception and treatment of Africans and African Americans in Paris is examined in detail. The ramifications of Africans trying to migrate to Europe in order to find a better life are also treated. Obafemi unsuccessfully attempts to find work in France and finally settles on dealing in illegal drugs after refusing pandering is one of the subplots. A distance relative of Obafemi, Ogunlana, moving from drug dealing to the establishment of an African prostitution rings because it was safer is also related. The stories of many other colorful African American characters that haunted Paris in the later half of the 20th century are also reveled.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In Pursuit of the Speckled Gumball is a heartrending and hilarious recounting of the quest for recognition and acceptance by a young boy amid the chaos of alcoholism, abuse, and deceit.Henry, a gentle old Black man, takes the boy into his heart and with words inspires him to overcome the forces trying… to destroy him. His father, a handsome philandered, is transformed into a demon by alcohol. The mother's weakness allows abuse and violence to dominate the boy's life. His sister, six years older, is assigned responsibility for his care at too early an age; her resentment explodes into rage. Finally he faces the obstacles initiated by a tyrannical school administrator.' . . . I found Myers' story telling as compelling as the hard fiction of Walter Mosley . . . and Barbara Hambly . . And even equal to Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings . . . I laughed and I cried as he masterfully unfolded the twists and turns of his life. . . .' -Deborah Wright, Port Saint Joe, Florida.'I loved the book . . . . (In Pursuit of the Speckled Gumball) . . . reminded me of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes . . . . hooked me from the start . . . How profound that just a few simple words can keep a child going.' -Gwen Hewitt, Canton, Oklahoma.'Those of us who from time to time deal with troubled children particularly ought to read this book . . . a reading experience in which I could hardly wait to get back to . . .' -Briefcase, Book Notes, Oklahoma City'What a magnificent book it (In Pursuit of the Speckled Gumball) was. . . . ' -Kathryn Rager, Waco, Texas. 'I read the whole book before I put it down . . . loved it! . . .'Linda Royal Bridges, Harrah, Oklahoma.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This book contains a collection of 128 poems/verses, along with one skit, about a variety of rare, threatened, endangered and extinct species of Africa and Europe. Over fifty of the mammals, birds, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, and sea creatures are illustrated. Through use of humor and pathos, a…s well as a variety of poetic structures, the author will engage the young and not-so-young, as they discover their role in helping wildlife from these continents. You'll want to laugh with the hyena, cry with the quagga, and say 'aye' to the aye-aye. These poems are best enjoyed when read aloud in an enthusiastic manner. If your enthusiam takes the form of positive action, her primary objective will have been accomplished.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - There's no available information at this time.Author will provide once information is available.
- Couverture rigide
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The Pollinator: a tabloid name given to an evolutionary icon, Bill Kerrigan. A journal has been found; for the people of the late twenty-first century it provides a study in development, revealing the mysterious Kerrigans phenomenal, sublime and torturous transmutations: in his own words.In this novel… by William G. Reagan, fantasy and fictional memoir commingle. Chapters in the form of brief journal entries function to create a mosaic work that is tinged with stream-of-consciousness episodes. The story chronicles the protagonists life of suburban sensuality and his acquisition of superhuman capabilities which are engendered by and mature through the act of surfing. Follow Bill Kerrigan as he gradually discovers that he is--and was always meant to be--a volitant creature. He is a flyer, one who--at a price--can accrue and dispense the gift of bliss.
