Download or read book Thirst The Desert Trilogy written by Shulamith Hareven and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirst: The Desert Trilogy contains three of Shulamith Hareven’s greatest works: The Miracle Hater, Prophet, and After Childhood. Each of these novellas explores the relationship of the individual to God and society. Hareven writes with great sympathy for the outsider and the rebel, as she explores with subtlety and depth how individuals relate to nature, to society, and especially to the divine. While the three novellas are set in the Biblical period, the author’s authority and conviction render them both timeless and timely. In Thirst, Hareven achieves her greatest work, bringing vivid drama, characterization, and emotion into high relief against an unforgettable desert backdrop. Reviews “The success of Thirst rests entirely on the author's evocative and lush prose.” —The New York Times “These are apocryphal tales that, at their best, possess a shimmering, timeless quality.” —Publishers Weekly Shulamith Hareven was born in Warsaw, Poland but grew up in Jerusalem, where she lived until her passing in 2003. A writer, translator, and activist, Hareven served as a writer-in-residence at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was the first female member of the Academy of the Hebrew language. In 1962, she published her first book, a poetry volume titled Predatory Jerusalem. After that, she wrote and translated prose books and plays. She published essays and articles about Israeli society and culture in literary journals Masa, Orlogin, and Keshet, and in newspapers Al Ha-Mishmar, Maariv, and Yedioth Ahronoth. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages. Hareven was an activist for Peace Now, and in 1995, the French weekly L'Express listed her among the 100 women "who move the world.” Hillel Halkin is an American-born Israeli translator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist, who has lived in Israel since 1970. Halkin translates from Hebrew and Yiddish literature into English. He has translated Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman, and major Hebrew and Israeli novelists, among them Yosef Haim Brenner, S. Y. Agnon, Shulamith Hareven, A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, and Meir Shalev.
Download or read book Thirst written by Michael Cecilione and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Hall meets her new lover at a Greenwich Village poetry reading and learns that he's a vampire. Soon Cassandra descends into a deeper realm of exotic thirst and unspeakable passion, where she must confront the dark side of her own sexuality . . . and a beautiful rival who threatens her earthly soul.
Download or read book The Desert of Thirst written by Joan Conquest and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desert Thirst written by W. McGee and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A clinical discussion of the effects of six-and-a-half days without water on a man lost in the Cabeza Prieta, the story of Pablo Valencia's August odyssey to the very rim of desert death is a testament to endurance, humanity, and the absolute power of the desert. McGee's careful, tender, descriptive language is deeply affecting; in its modest way, it is great literature. This paper, rediscovered years ago by Bunny Fontana, has acquired a sort of cult status among desert rats. It is so graphic and so powerful that it is read aloud at Southern Arizona Rescue Association meetings. You've been warned." -Joseph Wilder Director The Southwest Center at The University of Arizona
Download or read book Thirst written by Michael Cecilione and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Hall meets her new lover at a Greenwich Village poetry reading and learns that he's a vampire. Soon Cassandra descends into a deeper realm of exotic thirst and unspeakable passion, where she must confront the dark side of her own sexuality . . . and a beautiful rival who threatens her earthly soul.
Download or read book Desert Royal written by Jean Sasson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana's revelations about life in Saudi Arabia's royal family. Royal women live as virtual prisoners, surrounded by unimaginable wealth and luxury, privileged beyond belief, and yet subject to every whim of their husbands, fathers, and even their sons. Daughters of Arabia featured Sultana's teenage daughters, determined to rebel but in very different ways. And now, in Desert Royal, Sultana's fight for women's rights in a repressive, fundamentalist Islamic society, has an extra sense of urgency. The threat of world terrorism, the gathering strength of religious leaders and the discontent of impoverished Saudis are threatening to topple the comfortable world Sultana has known. But an extended family 'camping' trip in the desert brings Sultana and her relatives face to face with their nomadic roots, and nourishes her will to carry on the fight for women's rights in all Muslim countries. This updated edition contains an all-new chapter as well as a letter from Sultana herself, encouraging all women to take up the struggle for freedom for their abused sisters throughout the world.
Download or read book Crave the Night written by Susan Sizemore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her steamy vampire romances, acclaimed author Susan Sizemore pits vampires against mortals, destiny against desire....By popular demand, all three novels are now available in this paperback collectible. I Burn for You Battling the dark hollows of his soul, vampire Alec Reynard undergoes secret medical treatments that allow him to bear daylight. Living a double life as a bodyguard, he must also battle his powerful attraction to Domini Lancer, a mere mortal -- and, unbelievably, his soul mate. When danger threatens, he kidnaps Domini to protect her but wonders: will she accept the darkness within him -- or is she a vampire slayer who's cleverly infiltrated his clan? I Thirst for You Josephine Elliot knows only that the stranger who appeared out of the dark desert night and took her captive is named Marcus Cage and that he's on the run. A vampire, Marcus is overwhelmed by his thirst for Josephine and instantly recognizes her as his soul mate -- but when she unwittingly betrays him, both are thrust into mortal danger. Can their newfound love survive or is their insatiable desire doomed? I Hunger for You Mia Luchese, who comes from a long line of vampire hunters, doesn't know that Colin Foxe broke off their blistering affair because he's a vampire. After she's attacked by evil vamps and Colin rescues her, their real identities must be revealed for them to get to the bottom of the attack. But even a generations-old enmity that should rip them apart cannot break the bond that has their souls hungering for an eternity of ecstasy in each other's arms....
Download or read book The Well in the Desert written by Emily Sarah Holt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that only travellers in the arid lands of the East really know the value of water. To them the Well in the Desert is a treasure and a blessing: unspeakably so, when the water is pure and sweet; yet even though it be salt and brackish, it may still save life. Was it less so, in a figurative sense, to the travellers through that great desert of the Middle Ages, wherein the wells were so few and far between? True, the water was brackish; man had denied the streams, and filled up the wells with stones; yet for all this it was God-given, and to those who came, and dug for the old spring, and drank, it was the water of eternal life. The cry was still sounding down the ages. "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink." And no less blessed are the souls that come now: but for us, the wells are so numerous and so pure, that we too often pass them by, and go on our way thirsting. Strange blindness!-yet not strange: for until the Angel of the Lord shall open the eyes of Hagar, she must needs go mourning through the wilderness, not seeing the well. "Lord, that we may receive our sight!"-and may come unto Thee, and drink, and thirst no more.
Download or read book No Room of Their Own written by Yael S. Feldman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Room of Their Own is a comparative analysis of recent Israeli fiction by women and some of its Western models, from Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir to Marilyn French and Marie Cardinal. Feldman shows the richness and subtleties of Israeli women's fiction as she explores the themes of gender and nation, as well as the (non)representation of the "New Hebrew Woman" in five authors--Amalia Kahana-Carmon, Shulamith Hareven, Netiva BenYehuda, Ruth Almog, and Shulamit Lapid.
Download or read book The Heritage of the Desert written by Zane Grey and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Adventure in the Wild, Wild West“They say I fell among thieves....I’ve fallen among saints as well.” - Zane Grey, The Heritage of the Desert John Hare should have died... instead he is saved by a man with an adopted Indian daughter. He is also dragged into the light after experiencing the darkness of the West. But he isn’t quite ready to embrace it. First he must learn to love. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Download or read book The well in the desert written by Emily Sarah Holt and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Israel in Exile written by Ranen Omer-Sherman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel in Exile is a bold exploration of how the ancient desert of Exodus and Numbers, as archetypal site of human liberation, forms a template for modern political identities, radical skepticism, and questioning of official narratives of the nation that appear in the works of contemporary Israeli authors including David Grossman, Shulamith Hareven, and Amos Oz, as well as diasporic writers such as Edmund Jabès and Simone Zelitch. In contrast to other ethnic and national representations, Jewish writers since antiquity have not constructed a neat antithesis between the desert and the city or nation; rather, the desert becomes a symbol against which the values of the city or nation can be tested, measured, and sometimes found wanting. This book examines how the ethical tension between the clashing Mosaic and Davidic paradigms of the desert still reverberate in secular Jewish literature and produce fascinating literary rewards. Omer-Sherman ultimately argues that the ancient encounter with the desert acquires a renewed urgency in response to the crisis brought about by national identities and territorial conflicts.
Download or read book Stormweaver Trilogy 1 written by Jay Aspen and published by Sandfire Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious stranger. A murderous ambush and a sinister plot in the deep desert. Alissa returns home from university, still haunted by the death of her sister and a restlessness that keeps drawing her back into the great sand sea of Irithen, the dangerous heart of a remote province on a distant planet. Her attempt to save the life of the young and charismatic Talin throws her into a whirlwind of hidden agendas and a ruthless military attack. She has trained in the intense shamanic skills that might help her survive in this vast expanse of sand, heat, enormous lizards and poisonous scorpions. Learning to fly a giant condor before it kills her might help as well. Returning to the city, she confronts greater danger as she comes face to face with the invaders – and the terrifying Captain Reith who has haunted her dreams ever since she saw him on a grainy vid-recording in the desert. A compelling attraction she still does not understand. Maybe love will prove more powerful than war. But the heart of the enemy is a dangerous place… When Alissa and Reith escape from the devastated prison on Eden. they face a dangerous journey back to the capital with vital information. All they have to do is cross an unstable swamp inhabited by giant eels and carnivorous plants, get past the enemy slave camp on the coast, and somehow make it across the ocean to Pangaea without getting captured. The sinister threat already implanted deep in Reith’s history could make the task impossible, but if they can learn each other’s skills and work together, they might have a chance. Books 1, 2 & 3 of the Stormweaver series, the far-future fantasy epic by Jay Aspen.
Download or read book Contemporary World Fiction written by Juris Dilevko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.
Download or read book written by David C. Jacobson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does David Still Play Before You? explores the ways that contemporary Israeli poets have made use of images from the Bible in their poetry. Through close readings of fifty poems, featured in their original Hebrew and in English translation, David Jacobson studies how Israeli poets respond to and incorporate the Bible in their work and reflect on the presence of the Bible in contemporary Israeli culture. The book provides a stunning collection of powerful and moving voices. Jacobson organizes the works according to subjects that recur with great frequency in Israeli poetry based on the Bible: the Arab-Israel conflict, responses to the Holocaust, relations between men and women, and modern challenges to traditional religious faith. Jacobson's literary analysis is informed by an astute awareness of the role of the Bible in Israeli culture. This volume is the first comprehensive study of the use of the Bible by Israeli poets, a phenomenon that is central to the development of Israeli poetry.
Download or read book Dreaming the Actual written by Miriyam Glazer and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the powerful and provocative new fiction and poetry of Israel's women writers to an English-speaking audience. Read together, the stories and poems in this book will help to create a more sophisticated understanding of Middle Eastern passions and realities, and will foster a wealth of discussion about the meanings of homeland, exile, and diaspora; women's sexuality and spirituality; gender roles; the legacy of the Holocaust; the tensions and reconciliations of religion and secular life; the effects of war; and the power of memory. In her introduction, Miriyam Glazer vividly reconstructs the diversities, tensions, and complexity of current Israeli literature, and the book reflects the multiculturality of modern-day Israel by including stories and poems originally written in Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, and English. Brief biographical and critical introductions are provided for each writer, and the book features specially commissioned and new translations of twenty stories and seventy-five poems, many available here for the first time in English.
Download or read book A Diamond in the Desert written by Kathryn Fitzmaurice and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Tetsu eats, sleeps and breathes baseball. It’s all he ever thinks about. But after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tetsu and his family are forced from their home into an internment camp in the Arizona desert with other Japanese Americans, and baseball becomes the last thing on his mind. The camp isn’t technically a prison, but it sure feels like one when there’s nothing to do and no place to go. So when a man starts up a boys’ baseball team, Tetsu is only too eager to play again. But with his sister suddenly falling ill, and his father taken away for questioning, Tetsu is forced to choose between his family and his love of the game.
