Music from Another World
Music from Another World

Author: Robin Talley

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1488056609

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A master of award-winning queer historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley brings to life an emotionally captivating story about the lives of two teen girls living in an age when just being yourself was an incredible act of bravery. It’s summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can’t be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy’s only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk…until she’s matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon Hawkins bonds with Tammy over punk music and carefully shared secrets, and soon their letters become the one place she can be honest. The rest of her life in San Francisco is full of lies. The kind she tells for others—like helping her gay brother hide the truth from their mom—and the kind she tells herself. But as antigay fervor in America reaches a frightening new pitch, Sharon and Tammy must rely on their long-distance friendship to discover their deeply personal truths, what they’ll stand for…and who they’ll rise against.

Another Time, Another Place
Another Time, Another Place

Author: Gary Hoskins

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-07-26

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1499053258

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It is a love story within a religious/horror framework concerning an abused child who becomes a derelict without hope that wanders into a small church and finds his destiny. The main characters are: King David of Israel - destroyer of the evil empire, Mo'ab, and dispatcher of the demon, Rajava. Dave Miller - the abused child who is asked by Jesus Christ to serve him. Rajava - demon of sexual perversion and death! Arthur Morestein -an arrogant anthropologist and theologian who unwillingly allows Rajava to return to the world, for this, his family will suffer! Mark Moore - son of Clara Moore who is possessed by Rajava. Clara Moore - seduced, impregnated and abandoned by the local pastor, she asks for help from Dave Miller for her son, Mark. Eugenia Janus - sold her soul to the devil for power over men. Her mission is to seduce and destroy Dave Miller. This book like no other will challenge your understanding of evil is!

Jim Henson's Dark Crystal Tales
Jim Henson's Dark Crystal Tales

Author: Cory Godbey

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-08

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1608868451

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Join Jen, Kira, and Fizzgig from Jim Henson's beloved cult-classic film The Dark Crystal before their fateful meeting. Here, they each embark on new side-adventures that will transform the life of one little bird after the cruel Skeksis set forth a series of events that ripple across the land.

Homesick for Another World
Homesick for Another World

Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0399562893

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time "I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel. And for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice, the echt Moshfeghian experience, is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. Moshfegh is our Flannery O'Connor, and Homesick for Another World is her Everything That Rises Must Converge or A Good Man is Hard to Find. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating. We're in the hands of an author with a big mind, a big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick.

Another Time, Another Place
Another Time, Another Place

Author: Cellestine Hannemann

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2012-11-07

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1449772390

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Another Time, Another Place is a fantasy that also delivers a message to a society that has strayed. Stephanie, expecting a simple life of home and hearth, marries a man who finds more pleasure in ambitious, expensive undertakings. Once savoring success, he is driven to ever more ambitious and expensive ventures. The loss of their son is a turning point in her life. Stephanie goes off alone to the Another Time resort, a charming place in the ambiance of days gone by, back when the world moved at a slower pace, when there were no cars, planes or televisions. In an unusual occurrence, she follows what she believes to be her destiny and leaves this world to enter one of another dimension where she finds happiness.

In Another Time
In Another Time

Author: Jillian Cantor

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-03-05

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0062863339

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“Jillian Cantor’s In Another Time is a love song to the most powerful of all human emotions: hope. It is the story of Max and Hanna, two star-crossed lovers fighting to stay together during an impossible moment in history. It is gripping, mysterious, romantic, and altogether unique. I was enchanted by this beautiful, heartbreaking novel.” — Ariel Lawhon, author of I Was Anastasia A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II—and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival. 1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately they feel a powerful chemistry. It isn’t long before they fall in love and begin making plans for the future. As their love affair unfolds over the next five years, Hitler comes to power. Their love is tested with the new landscape and the realities of war, not the least of which is that Hanna is Jewish and Max is not. But unbeknownst to Hanna is the fact that Max has a secret, which causes him to leave for months at a time—a secret that Max is convinced will help him save Hanna if Germany becomes too dangerous for her because of her religion. In 1946, Hanna Ginsberg awakens in a field outside of Berlin. Disoriented and afraid, she has no memory of the past ten years and no idea what has happened to Max. With no information as to Max’s whereabouts—or if he is even still alive—she decides to move to London to live with her sister while she gets her bearings. Even without an orchestra to play in, she throws herself completely into her music to keep alive her lifelong dream of becoming a concert violinist. But the music also serves as a balm to heal her deeply wounded heart and she eventually gets the opening she long hoped for. Even so, as the days, months, and years pass, taking her from London to Paris to Vienna to America, she continues to be haunted by her forgotten past, and the fate of the only man she has ever loved and cannot forget. Told in alternating viewpoints—Max in the years leading up to WWII, and Hanna in the ten years after—In Another Time is a beautiful novel about love and survival, passion and music, across time and continents.

Making Another World Possible
Making Another World Possible

Author: Corina L. Apostol

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-11

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 0429889399

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Making Another World Possible offers a broad look at an array of socially engaged cultural practices that have become increasingly visible in the past decade, across diverse fields such as visual art, performance, theater, activism, architecture, urban planning, pedagogy, and ecology. Part I of the book introduces the reader to the field of socially engaged art and cultural practice, spanning the past ten years of dynamism and development. Part II presents a visually striking summary of key events from 1945 to the present, offering an expansive view of socially engaged art throughout history, and Part III offers an overview of the current state of the field, elucidating some of the key issues facing practitioners and communities. Finally, Part IV identifies ten global issues and, in turn, documents 100 key artistic projects from around the world to illustrate the various critical, aesthetic and political modes in which artists, cultural workers, and communities are responding to these issues from their specific local contexts. This is a much needed and timely archive that broadens and deepens the conversation on socially engaged art and culture. It includes commissioned essays from noted critics, practitioners, and theorists in the field, as well as key examples that allow insights into methodologies, contextualize the conditions of sites, and broaden the range of what constitutes an engaged culture. Of interest to a wide range of readers, from practitioners and scholars of performance to curators and historians, Making Another World Possible offers both breadth and depth, spanning history and individual works, to offer a unique insight into the field of socially engaged art.

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group
Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group

Author: Michael Duncan

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781942884873

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Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. The nine original members of the Transcendental Painting Group were Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroek, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller Pierce, Agnes Pelton, Horace Towner Pierce and Stuart Walker. They were later joined by Ed Garman. Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, their paintings rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico. Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group aims to address this slight, claiming the group's artists as crucial contributors to an alternative through-line in 20th-century abstraction, one with renewed relevance today. This volume provides a broad perspective on the group's work, positioning it within the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art. Essays examine the TPG in light of their international artistic peers; their involvement with esoteric thought and Theosophy; the group's sources in the culture and landscape of the American Southwest; and the experience of its two female members.

Jim Henson's Labyrinth Tales
Jim Henson's Labyrinth Tales

Author: Jim Henson

Publisher: Boom

Published: 2016-09-21

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1613986025

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In this children's storybook, experience the endlessly imaginative world of Jim Henson's Labyrinth through the eyes of its most fantastical and beloved characters! Witness a day in the life of Sir Didymus, the recklessly heroic fox-terrier; Ludo, the lovable oaf; Hoggle, an ever-loyal companion; and others as they play games, work together, and revel in the magic of the labyrinth. Written and gorgeously illustrated by acclaimed children's book illustrator Cory Godbey (Have Courage, Be Kind: The Tale of Cinderella), Jim Henson's Labyrinth Tales takes readers deep into the adventure where magic knows no bounds.

Another Time Another Place
Another Time Another Place

Author: Dave Black

Publisher: Dave Black Publishers

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1999756568

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With roots in the Russian revolution of 1917, Alexander Popov sails to New York to make a new life for his pregnant wife. But they lose touch as the revolution takes hold. Changing his name to Alex Popper he becomes a senior partner in the Solomons Brothers, Wall Street Partnership. When the Wall Street Crash of ‘29 occurs, Alex Popper is killed in a confrontation with his senior partner Ralph Solomons who covers it up as a suicide, to blame Alex for a shortfall on the books as his dodgy dealing unravels. The years go by and the son Alex Popper never knew becomes a member of the Politburo and USSR delegate at the UN, New York. He’s here get his hands on the latest computer technology and ship it back to the USSR. But he has a few tricks of his own up his sleeve that the Soviet taskmasters are not fully aware of, as he goes in search of his long lost father. When comes into contact with father’s his former lover; Angie Pilkington a secretary in the Solomons Partnership, he learns she’s maintained a dossier of the goings-on inside the partnership. In anticipation that one day she can use it to avenge Alex Popper’s murder. But sometimes, it falls to the man himself, to make his own arrangements when all about him are making theirs. For Stefan Drake the moment had surely come when he realised his destiny must lie in his own hands. That the opportunity had come to him at a time and place not of his own choosing, was incidental. Suddenly opportunity beckoned begging to be taken up and Secret Agent Prendergast came knocking.