Author: A. Manette Ansay
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: says, read
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1995-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0870239880
ISBN-13: 9780870239885

A collection of short stories situated in the fictional town of Holly’s Field, Wisconsin. The stories focus on the lives of rural people, struggling to make sense of the isolated and often religious communities in which they live.

Author: A. Manette Ansay
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, champagne, midnight
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 038072975X
ISBN-13: 9780380729753

April Liesgang and Caleb Shannon have known each other for just three short months, so their Valentine’s Day wedding at a chapel near the shores of Lake Michigan has both families in an uproar. As the festivities unfold (and the cash bar opens), everyone has an opinion and a lively prediction about April and Caleb’s union, each the reflection of a different marital experience.Meanwhile, at the nearby Hideaway Lodge, a domestic quarrel ends in tragedy. As April and Caleb’s life together begins, death parts another man and woman in angry violence -- and as the two stories gradu

Author: A. Manette Ansay
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: sister
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0380729768
ISBN-13: 9780380729760

"When my brother disappeared in 1984, I began to see myself in the third person as if my life were a story being told to someone else."Abigail Schiller lives a seemingly normal childhood in a rural Catholic commuinity in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother, Sam, vanishes at the age of seventeen, fleeing their father’s rigid rules of masculinity and the violence their mother denies. Finally, thirty years old and expecting a child of her own, Abby is determined to retrace her lost sibling’s dark descent--embarking upon an emotional journey that will test th

Author: A. Manette Ansay
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: novel, angel, river
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0380729741
ISBN-13: 9780380729746

In April 1991, in a little Wisconsin town about a hundred miles southwest of the town where I grew up, a misfit boy was kidnapped by a group of high school kids who, later, would testify they’d merely meant to frighten him, to drive him around for a while. Somehow they ended up at the rive, whooping and hollering on a two-lane bridge. Somehow the boy was shoved, he jumped, he slipped--acounts vary--into the icy water. The kids told police they never heard a splash; one reported seeing a brilliant flash of light. (Several people in the area witnessed a similar light, while others recalled

Author: A. Manette Ansay
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: memoir, limbo
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0380732874
ISBN-13: 9780380732876

From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But when she was nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn’t grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain what was happening to her or predict what the future would hold. At twenty-three, beginning a whole new life in a motorized wheelchair, Ansay made a New Year’s resolution to start writing fiction, rediscovering the sense of passion and purpose she thought she had lost for good. T

Author: Tugrul Ansay
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: recueil, collected, courses, cours, des, law, international, hague, academy
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1980-06-01
List price: $224.00
ISBN-10: 9028606009
ISBN-13: 9789028606005

Author: Tugrul Ansay
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: law, turkish, introduction
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1996-01-16
List price: $149.50
ISBN-10: 9041101713
ISBN-13: 9789041101716

This Introduction to Turkish Law introduces the main features of the Turkish legal culture in its historical perspective; identifies the basic legal sources, institutions and processes; and provides adequate information about the principal branches of the law. It offers the reader an authoritative summary as well as a coherent, compact yet systematic account of the major contours of the law of Turkey. Audience: Written for a diversified, primarily foreign readership including legal practitioners, government officials, administrators, businessmen, students, and researchers and scholar