My Thousand and One Days

My Thousand and One Days
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Publisher : W.H. Allen
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015000523814
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Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis My Thousand and One Days by : Empress Farah (consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran)

My Thousand and One Nights

My Thousand and One Nights
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 0815608667
ISBN-13 : 9780815608660
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis My Thousand and One Nights by : Raja Alem

The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of changing from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life again in My Thousand and One Nights, women hold center stage—especially Jummo, the wildly passionate daughter of the Water Carriers’ Sheik. This faraway time and setting become compellingly real as we follow the intimate drama of Jummo’s life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the Netherworld. Jummo’s world, veiled and invisible to outsiders until this telling of her story, has the feel of the true center of an Arabia that has come to us in many exotic and threatening disguises. Jummo’s Mecca is a different world, with different narrative strategies, but the dramatic problems are universal: how lethal is love, how dangerous are woman? And how sensual is the yearning for immortality?

Book of a Thousand Days

Book of a Thousand Days
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781599903781
ISBN-13 : 1599903784
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Book of a Thousand Days by : Shannon Hale

Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.

One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781408826041
ISBN-13 : 1408826046
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis One Thousand and One Nights by : Hanan Al-Shaykh

The Arab world's greatest folk stories re-imagined by the acclaimed Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, published to coincide with the world tour of a magnificent musical and theatrical production directed by Tim Supple

My Last Eight Thousand Days

My Last Eight Thousand Days
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9780820358062
ISBN-13 : 0820358061
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis My Last Eight Thousand Days by : Lee Gutkind

As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy. A longstanding advocate of New Journalism, he has reported on a wide range of issues—robots and artificial intelligence, mental illness, organ transplants, veterinarians and animals, baseball, motorcycle enthusiasts—and explored them all with his unique voice and approach. In My Last Eight Thousand Days, Gutkind turns his notepad and tape recorder inward, using his skills as an immersion journalist to perform a deep dive on himself. Here, he offers a memoir of his life as a journalist, editor, husband, father, and Pittsburgh native, not only recounting his many triumphs, but also exposing his missteps and challenges. The overarching concern that frames these brave, often confessional stories, is his obsession and fascination with aging: how aging provoked anxieties and unearthed long-rooted tensions, and how he came to accept, even enjoy, his mental and physical decline. Gutkind documents the realities of aging with the characteristically blunt, melancholic wit and authenticity that drive the quiet force of all his work.

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0192753754
ISBN-13 : 9780192753755
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis One Thousand and One Arabian Nights by : Geraldine McCaughrean

A Thousand Days in Tuscany

A Thousand Days in Tuscany
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Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9780345481092
ISBN-13 : 0345481097
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis A Thousand Days in Tuscany by : Marlena de Blasi

They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in Tuscany. Once again, it was love at first sight. Love for the timeless countryside and the ancient village of San Casciano dei Bagni, for the local vintage and the magnificent cooking, for the Tuscan sky and the friendly church bells. Love especially for old Barlozzo, the village mago, who escorts the newcomers to Tuscany’s seasonal festivals; gives them roasted country bread drizzled with just-pressed olive oil; invites them to gather chestnuts, harvest grapes, hunt truffles; and teaches them to caress the simple pleasures of each precious day. It’s Barlozzo who guides them across the minefields of village history and into the warm and fiercely beating heart of love itself. A Thousand Days in Tuscany is set in one of the most beautiful places on earth–and tucked into its fragrant corners are luscious recipes (including one for the only true bruschetta) directly from the author’s private collection.

Five Thousand Days Like This One

Five Thousand Days Like This One
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 0807021075
ISBN-13 : 9780807021071
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Thousand Days Like This One by : Jane Brox

Amid the turmoil after her father's death-decisions to be made, the future of the family farm to be settled-Jane Brox, using her acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The search soon leads her to the quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age. Jane Brox's first book, Here and Nowhere Else, won the 1996 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and has been represented in Best American Essays. She is a frequent contributor to The Georgia Review. Jane Brox lives in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts.

One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781408174739
ISBN-13 : 1408174731
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis One Thousand and One Nights by : Hanan al-Shaykh

One of the world's great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh. This unique edition will unlock the ancient tales for a new generation of readers and performers. Written by Arabic writers from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab Empire, the One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by Shahrazad night after night, under sentence of death, to the king Shahrayar who has vowed to marry a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. Shahrazad prolongs her life by keeping the King engrossed in a web of stories that never ends - a fascinating kaleidoscope of life, love and destiny. The tales that unfold are erotic, violent, supernatural and endlessly surprising. The web of tales woven by Shahrazad were exoticised and bowdlerised in the West under the title of the Arabian Nights. This adaptation unearths the true character of One Thousand and One Nights as it is in the oldest Arabic manuscripts. In turns erotic, brutal, witty, poetic and complex, the tales tell of love and marriage, power and punishment, rich and poor, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. The great cities and thriving trade routes of the Islamic world provide the setting for these stories that employ supernatural mystery and intense realism to portray the deep and endless drama of human experience.

Sudden Loss Slow Grieving

Sudden Loss Slow Grieving
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Publisher : Kyle Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 085783942X
ISBN-13 : 9780857839428
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Sudden Loss Slow Grieving by : Vanessa Moore

A heartbreaking grief memoir, One Thousand Days and One Cup of Tea uncovers the process of healing from a personal and psychological view, written by a bereaved clinical psychologist Vanessa's husband Paul died suddenly and tragically on their regular Sunday morning swim. This is a raw narrative of how she found a way to move forward for her teenage children, their dilapidated home and the patients who all need her. Beautifully written and honestly relayed, the book dives into the aftermath of death, the painful reminders, the heartwarming moments and how to endure the pain of loss. "This book is about a period of great loss in my life, a time when the tables were completely turned on me. I was a qualified therapist who suddenly found myself needing psychological therapy. I was a trained researcher who became my own research subject, as I tried to make sense of what was happening to me. I was an experienced manager who now struggled to manage the events taking place in my own life. Yet, throughout all this turmoil, my patients were always there, in the background, reminding me that there are many different ways to deal with loss and trauma and search for a way forwards." Vanessa Moore