Eva Hail, an anthropologist in her mid-30s, disappears from her campsite. She is researching the Anasazi abandonment of the 14th century, weaving together astronomy, ancient religions, and the Art of Memory. Eva's belongings are left behind, and there are no signs of violence. Joe Hill, a local tracker, is asked to look for her, aided only by her field notebook.Joe's daughter is playing Ophelia in Hamlet, which introduces the questions Shakespearean scholars have debated since 1598. Can we know if we've truly seen a ghost? Can witnesses or experiments validate reality? Joe is haunted by his memories: his father left before Joe was born; his mother, an herbal healer, died five years ago; his wife, a dancer, abandoned him.Set in 1958 in the American Southwest, Ophelia's Ghost explores key themes of this period: UFOs, the space race, Einstein's relativity, parallel universes, and structural anthropology. Joe's search to find Eva uncovers mysteries of the past, present, and future.

Ophelia's Ghost

Literature & Fiction

Entsminger, Gary Lee

Elliott, Susan Elizabeth

Contemporary

Pinyon Publishing

TABLES moves from a focus on nuclear physics to astronomy. Stuart's use of these controls isn't technical, but some of their terms are explicit (e.g., fission, black holes, dark matter). Stuart uses images from these two areas to explore dimensions of everyday human experience. In "Yucca Mountain," the place planned for the burial of nuclear waste becomes a focus for the yucca plant itself, dances Native Americans performed on the little mountain, and the speaker's memories of his father.Family is one of the recurrent contexts for the understanding particle physics shadows. "Vowel Sounds" begins with the problem of naming newly discovered forces and moves toward a conclusion in which discrete particles and the friction among them become an image of how families work. Figures such as Cézanne, Miró, Ezekiel, and Klee counterpoint these ruminations. Stuart's unpredictable humor colors the poems, as does his love of our life and the complex ways we speak of it.

Tables

Stuart, Dabney

Poetry

In arid coastal areas of South America, locals hang rags outside until they're saturated with fog. They wring out this water, all year long, as a means of survival. They call it "harvesting fog." And that, writes LUCI SHAW, is a lot like writing poems. In her poems, Shaw observes and contemplates nature and humanity: "I'm merely a floater in the eye of God." "Behold the fleck of ant... If by observation, we become part of an insect's life, is he aware of us?" Shaw's poems invite us to awaken the spirit of loving and giving: "The tide that outward ebbs, turns then and inward flows, And what I offer you, you'll multiply to me." Shaw's 10th volume of poetry satisfies a thirsty imagination. Shaw turns the details of our lives, the droplets, into the music of possibility.PRAISE for HARVESTING FOG:Luci Shaw sees in the natural world a dynamic incarnation of God's love. Luminous poems, of faith richly woven into the fabric of daily life and change, full of surprises and moments of delicious holy mischief.--Betsy ShollIntensely personal, her poems also draw deeply on the legacy she has embraced as an heir to Herbert, Hopkins, Dickinson, and others whose shadows fall gently across her lines, giving them texture and adding to their quiet contemporary beauty.--Marilyn McEntyreEnvision a long life through imaginative changes of lens. Light becomes a bookish beetle, the Infant Jesus is "a small sack of God," and idea is "a glitter of ash" to be flung over the ocean.--Jeanine HathawayOne might argue with Heidegger that only in poetry can Being achieve adequate articulation, find a "local habitation and a name," become known. For Shaw, whose poems so brilliantly and movingly locate authentic Being in the forms and processes of nature, the lyric impulse often approaches the incarnational.--B.H.FairchildSacramental poems offer nourishment for the starving soul with a topping of delightful whimsy, a "bowlful of cool" in the face.--Paul Willis

Harvesting Fog

Shaw, Luci

The Art of Memory has been used for mental and spiritual training by ancient orators (e.g., Cicero), Christian figures (e.g., Thomas Aquinas), and modern practitioners (e.g., Dominic O'Brien) since before the time of Christ. This powerful memory technique can also be used to remember other kinds of information (lists, speeches, important dates, etc.). At its essence, the Art of Memory involves placing symbolic images at designated locations along a journey. IN THIS BOOK, YOU'LL FIND: Step-by-step instructions to memorize 30 parables using the Art of Memory. 30 full-page paintings plus diagrams to help you visualize your memory journey. Each parable distilled into a concise, elegant poem. Parables cross-referenced in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Thomas. A history of the Art of Memory and Jesus' parables. Techniques for remembering chapters and verse references. JESUS taught in figurative language. He compared the kingdom of heaven to leaven.He indicated how people should live in the kingdom by telling vivid and sometimes puzzling parables. Some of these parables suggest reversals of expectations.Very small things, like mustard seeds, can grow into majestic and great products. All of the parables contain tangible and vivid images. These images make them memorable. BY LEARNING JESUS' PARABLES BY HEART, you will become acquainted with Jesus' parables in a deeper way. By practicing the Art of Memory, you will grow to see remembering not as a tiresome and time-consuming task but as a relaxing pleasure. See your memories for what they are-treasures and enduring gifts.

Remembering the Parables: Using the Art of Memory to remember Jesus' parables

Religion & Spirituality

WriteItNow 4 is the ideal writing software for novice and experienced writers. "Making the Most of WriteItNow 4" is your key to effective, efficient use of the software.WITH state-of-the-art writing tools (chapter, scene, character, location, event, note, and idea editors, spell checker, and thesaurus), creativity-promoting features (idea generators, graphs, prompts, add-ons), and classy formatting/export options, WriteItNow 4 takes you from first idea to final manuscript with ease.MAKING THE MOST OF WRITEITNOW 4 enables you to optimize your writing experience. You'll quickly learn how to use WriteItNow's essential tools and features. You'll get advice from established authors, while being encouraged to let your personal writing style come out. Step-by-step examples of all major features show you WriteItNow in action.INSTEAD of squandering your time surfing software and learning by trial and error, let Making the Most of WriteItNow 4 be your guide and enhance your writing experience.IN THIS BOOK, you'll learn how to: (1) Write and store complete novels; (2) Edit and rearrange chapters with a Story Board; (3) Create background details and personalities for characters and graph their relationships; (4) Establish reasonable Writing Targets; (5) Fine tune your writing with word counts, readability tools, a crossword capable theasurus, and numerous Web Tools; (6) Create Web, File, and Research links; (7) Use, Create, and Edit Prompts Sets; (8) Generate characters and background notes; (9) Manage reference and submission data; (10) Prepare manuscripts for submission or publication; (11) Navigate WriteItNow menus, dialogs, Tree and Tab views; and (12) Import stories into WriteItNow that you've started in another program.

Making the Most of WriteItNow 4

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Spilled Milk: Haiku Destinies

Hotham, Gary

Monks become rock stars! Chant of Death is set in a fictional Benedictine Abbey in southern Louisiana, where Spanish moss veils the landscape, and a murderous soul has found a cloistered refuge. When murder breaks out, Father Malachi finds his powers stretched to the limit in an effort to protect the innocent and identify the killer.

Chant of Death

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Anders, Isabel

Moore, Diane Marquart

Mystery

Most saints began as children, as all humans do. Martin de Porres’ white father abandoned him; Dymphna fled an incestuous father. Rosa de Lima threw her mother into despair. Brendan built a boat from leather and butter; Francis of Assisi talked to animals. Teresa de Ávila wielded a wry sense of humor, and Catherine of Alexandria argued fifty master philosophers into cowering silence. A few, though, did not know childhood or death. Archangel Michael’s name was a battle cry; shining Gabriel calmed the terrified before delivering his messages. Desperate for the powers associated with Librada (relief from bad husbands and boyfriends) and Expeditus (exceedingly swift help), people conjured these saints from relic and desire. Catherine Ferguson and Lisa Sandlin have combined their exceptional talents to create a beautiful book of retablo paintings of saints, accompanied by biographies that draw on ancient sources, poetry, and literature. You Who Make The Sky Bend relates the saints to stages of the human condition, thus placing them into the wheel of life. For they touch lives. The saints remain on call, as if their form is a kind of ethereal transmitter tube lit by their filament souls. Many people talk to them, daily, weekly, or on the unforeseen morning when misfortune pushes past their threshold. And many people believe they are heard—by the saint, their better selves, their own hearts.

You Who Make the Sky Bend: Saints as Archetypes of the Human Condition

Sandlin, Lisa

Christian Books & Bibles

The scents that permeate the poems of AROMATICS include bittersweet ones of memory, acrid ones of danger, and many others equally enticing or alarming. Candles-in this enlightened age, who needs them? Everyone and his mother, it appears. And what they're after more than anything is opportunity to choose aromas. As in Robert B. Shaw's previous work, his questing scrutiny of the world's inner mysteries is revealed in daily concerns and the self-reflection and hope that accompanies it. Looking through the skylight a moment after midnight, I found my gaze returned. The seven bright eyes burned with neither love nor hate. Robert Frost once offered this definition of a successful poem: "Read it a hundred times: it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance." The poems in this book aspire to that high standard. "Robert Shaw can do almost anything in verse, and do it well. His structural patterns vary; the range of his subjects is wide, but his New England sensibility is bedrock; unexpected shifts and turns mark many poems. His voice is conversational yet quietly formal, amiably inviting to his reader. Everything, no matter how randomly it may seem to occur, is aimed. His rare and subtle ways of observing the things of this world are also affectionate and welcoming. Aromatics, Shaw's sixth book of poetry, caps 30 years of work, of saying what he has 'lived to say.' It's a gem."-Dabney Stuart, Author of "Tables" "Undaunted by 'the heatless fire of time' (not heartless-heatless), unafraid of the monsters of myth (check the poem about Perseus), and wonderfully allusive, whether comic (how did Rilke get into that gym? see the end of 'Working Out') or tragicomic (see the villanelle 'Single File,' with its joke against Frost's 'Design'), Shaw demonstrates once again his care and craft, his mix of transatlantic, or traditional, elegance and New England honesty, of fluent blank verse and rhyme, attentive to-rather than bound by-the examples of Frost, Auden, Merrill. Here is an unshowy, confident, and often masterful collection: read it and hear it, and you might just find yourself saying, some times, 'What a neat effect!' and at others, simply, 'Life is like that.-Stephen Burt, professor of English at Harvard, Author of "Close Calls with Nonsense"

Aromatics

SHAW, Robert B.

When six-year-old Mary's mother dies unexpectedly, she is "adopted" by her neighbors, Val and David. But nothing about Mary or her adoption is normal. She's a giant—nearly seven feet tall, brilliant and beautiful, the result of her mother's in vitro fertilization at a clinic in Vermilion, Louisiana. What happened? Did something go wrong? Or was it planned by doctors experimenting on humans? And if so, is it still happening in other fertility clinics in the United States, Russia, and North Korea? Val, a reluctant mother and professor of biology, becomes detective and protector. Her own research on the genetics of polyploid plants that have multiple sets of chromosomes give her insights and sympathy for this super, but outnumbered, new race of humans. A new race that is threatened by a fearful government and public, who want to eliminate them (and their differences) at any cost. Murder, mystery, speculative science, and a mother's love blend in a novel that asks us to consider what would happen if life were just a little bit different.

Adoption

Sullivan, Victoria I

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