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Le sillon: Suivi d'un entretien avec l'autrice (Litt©♭rature Littérature)
By Valérie Manteau. 2019
« Je rêve de chats qui tombent des rambardes, d'adolescents aux yeux brillants qui surgissent au coin de la rue…
et tirent en pleine tête, de glissements de terrain emportant tout Cihangir dans le Bosphore, de ballerines funambules aux pieds cisaillés, je rêve que je marche sur les tuiles des toits d'Istanbul et qu'elles glissent et se décrochent. Mais toujours ta main me rattrape, juste au moment où je me réveille en plein vertige, les poings fermés, agrippée aux draps ; même si de plus en plus souvent au réveil tu n'es plus là. » Autofiction, grand reportage, document politique, roman d'amour, Le Sillon est d'une richesse inclassable, porté par la lecture sensible et engagée de son autriceLoin: Suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
By Alexis Michalik. 2019
« Comment avoir l'audace de prétendre être en vie si l'on vit sans oser ? » Tout commence par quelques…
mots griffonnés au dos d'une carte postale : « Je pense à vous, je vous aime ». Ils sont signés de Charles, le père d'Antoine, parti vingt ans plus tôt sans laisser d'adresse. Avec son meilleur ami, Laurent, apprenti journaliste, et Anna, sa jeune soeur complètement déjantée, Antoine part sur les traces de ce père fantôme. C'est l'affaire d'une semaine, pense-t-il... De l'ex-Allemagne de l'Est à la Turquie d'Atatürk, de la Géorgie de Staline à l'Autriche nazie, de rebondissements en coups de théâtre, les voici partis pour un road movie généalogique et chaotique à la recherche de leurs origines insoupçonnées. Alexis Michalik a décidément le goût de l'aventure : après le succès phénoménal d'Edmond, le comédien, metteur en scène et dramaturge couronné par cinq Molières, nous embarque à bord d'un premier roman virevoltant, drôle et exaltantDestination gold!
By Julie Lawson. 2001
Canada, 1897. Sixteen-year-old Ned Turner leaves his widowed mother and younger sister, Sarah, to seek his fortune in the Klondike…
gold fields. The next year Sarah undertakes the treacherous journey to find him. Along with Catherine, a runaway, she joins Ned and shares his adventures. For grades 6-9. 2000Summer of '98: when homers flew, records fell, and baseball reclaimed America
By Mike Lupica. 1999
Sportswriter and his three sons eagerly follow the amazing 1998 baseball season, which included the McGwire-Sosa home run duel, David…
Wells's perfect game, the end of Cal Ripken's streak, and the New York Yankees' world series victory. 1999The story of baseball: Third Revised and Expanded Edition
By Lawrence S Ritter, Lawrence S. Ritter. 1999
In this new edition of his 1990 work, Ritter traces the history of baseball, assesses the elements of the game,…
and describes later developments such as players' strikes and trades. Includes batting records of Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire; discusses card collecting and commonly used signals. For grades 5-8 and older readersJim Abbott: major league pitcher (Great Achievers Ser.Great Achievers)
By Norman L Macht, Norman L. Macht. 1994
Highlights the career of major league baseball player Jim Abbott, who was born in 1967 without a right hand. Discusses…
other disabled ball players from the past. Introduction by Jerry Lewis. For grades 5-8Hardball: a season in the projects
By Daniel Coyle. 1993
Chicago's Cabrini-Green may be the worst low-rent housing development in the United States. The children have become inured to the…
sounds of gunshots and gang wars. In 1991 two men--one white, one black--with the support of several major corporations, set up a Little League. Coyle follows the First Chicago Near North Kikuyus through a year that sees them make it to the championships, in spite of the daily violence surrounding them. Violence and some strong languageJohn McGraw
By Charles Alexander, Charles C Alexander. 1988
The story of John McGraw, born in 1873, is also the story of baseball's evolution from the rough-and-tumble sport of…
the 1890s to the big business it became after World War I. Fiery, tough McGraw, whose umpire- baiting was legendary, won ten National League pennants in his forty-year careerBaseball in April and other stories
By Gary Soto. 1990
Eleven vignettes set in central California feature young Mexican-Americans going about the business of growing up. Fausto, who longs for…
a guitar, fraudulently receives a hefty reward when he returns a stray pet to a wealthy neighbor, but he is guilt-ridden until he relinquishes the money in church. And Marie, who declines a boring family vacation, is angry that fun was had without her. For grades 5-8 and older readersWe are the ship: the story of Negro League baseball (Journeys 2014)
By Kadir Nelson. 2008
Presents the history of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its decline after Jackie Robinson moved…
to the major leagues in 1947 and broke the racial barrier. Discusses gifted athletes, discrimination, and the players' passion for the sport. For grades 3-6 and older readers. Coretta Scott King Award. 2008Buddha: a story of enlightenment
By Deepak Chopra. 2007
A retelling of the Buddha's search for truth. The prince Siddhartha leaves behind his comfortable palace, becomes a wandering monk…
who faces many trials and much suffering, and transcends physical pain to achieve enlightenment as the Buddha. Includes a concise practical guide to Buddhism. 2007Saving arm pit
By Natalie Hyde. 2011
The Harmony Point Terries FINALLY has a coach that knows baseball. When their coach's job is threatened, the team springs…
to action to save it. Saving Arm Pit was a 2014 Connecticut Nutmeg Award elementary level book nomineeDivine Stories
By Andy Rotman. 2008
Divine Stories is the inaugural volume in a landmark translation series devoted to making the wealth of classical Indian Buddhism…
accessible to modern readers. The stories here, among the first texts to be inscribed by Buddhists, highlight the moral economy of karma, illustrating how gestures of faith, especially offerings, can bring the reward of future happiness and ultimate liberation. Originally contained in the Divyavadana, an enormous compendium of Sanskrit Buddhist narratives from the early Common Era, the stories in this collection express the moral and ethical impulses of Indian Buddhist thought and are a testament to the historical and social power of narrative. Long believed by followers to be the actual words of the Buddha himself, these divine stories are without a doubt some of the most influential stories in the history of Buddhism.Una noche en el Orient Express
By Veronica Henry. 2013
Un recado misterioso una promesa hecha a un amigo moribundo una propuesta inesperada un secreto que…
se remonta toda una vida Seis historias cuyo rumbo cambiar en un extraordinario viaje de Londres a Venecia Mientras el tren marcha salen a la luz relaciones confesiones y revelaciones Cuando los pasajeros lleguen a su destino su vida no volver a ser la misma www sumadeletras comJake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence
By David Guy. 2007
Jake is a Zen master and expert bicycle repairman who fixes flats and teaches meditation out of a shop in…
Bar Harbor, Maine. Hank is his long-time student. The aging Jake hopes that Hank will take over teaching for him. But the commitment-phobic Hank doesn't feel up to the job, and Jake is beginning to exhibit behavior that looks suspiciously like Alzheimer's disease. Is a guy with as many "issues" as Hank even capable of being a Zen teacher? And are those paradoxical things Jake keeps doing some kind of koan-like wisdom . . . or just dementia?These and other hard questions confront Hank, Jake, and the colorful cast of characters they meet during a week-long trip to the funky neighborhood of Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As they trek back and forth from bar to restaurant to YMCA to Zen Center to doughnut shop, answers arise--in the usual unexpected ways.Vertigo
By Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald. 2001
The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time. Vertigo,…
W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald--the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness--takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts--Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head," as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange," as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever."A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles
By Andre Maurois. 2012
"Dangerous, charming, and funny, this elegant miniature rediscovery will delight even brilliant minds."-Simon Van BooyAndré Maurois' novella, published in the…
same year as Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, is about a couple who become shipwrecked on an uncharted South Seas Island and discover a race of literary zealots for whom every subject and feeling needs to be expressed as a form of literary art. As explained by Alberto Manguel, "An Articole will publish not only his Intimate Journal, but also his Journal of My Intimate Journal; and his wife will publish My Husband's Journal of His Intimate Journal."Any Deadly Thing
By Roy Kesey. 2013
Following the critical success of his debut collection, All Over, and of his debut novel, Pacazo, Roy Kesey now brings…
us a new gathering of short stories, Any Deadly Thing. These stories first appeared in magazines including McSweeney's, Subtropics, Ninth Letter and American Short Fiction, and have been widely anthologized; among them are winners of a Pushcart Prize special mention, an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction. With story locales ranging across the Americas to Europe and Asia, Kesey once again makes the full strange world his stage. "Perfect, masterful portraits of an international cross-section of wise, broken souls--hopeful, brutal, funny as hell, and heart-crushing, every last one." -Elizabeth Crane, author of We Only Know So Much "Roy Kesey is one of my favorite contemporary writers, and Any Deadly Thing is another triumph. These stories, reminiscent of William Gass in the remarkable way they combine a virtuoso playfulness and wit with an atmosphere of grimness and grief and heartbreak, range the world over for their brilliantly realized locales, but they share a deeper setting in what Gass calls 'the only holiness we have,' human consciousness. Kesey demonstrates once again that he is a spectacularly deft and empathetic priest of that creed, which is the only one for me." -Michael Griffith, author of TrophyOnce a Peacock, Once an Actress: Twenty-Four Lives of the Bodhisattva from Haribhatta's "Jatakamala"
By Peter Khoroche, Haribhatta. 2017
Written in Kashmir around 400 CE, Haribhatta’s Jåtakamåla is a remarkable example of classical Sanskrit literature in a mixture of…
prose and verse that for centuries was known only in its Tibetan translation. But between 1973 and 2004 a large portion of the Sanskrit original was rediscovered in a number of anonymous manuscripts. With this volume Peter Khoroche offers the most complete translation to date, making almost 80 percent of the work available in English. Haribhatta’s Jåtakamålå is a sophisticated and personal adaptation of popular stories, mostly non-Buddhist in origin, all illustrating the future Buddha’s single-minded devotion to the good of all creatures, and his desire, no matter what his incarnation—man, woman, peacock, elephant, merchant, or king—to assist others on the path to nirvana. Haribhatta’s insight into human and animal behavior, his astonishing eye for the details of landscape, and his fine descriptive powers together make this a unique record of everyday life in ancient India as well as a powerful statement of Buddhist ethics. This translation will be a landmark in the study of Buddhism and of the culture of ancient India.Bardo or Not Bardo
By J. T. Mahany, Antoine Volodine. 2016
"Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism…
and political commentary."--Nicholas Hauck, Music & LiteratureOne of Volodine's funniest books, Bardo or Not Bardo takes place in his universe of failed revolutions, radical shamanism, and off-kilter nomenclature.In each of these seven vignettes, someone dies and has to make his way through the Tibetan afterlife, also known as the Bardo. In the Bardo, souls wander for forty-nine days before being reborn, helped along on their journey by the teachings of the Book of the Dead.Unfortunately, Volodine's characters bungle their chances at enlightenment, with the recently dead choosing to waste away their afterlife sleeping, or choosing to be reborn as an insignificant spider. The still-living aren't much better off, making a mess of things in their own ways, such as erroneously reciting a Tibetan cookbook to a lost comrade instead of the holy book.Once again, Volodine has demonstrated his range and ambition, crafting a moving, hysterical work about transformations and the power of the book.Antoine Volodine is the primary pseudonym of a French writer who has published twenty books under this name, several of which are available in English translation, such as Minor Angels, and Writers. He also publishes under the names Lutz Bassmann and Manuela Draeger.J. T. Mahany is a graduate of the Master of Arts in Literary Translation Studies program at the University of Rochester and is currently studying for his MFA at the University of Arkansas.