Forbidden Childhood

Forbidden Childhood

Author: Ruth Slenczynska

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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The "story of a child prodigy caught in a grotesque pattern of exploitaiton and abuse, her oppressor, her father, whose controlling passion was money, not music. After fleeing from her father and growing up in unhappy obscurity, Ruth Slenczynska has become again a remarkable and now mature pianist." Pub W.


Forbidden Secrets

Forbidden Secrets

Author: R.L. Stine

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-07-17

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1442473738

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The dark power of the Fear family consumes all those connected with it. No one can escape the evil of the family’s curse—not even the Fears themselves. Savannah Gentry doesn’t believe that. She marries Tyler Fear. But then she goes with him to Blackrose Manor. That’s when the deaths begin. That’s when she learns his terrible secret....


The Forbidden Experiment

The Forbidden Experiment

Author: Roger Shattuck

Publisher: Kodansha Globe

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781568360485

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A haunting account by an award-winning cultural historian that addresses still pertinent issues, such as nature vs. nurture, the acquisition of language in children, and the socialization of deaf and mute children.


Forbidden Towers

Forbidden Towers

Author: Carol Gaskin

Publisher: Troll Communications

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780816775972

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As Lifin, a young elf, the reader makes decisions controlling his search through the five Forbidden Towers for the herb that will cure his people of the eleven plague.


Forbidden

Forbidden

Author: Suzanne Brockmann

Publisher: Suzanne Brockmann

Published: 1997-04-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Reissue (Original Publication Date: April 1997) His brother loved her... When Kayla Grey travels from Boston to Montana, the last thing she expects is to find her life in danger from a sudden, treacherous blizzard. And after she’s rescued, she certainly doesn’t expect to share heated, fireside kisses with the handsome, blue-eyed cowboy who saved her life. But then she discovers her hero is the very person she’s flown so far to find—he’s the brother of the man who’d proposed marriage mere weeks before dying in a tragic accident. Montana rancher Cal Bartlett devoted his life to his younger brother, Liam. Ten years older, he’d raised the kid, giving him everything his heart desired, including the top-notch education that helped Liam win his job as a foreign correspondent for a major newspaper—a job that got him killed two long, bleak years ago. But now Kayla—the woman his brother loved, a woman Cal shouldn't desire—has come to ask a favor. She’s heard the whisper of a rumor that Liam is alive—held in a secret prison, deep in the jungles of the tiny nation of San Salustiano. Kayla’s determined to travel to the dangerous, war-torn island with Cal, on the pretense of a romantic vacation, but in truth to search for clues. Together, they’ll risk their lives on the slim hope that Liam might still be alive. It’s an impossibly risky and dangerous journey—and the dead last thing either Cal or Kayla expects is to fall in love along the way.... Set in 1998 in Asylum, Montana, San Salustiano, and Boston, Massachusetts, Forbidden is a full length novel of 50K words or 212 pages. It’s the first in Brockmann’s two-book Bartlett Brothers series. Forbidden was originally published in 1997 by Bantam Loveswept.


The Poetics of Reverie

The Poetics of Reverie

Author: Gaston Bachelard

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 1971-06-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780807064139

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In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, The Poetics of Space, Bachelard considered several kinds of "praiseworthy space" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In Poetics of Reverie he considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative potential of all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which "poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness"


Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik

Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik

Author: Fiona Joy Mackintosh

Publisher: Tamesis Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781855660953

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In the final analysis, Ocampo's works achieve equilibrium between childhood and age, whereas Pizarnik's much-discussed poetic crisis of exile from language itself parallels her deep sense of anxiety at being exiled from the world of childhood."--BOOK JACKET.


Lost Genius

Lost Genius

Author: Kevin Bazzana

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0786731621

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Born in Budapest in 1903, Ervin Nyiregyhá (nyeer-edge-hah-zee) was composing at two, giving his first public recital at six, and performing all over Europe by eight. He was soon recognized as one of the most remarkable child prodigies in history and became the subject of a four-year study by a psychologist. By twenty-five, he had all but disappeared. Mismanaged, exploited, and insistent on an intensely Romantic style, his career foundered in adulthood and he was reduced to penury. In 1928, he settled in Los Angeles, where he performed sporadically and worked in Hollywood. Psychologically, he remained a child, and found the ordinary demands of daily life onerous -- he struggled even to dress himself. He drank heavily, was insatiable sexually (he married ten times), and lived in abject poverty, yet such was his talent and charisma that he numbered among his friends and champions Rudolph Valentino, Harry Houdini, Theodore Dreiser, Bela Lugosi, and Gloria Swanson. Rediscovered in the 1970s, he enjoyed a sensational and controversial renaissance. Kevin Bazzana explores the brilliant but troubled mind of a geniune Romantic adrift in the modern age. The story he tells is one of the most fascinating - and bizarre -- in the history of music.


Childhood

Childhood

Author: Tove Ditlevsen

Publisher: FSG Originals

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 0374602387

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The celebrated Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen begins the Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" —The Guardian) with Childhood, her coming-of-age memoir about pursuing a life and a passion beyond the confines of her upbringing—and into the difficult years described in Youth and Dependency Tove knows she is a misfit whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For "long, mysterious words begin to crawl across" her soul, and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within her—and that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behind. Childhood, the first volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship, told with lyricism and vivid intensity.


Forbidden Words

Forbidden Words

Author: Eugénio de Andrade

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780811215237

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Award-winning poetry in a bilingual edition, by Portugal's best-known living poet.