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Days of Awe

By: Hugh Nissenson

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Washington Post Best Books of 2005. Philadelphia Inquirer Top 10 Fiction Pick, Fall 2005 At age 67, Artie Rubin finds his world shaken to its foundation by events he cannot control. His tale his both universal and unique; it is the story of the end of things and their beginnings, of friends and family, of connections lost and of the endurance of love. The Days of Awe is a breathtaking call to living. "[Nissenson] more than holds his own in the arena of gritty, all-too-present-day realism, brilliantly conveying his characters' anxiety and suffering, their conflicting ideas,emotions and beliefs, and the love for one another that makes them so vulnerable but also lends enduring value to their menaced lives."-Wall Street Journal "Solid character writing and attention to the details of daily life make the September 11 material well motivated; as characters continue to worry, kibitz, philosophize and complain, one feels that they have a real sense of the stakes."-Publishers Weekly "A moving, thought-provoking exploration of coming to grips with mortality."-Booklist "I just finished The Days of Awe. I am too moved to move. (Even this pen.) An amazing novel. It is as if we are eavesdropping on life." -Cynthia Ozick

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1402217250

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The Tree of Life

By: Hugh Nissenson

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The Tree of Life

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Finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award" "This small novel works like a laser beam, penetrating the American experience with searing and concentrated intensity.""Los Angeles Times" ""The Tree of Life" is one of the most powerful, original, and disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Hugh Nissenson has caught the voice of the old-time diary keeper just exactly. It's uncanny, marvelous, so direct and deceptively simple that you know what pains he has taken.The book is a work of art and no one who reads it will ever forget it."David McCullough "It is a tale more moving and haunting than one thinks it can possibly be.""The Village Voice" The year is 1811. Having suffered a loss of faith, Thomas Keene, Congregational minister from New England, abandons the East and moves to Richland County on the Ohio frontier."The Tree of Life"is Keene's journal: stories and jottings appear alongside accounting entries and poems, coarse jokes and sermons, woodcuts and maps. In this "Waste Book," Keene conveys his longing for a young widow, his fascination with John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and his resolve in the face of the growing enmity between his fellow settlers and the Delaware Indians."The Tree of Life"reveals a man of intellect and passion as he confronts the raw country. "The juxtaposition of horror and information perfectly captures the genius of this imagined diaryScarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched."The Tree of Life"dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare.""Time Magazine" " "The Tree of Life"] confronts us where our deepest and most disturbing fantasies intersect with our sense of historyGiven the richness of its texture and the strength of whichever of its threads one pursues, one can imagine that its force will grow and take an ever tighter grip on our understanding of the American past. It is a book that plants deep seeds.""New York Times" "A beautifully paced book it] allows the shocks and resonances to gather slowly, the way they do in life when you are taking everything in, but cannot yet allow yourself to admit how much you've been affectedIn thrall to the powers Mr. Nissenson has invoked and wielded with such fearful symmetrythe powers of documentation and of visionwe can only read on."Margo Jefferson, from her new Introduction Hugh Nissenson(19332013) was born in New York City. After graduating from Swarthmore College, he published his first short story in"Harper's Magazine"in 1958. He taught writing at Yale, Barnard, and Auburn Theological Seminary, and was the author of a memoir, three collections of short stories and journals, and many novels. Margo Jeffersonis a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic. She has been a staff writer for "The New York Times" and "Newsweek"; her reviews and essays have appeared in "New York Magazine," "Grand Street," "Vogue," "Harper's" and many other publications.

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0060151439

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My Own Ground

By: Hugh Nissenson

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My Own Ground

By: Hugh Nissenson

Through airtight prose which allows no overtones of pity, Nissenson has written a relentless assessment of the martyr's way in religion's less-than-grand designs". -- Kirkus ReviewsSet in the year 1912, this is the dramatic portrayal of Jake Brody, an orphaned fifteen-year-old immigrant; of Hannele Isaacs, the rabbi's daughter; and of the Jewish pimp Schlifka, who ruthlessly makes her one of his girls. In the struggle to save Hannele, Jake comes of age abruptly, discovering violence, perversity, and mysticism in the bitter reality of life in a turn-of-the-century American ghetto. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Harper Perennial

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0060970758

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9780060970758

The Tree of Life

By: Hugh Nissenson

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It's a tale more haunting and moving than one thinks it can possibly be." --The Village Voice

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Paul Dry Books Incorporated

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0966491327

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The Song of the Earth

A Novel

By: Hugh Nissenson

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The Song of the Earth

A Novel

By: Hugh Nissenson

Science fiction meets fictional biography in this account of the first genetically engineered visual artist, by the acclaimed author of The Tree of Life. Even before his birth, Johnny Baker’s life is in danger. His mother breaks the law when she has her fertilized egg endowed with genes that will give her son the potential to become a visual artist. Born in 2038, John Firth Baker is the first genetically engineered artist. At the age of nineteen, at the threshold of his career, he is murdered. Now, ten years after his death, Baker has become famous. An art curator has organized a show of his work, and his biography—culled from journals, e-mails, and interviews with those who knew him best—is published. The Song of the Earth is this “biography.” It presents a powerful and haunting portrait of an artist as a young man in the twenty-first century. Baker is born into a world transformed by technology: genetic profiles, space travel, and controlled housing communities are commonplace. Global warming has altered the environment. A planetary gender war is raging, familial structures are shattered, and new religions contend with the old. Yet human needs remain the same: the search for love, the desire for approval, the longing for fame, and the quest for knowledge. The Song of the Earth is a hypnotic novel about our desire to control our destinies, our yearning for immortality, and the very human impulse to create art. With prose, poetry, and images, Nissenson tells an original tale that brilliantly captures the experience of another time and place.

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Algonquin Books

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1565128885

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The Tree of Life

By: Hugh Nissenson

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The Pilgrim

By: Hugh Nissenson

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The Pilgrim

By: Hugh Nissenson

Charles Wentworth, a heartbroken Puritan, comes to the New World from England in 1622 in search of salvation and a new beginning. Burdened with a lifelong struggle between his desire for faith and his doubts about God's love for him, he leaves the only land he has ever known after the death of his fiancée, in hopes of being freed of the temptations that torment him. A new masterpiece from National Book Award and Pen/Faulkner Award finalist Hugh Nissenson, The Pilgrim explores the foundation myths of America, a country settled by people intoxicated by the pursuit of God and yearning for redemption and freedom.

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1402271123

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The Song of the Earth

A Novel

By: Hugh Nissenson

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A Novel

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The Days of Awe

By: Hugh Nissenson

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By: Hugh Nissenson

Washington Post Best Books of 2005. Philadelphia Inquirer Top 10 Fiction Pick, Fall 2005 At age 67, Artie Rubin finds his world shaken to its foundation by events he cannot control. His tale his both universal and unique; it is the story of the end of things and their beginnings, of friends and family, of connections lost and of the endurance of love. The Days of Awe is a breathtaking call to living. "[Nissenson] more than holds his own in the arena of gritty, all-too-present-day realism, brilliantly conveying his characters' anxiety and suffering, their conflicting ideas,emotions and beliefs, and the love for one another that makes them so vulnerable but also lends enduring value to their menaced lives."—Wall Street Journal "Solid character writing and attention to the details of daily life make the September 11 material well motivated; as characters continue to worry, kibitz, philosophize and complain, one feels that they have a real sense of the stakes."—Publishers Weekly "A moving, thought-provoking exploration of coming to grips with mortality."—Booklist "I just finished The Days of Awe. I am too moved to move. (Even this pen.) An amazing novel. It is as if we are eavesdropping on life." —Cynthia Ozick

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Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice E-Book

By: Stanley J. Szefler,Francisco A Bonilla,Cezmi A Akdis,Hugh Sampson

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Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice E-Book

By: Stanley J. Szefler,Francisco A Bonilla,Cezmi A Akdis,Hugh Sampson

The third edition of Pediatric Allergy continues this title's steadfast tradition of providing comprehensive, authoritative guidance on the day-to-day diagnosis and management of pediatric allergic and immunologic diseases. You'll have the most up-to-date research at hand thanks to an easily accessible full-color format that highlights a host of new chapters, extensive updates, and clinically focused coverage. Whether you're a student, resident, pediatrician or allergist, you'll appreciate this user-friendly and versatile source for providing optimal care! Includes diagnostic tests available for asthma, upper respiratory allergy, and more. Equips you with an understanding of the immune mechanisms underlying allergic diseases. Features coverage of drug allergies and cross-reactivity. Highlights clinical pearls discussing the best approaches to the care and treatment of pediatric patients. Appendices listing common food allergies and autoantibodies in autoimmune diseases make for quick reference to essential material. Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices. Revised asthma section examines current asthma guidelines; school-centered asthma programs; exercise-induced asthma; and new directions in asthma therapy. Includes the most current knowledge relating to emerging asthma within young children, medication adherence, and the impact of infection on the natural history of asthma. New information on gene therapy, stem-cell therapy, and a host of new immunodeficiency diseases helps you obtain the best results from the therapeutics for pediatric allergic and immunologic diseases. Features brand-new chapters on immunopathology; diagnostics and management; potential immunotherapeutic strategies for treating food allergies; current status of immunotherapy for food allergy; and biologic therapies. Focused coverage of today's hot topics in pediatric allergy includes the use of targeted biologics to treat specific activation pathways leading to severe allergic diseases; defects of innate immunity; rheumatic diseases of childhood; and inflammatory disorders. Discusses new studies examining potential etiologies for the increase in food allergy and examines potential immunotherapeutic strategies for treating food allergies. New evidence-based principles of medical care help you make the best use of available medications for your patients.

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0323339468

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Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice

By: Stanley J. Szefler, MD,Francisco A Bonilla, MD, PhD,Cezmi A Akdis,Hugh Sampson

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By: Stanley J. Szefler, MD,Francisco A Bonilla, MD, PhD,Cezmi A Akdis,Hugh Sampson

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Days of Awe

Days of Awe

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

My Own Ground

My Own Ground

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

The Song of the Earth

The Song of the Earth

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

The Pilgrim

The Pilgrim

The Song of the Earth

The Song of the Earth

The Days of Awe

The Days of Awe

Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice E-Book

Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice E-Book

Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice

Pediatric Allergy: Principles and Practice

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