Author: Richard Wesley
Publisher: Dramatist’s Play Service
Keywords: sirens
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0822210339
ISBN-13: 9780822210337
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Keywords: novel, titan, sirens
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-09-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0385333498
ISBN-13: 9780385333498
The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way.
Author: Ernest K. Gann
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: sirens, song
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2007-09-18
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1574092545
ISBN-13: 9781574092547
Few men have lived a life of such challenge and adventure as Ernest K. Gann. In the best selling Fate is the Hunter, he recounted his many years in a professional flying career. In a similar fashion, Song of the Sirens is the story of the ships he has sailed and owned; of his years as master of a commercial fishing vessel, of ocean crossings and of storms and emergencies encountered at sea. Song of the Sirens steps aboard seventeen of Gann s most beloved vessels. Filled with moments of both high drama and reflective calm, Gann s ode to his seventeen sirens reveals the true romantic within ever
Author: Ernest K. Gann
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: sirens, song
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 1574090925
ISBN-13: 9781574090925
"Song of the Sirens is a classic." Newsweek
Author: Dennis Siluk
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: volume, poems, sirens
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2004-01-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0595305245
ISBN-13: 9780595305247
This book has been in the makings for 24-years, since his last book of poetry, which was originally his first published work in l980. The author was asked to define his poems in this book, he remarked: "This book of poems is about real life, death, the times, I suppose my times, God; --places and travel. It tells it: whispers it: yells it! It has craft, and paradox, anxiety, expediency and calmness--; it is a fortress of strength, and a ruins. It is a mountain; a crow waking up for a second flight, possible its last. It is a story of stories, emotions, and thoughts [in timeless space, just d
Author: Caroline Lawrence
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Keywords: mysteries, roman, surrentum, sirens
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1596430842
ISBN-13: 9781596430846
It’s June A.D. 80. Everyone is thinking about love at the lavish Villa Limona, where friends Flavia, Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia have come to visit for the summer. But their host suspects that there’s a poisoner among the houseguests, and the friends are asked to investigate. Faced with many distractions, including the arrival of Flavia’s betrothed, can they set a trap to catch the culprit?
Authors:Linda Austern, Inna Naroditskaya,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: sirens, music
Number of Pages: 423
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0253218462
ISBN-13: 9780253218469
Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time
