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Author: Bergsveinn Birgisson Publisher: AmazonCrossing ISBN: 9781612187174 Category : Iceland Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Bjarni has long held on to a letter from former lover Helga, with whom he shared an illicit, impassioned love. Her letter invited him to leave his wife and his farm and pursue prosperity in the city, where World War II had brought an influx of American marines and opportunities for work. But he chose not to reply. Years later, as he reflects on a long and simple life among the sheep in the Icelandic hillsides, he finally finds himself ready to explain why"--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Bergsveinn Birgisson Publisher: AmazonCrossing ISBN: 9781612187174 Category : Iceland Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Bjarni has long held on to a letter from former lover Helga, with whom he shared an illicit, impassioned love. Her letter invited him to leave his wife and his farm and pursue prosperity in the city, where World War II had brought an influx of American marines and opportunities for work. But he chose not to reply. Years later, as he reflects on a long and simple life among the sheep in the Icelandic hillsides, he finally finds himself ready to explain why"--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Amber Lee Dodd Publisher: Scholastic UK ISBN: 0702301329 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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"Amber Lee Dodd writes with tenderness and thunder, and her storytelling is a bolt of brilliance." Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Bradley family are constantly escaping from a centuries old curse which means that every home they ever live in is destroyed by a typhoon or flash flood that affects no other houses on the street, or they are chased out of town by a flock of persistent birds. They have just moved to their thirteenth house and Noah wants this one to work out - he's got some good friends at school and desperately wants himself and his deaf brother Billy to put down roots. But the curse returns - so he must find a way to break it.
Author: Klara Portner Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing ISBN: 1786234491 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 164
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A true story of a young innocent woman whose passion for a debonair and handsome man takes her on a voyage of self-discovery to Pakistan and whose world expands beyond her recognition as she tries to bring up three little boys in the midst of family dividing and antagonistic Eastern and Western cultural forces...
Author: Hannelore Brenner Publisher: Schocken ISBN: 0805242708 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 338
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From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it. The Jews deported to Theresienstadt from countries all over Europe were aware of the fate that awaited them, and they decided that it was the young people who had the best chance to survive. Keeping these adolescents alive, keeping them whole in body, mind, and spirit, became the priority. They were housed separately, in dormitory-like barracks, where they had a greater chance of staying healthy and better access to food, and where counselors (young men and women who had been teachers and youth workers) created a disciplined environment despite the surrounding horrors. The counselors also made available to the young people the talents of an amazing array of world-class artists, musicians, and playwrights–European Jews who were also on their way to Auschwitz. Under their instruction, the children produced art, poetry, and music, and they performed in theatrical productions, most notably Brundibar, the legendary “children’s opera” that celebrates the triumph of good over evil. In the mid-1990s, German journalist Hannelore Brenner met ten of these child survivors—women in their late-seventies today, who reunite every year at a resort in the Czech Republic. Weaving her interviews with the women together with excerpts from diaries that were kept secretly during the war and samples of the art, music, and poetry created at Theresienstadt, Brenner gives us an unprecedented picture of daily life there, and of the extraordinary strength, sacrifice, and indomitable will that combined—in the girls and in their caretakers—to make survival possible.
Author: Reva Spiro Luxenberg Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524588784 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 201
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There are four suspects in the beauty school murder in Florida. Sadie Weinstein, the quirky amateur sleuth who owns a mom-and-pop grocery in Brooklyn with her husband, Nathan, is the primary suspect. Sadie prevails upon her reluctant spouse to help her entrap the murderer while they are on a much-needed vacation. She also contacts Rhajmah, her psychic, pickle-eating customer and friend to help her unravel the enigma and keep her out of jail. She needs all her skill, energy, ingenuity, eccentricity, and Poirot-like grey cells to unravel the mystery. The Beauty School Murder is an expansion of an earlier version of the cozy mystery story, Curl Up and Die.
Author: Jón Magnússon Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9780820474915 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 278
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This book is mainly an English translation of Jón Magnússon's A Story of Sufferings. Magnússon, a seventeenth-century Lutheran priest in Iceland, endured intense physical and mental sufferings, which he attributed to the black magic of three alleged sorcerers. The two male sorcerers were tried, convicted, and burned to death, but the third (a woman) was acquitted. The work may have been written as material for appealing the acquittal of the woman to a higher court. This book also includes a historical introduction, a chronology of Jón Magnússon's life, and the rulings from the trials. Though hardly pleasant to read, A Story of Sufferings is a literary masterpiece in the original. It should be of interest to students of mystical religion and to historians of the witchcraft craze that plagued Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author: Gordon Matta-Clark Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520280261 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 423
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An essential reference that provides new understanding of the thought processes of one of the most radical artists of the late twentieth century. Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978) has never been an easy artist to categorize or to explain. Although trained as an architect, he has been described as a sculptor, a photographer, an organizer of performances, and a writer of manifestos, but he is best known for un-building abandoned structures. In the brief span of his career, from 1968 to his early death in 1978, he created an oeuvre that has made him an enduring cult figure. In 2002, when Gordon Matta-Clark’s widow, Jane Crawford, put his archive on deposit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, it revealed a new voice in the ongoing discussion of artist/architect Matta-Clark’s work: his own. Gwendolyn Owens and Philip Ursprung’s careful selection and ordering of letters, interviews, statements, and the now-famous art cards from the CCA as well as other sources deepens our understanding of one of the most original thinkers of his generation. Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook creates a multidimensional portrait that provides an opportunity for readers to explore and enjoy the complexity and contradiction that was Gordon Matta-Clark.
Author: Bergsveinn Birgisson
Author: Bergsveinn Birgisson
Author: Amber Lee Dodd
Author: Mrs. Campbell Praed
Author: Klara Portner
Author: Hannelore Brenner
Author: Reva Spiro Luxenberg
Author: Dorothy Gallagher
Author: Jón Magnússon
Author: Karin Fossum
Author: Gordon Matta-Clark