Sfogliando le pagine del suo diario, l'autrice ripercorre le tappe di vita che l'hanno portata, tra il 1999 e il 2007, a cambiare sguardo su se stessa e sul mondo. Da una spa in Toscana il trasferimento con la famiglia a New York, dove insieme ai tragici eventi del 2001 crollano anche le certezze della sua vita. La narrazione fluisce tra i ricordi in Italia e in America, il tempo della scrittura in Sardegna e quello della "presenza", che al di fuori del tempo. Un susseguirsi di scelte, viaggi, incontri, ostacoli e sorprese. Tutte esperienze reali, autobiografiche, eppure paradigmatiche, che svelano come l'inizio del cambiamento consista nell'osservare con occhi nuovi quello che succede, dentro e fuori di s . Una storia affascinante e coinvolgente che attiva con semplicit un processo di evoluzione spirituale e di profonda guarigione.
Cassandra stata costretta a crescere in fretta. L'unica figura su cui ha sempre potuto fare affidamento nonna Maria, proprietaria di una graziosa pasticceria e sala da t dal nome fuori dal comune: "Strega comanda colore". Un piccolo segreto che lega nonna e nipote.Dopo un'adolescenza faticosa fatta di dolore, sacrifici, diffidenza, Cassandra riesce a lasciare San Francisco, una vita che le stava stretta ma, soprattutto, sua madre Ella, una donna immatura dall'animo da adolescente.Grazie alla sua incredibile forza di volont si fa ammettere all'Universit di Stanford dove frequenta la facolt di arte contemporanea. Sogna di diventare una critica e di trasferirsi al pi presto a New York per poter lavorare presso qualche famosa galleria. Il futuro a un passo, ha la sensazione di dover solo allungare una mano per poter afferrare il suo pi intimo desiderio, ma il destino decide di metterla ancora una volta alla prova; nonna Maria ha un attacco di cuore.Cassandra e sua madre Ella accorrono al capezzale della donna, ma per Maria non ci sono speranze ed cos che la ragazza entra in possesso, al cinquanta per cento con la madre, dell'attivit di famiglia.Per Cassandra ed Ella anzich piacevoli, i giorni diventeranno interminabili. Lavorare gomito a gomito una costante fonte di tensione e litigi.Mentre Cassandra cerca di ridare lustro all'attivit della nonna, Ella non fa che tramare alle sue spalle per cercare di affossarla e cos ...
The Elephantine texts have been variously studied, mainly with respect to their impact on Jewish history. But these texts have more to offer, particularly in relation to the history of women. Annalisa Azzoni, in The Private Lives of Women in Persian Egypt, delves deeply into these texts, examining these Egyptian Aramaic documents in order to make public the lives of women, including their social status, their economic activities, and their private lives. Azzoni recovers the lives of everyday women, allowing them to take their place in the larger context of women in the ancient Near East.Challenging any oversimplification about the lives of ancient women, Azzoni painstakingly examines legal documents, administrative texts, and letters. The archives provide a wealth of data in terms of legal and economic status as well as position in the community. Three women receive particular attention in this study: the wealthy Judean Mip?a?iah, the Egyptian slave Tamut, and Yehoyisma?, Tamut’s manumitted daughter.
Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose.In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel, Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works--Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea, and Lost Girls. The study also highlights Moore's lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz, and Big Numbers, and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.
Un tripudio di colori, sapori, storia e tradizione. I dolci calabresi sono molto pi che un fine pasto prelibato, sono un viaggio dal Nord al Sud della Calabria che porta a scoprire numerosi dolci diversi tra loro che portano, spesso, lo stesso nome. Un viaggio culinario importantissimo, alla riscoperta delle ricette della Nonna che vevivano preparate con pochi ingredienti e senza bilancia. Un volume pensato da una calabrese con ricette tradizionali e antiche da poter fare a casa tutto l'anno e per tutte le ricorrenze.
Journey through strange lands with stranger companions in this fast-paced fantasy short story, the first of the Seer's Fate series. Journey through strange lands with stranger companions in this fast-paced fantasy short story, the first of the Seer's Fate series. Some adventurer's guiding force is greed; for others it's excitement or necessity. Collin Damion just goes where his visions tell him. But now they're sending him farther than he's ever gone, into hostile territory where the land itself doesn't want him. He'll have to hide every step along the way while trying to help the very people who mustn't discover him. And this is only the start of a quest that will take him across a continent and into ever greater danger. But his mission isn't solo anymore. Each of his companions will have their own motivations, and only together will they reach their goals.
La vita di Anna, una giornalista quarantenne romana emigrata in Francia da ormai dodici anni per seguire un marito improbabile, un vero disastro. Il suo esilio volontario, infatti, destinato a contenere le promesse di un'esistenza diversa e pi felice, si nel tempo trasformato in un vero e proprio inferno. Il suo matrimonio si rapidamente sgretolato, l'educazione dei due figli Bianca e Enzo le sfugge di mano, la sua nuova avventura professionale solo fonte di frustrazioni, difficolt economiche e inganni, Daniel, l'uomo con cui si risposata, le appare ogni giorno pi noioso e distante e sua madre, con la quale intrattiene da sempre un rapporto conflittuale, muore all'improvviso.In una sera fredda e piovosa, Anna al volante della sua auto e, invece d'imboccare la via di casa, spinge sul pedale dell'acceleratore e continua la sua corsa. All'alba, Anna a tutti gli effetti una fuggiasca: ha interrotto ogni contatto con la sua famiglia e si ritrova a Roma, nell'appartamento abbandonato della mamma dove, frugando negli effetti personali di quest'ultima, incappa in un doloroso e inverosimile segreto familiare che coinvolge sua madre e sua nonna. una storia di violenza, sesso, pedofilia e omicidio tanto sconvolgente quanto, fino a quel momento, sconosciuta. Per la donna, una cattivit che sembrava offrirle la possibilit di abbandonare situazioni, luoghi e persone, segna invece l'inizio di un periodo ancora pi intricato e schizofrenico, nel corso del quale, l'indagine sul misterioso crimine, s'intreccia con le sue vicende personali: retaggi del passato, pulsioni incontrollabili, incontri imprevedibili, decisioni illogiche e scelte autodistruttive. L'affidabile e onesta Anna, alla stregua di un'adolescente in piena crisi, sembra volersi ribellare ai ruoli addossati fino a quel momento e, parallelamente, i risultati delle meticolose ricerche che intraprende per svelare i misteri che macchiano le sue origini, finiscono in un file del suo computer. Ma quando Anna penser di aver in mano la soluzione e di poter concludere la dettagliata saga familiare cui quel resoconto ha dato vita, i colpi di scena non sono ancora terminati. Il suo rientro - nonch la decisione di tornare a una certa normalit - saranno meno facili del previsto, la sua esistenza prender per l'ennesima volta una nuova direzione e un'altra verit , s'imporra alla sua coscienza. Una saga familiare, un giallo, una storia d'amore e di amori, un romanzo storico in cui il passato convive con il presente, un racconto nel racconto: al lettore, se davvero vuole, la scelta di catalogare un libro che ha come sola ambizione quella di raccontare una vicenda italiana originale e avvincente e di regalare qualche emozione a chi, in qualcuna delle mille sfaccettature dei numerosi personaggi, finir per riconoscere una piccola parte di s .
From the author of AFRICA and THE W SERIES, a gripping novel that follows Amber Gillingham, an accomplished journalist, as she wrestles with society's expectations about women and motherhood. NINE explores the role of women in today's society, the meaning of modern motherhood and how it impacts the relationship between a woman and her companion, her workplace, her friends, her family. Reviewers of NINE say it is a "remarkably candid" and "eye-opening take on the demons and fears of pregnancy," a powerful answer to "what we think it means to be a woman today." Perfect for book clubs Visit annalisaconti.com for discussion guides and more.
W IS FOR WONDER collects the first ten episodes of the adventures of W, a superhero like no other, who struggles between the hunger for Justice and the need to use violence to achieve that very ideal of justice. Through the episodes, the reader follows W, a shadow running in the darkness of lonely New York City corners, chasing criminals, helping lost souls. Some nights are memorable for W and they are filled with successes in fighting crime; some nights W holds on to the daytime identity of Guinn McGovern, trying to deal with a normal social existence and the struggles of modern dating. Some nights W has to wear both hats: the job of the superhero doesn't allow any day off, even when some truths about Guinn, and about how some of the main characters of the series became who they are, could be waiting around a corner.
A century ago, Claremont, New Hampshire was a cultural mecca-a destination which drew performers from as far off as Boston and Montreal-and spectators from everywhere in between.Imagine if the popular bands of today were to make Claremont, New Hampshire, a tour stop, if your favorite A-list actors stopped by the local cinema for an appearance, or your favorite sports stars played right here in town.So it was for a period of time right here in our fair city.The Claremont Opera House was a huge draw to big names, to be sure, but other venues in Claremont drew celebrities as well. A few of these places exist today, in altered form, and many of them are gone. None of these venues stand as tall, as proud, and as well preserved as the Claremont Opera House.
There are eight billion people on Earth. We collide with just a handful of them throughout our lives, by accident or design. Why not take the time meet a few more?A couple break up on a rainy night; a woman finds comfort eating lunch as her best friend lies in hospital; a runaway longs to go home; a teenager finds herself in an unlikely place.Our stories never end, they just lead into the next.This is the updated second edition of That Sadie Thing, packed with award-winning stories from the first decade of the author's career.Praise for the first edition: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An amazing collection of short stories that will stick with you long after you've finished reading them - Kazzy⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The stories left me wondering and musing but also strangely and wonderfully satisfied. Thank you for such a treat - I Forgive Heathcliff⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Every story is memorable, and unlike any you've read before. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy this book, but I may just have to read it again. The first time, I gobbled the stories like a bag of chips. Next time, I'll try to slow down and savor. If I can. - Susan Flett Swiderski
Julia was fifteen when she survived a suicide pact. Her best friend, Rachel did not.Now aged thirty, still traumatised by the memories of that day, Julia retreats into fantastical daydreams. But even there, she's not free from the crushing guilt of being the one who survived. Her dreams are dominated by Cat - a spiteful combination of old school bullies, a cruel work colleague, and Rachel herself - who will do anything to crush Julia's spirit. When Adam walks into her life, Julia sees his friendship as a chance to break free of the chains which have been holding her back all these years.But will her guilt consume her before she can?
***Previously published as Our Beautiful Child*** Three women. Three stories. One pub where it all begins. For Quinn, Ella, and Rona, The Boatman is the perfect place for respite. It's the oldest pub in town and has been offering solace and comfort to those in peril for centuries. Quinn is hiding from her past when she meets the captivating Murray. Ella is running from her nightmares and the tragedy they predict. And Rona is on the cusp of a spinetingling new ability. But there are strange murmurs in the night. A woman who fell to her death walks the banks of the river. A clairvoyant is drawn to the Boatman, eager to discover its secrets. And who is rowing the boat which glides silently in the shadows? These suspenseful, traditionally-inspired ghost stories will chill the bones of fans of Susan Hill, J.T. Croft, and Wendy Webb.
Numbers Activity Workbook. Enjoyable workbook for kids, ages 3 years and up, to trace, learn and practice writing both digits and words for the numbers 1-10. Cute, little monster characters make learning fun. Large, 8.5" x 11" pages Tracing and practice sheets Cheerful counting pages Sketching pages for reinforcing number concepts
This volume brings together thirteen papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva and published after her influential monographs Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (2015). By mixing together Wittgenstein scholarship and systematic philosophy, they illuminate the significance of hinge epistemology for current debates on skepticism, relativism, realism and anti-realism, as well as alethic pluralism, and envision its possible extension to the epistemology of logic. Along the way, other varieties of hinge epistemology, such as Moyal-Sharrock’s, Pritchard’s, Williams’ and Wright’s, are considered, both with respect to Wittgenstein scholarship and in their own right.
This volume brings together thirteen papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva and published after her influential monographs Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (2015). By mixing together Wittgenstein scholarship and systematic philosophy, they illuminate the significance of hinge epistemology for current debates on skepticism, relativism, realism and anti-realism, as well as alethic pluralism, and envision its possible extension to the epistemology of logic. Along the way, other varieties of hinge epistemology, such as Moyal-Sharrock’s, Pritchard’s, Williams’ and Wright’s, are considered, both with respect to Wittgenstein scholarship and in their own right.
