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The Tower of Ojai and Other Cuban Tales

Author : Oscar M. Ramirez-Orbea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432787264
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Tower of Ojai and Other Cuban Tales written by Oscar M. Ramirez-Orbea and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tower of Ojai and Other Cuban Tales/La torre de Ojai y otros cuentos cubanos Fully bilingual English-Spanish edition of short stories inspired by Cuban subjects from the 1700's onward into a post-Communist future: The Tower of Ojai: A young man falls in love with an aristocratic young woman in 1879 Havana; she returns his love but he hides from her an unimaginable secret that will destroy them both. However, their relationship will continue in a strange way in Havana and California even beyond the grave. Life Insurance: In a post-Communist Cuba a young executive attains wealth and power in Camaguey only to discover suddenly that he has only three hours to live and that the cause of death will be suicide-and he has no idea why this will be so. Clippings, A Cuban Mystery: In late 1800's Matanzas a series of gruesome murders of young women from the aristocracy has the Spanish Royal Police baffled. Is someone from their own social circle the murderer? Or is it santeria? Or the result of recent slave revolts? The Man of Her Dreams: How far would you go to regain the love of your life and take revenge on the person you hate most in the world? Would you even lose your soul over it? In 1890, now back from Rome, that dilemma is the tempting choice that Agustina must make one night in provincial Camaguey. The Strange Case of Irene Hartley: On the eve of the Communist Revolution in 1950's Camaguey, spoiled rich girl Irene wants it all and wants it now even if that means murder. However, soon the eeriest and most terrifying event in her life will turn her world upside down forever. The Vampires of Havana: In December 1862 a famous Cuban writer attends what she expects will be yet another ceremony in Havana honoring her literary talents. She is mistaken, however, as to what those moving shadows at the back of the theater really are. The Christmas Gift: It's 1762 and the British Navy has just taken over Havana and Ramoncita in Matanzas now has only one thing left in her life that she treasures above all else. At Christmas time she will receive the greatest gift of her life in the most supernatural way. The Devil Comes to Camaguey: It's the year 1800 and a series of child murders has started to take place during the Carnival-like atmosphere of the week-long Camagueyan "San Juan." It's not for sex or money, so why then are these children being killed as rituals? And who is the true killer? Spanish readers/Lectores hispanos: Los mismos relatos se hallan tambien en espanol en este mismo ejemplar."

The Tower of the Antilles

Author : Achy Obejas
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617755532
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Tower of the Antilles written by Achy Obejas and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist: A “superb story collection” about America and Cuba, escape and return, and history and hope (Los Angeles Times). Longlisted for The Story Prize One of Electric Literature’s Best Short Story Collections of the Year In “Superman,” several possible story lines emerge about a 1950s Havana sex-show superstar who disappeared as soon as the revolution triumphed. “North/South” portrays a migrant family trying to cope with separation and the eventual disintegration of blood ties. “The Cola of Oblivion” follows a young woman who returns to Cuba and inadvertently uncorks a history of accommodation and betrayal among the family members who stayed behind during the revolution. And in the title story, an interrogation reveals a series of fantasies about escape and a history of futility. The Cubans in Achy Obejas’ story collection are haunted by islands: the island they fled, the island they’ve created, the island they were taken to or forced from, the island they long for, the island they return to, and the island that can never be home again. “[A] memorable short fiction collection.” —Publishers Weekly “By turns searing and subtly magical . . . Obejas’ plots are ambushing, her characters startling, her metaphors fresh, her humor caustic, and her compassion potent in these intricate and haunting stories of displacement, loss, stoicism, and realization.” —Booklist “Obejas writes with gentleness, without flashy wording or gimmicks, about people trying to figure out where they belong.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Moon Santa Barbara & the Central Coast

Author : Stuart Thornton
Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 1612387136
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Moon Santa Barbara & the Central Coast written by Stuart Thornton and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writer Stuart Thornton introduces you to the best of Santa Barbara and California's Central Coast, from Santa Barbara's stunning Spanish architecture to Ventura's treasure-filled thrift shops. A longtime resident of the Central Coast, Thornton has plenty of unique trip strategies to offer, as well as helpful tips on the best beaches, cheap eats, campgrounds, and more. Complete with inside information on enjoying the California Avocado Festival, sipping wine at the 16 wine tasting rooms on the Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail, and catching some rays on Pismo Beach, Moon Santa Barbara & the Central Coast gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. This ebook and its features are best experienced on iOS or Android devices and the Kindle Fire.

Spellbound

Author : Karen Palmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439143129
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound written by Karen Palmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As I attempted to digest stories of spiritual cannibalism, of curses that could cost a student her eyesight or ignite the pages of the books she read, I knew I was not alone in my skepticism. And yet, when I caught sight of the waving arms of an industrious scarecrow, the hair on the back of my neck would stand on end. It was most palpable at night, this creepy feeling, when the moon stayed low to the horizon and the dust kicked up in the breeze, reaching out and pulling back with ghostly fingers. There was something to this place that could be felt but not seen. With these words, Karen Palmer takes us inside one of West Africa’s witch camps, where hundreds of banished women struggle to survive under the watchful eye of a powerful wizard. Palmer arrived at the Gambaga witch camp with an outsider’s sense of outrage, believing it was little more than a dumping ground for difficult women. Soon, however, she encountered stories she could not explain: a woman who confessed she’d attacked a girl given to her as a sacrifice; another one desperately trying to rid herself of the witchcraft she believed helped her kill dozens of people. In Spellbound, Palmer brilliantly recounts the kaleidoscope of experiences that greeted her in the remote witch camps of northern Ghana, where more than 3,000 exiled women and men live in extreme poverty, many sentenced in a ceremony hinging on the death throes of a sacrificed chicken. As she ventured deeper into Ghana’s grasslands, Palmer found herself swinging between belief and disbelief. She was shown books that caught on fire for no reason and met diviners who accurately predicted the future. From the schoolteacher who believed Africa should use the power of its witches to gain wealth and prestige to the social worker who championed the rights of accused witches but also took his wife to a witch doctor, Palmer takes readers deep inside a shadowy layer of rural African society. As the sheen of the exotic wore off, Palmer saw the camp for what it was: a hidden colony of women forced to rely on food scraps from the weekly market. She witnessed the way witchcraft preyed on people’s fears and resentments. Witchcraft could be a comfort in times of distress, a way of explaining a crippling drought or the inexplicable loss of a child. It was a means of predicting the unpredictable and controlling the uncontrollable. But witchcraft was also a tool for social control. In this vivid, startling work of first-person reportage, Palmer sheds light on the plight of women in a rarely seen corner of the world.

Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England

Author : Thomas Townsend Sherman
Publisher : New York : T.A. Wright
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England written by Thomas Townsend Sherman and published by New York : T.A. Wright. This book was released on 1920 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spanish and Indian place names of California

Author : Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Spanish and Indian place names of California written by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book believes that every placename contains its unique history and romantics. By viewing toponyms as footprints of the distant epochs, Nellie Sanchez collects the names of the Spanish and Indian origin in the areas around San-Francisco and Los-Angeles and provides a fascinating historical insight into their roots. For example, a reader learns that a Mercy River obtained its name, as it was the first river met by thirsty men who had traveled over 40 miles over a dry valley.

Los Angeles Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.

The Sound of Music Story

Author : Tom Santopietro
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466870591
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Music Story written by Tom Santopietro and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 2, 1965, "The Sound of Music" was released in the United States and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was on. Rarely has a film captured the love and imagination of the moviegoing public in the way that "The Sound of Music" did as it blended history, music, Austrian location filming, heartfelt emotion and the yodeling of Julie Andrews into a monster hit. Now, Tom Santopietro has written the ultimate "Sound of Music" fan book with all the inside dope from behind the scenes stories of the filming in Austria and Hollywood to new interviews with Johannes von Trapp and others. Santopietro looks back at the real life story of Maria von Trapp, goes on to chronicle the sensational success of the Broadway musical, and recounts the story of the near cancellation of the film when the "Cleopatra" bankrupted 20th Century Fox. We all know that Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer played Maria and Captain Von Trapp, but who else had been considered? Tom Santopietro knows and will tell all while providing a historian's critical analysis of the careers of director Robert Wise and screenwriter Ernest Lehman, a look at the critical controversy which greeted the movie, the film's relationship to the turbulent 1960s and the super stardom which engulfed Julie Andrews. Tom Santopietro's "The Story of 'The Sound of Music'" is book for everyone who cherishes this American classic.

History of Worcestershire Sauce (1837-2012)

Author : William Shurtleff
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
ISBN 13 : 1928914438
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book History of Worcestershire Sauce (1837-2012) written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

El Libro Supremo de la Suerte

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943146123
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book El Libro Supremo de la Suerte written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Capt. Nat Herreshoff

Author : L. Francis Herreshoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493082043
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Capt. Nat Herreshoff written by L. Francis Herreshoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathanael G. Herreshoff was the greatest yacht and marine designer and builder this country has ever produced. He is creditied with the introduction of more new devices in the design of boats than any other man, and the great yachts that he designed for the successful defense of the America's cup caught the imagination of the world.

The Ministry of Ordinary Places

Author : Shannan Martin
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0718077490
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Ministry of Ordinary Places written by Shannan Martin and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular blogger Shannan Martin offers Christians who are longing for a more meaningful life a simple starting point: learn what it is to love and be loved right where God has placed you. For Christ-followers living in an increasingly complicated world, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure of how to live a life of intention and meaning. Where do we even begin? Shannan Martin offers a surprisingly simple answer: uncover the hidden corners of our cities and neighborhoods and invest deeply in the lives of people around us. She walks us through her own discoveries about the vital importance of paying attention, as well as the hard but rewarding truth about showing up and committing for the long haul, despite the inevitable encounters with brokenness and uncertainty. With transparency, humor, heart-tugging storytelling, and more than a little personal confession, Martin shows us that no matter where we live or how much we have, as we learn what it is to be with people as Jesus was, we'll find our very lives. The details will look quiet and ordinary, and the call will both exhaust and exhilarate us. But it will be the most worth-it adventure we will ever take. “This is a message the world needs. So often we overcomplicate ‘service’ or this elusive call to ministry when all the while ministry is right in front of us. Shannan reminds us of the simple, yet beautiful call to love our neighbor and what that could really look like today. We are reminded that extravagant love in ordinary moments does indeed lead to an extraordinary life.” --Katie Davis Majors, New York Times bestselling author of Kisses from Katie (I made up this attribution, so you may want to check on that) “This is the book we all need right now. If you’re longing for authentic community but aren’t sure where to begin, Shannan and this beautifully written book are the perfect guide. I truly believe when we stand together we stand a chance. I cheered along with every word.” —Korie Robertson, New York Times bestselling author “These are the days when we could all use a firm but gentle nudge to extend extra kindness to the people around us. Shannan reminds us to pay attention, look outside of ourselves, to lay aside our preconceived judgments, and stay put, bearing with each other, carrying each other‘s burdens, and finding Jesus at the center of it all.” —LaTasha Morrison, founder of Be the Bridge “Our nonstop consumer society seduces us into forsaking the ordinary. Even as believers, we are prone to aspire to do sexy ministry that garners headlines and warrants photo ops. But Shannan Martin helps us resist these impulses by calling the body to reclaim the sanctity and significance of ordinary places. Through personal stories, theology, and Scripture, she helps us discern God’s call upon our lives right where we are and illuminates why the most faithful ministry is oftentimes mundane, overlooked, and seemingly unimpressive. This book will help you thrive in your faith in practical and rooted ways!” —Dominique DuBois Gilliard, author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores “Sometimes when reading a book, I think ‘I’ll recommend this to that group’ or ‘this one goes go that community,’ but hand to heaven, I would put this book in every single pair of hands across ideology, camps, and tribes. Part storytelling, part prophetic, with dizzyingly wonderful writing, Shannan brings us back to the neighborhood, back to ordinary tables, back to a life we know in our deepest hearts is meant for us. I love her. I love this book.” —Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author of 7, For the Love, and Of Mess and Moxie

The Spanish Craze

Author : Richard L. Kagan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496207726
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Craze written by Richard L. Kagan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal. As Spanish power and influence waned in the Atlantic World by the eighteenth century, her rivals created the “Black Legend,” which promoted an image of Spain as a dead and lost civilization rife with innate cruelty and cultural and religious backwardness. The Black Legend and its ambivalences influenced Americans throughout the nineteenth century, reaching a high pitch in the Spanish-American War of 1898. However, the Black Legend retreated soon thereafter, and Spanish culture and heritage became attractive to Americans for its perceived authenticity and antimodernism. Although the Spanish craze infected regions where the Spanish New World presence was most felt—California, the American Southwest, Texas, and Florida—there were also early, quite serious flare-ups of the craze in Chicago, New York, and New England. Kagan revisits early interest in Hispanism among elites such as the Boston book dealer Obadiah Rich, a specialist in the early history of the Americas, and the writers Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He also considers later enthusiasts such as Angeleno Charles Lummis and the many writers, artists, and architects of the modern Spanish Colonial Revival in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spain’s political and cultural elites understood that the promotion of Spanish culture in the United States and the Western Hemisphere in general would help overcome imperial defeats while uniting Spaniards and those of Spanish descent into a singular raza whose shared characteristics and interests transcended national boundaries. With elegant prose and verve, The Spanish Craze spans centuries and provides a captivating glimpse into distinct facets of Hispanism in monuments, buildings, and private homes; the visual, performing, and cinematic arts; and the literature, travel journals, and letters of its enthusiasts in the United States.

Golf Has Never Failed Me

Author : Donald J. Ross
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1886947104
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Golf Has Never Failed Me written by Donald J. Ross and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-01-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years before his death in 1948, legendary golf course architect Donald Ross wrote a book that was never published. Within the manuscript, Ross offered many of his thoughts on the game that he so dearly loved. In the mid-1990s, the book was miraculously rediscovered and published to great acclaim. Golf Has Never Failed Meis an insightful look at the game by one of its most famous and beloved people. And what may surprise you is that many of the astute observations that he made so long ago still hold true today.

Classical Music

Author : Michael Beckerman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800641168
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Classical Music written by Michael Beckerman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This kaleidoscopic collection reflects on the multifaceted world of classical music as it advances through the twenty-first century. With insights drawn from leading composers, performers, academics, journalists, and arts administrators, special focus is placed on classical music’s defining traditions, challenges and contemporary scope. Innovative in structure and approach, the volume comprises two parts. The first provides detailed analyses of issues central to classical music in the present day, including diversity, governance, the identity and perception of classical music, and the challenges facing the achievement of financial stability in non-profit arts organizations. The second part offers case studies, from Miami to Seoul, of the innovative ways in which some arts organizations have responded to the challenges analyzed in the first part. Introductory material, as well as several of the essays, provide some preliminary thoughts about the impact of the crisis year 2020 on the world of classical music. Classical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges will be a valuable and engaging resource for all readers interested in the development of the arts and classical music, especially academics, arts administrators and organizers, and classical music practitioners and audiences.

The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States

Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016404488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States written by Henry Gannett and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

BEVERLY PARK: the Kiddieland That Inspired Walt Disney

Author : Jay Jennings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781731213662
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book BEVERLY PARK: the Kiddieland That Inspired Walt Disney written by Jay Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Walt Disney built Disneyland, he frequently visited "Beverly Park" to learn the ins and outs of the amusement park industry. Located in Los Angeles, California, on the corner of Beverly Boulevard and La Cienega (where the Beverly Center now stands), Beverly Park operated from 1943-74 and during that time it was known as an iconic, kiddieland amusement park that was famous for its innovative rides, birthday parties, movie star sightings and where divorced dads brought their children on the weekends. A few yards away from Beverly Park was "Ponyland", where boys and girls were whisked around a track by their favorite pony. This book documents the history of Beverly Park, its founder, ride designer Dave Bradley and the park's connection to Walt Disney, including 175 black-and-white photographs that have never been published.