Author: Diana Quick
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781860498442
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Be sure you marry a pure-blooded Englishman.' The memory of this inexplicable command to nine-year-old Diana Quick by her terminally ill grandfather was to remain buried for years. It wasn't until she played Julia Flyte in the celebrated Granada TV dramatisation of Brideshead Revisited that it resurfaced, setting her on a quest to uncover the hidden enigma of her father's family in India. Gradually Diana unpeeled the layers of family secrets that revealed changed names, the stigma of being 'country born', her grandfather's obsessive ambition for his son. This knowledge helped her both to understand her own heritage and to interpret the roles she played on stage and screen. It also gave her pride in her family's history: the bravery of her great-grandmother who, as a child, narrowly escaped being murdered during the 1857 Indian Mutiny; her father's struggles as a penniless student in a foreign country.
A Tug on the Thread
Author: Diana Quick
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781860498442
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Be sure you marry a pure-blooded Englishman.' The memory of this inexplicable command to nine-year-old Diana Quick by her terminally ill grandfather was to remain buried for years. It wasn't until she played Julia Flyte in the celebrated Granada TV dramatisation of Brideshead Revisited that it resurfaced, setting her on a quest to uncover the hidden enigma of her father's family in India. Gradually Diana unpeeled the layers of family secrets that revealed changed names, the stigma of being 'country born', her grandfather's obsessive ambition for his son. This knowledge helped her both to understand her own heritage and to interpret the roles she played on stage and screen. It also gave her pride in her family's history: the bravery of her great-grandmother who, as a child, narrowly escaped being murdered during the 1857 Indian Mutiny; her father's struggles as a penniless student in a foreign country.
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781860498442
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Be sure you marry a pure-blooded Englishman.' The memory of this inexplicable command to nine-year-old Diana Quick by her terminally ill grandfather was to remain buried for years. It wasn't until she played Julia Flyte in the celebrated Granada TV dramatisation of Brideshead Revisited that it resurfaced, setting her on a quest to uncover the hidden enigma of her father's family in India. Gradually Diana unpeeled the layers of family secrets that revealed changed names, the stigma of being 'country born', her grandfather's obsessive ambition for his son. This knowledge helped her both to understand her own heritage and to interpret the roles she played on stage and screen. It also gave her pride in her family's history: the bravery of her great-grandmother who, as a child, narrowly escaped being murdered during the 1857 Indian Mutiny; her father's struggles as a penniless student in a foreign country.
The Unbroken Thread
Author: Sohrab Ahmari
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593137175
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
We’ve pursued and achieved the modern dream of defining ourselves—but at what cost? An influential columnist and editor makes a compelling case for seeking the inherited traditions and ideals that give our lives meaning. “Ahmari’s tour de force makes tradition astonishingly vivid and relevant for the here and now.”—Rod Dreher, bestselling author of Live Not by Lies and The Benedict Option As a young father and a self-proclaimed “radically assimilated immigrant,” opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari realized that when it comes to shaping his young son’s moral fiber, today’s America is woefully lacking. For millennia, the world’s great ethical and religious traditions have taught that true happiness lies in pursuing virtue and accepting limits. But now, unbound from these stubborn traditions, we are free to choose whichever way of life we think is most optimal—or, more often than not, merely the easiest. All that remains are the fickle desires that a wealthy, technologically advanced society is equipped to fulfill. The result is a society riven by deep conflict and individual lives that, for all their apparent freedom, are marked by alienation and stark unhappiness. In response to this crisis, Ahmari offers twelve questions for us to grapple with—twelve timeless, fundamental queries that challenge our modern certainties. Among them: Is God reasonable? What is freedom for? What do we owe our parents, our bodies, one another? Exploring each question through the lives and ideas of great thinkers, from Saint Augustine to Howard Thurman and from Abraham Joshua Heschel to Andrea Dworkin, Ahmari invites us to examine the hidden assumptions that drive our behavior and, in doing so, to live more humanely in a world that has lost its way.
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593137175
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
We’ve pursued and achieved the modern dream of defining ourselves—but at what cost? An influential columnist and editor makes a compelling case for seeking the inherited traditions and ideals that give our lives meaning. “Ahmari’s tour de force makes tradition astonishingly vivid and relevant for the here and now.”—Rod Dreher, bestselling author of Live Not by Lies and The Benedict Option As a young father and a self-proclaimed “radically assimilated immigrant,” opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari realized that when it comes to shaping his young son’s moral fiber, today’s America is woefully lacking. For millennia, the world’s great ethical and religious traditions have taught that true happiness lies in pursuing virtue and accepting limits. But now, unbound from these stubborn traditions, we are free to choose whichever way of life we think is most optimal—or, more often than not, merely the easiest. All that remains are the fickle desires that a wealthy, technologically advanced society is equipped to fulfill. The result is a society riven by deep conflict and individual lives that, for all their apparent freedom, are marked by alienation and stark unhappiness. In response to this crisis, Ahmari offers twelve questions for us to grapple with—twelve timeless, fundamental queries that challenge our modern certainties. Among them: Is God reasonable? What is freedom for? What do we owe our parents, our bodies, one another? Exploring each question through the lives and ideas of great thinkers, from Saint Augustine to Howard Thurman and from Abraham Joshua Heschel to Andrea Dworkin, Ahmari invites us to examine the hidden assumptions that drive our behavior and, in doing so, to live more humanely in a world that has lost its way.
Super Easy Quilting for Beginners
Author: Editors of Quarry Books
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 0760379912
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Super Easy Quilting for Beginners is the only guide you will need to get started and will teach you quilting through fun and simple projects that will build your confidence as you go.
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 0760379912
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Super Easy Quilting for Beginners is the only guide you will need to get started and will teach you quilting through fun and simple projects that will build your confidence as you go.
Quilting 101
Author: Creative Publishing international
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1631596586
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
“This 176-page reference delivers a multi-media experience that can take you from novice quilter to skilled artisan.” —Quiltdom Quilting 101 will teach you quilting skills through engaging projects, beginning with easy designs for early success and moving on to progressively more difficult patterns as you master the techniques. New skills are explored in depth as they are introduced. The most comprehensive beginner’s book available, Quilting 101 begins with an introductory section covering all the basics of quilting: choosing fabric, quick cutting techniques, sewing seams, completing a quilt top, layering and basting, and both hand and machine quilting methods. Along with step-by-step instructions and photographs, the accompanying online videos include a how-to guide illustrating quilting basics, demonstrating all projects. All the information you need to get started with quilting is contained in this captivating guide.
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1631596586
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
“This 176-page reference delivers a multi-media experience that can take you from novice quilter to skilled artisan.” —Quiltdom Quilting 101 will teach you quilting skills through engaging projects, beginning with easy designs for early success and moving on to progressively more difficult patterns as you master the techniques. New skills are explored in depth as they are introduced. The most comprehensive beginner’s book available, Quilting 101 begins with an introductory section covering all the basics of quilting: choosing fabric, quick cutting techniques, sewing seams, completing a quilt top, layering and basting, and both hand and machine quilting methods. Along with step-by-step instructions and photographs, the accompanying online videos include a how-to guide illustrating quilting basics, demonstrating all projects. All the information you need to get started with quilting is contained in this captivating guide.
Entrails
Author: Claude Gauvreau
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781550960266
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781550960266
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Modern Machine Quilting
Author: Catherine Redford
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440246319
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
A Fresh Approach to Fresh Quilting! Clean lines, bold colors, contemporary designs--quilting has gone modern! And this book is the ultimate guide for creating modern quilts at home, all on a standard sewing machine. From the start, award-winning quilter and teacher Catherine Redford guides you through every stage of planning, constructing, and finishing a quilt. Learn a multitude of crisp walking foot designs, including straight lines, matchstick, grids, serpentine, spirals, and more. Explore more than a dozen techniques and patterns for free-motion designs. You'll find inspiration in the gorgeous quilt gallery, while the simple projects provide the perfect canvases for fun and useful quilting practice. And as you go, you can take notes on the roomy, workbook-style pages to make this book your own perfect personalized resource for Modern Machine Quilting.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440246319
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
A Fresh Approach to Fresh Quilting! Clean lines, bold colors, contemporary designs--quilting has gone modern! And this book is the ultimate guide for creating modern quilts at home, all on a standard sewing machine. From the start, award-winning quilter and teacher Catherine Redford guides you through every stage of planning, constructing, and finishing a quilt. Learn a multitude of crisp walking foot designs, including straight lines, matchstick, grids, serpentine, spirals, and more. Explore more than a dozen techniques and patterns for free-motion designs. You'll find inspiration in the gorgeous quilt gallery, while the simple projects provide the perfect canvases for fun and useful quilting practice. And as you go, you can take notes on the roomy, workbook-style pages to make this book your own perfect personalized resource for Modern Machine Quilting.
Order of the Black Sun
Author: Alesha Escobar
Publisher: Creative Alchemy, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Tracking down a demon in the spirit world should be easy--said no one ever. But Kelsey Diviner is dedicated to her training, as she balances her days as a therapist with her evenings as a ghost whisperer and protector of the supernatural realm. However, when she and her uncle come across evidence of a dangerous spell cast by a dark shaman, she must hunt down the wayward magic-user before something even more sinister rises from The Pit. If it were up to Kelsey, she'd be clubbing with her friends and getting hands-on with her crush. Instead, she has to buy black market magical gear at a vampire's house and make sure a clandestine supernatural police organization doesn't steal her weapons or lock her away. And the ghost of a vengeful shadow witch stalking her is ruining her social life. But there's no time for rest, because the Order of the Black Sun is making gains and threatens every soul on the planet. This task may prove the most difficult for Kelsey, since those she thought she could trust are the very people who may be her downfall.
Publisher: Creative Alchemy, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Tracking down a demon in the spirit world should be easy--said no one ever. But Kelsey Diviner is dedicated to her training, as she balances her days as a therapist with her evenings as a ghost whisperer and protector of the supernatural realm. However, when she and her uncle come across evidence of a dangerous spell cast by a dark shaman, she must hunt down the wayward magic-user before something even more sinister rises from The Pit. If it were up to Kelsey, she'd be clubbing with her friends and getting hands-on with her crush. Instead, she has to buy black market magical gear at a vampire's house and make sure a clandestine supernatural police organization doesn't steal her weapons or lock her away. And the ghost of a vengeful shadow witch stalking her is ruining her social life. But there's no time for rest, because the Order of the Black Sun is making gains and threatens every soul on the planet. This task may prove the most difficult for Kelsey, since those she thought she could trust are the very people who may be her downfall.
Threads of Dreams
Author: K.A. Wiggins
Publisher: Snowmelt & Stumps
ISBN: 1777517486
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Don't think. Don't speak. And definitely don't dream. The Nightmares will find you. BLIND THE EYES In a drowned city on the edge of the sea lives a girl in a tower. Cole is nobody. One more haunted drone among the grey, spiritless masses. Until her dreary future is stolen—and a quest to take revenge uncovers ghosts, betrayal, and her bloody past. She's about to become their worst nightmare. BLACK THE TIDES Something deadly lurks beneath the waves. Battered but defiant, Cole can't wait to get back into the fight. But when her newly reclaimed thread-witchery fails her mid-battle, the only path forward leads through the monster-infested wilds. Can she reclaim her forgotten dreamweavers' birthright from the mountains before they claim her? She never even saw it coming. BURN THE SKIES In the City of Nightmares, death is far from the end. Shattered, powerless, and more alone than ever, Cole fights on. Failure means more than her own destruction. If the city falls, its eldritch horrors will sweep across the land. But will her last-ditch grasp at the power to stop them go up in flames? The dreamscape takes no prisoners. Neither does she. One-click to binge the multi-award-winning trilogy today!
Publisher: Snowmelt & Stumps
ISBN: 1777517486
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Don't think. Don't speak. And definitely don't dream. The Nightmares will find you. BLIND THE EYES In a drowned city on the edge of the sea lives a girl in a tower. Cole is nobody. One more haunted drone among the grey, spiritless masses. Until her dreary future is stolen—and a quest to take revenge uncovers ghosts, betrayal, and her bloody past. She's about to become their worst nightmare. BLACK THE TIDES Something deadly lurks beneath the waves. Battered but defiant, Cole can't wait to get back into the fight. But when her newly reclaimed thread-witchery fails her mid-battle, the only path forward leads through the monster-infested wilds. Can she reclaim her forgotten dreamweavers' birthright from the mountains before they claim her? She never even saw it coming. BURN THE SKIES In the City of Nightmares, death is far from the end. Shattered, powerless, and more alone than ever, Cole fights on. Failure means more than her own destruction. If the city falls, its eldritch horrors will sweep across the land. But will her last-ditch grasp at the power to stop them go up in flames? The dreamscape takes no prisoners. Neither does she. One-click to binge the multi-award-winning trilogy today!
Quarterly Review of the Michigan Alumnus
Author:
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Includes section: "Some Michigan books."
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Includes section: "Some Michigan books."
Book of Virtues
Author: William John Bennett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671683063
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A collection of stories and poems presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671683063
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A collection of stories and poems presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.