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Deaf to the City
This compelling story explores the motley crew of characters--including mother-turned-stripper Gloria, alcoholic Tim, frequent jailbird Charlie, and the suicidal wife of a rich doctor--who call the rundown Hôtel des Voyageurs home. Mesmerizing in its passion and humility, the narrative evokes the despair and innocence present in modern urban surroundings.
Marie-Claire Blais
In addition to the novels, Green covers Blais's plays for the stage, radio, and television and explores what Blais has written - both fiction and nonfiction - about the omnipresent danger of war, the lives of the homeless, the devastation of AIDS, and the desperation of young drug addicts.
Judith
Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem. This short novella was somewhat surprisingly included in the early Christian versions of the Old Testament and has played an important role in the Western tradition ever since. This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the text's composition and its meaning in its original historical context, and thoroughly surveys the history of Judith scholarship. Lawrence M. Wills not only considers Judith's relation to earlier biblical texts--how the author played upon previous biblical motifs and interpreted important biblical passages--but also addresses the rise of Judith and other Jewish novellas in the context of ancient Near Eastern and Greek literature, as well as their relation to cross-cultural folk motifs. Because of the popularity of Judith in art and culture, this volume also addresses the book's history of interpretation in paintings, sculpture, music, drama, and literature. A number of images of artistic depictions of Judith are included and discussed in detail.
The Hoelscher Family of Texas
Anton Hoelscher Sr. (1791-1856/1859) and his family immigrated from Westphalia, Germany to Texas in 1846, and most descendants have remained in Texas or moved westward.
Dark Mother
Bringing a feminist perspective to contemporary findings of geneticists and archeologists, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, cultural historian, points out that the oldest veneration we know is of a dark mother of central and south Africa, whose signs-ochre red and the pubic V-were taken by african migrants after 50,000 BCE to caves and cliffs of all continents. The oldest sanctuary in the world was created in 40,000 BCE by african migrants in Har Karkom, later called Mt. Sinai, foundation place of judaism, christianity, and islam.Lucia documents the continuing memory of the dark mother and her values in prehistoric images of the dark mother, in historic black madonnas and in other dark women divinit...
Tod in der Schorfheide
Hochspannung in der Einsamkeit Brandenburgs. In einem alten Forsthaus in den Wäldern der Schorfheide wird ein Mann bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt. Hauptkommissarin Carla Stach steht vor einem Rätsel: Warum diese Grausamkeit, woher dieser Hass? Tags darauf wird eine Schülerin als vermisst gemeldet, und es mehren sich Hinweise, dass die Fälle zusammenhängen könnten. Der Druck auf die Kommissarin wächst – wenn sie das Mädchen wiederfinden will, muss sie die Hintergründe des Mordes verstehen. Aber die Zeit läuft ihr davon.
What's Your Jam?
What’s Your Jam? By: Tom Maglish Every Saturday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Jam Lady sets up her farmer’s market stall with an array of homemade jams. This simple act of making and selling jam has more impact on the lives of her customers than the Jam Lady could ever imagine. In What’s Your Jam?, each chapter highlights a unique flavor and how that jam has impacted the lives of those who bought it. The stories are written to make you smile, laugh, and feel happy. Most importantly, once you read the book, you will think about how we can impact each other in a positive way, even when we don’t realize it.
