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Author: Sarah Selecky Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1635571812 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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A nuanced satire--both hilarious and disconcerting--that probes the blurred lines between empowerment, spirituality, and consumerism in our online lives. Lilian Quick is 40, single, and childless, working as a pet portrait artist. She paints the colored light only she can see, but animal aura portraits are a niche market at best. She's working hard to build her brand on social media and struggling to pay the rent. Her estranged cousin has become internet-famous as "Eleven" Novak, the face of a massive feminine lifestyle empowerment brand, and when Eleven comes to town on tour, the two women reconnect. Despite twenty years of unexplained silence, Eleven offers Lilian a place at The Temple, her Manhattan office. Lilian accepts, moves to New York, and quickly enrolls in The Ascendency, Eleven's signature program: an expensive, three-month training seminar on leadership, spiritual awakening, and marketing. Eleven is going to help her cousin become her best self: confident, affluent, and self-actualized. In just three months, Lilian's life changes drastically: She learns how to break her negative thought patterns, achieves financial solvency, grows an active and engaged online following, and builds authentic friendships. She finally feels seen for who she really is. Success! . . . But can Lilian trust everything Eleven says? This compelling, heartfelt satire asks us: How do we recognize authenticity when storytelling and magic have been co-opted by marketing?
Author: Sarah Selecky Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1635571812 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
A nuanced satire--both hilarious and disconcerting--that probes the blurred lines between empowerment, spirituality, and consumerism in our online lives. Lilian Quick is 40, single, and childless, working as a pet portrait artist. She paints the colored light only she can see, but animal aura portraits are a niche market at best. She's working hard to build her brand on social media and struggling to pay the rent. Her estranged cousin has become internet-famous as "Eleven" Novak, the face of a massive feminine lifestyle empowerment brand, and when Eleven comes to town on tour, the two women reconnect. Despite twenty years of unexplained silence, Eleven offers Lilian a place at The Temple, her Manhattan office. Lilian accepts, moves to New York, and quickly enrolls in The Ascendency, Eleven's signature program: an expensive, three-month training seminar on leadership, spiritual awakening, and marketing. Eleven is going to help her cousin become her best self: confident, affluent, and self-actualized. In just three months, Lilian's life changes drastically: She learns how to break her negative thought patterns, achieves financial solvency, grows an active and engaged online following, and builds authentic friendships. She finally feels seen for who she really is. Success! . . . But can Lilian trust everything Eleven says? This compelling, heartfelt satire asks us: How do we recognize authenticity when storytelling and magic have been co-opted by marketing?
Author: Rich Thayer Publisher: Old Vine Books LLC ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
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Set in northwest Ohio, these stories are about the continual process of finding and pursuing a path through life. You’ll meet people young and old guided by nature’s shimmering light. You’ll join them as they swim in an icy river, skate in a 1970’s roller rink, spit on rocks in search of agate, and sip wine with a dying friend. You’ll be at their side through a life-balancing blizzard, an intimidating internship, an unexpected fork in the river, and a change in retirement plans. The stories in this volume are: Why Polar Bears Swim, The Internship Report, River Rats, Paradise Skate, The Blizzard of ’78, Our Big Muley, Atop the Black Maple, and Old Vine Zin with an Old Time Friend.
Author: Faquir M. Hunzai Publisher: I.B. Tauris ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 184
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Although a large body of the great poetry of the Islamic world has been translated into English, the poetry of the Ismailis, except for a small portion, is still only accessible in the original.
Author: Tomaso Nigris Publisher: Babelcube Inc. ISBN: 1507147775 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 98
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A Shimmering Light is an Italian mystery novel. The story follows a path that is a little unusual in that the same episode is told by several main characters from different perspectives, illustrating how reality and truth may take on tonalities and colors, according to the different points of view. Someone dies; an American Commissioner is on vacation in a sunlit village in Puglia. With fresh and colorful brushstrokes the author gives a close up of the traditions, beliefs, and the ways of thinking that are characteristic and unique to a village, similar to many in Italy. An ending with an unexpected plot twist, engaging, surprising.
Author: Rosemary Lloyd Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801442964 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 204
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Although much has been written lately on the links between painting and writing, little or no attention has been paid to those moments in literature when the narrative stops to allow for the description of those objects we associate with still life. Rosemary Lloyd's book shows how fascinating this overlooked area is; how rich in suggestions of class, race, and gender; how much it indicates about human pleasures and about the experience of space and time. Lloyd focuses on the last two centuries, particularly at points marked by the irruption of images of contingency and rapid change into the fields of art: for example, the year of the Terror in French history; the decade in which Haussman's politically driven transformation of Paris led Baudelaire to write his great modernist poem "Le Cygne"; and "on or about December 1910," the date to which Virginia Woolf attributes a revolution in the definition of literary character. Lloyd's central concern lies with the ways in which the still life, written or painted, both evokes and attempts to deal with the sense of contingency. While she makes frequent reference to paintings, she focuses above all on written still lifes, particularly those moments when novels pause to address the subject matter of still life--a bowl of fruit, a hat rack, a desk cluttered with pens and papers--in ways that invite contemplation of other and broader cultural domains. She draws on literary and art works from Australia, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the United States.
Author: Heather Catto Kohout Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1623499518 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 356
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The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and temperament—as a loving wife, mother, and daughter; a proud Texan; a teacher and scholar with graduate degrees in English literature and religion; and the founder of a residency program for environmental writers and artists at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country—permeate every word she wrote. She had a unique combination of empathetic imagination, profound spirituality, cosmic sensibility, and an ability to laugh—gently—at her fellow creatures and, especially, herself. Heather Kohout’s essays and poems are thoughtful, profound, and generous, shifting constantly between the specific and the universal and carrying throughout a message of stewardship. She was an environmentalist at heart, but her writing explores so much more: nature, art, theology, science, food, and family. She wrote about Mexican teenagers who dress as angels in an attempt to halt drug-related violence; the perils of industrial agriculture; the pleasure of letting the chickens out of their coop in the morning; and the battle to save the Georgetown salamander. Always, she wrote about what it means to try to live an ethical life and to be fully human as a part of, not in opposition to, nature. These essays and poems exemplify the best of Texas womanhood: stubborn independence, fierce conviction, good humor, and instinctive generosity and kindness.
Author: Rich Thayer Publisher: Old Vine Books LLC ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Set in northwest Ohio, these short stories are about the continual process of finding and pursuing a path through life. You'll meet people young and old guided by nature's shimmering light. You'll join them as they swim in an icy river, skate in a 1970's roller rink, spit on rocks in search of agate, and sip wine with a dying friend. You'll be at their side through a life-balancing blizzard, an intimidating internship, an unexpected fork in the river, and a change in retirement plans. The stories in this volume are: Why Polar Bears Swim, The Internship Report, River Rats, Paradise Skate, The Blizzard of '78, Our Big Muley, Atop the Black Maple, and Old Vine Zin with an Old Time Friend.
Author: Sarah Selecky Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250011426 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 239
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Shortlisted for the acclaimed 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Award, This Cake Is for the Party has received consistent rave reviews praising debut writer Sarah Selecky. In these ten stories, linked frequently by the sharing of food, Sarah Selecky reaffirms the life of everyday situations with startling significance. For upmarket women's fiction readers that love stories which reflect the joys and pitfalls of marriage, fidelity, fertility, and relationship woes, this collection is a conversation starter. This Cake Is for the Party reminds us that the best parts of our lives are often the least flashy. Reminiscent of early Margaret Atwood, with echoes of Lisa Moore and Ali Smith, these absorbing stories are about love and longing, that touch us in a myriad of subtle and affecting ways. With more than 10,000 copies sold in Canada, where she was named the CBC Book Award's Best New Writer, Sarah Selecky proves she is an exciting new voice with a promising future.
Author: Ian McLean Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1780236239 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 272
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Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying the impact of their work in the media, on art collectors and the art world at large, and on our global imagination. How did Australian art become the most successful indigenous form in the world? How did its artists escape the ethnographic and souvenir markets to become players in an art market to which they had historically been denied access? Beautifully illustrated, this full stunning account not only offers a comprehensive introduction to this rich artistic tradition, but also makes us question everything we have been taught about contemporary art.
Author: Robert Rabbin Publisher: ISBN: 9780997141665 Category : New Age movement Languages : en Pages : 193
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The Sacred Hub is an inspiring guide that helps you find your own truth, authentic expression, and the freedom and enduring happiness of your innermost being. It is an extraordinary reminder that within us is a spark of the divine power that created the cosmos. The shimmering light of your true Self is the creative force behind this whole universe.
Author: Sarah Selecky
Author: Sarah Selecky
Author: Rich Thayer
Author: Faquir M. Hunzai
Author: Tomaso Nigris
Author: Rosemary Lloyd
Author: Heather Catto Kohout
Author: Rich Thayer
Author: Sarah Selecky
Author: Ian McLean
Author: Robert Rabbin