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В этой книге собраны тексты, которые были написаны рукой Исаака Ильича Левитана и тех, кто захотел сохранить свои воспоминания о нем. Задача этого издания — предложить читателю возможность погрузиться в мир одного из самых известных русских художников.

Le destin d’un homme se forge au travers de ses réalisations, mais aussi de son attitude à l’égard de la vie, de ses valeurs et de son éthique. Jean-Pierre Cuoni, le créateur de la banque internationale EFG, épaulé par un ami de longue date qui traversa bien des batailles avec lui, Lonnie Howell, éleva comme vertus cardinales l’éthique et la loyauté dans un monde de la finance désenchanté et pragmatique.

For fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction.

Country Editor's Boy picks up where Hal Borland's classic memoir High, Wide and Lonesome left off: with Borland, on the cusp of adulthood in the early twentieth century, making his way in an eastern Colorado town that still retained all the flavors of the Old West. Borland's father, the editor of a local weekly newspaper, was working to help his publication transition along with the town around him. At the same time, young Hal was experiencing dramatic social and economic change in his own way.

Stefanie Sargnagels Blick auf die USA ist so unverwechselbar wie ihr Schreiben: Sarkastisch, schonungslos ehrlich und doch voll Sympathie bringt sie uns das ländliche Amerika nahe und berichtet nebenbei herzerwärmend über die Lebensnotwendigkeit von Frauenfreundschaften. 2022 tauscht Stefanie Sargnagel widerstrebend das bequeme Wiener Sofa gegen ein Flugticket in die USA ein. In Iowa soll sie an einem College mitten im Nirgendwo Creative Writing unterrichten.

"Monkey Weddings & Summer Sapphires" is a lovely telling of a childhood spent in Johannesburg, South Africa, and of settling into adult life and motherhood in Nova Scotia, Canada. Recipes, collected from travels, family, and friends allows the story to be told with the foods and dishes as the conveyance. The changing seasons, the natural wild beauty that surrounds everyday life, the abundance of wild edibles and local produce all serve as the inspiration to each chapter.

How do you survive when everything you hold dear has been ripped away? This is the question Radha Manickam asks himself during the three years and nine months he spends under the merciless rule of the Khmer Rouge. When Khmer Rouge forces take the city of Phnom Penh in 1975, Radha is a new Christian, passionate about living out his faith. Over the next years of his life, 1.7 million of his fellow Cambodians--including most of his own family--will perish due to starvation, disease, and unthinkable violence.

In the turbulent late seventies, six-year-old Susanna Crossman moved with her mother and siblings from a suburban terrace to a crumbling mansion deep in the English countryside. They would share their new home with over fifty other residents from all over the world, armed with worn paperbacks on ecology, Marx and radical feminism, drawn together by utopian dreams of remaking the world. They did not leave for fifteen years.

James Beard is a speaker on topics such as traditional living and natural spirit teachings. His topics address many concerns to do with wellness and balance in life. He is a student of native teachings from Ojibwe Elders, Algonquin language based people, living throughout the Great Lakes Region of the US and Canada. The audiences for his presentations vary from youth to elderly. His work is dedicated to telling anyone who has interest about his native brothers.

Melissa, an English dominatrix, has just lost her mother. But she has also promised to fly to Massachusetts to play the cane-happy headmistress of a girls’ boarding school in a film funded by a wealthy benefactor—and to give a keynote address on birching bare bottoms at a spanking conference in Texas four weeks later.

In a small Nigerian village, six-year-old Jaycee's world is shattered by violence, neglect, and betrayal. As she navigates the treacherous waters of her broken home, she discovers an inner strength that defies her years. Bounced between abusive relatives and well-meaning strangers, Jaycee's fight for survival becomes a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. But in a world where love and cruelty walk hand in hand, can a child's hope prevail?

Derrick Kitayiga’s woke up one morning from what he now sees as a God-sent dream. But a dream of moving from Kampala, Uganda, to the West is one thing; seeing it come to pass is quite another. In I Dreamed of Skyscrapers, Kitayiga paints a vivid picture of the transformative and hope-filled power of faith. The author navigates through many obstacles—betrayal, grief, theft of his savings, and lack of support he could count on, and yet he persevered.

The Police see everything, the best and worst of humanity, from accidental tragedy to psychopathic crime. As a part of Macon, Ga. law enforcement from 1970s through 2016, Sgt. Neal Smith experienced it all. This memoir is a first hand account of the realities that most citizens never see, from having to shoot a rock star he grew up with, to a high speed kidnapping case that set the interstate median on fire for several miles.

Ever learn a life lesson the hard way as a kid? Had an unforgettable experience that still makes you chuckle? Wish you could share those memories with the world? In this hilarious and heartwarming collection of tales, Chris Williams does just that, inviting you into his remembered childhood on the Kansas plains.

The memoir "From a small village, a journey through Africa into the world" reads like a gripping adventure novel. Alicja's experiences are amazing and adventurous - a girl from a small village who first becomes involved with a Nigerian man then copes well on her own in a distant, somewhat wild country. Her memories are also a large piece of Polish history and life in the Polish People's Republic, as well as the history of Nigeria. The cultural differences between our countries described are fascinating, as well as how the world has changed.

"Beyond the Rivers of Babylon" follows Joe's remarkable journey, from his colorful childhood in the Old Jewish Quarter of Bagdad, to his life-altering service in the Israeli Navy, to starting a family and building a real estate empyrean Montreal and Los Angeles.

I never thought in my darkest moments, or wildest dreams, that one day I would, with my partner of ten years David, find myself in a Land Rover we called Lizzybus driving around the world. If I had imagined this, it would have been nothing like the reality of it, of blistering hot desserts, snow-covered mountains, civil wars, and uprisings, with our life depending on each other and Lizzybus. From the very first moment I stepped foot on African soil, I wrote about the reality of living two feet from your other half 24 hours a day.

Papa, whose given name was Armando, was born at home, the fifth son in his Italian immigrant family, and the first of the family to be born in America. His mother Graziella was ill and unable to nurse him, and the doctor told Papa's father Vincenzo that the baby wouldn’t survive the night. Vincenzo held baby Armando and said, "If you're going out of the world tonight, little one, I want you to go happy." He took a crust of bread and dipped it into wine and put it to baby Armando's mouth, again, and again, and again. And in the morning, the crisis had passed. Armando had survived.

Joachim Ringelnatz zählt heute zu den wenigen Dichtern, die das deutschsprachige Kabarett seinerzeit überhaupt hervorgebracht hat. Aber nicht nur auf den Brettl-Bühnen, auch im alltäglichen Leben war er ein Original, ohne dies überhaupt sein zu wollen. Mit seinen Streichen lieferte er jedoch ausreichend Stoff für unzählige Anekdoten, die natürlich sehr bald zu Legendenbildungen führten. Es ist also nicht sonderlich verwunderlich, dass über kaum einen anderen Künstler des vergangenen Jahrhunderts soviel Merkwürdigkeiten, soviel Zoten berichtet wurden, wie eben über Joachim Ringelnatz.

Hernán Mamani ha una storia da raccontare. Intensa e coinvolgente, che parla di risveglio, di rinascita spirituale e di conquista di una nuova vita più autentica. Quello che racconta è lo straordinario percorso di un uomo che, grazie a una conoscenza antica che credeva perduta, eredità delle antiche tradizioni sciamaniche, riscopre il potere dei sogni e l'importanza di saper ascoltare il proprio cuore per ritrovare pace e armonia e ristabilire un contatto con la Madre Terra.