Author: Graham Joyce
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: requiem
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-06-27
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765355418
ISBN-13: 9780765355416
SACRED MYSTERIESFollowing the death of his wife, Tom Webster travels to Jerusalem in search of a friend from his college days. But the haunted city, divided by warring religious groups, offers him no refuge from guilt and grief.As he wanders through the streets and the archaeological sites, a mysterious old woman appears to him, delivering messages that seem beyond comprehension. Then a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, kept hidden by an elderly innkeeper, appears to offer the key to understanding the woman’s pronouncements.Perhaps the spirit of Mary Magdelene is trying to reveal to Tom the
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: requiem
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1978-10-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 048623682X
ISBN-13: 9780486236827
Complete, unabridged orchestral score of immensely popular, often recorded work. One of Verdi’s finest compositions—called by some his greatest opera—the Requiem is scored for four solo voices (soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, bass), chorus and orchestra. New translations of German frontmatter, glossary of German terms. Large, clear format. C. F. Peters edition edited by Kurt Soldan.
Author: Clare Francis
Publisher: Pan Books
Keywords: requiem
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 1994-06
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0330339621
ISBN-13: 9780330339629
A pop star with green ideals buys an estate in Scotland. By accident his wife is sprayed with pesticide by an off-course aircraft. In America, a multi-national pharmaceutical firm is poisonously concealing for profit the results of its research. A thriller by the author of "Red Crystal".
Author: Barry Eisler
Publisher: Onyx
Keywords: assassin, requiem
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0451412575
ISBN-13: 9780451412577
Suppose you had to kill three people to save your best friends life? For John Rain, it should be easy: three fast hits and disappear. But what if you figured your friend is probably going to die anyway? What if you started to think the whole thing was a setup? And what if you were afraid three was just the beginning? John Rains going to give it a shot.
Author: Hubert Selby Jr.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: novel, dream, requiem
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-08-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1560252480
ISBN-13: 9781560252481
Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Jared Leto, and Christopher McDonald. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the highly acclaimed director of Pi, the movie was released in November 2000. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams. "Selby’s place is in the front rank of
Author: Inger Christensen
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: requiem, valley, butterfly
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 2004-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0811215792
ISBN-13: 9780811215794
A collection of four beautiful and innovative works of poetry. Inger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender and one of Europe’s most revered poets, is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work Det (It), a cycle of poems published in 1969. Her first book published in the US, alphabet (New Directions, 2001), met with a tremendous response: "Seductive," said Boston Review. "A visionary reincarnation of the natural world in the atomic age," wrote The Chicago Review. Butterfly Valley: A Requiem collects four medium-length works, each startling for its beauty and formal innova
Author: Andrei Makine
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: novel, empire, lost, requiem
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-04-22
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 074345362X
ISBN-13: 9780743453622
A nameless, orphaned Russian army doctor is the narrator of Requiem for a Lost Empire, an epic novel that traces three generations of a Russian family through the turbulent political struggles of the twentieth century.Spanning eight decades --from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Cold War to the fall of Communism --the book follows the narrator’s grand-father, Nikolai, a Red Army deserter who seeks peace and isolation in a remote forest village. Years later, his son Pavel will fight in World War II, become a KGB spy, and, like Nikolai, return to his native Caucasus in a vain attempt
