Author: Misha Berson
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN: 155783766X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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A critical and comprehensive exploration of the influential Broadway musical analyzes West Side Story against a backdrop of its cultural period while considering its reflection of both classical Shakespeare conflicts and modern youth issues. Original.
Author: J.K.Hooke
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1639372628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Something Coming By: J.K.Hooke Janix finds himself in a detestable situation, standing between Demons and Angels, good and evil and stuck trying to figure out which is which. He also finds himself meeting her, a fellow warrior who could capture his heart, a heart he didn’t think he had any longer. Now he must choose whether to stay and fight a war he wants no part of or simply walk away. Unfortunately, there would be nothing simple about that. Something Coming is a book of religious fiction, about a veteran getting dragged back into a supernatural war and potentially discovering love on his journey, a love that could turn to tragedy.
Author: Gail E. Husch
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584650065
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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This major contribution to the study of antebellum religious art offers a detailed case study of American postmillennialism and its many visual expressions. Treating paintings as "intersections of cultural expression," Gail E. Husch begins with a single painting to spin out an interpretation in many directions, from the specific aesthetic and social concerns of artist and patron to the wider political and cultural concerns of Americans in the mid-19th century. Arguing that "genuine apocalyptic faith" was fundamental to American Protestants, Husch shows how artists, patrons, and ordinary citizens actively engaged contemporary questions of peace and war, freedom and slavery, and the equality of human beings before God in their visual arts. Part of an emerging revaluation of the role of the religious in American art, Husch asks us to read ideas as they function in works, rather than see images merely as passive illustrations of ideas. Weaving images drawn from high and low culture, politics, and religion, she develops a complex cultural narrative of the times, thus showing the truth of one picture being worth a thousand words.
Author: Jonathan Starke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936364329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is a novel about a down-and-outer and his small daughter and his attempt to provide more for her than she has been given either by him or her mother. Trucks, an aging boxer, breaks his daughter, Claudia, out of a children's home in Wisconsin one night during the dead of winter. She is a winsome, feisty little girl who tries to hold her father to account, and Trucks loves her unconditionally. He gives her used hearing aids to help with her deafness, and they begin hitchhiking to Nevada. Claudia's mother, an addict, has disappeared and is probably dead. Their first ride takes them to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where Trucks teaches Claudia about "need borrowing," or shoplifting. They have only $30. They meet a number of people on their journey, including June, a woman about Trucks' age who was abandoned by her husband, and Gerald, an older rancher in Montana who offers them a place to stay, an offer Trucks refuses. Trucks is unable to find work, except for boxing--he is trapped in an activity for which he is no longer suited. The damage to his body does not heal, but worsens, fight after fight. And it hurts Claudia to see her father hurt. Depressed and confused, his mind no longer reliable, Trucks steals a car and he and Claudia drive east, delusional and drifting in and out of consciousness, to try to reconnect with June.
Author: Paul McAuley
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 1473203961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The aliens are here. And they want to help. The extraordinary new project from one of the country's most acclaimed and consistently brilliant SF novelists of the last 30 years. The Jackaroo have given humanity fifteen worlds and the means to reach them. They're a chance to start over, but they're also littered with ruins and artifacts left by the Jackaroo's previous clients. Miracles that could reverse the damage caused by war, climate change, and rising sea levels. Nightmares that could forever alter humanity - or even destroy it. Chloe Millar works in London, mapping changes caused by imported scraps of alien technology. When she stumbles across a pair of orphaned kids possessed by an ancient ghost, she must decide whether to help them or to hand them over to the authorities. Authorities who believe that their visions point towards a new kind of danger. And on one of the Jackaroo's gift-worlds, the murder of a man who has just arrived from Earth leads policeman Vic Gayle to a war between rival gangs over possession of a remote excavation site. Something is coming through. Something linked to the visions of Chloe's orphans, and Vic Gayle's murder investigation. Something that will challenge the limits of the Jackaroo's benevolence ...
Author: Megan Saben
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736455005
Category : Bible stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A picture book illustrating various scenes from the life of Christ, pointing to his resurrection and the ultimate glorification of believers in heaven.
Author: R. E. Dinlocker
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434354563
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Mitch Gaines tries to do the right thing, but the right things are wrong for him. He sees himself as others see him and is happy with his image in their eyes. But when Mitch's wife looks around, his image fades. When she walks out, Mitch disappears. He looses everything, including himself. When Mitch decides to change, his version of right goes even more wrong. Until . . .
Author: Stephen Hopgood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107193354
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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With authoritarian states and global culture wars threatening human rights, this volume weighs hopes the for effective human rights advocacy.
Author: Paul McAuley
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473203961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The aliens are here. And they want to help. The extraordinary new project from one of the country's most acclaimed and consistently brilliant SF novelists of the last 30 years. The Jackaroo have given humanity fifteen worlds and the means to reach them. They're a chance to start over, but they're also littered with ruins and artifacts left by the Jackaroo's previous clients. Miracles that could reverse the damage caused by war, climate change, and rising sea levels. Nightmares that could forever alter humanity - or even destroy it. Chloe Millar works in London, mapping changes caused by imported scraps of alien technology. When she stumbles across a pair of orphaned kids possessed by an ancient ghost, she must decide whether to help them or to hand them over to the authorities. Authorities who believe that their visions point towards a new kind of danger. And on one of the Jackaroo's gift-worlds, the murder of a man who has just arrived from Earth leads policeman Vic Gayle to a war between rival gangs over possession of a remote excavation site. Something is coming through. Something linked to the visions of Chloe's orphans, and Vic Gayle's murder investigation. Something that will challenge the limits of the Jackaroo's benevolence ...
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781439519035
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A strange carnival brings terror to the population of a small midwestern town
