Author: Ben Creighton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735368108
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Eloy the Existential Donkey is a fully-illustrated children's picture book about dealing with grief and loss from a secular perspective. It tells the story of an asinine centaur named Eloy who makes friends with a traveler who teaches Eloy to play the flute. When Eloy's friend dies in a rockslide, Eloy is forced to come to terms with the concept of mortality and the apparent senselessness of his friend's death.Written by Ben Creighton after his own brother's sudden death at the age of 27 and illustrated by award-winning artist Carolyn Arcabascio, Eloy the Existential Donkey approaches its delicate subject matter with respect and sensitivity. It maintains a tone appropriate for young children without shying away from the hard realities of bereavement.
Eloy the Existential Donkey
Author: Ben Creighton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735368108
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Eloy the Existential Donkey is a fully-illustrated children's picture book about dealing with grief and loss from a secular perspective. It tells the story of an asinine centaur named Eloy who makes friends with a traveler who teaches Eloy to play the flute. When Eloy's friend dies in a rockslide, Eloy is forced to come to terms with the concept of mortality and the apparent senselessness of his friend's death.Written by Ben Creighton after his own brother's sudden death at the age of 27 and illustrated by award-winning artist Carolyn Arcabascio, Eloy the Existential Donkey approaches its delicate subject matter with respect and sensitivity. It maintains a tone appropriate for young children without shying away from the hard realities of bereavement.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735368108
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Eloy the Existential Donkey is a fully-illustrated children's picture book about dealing with grief and loss from a secular perspective. It tells the story of an asinine centaur named Eloy who makes friends with a traveler who teaches Eloy to play the flute. When Eloy's friend dies in a rockslide, Eloy is forced to come to terms with the concept of mortality and the apparent senselessness of his friend's death.Written by Ben Creighton after his own brother's sudden death at the age of 27 and illustrated by award-winning artist Carolyn Arcabascio, Eloy the Existential Donkey approaches its delicate subject matter with respect and sensitivity. It maintains a tone appropriate for young children without shying away from the hard realities of bereavement.
Santa Evita
Author: Tomas Eloy Martinez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679768149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. • Now a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins. "Finally, this is the novel I always wanted to read." —Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679768149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. • Now a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins. "Finally, this is the novel I always wanted to read." —Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Purgatory
Author: Tomás Eloy Martínez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608197360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, 'Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims of the military regime - arrested, tortured and executed for being a "subversive." Yet Emilia had refused to believe this account, and had spent her entire life waiting for him to reappear. Now in her sixties, the Simón she has found is identical to the man she lost three decades ago. While skirting around the mystery, Eloy Martínez masterfully peels away layer upon layer of history -both personal and political. Just as Simón's disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that became such a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilia's refusal to accept his death mirror's the country's unwillingness to face its reality.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608197360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, 'Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims of the military regime - arrested, tortured and executed for being a "subversive." Yet Emilia had refused to believe this account, and had spent her entire life waiting for him to reappear. Now in her sixties, the Simón she has found is identical to the man she lost three decades ago. While skirting around the mystery, Eloy Martínez masterfully peels away layer upon layer of history -both personal and political. Just as Simón's disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that became such a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilia's refusal to accept his death mirror's the country's unwillingness to face its reality.
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Vol. 15, "To the University of Leipzig on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of its foundation, from Yale University and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1909."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Vol. 15, "To the University of Leipzig on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of its foundation, from Yale University and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1909."
Recollections with Reflections
Author: Thomas Fraser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Flying in Circles
Author: Clayton Taylor
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462008933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Marlin Todd is a young man with a bright future, a pilots license--and a drinking problem. During a night of hard partying in Hyannis, Massachusetts, in 1983, Marlin wins an old watch from a retired Pan Am pilot. The odd thing is, he cant recall too many details about the actual game of pool he played with the man. And his prize he won changes his life abruptly and profoundly. He begins to experience things he cant understand and strange dreams that seem too real to be just dreams. Soon, the line between reality and imagination becomes perilously blurry for him. Sleep deprivation and crushing anxiety begin to take their toll, and Marlin begins to fear that he is losing his mind. He struggles to understand which reality is the one he can trust. Then one night, a family tragedy is brought to vivid life when Marlin wakes up on Midway Island in 1938. Knowing his beloved grandfather was a pilot onboard the Hawaii Clipper, a Pan Am flying boat that disappeared somewhere between Guam and Manila in 1938, Marlin willingly becomes part of the Clippers ill-fated crew. Lost in an episode, and despite escalating tensions aboard, Marlin struggles to save his grandfather from an untimely death. It doesnt take him long, however, to discover that changing the past isnt quite as easy as it may seem.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462008933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Marlin Todd is a young man with a bright future, a pilots license--and a drinking problem. During a night of hard partying in Hyannis, Massachusetts, in 1983, Marlin wins an old watch from a retired Pan Am pilot. The odd thing is, he cant recall too many details about the actual game of pool he played with the man. And his prize he won changes his life abruptly and profoundly. He begins to experience things he cant understand and strange dreams that seem too real to be just dreams. Soon, the line between reality and imagination becomes perilously blurry for him. Sleep deprivation and crushing anxiety begin to take their toll, and Marlin begins to fear that he is losing his mind. He struggles to understand which reality is the one he can trust. Then one night, a family tragedy is brought to vivid life when Marlin wakes up on Midway Island in 1938. Knowing his beloved grandfather was a pilot onboard the Hawaii Clipper, a Pan Am flying boat that disappeared somewhere between Guam and Manila in 1938, Marlin willingly becomes part of the Clippers ill-fated crew. Lost in an episode, and despite escalating tensions aboard, Marlin struggles to save his grandfather from an untimely death. It doesnt take him long, however, to discover that changing the past isnt quite as easy as it may seem.
The Great Medical Bibliographers
Author: John F. Fulton
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512816108
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512816108
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Geological Survey Professional Paper
The Bohol We Love
Author: Marjorie Evasco
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 621420172X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
“These essays are not about Chocolate Hills and the tarsiers and the fancy beach clubs and other tourist magnets in Bohol. They are about seemingly mundane things that define a place and bind its people together—childhood games, songs, religious rituals, cultural practices, superstitions and myths, magical creatures. Here you will read about triumphs that united people in pride, disasters that drew them even closer; larger-than-life heroes and everyday heroes; changes that tested their mettle and inspired new ways of seeing as well as values that have endured; cracks in the pavements that mirrored cracks in relationships. Braiding storytelling with fictional devices, the writers merge reportage with self-reflection; weave patterns out of chaos and happenstances; and create a tapestry of memories that restores the past, turning the Bohol they love into the Bohol we love as well.” — Susan Lara
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 621420172X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
“These essays are not about Chocolate Hills and the tarsiers and the fancy beach clubs and other tourist magnets in Bohol. They are about seemingly mundane things that define a place and bind its people together—childhood games, songs, religious rituals, cultural practices, superstitions and myths, magical creatures. Here you will read about triumphs that united people in pride, disasters that drew them even closer; larger-than-life heroes and everyday heroes; changes that tested their mettle and inspired new ways of seeing as well as values that have endured; cracks in the pavements that mirrored cracks in relationships. Braiding storytelling with fictional devices, the writers merge reportage with self-reflection; weave patterns out of chaos and happenstances; and create a tapestry of memories that restores the past, turning the Bohol they love into the Bohol we love as well.” — Susan Lara
Sacred and Legendary Art
Author: Anna Brownell Jameson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description