Author: Wim Coleman
Publisher: ChironBooks
ISBN: 9781935178071
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When a ragtag circus shows up in the town of Buchanan, Kansas, fourteen-year-old Randy Carmichael faces a deep mystery. Why is his alcoholic mother so troubled by the troupe's arrival? What does Circus Olympus mean to her pastand to Randy's future? Voices summon him, a godlike figure appears in his dreams, and supernatural adversaries lay in wait for him as he embarks on a dangerous quest that will take him beyond mortal reality.
Juggler in the Wind
Author: Wim Coleman
Publisher: ChironBooks
ISBN: 9781935178071
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When a ragtag circus shows up in the town of Buchanan, Kansas, fourteen-year-old Randy Carmichael faces a deep mystery. Why is his alcoholic mother so troubled by the troupe's arrival? What does Circus Olympus mean to her pastand to Randy's future? Voices summon him, a godlike figure appears in his dreams, and supernatural adversaries lay in wait for him as he embarks on a dangerous quest that will take him beyond mortal reality.
Publisher: ChironBooks
ISBN: 9781935178071
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When a ragtag circus shows up in the town of Buchanan, Kansas, fourteen-year-old Randy Carmichael faces a deep mystery. Why is his alcoholic mother so troubled by the troupe's arrival? What does Circus Olympus mean to her pastand to Randy's future? Voices summon him, a godlike figure appears in his dreams, and supernatural adversaries lay in wait for him as he embarks on a dangerous quest that will take him beyond mortal reality.
Tales for an Unknown City
Author: Dan Yashinsky
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509535
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, a weekly open gathering in Toronto begun by Dan Yashinsky in 1978 and still going strong. There are tales from Canada and many other parts of the world; each followed by a brief word from the teller, giving us the flavour of the "Friday Nights."
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509535
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, a weekly open gathering in Toronto begun by Dan Yashinsky in 1978 and still going strong. There are tales from Canada and many other parts of the world; each followed by a brief word from the teller, giving us the flavour of the "Friday Nights."
The Juggler's Gambit
Author: Don Tony Macri
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646547608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
It is not an easy life for an English juggler in Twelfth Century Spain. Survival means juggling, not only his knives, but dancing nimbly between the clash of cultures of the sophisticated Moors who conquered the land centuries earlier, the Christians who stubbornly fight to take back Spain, and the inscrutable Jews who have made a home there for over a millennium. Despite their irreconcilable differences the collision of the three cultures would produce Europe's highest civilization at the time and arguably the most preeminent in the world. When fate thrusts upon an itinerant juggler a secret that can change the world all three great cultures will stop at nothing to possess it. Will the street skills and cleverness acquired from a life on the road be enough for the juggler to accomplish his sworn mission and remain free?
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1646547608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
It is not an easy life for an English juggler in Twelfth Century Spain. Survival means juggling, not only his knives, but dancing nimbly between the clash of cultures of the sophisticated Moors who conquered the land centuries earlier, the Christians who stubbornly fight to take back Spain, and the inscrutable Jews who have made a home there for over a millennium. Despite their irreconcilable differences the collision of the three cultures would produce Europe's highest civilization at the time and arguably the most preeminent in the world. When fate thrusts upon an itinerant juggler a secret that can change the world all three great cultures will stop at nothing to possess it. Will the street skills and cleverness acquired from a life on the road be enough for the juggler to accomplish his sworn mission and remain free?
Adriaen de Vries 1556-1626
Author: Frits Scholten
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365531
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This elegant exhibition catalog includes sixty-six works of art by this virtuoso sculptor, plus accompanying essays. Born in The Hague, Adriaen de Vries worked with the official sculptor to the Medici dukes beginning in 1580s, and in 1601 he was appointed official court sculptor to Rudolf II in Prague, where he worked until his death. Some of his best-known works are illustrated and described in this comprehensive volume, including the Bust of Emperor Rudolph II, the fountain Mercury and Cupid, Psyche Born Aloft by Putti, Juggling Man and The Wrestlers.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365531
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This elegant exhibition catalog includes sixty-six works of art by this virtuoso sculptor, plus accompanying essays. Born in The Hague, Adriaen de Vries worked with the official sculptor to the Medici dukes beginning in 1580s, and in 1601 he was appointed official court sculptor to Rudolf II in Prague, where he worked until his death. Some of his best-known works are illustrated and described in this comprehensive volume, including the Bust of Emperor Rudolph II, the fountain Mercury and Cupid, Psyche Born Aloft by Putti, Juggling Man and The Wrestlers.
The Ordinary Acrobat
Author: Duncan Wall
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307472264
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. Soon he was attending circuses two or three nights a week, and soon after that, he entered the intensively competitive training program at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The Ordinary Acrobat is a magical, funny, sometimes scary story of what happens when one average American joins a host of gifted—and flexible—international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, this personal history of how the circus evolved into the thrilling experience it is today delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307472264
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. Soon he was attending circuses two or three nights a week, and soon after that, he entered the intensively competitive training program at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The Ordinary Acrobat is a magical, funny, sometimes scary story of what happens when one average American joins a host of gifted—and flexible—international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, this personal history of how the circus evolved into the thrilling experience it is today delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.
The Moore-Noble Debate
Author: J. C. Noble
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immortality
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immortality
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Juggler's Oracle; or, The Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open
Author: H. Boaz
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Juggler's Oracle; or, The Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open" by H. Boaz. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Juggler's Oracle; or, The Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open" by H. Boaz. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Drafts, Fragments, and Poems
Author: Joan Murray
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371820
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The first appearance of this award-winning writer's work since the 1940s, this collection, which includes an introduction by John Ashbery, restores Joan Murray's striking poetry to its originally intended form. Though John Ashbery hailed Joan Murray as a key influence on his work, Murray’s sole collection, Poems, published after her death at the early age of twenty-four and selected by W. H. Auden for inclusion in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, has been almost entirely unavailable for the better part of half a century. Poems was put together by Grant Code, a close friend of Murray’s mother, and when Murray’s papers, long thought to be lost, reappeared in 2013, it became clear that Code had exercised a heavy editorial hand. This new collection, edited by Farnoosh Fathi from Murray’s original manuscripts, restores Murray’s raw lyricism and visionary lines, while also including a good deal of previously unpublished work, as well as a selection of her exuberant letters.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371820
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The first appearance of this award-winning writer's work since the 1940s, this collection, which includes an introduction by John Ashbery, restores Joan Murray's striking poetry to its originally intended form. Though John Ashbery hailed Joan Murray as a key influence on his work, Murray’s sole collection, Poems, published after her death at the early age of twenty-four and selected by W. H. Auden for inclusion in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, has been almost entirely unavailable for the better part of half a century. Poems was put together by Grant Code, a close friend of Murray’s mother, and when Murray’s papers, long thought to be lost, reappeared in 2013, it became clear that Code had exercised a heavy editorial hand. This new collection, edited by Farnoosh Fathi from Murray’s original manuscripts, restores Murray’s raw lyricism and visionary lines, while also including a good deal of previously unpublished work, as well as a selection of her exuberant letters.
Kingdoms of the Wall
Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 149763234X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
A pilgrimage leads to a shocking revelation in this “deeply affecting and evocative extraterrestrial novel” from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author (Locus). The village of Jespodar nestles in the foothills of a world-dominating mountain known to all as "The Wall." Poilar Crookleg has grown up in Jespodar training hard and hoping that he will be chosen for the annual Pilgrimage, a group journey to the top of the mountain from which no pilgrim has ever returned both alive and sane. The pilgrims seek to replicate the legendary journey of a distant ancestor who scaled the mountain and, so the story goes, met with the gods. The Pilgrimage is a a life journey, an overwhelming challenge and a sacred honor and Poilar feels blessed when he is finally chosen to lead it. But not all is as it first seems. Along the journey lie hazards of all kinds, both vilently dangerous and seductively beguiling and to triumph in the climb is to confront a revelation so surprising and so disturbing that none, not even the smartest and best prepared, are likely to survive. What belief and what devotion leads so many to hope for such a challenging task and what will be the ultimate result of such dedication? Only The Wall itself can reveal the destiny for those who undertake the Pilgrimage.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 149763234X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
A pilgrimage leads to a shocking revelation in this “deeply affecting and evocative extraterrestrial novel” from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author (Locus). The village of Jespodar nestles in the foothills of a world-dominating mountain known to all as "The Wall." Poilar Crookleg has grown up in Jespodar training hard and hoping that he will be chosen for the annual Pilgrimage, a group journey to the top of the mountain from which no pilgrim has ever returned both alive and sane. The pilgrims seek to replicate the legendary journey of a distant ancestor who scaled the mountain and, so the story goes, met with the gods. The Pilgrimage is a a life journey, an overwhelming challenge and a sacred honor and Poilar feels blessed when he is finally chosen to lead it. But not all is as it first seems. Along the journey lie hazards of all kinds, both vilently dangerous and seductively beguiling and to triumph in the climb is to confront a revelation so surprising and so disturbing that none, not even the smartest and best prepared, are likely to survive. What belief and what devotion leads so many to hope for such a challenging task and what will be the ultimate result of such dedication? Only The Wall itself can reveal the destiny for those who undertake the Pilgrimage.
Juggler's Choice
Author: Keith 'Doc' Raymond
Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media
ISBN: 1959117173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Denny crushed Jenn’s first love interest when he showed up with a cheerleader at the creamery where she works. To get her revenge, she ‘borrows’ his truck and disappears across state lines. She wakes in a library parking lot, where Felisha Mutombo, the librarian, takes Jenn in and adopts her. Felisha’s unique sexual proclivities open new horizons for Jenn. First, she’s transformed into Clarice, the new ‘it’ girl in her high school. She and her posse negotiate the complex territory of erotica. But on entering University, she’s expelled during her first year for a sexual dance with a handsome ballet dancer. She absconds with her scholarship money to India, where monks invite her to a Tantric monastery, and her sexual curiosity becomes her spiritual path to erotic mastery. Sister Padma suggests Clarice train with Doyama, a Kinbaku adept, in the red-light district of Tokyo. There she discovers her true power when the teacher becomes her student. He persuades her to learn the business, sending her to Hong Kong to meet the slippery businessman Wing Lau. Together, Wing and Clarice build a sampan business, indulging the desires of wealthy men and women. But the Triad has their number, making them a target for takeover. To escape the gangster sex traffickers, Clarice and her people board the Siren, a freighter gifted to her by a Greek lover. From port to port across the South China Sea and beyond, they bring joy wherever they go, leaving their customers hungry for more. Clarice’s journey of discovery leads to a Juggler’s Choice: will she escape the sex trade and become a hotelier or indulge her kinky fantasies forever?
Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media
ISBN: 1959117173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Denny crushed Jenn’s first love interest when he showed up with a cheerleader at the creamery where she works. To get her revenge, she ‘borrows’ his truck and disappears across state lines. She wakes in a library parking lot, where Felisha Mutombo, the librarian, takes Jenn in and adopts her. Felisha’s unique sexual proclivities open new horizons for Jenn. First, she’s transformed into Clarice, the new ‘it’ girl in her high school. She and her posse negotiate the complex territory of erotica. But on entering University, she’s expelled during her first year for a sexual dance with a handsome ballet dancer. She absconds with her scholarship money to India, where monks invite her to a Tantric monastery, and her sexual curiosity becomes her spiritual path to erotic mastery. Sister Padma suggests Clarice train with Doyama, a Kinbaku adept, in the red-light district of Tokyo. There she discovers her true power when the teacher becomes her student. He persuades her to learn the business, sending her to Hong Kong to meet the slippery businessman Wing Lau. Together, Wing and Clarice build a sampan business, indulging the desires of wealthy men and women. But the Triad has their number, making them a target for takeover. To escape the gangster sex traffickers, Clarice and her people board the Siren, a freighter gifted to her by a Greek lover. From port to port across the South China Sea and beyond, they bring joy wherever they go, leaving their customers hungry for more. Clarice’s journey of discovery leads to a Juggler’s Choice: will she escape the sex trade and become a hotelier or indulge her kinky fantasies forever?