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Pr'hody lisky Bystrousky, The Cunning Little Vixen
Responding to the ever-increasing popularity and international performances of operas by the Czech composer Leo? Janácek, this volume, the first in the Janácek Opera Libretti Series, is the full translation of The Cunning Little Vixen in English alongside the original Czech. This work meets the needs of English-speaking singers, conductors, coaches, and stage directors and conveniently provides idiomatic and word-for-word translations, including translations of stage and musical directions. In addition, the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is used to indicate Czech pronunciation, following the clearly-presented method given in the author's book Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric...
London Yiddishtown
Lively and engaging new view of London’s Jewish East End through translated stories of its Yiddish writers. In London Yiddishtown: East End Jewish Life in Yiddish Sketch and Story, 1930–1950, Vivi Lachs presents a selection of previously un-translated short stories and sketches by Katie Brown, A. M. Kaizer, and I. A. Lisky, for the general reader and academic alike. These intriguing and entertaining tales build a picture of a lively East-End community of the 30s and 40s struggling with political, religious, and community concerns. Lachs includes a new history of the Yiddish literary milieu and biographies of the writers, with information gleaned from articles, reviews, and obituaries pub...
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Thru the Chairs
Tony Vendetti dreams of going "thru the chairs" at the Briar Ridge Yacht Club -- becoming Rear Commodore, then Vice Commodore, and finally Commodore. But to be elected Rear Commodore, he needs his wife to campaign for him. And to successfully fulfill the duties of any of these positions, he needs her undying support and active participation. Carole Dee's debut novel describes this three-year journey through the eyes of Mrs. Vendetti, who shares in the adventures despite an unwritten rule that women cannot be members of the club. Complete with politics, sex, boating, and camaraderie,Thru the Chairsoffers a ride you won't soon forget.
Making Bodies Kosher
Minority populations are often regarded as being ‘hard to reach’ and evading state expectations of health protection. This ethnographic and archival study analyses how devout Jews in Britain negotiate healthcare services to preserve the reproduction of culture and continuity. This book demonstrates how the transformative and transgressive possibilities of technology reveal multiple pursuits of protection between this religious minority and the state. Making Bodies Kosher advances theoretical perspectives of immunity, and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and the study of religions.
My Heart
"The novel 'My Heart' consists of letters written over many years by two people who are falling in love with each other. Between them, one after the other, obstacles spring up. Their age difference, then the war that separates them, and, finally, the heroine's family arrangement that grows into a dramatic love triangle. "The uniqueness of the book 'My Heart' comes from familiar and common-place situations that are ennobled by such powerful and pure emotions that to modern readers they sound as if they are made up like in a fairy tale. The traditional theme of 'love conquers death' (Gorky) or 'love sustains and moves the world' (Turgenev) is filled out with the specific, every day details fro...
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Escape from Paradise
A secret hidden on a colony world could affect the course of a war between humanity and an alien civilization in this bestselling space opera from Poland. It is the mid-twenty-fourth century. After colonizing a significant portion of Orion’s Arm, humanity encounters an advanced alien civilization, which—unwilling to make contact—starts a total war. There is more at stake here than just the conquest of territory. It’s a matter of survival for the human race. On one of the hurriedly evacuated planets, Captain Darski wages his own private war to save as many people as possible. The colony in the Ulietta System hides a much bigger secret, though—one that could possibly alter the course of the war. Book two in The Fields of Long-Forgotten Battles series.
A Parent Injustice
Gabriel Michael Fisher, a loving father and dedicated husband, spent ten years of his life behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Accused of molesting his daughter, Fisher realized everything was a ploy set up by his wife and a group of people supposedly tasked to uphold justice. Now that he is done serving his time, Fisher is out to exact revenge from the people who ruined his family and caused his daughter's death. One by one he hunts them down, and he will stop at nothing until he completes the mission he planned for years. Not even the officers of Galveston Police Department can stop him. But Detective Powers and his band of honorable men and women of the law are bent on ending Fisher's rampage. But they discover the truth behind Fisher's case and a hundred similar ones, and suddenly find themselves unsure about Fisher's evilness. Based on a true story of a loving father who was ripped away from his family on a crime he did not commit.
