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A book is a collection of paper, parchment or other material with a piece of text written on them, bound together along one edge, usually within covers. Each side of a sheet is called a page and a single sheet within a book may be called a leaf. A book is also a literary work or a main division of such a work.
ABSURDISTAN: Absurdistan is a 2006 novel by Gary Shteyngart. It chronicles the adventures of Misha Vainberg, the 325-pound son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia as he struggles to return to his true love in the Bronx via the invented country Absurdistan. Absurdistan debuted to mainly favorable reviews.
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF AMY HEMPEL : Hempel has demonstrated unusual discipline in assembling her urbane, pointillistic and wickedly funny short stories. Since the publication of her first collection, “Reasons to Live,” in 1985, only three more slim volumes have appeared – a total of some 15,000 sentences, and nearly every one of them has a crisp, distinctive bite. These collected stories show the true scale of Hempel’s achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart, neurotic, somewhat damaged narrators, speak grandly to the longings and insecurities in all of us, and in a voice that is bracingly direct and sneakily profound.
THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN: The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud. 431 pages $25. Alfred A. Knopf. Messud gracefully intertwines the stories of three friends, attractive, entitled 30-ish Brown graduates “torn between Big Ideas and a party” but falling behind in the contest for public rewards and losing the struggle for personal contentment. The vibrant supporting cast includes a deliciously drawn literary seducer and two ambitious interlopers, teeming with malign energy, whose arrival on the scene propels the action forward.
THE LAY OF THE LAND: The Lay of the Land is a 2006 novel by Richard Ford. It is the third in a trilogy. The third installment, following “The Sportswriter” (1986) and “Independence Day” (1995), in the serial epic of Frank Bascombe – flawed husband, fuddled dad, and writer turned real estate agent and voluble first-person narrator. Once again the action revolves around a holiday. This time it’s Thanksgiving 2000: the Florida recount grinds toward its predictable outcome, and Bascombe, now 55, battles prostate cancer and copes with a strange turn in his second marriage.
SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS: Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) is a mystery novel by American writer Marisha Pessl. The antic ghost of Nabokov hovers over this buoyantly literate first novel, a murder mystery narrated by a teenager enamored of her own precocity but also in thrall to her father, an enigmatic itinerant professor, and to the charismatic female teacher whose death is announced on the first page. Each of the 36 chapters is titled for a classic, and the plot snakes ingeniously toward a revelation capped by a clever “final exam.
FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH: By DanielleTrussoni This intense, at times searing memoir revisits the author’s rough-and-tumble Wisconsin girlhood, spent on the wrong side of the tracks in the company of her father, a Vietnam vet who began his tour as “a cocksure country boy” but returned “wild and haunted,” unfit for family life and driven to extremes of philandering, alcoholism and violence.
THE LOOMING TOWER: By Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI’s counterterrorism chief, John O’Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal.
MAYFLOWER: By Nathaniel Philbrick This absorbing history of the Plymouth Colony is a model of revisionism. Philbrick impressively recreates the pilgrims’ dismal 1620 voyage, bringing to life passengers and crew, and then relates the events of the settlement and its first contacts with the native inhabitants of Massachusetts. Most striking are the parallels he subtly draws with the present, particularly in his account of how Plymouth’s leaders, including Miles Standish, rejected diplomatic overtures toward the Indians, successful though they’d been, and instead pursued a “dehumanizing” policy of violent aggression that led to the needless bloodshed of King Philip’s War.
THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA: By Michael Pollan. “When you can eat just about anything nature has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety,” Pollan writes in this supple and probing book. He gracefully navigates within these anxieties as he traces the origins of four meals – from a fast-food dinner to a “hunter-gatherer” feast – and makes us see, with remarkable clarity, exactly how what we eat affects both our bodies and the planet. Pollan is the perfect tour guide.
THE PLACES IN BETWEEN: Rory Stewart’s moving, sparsely poetic account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been immediately hailed as a classic. Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time, Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible, mountainous route once taken by the Mohgul Emperor, Babur the Great, Stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme, hostile conditions.
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Christian Claymation -Martin The Cobbler DVD ( All Ages ) $14.95 Martin, a lonely and sad cobbler, regains his lost faith and discovers the presence of God can be found in unexpected places. Based on Leo Tolstoy’s short story, WHERE LOVE IS, this classic story of faith and friendship is presented in Clay Animation, and narrated by Tolstoy’s daughter, Alexandria. Martin is a cobbler who lives alone, is very sad, and has given up on life. His wife and only son have died, and he is angry at God as well as the neighboring townsfolk who seem oblivious to his painful loneliness. Then a holy man leaves a Bible that needs rebinding. Martin eventually picks it up and reads the story of the rich, young merchant who invited the Lord to be his guest but failed to show him the ordinary signs of hospitality. As the story develops we see how the Lord comes to Martin and how he recognizes the Lord in the most surprising ways. A powerful program with a message of hope. *First Prize winner of Children’s Films – Ottawa International Animation Film Festival. |
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Prayers for Little Children DVD (Ages 3-8) $9.99 Here’s an opportunity for your children to know Jesus intimately! Through traditional and original prayers, stories and songs, your little ones will learn the joy of daily prayer. Prayers for Little Children includes: * The Lord’s Prayer * Hail Mary * The Guardian Angel Prayer * The Angelus * The Prayer of Divine Mercy * The Prayer of St. Patrick * A Priestly Blessing * Daniel Chapter 3 And Prayers for Little Children holds your child’s attention with seven songs, including: * Oh My Sweet Angel * The Penitential Rite * That’s A Sacrifice * Rise & Shine Plus animated encounters with St. Francis of Assisi, St. Bernadette and St. Patrick; the story of Daniel in the lion’s den and a special lesson in quiet prayer. Prayers for Little Children teaches your children to learn prayers that will help encourage the spark of a new friendship between your child and Jesus. DVD/Full Color/Approx. 30 minutes |
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The Day The Sun Danced: The True Story Of Fatima DVD $12.99 In 1917, three children experienced a great miracle. The Blessed Mother visited them not once, but many times. But no one believed them until the day the sun danced. In 1917, three children named Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta experienced a great miracle. While herding a flock of sheep outside the tiny village of Fatima, Portugal, the Blessed Mother visited them, not once but many times, telling the children great and wondrous secrets that would affect all of creation. When the children tried to share the joyous news of Our Lady of Fatima, no one believed them, until the day the sun seemed to dance in the sky. It soon became clear that they had been chosen by the Blessed Mother to share her message. The Day The Sun Danced is the inspiring true story of Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, whose great faith and courage brought the message of Our Lady of Fatima to all the world. English, Spanish, French on one DVD! DVD/Full Color/Approx. 30 minutes |
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Cotton Patch Gospel – The Greatest Story Ever Retold $15.99 Family Entertainment COTTON PATCH GOSPEL, an award winning musical drama, is a leg-slappin, toe-tappin’, hand-clappin hoe-down of a story that retells the Gospels of Matthew and John, except that it has been expertly translated into modern day language with Southern flair. Nazareth and Jerusalem have been transported to Atlanta and Valdosta, Georgia and Jesus in this story was born in Gainesville, told in the opening song: |
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Musical Kits -The Christmas Story with CD Accompaniment $44.99 Through the Eyes of the Friendly Beasts Contains: * Stereo (Listening) Cassette * Music and Script Book * Accompaniment CD (Stereo Instrumental plus Sound Effects) An easy childrens’ Christmas musical told through the eyes of the Friendly Beasts. Complete with characters, costuming suggestions, production notes, narration, scripture readings, congregational sing-a-longs, a candlelighting service and enough easy solos and one-liners to go around, this musical is complete enough to be the Christmas musical performed year after year by any church, choir, school or youth group. (It may also be performed with no costuming or set.) We Three Kings O Come, Little Children Away in a Manger The Friendly Beasts Silent Night! Holy Night! The First Noel Hark! The Herald Angels Sing O Come, All Ye Faithful Good Christian Men, Rejoice Joy to the World! |
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My Secret Friend A Guardian Angel Story DVD $12.99 Little Angie was sure she had a guardian angel. She even called him Mikey! But when her brother Danny made fun of her, she began to wonder. Then, on their family vacation in the rugged San Miguel mountains, something happened that made the question very important indeed, and made their vacation one they’d never forget. Along a mountain road, Angie found a dusty bracelet, the perfect collar for her pet bunny, Hopper! But why were two guys hiding in the bushes interested in it too? And what did this all have to do with angels anyway? A Guardian Angel Story has the answers in a captivating blend of comedy, song, suspense, and heart-warming emotion. DVD/Full Color/Approx. 30 minutes |
