Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: AUC Press
Keywords: departure, dreams
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2007-04-13
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 9774160673
ISBN-13: 9789774160677

In this second collection of his writing based on his own dreams serialized in a Cairo magazine before his death in 2006 at the age of 94, Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz again displays his matchless ability to tell epic stories in uncannily terse form. As in the first volume (The Dreams, AUC Press, 2004), we meet more of the real (and unreal) figures that filled the author’s life with glory and worry, ecstasy and ennui, in tales dreamed by a mind too fertile to ever truly rest. In them, a man sent by a victorious invader to open a storehouse holding the statue of Egypt’s re

Author: Monica Lavin
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: departure, points
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0872863816
ISBN-13: 9780872863811

These seventeen stories represent the best of the generation of Mexican writers born in the 50s and 60s. Magical realism and exoticism are nowhere to be found in this collection of sophisticated, very contemporary stories. Rather, the surreal contradictions and juxtapositions of daily life in Mexico are a permeating presence. A sharp sense of irony, incongruity, and hilarity pervades many of the scenarios offered here, along with an acid-tongued fatality in the harsh face of a life where poverty, lawlessness, and urban decay coexist alongside innocent dreams of love. Mónica Lavin (Mexico City

Author: Laurie Breton
Publisher: Mira
Keywords: departure, point
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0778324273
ISBN-13: 9780778324270

Everyone assumes that successful Boston Realtor Kaye Winslow has it all. Until the day she goes out to show an expensive new listing and vanishes into thin air, leaving behind her credit cards, her BlackBerry and an unidentified male corpse. None of this makes sense—not to her husband, not to her business partner and not to the Boston P.D. But as the investigation ratchets up, homicide detectives Doug Policzki and Lorna Abrams discover the beautiful blond Realtor has an interesting dark side sh’s kept carefully hidden. Turns out a lot of people don’t like Kaye, and many of them

Author: Rochelle Hollander Schwab
Publisher: Orlando Place Press
Keywords: script, departure
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0964365014
ISBN-13: 9780964365018

Sheila Katz, the irrepressible main character of A Departure from the Script, is a Jewish mother who helps her lesbian daughter plan a traditional Jewish lesbian wedding. What’s more, she’s doing it behind her husband’s back! And if that isn’t enough tsuris -- Yiddish for aggravation -- for one person, then what is she to make of her own new infatuation with a striking lesbian artist? Read the book and find out!

Author: John M. Braxton
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Keywords: puzzle, departure, student, reworking
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2000-11-27
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0826513085
ISBN-13: 9780826513083

More than a quarter of the students who enter four-year institutions and half of those who enter two-year schools depart at the end of their first year. This phenomenon is known as the "departure puzzle," and for years, the most important body of work on student retention has come from sociologist Vincent Tinto. In Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle, leading scholars of the college student experience--including Tinto himself--reevaluate Tinto’s interactionalist perspective, which holds that students unable to connect with either the academic or social subsystems of their institutio

Author: Meg Federico
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: mothering, mother, adventures, lounge, departure, welcome
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1400067952
ISBN-13: 9781400067954

The adventure begins when Meg’s mother, Addie, vacationing in Florida, takes a spill. At the hospital, Addie bolts upright on her gurney and yells “I demand an autopsy!” before passing out cold.“One minute, she is unconscious, the next, she’s nuts,” observes Meg Federico in this hilarious and poignant memoir of taking care of eighty-year-old Addie and her relatively new (and equally old) husband, Walter, in their not-so-golden years. Addie’s accident is a portent of things to come over the next two years as Meg oversees her mother’s home care in the Departure Lounge, the nickna

Author: Olivier Manitara
Publisher: Essenia Books Publishing
Keywords: departure, divine, world, teaching, initiation, essene, virgin, life, mary
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 098102601X
ISBN-13: 9780981026015

Was The Virgin Mary really the naive woman established religions have depicted? No. Mary was an Essene, a high level initiate, a healer, and an authentic Master. What do we truly know of the one whom history calls the mother of God? Thanks to his capacity to penetrate the soul of a being, the author raises a corner of the veil, and blows away the dust of all the false beliefs that we have been inculcated about her. With him we plunge into the richness and beauty of her inner life and we discover a fascinating world of sensitivity, joy, and ecstasy. This remarkable woman is a genuine jewel capa