Author: Michelle Baulig
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711532403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Eine Sammlung an Gedichten in den Sprachen Deutsch und Englisch, die wie die Flut und die Ebbe an Land der Gedankenküste angespült werden und dessen hohe Wellen einst nach einem Sturm drohten mich und alles am Strande zu ertränken. Dennoch lernt man bei diesem Überlebenskampf, um jeden Atemzug, dass Leben mehr wertzuschätzen, wenn die See sich wieder beruhigt hat. Und findet erstaunliches im Sande wieder, was vom Meer zurück ans Ufer angespült wurde.
Gedankenküste. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Michelle Baulig
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711532403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Eine Sammlung an Gedichten in den Sprachen Deutsch und Englisch, die wie die Flut und die Ebbe an Land der Gedankenküste angespült werden und dessen hohe Wellen einst nach einem Sturm drohten mich und alles am Strande zu ertränken. Dennoch lernt man bei diesem Überlebenskampf, um jeden Atemzug, dass Leben mehr wertzuschätzen, wenn die See sich wieder beruhigt hat. Und findet erstaunliches im Sande wieder, was vom Meer zurück ans Ufer angespült wurde.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711532403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Eine Sammlung an Gedichten in den Sprachen Deutsch und Englisch, die wie die Flut und die Ebbe an Land der Gedankenküste angespült werden und dessen hohe Wellen einst nach einem Sturm drohten mich und alles am Strande zu ertränken. Dennoch lernt man bei diesem Überlebenskampf, um jeden Atemzug, dass Leben mehr wertzuschätzen, wenn die See sich wieder beruhigt hat. Und findet erstaunliches im Sande wieder, was vom Meer zurück ans Ufer angespült wurde.
Innanyas Träume. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Topher F
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 371088036X
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 77
Book Description
Das Land droht im Chaos zu versinken. Ein zweiter Mond steht am Himmel, im Nachbarland reißen Hexen die Herrschaft an sich und verrückte Kulte beschwören schreckliche Monster herauf. Als hätte Innanya damit während ihrer Militärsausbildung nicht schon genug um die Ohren, wird sie zusätzlich noch von beunruhigenden Träumen heimgesucht, in denen sie das Leben völlig Fremder lebt. Träume, die bald ihr echtes Leben beeinflussen sollten
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 371088036X
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 77
Book Description
Das Land droht im Chaos zu versinken. Ein zweiter Mond steht am Himmel, im Nachbarland reißen Hexen die Herrschaft an sich und verrückte Kulte beschwören schreckliche Monster herauf. Als hätte Innanya damit während ihrer Militärsausbildung nicht schon genug um die Ohren, wird sie zusätzlich noch von beunruhigenden Träumen heimgesucht, in denen sie das Leben völlig Fremder lebt. Träume, die bald ihr echtes Leben beeinflussen sollten
Unvergessliche Sommertage. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Kira Miranetti
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711569242
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 78
Book Description
Die Autorin hatte eine Challenge gestartet und damit siebenundvierzig Geschichten von verschiedenen Autorinnen und Autoren erhalten. Sie hat die nach ihrer Ansicht vierzehn besten für dieses Buch ausgewählt. Zwei hat sie selbst geschrieben (EmmaMaria), die Erste und die Zehnte. Es sind Geschichten meist aus dem Leben der Autoren, teils emotional oder besinnlich, teils abenteuerlich oder herausfordernd. Auch der Humor kommt nicht zu kurz. Mit diesen Geschichten nimmt der Leser teil an ihren Erlebnissen und bekommt damit Einblick in deren Gefühlswelten. Es sind einzelne Erzählungen, von denen jede ihre eigene Faszination besitzt.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711569242
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 78
Book Description
Die Autorin hatte eine Challenge gestartet und damit siebenundvierzig Geschichten von verschiedenen Autorinnen und Autoren erhalten. Sie hat die nach ihrer Ansicht vierzehn besten für dieses Buch ausgewählt. Zwei hat sie selbst geschrieben (EmmaMaria), die Erste und die Zehnte. Es sind Geschichten meist aus dem Leben der Autoren, teils emotional oder besinnlich, teils abenteuerlich oder herausfordernd. Auch der Humor kommt nicht zu kurz. Mit diesen Geschichten nimmt der Leser teil an ihren Erlebnissen und bekommt damit Einblick in deren Gefühlswelten. Es sind einzelne Erzählungen, von denen jede ihre eigene Faszination besitzt.
Beyond Bach
Author: Andrew Talle
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252099346
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer style of music history, Andrew Talle takes us on a journey that looks at how ordinary people made music in Bach's Germany. Talle focuses in particular on the culture of keyboard playing as lived in public and private. As he ranges through a wealth of documents, instruments, diaries, account ledgers, and works of art, Talle brings a fascinating cast of characters to life. These individuals--amateur and professional performers, patrons, instrument builders, and listeners--inhabited a lost world, and Talle's deft expertise teases out the diverse roles music played in their lives and in their relationships with one another. At the same time, his nuanced re-creation of keyboard playing's social milieu illuminates the era's reception of Bach's immortal works.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252099346
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Reverence for J. S. Bach's music and its towering presence in our cultural memory have long affected how people hear his works. In his own time, however, Bach stood as just another figure among a number of composers, many of them more popular with the music-loving public. Eschewing the great composer style of music history, Andrew Talle takes us on a journey that looks at how ordinary people made music in Bach's Germany. Talle focuses in particular on the culture of keyboard playing as lived in public and private. As he ranges through a wealth of documents, instruments, diaries, account ledgers, and works of art, Talle brings a fascinating cast of characters to life. These individuals--amateur and professional performers, patrons, instrument builders, and listeners--inhabited a lost world, and Talle's deft expertise teases out the diverse roles music played in their lives and in their relationships with one another. At the same time, his nuanced re-creation of keyboard playing's social milieu illuminates the era's reception of Bach's immortal works.
Reunion in Barsaloi
Author: Corinne Hofmann
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1908129204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her - by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his 'wife number one', by his brother, James, now a schoolteacher and especially by Lketinga's mother, who had looked after Corinne with such care all those years before. Corinne Hofmann revisits an area of a country which she cares about passionately, describing in her immensely readable style the changes she saw after her time away, and once again bringing to life the atmosphere and characters in the Masai village.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1908129204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her - by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his 'wife number one', by his brother, James, now a schoolteacher and especially by Lketinga's mother, who had looked after Corinne with such care all those years before. Corinne Hofmann revisits an area of a country which she cares about passionately, describing in her immensely readable style the changes she saw after her time away, and once again bringing to life the atmosphere and characters in the Masai village.
Travels with Charley in Search of America
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140187410
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jay Parini. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140187410
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jay Parini. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Close to Shore
Author: Mike Capuzzo
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN:
Category : Shark attacks
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Describes how, in the summer of 1916, a lone great white shark headed for the New Jersey shoreline and a farming community eleven miles inland, attacking five people and igniting the most extensive shark hunt in history.
Publisher: Broadway
ISBN:
Category : Shark attacks
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Describes how, in the summer of 1916, a lone great white shark headed for the New Jersey shoreline and a farming community eleven miles inland, attacking five people and igniting the most extensive shark hunt in history.
Closed Doors
Author: Lisa O'Donnell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448165210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A powerful tale of love, the loss of innocence and the importance of family in difficult times by the acclaimed author of The Death of Bees, winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize 2013. ‘There are no strangers in Rothesay, Michael. Everyone knows who you are and always will. It’s a blessing but it’s also a curse.’ Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best at two things: keepy-uppies and keeping secrets. His family think he’s too young to hear grown-up stuff, but he listens at doors; it’s the only way to find out anything. And Michael’s heard a secret, one that might explain the bruises on his mother’s face. When the whispers at home and on the street become too loud to ignore, Michael begins to wonder if there is an even bigger secret he doesn’t know about. Scared of what might happen if anyone finds out, and desperate for life to return to normal, Michael sets out to piece together the truth. But he also has to prepare for the upcoming talent show, keep an eye out for Dirty Alice, his arch-nemesis from down the street, and avoid eating Granny’s watery stew. Closed Doors is the startling new novel from the acclaimed author of The Death of Bees. It is a vivid evocation of the fears and freedoms of childhood in the 1980s and a powerful tale of love, the loss of innocence and the importance of family in difficult times.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448165210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A powerful tale of love, the loss of innocence and the importance of family in difficult times by the acclaimed author of The Death of Bees, winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize 2013. ‘There are no strangers in Rothesay, Michael. Everyone knows who you are and always will. It’s a blessing but it’s also a curse.’ Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best at two things: keepy-uppies and keeping secrets. His family think he’s too young to hear grown-up stuff, but he listens at doors; it’s the only way to find out anything. And Michael’s heard a secret, one that might explain the bruises on his mother’s face. When the whispers at home and on the street become too loud to ignore, Michael begins to wonder if there is an even bigger secret he doesn’t know about. Scared of what might happen if anyone finds out, and desperate for life to return to normal, Michael sets out to piece together the truth. But he also has to prepare for the upcoming talent show, keep an eye out for Dirty Alice, his arch-nemesis from down the street, and avoid eating Granny’s watery stew. Closed Doors is the startling new novel from the acclaimed author of The Death of Bees. It is a vivid evocation of the fears and freedoms of childhood in the 1980s and a powerful tale of love, the loss of innocence and the importance of family in difficult times.
Orca
Author: Richard Peirce
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1775846431
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Great White sharks, attracted by an offshore seal colony, have brought success to the adjacent fishing village of Gansbaai along the southern African coast. A flourishing shark cage diving industry has sprung up, bringing jobs and money, and so benefiting almost the entire community. Tourists come from far and near to experience the thrill of a real-life brush with the legendary ‘Jaws’. Shark Town, as it has become known, is booming. Then one day, the sharks disappear. Slowly at first, but with gathering momentum, the word spreads: cage diving off Gansbaai can no longer promise the thrill of an encounter. The crowds thin, the boats remain at their moorings, and the once bustling community waits as their livelihoods tail off. Entrepreneurs and scientists alike are baffled. But it’s not long before shark carcasses start washing up on the beaches. These, together with some coincidental sightings of another apex predator in the vicinity, are the first leads to the possible causes and culprits. Against the clamour and thrill of the cage-diving season in full swing, Richard Peirce visits the unfolding drama and explores what’s behind these strange events. Sales points: Topical subject, widely reported in the press; jaws-style account, but based on true events; vividly told, with colour photographs throughout; dramatically portrays the epic contest between apex predators; shark cage diving attracts visitors from around the world
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1775846431
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Great White sharks, attracted by an offshore seal colony, have brought success to the adjacent fishing village of Gansbaai along the southern African coast. A flourishing shark cage diving industry has sprung up, bringing jobs and money, and so benefiting almost the entire community. Tourists come from far and near to experience the thrill of a real-life brush with the legendary ‘Jaws’. Shark Town, as it has become known, is booming. Then one day, the sharks disappear. Slowly at first, but with gathering momentum, the word spreads: cage diving off Gansbaai can no longer promise the thrill of an encounter. The crowds thin, the boats remain at their moorings, and the once bustling community waits as their livelihoods tail off. Entrepreneurs and scientists alike are baffled. But it’s not long before shark carcasses start washing up on the beaches. These, together with some coincidental sightings of another apex predator in the vicinity, are the first leads to the possible causes and culprits. Against the clamour and thrill of the cage-diving season in full swing, Richard Peirce visits the unfolding drama and explores what’s behind these strange events. Sales points: Topical subject, widely reported in the press; jaws-style account, but based on true events; vividly told, with colour photographs throughout; dramatically portrays the epic contest between apex predators; shark cage diving attracts visitors from around the world
Shift
Author: Jennifer Bradbury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144242012X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Some friends fade away….Others disappear. Now in paperback, a riveting mystery that will “keep the pages turning” (Chris Crutcher, author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes). Imagine you and your best friend head out West on a cross-country bike trek. Imagine that you get into a fight—the cheap SOB won’t kick in any cash—and you stop riding together. Imagine you reach Seattle, go home alone, and start college. Imagine you think your former best friend does too. Imagine he didn’t, that he was carrying more than $20,000 in cash the whole trip, and that now the FBI is looking for him. Imagine your world shifting.... Shift is a breathtaking tour-de-force that explores the depths of loyalty and friendship—and the unknowable depths of another person.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144242012X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Some friends fade away….Others disappear. Now in paperback, a riveting mystery that will “keep the pages turning” (Chris Crutcher, author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes). Imagine you and your best friend head out West on a cross-country bike trek. Imagine that you get into a fight—the cheap SOB won’t kick in any cash—and you stop riding together. Imagine you reach Seattle, go home alone, and start college. Imagine you think your former best friend does too. Imagine he didn’t, that he was carrying more than $20,000 in cash the whole trip, and that now the FBI is looking for him. Imagine your world shifting.... Shift is a breathtaking tour-de-force that explores the depths of loyalty and friendship—and the unknowable depths of another person.