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Not in Water nor in Sand

God Answers Prayer the Whereabouts of Natalee Holloway

By: Elena Ronda

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Not in Water nor in Sand

God Answers Prayer the Whereabouts of Natalee Holloway

By: Elena Ronda

In "Not in Water nor in Sand," the author recounts how she learned facts about the disapperance of a youg girl Natalee Holloway in June 2005. The Author was just an ordinary person who, like many order, experieced blessed and trouble times. Howerver, in all she had gone through she held on to her faith and surely, God never failed. Little did she know that God had other unexpected plans for her in her adult years. As the author drew closer to God, she starded having visions, visitation, and revelations. In this manuscipt, the author recounts how she became involved with the case of Natalee Holloway, who had mysteriously disappeared in the Island of Aruba in 2005. After watching the news of her disappearance, the author had visions of the whereabouts of young girl, as if God had a plan for this mystery to be solve. She did all she can to help, but because of unexpected human interventions, her efforts were put to waste. The author, however, believed that in Gods time, "everything that is now in darkness will be brought out to the light." "Not in Water nor in Sand" will appeal to all readers interested in the testimony of Gods power and intervention.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479729523

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9781479729524

Favorite Spanish Folksongs

By: Elena Paz,Pru Devon

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Favorite Spanish Folksongs

By: Elena Paz,Pru Devon

From the introduction by Pru Devon: “There are various ways of assembling a song collection. The most common procedure seems to be that of gathering together the most familiar and therefore the slightly hackneyed ones in the belief that since they are so well-known it follows they must be the best. Another and far more challenging approach is to collect a great many song from a broad assortment of areas, to evaluate carefully each one, finally selecting a group that gives a truly cross-sectional representation. This is obviously how Elena Paz has succeeded in gathering together this excellent collection of songs. . . . They are the sort of songs that people actually sing. Many have proved their strength and merit by having endured in the people’s hearts for many generations while others, equally representative are actually “living folkmusic”. Lullabies and children’s songs are usually immigrants that came with the colonists from the “old country”, such as A la Nanita Nana. These have wide dispersal and are sung in slightly differing ways from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. Others reflect episodes in the evolution of a republic, such as the various songs that grew out of the Mexican revolution. They run a fine gamut of expression and mood and offer a just and attractive sampling of the wealth of Latin American music.

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100

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Oak Publications

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1783235845

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9781783235841

Italian Ecocinema

Beyond the Human

By: Elena Past

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Italian Ecocinema

Beyond the Human

By: Elena Past

Ecocriticism and film studies unite in this examination of five Italian films and the environmental questions they raise. Entangled in the hybrid fields of ecomedia studies and material ecocriticism, Elena Past examines five Italian films shot on location and ponders the complex relationships that the production crews developed with the filming locations and the nonhuman cast members. She uses these films—Red Desert (1964), The Winds Blows Round (2005), Gomorrah (2008), Le quattro volte (2010), and Return to the Aeolian Islands (2010)—as case studies to explore pressing environmental questions such as cinema’s dependence on hydrocarbons, the toxic waste crisis in the region of Campania, and our reliance on the nonhuman world. Dynamic and unexpected actors emerge as the subjects of each chapter: playful goats, erupting volcanoes, airborne dust particles, fluid petroleum, and even the sound of silence. Based on interviews with crew members and close readings of the films themselves, Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human theorizes how filmmaking practice—from sound recording to location scouting to managing a production—helps uncover cinema’s ecological footprint and its potential to open new perspectives on the nonhuman world. “[Past] uniquely and innovatively combines film studies and material ecocriticism with a focus on Italy. Such weaving of tales brings the films to life and reads them as ecological documents and Italian stories.” —Heather I. Sullivan, author of The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck’s Early Works “A timely and incisive study that interrogates a new, though growing, trend in film criticism and makes an important and rich contribution to Italian film studies, Italian cultural studies, and ecocriticism.” —Bernadette Luciano, author (with Susanna Scarparo) of Reframing Italy: New Trends in Italian Women’s Filmmaking “Part memoir, part close analysis of the films themselves, and illustrated with numerous excellent frame grabs, Past’s book casts a dreamlike spell as it contemplates the past, present, and future of the cinema and moves smoothly between environmental issues and aesthetic and practical concerns.” —Choice

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236

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Indiana University Press

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0253039495

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9780253039491

Oculto sendero

By: Elena Fortún

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Oculto sendero

By: Elena Fortún

Oculto sendero, novela inédita y testamento literario de Elena Fortún (1885-1952), por fin sale a la luz. Fortún escribe esta autobiografía novelada durante su exilio en Argentina y la firma con el seudónimo de Rosa María Castaños. La protagonista es María Luisa Arroyo, pintora y antes niña que quería vestirse de marinero, alter-ego de la autora. El camino de su vida es el sendero hacia el entendimiento de su homosexualidad, camino que avanza parejo al conocimiento y realización del potencial artístico e intelectual de la protagonista. Tras una infancia narrada al más puro estilo Fortún, María Luisa Arroyo irá dejando atrás, como la creadora de la inolvidable Celia, los dictados de la feminidad convencional para adentrarse en una modernidad inevitable y también desgarradora. Ambientada en la España anterior a 1936, Oculto sendero ofrece un retrato único y necesario de la intimidad y la lucha de una mujer excepcional.

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425

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Editorial Renacimiento

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8416981647

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9788416981649

Trailblazing Women Printmakers

Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers

By: Elena M. Sarni

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Trailblazing Women Printmakers

Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers

By: Elena M. Sarni

A visual history of the Folly Cove Designers (1941-1969)—one of America's longest-running block printing collectives. The Folly Cove Designers (officially 1941-1969) was a grassroots collective of predominantly women block printers founded by Caldecott Award-winner and beloved children's book author/illustrator Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios (of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel fame). This trailblazing Gloucester, MA–based group produced more than three hundred distinct designs, which they block printed on fabric. The designs conveyed personal and regional narratives through the use of shared design principles and the compelling language of pattern. The group was propelled to international fame through commercial contracts with major retailers (F. Schumacher, Lord & Taylor, etc.), articles in leading periodicals such as Life, and participation in seminal fine craft exhibitions. Their work continues to inspire contemporary printmakers around the globe, particularly women printmakers. As the first comprehensive history of the Folly Cove Designers, Trailblazing Women Printmakers documents and celebrates the group's tremendous success and the incredible artistry of its members. With more than 250 black-and-white and color photographs, author Elena M. Sarni explores the Folly Cove Designers' history, work, and group dynamics.

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227

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Chronicle Books

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1797227025

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9781797227023

Modern Literatures in Spain

By: Jo Labanyi,Luisa Elena Delgado

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Modern Literatures in Spain

By: Jo Labanyi,Luisa Elena Delgado

Jo Labanyi and Luisa Elena Delgado provide the first cultural history of modern literatures in Spain. With contributors Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper, and Mari Jose Olaziregi, they showcase the country’s cultural richness and complexity by working across its four major literary cultures – Castilian, Catalan, Galician, and Basque – from the eighteenth century to the present. Engaging critically with the concept of the “national”, Modern Literatures in Spain traces the uneven institutionalization of Spain’s diverse literatures in a context of Castilian literary hegemony, as well as examining diasporic and exile writing . The thematically organized chapters explore literary constructions of subjectivity, gender, and sexuality; urban and rural imaginaries; intersections between high and popular culture; and the formation of a public sphere. Throughout, readings are attentive to the multiple ways in which literature serves as a barometer of cultural responses to historical change. An introduction to major cultural debates as well as an original analysis of key texts, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in the literatures and cultures of Spain.

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275

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509545832

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9781509545834

Writing Islands

Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago

By: Elena Lahr-Vivaz

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Writing Islands

Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago

By: Elena Lahr-Vivaz

How contemporary Cuban writers build transnational communities In Writing Islands, Elena Lahr-Vivaz employs methods from archipelagic studies to analyze works of contemporary Cuban writers on the island alongside those in exile. Offering a new lens to explore the multiplicity of Cuban space and identity, she argues that these writers approach their nation as part of a larger, transnational network of islands. Introducing the term “arcubiélago” to describe the spaces created by Cuban writers, both on the ground and in print, Lahr-Vivaz illuminates how transnational communities are forged and how they function across space and time. Lahr-Vivaz considers how poets, novelists, and essayists of the 1990s and 2000s built interconnected communities of readers through blogs, state-sponsored book fairs, informal methods of book circulation, and intertextual dialogues. Book chapters offer in-depth analyses of the works of writers as different as Reina María Rodríguez, known for lyrical poetry, and Zoé Valdés, known for strident critiques of Fidel Castro. Incorporating insights from on-site interviews in Cuba, Spain, and the United States, Lahr-Vivaz analyzes how writers maintained connections materially, through the distribution of works, and metaphorically, as their texts bridge spaces separated by geopolitics. Through a decolonizing methodology that resists limiting Cuba to a distinct geographic space, Writing Islands investigates the nuances of Cuban identity, the creation of alternate spaces of identity, the potential of the Internet for artistic expression, and the transnational bonds that join far-flung communities. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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University Press of Florida

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1683403312

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9781683403319

Not in Water nor in Sand

God Answers Prayer the Whereabouts of Natalee Holloway

By: Elena Ronda

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Not in Water nor in Sand

God Answers Prayer the Whereabouts of Natalee Holloway

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Not in Water nor in Sand

Not in Water nor in Sand

Favorite Spanish Folksongs

Favorite Spanish Folksongs

Italian Ecocinema

Italian Ecocinema

Oculto sendero

Oculto sendero

Trailblazing Women Printmakers

Trailblazing Women Printmakers

Modern Literatures in Spain

Modern Literatures in Spain

Writing Islands

Writing Islands

Not in Water nor in Sand

Not in Water nor in Sand

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