DescriptionMichael Cunningham's celebrated novel is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.
DescriptionDan and Una acted A Midsummer Night's Dream three times over on Midsummer's Eve, in the middle of a Ring - and right under Pook's Hill. That was how they met Puck, "the oldest Old Thing in England, " and the last of the People of the Hills. With Puck they were introduced to the nearly forgotten pages of old England's history and to the people who had lived near Pook's Hill and helped to make that history. This story of Dan and Una and their adventures has the feel and spirit of old England. It is told with whimsical reality and understanding and, in the years since its publication, has become one of the classics for boys and girls the world over.
DescriptionRemembered for his swirling brushstrokes and burning colors, van Gogh is today one of the best-known, and best-loved painters. Though his career spanned less than ten years, he produced a body of work that remains one of the most enduring in all of modern art. In his lifetime, however, he received little recognition. Today, his paintings sell for countless millions, yet while alive, van Gogh managed to sell just one painting. The lives of many famous artists have been shrouded in mystery and conjecture, but none have been more controversial than the life of Vincent van Gogh.
DescriptionThe craftsman uses various instruments (hammers, forges, anvils) to shape his tools. Some of his work now lies on a junk pile, broken, outdated, dull, rusty. There, heaped in a cobwebbed corner, they have become useless, never fulfilling the purposes for which they were created. Other tools are still on the anvil, being melted down, molten, changeable. They wait on the anvil, being shaped by the craftsman's hammer, becoming in the sometimes painful process what they were meant to be. These become tools of usefulness; sharpened, primed, defined, mobile. They lie ready in the craftsman's tool chest, available to their master, ready to fulfull their calling. As Max Lucado draws these parallels we realize we are all there, somewhere in the Craftsman's shop.
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DescriptionWhether meeting a new client or bumping into a potential mate, you only have a few seconds to make a favorable impression. Is that really possible? Author Nicholas Boothman, a lecturer and licensed master practitioner of neurolinguistic programming, belie…
