Taste life spur paperback

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 Excellent condition. Like new. Paperback. Postage R55.00. Extra items free. At nineteen Bieke Vandekerckhove fell ill. The diagnosis was devastating: the fatal motor neuron disease ALS. Life expectancy: two to five years. So what did she do with the paltry bit of life that was left? By force of circumstance she was led to Saint Lioba Convent in Egmond-Binnen. There she learned Benedictine spirituality and to pray the psalms, which influenced her life for good. Three years later she learned that her illness had gone into remission but that it could flare up again at any time. She has been living with ALS for twenty years now. She is married and has two assistants to help her as necessary. Ten years ago she found the silence of Zen. This encounter also proved decisive. The Taste of Silence reflects what she experienced, saw, and tasted in the stillness of life: "Benedictine spirituality and Zen Buddhism became the two lungs through which I breathe."

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days 'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants. Features Summary Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence... Author Dante Alighieri Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20160303 Pages 52 ISBN 0-241-25042-0 ISBN 13 978-0-241-25042-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Distant Heart is the second book in the Westward Hearts Series, a series that tells the stories of three strong women as they struggle to survive on the rough wagon train and lose their hearts to unlikely heroes along the way. Toni Rodden has just escaped a life of prostitution and vows she'll never let a man control her again. After months on the wagon train, she's finally earned her place, albeit grudgingly from some, and has found a surrogate family in Fannie Caldwell and her two siblings. For the first time in her life she can taste freedom and the chance at a new life. But Fannie's about to marry wagon master Blake Tanner, and Toni begins to worry she'll never find acceptance, or true love. But despite Toni's conviction that no man will be able to see beyond her marred past, Sam Two-Feathers, the half-Indian wagon scout and acting preacher for the train, seems to know of a love that forgives sins and values much more than outward appearances. Will Sam have the confidence to declare his love? Will Toni be able to trust in a love that can forgive even the darkest past? Features Summary In the second book in the Westward Hearts trilogy, Toni has escaped a life of prostitution but feels that no man will be able to see beyond her marred past... Author Tracey Bateman Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Release date 20080109 Pages 262 ISBN 0-06-124634-4 ISBN 13 978-0-06-124634-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days From the hugely respected journalist Miranda Sawyer, a very modern look at the midlife crisis - delving into the truth, and lies, of the experience and how to survive it, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour.`You wake one day and everything is wrong. It's as though you went out one warm evening - an evening fizzing with delicious potential, so ripe and sticky-sweet you can taste it on the air - for just one drink... and woke up two days later in a skip. Except you're not in a skip, you're in an estate car, on the way to an out-of-town shopping mall to buy a balance bike, a roof rack and some stackable storage boxes.'Miranda Sawyer's midlife crisis began when she was 44. It wasn't a traditional one. She didn't run off with a Pilates teacher, or blow thousands on a trip to find herself. From the outside, all remained the same. Work, kids, marriage, mortgage, blah. Days, weeks and months whizzed past as she struggled with feeling - knowing - that she was over halfway through her life. It seemed only yesterday that she was 29, out and about.Out of Time is not a self-help book. It's an exploration of this sudden crisis, this jolt. It looks at how our tastes, and our bodies, change as we get older. It considers the unexpected new pleasures that the second half of life can offer, from learning to code to taking up running (slowly). Speaking to musicians and artists, friends and colleagues, Miranda asks how they too have confronted midlife, and the lessons, if any, that they've learned along the way. Features Summary From the hugely respected journalist Miranda Sawyer, a very modern look at the midlife crisis - delving into the truth, and lies, of the experience and how to survive it... Author Miranda Sawyer Publisher Fourth Estate Release date 20160630 Pages 272 ISBN 0-00-752107-3 ISBN 13 978-0-00-752107-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Koldo - The Heavens' Most Wrathful Warrior His name is Koldo. He is scarred, powerful, his control legendary - and he lives only for vengeance against the angel who viciously removed his wings. But if he yields to the forces of hatred, he will be eternally damned. Nicola Lane was born with a defective heart, yet this fragile human shows surprising strength as demons stalk her every move, determined to end her. She is the key to Koldo's deliverance...and his downfall. Though he fights duty, destiny and his first addictive taste of desire, his toughest battle will be the one for Nicola's life - even if he has to sacrifice his own... Features Summary Koldo - The Heavens' Most Wrathful Warrior His name is Koldo. He is scarred, powerful, his control legendary - and he lives only for vengeance against the angel who viciously removed his wings. Author Gena Showalter Publisher Mira Books Release date 20130301 Pages 447 ISBN 1-84845-218-7 ISBN 13 978-1-84845-218-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Survivor of the Nazi camps and Ceausescu's Romania, winner of the National Book Award, recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Norman Manea, an extraordinary man of letters, "gives us a taste of something beyond the scope of even our twentieth-century imagination.... Manea is too profound a witness to place his gift for observation in the service of another sensualist account.... What matters for him is the phenomenon of an entire nation's life under this simultaneously grotesque and terrifying rule." -- The New Republic Features Summary Survivor of the Nazi camps and Ceausescu's Romania, winner of the National Book Award, recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Norman Manea... Author Manea Publisher Avalon Travel Publishing Release date 19940128 Pages 192 ISBN 0-8021-3375-4 ISBN 13 978-0-8021-3375-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days SALVE!, International Edition is a complete, learner-friendly program for your introductory Italian course that provides you with all of the tools you will need to succeed! The manageable grammar and vocabulary presentations are easy to understand and study, helping you communicate more effectively from the first day of class. Rich cultural material and Sulla Strada video clips give you a taste of everyday life in Italy to provide real-world context, and a wealth of activities in the text and online make it easier to master the nuances of this remarkable language. Features Summary A program for your introductory Italian course that provides you with the tools you need to succeed. Author Carla Larese Riga Publisher Heinle & Heinle Publishers Inc.,U.S. Release date 20090303 Pages 368 ISBN 0-495-80051-1 ISBN 13 978-0-495-80051-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward's extraordinary wife, the Argentinian-American heiress Sarita Sanford.Valiant Gentlemen takes the reader on an intimate journey, from Ward and Casement's misadventurous youth in the Congo - where, among other things, they bore witness to an Irish whiskey heir's taste for cannibalism - to Ward's marriage to Sarita and their flourishing family life in France, to Casement's covert homosexuality and enduring nomadic lifestyle floating between his work across the African continent and involvement in Irish politics. When World War I breaks out, Casement and Ward's longstanding political differences finally come to a head and when Ward and his teenage sons leave to fight on the frontlines for England, Casement begins to work alongside the Germans to help free Ireland from British rule. What results is tragic and riveting, as both men are forced to confront notions of love and betrayal in the face of the vastly different tracks their lives have taken. Features Summary A spellbinding historical epic that follows the lives and friendship of poet and Easter Rising Irish rebel Roger Casement and English sculptor Herbert Ward from their youth working in the Congo to Casement's arrest for treason and death by execution in 1916 Author Sabina Murray Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Release date 20170706 Pages 496 ISBN 1-61185-520-9 ISBN 13 978-1-61185-520-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati - author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature - stories which show the Italian master's taste for the bizarre and the humorous, and for exploring the darker recesses of the human psyche. From `The Collapse of the Baliverna', where a man is racked with guilt at the thought that he might have been responsible for the loss of many lives, to `The Epidemic', which describes the spread of a "state influenza" contracted only by people who don't step into line with the government, and `Terror at the Scala', where the higher echelons of Milan society are gripped with the fear of an impending revolution - these stories show how strange and unexpected events can creep into everyday life and draw ordinary people towards mystery, disquiet and, ultimately, catastrophe. Features Summary This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati, author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature. Author Dino Buzzati (Author), Judith Landry (Translator) Publisher Alma Classics Release date 20180715 Pages 224 ISBN 1-84749-736-5 ISBN 13 978-1-84749-736-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Discover the pioneering new comic from transgender cartoonist Erin Nations! Called by critics "funny, sincere, and just generally brilliant," Gumballs is a one-man variety show spanning graphic memoir, observational comedy, razor-sharp character studies, and so much more. Gumballs dispenses an array of bright, candy-colored short comics about Erin's gender transition, anecdotal true tales of growing up as a triplet, and fictional stories of a socially inept lovestruck teenager named Tobias. The wide-ranging series is filled with single-page gag cartoons, visual diaries of everyday life, funny faux personal ads, and real-life horror stories of customers at his day job. Gumballs offers a variety of flavors that will surely delight anyone with a taste for candid self-reflection and observations of humanity. Gumballs tips its hat to the classic alt-comic tradition of Eightball, Optic Nerve, and Box Office Poison, but speaks with a delightfully fresh voice for the modern age. This book collects Gumballs #1-4, plus 32 pages of brand-new content! Winner of the 2018 Dinky Award for Outstanding Work Showcasing Diversity Features Summary "An array of bright, candy-colored short comics about [the author's] gender transition, anecdotal tales of growing up as a triplet, and fictional stories of a socially inept... Author Erin Nations Publisher Top Shelf Productions Release date 20180626 Pages 160 ISBN 1-60309-431-8 ISBN 13 978-1-60309-431-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Not bored to death but murder most foul... Celebrated author John Heppel is known in Lochdubh as a self-important bore, prone to belittling the scribblings of the locals in his creative writing class. So when he's found dead, his mouth oozing ink, it seems a fitting fate. But for PC Hamish Macbeth the murder is more than a disruption to idyllic village life - especially when the media arrive, trailing in their wake DCI Heather Meikle, a maneater with a taste for bachelor police constables. Hamish must rekindle an old flame to escape her clutches and pull out all the stops to find the killer... Praise for M.C. Beaton 'The detective novels of M. C. Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status' Anne Robinson, The Times 'The books are a delight: clever, intricate, sardonic and amazingly true to the real Highlands' Kerry Greenwood 'It's always a special treat to return to Lochdubh' New York Times Features Summary From the author of the ever-popular Agatha Raisin series, this is the 20th outing for the Highland's most famous PC, Hamish Macbeth. Author M.C. Beaton Publisher Constable Release date 20181030 Pages 320 ISBN 1-4721-2456-1 ISBN 13 978-1-4721-2456-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days For three years, Penny Ercanbeck has been opening other people's mail. Dead ends are a reality for clerks at the Dead Letter Office. Still she dreams of something more--a bit of intrigue, a taste of romance, or at least a touch less loneliness. When a letter from a brokenhearted man to his one true love falls into her hands, Penny seizes this chance to do something heroic. It becomes her mission to place this lost letter into the hands of its intended recipient. Thomas left his former life with no intention of ending up in Azure Springs, Iowa. He certainly didn't expect a happy ending after what he had done. All he wanted to do was run and never look back. In a moment of desperation, he began to write, never really expecting a reply. When Penny's undertaking leads her to the intriguing man who touched her soul with his words, everything grows more complicated. She wants to find the rightful owner of the letter and yet she finds herself caring--perhaps too much--for the one who wrote it. Features Summary A young woman working at the Dead Letter Office in 1883 opens a series of heartbreaking love letters. She's determined to find their rightful owner and make things right... Author Rachel Fordham Publisher Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group Release date 20190702 Pages 320 ISBN 0-8007-3538-2 ISBN 13 978-0-8007-3538-8

Paperback. English. Andrews McMeel Publishing. 1997. In good condition. Warning: more stupidity ahead (also selfishness and horniness) Nostradamus, step aside. Scott Adams has turned futurist and gives us a much needed look into his skewed crystal ball. Here's a taste of what you'll learn in 'The Dibert Future: ' in the future, life definitely won't be like 'Star Trek' (or else we'd never leave the holodeck) there will be a huge market for technology products that help workers goof off and still get paidInternet capacity will increase indefinitely to keep up with the egos of the people using it it will be increasingly easy to find customers gullible enough to buy any product, no matter how worthless and stupid it is your competitors will remain just as clueless as your are There's only one word to describe life in 'The Dibert Future: ' HILARIOUS. Scott Adams' Guided Tour of the Orgins and Evolution of Dilbert

Native Nostalgia In this, his first book, Jacob Dlamini writes about growing up in Katlehong in Gauteng, in the tradition of Orhan Pamuk's and Walter Benjamin's accounts of their childhoods in Istanbul and Berlin respectively. Using fragments from his own childhood, he examines the nostalgia that many black people feel for the past their lives under apartheid. In arguing that people do not stop being moral agents just because they are politically oppressed or discriminated against, the author seeks to recover the moral content of black life under apartheid. This book is about nostalgia, an affliction of the heart that began life as a passing ailment but became an incurable modern condition. The book uses the life of a young black South African who spent his childhood under apartheid to ask the following question: What does it mean to remember a (black) life lived under apartheid with fondness and longing? The nostalgia examined here should not be understood the same way that the archetypal black pensioner trotted out by newspapers at each general election in South Africa says: "Things were better under apartheid." No, apartheid had no virtue. But the author insists that we confront facile accounts of black life under apartheid that paint the 46 years in which the system existed as one vast moral desert, as if blacks produced no art, literature, music, bore no morally upstanding children or, at the very least, children who knew the difference between right and wrong even if those children did not grow up to make the "right" moral choices in their lives. This is not to say there was no poverty, crime or moral degradation. There was, of course. But none of this determined the shape of black life in its totality. This is not to suggest that all black families were happy the same way. Each family was, of course, unhappy in its own way. The differences between black families extended beyond questions of domestic bliss or strife. There were class, ethnic and gender differences aplenty. It behoves any history worthy of the name to take these differences seriously, which could be as small as the type of lawn one had in one's yard, the type of furniture in each bedroom, or the type of fencing one had around the yard whether the concrete slabs colloquially called "stop nonsense" or a wire mesh fence. The author is interested also in the role of the senses in a person's experience of nostalgia. He uses fragments drawn randomly from the past to look at his childhood in Katlehong as a lived experience of the senses. He tries to imagine how one might relay the history of Katlehong in terms of the senses of smell, hearing, taste, touch and sight. He uses his sensory experience of Katlehong, for example, to examine the place of radio in the life of an urban black family in apartheid South Africa. Here he does not simply wish to relay the auditory experience of listening to the radio but to look, rather, at how the very instrument that was supposed to be the government's propaganda tool actually had the opposite effect, awakening in him a political consciousness that saw him adopt a politics at odds with the political gradualism and religious conservatism of his mother. Again, he looks at how black schools, intended by government to be a great downward leveller of black ambition, inadvertently served to heighten class consciousness within black society, often pitting the local elite against the mass of the great black unwashed. Finally, he studies how local political identities were formed in relation to both a national black identity and a much broader black diasporic identity. About the Author Jacob Dlamini is one of South Africa's bright young intellectuals. A PhD student at Yale, he has written for a number of magazines and newspapers such as the Sunday Times. Author Jacob Dlamini ISBN 9781770097551 Format Paperback Pages 169p. _