Anita: 1504 books

`Een tragisch, maar ook hoopvol verhaal over liefde, geheugen, verlies en wederopbouw. Shreve’s diepzinnige, provocerende historische roman heeft een moderne weerklank.’ Publishers Weekly ‘Anita Shreve weet als geen ander liefdevol, maar grondig het innerlijk leven van haar personages bloot...

After serving two and a half years as a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front, Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote that he would “a thousand times rather be throwing grenades or handling a machine gun than be supernumerary as I am now.” Mobilized by military laws dating to 1889 and...

This is such an informative book. Health is Wealth is a Box Set which contains 'Smoothie & Fresh Juice Recipes,’ Herbal Teas, Health Benefits of Fruit & Veggies and 'Folk Remedies.' There is also a section on amazing centenarians. Read how these centenarians kept their vigor and what they...

The persistent sounds of the work whistle lure first time visitors into the notion that Red Hill is strictly regimented and dully ordinary; however, in the seclusion of the southern rural settlement exists a group of people whose intertwined lives are characterized by deep sorrows, unworldly strengths,...

Nell’India del XVII secolo vive e commercia Idris, mercante somalo ed «eterno viaggiatore alla ricerca dei confini della terra e dell’uomo». Arrivato nel Malabar in occasione dei festeggiamenti in onore dello zamorin, nel grande tumulto di quei giorni incontra Kandavar, un ragazzino di nove...

È il primo di agosto, a Bangalore, quando viene rinvenuto il cadavere di un farmacista. Sembra un caso destinato a essere archiviato in fretta, ma la settimana successiva il ritrovamento di un'altra vittima segna l'inizio di una serie di misteriosi omicidi, all'apparenza non legati tra loro. Solo...

All’incrocio tra la cultura del Kerala, scandita da regole millenarie, e la filosofia americana in cui si rincorre il successo a ogni costo, Anita Nair colloca la straordinaria galleria di personaggi che animano questo libro. Ecco allora Basil, un artista di mezza età che, ossessionato dall’ombelico,...

First published in 1981, Bethany is a ramshackle house deep in the country. The roof has tiles missing and the garden is rambling. It's not perfect, but it is refuge without rules where strangers and lovers are accepted without question – until a visitor decides to stay and reorganise the house,...

Polish independence following the end of World War I marked a new era for a nation which had endured centuries of foreign partition. But the spirit of Polish nationalism - forged during this long period of external domination - has been frequently at odds with the modernising drives of democracy and...

Ten years ago, publishers, authors, scholars, and the reading public watched anxiously the results of two lawsuits involving the family of John Cheever, famed short story writer, and Academy Chicago Publishers, a small publishing house. At stake was not only a collection of Cheever's lesser-known...

To some the very idea of holiness conjures up a vision of dullness and death, but by striking the right balance, the experience of holiness is one of liveliness and life abundant. In this work, Anita Caldwell, a former guest writer for The Salvation Army's daily devotional book, Words of Life, expresses...

Message of Love is a tutorial from the other side designed to facilitate our evolution. These transmissions guide us forward to a new and higher consciousness - a Love consciousness - and the ability to create our world as we desire. This, I believe, will lead us out of suffering and pain and into...

The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven...

The Sámi—indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on traditional healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the effectiveness of using the resources local communities can provide. This collection...