Author: Lisa Weldon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781955791106
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Lisa's world collapsed the year she turned 58. Her 25-year marriage ended; the only home her children had ever known fell into foreclosure; and her last child left the nest. Her financial lifeline, her career in advertising, had gone stagnant. From under the crushing realities a wild idea popped into her head. What if she went away for 30 days, all alone to New York City and took a crash course to learn the new digital ways of her business? After class she could sneak in a 1-mile walk, each day treating herself to a different neighborhood of Manhattan, the place she'd always dreamed of living. Using the lessons she'd learn, she could share stories and photos from her daily walks, all in hopes of reinventing herself professionally. It seemed like the perfect plan, and it was. However-the real truth she found on the streets of Manhattan never made it to her blog. Only in her personal diary did she share the rawness of what she learned about herself ... and all she needed to do to make the changes she wanted. In her memoir, Twenty Pieces, Lisa Weldon shares what she learned.
Author: Giorgio De Maria
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631492306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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An NPR Best Book of the Year Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut. In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared. An allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day, The Twenty Days of Turin has enjoyed a fervent cult following in Italy for forty years. Now, in a fretful new age of "lone-wolf" terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Maria’s vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. With its stunning anticipation of the Internet—and the apocalyptic repercussions of oversharing—this bleak, prescient story is more disturbingly pertinent than ever. Brilliantly translated into English for the first time by Ramon Glazov, The Twenty Days of Turin establishes De Maria’s place among the literary ranks of Italo Calvino and beside classic horror masters such as Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. Hauntingly imaginative, with visceral prose that chills to the marrow, the novel is an eerily clairvoyant magnum opus, long overdue but ever timely.
Author: Robert Bringhurst
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1582434387
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In this companion volume to The Tree of Meaning, Robert Bringhurst collects twenty essays under the subversive principle that "everything is related to everything else." His studies build upon this sense of basic connection, and involve the work of poets, musicians, and philosophers as varied as Ezra Pound, John Thompson, Don McKay, Empedokles, Parmenides, Aristotle, Skaay, Plato, George Clutesi, Elizabeth Nyman, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Dennis Lee, and Glenn Gould. The value Bringhurst places on the process of translation, the dialogue between one language and another, and the sheer experience of witnessing translation by reading and hearing poems, stories, and songs in their original languages is another strong presence in this collection. Accompanying the English narrative are passages in Tlingit, Haida, Chinese, Greek, German, Cree, and Russian, for readers who want to find the patterns and taste some of the vocabulary for themselves, for those interested in meeting the languages partway.
Author: National Association of Wool Manufacturers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wool industry
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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"A bibliography of wool and the woolen manufacture": v. 21, 1891, p. 118-134.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2766
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Author: Robert Sheerins
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326062166
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Ayrshire born Robert Sheerins, artist, poet and traditional fiddle player, encapsulates his thoughts in his first book of poetry. All the imagery of his paintings, expressed through word.
Author: Erik Satie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486243656
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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This is a facsimile of an extremely rare, limited collection of the French master's brilliant verbal and musical sketches of various outdoor sports and amusements, written to accompany Charles Martin's drawings.
Author: Henry Llewellyn Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recitations
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: Rob MacKillop
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1619112965
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Learn fashionable and evocative tunes from 19th-century America! Originally collected for the fretless minstrel banjo, many of these tunes were taught to Tom Briggs in Southern plantations, and are the sound of a new, vibrant America. Mixing early Black banjo music, with European dances, a new popular music was born, which, in the following decades, would to mature into ragtime and jazz.Rob MacKillop arranged these pieces for fingerstyle ukulele. They sound great on either a standard uke or on a banjo ukulele. the CD recording contains performances of all 20 pieces by Rob MacKillop on a banjo ukulele.
Author: Lyman Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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