Author: Soul Lavee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648304500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Life has a formula, and is not a random chain of events.

Author: Dan Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780830816712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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The enigmatic beggar transforms everyone he encounters in this first book in Dan Hamilton's trilogy, Tales of the Forgotten God. 156 pages, paper

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 146688066X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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An eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women Because my love's American, blisters blossom on my heart. Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than 20 million Pashtun women who span the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. War, separation, homeland, love—these are the subjects of landays, which are brutal and spare, can be remixed like rap, and are powerful in that they make no attempts to be literary. From Facebook to drone strikes to the songs of the ancient caravans that first brought these poems to Afghanistan thousands of years ago, landays reflect contemporary Pashtun life and the impact of three decades of war. With the U.S. withdrawal in 2014 looming, these are the voices of protest most at risk of being lost when the Americans leave. After learning the story of a teenage girl who was forbidden to write poems and set herself on fire in protest, the poet Eliza Griswold and the photographer Seamus Murphy journeyed to Afghanistan to learn about these women and to collect their landays. The poems gathered in I Am the Beggar of the World express a collective rage, a lament, a filthy joke, a love of homeland, an aching longing, a call to arms, all of which belie any facile image of a Pashtun woman as nothing but a mute ghost beneath a blue burqa.

Author: Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226473239
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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From a wealth of vividly autobiographical writings--diaries, travel journals, memoirs--Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter, born in France in 1499, and his sons, whose rich careers spanned the entire 16th century, from medieval times through the Renaissance and into the Reformation. 26 halftones. 5 maps.

Author: Renée Sarojini Saklikar
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 0889714037
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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One afternoon, in an old house in an abandoned village on the outskirts of Perimeter, in the place they call Pacifica, Bramah and the beggar boy find fragments of an ancient text in an oak box. Hunched over scraps of parchment and broken computer disks, they blow the dust off a cover, and so our story begins. Steeped in the tradition of fairy tales, The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns (THOT J BAP) features a world in which a small band of resisters and survivors meet heartbreak and destruction with rhymes and resourceful skills such as soap and glass making, and a belief in the supernatural. Many things happen—some good, but most bad—including five eco-catastrophes and a viral bio-contagion. Shapeshifting in and out of it all is the nimble Bramah, a female locksmith, part human, part goddess—brown, brave and beautiful. Ten years in the making and described as “truly ambitious” by Stephen Collis, this work by award-winning poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar spans continents and centuries. Bramah and the Beggar Boy is the first instalment of the multi-part series.

Author: Joel ben Izzy
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1565128540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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"Wonderful!” (Grace Paley). “Heartwarming and smart and wonderfully written” (Detroit Free Press). “Provides edifying advice, intimately given, like the best-selling Tuesdays with Morrie” (the Dallas Morning News). “Altogether original” (Dr. Laura Schlessinger). “This story will speak to the humanity of the reader” (Jewish Book World). The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness is that rare, magical book—a book that tells a good story but also shows us how the tales we learned when we were children shed light on our adult lives. Joel ben Izzy had the unusual opportunity to relive those lessons when he lost his voice and reconnected with his old teacher, Lenny, a retired storyteller. Through his meetings with Lenny, Joel rediscovers the wisdom of ancient tales and takes us on a journey into a world of beggars and kings, monks and tigers, lost horses and buried treasures—and in the end tells us the secret of happiness.

Author: Frank Kidson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballad opera
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Originally published in 1922, this book contains a history of English opera described through the lens of The Beggar's Opera, first performed in 1728. Kidson details the background to the opera's creation, its author, and its lasting impact on the English opera scene. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the English opera and English musical history.

Author: John Gay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: John Christopher Pepusch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballad operas
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: David Falconieri
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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A historical novel focusing on the War of the Roses in England.