Makars' Dozens features new collections by three Southern California poets: the preeminent scholar, poet, and critic, Robert Peters; the quirky, idiosyncratic word-master, Paul Trachtenberg; and the lyrical, free-spirited iconoclast, Barbara Hauk. With visceral strength and energy, tempered by humor and whimsy, these three distinctive voices touch on subjects that range from experiences gleaned from childhood and youth, to reflections on maturity, relationships, aging, and death. --Pearl Editions.
Khalid al Harum was Quishari's beloved playboy, balancing public duty with his daredevil streak by fighting fires. Until an uncontrollable blaze scarred his chiseled features. Now Khalid seeks solace, and salve for his burning skin, in the tranquil waters of Quishari's coast. It's on a secluded moonlit beach that he meets beautiful, sweet Ella Ponti. Ella is everything Khalid could wish for. But how can he hope to claim her heart once the beating sunlight reveals the torment of his scars?
Set sail with the New York Times–bestselling author as a Caribbean treasure hunt brings one woman within reach of her heart’s desire. Victoria Lesser is due for some payback. The unrepentant matchmaker gets a taste of her own medicine when she’s tricked into a fortune hunting trip that just happens to be led by an age-appropriate, adventurous—and single—professor. Luckily for Victoria, she brought her niece, Shaye, as a buffer. Unluckily for Shaye, the professor brought his nephew . . . Like oil and water, Shaye and Noah don’t mix—and now they’re stuck together on a vintage sailboat heading toward Costa Rica and supposed pirate booty. As the sun and sea conspire to relax Shaye’s hard-won self-control, the brash and impulsive Noah does the rest. And he won’t stop until he tears down the walls of the sane and structured world that Shaye has built up around her . . . Praise for Barbara Delinsky “One of today’s quintessential authors of contemporary fiction . . . Delinsky is a joy to read . . . Women’s fiction at its very finest.” —Romantic Times “[An author] of sensitivity and style.” —Publishers Weekly “Delinsky has a special knack for zeroing in on the pulse of her characters immediately—we know them and understand what makes them tick within the first few pages . . . Well done!” —Rendezvous “One of the few writers . . . who still writes a great love story, Ms. Delinsky is truly an author for all seasons.” —Rave Reviews
This book contributes to a larger global call to radically re-create ourselves—to transform our fear and alienation from art, Nature, and ourselves. With compassion and grace, the co-authors outline how everyone may access the gift of Spontaneous Creation-Making and change dominant narratives of individualism. Discovering interconnectivity through art-care we can dream courageously together into the unknown possibilities of a precarious future. Art-care, as coined by the co-authors, is a matrixial form of communicaring through art and reverence. This theoretically informed and practice-based book bridges the individual with the communal in Creation-centred ways that interweave the many parts with the whole. It provides examples of teachings, practices and spontaneous creations of makers that will benefit those who want to integrate art-care into individual practices or group facilitation. This book benefits socially engaged artists, arts-based researchers, artist-philosophers, activists, students, teachers, organizers, therapists, caregivers, and more.
Long out of print, this book identifies the families who settled the largest of the six pioneer Catholic parishes of Pennsylvania, that of St. Joseph's, which extended from Philadelphia up and down the Delaware, west into Berks County, north into New York, and east throughout New Jersey. Herein the researcher will find data on about 3,000 families and 12,000 family members.
The Invitation is the final novel in beloved bestselling author Barbara Delinsky's Matchmaker trilogy about a treasure hunt that turns up the heat—and the most unlikely prize of all... Shaye Burke has become used to her Aunt Victoria's wild schemes. But a Caribbean treasure hunt? With an honest-to-goodness pirate at the helm? Ahoy! Rugged, sexy Noah VanBaar did not know what he was in for when he boarded the beat-up old sloop with no engine. Surely, there would be no opportunity for romance on this so-called vacation. But when he meets the gloriously seductive Shaye, all bets are off. Could it be that, after years of failed matchmaking attempts, Victoria's finally got it right? Originally published as A Single Rose.
This book provides insights into the practice of trance-based inquiry through arts-based research, serving as a beacon to guide the way to thresholds of ancient, yet novel, transmissions. Embedded in lived experience and theory, this book introduces the reader to the liminal space of place and trance-based inquiry processes entwined with creative artworkings. The interweaving of art, ritual, and trance-based inquiry opens sacred spaces for learning and unlearning that bring spirit into form. Each chapter presents examples from women artists and culminates with experiential practices drawn from the author’s decades of creative peregrinations to assist artists, teachers, and researchers in transmitting a conscious way of practicing and creating with trance.
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