What now my love I shall paint your portrait only if you care?
but is it for the right reasons to show you beauty about yourself that is new to you?
what then with my frozen hands serinading the secrets of your femininity with arrow paint brushes
only for you to be the attraction of other men
when I am so jealous of you >>>>——->?diary
Nice, potential, jealous.
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A Diary Of A Journey To The East $25.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Men naturally fall into the habit of applying the terms of their own art on occasions when they appear to be even ludicrous. To-day, as the sailor attendants were setting out the table for dinner, I heard one of them desire another to place one of the dishes a fathom or two higher up the table ; and once at an Irish banquet I heard a carpenter, who was one of the waiters, ask a guest to whom he was handing a dish of salmon cutlets skewered on arbutus wood, to be pleased to take one of them by the timber. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. When I rose this morning we were passing the island of Pantellaria, which lies off the African coast, to the east of Cape Bon. This island is one of the two (Grozo is the other) which claim to have been once the home of Ulysses, where for seven long years ” Calypso in her caves constrained his stay With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.” The wavy outline of its dark blue mountains impressed usfavourably with a sense of its beauty, but long wandering must have had its usual effect in dissipating his home- thoughts beforegthe sage of profane history could have been lulled, either by female charms or the beauty of nature, into forgetfulness of Penelope, and Telemachus, and his people and kingdom. The island has, however, no charms for a large class of its present inhabitants for they are convicts sent there from Naples. We were near enough to see distinctly the white houses of the town and a large white building in the centre, which is probably either the government house, or a prison, or both. Off Pantellaria, we saw a Maltese fishing boat, with two milk-white sails, at least 130 miles from its home. This little speronara, of twenty tons or less, but which was still larger than the vessel that bore Ulysses, skimmed along the sea like a nauti |
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A Diary Of A Journey To The East $16.28 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Men naturally fall into the habit of applying the terms of their own art on occasions when they appear to be even ludicrous. To-day, as the sailor attendants were setting out the table for dinner, I heard one of them desire another to place one of the dishes a fathom or two higher up the table ; and once at an Irish banquet I heard a carpenter, who was one of the waiters, ask a guest to whom he was handing a dish of salmon cutlets skewered on arbutus wood, to be pleased to take one of them by the timber. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. When I rose this morning we were passing the island of Pantellaria, which lies off the African coast, to the east of Cape Bon. This island is one of the two (Grozo is the other) which claim to have been once the home of Ulysses, where for seven long years ” Calypso in her caves constrained his stay With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.” The wavy outline of its dark blue mountains impressed usfavourably with a sense of its beauty, but long wandering must have had its usual effect in dissipating his home- thoughts beforegthe sage of profane history could have been lulled, either by female charms or the beauty of nature, into forgetfulness of Penelope, and Telemachus, and his people and kingdom. The island has, however, no charms for a large class of its present inhabitants for they are convicts sent there from Naples. We were near enough to see distinctly the white houses of the town and a large white building in the centre, which is probably either the government house, or a prison, or both. Off Pantellaria, we saw a Maltese fishing boat, with two milk-white sails, at least 130 miles from its home. This little speronara, of twenty tons or less, but which was still larger than the vessel that bore Ulysses, skimmed along the sea like a nauti |
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A Diary Of A Journey To The East $20.75 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Men naturally fall into the habit of applying the terms of their own art on occasions when they appear to be even ludicrous. To-day, as the sailor attendants were setting out the table for dinner, I heard one of them desire another to place one of the dishes a fathom or two higher up the table ; and once at an Irish banquet I heard a carpenter, who was one of the waiters, ask a guest to whom he was handing a dish of salmon cutlets skewered on arbutus wood, to be pleased to take one of them by the timber. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. When I rose this morning we were passing the island of Pantellaria, which lies off the African coast, to the east of Cape Bon. This island is one of the two (Grozo is the other) which claim to have been once the home of Ulysses, where for seven long years ” Calypso in her caves constrained his stay With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.” The wavy outline of its dark blue mountains impressed usfavourably with a sense of its beauty, but long wandering must have had its usual effect in dissipating his home- thoughts beforegthe sage of profane history could have been lulled, either by female charms or the beauty of nature, into forgetfulness of Penelope, and Telemachus, and his people and kingdom. The island has, however, no charms for a large class of its present inhabitants for they are convicts sent there from Naples. We were near enough to see distinctly the white houses of the town and a large white building in the centre, which is probably either the government house, or a prison, or both. Off Pantellaria, we saw a Maltese fishing boat, with two milk-white sails, at least 130 miles from its home. This little speronara, of twenty tons or less, but which was still larger than the vessel that bore Ulysses, skimmed along the sea like a nauti |
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A Fugitive Truth (Emma Fielding Series #4) $0.99 The past’s blood stains the presentThe opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderess whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the three other Shrewsbury Foundation fellows she must share the premises with are a disturbingly odd bunch, and before too long one of them is dead.But Emma can find no solace in the bleak beauty of the surrounding wilderness, for there are dark secrets encoded in Madam Chandler’s writings, and shocking parallels between an ancient slaying and the strange, brutal demise of her colleague. When the killer strikes again, Emma realizes her own life is at stake. And suddenly there is no choice left: she is driven to investigate bloody crimes past and present — before her own death becomes a footnote in a chilling, three-centuries-old story. |
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A Fugitive Truth (Emma Fielding Series #4) $6.99 The past’s blood stains the presentThe opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderess whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the three other Shrewsbury Foundation fellows she must share the premises with are a disturbingly odd bunch, and before too long one of them is dead.But Emma can find no solace in the bleak beauty of the surrounding wilderness, for there are dark secrets encoded in Madam Chandler’s writings, and shocking parallels between an ancient slaying and the strange, brutal demise of her colleague. When the killer strikes again, Emma realizes her own life is at stake. And suddenly there is no choice left: she is driven to investigate bloody crimes past and present — before her own death becomes a footnote in a chilling, three-centuries-old story. |
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A Hundred Camels $6 As Jean Janzen observes,”This vivid, compelling story becomes a vehicle of beauty-the kind that wounds as we recognize our own fears and prejudices but also the beauty of a compassion that heals.” Here is the account of a Mennonite mission doctor tried for a patient’s murder. As this suspenseful, true-life drama unfolds, readers are given access to an ancient, clan-based culture few Americans have experienced in a country recently declared by the United Nations as a humanitarian crisis “worse than Darfur.” In her Foreword, Shirley H. Showalters comments that “This book contains an equal measure of travelogue, mystery story, medical diary, and cultural history. Underneath the excitement of the courtroom drama, murder trial, and many escapades in a new culture, lies the story of how one man’s spirit grew, first in his own country and his own faith and then in a new country with a different faith.” |
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A Mystery in Naples (Picas Series) $3.77 Relentlessly asking the question Why did my friend Francesca Nobili kill herself in Naples on Good Friday in 1961? this journalist keeps a diary that blurs the line between fact and fiction. Meditations on the beauty of Naples alternate with memories of old conversations as he tries to understand how Nobili, with her fervent belief in human goodness and social progress, could have chosen death over life. |
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A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby $7.03 From the acclaimed biographer of The Sisters, the story of one of the most remarkable women of the 19th century, who traveled far and wide on a quest for true love Produced from Jane Digby’s diaries, this sympathetic and dramatic portrait of a rare woman explores a fascinating glimpse into the centuries-old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost. A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at 17. Their divorce a few years later was one of England’s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfillment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, King Ludwig I of Bavaria, and a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to travel Eastern Asia. In Syria, she found the love of her life, a Bedouin nobleman, Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab, who was 20 years her junior. During the remainder of her life she adopted for six months of each year the exotic but uniquely harsh existence of a desert nomad living in the famous black goathair tents of Arabia; the remaining months she spent in the splendid palace she built for herself and Medjuel in Damascus. As wife to the Sheikh and mother to his tribe this passionate woman found not only genuine fulfillment but further adventures, all of which she committed each year to her diary. |
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A Well Pleasured Lady (Well Pleasured Series #1) $7.99 A PROPER SPINSTERPrim, plain, desperately virtuous Lady Mary Fairchild stared at the seductive gentleman and wondered—did he remember the elements of the night they met? Surely not. In the ten years since, she had abandoned her youthful impetuousness and transformed herself into a housekeeper—disguising her beauty beneath a servant’s dour clothing determined to conquer the passions of the past.A DANGEROUS NOBLEMANBut Sebastian Durant, Viscount Whitfield, did recognize her as a Fairchild, one of his family’s bitter enemies. When he demanded her help recovering a stolen diary, she dared not refuse him. When he proposed they masquerade as a betrothed couple, loyalty forced her to agree. And when the restraint between them shattered and pleasure became an obsession, Mary had to trust a powerful man who could send her to the gallows… or love her through eternity. |
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A Well Pleasured Lady (Well Pleasured Series #1) $5.99 A PROPER SPINSTERPrim, plain, desperately virtuous Lady Mary Fairchild stared at the seductive gentleman and wondered—did he remember the elements of the night they met? Surely not. In the ten years since, she had abandoned her youthful impetuousness and transformed herself into a housekeeper—disguising her beauty beneath a servant’s dour clothing determined to conquer the passions of the past.A DANGEROUS NOBLEMANBut Sebastian Durant, Viscount Whitfield, did recognize her as a Fairchild, one of his family’s bitter enemies. When he demanded her help recovering a stolen diary, she dared not refuse him. When he proposed they masquerade as a betrothed couple, loyalty forced her to agree. And when the restraint between them shattered and pleasure became an obsession, Mary had to trust a powerful man who could send her to the gallows… or love her through eternity. |
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Adventures Of Abby Diamond $17.05 Abby Diamond is an eleven year old girl who loves to solve the mysteries that surround her and her three best friends: Neils, Andrea and Alison.Being blind does not stop this girl detective from solving the mysterious cases that happen in her home and at school.Abby is smart, self reliant and ready to take on any problems that come her way along with her friends aka The Four Musketeers.Neils- An adorable redhead who is Abby’s best friend and a tomboy by heart. If anyone loves a mystery better than Abby it is Neils.Andrea- A tall striking dark-skinned young girl who has both beauty and brains. Andrea is the leader of The Four Musketeers who never fails to have a successful ending.Alison- A quiet innocent girl who is the daughter of a famous movie star, Kaitlyn Summers. Although Alison has experienced the lifestyle of the rich and famous, she much prefers to live with her adopted dad, Audie who manages the school cafeteria.Jaxson- A chubby outcast with poor grammar but who becomes lovable and a dear friend to Abby and her friends.Glen- Jaxson’s sidekick. Glen does not have a mind of his own, so he depends on Jaxson to be his voice. He is also known as “the parrot”.Join Abby, Neils, Andrea, Alison, Jaxson and Glen when the group attends middle school and meets up with bullies and a teenage wizard.Children will learn about the mysteries of the Titanic and World War Two when Abby and her friends find a diary written in Braille.Who does the diary belong to and what secrets do the girls vow to keep for the rest of their lives? |
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Alfons Mucha $12.94 Though Alfons Mucha (1960-1939) achieved lasting international acclaim as an Art Nouveau painter, graphic designer, and decorator, his photography is not as well known. In this new, expanded edition produced in cooperation with the Mucha Trust, an intimate and accomplished photographer is revealed. A kind of sketchbook and personal visual diary, this record of captured moments from the mid-1880s until the end of the artist’s life illuminates both Mucha’s career as an artist and the time in which he lived. In addition, the behind-the-scenes glimpses of his studio prove that Mucha–a key creator of the ideal of Art Nouveau beauty–was one of the pioneers of the classic nude in Czech photography. For lay readers and photographic connoisseurs alike, this volume illuminates a unique and powerful artistic vision. |
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Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums $4.07 Snapshots, passenger lists, itineraries, and postcards from San Francisco flapper Vera Talbot’s Far East adventure. Chicagoan Clara E. Whitcomb’s travel diary containing pages filled with souvenir photos, maps, and a list of titles for a future book about her travels in Egypt. These are only two of the narratives that unfold in the beautifully designed pages of Around the World. From Cairo to Burma and back again, authors Barbara Levine and Kirsten Jensen transport readers back tothe dawn of world travel when, Brownie cameras in tow, the middle class toured the world for the first time and painstakingly documented their discoveries within scrapbooks, diary entries, and pasted-on souvenir postcards.Around the World traces the development of the travel photo album, from primarily narrative formsships’ logs and diariesinto rich multimedia objects of sublime beauty. The book features a wealth of turn-of-the- twentieth-century photographs and ephemera such as passports, ship menus, calling cards, and newspaper clippings. Around the World evokes the pleasures of a time when the surroundings were taken in slowly and travel was an art in and of itself. |
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Avant-Garde And Experimental Films By Director (Study Guide) $70.82 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Films Directed by Andy Warhol, Films Directed by Arthur Lipsett, Films Directed by Bruce Conner, Films Directed by Guy Maddin, Films Directed by Jacques Rivette, Films Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Films Directed by Jean Cocteau, Films Directed by Kenneth Anger, Films Directed by Lars Von Trier, Films Directed by Luis Buñuel, Films Directed by Man Ray, Films Directed by Michael Snow, Films Directed by Norman Mclaren, Films Directed by Peter Greenaway, Films Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, the Battleship Potemkin, Un Chien Andalou, Alphaville, a Movie, Eaux D’artifice, Batman Dracula, Bezhin Meadow, Antichrist, Out 1, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, the Phantom of Liberty, Ivan the Terrible, the Pillow Book, Breathless, ¡que Viva México!, Chelsea Girls, Alexander Nevsky, the Saddest Music in the World, Manderlay, Wavelength, Celine and Julie Go Boating, the Draughtsman’s Contract, Jean-Luc Godard Filmography, Nazarín, Beauty and the Beast, La Chinoise, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary, the Falls, That Obscure Object of Desire, the Idiots, Strike, the Kingdom, Prospero’s Books, Viridiana, Breaking the Waves, Vivre Sa Vie, Bande à Part, Histoire(s) Du Cinéma, Brand Upon the Brain!, the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a Zed |
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Away from You $0.99 “A deeply affecting book, with its own atmosphere of strong, unsparing light and brilliant detail. An exceptional first novel.”—Helen Dunmore, author of Mourning Ruby and The Lilac Tree”This is the kind of novel that blends documentary with imagination, full of excellent reportage. The novel has pace and passion and a real point to it.”-Margaret Forster, author of Diary of an Ordinary Woman”Without being heavy-handed or judgmental, Melanie Finn creates a picture of East Africa, then and now, which reveals the sadness, waste, violence, and beauty of the place. A delicately crafted and powerfully evocative novel.”-Esther Freud, author of The Sea House |
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B.A.D. Sisters Diary $10.39 A ‘Dark and Dazzling’ Tribute to Love and LifeA celebration of the exotic and the erotic, B.A.D. Sisters Diary: Beautiful and Dark Sisters collects nearly two-dozen pieces of short prose and poetry from author Adetoye ‘Olu McValiant. Here are penetrating insights into love, sex, gender relations, violence and spirituality. From the woman physically rejoicing in her lover’s first kiss, to the man whose aching need cries out for release, the subjects are at once heart-wrenching and unflinchingly authentic. Through it all is a reverence for the beauty of blackness – for the woman who is as “dark and dazzling” as she wants to be. But McValiant shows a strong empathy for the human condition in all its forms as he casts his eye on contemporary issues of war, peace, and religion, all the while capturing the music and the weight of words. |
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Bajan Affair $17.03 DescriptionBajan Affair is Pauline Pearce’s 2nd publication by Chipmunka.It is written in diary format as an uplifting, humorous account of a holiday she spent on the Caribbean island of Barbados.Pauline describes how her heart was captivated, not only by this idyllic location, but by the characters she met during her daily exploits.It tells of a romance, not between two individuals but as an affair of the heart between herself, this small corner of paradise, and the beauty of spirit she discovered within those who inhabit these shores.Feel the warmth of the sun on your back and the caress of a tropical breeze, as Pauline’s narration takes you, in imagination, to this vibrant island. Her words, as she sets each scene, are vivid in description, witty and, most definitely, thought provoking – a book to both relax and rejuvenate the reader and one, certainly, to be read from cover to cover. |
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Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler (1918-1937) $8.99 Berlin in Lights, chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, is the collection of German aristocrat Harry Kessler’s diaries between the two world wars. Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the son of a German banker and an Irish beauty, was a diplomat and publisher who moved easily among the worlds of art, politics, and society. He lived in Berlin but traveled throughout Europe, always with a keen eye to the political climate of the times. His diaries encompass an extraordinary variety of people: Einstein engages him in long discussions on his theories, and Josephine Baker dances naked in Kessler’s drawing room. Kessler had lunch with Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Erik Satie, and dinner with Max Reinhardt, George Grosz, Virginia Woolf, Jean Cocteau, and Andre Gide, to name a few. His diaries encapsulate this tumultuous time frame, recording at first hand the agonizing collapse and death of Weimar Germany and the arrival of the Nazis. Beautifully written, the diaries provide rare insight into the frenetic, constantly changing mood and give us a brilliant portrait of Germany and Europe between the wars. “What distinguishes his diary is Kessler’s distanziert tone — its elegance, precision and shrewdness.” — Iain Bamforth, The New York Times Book Review |
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Blood Fruit $10.43 A Queer Collection of Dark Tales of the Macabre and the Horrific. Eleven tales from new and established authors of Queer Speculative Fiction.Edited by: James EM Rasmussen Stories by: Laramie Dean; Jamie Freeman; Shanna Germain; Garry McLaughlin; TA Moore; Stephen Osborne; Trent Roman; Mark Silcox; Nathan Sims; Quinn Smythwood; Raymond Yeo The Lure of Dangerous Woman by Shanna Germain: The things that call to us-music, cigarettes, art, women-are as strong and murky as the bayou. In New Orleans, they are the bayou. A Different Kind of Monster by TA Moore: It wasn’t Peter’s beauty that attracted Sol, rather his cruelty… He was a cold flame to Sol’s moth. Just Past Winter by Nathan Sims: Prisoner of an enemy pack, Marcus has one chance at freedom. But what will the werewolf have to sacrifice to make it back home? Hemophobia by Trent Roman: Connor is an (un)living contradiction: a vampire who is afraid of blood. But he’ll have to push through the fear-or his only friend will be dead before the night is out. The Diarist by Mark Silcox: It was Mitchell who found the old man’s diary, but Leo who couldn’t stop reading it. Sometimes the memories of the dead can bleed into the world of the living… After All by Laramie Dean: Danny is making enormous changes in his life after his last disastrous relationship…but all it takes is a chalk-white face at the window to spin everything out of control. Happy Anniversary by Stephen Osborne: An evening playing with a spirit board brings terror to Max and Perry when a vengeful spirit from Max’s past is conjured. Tombstone by Raymond Yeo: Nick’s sister is back in town and she’s brought her own demon… Captive Magic by Garry McLaughlin: Bannister is just a harmless old man, isn’t he? At least that is what Scott thinks until a chain of events cause him to suspect that Bannister is anything but harmless. Hollow by Jamie Freeman: Theo has a secret life he’s killing for… For |
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Blood Fruit $6.99 A Queer Collection of Dark Tales of the Macabre and the Horrific. Eleven tales from new and established authors of Queer Speculative Fiction.Edited by: James EM Rasmussen Stories by: Laramie Dean; Jamie Freeman; Shanna Germain; Garry McLaughlin; TA Moore; Stephen Osborne; Trent Roman; Mark Silcox; Nathan Sims; Quinn Smythwood; Raymond Yeo The Lure of Dangerous Woman by Shanna Germain: The things that call to us-music, cigarettes, art, women-are as strong and murky as the bayou. In New Orleans, they are the bayou. A Different Kind of Monster by TA Moore: It wasn’t Peter’s beauty that attracted Sol, rather his cruelty… He was a cold flame to Sol’s moth. Just Past Winter by Nathan Sims: Prisoner of an enemy pack, Marcus has one chance at freedom. But what will the werewolf have to sacrifice to make it back home? Hemophobia by Trent Roman: Connor is an (un)living contradiction: a vampire who is afraid of blood. But he’ll have to push through the fear-or his only friend will be dead before the night is out. The Diarist by Mark Silcox: It was Mitchell who found the old man’s diary, but Leo who couldn’t stop reading it. Sometimes the memories of the dead can bleed into the world of the living… After All by Laramie Dean: Danny is making enormous changes in his life after his last disastrous relationship…but all it takes is a chalk-white face at the window to spin everything out of control. Happy Anniversary by Stephen Osborne: An evening playing with a spirit board brings terror to Max and Perry when a vengeful spirit from Max’s past is conjured. Tombstone by Raymond Yeo: Nick’s sister is back in town and she’s brought her own demon… Captive Magic by Garry McLaughlin: Bannister is just a harmless old man, isn’t he? At least that is what Scott thinks until a chain of events cause him to suspect that Bannister is anything but harmless. Hollow by Jamie Freeman: Theo has a secret life he’s killing for… For |
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Blue Notebook $9.99 A haunting yet astonishingly hopeful story of a young Indian prostitute who uses writing and imagination to transcend her reality.An unforgettable, deeply affecting tribute to the powers of imagination and the resilience of childhood, THE BLUE NOTEBOOK tells the story of Batuk, a precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was sold into sexual slavery by her father when she was nine. As she navigates the grim realities of the Common Street—a street of prostitution in Mumbai where children are kept in cages as they wait for customers to pay for sex—Batuk manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts and stories in a diary. The novel is powerfully told in Batuk’s voice, through the words she writes in her journal, where she finds hope and beauty in the bleakest circumstances. Beautifully crafted and deeply human, THE BLUE NOTEBOOKexplores how people, in the most difficult of situations, can use storytelling to make sense of… |
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Cannie: The Hills of Home $12.95 The second book in a series about strong mountain women, Cannie is the authentic story of the author’s mother, Cannie Owen Ammons from Wolf Mountain, North Carolina, and features excerpts from her diary. I was born at the Golden Place, high on Ammons Mountain, the first child of Cannie Owen Ammons. I was delivered by Retter, my grandmother. Growing up in the mountains—the only blinking lights were the fireflies that appeared just at twilight—I did not know I was poor. I did not know the dark places of the world. I did not know the fast pace consuming most of its people. The beauty of the mountains satisfied my hunger and my thirst and clothed my back. With certainty I knew there was something special about my family; I knew there was something special in my surroundings. When I began to put down on paper the stories that had to come, I once again discovered these special feelings. Why? I wondered. Why did I know there was something special I had to say? And then I discovered my mother’s diary! She had given it to her sister who, upon hearing I was writing about Mother, in turn gave it to me. Some of the pages were missing, the rest were yellow and tattered; but I now possessed two years of my mother’s thoughts about her early life. Highly sensitive and intelligent, Mother had the ability to express her feelings eloquently about growing up in the mountains, marrying at age 15, and having a child at 16. And then, suddenly, in the pages of her diary, I discovered why I must tell Cannie’s story. |
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Career Diary of a Pastry Chef: Gardner’s Guide Series $11.95 This series examines a wide array of professions; each book goes behind the scenes and on the job with a professional in a particular field. These books provide a glimpse of some of the projects, challenges, and rewards of a job on a day-to-day basis. Highlighting the professional life of a pastry chef as she whips up eclectic desserts for a large, fine dining restaurant in Los Angeles, this intimate portrayal offers an honest introduction to the world behind the kitchen doors. A professional in the business describes her daily tasks, pausing occasionally to muse on the beauty of a perfect meringue, and delving into the challenges and rewards of her chosen path. In addition to the lively narrative, real insights are offered on the relevant issues of the profession, including the pros and cons of a culinary education, the reason behind the frequent employee turnover in the industry, and the joys and demands of working in a culturally diverse environment. This diary presents a real slice-of-life that aspiring chefs and avid foodies alike can sink their teeth into. |
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Continuation Of The Diary Illustrative Of The Times Of George Iv (Volume 2); Interspersed With Original Letters From The Late Queen Caroline $17.29 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:ADDITIONAL LETTERS THE PRINCESS OF WALES. February 6tb, 1810. It is ages, my dear , since I have heard from you: pray do me the kindness to write to me soon, and enliven the dulness of my sojourn here, by some of your eloquence. 1 saw yesterday an old friend of yours, Lady . I believe it is fifteen years since we met. I have never before seen her since her marriage. I do not find her at all altered; indeed, I think her pretty now, and I did not as a girl think her so. Her eyes are lovely: to be sure that is her only beauty. She inquired much after you, but appeared to be in very low spirits. She talked with anxiety and feeling about her husband, who is again going to leave her to follow his trade, and has not yet recovered the Walcheren fever. Doubtless, my dear , you have heard of the overwhelming calamity which has happened to Lord Auckland’s family. About three weeks ago his eldest son, Mr. Eden, a young man of twenty-two, in perfect health and spirits, and highly prosperous as to worldly affairs (he possessed a place for life of two thousand per annum), went out at nine o’clock from his father’s house in Old Palace Yard, and, saying he should return in an hour, he has never since been heard of. Hitherto every search has been made in vain: not a trace is to be found. People imagine he is drowned; but you may suppose degrief of the unhappy parents on dis melancholy occasion. Yet our friend Telemachus could not resist making a pun on this funebre event, and said, ” Oh! dey ought to look for him in Eden; he must be there.” I had a party last evening, and much lamented your absence; for it was more agreeable than such assemblies are in general. I had the Persian ambassador, and the two Deshays danced and Catalini sung, and all de folks appeared to be p |
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Cruel Beauty $71.99 CRUEL BEAUTY examines the self-portrait paintings of Frida Kahlo and her articulation of ’self’ and ‘identity’ through the creation of an innovative feminine vocabulary. The work explores the representation of her sexual subjectivity in the body of self-portraits produced in her short life time, some of which were painted in a state of physical disability and created in the shadow of her legendary husband – socialist Mexican muralist and revolutionary Diego Rivera. An examination of the self-portrait paintings produced by Frida Kahlo, informed by her diary, personal letters, poems, and photographs, broadens the conventions of subjective self beyond the generic patterns of autobiographical narrative, characteristic of a masculine Western ’self’. In Kahlo’s self-portraits the the urban Mexican proletarian woman draws stylistically from the domain of European self-portraiture, early studio photographic portraiture, biographical Mexican Catholic retablo art, and the legacy of ancient Aztec Indian symbology of self. |
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Diary Of A Curable Romantic $16.83 This is an account of the first 82 years in the life of Junius A. Davis. who entered this world starry eyed and believing in the inherent beauty of all things, and his continuing discovery that his romantic view of the world and his part in it was essentially and fatally flawed.. |
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Diary Of A Curable Romantic $9.99 This is an account of the first 82 years in the life of Junius A. Davis. who entered this world starry eyed and believing in the inherent beauty of all things, and his continuing discovery that his romantic view of the world and his part in it was essentially and fatally flawed.. |
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Diary Of A Curable Romantic $29.88 This is an account of the first 82 years in the life of Junius A. Davis. who entered this world starry eyed and believing in the inherent beauty of all things, and his continuing discovery that his romantic view of the world and his part in it was essentially and fatally flawed.. |
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Diary of a Nappy Head $9.99 To those around Jergen Black, beauty equaled having straight hair; it was an equation that she never quite understood. All her young life, Jergen watched her now thin-haired mother, Mamma Dee, constantly smoke up the kitchen with a hot comb while straightening people’s hair and bragging about how beautiful they were going to look when she finished. Jergen’s choice to wear her hair natural is constantly critiqued by those around her, as well as by her “ghetto” grandmother who dates Stockton, the town drug lord who is half her age. Not only does Jergen have to worry about her mother becoming bald from burning out her own hair, she also has to worry about her grandmother’s dangerous lifestyle getting the best of her. Jotting down the events of the day in the new diary that her ex-boyfriend’s mother gave her provides Jergen with an outlet for her to express her thoughts freely. Jergen is able to make it through with the help of her three best friends who call themselves “La Natural”- four very smart black beauties who happily wear their hair natural and show it off despite the reaction they receive from the outside world. |
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Diary of an Eating Disorder: A Mother and Daughter Share Their Healing Journey $0.99 Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have become common in teenage girls, who feel they must conform to over-exaggerated ideals of thinness and beauty. In “Diary of an Eating Disorder”, Chelsea Smith bravely comes forward with a day-to-day account of her life with an eating disorder.Chelsea relates how her parents’ divorce and sexual abuse by a neighbor resulted in a deep-rooted negative personal image and low self-esteem. Her diary reveals the surprising and shocking ideas and beliefs she held about herself, her obsession with food and eating, her desire to recover and become healthy, and her despair that her eating disorder could cause her to lose the people she loved and prevent her from achieving her goals. She recounts her days in an eating disorder rehab center and her long road to recovery. Throughout the book, the author’s mother, Beverly Runyon, describes Chelsea’s life and the difficulties of watching a beloved child starve herself until she finally asks for help.”Diary of an Eating Disorder” provides enlightening insights into the mind of a person affected with anorexia and bulimia. The parents of girls afflicted with these diseases will value this book as a promise of hope that recovery is possible. |
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Diary of an Ugly Duckling $6.99 What makes an otherwise sane woman appear on a reality TV show? Especially one as drastic as Ugly Duckling? For Audra Marks, the last straw comes when she loses her shot with handsome Art Bradshaw to the prettier and lighter-skinned Esmeralda Prince. Audra’s always lived in a classic movies fantasy world of diva dames and handsome heroes, where the costumes are gorgeous, the good guys always win, and love always triumphs. But now, her heart broken, she’s decided to do anything to get back her man and show her hypercritical mother she can “pretty up” with the best of them in the bargain. After all, if the folks at Ugly Duckling can transform a homely, buck-toothed white girl into a ravishing beauty, just think what they’ll be able to do with Audra! But until she truly believes she’s beautiful inside, it won’t matter how hot and pretty they make the outside package. And Audra’s obsession with perfection may be leading her farther and farther away from what’s really important — and blinding her to the love that’s been waiting there all along . . . |
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Diary of an Ugly Duckling $6.99 What makes an otherwise sane woman appear on a reality TV show? Especially one as drastic as Ugly Duckling? For Audra Marks, the last straw comes when she loses her shot with handsome Art Bradshaw to the prettier and lighter-skinned Esmeralda Prince. Audra’s always lived in a classic movies fantasy world of diva dames and handsome heroes, where the costumes are gorgeous, the good guys always win, and love always triumphs. But now, her heart broken, she’s decided to do anything to get back her man and show her hypercritical mother she can “pretty up” with the best of them in the bargain. After all, if the folks at Ugly Duckling can transform a homely, buck-toothed white girl into a ravishing beauty, just think what they’ll be able to do with Audra! But until she truly believes she’s beautiful inside, it won’t matter how hot and pretty they make the outside package. And Audra’s obsession with perfection may be leading her farther and farther away from what’s really important — and blinding her to the love that’s been waiting there all along . . . |
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Doomed Love $10 Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great Loves collection include tales of blissful and all- encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous, innocent and murderous love. A deeply moving addition to the Penguin Great Ideas and Great Journeys series, each gorgeously packaged book will challenge all expectations of love while celebrating the beauty of its existence. All books in this series: Cures for Love Doomed Love The Eaten Heart First Love Forbidden Fruit The Kreutzer Sonata A Mere Interlude Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests The Seducer’s Diary |
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Earl of Darkness $0.99 The magic she tries to hide . . . Born a lady, but reduced to surviving in the slums of Dublin, Catriona O’Connell has been hired to steal a mysterious book from Aidan Douglas, Earl of Kilronan. But Cat is secretly Other, an age-old mixture of Fey and human—something Aidan recognizes immediately when he surprises the lovely young burglar in his library, about to steal a magical diary. . . . is the magic he desperately wants. From the moment Aidan sees her, Cat’s spirited beauty enchants him, but her uncanny abilities are what he truly needs, for Cat can understand the mystical language in the diary he inherited from his murdered father. So Aidan makes an offer: translate the book or be thrown in prison as a thief. And as Cat slowly deciphers each page, she and Aidan are drawn together by passion . . . and into the violence of the Other world that is the Kilronan legacy. Can they defeat those who seek the book, or are their lives in even greater danger than their hearts? |
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Earl of Darkness $7.99 The magic she tries to hide . . . Born a lady, but reduced to surviving in the slums of Dublin, Catriona O’Connell has been hired to steal a mysterious book from Aidan Douglas, Earl of Kilronan. But Cat is secretly Other, an age-old mixture of Fey and human—something Aidan recognizes immediately when he surprises the lovely young burglar in his library, about to steal a magical diary. . . . is the magic he desperately wants. From the moment Aidan sees her, Cat’s spirited beauty enchants him, but her uncanny abilities are what he truly needs, for Cat can understand the mystical language in the diary he inherited from his murdered father. So Aidan makes an offer: translate the book or be thrown in prison as a thief. And as Cat slowly deciphers each page, she and Aidan are drawn together by passion . . . and into the violence of the Other world that is the Kilronan legacy. Can they defeat those who seek the book, or are their lives in even greater danger than their hearts? |
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Edmund Bertram’s Diary $4.46 The retelling of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park from the point of view of Edmund Bertram—by the author of Mr. Knightley’s Diary and Captain Wentworth’ Diary. At ten years of age, Fanny Price came to live with Edmund Bertram and his family at Mansfield Park. Far from the brat Edmund expected, Fanny became his closest confidante and dearest friend.But when the fashionable Crawford siblings— Henry and Mary—come to town, they captivate the Bertram family. Henry embarks on a scandalous flirtation with Edmund’s sister, who is already betrothed to another, while Edmund is enchanted by Mary’s beauty and wit. But when it appears that Mary is not all she seems to be, Edmund will turn to the one woman who has always been at his side to find the happiness he deserves—Fanny. |
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Edmund Bertram’s Diary $12.99 The retelling of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park from the point of view of Edmund Bertram—by the author of Mr. Knightley’s Diary and Captain Wentworth’ Diary. At ten years of age, Fanny Price came to live with Edmund Bertram and his family at Mansfield Park. Far from the brat Edmund expected, Fanny became his closest confidante and dearest friend.But when the fashionable Crawford siblings— Henry and Mary—come to town, they captivate the Bertram family. Henry embarks on a scandalous flirtation with Edmund’s sister, who is already betrothed to another, while Edmund is enchanted by Mary’s beauty and wit. But when it appears that Mary is not all she seems to be, Edmund will turn to the one woman who has always been at his side to find the happiness he deserves—Fanny. |
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Edmund Bertram’s Diary $16 The retelling of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park from the point of view of Edmund Bertram—by the author of Mr. Knightley’s Diary and Captain Wentworth’ Diary. At ten years of age, Fanny Price came to live with Edmund Bertram and his family at Mansfield Park. Far from the brat Edmund expected, Fanny became his closest confidante and dearest friend.But when the fashionable Crawford siblings— Henry and Mary—come to town, they captivate the Bertram family. Henry embarks on a scandalous flirtation with Edmund’s sister, who is already betrothed to another, while Edmund is enchanted by Mary’s beauty and wit. But when it appears that Mary is not all she seems to be, Edmund will turn to the one woman who has always been at his side to find the happiness he deserves—Fanny. |
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Essays from The Guardian $0.99 Walter Pater (1839–94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. He brought his extensive knowledge of the history of art to bear on the new problem of how to explain the very personal affective response to beauty, and raised this into a central concern of aesthetic and philosophical thought. His ideas still shape modern assumptions about how art plays on our feelings and intellectual responses. Published alongside Pater’s collected works of 1900–1, this collection reprints his essays from The Guardian, composed in the late 1880s. Pater turns to literary topics with these reviews of new editions of Wordsworth and anthologies of poetry, academic studies on Browning and on the English theatre, Mrs Humphrey Ward’s novel Robert Elsmere and her translation of the philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel’s private diary, as well as works by Edmund Gosse, Ferdinand Fabre and Augustin Filon. |
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Essays from The Guardian $17.17 Walter Pater (1839–94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. He brought his extensive knowledge of the history of art to bear on the new problem of how to explain the very personal affective response to beauty, and raised this into a central concern of aesthetic and philosophical thought. His ideas still shape modern assumptions about how art plays on our feelings and intellectual responses. Published alongside Pater’s collected works of 1900–1, this collection reprints his essays from The Guardian, composed in the late 1880s. Pater turns to literary topics with these reviews of new editions of Wordsworth and anthologies of poetry, academic studies on Browning and on the English theatre, Mrs Humphrey Ward’s novel Robert Elsmere and her translation of the philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel’s private diary, as well as works by Edmund Gosse, Ferdinand Fabre and Augustin Filon. |
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Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman’s Passage in the American West $14 In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rio’s great-great-granddaughter, uses the long-lost diary to re-create Rio’s experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty of Utah, Rio’s enthusiasm for her new life turns to disillusionment over Mormon polygamy and violence against nonbelievers, as well as the harshness of frontier life. She sets out for California, where she finds a new religion and the freedom she longed for. Unusually intimate and full of vivid detail, this is an absorbing story of a quintessential American pioneer. |
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Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman’s Passage in the American West $0.99 In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rio’s great-great-granddaughter, uses the long-lost diary to re-create Rio’s experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty of Utah, Rio’s enthusiasm for her new life turns to disillusionment over Mormon polygamy and violence against nonbelievers, as well as the harshness of frontier life. She sets out for California, where she finds a new religion and the freedom she longed for. Unusually intimate and full of vivid detail, this is an absorbing story of a quintessential American pioneer. |
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Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman’s Passage in the American West $9.99 In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rio’s great-great-granddaughter, uses the long-lost diary to re-create Rio’s experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty of Utah, Rio’s enthusiasm for her new life turns to disillusionment over Mormon polygamy and violence against nonbelievers, as well as the harshness of frontier life. She sets out for California, where she finds a new religion and the freedom she longed for. Unusually intimate and full of vivid detail, this is an absorbing story of a quintessential American pioneer. |
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Films Set In Georgia (U.S. State) (Study Guide) $31.4 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Song of the South, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Deliverance, Driving Miss Daisy, Sherman’s March, the Last Song, Gone With the Wind, Glory, Dance of the Dead, the Muppet Movie, the Gift, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Beauty Shop, Undertow, the Neon Bible, Murder in Coweta County, My Past Is My Own, Warm Springs, Dutch, Rambling Rose, Randy and the Mob, Andersonville, Wise Blood, I’d Climb the Highest Mountain, Swamp Water. Excerpt: Andersonville Andersonville is a film directed by John Frankenheimer about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are captured by the Confederates and sent to an infamous Confederate prison camp . The film is loosely based on the diary of John Ransom, a Union soldier imprisoned there. Although certain points of the plot are fabricated, the general conditions of the camp are very accurate to John Ransom’s descriptions, particularly those parts in reference to the administration of the camp by Captain Wirz. His line on escaping prisoners is almost exactly similar to the book, “The Flying Dutchman (Wirz) offers to give two at a time twelve hours the start” (p. 71). Cast Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Beauty Shop Beauty Shop is a 2005 American comedy film , directed by Bille Woodruff . The film is a spin-off of the Barbershop film franchise, and stars Queen Latifah as Gina, a character which was first introduced in the 2004 film Barbershop 2: Bac… |
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Films Whose Cinematographer Won The Best Cinematography Academy Award (Study Guide) $34.61 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Titanic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Sunrise: a Song of Two Humans, Saving Private Ryan, Zorba the Greek, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, Barry Lyndon, Jfk, the Third Man, Bonnie and Clyde, on the Waterfront, From Here to Eternity, the Quiet Man, the Good Earth, Reds, Anthony Adverse, Doctor Zhivago, the Last Emperor, Schindler’s List, Laura, the Song of Bernadette, Out of Africa, Dances With Wolves, Shanghai Express, Shane, Romeo and Juliet, Mississippi Burning, the Defiant Ones, Spartacus, Battleground, the Yearling, the Towering Inferno, the Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring, Three Coins in the Fountain, Bound for Glory, the Bad and the Beautiful, Hud, the English Patient, Black Narcissus, Avatar, There Will Be Blood, Slumdog Millionaire, Gone With the Wind, Apocalypse Now, Pan’s Labyrinth, Road to Perdition, Ben-Hur, West Side Story, the Hustler, My Fair Lady, Memoirs of a Geisha, Around the World in 80 Days, Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the Aviator, Gigi, Days of Heaven, the Longest Day, the Mission, Cleopatra, Cabaret, a Man for All Seasons, Ryan’s Daughter, Mrs. Miniver, Rebecca, Fiddler on the Roof, Anna and the King of Siam, Gandhi, Joan of Arc, the Killing Fields, the Thief of Bagdad, Wuthering Heights, the Devil’s Backbone, Phantom of the Opera, the Naked City, Legends of the Fall, an American in Paris, Tess, Great Expectations, How Green Was My Valley, Blood and Sand, to Catch a Thief, the Rose Tattoo, Fanny and Alexander, a Place in the Sun, a River Runs Through It, the Diary of Anne Frank, a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Leave Her to Heaven, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, a Farewell to Arms, King So… More: |
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First Love $22.67 Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great Loves collection include tales of blissful and all- encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous, innocent and murderous love. A deeply moving addition to the Penguin Great Ideas and Great Journeys series, each gorgeously packaged book will challenge all expectations of love while celebrating the beauty of its existence. All books in this series: Cures for Love Doomed Love The Eaten Heart First Love Forbidden Fruit The Kreutzer Sonata A Mere Interlude Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests The Seducer’s Diary |
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First Love $1 Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great Loves collection include tales of blissful and all- encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous, innocent and murderous love. A deeply moving addition to the Penguin Great Ideas and Great Journeys series, each gorgeously packaged book will challenge all expectations of love while celebrating the beauty of its existence. All books in this series: Cures for Love Doomed Love The Eaten Heart First Love Forbidden Fruit The Kreutzer Sonata A Mere Interlude Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests The Seducer’s Diary |
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Forbidden Fruit: From the Letters of Abelard and Heloise $10 Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great Loves collection include tales of blissful and all- encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous, innocent and murderous love. A deeply moving addition to the Penguin Great Ideas and Great Journeys series, each gorgeously packaged book will challenge all expectations of love while celebrating the beauty of its existence. All books in this series: Cures for Love Doomed Love The Eaten Heart First Love Forbidden Fruit The Kreutzer Sonata A Mere Interlude Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests The Seducer’s Diary |
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Forbidden Fruit: From the Letters of Abelard and Heloise $0.99 Love can be surprising. Love can be heartbreaking. Love can be an art. But love is the singular emotion that all humans rely on most . . . and crave endlessly, no matter what the cost. United by this theme of love, the nine titles in the Penguin Great Loves collection include tales of blissful and all- encompassing, doomed and tragic, erotic and absurd, seductive and adulterous, innocent and murderous love. A deeply moving addition to the Penguin Great Ideas and Great Journeys series, each gorgeously packaged book will challenge all expectations of love while celebrating the beauty of its existence. All books in this series: Cures for Love Doomed Love The Eaten Heart First Love Forbidden Fruit The Kreutzer Sonata A Mere Interlude Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests The Seducer’s Diary |
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Gothic Fashion: Gothic Fashion, Vampire Fashion, Lolita Fashion, Emily the Strange, Sonia Leong, Kambriel, Corporate Gothic, Rose Mortem $13.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gothic Fashion, Vampire Fashion, Lolita Fashion, Emily the Strange, Sonia Leong, Kambriel, Corporate Gothic, Rose Mortem, Big Hair, Elegant Gothic Aristocrat, Raven Clothing, Nose Chain, Moi-Même-Moitié, Gothic, Aderlass Clothing, Kinderwhore, Gothic Beauty, Retail Slut, Elegant Gothic Lolita, Aristocrat, Gothic Cowboy. Excerpt: Company History German fashion brand created by Henning Volk and Gordon Wienkötter in the year 2000. The name “Aderlass” means “blood letting” in German. Aderlass is one of the top brands from the German gothic scene, renowned for good quality and moderately expensive prices. Aderlass is just one of 4 brands created and distributed by the German gothic Fashionlabel Mode Wichtig, the other brands being LoveSect, Sektor1 and MW. Collections Aderlass has two types of clothing collection, the “permanent” catalog which includes designs that are available over longer periods of time (usually 2-3 years) and a “limited edition”. The “limited edition” clothing collection is only available for a very limited period of time and is limited in number of items produced. The designs of that edition are generally inspired or developed in tight collaboration with established music acts from the gothic scene, like Oomph or Diary of Dreams . Distribution Aderlass clothing is present in most European major gothic shops, including street stores and mail-order / Internet retail. European distribution is done through Mode Wichtig and its sales representatives. Distribution on the US market is currently not available except through Supernova Cult and its US oriented web store, The Black Angel. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at A Classic Lolita and an Aristocrat. Note the man’s contact lenses. Aristocrat is a Japanese |
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HOW TO NOT BECOME WIMPY KIDS: A Diary of Stories (Special Nook Edition with Interactive Table of Contents) NOOKbook Edition – How To Not Become Wimpy Kids $4.99 DESCRIPTIONThese days, there is a lot of talk about the prevalence of “wimpy” kids in the world. Indeed, in many ways, being wimpy is now seen as funny … or should we dare say, even cool? If we go back just one or two generations ago, however, the last thing parents wanted was their children to be perceived as “wimpy”. And so, mothers and fathers would spend many an evening hour reading stories to their children on exactly how not to become a strong teens and adults. These stories, often by such classic authors as Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen or Louisa May Alcott, were designed to both entertain but also to teach how to build character. These stories were filled with, in our modern parlance, plenty of “teachable moments.” They allowed for great moments of family discussions on both good values and good deeds and also, on how to make the right choices regardless of setting or circumstance. This “diary” is devoted to a choice collection of these standard and new fairy-tales, wonder stories, and fables. The value of the of these stories is that they tell about the magic of living. Like the old woman in Mother Goose, they “brush the cobwebs out of the sky.” They enrich, not cheapen, life. Plenty of things do cheapen life for children. Most movies do. So does television, violent video games and music. So does family strife, bullying and even mere gossip. But these stories enhance life. They consist of fancies that have illumined the hard facts of life. They find animals, trees, flowers, and the stars friendly. They speak of victory. In them the child is master even of dragons. He can live like a prince, in disguise, or, if he be uncomely, he may hope to win Beauty after he is free of his masquerade.These stories help make good children as well as happy children. In these stories witches, wolves, and evil persons are defeated or exposed. Fairy |
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Harvest of Blossoms: Poems from a Life Cut Short $18.95 A rediscovered poetry collection from a lost voice of the Holocaust Revealing an artist of remarkable talent and enduring hope, this collection of poetry will join Anne Frank’s diary as a touching reminder of what the world has lost by a life cut short. The poems written by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger are astonishing for their beauty; it is equally astonishing that they have survived at all. Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger was born in Czernowitz, Romania, now Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Czernowitz, known for its vibrant mix of languages and ethnicities, was famously described by Selma’s cousin, poet Paul Celan, as a city “where human beings and books used to live.” Her childhood friends speak of Selma’s liveliness and irreverence, her sparkling and mischievous personality, her charming, careless appearance, and her independence. Selma was passionate about ideas, literature, music, and art.As the storm of hatred gripping Europe broke in earnest, Selma expressed her desires and fears in poetry. Between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, Selma wrote fifty-two poems and five translations—two from French, two from Yiddish, one from Romanian—that are published here. Selma’s verse addressed the longings of a young woman in love; in equal measure, it confronted the incomprehensible violence engulfing Europe. Selma found beauty in the fragility of chestnuts, comfort in the loneliness of rain, grief in rural poverty, and, with despairing courage, faced a diminishing and terrifying future. Selma grew up during a time of rising anti-Semitic and nationalist sentiments. When the Germans and their Romanian allies entered Czernowitz in 1941, Jews faced the brutality associated with fascism: a cruelty that would have preferred that she—and her entire history and culture—be erased. After being quarantined to a ghetto in October, 1941, Jewish Romanians were deported to work camps by Romanian officials. In July of 1942, Selma and her family |
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Himavat Diary Leaves $26.64 1946. Another great book by this Russian artist, who was considered a friend to India. This volume is devoted to the concept of culture and with his usual versatility and deep understanding, the author extols the concepts of evolution, beauty, peace and knowledge. A very complete discussion of Himavat with chapters dealing with the beautiful victory, Rossica, Pax Per Cultura and the New Era. As with all Roerich’s works, this a wonderfully well-written and intriguing book. |
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Himavat Diary Leaves $21.76 1946. Another great book by this Russian artist, who was considered a friend to India. This volume is devoted to the concept of culture and with his usual versatility and deep understanding, the author extols the concepts of evolution, beauty, peace and knowledge. A very complete discussion of Himavat with chapters dealing with the beautiful victory, Rossica, Pax Per Cultura and the New Era. As with all Roerich’s works, this a wonderfully well-written and intriguing book. |
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Himavat Diary Leaves $31.77 1946. Another great book by this Russian artist, who was considered a friend to India. This volume is devoted to the concept of culture and with his usual versatility and deep understanding, the author extols the concepts of evolution, beauty, peace and knowledge. A very complete discussion of Himavat with chapters dealing with the beautiful victory, Rossica, Pax Per Cultura and the New Era. As with all Roerich’s works, this a wonderfully well-written and intriguing book. |
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Hong Kong Films By Genre (Study Guide) $49 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hong Kong Lgbt-Related Films, Hong Kong Horror Films, Mahjong Films, Triad Films, a Better Tomorrow, Kung Fu Hustle, Vengeance, Infernal Affairs Ii, Pineapple Express, Crank: High Voltage, the Killer, Colour Blossoms, Shanghai Triad, Dragon Boys, Happy Together, Crying Freeman, Infernal Affairs Iii, Turning Point, War, Election 2, Romeo Must Die, Fatal Move, Young and Dangerous, a Better Tomorrow 2, the Eye 10, Year of the Dragon, Naked Killer, Payback, Exiled, Blood Brothers, Dumplings, Fat Choi Spirit, the Haunted School, Rice Rhapsody, Young and Dangerous 2, My Left Eye Sees Ghosts, Young and Dangerous 3, City Without Baseball, Permanent Residence, Three, Inner Senses, Lan Yu, the Park, the Corruptor, a Better Tomorrow 3, Soundless Wind Chime, Jiang Hu, Butterfly, Hold You Tight, Mr. Vampire, the Seventh Curse, a Wicked Ghost Ii: the Fear, Re-Cycle, the Mirror, Three… Extremes, Visible Secret, the Eye 2, the Hatchet Man, I Am Not What You Want, the Untold Story, Away With Words, Kung Fu Mahjong, Sucker Free City, Troublesome Night 15, Bad Blood, Troublesome Night 6, Troublesome Night 3, Troublesome Night 12, Ab-Normal Beauty, Troublesome Night 7, Dial D for Demons, Bishonen, Young and Dangerous 5, Troublesome Night 13, Troublesome Night 17, Portland Street Blues, Home Sweet Home, Hong Kong Bronx, Troublesome Night 14, Troublesome Night 18, Young and Dangerous 4, Troublesome Night 2, a Wicked Ghost Iii: the Possession, Leave Me Alone, Troublesome Night 8, Run Papa Run, Troublesome Night 19, Erotic Ghost Story, Troublesome Night 5, the Vampire Who Admires Me, Troublesome Night 16, Bio Zombie, Troublesome Night 9, as Tears Go By, Isabella, Born to Be King, Forest of Death, Troublesome Night 10, Just Heroes, Diary, Troublesome Night 11, Eb… More: |
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Hong Kong Horror Films (Study Guide) $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Eye 10, the Eye, Dumplings, the Haunted School, My Left Eye Sees Ghosts, Three, Inner Senses, the Park, Mr. Vampire, the Seventh Curse, a Wicked Ghost Ii: the Fear, Re-Cycle, the Mirror, Three… Extremes, Visible Secret, the Eye 2, the Untold Story, Troublesome Night 15, a Wicked Ghost, Troublesome Night 6, Troublesome Night 3, Troublesome Night 12, Ab-Normal Beauty, Troublesome Night 7, Dial D for Demons, Troublesome Night 13, Troublesome Night, Troublesome Night 17, Home Sweet Home, Troublesome Night 14, Troublesome Night 18, Troublesome Night 2, a Wicked Ghost Iii: the Possession, Troublesome Night 8, Troublesome Night 19, Erotic Ghost Story, Troublesome Night 5, the Vampire Who Admires Me, Troublesome Night 16, Bio Zombie, Troublesome Night 9, Forest of Death, Troublesome Night 10, Diary, Troublesome Night 11, Ebola Syndrome, Troublesome Night 4, the Closet, Last Ghost Standing, Scared Stiff, Evil Cat, Devil Fetus, the Mirror, Magic Cop, Visible Secret 2, the Imp, the Cat. Excerpt: Ab-normal Beauty () (also Sei mong se jun ) is a 2004 Hong Kong horror film directed and co-written by Oxide Pang . It stars Race Wong and Rosanne Wong of the Cantopop group 2R.Plot Jiney, an award winning art and photography student, being influenced by the works of Joel Peter Witkin , takes a photograph of a dying victim at a car accident (see also Leave Me Alone ), and becomes obsessed with death. Jiney is also stalked by a classmate, Anson. Her girlfriend, Jas, is concerned about Jiney’s obsession, and helps Jiney face her troubled past, in which she was sexually abused by her cousin as a child. Jiney then receives a snuff tape , and finds herself stalked by a serial killer.Cast Production and release Ab-normal Beauty was followed by a companion film, Leave Me Alone , |
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I’ll Be Watching You: Inside The Police, 1980-83 $199.95 The insider: The Police on tour photographed by guitarist Andy Summers Just announced: The Police Reunion Tour starts in Summer 2007! In the early 1980s, The Police went on tour accompanied by a photographer who documented the band behind the scenes in a series of candid and striking black and white photos. This talented photographer also happened to be the band’s guitarist, Andy Summers. Yes, it’s true-the man responsible for the guitar lick from ‘Every Breath You Take’ was not only the backbone of one of the most popular bands of all time, he also possessed a visual gift for composition and mood that allowed him to capture the spirit of The Police better than anyone else could have. This book, somewhere between photojournalism and an illustrated diary, follows The Police around the globe between 1980 and 1983. From the American West to Australia to Japan, Summers recorded not only the band members rehearsing and partying-the proverbial sex, drugs, and rock and roll-he also photographed fans, landscapes, still lifes, and passersby in a reportage style reminiscent of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank. Containing over 600 photos and filled with diary-style entries, I’ll Be Watching You is a sumptuous volume beating with musical energy, nostalgia, and atmospheric beauty. A must for photo buffs and Police fans alike. Collector’s edition features:—Limited to 1500 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist—Packaged in a slipcase—Contains over 600 photographs personally selected from the photographer’s archive of over 25,000 negatives (1980-83)—Most photos are previously unpublished, and many of them have never even been printed prior to this project Highlights include: • Rehearsals and recording sessions with band-mates Sting and Stewart Copeland—Exclusive back-stage and on-stage footage from concerts including Plaza de Toros (Barcelona, 1980), Budokan (Tokyo, 1981), Wembley Stadium (London, 1981), and Shea |
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I’ll Be Watching You: Inside the Police, 1980-83 $3.3 In the early 1980s, The Police went on tour accompanied by a photographer who documented the band behind the scenes in a series of candid and striking black and white photos. This talented photographer also happened to be the bands guitarist, Andy Summers. Containing more than 600 photos and filled with diary-style entries, “Ill Be Watching You” is a sumptuous volume beating with musical energy, nostalgia, and atmospheric beauty. Taschen |
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Idealist Love: Dialectic of Negation $32.95 This is a diary of a man during the year 1990 up to the Persian Gulf War. The man did not disclose his name but used the ‘I’ of the Idealist as a hoard of the diary ascribed to him. Apparently, he lived in Berkeley, California, a life in a manifestly secret style or the greed for a pure self in the model of a “nameless” sage.The theme of his diary is clear, however. The copula of his life is dedicated to its manifestation. It is a pure, unsunned source of love, which he sees comes from “the house of nonbeing,” the mirror-image of its opposite. Considering the mess in today’s house of being, there is no doubt even today, fifteen years later, persists the sense of premonitory withdrawal: that odd feeling of dry language that is no longer entrusted to the manifestation of epochal love.As a whole, Idealist Love aims at the dissolution of the insensibility: the prevalent doctrine of either-or logic. It is a voice of fascination to the amazing beauty of life, in which is redeemed the copula of man’s negation, without violence or velleity, just as the terror of Nature dissolves in its fleeting beauty. The gain is a dialectical moment of man’s being in face with the paradox, in the choice between his subjection to Nature and that of Nature to the Self. |
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In America $1.25 The Barnes & Noble Review April 2000 The Nobility of Failure Based in part on the life of the renowned Polish actress Maryna Zalewska, Susan Sontag’s long-awaited new novel, In America, is the story of one woman’s search for self-transformation, the fate of idealism, and the old and new worlds on the cusp of modernity. A talent rivaling France’s Sarah Bernhardt and America’s Edwin Booth, Zalewska leaves the Polish stage at the height of her career to found a commune in the arid vineyards of southern California in 1876. Funded by her aristocratic husband and joined by a cast of admirers, including her young son and a promising young writer who is hopelessly in love with her, Maryna looks to the new world for a different and, she hopes, final role. As a self-sufficient woman of what her fellow immigrants call “Hamerica,” Maryna hopes to shed her former self and immerse herself in toil and the harsh beauty of an alien land. Or so she tries to believe in page after page of letters home, diary entries, and interior monologues that place the reader firmly in Sontag country. Just as Sontag’s previous historical tour de force, The Volcano Lover, threaded its illicit romance through high-minded ruminations on revolution and art collecting, In America takes issues of representation, or as Maryna labels acting, “misrepresentation,” as its central concern. In America, after all, immigrants are free to represent themselves however they like. They may abandon for good “their dark Polish woes.” Theymayeven choose to not represent themselves at all. That is the real drive behind Maryna’s exile: a desire to live without affectation. Among her fellow commune companions, the fusty, miserable Julian fantasizes about an immersion in America so complete none may ever find him again. The |
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In America $9.99 The Barnes & Noble Review April 2000 The Nobility of Failure Based in part on the life of the renowned Polish actress Maryna Zalewska, Susan Sontag’s long-awaited new novel, In America, is the story of one woman’s search for self-transformation, the fate of idealism, and the old and new worlds on the cusp of modernity. A talent rivaling France’s Sarah Bernhardt and America’s Edwin Booth, Zalewska leaves the Polish stage at the height of her career to found a commune in the arid vineyards of southern California in 1876. Funded by her aristocratic husband and joined by a cast of admirers, including her young son and a promising young writer who is hopelessly in love with her, Maryna looks to the new world for a different and, she hopes, final role. As a self-sufficient woman of what her fellow immigrants call “Hamerica,” Maryna hopes to shed her former self and immerse herself in toil and the harsh beauty of an alien land. Or so she tries to believe in page after page of letters home, diary entries, and interior monologues that place the reader firmly in Sontag country. Just as Sontag’s previous historical tour de force, The Volcano Lover, threaded its illicit romance through high-minded ruminations on revolution and art collecting, In America takes issues of representation, or as Maryna labels acting, “misrepresentation,” as its central concern. In America, after all, immigrants are free to represent themselves however they like. They may abandon for good “their dark Polish woes.” Theymayeven choose to not represent themselves at all. That is the real drive behind Maryna’s exile: a desire to live without affectation. Among her fellow commune companions, the fusty, miserable Julian fantasizes about an immersion in America so complete none may ever find him again. The |
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In America $0.99 The Barnes & Noble Review April 2000 The Nobility of Failure Based in part on the life of the renowned Polish actress Maryna Zalewska, Susan Sontag’s long-awaited new novel, In America, is the story of one woman’s search for self-transformation, the fate of idealism, and the old and new worlds on the cusp of modernity. A talent rivaling France’s Sarah Bernhardt and America’s Edwin Booth, Zalewska leaves the Polish stage at the height of her career to found a commune in the arid vineyards of southern California in 1876. Funded by her aristocratic husband and joined by a cast of admirers, including her young son and a promising young writer who is hopelessly in love with her, Maryna looks to the new world for a different and, she hopes, final role. As a self-sufficient woman of what her fellow immigrants call “Hamerica,” Maryna hopes to shed her former self and immerse herself in toil and the harsh beauty of an alien land. Or so she tries to believe in page after page of letters home, diary entries, and interior monologues that place the reader firmly in Sontag country. Just as Sontag’s previous historical tour de force, The Volcano Lover, threaded its illicit romance through high-minded ruminations on revolution and art collecting, In America takes issues of representation, or as Maryna labels acting, “misrepresentation,” as its central concern. In America, after all, immigrants are free to represent themselves however they like. They may abandon for good “their dark Polish woes.” Theymayeven choose to not represent themselves at all. That is the real drive behind Maryna’s exile: a desire to live without affectation. Among her fellow commune companions, the fusty, miserable Julian fantasizes about an immersion in America so complete none may ever find him again. The |
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In America $0.99 The Barnes & Noble Review April 2000 The Nobility of Failure Based in part on the life of the renowned Polish actress Maryna Zalewska, Susan Sontag’s long-awaited new novel, In America, is the story of one woman’s search for self-transformation, the fate of idealism, and the old and new worlds on the cusp of modernity. A talent rivaling France’s Sarah Bernhardt and America’s Edwin Booth, Zalewska leaves the Polish stage at the height of her career to found a commune in the arid vineyards of southern California in 1876. Funded by her aristocratic husband and joined by a cast of admirers, including her young son and a promising young writer who is hopelessly in love with her, Maryna looks to the new world for a different and, she hopes, final role. As a self-sufficient woman of what her fellow immigrants call “Hamerica,” Maryna hopes to shed her former self and immerse herself in toil and the harsh beauty of an alien land. Or so she tries to believe in page after page of letters home, diary entries, and interior monologues that place the reader firmly in Sontag country. Just as Sontag’s previous historical tour de force, The Volcano Lover, threaded its illicit romance through high-minded ruminations on revolution and art collecting, In America takes issues of representation, or as Maryna labels acting, “misrepresentation,” as its central concern. In America, after all, immigrants are free to represent themselves however they like. They may abandon for good “their dark Polish woes.” Theymayeven choose to not represent themselves at all. That is the real drive behind Maryna’s exile: a desire to live without affectation. Among her fellow commune companions, the fusty, miserable Julian fantasizes about an immersion in America so complete none may ever find him again. The |
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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl $1.78 Mariane Pearl started traveling the globe for Glamour magazine in 2006 to profile courageous women and show that hope is stronger than fear. During the first year of writing her monthly “Global Diary” column, Pearl logged nearly 100,000 miles and met 12 brave, determined women-true agents of change in their communities-who make the world a more just and harmonious place despite personal hardship, discouraging odds and even death threats. In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl introduces readers to these everyday heroes. The limited-edition run of In Search of Hope features more than 200 previously unpublished images from Pearl’s travels and updates on the women since they were first profiled in the magazine. Mariane’s good friend, Angelina Jolie, who also portrays her in A Mighty Heart, has written a touching and personal tribute to Mariane as the foreword for In Search of Hope. Among some of the inspirational women readers will meet are Somaly Mam, a former child sex slave in Cambodia who now rescues girls from forced prostitution; Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to be elected head of an African country; Lydia Cacho, the intrepid Mexican reporter who exposes violence against women and children despite repeated threats on her life; Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the Inuit leader and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee working toward the reverse of global warming; and Dr. Julian Atim, a Ugandan AIDS orphan-turned-doctor fighting for health rights in her country. “The women featured here are all different and their context varies widely, yet you will find the same active principle animating them. This is the ultimate value of hope,” says Mariane Pearl. “These women teach us a lot about the power of human empathy and the value of beauty that emanates from them as they progress on this lonely yet magnificent path that will lead them to become a genuine source |
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In the Open: Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic $1 Compelling, raw, and painfully self-aware, In the Open describes an existence most people can barely imagine. A first-hand account of one man’s struggle with homelessness and alcoholism, this diary records a world full of physical degradation and despair that is not without unpredictable moments of striking beauty.Donohue’s experiences are brutal, but his perceptions are poetic. This account of an intelligent and sensitive man in the grip of alcoholism and homelessness challenges our perceptions of those on the margins of American contemporary life.”Donohue recorded this often-moving account during a four-year period of homelessness caused by his alcoholism. . . . There are many brilliant observations here on a range of topics, including human nature, technology, and capitalism. . . . Donohue’s life on the fringe also provides an inside look at the homeless system of overnight shelters, labor offices, and food stamp providers. But, somehow, in spite of all the negatives, a hopeful book emerges.”–Booklist”A startlingly original book. In this confessional age, Donohue’s diary becomes a different sort of tell-all, a palimpsest that forces us to extract the author from his own writing. . . . Donohue comes to resemble Swift’s Gulliver”–Nicholas Nesson, Boston Phoenix “Donohue punctuates his account of ‘domiciling within the black walls of a mosquito-infested night’ with rambling metaphysical asides in the style of an eighteenth-century philosophe.”–Molly McQuade, Lingua Franca”Despite hunger, homelessness, dead-end jobs and abusive drinking, what is most striking about Donohue is his amazing optimism and endurance.”–Patrick Markee, Nation”Donohue is a gifted writer. . . . But what gives [his diary] the breath of life is that it is written by an artist.”–Alec Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Book Review |
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In the Open: Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic $1.99 Compelling, raw, and painfully self-aware, In the Open describes an existence most people can barely imagine. A first-hand account of one man’s struggle with homelessness and alcoholism, this diary records a world full of physical degradation and despair that is not without unpredictable moments of striking beauty.Donohue’s experiences are brutal, but his perceptions are poetic. This account of an intelligent and sensitive man in the grip of alcoholism and homelessness challenges our perceptions of those on the margins of American contemporary life.”Donohue recorded this often-moving account during a four-year period of homelessness caused by his alcoholism. . . . There are many brilliant observations here on a range of topics, including human nature, technology, and capitalism. . . . Donohue’s life on the fringe also provides an inside look at the homeless system of overnight shelters, labor offices, and food stamp providers. But, somehow, in spite of all the negatives, a hopeful book emerges.”–Booklist”A startlingly original book. In this confessional age, Donohue’s diary becomes a different sort of tell-all, a palimpsest that forces us to extract the author from his own writing. . . . Donohue comes to resemble Swift’s Gulliver”–Nicholas Nesson, Boston Phoenix “Donohue punctuates his account of ‘domiciling within the black walls of a mosquito-infested night’ with rambling metaphysical asides in the style of an eighteenth-century philosophe.”–Molly McQuade, Lingua Franca”Despite hunger, homelessness, dead-end jobs and abusive drinking, what is most striking about Donohue is his amazing optimism and endurance.”–Patrick Markee, Nation”Donohue is a gifted writer. . . . But what gives [his diary] the breath of life is that it is written by an artist.”–Alec Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Book Review |
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It’s ALL About The Ride: A Great-Grandmother’s Dream Fulfilled $9.99 A Great-Grandmother retires and works to fulfill a lifetime dream of riding solo by motorcycle in all of the beautiful United States of America. After visiting nearly half of the states, she decides to make the big trip: to visit the rest of the continental states and North to Alaska. Her diary of the preparations, the actual ride, problems encountered by inclement weather, fire, and mechanical problems, the wonderful friends and encouragement of total strangers, and the great beauty of our country, all add to the thrilling adventures of this trek to Alaska and back, declaring this the greatest of all trips. |
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Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer $34.95 In wonder and gratitude, prize-winning photographer John Moran travels the Sunshine State with his cameras, seeking his vision of natural Florida as it must have appeared to Ponce de Leon and other early strangers in paradise. This remarkable collection of images and essays celebrates the magic of a landscape born of water, he writes, and "blessed with beauty beyond measure."            The book caps Moran’s 20-year odyssey to discover the soul of one of the most photographed states in the country. Still, he says, for a photographer who works on the road, he doesn’t get around very much. The outer limits of his travels ordinarily are defined by places close to home, with names like Live Oak, Cedar Key, and Micanopy. Working mostly in north and central Florida, Moran says his pictures consecrate a region "steeped in blackwater swamps and rivers, populated by egrets and alligators."Keenly aware that much of the state’s wilderness has all but vanished, his pictures sometimes only suggest the illusion of unspoiled nature. "I can’t tell you how often I’ve had to recompose my pictures to eliminate a beer can or a bed mattress or worse in the woods," he writes. At times, he’s made his best pictures literally within sight of his car, "aware of my own impact on the land, mindful of the myth of untainted nature that I promote with my camera." He’s also worked in unconventional situations, lying inside a homemade PVC pipe-and-burlap blind to photograph dancing sandhill cranes and perching inside a bucket truck 50 feet aboveground to photograph nesting ospreys.The companion essays reflect Moran’s philosophy about both nature and photography, and they weave together personal narrative, natural history, and photo-technical instruction. They include commentary about the actual moment he snapped each picture, factual information about the place, and sometimes a historical |
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Kudzu $5.07 After a painful divorce, Casey returns to the haven of her childhood, great grandmother Weesie’s tiny log cabin. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of North Georgia, the cabin rekindles memories of her happiest years as a young child enjoying Granny Weesie’s tales of treasure. Casey seeks a peaceful refuge she will share only with her cat, Smokey. However, much more than early memories await Casey in Bluejay, Georgia. Weesie’s childhood diary turns up in the cabin. The scrawled pages transport Casey back into the late nineteenth century. Far from finding the peaceful time she expects there, she uncovers a web of adultery, murder and intrigue that threatens to entangle Casey’s twenty first century life. That life threatens to become more complex when her new neighbor turns out to be a handsome victim of his own marital disaster. Velma Lou seldom does anything altruistic. Hiring her cousin, Casey, as a reporter for her newspaper, The Bluejay Bugle, is no exception.. Like the voracious vine, Velma Lou has learned the hard way to use her beauty to trap and ensnare. As Casey is drawn deeper into Weesie’s life and times, her “real” life becomes more complicated. by her growing attraction to Lee. Some strange occurrences happen in the cabin mirrored by tales of ghostly sightings in her family history. As she travels back to 1879, she meets an intriguing cast of characters. Donald Stuart, Lillith’s faithful lover, David, his evil hearted twin brother, Ma and Da Garrett, Louisa’s parents and her own direct ancestors, Louisa’s brothers and the inhabitants of early Bluejay.When Casey becomes involved with a battered wife as she followers the case for the paper, she incursthe ire of an abusive husband, Zeke. Zeke believes he has every right to chastise his own wife and child. Casey begins to take hie irate threats seriously when her car is sabotaged. Even Casey has to believe the number of life threatening happenings is no coincidence. |
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Makeovers at the Beauty Counter of Happiness $15.95 1958. The movie is Vertigo. Kim Novak asks Jimmy Stewart, “Couldn’t you like me just the way I am?” 2001. The movie is Bridget Jones’s Diary. Rene Zellweger asks Hugh Grant, “Can’t you just like me the way that I am?” A lot of things have changed since 1958. Some things never change. So begins Ilene Beckerman’s deftly drawn look at the doubts, dreams, and hard-earned triumphs of women, from the Audrey Hepburn era to the era of Britney Spears. Like most women we know, Ilene Beckerman has struggled with self-esteem, confronted insecurities, survived dashed hopes, and lived long enough to have finally learned that there’s more to happiness than finding the right hairdo and maintaining an ideal weight. This was never more clear to her than when she decided to go to her fiftieth elementary school reunion. In Makeovers at the Beauty Counter of Happiness, Beckerman addresses what really matters in life. She shares her (unsent) letters to celebrities (including Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, and Madonna) and letters imparting wisdom to her granddaughter. Along the way, she discovers something that our mothers tried to tell us long ago: that beauty comes from within. |
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Makeovers at the Beauty Counter of Happiness $0.01 1958. The movie is Vertigo. Kim Novak asks Jimmy Stewart, “Couldn’t you like me just the way I am?” 2001. The movie is Bridget Jones’s Diary. Rene Zellweger asks Hugh Grant, “Can’t you just like me the way that I am?” A lot of things have changed since 1958. Some things never change. So begins Ilene Beckerman’s deftly drawn look at the doubts, dreams, and hard-earned triumphs of women, from the Audrey Hepburn era to the era of Britney Spears. Like most women we know, Ilene Beckerman has struggled with self-esteem, confronted insecurities, survived dashed hopes, and lived long enough to have finally learned that there’s more to happiness than finding the right hairdo and maintaining an ideal weight. This was never more clear to her than when she decided to go to her fiftieth elementary school reunion. In Makeovers at the Beauty Counter of Happiness, Beckerman addresses what really matters in life. She shares her (unsent) letters to celebrities (including Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, and Madonna) and letters imparting wisdom to her granddaughter. Along the way, she discovers something that our mothers tried to tell us long ago: that beauty comes from within. |
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Mind’s Diary $11.29 Mind’s Diary is a collection of poetry that represents a series of reminiscences. Parts of the compilation try to share a distinct character which can be attributed to a specific time and place as in “Texas Summer.” Other poems portray the wonder and beauty of nature as a man ponders his place within it as pronounced in “Starry Night.” Throughout this collection, the author uses language and rhythm to poetically illustrate his thoughts and observations. |
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Miss Chinese International Pageants: Miss Chinese Pageant, Miss Hong Kong Pageant, Miss Chinese International Pageant $21.7 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Miss Chinese Pageant, Miss Hong Kong Pageant, Miss Chinese International Pageant, Miss China Europe Pageant, Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant, Miss Ny Chinese, Miss Thailand World, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2009, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2008, Miss Astro Chinese International, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2007, Miss Chinese International Pageant 1998, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2001, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2004, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2005, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2003, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2002, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2006, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2000, Miss Chinese International Pageant 1999, Miss Chinese International Pageant 1988, Miss Tahiti, Miss La Chinatown, Miss Chinese International Pageant 1992, Miss Chinese International Pageant 1991, Miss Chinese International Pageant 1989, Miss Chinatown Usa. Excerpt: The Miss Astro Chinese International Pageant (formerly known as Miss Malaysia Chinese International Pageant) is an annual beauty pageant solely organized by Astro _(satellite _TV) , a leading cross-media operator with direct-to-home satellite television services in Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. This beauty pageant has marked its’ place in the local viewers’ hearts since the year 1998. The winner of the pageant in each year will be nominated by ASTRO to represent Kuala Lumpur in the Miss Chinese International Pageant, organized by TVB which is held annually in Hong Kong around the Chinese New Year season. For the year 2007, the organizer had made changes to its competition which is quite uncommon for a beauty pageant contest. This include shooting personal video diary for the contestants and include SMS voting. The final 13 was chosen, and its begins it |
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Nancy Kovack $51.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! She attended the University of Michigan at age 15 and graduated by 19. At the age of 20 she had won eight beauty titles. Kovack became interested in acting when she went to New York City to attend a wedding and became one of the Glea Girls for Jackie Gleason. She has appeared on a number of TV episodes, including Star Trek, Bewitched (playing Darrin Stephens’ catty ex-fiancee and Samantha’s nemesis, Sheila Sommers), Batman, I Dream of Jeannie, Perry Mason, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Burke’s Law. In 1969 she was nominated for an Emmy for an appearance on Mannix. On Broadway she appeared in The Disenchanted. As she gained fame, Kovack began to win roles in Hollywood movies, most notably as the high priestess Medea in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). She also had parts in Strangers When We Meet (1960), The Wild Westerners (with red hair), Diary of a Madman (1963) with Vincent Price, The Outlaws Is Coming (1965) with The Three Stooges, Sylvia (1965), The Silencers (1966), Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966), and the Elvis Presley film Frankie and Johnny (1966). |
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Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki $12.57 Japanese poetry is well-known for its clarity and concision, and Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki are two of the best-loved, and most intensely Japanese, works of their kind; famous for their beautiful, delicate verse and subtle insight into the human condition. It has been said of Narrow Road that ‘it was as if the very soul of Japan had itself written it’. It takes the form of a travel diary, and traces the poet’s journey from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to the northern interior. Hojoki, a much earlier work written by Chomei, a Buddhist hermit, is essentially a meditation on the transience of the world. Read by the famous classical Japanese actor Togo Igawa, the full beauty of its ancient cadences and rhythms is drawn out. |
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Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings $6.61 Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644–1694)—who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes a masterful translation of this celebrated work along with three other less well-known but important works by Basho: Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones, The Knapsack Notebook, and Sarashina Travelogue. There is also a selection of over two hundred fifty of Basho’s finest haiku. In addition, the translator has provided an introduction detailing Basho’s life and work and an essay on the art of haiku. |
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Nine Stop Trip $17.99 Description’Nine Stop Trip’ is Adam Byfield’s collection of nine short stories which he has cleverly spun into a single, cohesive piece of work describing his journey through depression and recovery. As you’d expect ‘Nine Stop Trip’ contains nine excellently written and imaginative short stories: Some of the highlights:Beauty – A suicide note relates a story that is both dark and strange while critically echoing popular culture’s attitude towards beauty.Time To Reflect – A secret diary gives the reader a snatched glance into the world of a madman.In The Picture In The House – After receiving a bizarre photograph in the post a photographer is compelled to hunt down the picture’s setting, no matter how much it may cost.Deepdowngone – An individual struggling in their own life escapes more and more into their hobby, the ‘cut-up/fold-in’ style of literature made famous by William Burroughs, but the pastime quickly becomes a crutch as emotional expression gets harder and harder.About the AuthorAdam Byfield is 26 and currently works for the City Council in his native Leeds. He has a masters degree in astrophysics, but it is writing that is his real passion. Adam has experienced depression since his early childhood but didn’t actually seek help until recently when his He GP diagnosed him as having a ‘chemical imbalance’ in his brain!Rather then resorting to medication (and the side effects that accompany the pills) Adam attends weekly free counselling sessions through the Burley Lodge Centre (a local community centre predominantly run and funded by volunteers). Adam feels that this, and his writing, has started to make a real difference.Until recently Adam was writing as a freelance but his financial situation has forced him to return to full time employment. |
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Nirmala’s Edible Diary: A Hungry Traveler’s Cookbook with Recipes from 14 Countries $27.5 Join “The Indiana Jones of Spices,” Nirmala Narine, as she eats her way from Rio to Buenos Aires, capturing the tastes and smells of South America in recipes and photos. Millions of tourists visit this part of the globe every year, drawn by ancient ruins, vibrant cities, breathtaking natural beauty, and diverse foods and cultures. Nirmala’s Edible Diary is a passport to the street markets and home kitchens of South America, with over 70 recipes for tantalizing stews, crunchy empanadas, and fruity desserts, and 100 vivid photographs of the foods, people, and landscapes that make this continent a stunning travel destination. |
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Nurse Jamie’s Botox Diaries $11.95 From A-list actresses to housewives, runway models to Hollywood’s leading men, “The Simple Life’s” Nurse Jamie is medical spa nurse to the most beautiful people in the world. Pursued by celebrities across the country, Nurse Jamie has performed countless injections, laser treatments, and all forms of minor cosmetic treatments. She believes she is doing her part to make the world a more beautiful place one wrinkle and one hair at a time.Now, for the first time, the pages of her beauty diary are open for the world to see, revealing what really goes on behind Hollywood’s closed doors. Obsession, excess downright insanity, and a whole lot of laughter and tears are plentiful in each chapter page and entry. |
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Pausing for Beauty: The Heron Dance Poetry Diary $97.98 Ann O’Shaughnessy (Editor), Roderick MacIver (Illustrator),Other Format, English-language edition,Pub by Heron Dance Press |
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Princess: A Royal Musical Jewelry Box and Library $19.99 This boxed set comes complete with everything a girl needs to become a princess! There’s a tiara, earrings, hair clips, rings, bracelets, necklaces, nail stickers, tattoos, lip gloss, and a pink faux fur boa! The set also comes with a Princess Diary, a Princess storybook containing three classic stories: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White, a music box with a twirling princess, and a mirror so every little princess can see how pretty she is! |
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Reflections of Nature $29.45 Sun-dappled carp, radiant blossoms, and tumultuous waters are among the wonders and mysteries of nature captured in Joseph Raffael’s brilliant close-up paintings. Joseph Raffael has taken what some would consider the highly radical step of daring to paint beautiful pictures at a time when beauty is much out of favor in the art world. Long one of contemporary art’s most highly regarded painters, the 64-year-old American-born artist painstakingly creates each painting based on a photograph. Working on a very large scale—using either watercolor, oil, or acrylic—he transforms intensely observed details of nature into color-drenched, deeply felt works of art. Amei Wallach’s warmly perceptive introduction, inspired by a visit to the artist’s studio in the south of France, explores Raffael’s sources, his inspirations, and his ideas about art; her individual chapter openers address the predominant subjects within the artist’s work. A thought-provoking text by Donald Kuspit puts Raffael’s painting in the context of 20th-century art, psychology, and philosophy. The artist himself has contributed two fascinating elements, both of which illuminate the pleasures and occasional terrors of the creative process: “Diary of a Painting”—tracing the evolution of one major work over several months, from the original slide to the finished wall-size watercolor—and an informative and revealing “Autobiographical Chronology.” Amei Wallach, previously art critic for New York Newsday and the “News Hour” on PBS, is an independent critic who writes often for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal; her most recent book is Ilya Kabokov: The Man Who Never ThrewAnythingAway. Donald Kuspit, who teaches at SUNY Stony Brook, is a widely published art critic, historian, and theorist. 170 illustrations, 150 in full color |
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Robert L. Chapman’s Ireland: Photographs from the Chapman Collection 1907-1957 $44.95 The Chapman Collection is a unique collection of photographs spanning the half-century from 1907 to 1957. Robert L. Chapman (1891-1965), a keen photographer and cyclist, began taking photographs at the age of sixteen. Most likely self-taught, he was skilled with the camera and had an instinctive eye for capturing beauty in a single shot. As Chapman cycled the Irish countryside, he photographed a range of subjects from boats and trains to landscapes and buildings, as well as his family, friends and fellow cyclists. This never-before-published selection of his extraordinary photographs also includes historic events such as the burning Dublin’s Custom House. The photographs are meticulously catalogued, each with a unique reference number with time date, and technical detail, and the collection is complemented by Chapman’s journal and diary entries. |
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Secret Keeper $8.99 When her father loses his job and leaves India to look for work in America, Asha Gupta, her older sister, Reet, and their mother must wait with Baba’s brother and his family, as well as their grandmother, in Calcutta. Uncle is welcoming, but in a country steeped in tradition, the three women must abide by his decisions. Asha knows this is temporary—just until Baba sends for them. But with scant savings and time passing, the tension builds: Ma, prone to spells of sadness, finds it hard to submit to her mother- and sister-in-law; Reet’s beauty attracts unwanted marriage proposals; and Asha’s promise to take care of Ma and Reet leads to impulsive behavior. What follows is a firestorm of rebuke—and secrets revealed! Asha’s only solace is her rooftop hideaway, where she pours her heart out in her diary, and where she begins a clandestine friendship with Jay Sen, the boy next door. Asha can hardly believe that she, and not Reet, is the object of Jay’s attention. Then news arrives about Baba . . . and Asha must make a choice that will change their lives forever.From the Hardcover edition. |
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Secret Keeper $8.99 When her father loses his job and leaves India to look for work in America, Asha Gupta, her older sister, Reet, and their mother must wait with Baba’s brother and his family, as well as their grandmother, in Calcutta. Uncle is welcoming, but in a country steeped in tradition, the three women must abide by his decisions. Asha knows this is temporary—just until Baba sends for them. But with scant savings and time passing, the tension builds: Ma, prone to spells of sadness, finds it hard to submit to her mother- and sister-in-law; Reet’s beauty attracts unwanted marriage proposals; and Asha’s promise to take care of Ma and Reet leads to impulsive behavior. What follows is a firestorm of rebuke—and secrets revealed! Asha’s only solace is her rooftop hideaway, where she pours her heart out in her diary, and where she begins a clandestine friendship with Jay Sen, the boy next door. Asha can hardly believe that she, and not Reet, is the object of Jay’s attention. Then news arrives about Baba . . . and Asha must make a choice that will change their lives forever.From the Hardcover edition. |
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Secret Keeper $1.99 When her father loses his job and leaves India to look for work in America, Asha Gupta, her older sister, Reet, and their mother must wait with Baba’s brother and his family, as well as their grandmother, in Calcutta. Uncle is welcoming, but in a country steeped in tradition, the three women must abide by his decisions. Asha knows this is temporary—just until Baba sends for them. But with scant savings and time passing, the tension builds: Ma, prone to spells of sadness, finds it hard to submit to her mother- and sister-in-law; Reet’s beauty attracts unwanted marriage proposals; and Asha’s promise to take care of Ma and Reet leads to impulsive behavior. What follows is a firestorm of rebuke—and secrets revealed! Asha’s only solace is her rooftop hideaway, where she pours her heart out in her diary, and where she begins a clandestine friendship with Jay Sen, the boy next door. Asha can hardly believe that she, and not Reet, is the object of Jay’s attention. Then news arrives about Baba . . . and Asha must make a choice that will change their lives forever.From the Hardcover edition. |
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Secret Keeper $19.99 When her father loses his job and leaves India to look for work in America, Asha Gupta, her older sister, Reet, and their mother must wait with Baba’s brother and his family, as well as their grandmother, in Calcutta. Uncle is welcoming, but in a country steeped in tradition, the three women must abide by his decisions. Asha knows this is temporary—just until Baba sends for them. But with scant savings and time passing, the tension builds: Ma, prone to spells of sadness, finds it hard to submit to her mother- and sister-in-law; Reet’s beauty attracts unwanted marriage proposals; and Asha’s promise to take care of Ma and Reet leads to impulsive behavior. What follows is a firestorm of rebuke—and secrets revealed! Asha’s only solace is her rooftop hideaway, where she pours her heart out in her diary, and where she begins a clandestine friendship with Jay Sen, the boy next door. Asha can hardly believe that she, and not Reet, is the object of Jay’s attention. Then news arrives about Baba . . . and Asha must make a choice that will change their lives forever.From the Hardcover edition. |
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Sleeping Beauty Diary $9.95 Artistic Studios,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Artistic Studios, Limited |
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Stealing Beauty; Screenplay $0.99 Following the death of her mother, nineteen-year-old Lucy Harmon is sent by her father to Italy to stay with old family friends and to have her portrait done. She is eager to renew her acquaintance with Niccolo Donati, the handsome young boy from a neighboring family with whom she shared her first kiss on a visit four years earlier, and anxious to solve a riddle left in her mother’s diary–the answer to which may change Lucy’s life forever. |
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Tatyana Goes Nude Backpacking Through Ukraine $89.95 FULL COLLECTION EDITION! Experience nature as you never have before with over 250 amazing art nude photos! Follow Tatyana on her journey back to her native country as she documents her nude backpacking adventure in her diary about her trip through the beautiful and ancient landscapes of Europe’s largest country, the Ukraine, on a 15 day all-nude trek across the country. Enjoy the breath-taking nude photography of Tatyana as she stretches and poses completely naked for you all across the Ukrainian countryside! Read about the interesting places she visits in her diary posts. Explore the landscape of the Ukraine and Tatyana’s perfect body in perfect symmetry. Go into an ancient church or see Tatyana posing nude by an amazing castle. With photography done in absolutely amazing quality and attention to beauty by David Weisenbarger, creator of David-Nudes.com, your heart will thank you as your eyes dance across these pages. |
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Thai Horror Films (Study Guide) $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 13 Beloved, Buppah Rahtree, the Eye 10, the Eye, Body, Sars Wars, the Victim, Shutter, Alone, Sick Nurses, Phobia 2, Dek Hor, 4bia, Three, Coming Soon, the Unseeable, Art of the Devil 2, Nang Nak, Re-Cycle, the Eye 2, La-Tha-Pii, Ghost of Mae Nak, Body Jumper, Bangkok Haunted, Buppah Rahtree Phase 2: Rahtree Returns, Ghost Station, Necromancer, Art of the Devil, Sung Horn, Secret Sunday, Blackbirds at Bangpleng, 999-9999, P, Diary, Demonic Beauty, the Coffin, Colic: the Movie, Krasue Valentine, Scared, Art of the Devil 3, Mae Bia, Pisaj, 303 Fear Faith Revenge, Video Clip, Haunting Me, My Ex. Excerpt: 13 Beloved 13 Beloved (Thai : 13 or 13 Game Sayong , also 13: Game of Death ) is a 2006 Thai psychological thriller and black comedy directed by Chukiat Sakveerakul and starring Krissada Sukosol Clapp . The story, about a man who is led through progressively challenging, degrading and dangerous stunts by mysterious callers from an underground reality game show , is adapted from the 13th Quiz Show episode in the My Mania comic-book series by Eakasit Thairaat. It was the second feature-length film for Chukiat, who previously directed the horror film , Pisaj . The film won several awards in Thailand and from film festivals. Remake rights for the film were purchased by The Weinstein Company . Plot A Boy Scout is standing at the crosswalk of a busy intersection in Bangkok and sees an elderly woman carrying some bags, struggling to make her way across the street. The woman drops some of her belongings, and as the seconds tick away before the lights will change, the boy runs out to assist the woman. In the confusion, he drops his mobile phone , and leaves it in the street while he helps the woman to safety. Just as the light changes and traffic starts to rush |
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The African Journalist $17.4 What happens when you stumble upon evidence that implicates fellow executives in corrupt practices, and in your quest to fight the vice, you face the obstacles of ethnicity and trade unionism, backed by bad governance from the highest political office in the land?Alfred and Lewis are senior executives at an African broadcasting company who produce evidence against corrupt fellow executives, but most of whom belong to the state President’s ethnic group. In the silent war that ensues, the President, First Lady, Vice President, some Cabinet Ministers and Backbenchers, the Intelligence Service, the company’s Board of Directors, its nonchalant CEO and some of the company’s clients side with the villain, Spade, the VP of Operations and famous TV personality. Unionized workers go on a pro-Spade strike. Undaunted, Alfred and Lewis threaten to spill the beans. So, Spade resigns his job, but only after being promised a diplomatic appointment.When Alfred succeeds Spade as VP of Operations, he strives to clean the slate. But without the CEO’s support, and in an environment where some company employees are on State House payroll, will Alfred succumb to the demands of ruling party politicians for the control of the newsroom diary? Will the corruption ever stop? Will Lewis’s contract of service be renewed? Tipped about a danger to his life, Alfred and family must leave for the US.From the President’s office to the boardroom and the courts, from TV studios to the cemeteries, the scenic beauty of Cape Town and the wilderness of Kenya, The African Journalist tells the tale of the African journalist today. Although a work of fiction, the story is inspired by true events. It’s thestory of Africa’s perennial ethnicity problem, as witnessed recently, on an explosive scale, in Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa. |
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The African Journalist $28.51 What happens when you stumble upon evidence that implicates fellow executives in corrupt practices, and in your quest to fight the vice, you face the obstacles of ethnicity and trade unionism, backed by bad governance from the highest political office in the land?Alfred and Lewis are senior executives at an African broadcasting company who produce evidence against corrupt fellow executives, but most of whom belong to the state President’s ethnic group. In the silent war that ensues, the President, First Lady, Vice President, some Cabinet Ministers and Backbenchers, the Intelligence Service, the company’s Board of Directors, its nonchalant CEO and some of the company’s clients side with the villain, Spade, the VP of Operations and famous TV personality. Unionized workers go on a pro-Spade strike. Undaunted, Alfred and Lewis threaten to spill the beans. So, Spade resigns his job, but only after being promised a diplomatic appointment.When Alfred succeeds Spade as VP of Operations, he strives to clean the slate. But without the CEO’s support, and in an environment where some company employees are on State House payroll, will Alfred succumb to the demands of ruling party politicians for the control of the newsroom diary? Will the corruption ever stop? Will Lewis’s contract of service be renewed? Tipped about a danger to his life, Alfred and family must leave for the US.From the President’s office to the boardroom and the courts, from TV studios to the cemeteries, the scenic beauty of Cape Town and the wilderness of Kenya, The African Journalist tells the tale of the African journalist today. Although a work of fiction, the story is inspired by true events. It’s thestory of Africa’s perennial ethnicity problem, as witnessed recently, on an explosive scale, in Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa. |
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The African Journalist $3.99 What happens when you stumble upon evidence that implicates fellow executives in corrupt practices, and in your quest to fight the vice, you face the obstacles of ethnicity and trade unionism, backed by bad governance from the highest political office in the land?Alfred and Lewis are senior executives at an African broadcasting company who produce evidence against corrupt fellow executives, but most of whom belong to the state President’s ethnic group. In the silent war that ensues, the President, First Lady, Vice President, some Cabinet Ministers and Backbenchers, the Intelligence Service, the company’s Board of Directors, its nonchalant CEO and some of the company’s clients side with the villain, Spade, the VP of Operations and famous TV personality. Unionized workers go on a pro-Spade strike. Undaunted, Alfred and Lewis threaten to spill the beans. So, Spade resigns his job, but only after being promised a diplomatic appointment.When Alfred succeeds Spade as VP of Operations, he strives to clean the slate. But without the CEO’s support, and in an environment where some company employees are on State House payroll, will Alfred succumb to the demands of ruling party politicians for the control of the newsroom diary? Will the corruption ever stop? Will Lewis’s contract of service be renewed? Tipped about a danger to his life, Alfred and family must leave for the US.From the President’s office to the boardroom and the courts, from TV studios to the cemeteries, the scenic beauty of Cape Town and the wilderness of Kenya, The African Journalist tells the tale of the African journalist today. Although a work of fiction, the story is inspired by true events. It’s thestory of Africa’s perennial ethnicity problem, as witnessed recently, on an explosive scale, in Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa. |
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The Blue Notebook $8.87 A haunting yet astonishingly hopeful story of a young Indian prostitute who uses writing and imagination to transcend her reality.An unforgettable, deeply affecting tribute to the powers of imagination and the resilience of childhood, THE BLUE NOTEBOOK tells the story of Batuk, a precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was sold into sexual slavery by her father when she was nine. As she navigates the grim realities of the Common Street—a street of prostitution in Mumbai where children are kept in cages as they wait for customers to pay for sex—Batuk manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts and stories in a diary. The novel is powerfully told in Batuk’s voice, through the words she writes in her journal, where she finds hope and beauty in the bleakest circumstances. Beautifully crafted and deeply human, THE BLUE NOTEBOOKexplores how people, in the most difficult of situations, can use storytelling to make sense of… |
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The Blue Notebook $0.99 A haunting yet astonishingly hopeful story of a young Indian prostitute who uses writing and imagination to transcend her reality.An unforgettable, deeply affecting tribute to the powers of imagination and the resilience of childhood, THE BLUE NOTEBOOK tells the story of Batuk, a precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was sold into sexual slavery by her father when she was nine. As she navigates the grim realities of the Common Street—a street of prostitution in Mumbai where children are kept in cages as they wait for customers to pay for sex—Batuk manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts and stories in a diary. The novel is powerfully told in Batuk’s voice, through the words she writes in her journal, where she finds hope and beauty in the bleakest circumstances. Beautifully crafted and deeply human, THE BLUE NOTEBOOKexplores how people, in the most difficult of situations, can use storytelling to make sense of… |
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The Blue Notebook $14 A haunting yet astonishingly hopeful story of a young Indian prostitute who uses writing and imagination to transcend her reality.An unforgettable, deeply affecting tribute to the powers of imagination and the resilience of childhood, THE BLUE NOTEBOOK tells the story of Batuk, a precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was sold into sexual slavery by her father when she was nine. As she navigates the grim realities of the Common Street—a street of prostitution in Mumbai where children are kept in cages as they wait for customers to pay for sex—Batuk manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts and stories in a diary. The novel is powerfully told in Batuk’s voice, through the words she writes in her journal, where she finds hope and beauty in the bleakest circumstances. Beautifully crafted and deeply human, THE BLUE NOTEBOOKexplores how people, in the most difficult of situations, can use storytelling to make sense of… |
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