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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Frost, A. B. (illustrator). Neuware - The timeless boyhood adventures of a mischievous lad in 19th-century New England, in a new edition for today's readers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - America's beloved archy and mehitabel finally return in these entrancing uncollected stories.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of FIELDS OF LIGHT: A SON REMEMBERS HIS HEROIC FATHER (winner of the Pushcart Editors' Book Award), and the novel BEFORE, comes this collection of twelve tales. 'Like Chekhov or Carver,' the poet Matt W. Miller has written, of Hurka's novel BEFORE, 'Hurka is able to make us feel empathy for these people by showing that these people are us.' The stories of GRACEFUL LIES offer us characters who search for certainty, and who sometimes, in moments of illumination, find salvation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In nineteen finely honed, deftly realized short stories, Rebecca Rule crafts with gentle wit and striking clarity a conglomeration of sometimes ragtag but always appealing small-town denizens, each of whom squares off against a nemesis of a singular sort. With an eye for the signature detail, an ear for the rhythms of regional speech, and a strong feel for the nuances of rural culture, Rule maintains a fine balance between humor and pathos that prompted National Book Award winner Thomas Williams to comment, 'Cold honesty gleams from every careful sentence.' Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Rule captures the essence of small-town New England life as she paints with a sure hand the fallings-out and friendships, the trials and triumphs of the New England microcosm. In 'Yankee Curse,' elderly Miranda knits placidly at a town meeting, pondering an amazing string of unspoken invective against an enemy but stopping short at 'a curse she would never levy, not even on Mort Wallace: to live too long.' In 'Minna Runs for Selectman,' a middle-aged woman's battlefield is 'the strange, incestuous politics of this eccentric little town' but her real opponent is her own insecurity. In 'Jim's Boat' a young couple wages a silent struggle over priorities in their marriage; in 'Fishing with George' a small girl worries that 'there's a hole in our family that gets bigger every time' her parents argue; and in the title story a mother copes with a hated neighbor through a sculpture that 'makes her laugh the kind of laugh that doesn't end in a sob.' Children and grandmothers, trappers and college professors, lifetime Yankees or transplanted Flatlanders: each finds the truth in Rule's observationthat 'revenge takes many forms -- some of which can heal.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A harrowing novel of power and suspense from one of the eminent voices of American historical fiction.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eight narratives challenge old stereotypes and provide a clearer understanding of the nature of captive taking. These stories portray captors as individuals with a unique culture, offering glimpses of daily life in frontier communities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An anthropologist describes the working world of Maine lobstermen, focusing on the intricate personal network that sustains them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Strange Hymn by Carlene Kucharczyk is a meticulously crafted lyrical journey exploring morality and humanity. The poems here grapple with understanding physical loss. They also engage with the more abstract slipping away of memory and time. Kucharczyk's insightful poems blur the lines between history and myth, love and grief, song and silence, often caught between lamenting the passage of time and rejoicing in small beauties. Each moment reflects on our ephemeral lives from musings on art and nature to reflections on the self. As readers traverse this collection, they learn how the body sings, the many iterations of Mary, what sirens truly think of Odysseus, how a Morning Glory unfurls, and lessons in orthodontics, but most importantly, how to live with absence. Kucharczyk is a master of manipulating time and space through her dynamic use of form, creating a narrative that begs, 'After I'm gone, don't bury my body- / Burn it, and turn it into song''.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This distinctive collection introduces a new type of mythmaking, daring in its marriage of fairy tale tropes with American mundanities. Conspiratorial, Goodbye, Flicker describes the interior life of a girl whose prince is a deadbeat dad and whose escape into a fantasy world is also an escape into language, beauty, and the surreal.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this debut collection, Mark Wunderlich creates a central metaphor of the body as anchor for the soul -- but it is a body in peril, one set in motion through the landscape of desire. In poems located in New York's summer streets, in the barren snowfields of Wisconsin, and along stretches of Cape Cod's open shoreline, the lover speaks to the beloved in the form of lyrical missives, arguments, and intimate monologues. The poems converse with each other; images repeat and echo in an effect that is strange and beautiful. Uniting the collection is an original and consistent voice -- one that has found a hard won stance against the haphazard and negotiates with what is needful and sufficient.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A year-long odyssey under the hood of a 1950 Dodge pickup among the brake shoes and valves becomes more than a mechanic's memoir; it is a meditation on machines, metaphysics, and the moral universe. Nearly two decades after the first publication, the essential dilemma of Truck still rings true: as Jerome dismantles the aged straight six, he also disassembles our reliance on 'two-hundred-dollar appliances that sport flaws in thirty-five cent parts' and decries the 'deliberate encapsulation, impenetrability, of the overtechnologized things with which we furnish our lives'. Despite gouged knuckles, a frigid New Hampshire winter, frustrating and inexplicable assemblies, and a close call when the truck rolls off its jacks, he perseveres. In the end, he admits, 'I did not find God out there in the barn among the cans of nuts and bolts'. What he does find, however, is that he must make peace with technology.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Points the way to all the tantalizing treats and terrifying treasures that remain tucked away in overlooked museums, private collections, and forgotten recesses of this very special region.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On a freezing night in January 1993, masked gunmen walked through the laughably lax security at the Rochester Brink¿s depot, tied up the guards, and unhurriedly made off with $7.4 million in one of the FBI¿s top-five armored car heists in history. Suspicion quickly fell on a retired Rochester cop working security for Brinks at the time¿as well it might. Officer Tom O¿Connor had been previously suspected of everything from robbery to murder to complicity with the IRA. One ex-IRA soldier in particular was indebted to O¿Connor for smuggling him and his girlfriend into the United States, and when he was caught in New York City with $2 million in cash from the Brink¿s heist, prosecutors were certain they finally had enough to nail O¿Connor. But they were wrong. In Seven Million, the reporter Gary Craig meticulously unwinds the long skein of leads, half-truths, false starts, and dead ends, taking us from the grim solitary pens of Northern Ireland¿s Long Kesh prison to the illegal poker rooms of Manhattan to the cold lakeshore on the Canadian border where the body parts began washing up. The story is populated by a colorful cast of characters, including cops and FBI agents, prison snitches, a radical priest of the Melkite order who ran a home for troubled teenagers on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and the IRA rebel who¿d spent long years jailed in one of Northern Ireland¿s most brutal prisons and who was living underground in New York posing as a comics dealer. Finally, Craig investigates the strange, sad fate of Ronnie Gibbons, a down-and-out boxer and muscle-for-hire in illegal New York City card rooms, who was in on the early planning of the heist, and who disappeared one day in 1995 after an ill-advised trip to Rochester to see some men about getting what he felt he was owed. Instead, he got was what was coming to him. Seven Million is a meticulous re-creation of a complicated heist executed by a variegated and unsavory crew, and of its many repercussions. Some of the suspects are now dead, some went to jail; none of them are talking about the robbery or what really happened to Ronnie Gibbons. And the money Only a fraction was recovered, meaning that most of the $7 million is still out there somewhere.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Gichigami is an eerie coming-of-age novel, weaving between Marta and the person desperately trying to keep her apart from her mother. This poignant exploration of the lives of women and girls of the Midwest shines a light on the struggles of absent mothers, runaway daughters, and those who yearn for more than life has offered them. With rich prose and vivid imagery, Lindsey Steffes spins a tale of loss, longing, and betrayal set against the backdrop of the harsh yet beautiful landscape of Lake Superior'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Set across the Midwest and rural Appalachia, the stories in Joyriders offer a resonant vision of rural and small-town life: lonely, half-haunted landscapes are pierced with moments of light, and even the most taciturn faces conceal inner worlds both rich and strange. Comfort and heartache abound--entangled, inseparable. 'What was Kevin suggesting,' wonders Valerie, after struggling for years to steer her innocent, angry, mysteriously afflicted son through the world, 'that she loved him less because of his troubles Oh, preposterous. More, she wanted to tell him, more.' Characters' paths repeatedly bend in unforeseen directions, and the shape of each story surprises: illuminating, in this way, the surprising contours of entire lives'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nestled in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, Williamstown is home to one of the most prestigious liberal arts colleges in America, Williams College. In this engrossing and entertaining book, Dustin Griffin offers fourteen vignettes that detail the local history of this ideal New England college town.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores more than forty museums scattered throughout the Bay State, from Cape Cod to the Berkshires. Many - but not all - might be considered 'offbeat", and each and every one is enchanting. Chuck D'Imperio offers an inside glimpse into some of the Commonwealth's most unique museums, providing a valuable guide for road warriors and history buffs.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Showing both the drama of familial intimacy and the ups and downs of the everyday, My Old Faithful introduces readers to a close-knit Chinese family. These ten interconnected short stories, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year period, merge to paint a nuanced portrait of family life, full of pain, surprises, and subtle acts of courage. Richly textured narratives from the mother, the father, the son, and the daughters play out against the backdrop of China's social and economic change. With quiet humor and insight into the ordinary, Yang Huang writes of a father who spanks his son out of love; a brother who betrays his sister; and a woman who returns to China after many years to find her country changed in ways both expected and startling.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With wit, enthusiasm, and a deep respect for the craft of brewing, Crouch profiles nearly 100 establishments in New England, offering insights into each brewmaster's philosophy and brewing style. 156 halftones.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Historic houses adorned with plaques populate New England like nowhere else in the US. These plaques note the construction year and original owner of the house, but they tell nothing about the rich lives of the people who lived there. In House Stories, Beth Luey takes readers on a virtual walking tour of several historic houses in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, inviting us in to learn each house's secrets.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Set in Sri Lanka and America, the ten short stories in this debut collection feature characters struggling to contend with the brutality of a decades long civil war while also seeking security, love, and hope. The characters are students, accountants, soldiers, servants. They are immigrants and strivers. They are each forced to make sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, choices. What they share, despite what they've endured, is the sustaining power of human connection'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hutton considers the ideas of philosophers, poets, and historians to seek outthe roots of fact as mere recollection.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'On March 16th, 2015, Tracy Youngblom was rushing to finish last-minute preparations for a class she would teach the next day when there was an unexpected knock at her door. Grudgingly, she answered it to find a uniformed officer standing on her front porch. Youngblom realized then that her youngest son Elias should have been arriving home from a trip to Fargo where he was visiting friends at North Dakota State University. The officer told her that Elias had been in an accident and was in the hospital. Later, she learned that his car had been struck nearly head on by a drunk driver going 70 miles per hour. Denial and shock took over as she made the long drive from their home in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. When she saw Elias in the ICU-swollen beyond recognition, covered in stitches, with a myriad of tubes attached to him- the full gravity of the situation descended. On the day of the crash, Elias had been driving back to Coon Rapids to celebrate National Ice Cream Day with friends. An avid lover of music, he'd been working as a conductor while wrapping up his degree, moving toward his dream of becoming a marching band director. After the accident, Elias begins his long journey of recovery, which is set back when doctors announce that his optic nerves are dead. Despite it all, Elias never wavers, approaching each challenge with resilience, grace, and humor. Alongside Elias, Youngblom faces her own challenges, staying by his side in the ICU for weeks, coordinating with other family members and friends, and never flagging in her care of her severely injured son, yet all the while coping with her own emotions, fears, and trauma. She struggles to support Elias, heal her self, and let him go on with his life. In this riveting memoir, Youngblom traverses her family's lives before and after the accident, capturing the complications of grief, recovery, and the strength it takes to move forward-because we must'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dramatic story of the interplay between environment and economy in New England.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What a long, strange trip it's been.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction short stories.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's ''These Boots Are Made for Walkin'.'' For a ''tunnel rat'' who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's ''Purple Haze.'' For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin's ''Chain of Fools.'' And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was ''I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die,'' ''Who'll Stop the Rain,'' or the song that gives this book its title.In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans -- black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and ''grunts'' -- whose personal reflections drive the book's narrative. Many of the voices are those of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also ''solo'' pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the war -- Karl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur Flowers -- as well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced soldiers' lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps into memories -- individual and cultural -- that capture a central if often overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Matt Patterson (illustrator). Neuware - From the redfin pickerel to the blueback trout, this vividly illustrated guide from a father-and-son author/illustrator team describes more than 60 freshwater fish from the ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams of New England and New York.

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