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Henri's Mantle
"Glaser is clearly cloaked in Henri's mantle as he reflects on specific gems from Henri's works. The reader is treated to the enriched nourishment of Henri's thought enhanced by the insights and experience of his long-standing friend and colleague. Henri's Mantle is real food for the spiritual journey." --Sue Mosteller, CSJ, literary Executrix of the Henri Nouwen Estate "Henri's Mantle is a cloak of many colors, interwoven with rich seams of theological insight and underlain with a perceptive appreciation of Nouwen's work. Glaser's personal reminiscences of his mentor are particularly compelling, allowing us to look over the author's shoulder and observe the intimate world of a spiritual mas...
Henri Rousseau's Jungle Book
In this delightful introduction of to the art of Henri Rousseau, children explore a tropical jungle while they learn about the colors and themes that make the artist's paintings masterpieces of deceptive simplicity.
The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera
Covering a broad range of styles, this comprehensive volume includes entries for more than 450 operas that have been performed over the last four centuries. Organized from A to Z for easy reference, it's a complete guide that's certain to inform and entertain any opera buff. 500 photos.
Lost Bodies
"Fully illustrated andpacked with information about the life, demise, disappearance, and discovery (sometimes) of each famous and infamous figure. Lost Bodies explores the controversies surrounding their deaths and the theories about what may have happened to them. Step aboard the history-myster tour."--Back cover
Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub
In this ethnography, Lori Kendall examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is an analysis of the emerging social phenomenon of Internet-mediated communication and a study of the social and cultural effects of a medium that allows participants to assume identities of their own choosing.
In All Thy Ways
During a routine night run, a bus breaks down in the middle of the desert in front of an abandoned gas station. However, nothing is routine about the bus or the fate of the passengers. They soon discover that anyone who attempts to leave vanishes the moment they step off the bus. At some point, each one will have to decide whether to stay and hope for deliverance or abandon themselves to the unknown. Some will go with a sense of purpose such as the proud businessman who is determined that no one will decide his future. Others will be led by forces beyond their understanding. And some, like the man who dreams of fame and fortune, will be driven by desire. Will they die or are they dead alread...
Summary of The Nightingale
Summary of The Nightingale The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah, is a story about two French sisters who struggle to survive during World War II. One of them is rebellious opts to fight for France while the looks for ways to survive through the war with her family. In the process both learn their real mettle and what they are really capable of. The story begins in 1995 at the Oregon Coast where an elderly woman is dying of cancer. Her son helps her settle in a retirement home. He notices a photo of a woman named Juliette Gervaise and asks his mother who she is. The old lady begins her tale. It is war time in France and Vianne, the older sister, lives in Carriveau, a picturesque small town. She...
Intellectual Tacking
Isabelle de Charrière (Belle van Zuylen) has been known primarily as a novelist who experimented with narrative techniques to express her concern about the oppression of women in her society. Most scholarship has focused on only a small part of her work, her pre-revolutionary novels. This is one of the first synthetic studies of Charrière's entire oeuvre, and it turns its attention to Charrière's overlooked contribution as an intellectual in the eighteenth-century debate over education. In addition, Letzter analyzes the rhetorical and discursive strategies Charrière employed to insert herself in this debate; a debate from which she was excluded because she was a woman and she was not Fre...
Escape from Passion
With the death of her mother, her father’s subsequent suicide by drowning in the English Channel, all in the foreboding shadow of imminent war, the beautiful young Fleur Garton is vulnerable to say the least. Even more so when her new love, Lucien, a French airman, is killed just two weeks after the Second World War is declared and followed after by the death of his mother. Left bereft and alone at a remote Château in German-occupied France, Fleur has to find a way home to England before the Germans discover her and in a French Resistance safe house she meets and falls in love with another airman, Royal Air Force pilot Jack Reynolds. Sadly her heart is about to be broken once more on arri...
Survivors
This collection of entertaining, true-life, and riveting eyewitness accounts contains more than 30 remarkable first-person narratives by men and women who have endured a wide range of harrowing dangers.
