Kevins third adventure becomes his debut book! This first edition, personally autographed, 6x9-inch hardcover book is 368 pages long, and packed with over 100 photos and maps detailing the nearly 1200-mile Tour de Cuba in length. Kevin worked closely with the printers and designers to make the book a special experience for the reader. And after you finish reading the extended details and harrowing experiences of the Tour that cant be found on the website, youll enjoy a complete section of contact names, addresses, and phone numbers to do your own Tour de Cuba. So, if youre a book lover like Kevin and enjoy a rousing adventure, you wont want to miss adding this volume to your collection

Isaac Lewis was the much loved Pastor of 'Providence’ Strict Baptist Chapel in Staplehurst, Kent for 21 years until his death in 1896. This ‘Memorial’ was first published by Benjamin Wickens in November 1896 and was available in both paperback and hardback versions. It contains an autobiography, originally published in the ‘Christian’s Monthly Record’ during Mr Lewis’ lifetime, as well as poems, funeral sermons and some of Mr Lewis’ letters and other information. Mr Lewis’ autobiography has been reprinted in the ‘Gospel Standard’ and elsewhere under the title “Through Many Dangers”. This book has been reprinted from a paperback original with a few notes added to provide context or additional background information in some places.

This First Edition in Spanish is hard to find! Hardcover shows some bending in corners and signs of shelf life. Book inside is in wonderful reading condition. Pages have a tan. From the private collection of a fine erudite book lover.

Frank Curtis, one of Suki Read's many lovers, discovers a shattering secret behind Suki's sunny exterior

In this ground-breaking work, Goldberg shows how traditional relationships are doomed to fail -- not because of personal inadequacies, but because of the psychological defense mechanisms that program men to behave like machines and women like children. Goldberg offers a total reevaluation of the war between the sexes in light of the enormous changes the woman's liberation movement has brought about in the last several decades. Immensely hopeful in its outlook, the book gives us a vision of just how good a relationship can be when men and women are friends and companions as well as lovers. Book jacket.

Allen Mandelbaum's long-awaited Savantasse of Montparnasse is a work of wonder, wit, and exhilarating originality. Of Mandelbaum's previous long poem, Chelmaxioms: The Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms of Chelm, James Wright said: ''A beautiful book: original, learned, comic in a way that only a master of many languages (like Joyce) can be comic, often lyrically lovely, and, finally, hauntingly sad. . . . I found myself startled by the extremely dense richness of its learning, only to discover, strategically placed, lyric poems of surpassing simplicity and beauty. So one might grasp the structure of the book as a rhythmical alternation between these two uses of language. Furthermore, one may read the book as a parody of extreme learning--a very deliberate parody--which is, at the same rime, a wonderful display of learning. But no matter how one approaches the book, one is always haunted by the city of Chelm and its inhabitants . . . in one sense a city literally constructed out of language, in another sense . . . a place created and transformed by the poet's imagination into a very specific, concrete town. . . . A marvelously original work . . . an important event." And now, with The Savantasse of Montparnasse, Mandelbaum has gifted us with another unforgettable volume.

Allen Grossman's newest work Descartes' Loneliness blends the comic and tragic. As the writer Ha Jin once wrote, it is "remarkable for the stout spirit of the speaker who dares to be funny while tackling such an austere subject as death." Poems such as "The Famished Dead," where the poet is visited by lost loved ones, "one at a time," confirm Jorie Graham's observation that "from the bottom reaches of the underworld, to the elevations from which one need cry to be heard--Grossman invents such peace as Poetry can invent."

In this sensuously defiant collection of new poems, the winner of the 2004 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal expands and deepens a poetic ruse. In his critically acclaimed collections Saracen Island and Companion, David Solway took on the voice of a fictitious Greek poet named Andreas Karavis. The poems of these earlier two books were so artful and refreshingly immediate that many readers were convinced that they were authentic translations from the Greek. For The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat, a new book of ostensible translations, Solway adopts the persona of Karavis's spurned lover, Turkish Cypriot poet Nesmine Rifat and explores the aftermath of one of Karavis's love affairs. Lushly sexual and sparkling with wit and intelligence, these passionate lyrics take the form of undelivered letters, written by Rifat in the wake of Karavis's desertion and his eventual marriage to her rival Anna Zoumi. Solway portrays, with subtlety and sensitivity, a powerful woman and gifted poet undergoing a turbulent emotional journey. Moving from wrath and arrogant disdain, through bitterness and grief, to an acceptance of the love she cannot subdue, his female poet grows in both strength and art. As an intimate record of one woman's anguish, The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat is a remarkable achievement — even more so when one recalls that the author is actually a man.

"A luminous and richly layered novel evoking The Big Chill--the story of a group of lifetime friends who gather together to confront life, love, and now, mortality Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known one another since they were girls. They've faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the group's trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what they've always done--talk and laugh and help each other make choices and plans, this time in Anna's rural Massachusetts home. Helen, Anna's best friend and a celebrated painter, is about to remarry. The others face their own challenges--Caroline with her sister's mental health crisis; Molly with a teenage daughter's rebellion; Ming with her law practice--dilemmas with kids and work and love. Before Everything is as funny as it is bittersweet, as the friends revel in the hilarious mistakes they've seen one another through, the secrets kept and adventures shared. But now all sense of time has shifted, and the pattern of their lives together takes on new meaning. The novel offers a brilliant, emotionally charged portrait, deftly conveying the sweep of time over everyday lives, and showing how even in difficult endings, gifts can unfold. Above all it is an ode to friendship, and to how one person shapes the journeys of those around her"--

A dramatic and original biography of a married couple, each violated in different ways but bound together by their suffering, their mutual understanding and love, and a desperate struggle for renewal. These twin biographies are brought to life by an imaginary exchange of letters in which, nevertheless, the events described are completely factual. Dita was an inmate of Auschwitz as a young girl - she and her father were the only surviving members of her Czech-Hungarian family. Ronald, a Londoner, was the victim of a dangerous and unnecessary prefrontal leucotomy, against his will, in the knife-happy days when this operation was common and left a pathetic trail of zombies vegetating in the asylums. To say simply that Ronald 'survived', to become a composer and scholar of international repute, is to gloss over the long and painful path of recovery he describes. Dita trod a parallel path, although the trauma each suffered was of a different nature. Auschwitz does not ever relinquish its victims: it remained a perpetual assassin in the wings, and even Dita's death from cancer, nearly forty years later, was perhaps its final victory. This imaginary correspondence is remarkable for the vivid picture it paints of a living death inside Auschwitz as well as the fearful existence of a patient inside a mental hospital in mid-century Britain. Above all, the intimate letters reveal a deep commitment and compassion between two people, a love-story intertwined with the horrific historical events of our time.

KARIMI HOTEL & OTHER AFRICAN EQUATIONS [1972]: four short stories and a riff of African impressions shape a life-size puzzle. Propelled by the fervor of their black & white love story, buoyed up by the black-is-beautiful enthusiasm that was the rage in those days, they crash land in Addis Ababa, lose their way in Dar es Salam, do their thing at Bahari Beach, navigate the banabanas on avenue William Ponty in Dakar. Black in the land of his birth, he turns up American in Dakar. Dazzled, she wants with all her heart to connect the exhilarating African beat of their intimacy to the landscapes and street scenes that enchant her from Ethiopia to Tanzania to Senegal. Wary, he navigates by a compass pieced together in his urban ghetto. She cajoles him into a search for authenticity that collides with big disappointments, small hustles, rare moments of grace, and stunning truths-for him, in the house of the slaves on île de Gorée, for her, an unexpected reminder of her understated identity in the market square of a Tanzanian village. SICAP LIBERTÉ 5 [1982]: novella in five facets of interlocking triangles, written in French and translated to English by the author. Change of voice, language, angle, and style in transit from the baffled travelers of Karimi Hotel to full immersion in Sicap Liberté 5, a Dakar housing project. Constance of love as illumination /blindness. Following the old triangular trade route that links the African continent to the islands via the métropole, love crosses paths and intersects cultures, begetting joy and distress. Emancipation and alienation bounce between the city of harsh lights and a third world that entices and stings. The thirst for authenticity reaches its source; the beloved is a native son, lithe, velvet-dark, endowed with intoxicating grace. She follows his contours, dances his beat, adopts the accent and the gait, swallows the irrational, revels in a sensuality no sooner satisfied than disappointed. Her open-hearted acceptance of the Other is rebuffed by age-old rivalries, troubling religious undercurrents, burgeoning ethnic conflicts, unsettled scores between the motherland and its scattered brood. Was it an idyll? Or an illusion?

Janko Vygoda's parents spend their time drinking themselves to an early grave at the village inn; their farm is mortgaged to the hilt to the three local moneylenders, a Pole, an Armenian and a Jew. Janko swears he will keep his inheritance intact, will not sell one square inch of his land. The man he holds responsible for his misfortune is the Jewish innkeeper, Leib Weihnachtskuchen, who also arranges loans for the local peasants. By chance, he discovers the Jew is not the bloodsucking monster he imagined and the impoverished innkeeper becomes his only friend in the village. Gradually the Christian Janko falls in love with the Jew's daughter, Miriam. He swears another oath: "one bed or one grave." The only chance Leib and his wife have of providing for their daughter is to marry her to an old Jew, the owner of the local sawmill. The wheels of tragedy are set in motion. Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child is a story of obsessive passion set in Podolia, now part of the Ukraine but in the nineteenth century a backward, multi-racial corner of Europe where the Russian and Habsburg empires met.

A novel of young women and men, struggling to find love and fulfilling work, who find their lives disrupted when their network of cooperatives, formed in a Southwestern city with the collapse of the economy, is drawn into the movement to protect a mountain sacred to the Navajos from a military takeover.

The Five Scrolls is a comprehensive commentary on five books of the Old Testament, namely Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther. The author, Israel Bettan, provides a detailed analysis of each book, highlighting its historical and cultural context, literary style, and theological significance. The Song of Songs is a collection of love poems that celebrate the beauty of human love and the intimacy between a man and a woman. Bettan explores the metaphorical language used in the book and its significance in Jewish tradition. The book of Ruth tells the story of a Moabite woman who becomes part of the Israelite community and ultimately becomes the great-grandmother of King David. Bettan examines the themes of loyalty, faithfulness, and redemption in the book and their relevance to contemporary readers. Lamentations is a collection of poems that mourn the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the Jewish people. Bettan discusses the book's structure, language, and theological message, emphasizing the importance of lament and mourning in Jewish tradition. Ecclesiastes is a philosophical book that explores the meaning of life and the human condition. Bettan analyzes the book's themes of wisdom, pleasure, and the inevitability of death, and their relevance to contemporary readers. Finally, Esther tells the story of a Jewish woman who becomes queen of Persia and saves her people from genocide. Bettan examines the book's historical context, literary style, and theological significance, emphasizing the themes of courage, faith, and divine providence. Overall, The Five Scrolls is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of these five books of the Old Testament and their relevance to contemporary life.A Commentary On The Song Of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes And Esther. The Jewish Commentary For Bible Readers.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Elias Breeskin, not only a mesmerizing violinist, passionate composer and maestro but an excellent storyteller, recounts with fearless candor the advancements and struggles of his career. Universal recognition eluding him time after time, Breeskin entrances with his intimate confessions. His story follows him from the zeniths of music and love to the depths of great despair. He conveys the struggle to maintain his integrity despite his gambling addiction. From his childhood as a prodigy with unlimited musical horizons to becoming a refugee with a terrifying illness, the reader feels his joy and his agony. As a recipient of generous gifts from benefactors, he was unwilling to shirk the sacrifices and hard work required of an artist. His tale contains vignettes of his friendships with Fritz Kreisler, Caruso, prominent personages, and colorful characters of 1930's Hollywood and others from the 1940's and 50's in Mexico. One sympathizes with the unfair prison confinement at the dreaded Mexico island prison, Isla Marias, but marvels at the masterpiece composition produced there. The reader follows him to Russia, Washington, New York, Australia and back and finally onto Pittsburgh, Hollywood and Mexico City. Elias Breeskin's presence and talent radiates. He comes alive, once more, on these pages.

Ten short stories. Miss Mott is a newspaper columnist, offering advice to readers on various personal matters. Is she now to become a consultant on crime? Of course, her uncle does work at Scotland Yard...In the ten cases, Lucie Mott solves only two-inding a missing woman locked in her own house and recognizing that an apparently philandering husband was actually out thieving--and in a third helps rescue her uncle. In five stories she is saved from her own folly by a supposed criminal known as Violet Joe with whom she immediately falls in love. Three strains of action are interwoven throughout the volume: the romance of Lucie and Violet Joe, the maniacal attraction of the criminal gang leader Meredith for Lucie, and Miss Mott's investigative career. All are neatly tied up in the final case.