The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith, ISBN 0471078646
"The Holocaust has hovered on the periphery of the American imagination for so many decades now, it’ s hard to believe a book could come along at this point to burn a whole new perspective into our consciousness. But that’ s just what Martin Goldsmith has done with this astonishing work. . . . Goldsmith [writes] with modesty, restraint, and skill . . . masterly."-SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"A fascinating insight into a virtually unknown chapter of nazi rule in Germany, made all the more engaging through a son’ s discovery of his own remarkable parents."-TED KOPPEL, ABC News
"An immensely moving and powerful description of those evil times. I couldn’ t put the book down."-JAMES GALWAY, Grammy Award<->winning Flutist
"Martin Goldsmith has written a moving and personal account of a search for identity. His is a story that will touch all readers with its integrity. . . . This is a journey everyone should take."-LEONARD SLATKIN, Music Director, National Symphony Orchestra
"For years I’ ve been familiar with Martin Goldsmith’ s musical expertise. This book explains the source of his knowledge and his passion for the subject. In tracking the extraordinary story of his parents and the Jewish Kulturbund, Martin unfolds a little-known piece of Holocaust history, and finds depths in his own heart that warm the hearts of readers."-SUSAN STAMBERG, Special Correspondent, National Public Radio
"As much a tribute to the power of music as it is a Holocaust memoir, this book tells the deeply affecting story of a love that survived the terrors of WWII.
Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination by Ostwalt, Conrad, Jr., ISBN 1563383616
In Secular Steeples, Conrad Ostwalt challenges long-held assumptions about the relationship between religion and culture and about the impact of secularization. This book tries to move away from the idea that religion will diminish as secularization continues. Instead, Ostwalt guides us along a busy two-way street, where religions and secular views interact and enrich each other.
Ostwalt contends that secularization has not and will not destroy religion, despite the promise of the Enlightenment to free society from religions confines. He points out that secularization does shift the authority to express religious ideals from traditional places to other cultural forms such as the government, entertainment, or media. He challenges the often repeated assumption that Europe is more secularized than America; secularization is a reality in both to the same degree, but proceeds in distinctly different ways.
Religious institutions, he says, use secular and popular cultural forms like television,...
Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination by Ostwalt, Conrad, Jr., ISBN 1563383616
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Book and Sword by Louis Cha, ISBN 0195907272
Louis Cha's martial arts epics have sold millions of copies worldwide. Many of them have appeared on best-sellers' lists in Chinese markets and have been adapted into television series and films. The Book and Sword, Louis Cha's first novel, is about an underworld plot to overthrow the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795). It revives a legend about the great Manchu Emperor, which claims that he was in fact not a Manchu but a Han Chinese as a result of a "baby swap." The novel is panoramic in scope and includes the fantastical elements for which Cha is well-known: secret societies, kungfu masters, a lost desert city guarded by wolf packs, and the mysterious Fragrant Princess.
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Lang
A man makes a phone call to his best friend in the middle of the night. He needs help, he says...oh, and he also needs to borrow a heavy-duty shovel. Christian Lang's story--"from one of Scandinavia's most acclaimed new noir writers--"is one of obsession, both physical and emotional. A famous novelist and television show host, Lang wants to keep secret his affair with the enchanting Sarita, but she has her own reasons for keeping quiet too. Lang finds himself caught up in a sinister love triangle with Sarita and her psychotic ex-husband. He knows that his life is in danger, but so great is Lang's passion for Sarita that he is unable to stay away. As he is drawn further into a web of lust, lies, and violence, his judgment becomes increasingly wayward. Lang is a compelling story about the power of passion to override every emotion, even fear.
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Tvtherapy: The Television Guide to Life
From the co-author of the Cinematherapy series comes a television guide that understands that TV is more than entertainment--it's remote control therapy.
Tvtherapy: The Television Guide to Life
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Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction by Andrew Horton, ISBN 0292705190
"Dear Bummy, You take the BS out of filmmaking!"--Clint Eastwood's comment on Henry Bumstead's receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998 from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Art Directors"Making a movie with Bummy was always a pleasure because it was like going to work with a good friend who also had a fine, artistic eye, who shared your vision, and who knew infinitely more about the practical nuts-and-bolts business of putting a story on camera than you did. . . . Everything he designed served the movie. He knew how to visually bring it to life."--Robert MulliganFrom a hotel in Marrakech in The Man Who Knew Too Much, to small-town Alabama in To Kill a Mockingbird, to Mission Control in Space Cowboys, creating a fictional, yet wholly believable world in which to film a movie has been the passion and life's work of Henry Bumstead, one of Hollywood's most celebrated production designers. In a career that has spanned nearly seventy years, Bumstead has worked on more than...
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction by Andrew Horton, ISBN 0292705190
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The Mystery of the Television Dog
The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades. Now the first ten books in the series have updated covers that bring new life to these perennial best-sellers.
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Remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford, ISBN 0345379365
An electrifying new novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford, who demonstrates her superb storytelling gifts in this passionate tale of Nicky Wells. Beautfiul and fabulously successful as a television war correspondent, she deeply mourns the loss of her great love, only to be confronted with disturbing suspicions that this remarkable man led a mysterious double life....
Remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford, ISBN 0345379365
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Call of Duty 2
BradyGames’ "Call of Duty 2 Official Strategy Guide" includes the following:
- A comprehensive walkthrough of the entire game.
- Maps for every mission, pinpointing crucial items, enemies, and locations.
- Complete weapon tactics.
- Detailed multiplayer coverage with the ins and outs of every multiplayer mode.
- Game secrets revealed!
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