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William A. Smith Deed
Deed from sellers Oscar and Emma Patchett to buyer William A. Smith for land in Pennsauken, N.J.
Bel Canto
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers. Patchett's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.
Nonviolent Response to Terrorism
Terrorism, which by definition targets civilians, is unacceptable, but a violent response to violence usually causes more violence. This book outlines some of the best thinking about nonviolent methods of resisting terrorism in the growing fields of international aid and nonviolent interposition. The first section covers immediate nonviolent response to terrorism: international negotiations, mediations, and adjudication, UN and citizen sanctions, cross-cultural communication, citizen initiatives, international treaties and the World Court, the International Criminal Court, and nonviolent resistance through raising consciousness to mobilization and resisting state-sponsored terror. The second section, on long-term non-violent response to terrorism, discusses halting arms trade and militarism, stopping arms flow to terrorists, "defunding" the military, building sustainable just economies, aid to the poor, reducing privileged overconsumption, peace and conflict education, understanding and using the media, refugee repatriation, and helping indigenous liberation struggles. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
A Study Guide for Ann Patchett's Bel Canto
A Study Guide for Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Bel Canto
Von New-York-Times-Bestsellerautorin Ann Patchett - ein Roman über die Kraft der Liebe und der Musik Leise klirrende Champagnergläser, raschelnde Chiffonabendkleider – dann, am Ende der Arie, tosender Beifall, ein leidenschaftlicher Kuß – und plötzlich Schüsse, Schreie, Dunkelheit. Die elegante Villa des Vizepräsidenten gab den perfekten Rahmen für diese exklusive Geburtstagsfeier zu Ehren des japanischen Wirtschaftsmagnaten ab, bei der sogar die begnadete Operndiva Roxane Coss auftrat. Dann aber, als die Terroristen das prachtvolle Gebäude stürmen und die Geburtstagsgäste plötzlich Geiseln sind, hat alles ein jähes Ende. Oder ist es – für Täter wie für Opfer – ein Neuanfang? Monate später jedenfalls, als die Verhandlungen mit der Regierung immer noch andauern, hat sich die lebensbedrohliche Situation in eine beinahe paradiesische verwandelt: Und vierzig Menschen, die sich vorher nicht kannten, erleben täglich durch die Kraft der Musik die kostbarsten Augenblicke ihres Lebens.
The Coward Does It With A Kiss: The Fictional Reminiscences of Constance Wilde
"It has often been said to me (how often!) that I could not be blamed for having misunderstood you, that your actions were, and still are, beyond the comprehension of decent people. But I do understand you, Oscar; I understand you perfectly well. It is myself, myself I do not understand." Following Oscar Wilde's imprisonment for gross indecency in 1895, his wife Constance seeks refuge on the Continent with their two young sons. She and her husband are never to meet again. Reading through the diaries in which she recorded her thoughts, feelings and reactions throughout their marriage, she writes an extended letter to Oscar in which she tries to make sense of their shared past, examines the truths and deceptions of their relationship, and searches desperately for a handle onto her own identity. Drawing on the recorded facts of the Wildes' time together and their final years of separate self-imposed exile, Rohase Piercy has recreated the story of their relationship from Constance's viewpoint. This is the memoir Constance Wilde might have written, a moving testimony to a love that was inevitably doomed.
