Guideglines for Storytelling in Organizations
Process
ü Group Storytelling involves a group of people who can recall portions of knowledge from the past and describe them in their own words. It provides a natural way for users to report their experiences with process and activities. As stories are built collaboratively, they correspond to the collective knowledge of the process. Story telling is a vital knowledge management tool.
ü An episode is defined as a set of events and their relationships. An episode description falls into one of three categories, which are reported version, true version, and known version respectively.
ü Sharing stories helps in the search for new fitness peaks, since stories provide the rationale behind exploration, and serve as tags in guiding evolutionary process of co- evolution of the organization in the fitness landscape.
ü Formal stories are seen as a means for communicating the management’s visions about the company future as well as the set of values, which the company emphasizes. Connects people and motivate actions. Formal stories can have the form of the management’s speeches at employee meetings, vision and value statements in internal brochures, and books written by the management. Through formal stories, management influences organizational culture.
ü The reported version is generated when participants externalize knowledge about the events they have witnessed. The goal of the tuning/recalling process is to approximate the reported version to the known version. To generate a true version from an incomplete known version, conjecture must be added, speculating about missing information. A good story combines the objective with the subjective, the rational with the emotional.
ü Stories by strategic leaders promote perspective making, taking, and shaping. Engaging in dialogue and exchanging stories are two mechanisms by which cognitive co sensuality is achieved producing an organizational identity and a shared life story.
ü Group storytelling is a more appropriate process than individual storytelling in contexts where there are several people involved in the execution of a project. The group will build collectively a story about a work done by its members. Each participant performed a role in the project, for which the story will be told. Therefore, the stories written by a team will probably contain details (tacit elements of their knowledge) that are more valuable because everybody has the opportunity to present their views of what happened during the project.
ü Stories are told at all levels in an organization. The stories are evaluated by their recipients on criterions as verisimilitude, and to whether the stories make sense out of events encountered by the individual.
ü Storytelling and other narrative techniques are particularly valuable in community formation and in providing a thread of continuity during community evolution.
ü By virtue of their narrative structure, stories tend to sort information into coherent patterns, such as the appropriate sequence of events or the causal order of organizational phenomena.
ü Story telling used as a communicative tool to share value improves collective ingenuity and knowledge of individuals. The story gives meaning to an ambiguous situation so the employee is able to act with increased understanding of the organizational cultures in future situations. These values are shaped and thus influence the organizational cultures is through the organizational stories.
ü In the stories, this is communicated explicitly, but also an implicit understanding is communicated in the morale of the stories, which thus contributes to an increased ability for employees to act appropriately in the organization other situations.
ü Myth making is an adaptive way groups in organizations sustain logics and shared meanings to make sense of events. Myths are ways to handle problematic aspects of modern organizations. Myths narrow the horizon in which organizational life is allowed to make sense. Myths collide and compete in the ongoing negotiation of power and privilege among groups attempting to determine the dominant myth-making systems. Myths create, maintain, and legitimate past, present, and future actions and consequences. Myths have live cycles of development, maturation, decline, and reformulation.
ü Formal and informal stories can be seen as correcting each other. If the stories that the management communicates do not correlate to the organizational reality as the employee see it, then informal stories arise between the employees to adjust for this incongruity.
ü To capture the dynamical nature of social systems, stories and storytelling can be used. It is through the telling of stories, about the organization’s history, that strategic leaders provide a rationale for past actions and a legitimate perspective that guides potential future behaviors.
ü Enriches leaders’ role in fostering organizational learning and adaptation using storytelling.
ü By virtue of their narrative structure, stories tend to sort information into coherent patterns, such as the appropriate sequence of events or the causal order of organizational phenomena.
ü A powerful way of making outsiders feel like insiders and imparting tacit knowledge or its emotional component is through Storytelling. Storytelling is a reference signal in the feedback loops that guides the adaptation of the system and implements social learning system.
ü Organization’s story telling process provides a strong influence on the organizations direction, the underlying logic of that process and the interaction patterns that supports to transform over time through meme evolution. The development of stories undergoes mutation and variation being subject to mimetic evolutionary processes.
ü The popularity and the importance of stories have led organizations to adopt them as a knowledge management tool. Stories can foster communities, facilitate communication, accelerate organizational change, stimulate innovation, and transmit knowledge.
Advantages
ü Storytelling has advantages over the communication techniques commonly used in organizations, be they email, reports, or formal speeches. First, it enables articulation of emotional aspects as well as factual content, allowing expression of tacit knowledge.
ü By grounding facts in a narrative structure, it augments the learning will take place and be passed on.
ü Purposeful storytelling can deliver results that conventional, abstract modes of communications such as those mentioned earlier cannot.
About the Author
Mr. Jagadesh Subash is a consummate technically sophisticated senior management professional with experience of 16 years in the information and communication technology industry. Mr. Jagadesh Subash is project management institute certified project management professional. He has worked as senior project manager, project manager, project leader, technical architect, systems engineer in various global it organizations. Mr. Jagadesh Subash had received six-sigma green belt from GE in 2004. He has mentored six-sigma green belt projects for GE. Jagadesh Subash has comprehensive industry domain expertise in banking, financial services, manufacturing, aviation, health care-insurance, and contract management domain. Jagadesh Subash is ISO certified QMS internal auditor. He is a post-graduate in management. (M.S in management systems from Birla institute of technology and science, Pilani, India – collaborative program 2002-03).Jagadesh Subash achieved diploma in business management from institute of management and technology, Ghaziabad 2001. Jagadesh Subash graduated in bachelor of engineering in computer science and engineering from Anna University, (1989 – 1993 batches). Jagadesh Subash has presented three technical papers in technology symposiums. Jagadesh Subash has 5 years of immense experience for global companies in USA, UK, Luxembourg, Singapore, and Australia. Jagadesh Subash is involved in executing reflective research into technological, social, and business trends to support strategic thinking and decisions.
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21: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions $15 It’s Friday night and you’re on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wallet holds ten fake IDs. As soon as you land in Las Vegas, you are positive you are being investigated and followed. To top it all off, the IRS is auditing you, someone has been going through your mail — and you have a multivariable calculus exam on Monday morning. Welcome to the world of an exclusive group of audacious MIT math geniuses who legally took the casinos for over three million dollars — while still finding time for college keg parties, football games, and final exams. In the midst of the go-go eighties and nineties, a group of overachieving, anarchistic MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world. While their classmates were working long hours in labs and libraries, the blackjack team traveled weekly to Las Vegas and other glamorous gambling locales, with hundreds of thousands of dollars duct-taped to their bodies. Underwritten by shady investors they would never meet, these kids bet fifty thousand dollars a hand, enjoyed VIP suites and other upscale treats, and partied with showgirls and celebrities. Handpicked by an eccentric mastermind — a former MIT professor and an obsessive player who had developed a unique system of verbal cues, body signals, and role-playing — this one ring of card savants earned more than three million dollars from corporate Vegas, making them the object of the casinos’ wrath and eventually targets of revenge. Here is their inside story, revealing their secrets for the first time. Master storyteller Ben Mezrich takes you from the ivory towers of academia to the Technicolor world of Las Vegas, where anything can happen — and often does. Bringing Down the House launches you into the seedy underworld of corporate Ve |
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3 Tales of Intrigue $14.95 Sherlock Holmes is the best-known of all fictional detectives. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of crime, and with assistance from Dr. Watson, Holmes’ powers of observation and deduction are without equal. Watson, the master storyteller of these mysteries, evokes the rich atmosphere of Victorian London and a sense of excitement. In “The Crooked Man,” a long lost love returns, horribly changed, revealing awful treachery that has been kept secret for decades. In “The Greek Interpreter,” Sherlock Holmes’ brother, Mycroft, leads Holmes and Watson to a hideous murder and the betrayal of a foreign heiress. In “The Naval Treaty,” an innocent man’s honor, position, and health are at stake when a treaty of utmost importance is stolen from his office. |
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30 New Testament QuickSkits for Kids $16.99 Master storyteller Steven James is back with two new resources that will help the classroom come alive! In his new QucikSkits series for kids, James provides quick and creative ways for educators to have kids help retell Bible stories. This readers theater performance style is fun because there aren’t any lines to memorize. Each script is written for 3-7 readers to perform. |
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30 New Testament QuickSkits for Kids $6.73 Used – Master storyteller Steven James is back with two new resources that will help the classroom come alive! In his new QucikSkits series for kids, James provides quick and creative ways for educators to have kids help retell Bible stories. This “readers theater” performance style is fun because there aren’t any lines to memorize. Each script is written for 3-7 readers to perform. |
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30 Old Testament QuickSkits for Kids $16.99 Master storyteller Steven James is back with two new resources that will help the classroom come alive! In his new QucikSkits series for kids, James provides quick and creative ways for educators to have kids help retell Bible stories. This readers theater performance style is fun because there aren’t any lines to memorize. Each script is written for 3-7 readers to perform. |
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30 Old Testament QuickSkits for Kids $6.64 Used – Master storyteller Steven James is back with two new resources that will help the classroom come alive! In his new QucikSkits series for kids, James provides quick and creative ways for educators to have kids help retell Bible stories. This “readers theater” performance style is fun because there aren’t any lines to memorize. Each script is written for 3-7 readers to perform. |
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45 Master Characters $14.99 Every novelist, screenwriter and oral storyteller faces the challenge of creating original and exciting characters. Archetypes–mythic, cross-cultural models from which all characters originate–provide a solid foundation upon which to fashion new and vastly different story people. 45 Master Characters explores the most common male and female archetypes, provides instructions for using them to create your own original characters, and gives examples of how other authors have brought such archetypes to life in novels, film and television. Worksheets are then included for writers to develop and map the lives of their own characters. |
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45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters $5.99 Used – Every novelist, screenwriter and oral storyteller faces the challenge of creating original and exciting characters, Archetypes – mythic, cross-cultural models from which all characters originate – provide a solid foundation upon which to fashion new and vastly different story people. 45 Master Characters explores the most common male and female archetypes, provides instructions for using them to create your own original characters, and gives examples of how other authors have brought such |
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5 Little Tomatoes $19.41 Used – When Life Gives You Tomatoes, Make Ketchup! That was our approach to mealtime when our daughter Sarah was very young. After squaring off repeatedly at the table, Sarah on one end of the fork and my husband and I on the other, we finally got her to eat certain foods by serving ketchup as a side dish. Meats, vegetables: it all became amazingly enticing when it was covered in ketchup. Perhaps that is why Jesus, the consummate storyteller, used parables to serve up weighty eternal truths. On |
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5 Little Tomatoes $19.41 New – When Life Gives You Tomatoes, Make Ketchup! That was our approach to mealtime when our daughter Sarah was very young. After squaring off repeatedly at the table, Sarah on one end of the fork and my husband and I on the other, we finally got her to eat certain foods by serving ketchup as a side dish. Meats, vegetables: it all became amazingly enticing when it was covered in ketchup. Perhaps that is why Jesus, the consummate storyteller, used parables to serve up weighty eternal truths. On |
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? $9.08 New – The book ? is a collection of poetry. Told in a new Farsi style called She’r No, it is full of deep and provoking themes. This collection of poems reflects realities of the fourteen-year-old girl who wrote them. As you read, you’ll experience the feelings she felt during the moments reflected in the poems. Experience firsthand the reality of an accomplished poet and storyteller with this collection of poems loaded with profound sensations and meaning. Hamraz Lotfi’s poems will open gatew |
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A Beachcomber in the Orient $52.95 Journalist, storyteller, and ragtime piano player Harry Foster is back. From a mugging in a Vietnamese opium den to hopping a freight train down the Malay Peninsula to a waterfront bar in Singapore to a sing-song theater in China, Foster never fails to show the squalid side of life in a glorious adventure to the wild countries of Southeast Asia during the Roaring 20s. |
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A Beachcomber in the Orient $48.95 Used – Journalist, storyteller, and ragtime piano player Harry Foster is back. From a mugging in a Vietnamese opium den to hopping a freight train down the Malay Peninsula to a waterfront bar in Singapore to a sing-song theater in China, Foster never fails to show the squalid side of life in a glorious adventure to the wild countries of Southeast Asia during the Roaring 20s. |
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A Beachcomber in the Orient $48.95 New – Journalist, storyteller, and ragtime piano player Harry Foster is back. From a mugging in a Vietnamese opium den to hopping a freight train down the Malay Peninsula to a waterfront bar in Singapore to a sing-song theater in China, Foster never fails to show the squalid side of life in a glorious adventure to the wild countries of Southeast Asia during the Roaring 20s. |
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A Big Life $14 From her role as fledgling copywriter at Doyle Dane Berbach — the agency that made big-car-obsessed America fall in love with the funny little Volkswagen — to her literally brilliant campaign for Braniff Airways that had the flying public scrambling for seats on wild-colored planes to founding the fastest-growing ad agency in history, Mary Wells Lawrence’s life in advertising couldn’t be any bigger. As the New York Observer put it, her agency, Wells Rich Greene, created ads that etched indelible phrases into the public imaginations: ‘Flick your Bic’ and ‘I love New York!’ and ‘Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.’ For those thinking about a life in advertising for themselves and for anyone who enjoys the transporting experience of a great storyteller, Mary Wells Lawrence is the most energetic, passionate guide there is to the world of American advertising in all its brilliance, excitement, fun, and craziness. |
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A Boy Named Jim $9.67 New – The silence and reluctance of author James A. Lynch’s youth has been left behind; he has become a storyteller in the true form of grandfathers everywhere. In “A Boy Named Jim, ” he provides a look into slices of his life.This memoir presents the true story of Lynch’s journey from the innocence of childhood in a small midwestern town; through the rollicking good times of the teenage years, college, and navy life; through thirty years of the dark depths of chronic alcoholism; and finally thr |
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A Boy Named Jim $9.67 Used – The silence and reluctance of author James A. Lynch’s youth has been left behind; he has become a storyteller in the true form of grandfathers everywhere. In “A Boy Named Jim, ” he provides a look into slices of his life.This memoir presents the true story of Lynch’s journey from the innocence of childhood in a small midwestern town; through the rollicking good times of the teenage years, college, and navy life; through thirty years of the dark depths of chronic alcoholism; and finally th |
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A Boy from Nttery $8.79 New – A Boy from Nttery A book of short stories for reading quietly or out loud. The stories are told by a young boy who grew up without a father, on a small island in southern Norway. His stories are about, soccer and swimming and mischief with all his friends. His grandfather was like a father to the boy, who taught him about the world, both good and bad. The stories are true and took place during the German occupation of Norway, 1940 -1945. The Storyteller JAN ERLING GULLIKSEN first came to |
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A Boy from Nttery $8.79 Used – A Boy from Nttery A book of short stories for reading quietly or out loud. The stories are told by a young boy who grew up without a father, on a small island in southern Norway. His stories are about, soccer and swimming and mischief with all his friends. His grandfather was like a father to the boy, who taught him about the world, both good and bad. The stories are true and took place during the German occupation of Norway, 1940 -1945. The Storyteller JAN ERLING GULLIKSEN first came to |
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A Bride for Donnigan $31.85 Used – Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together. |
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A Bride for Donnigan $204.39 New – Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together. |
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A Bride for Donnigan $312.76 New – Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together. |
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A Bride for Donnigan $1.99 New – Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together. |
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A Bride for Donnigan $2.14 Used – Well-known and loved storyteller Janet Oke presents a beautifully told tale in her best tradition. With both anticipation and anxiety, Donnigan, a man surviving on the Western frontier alone, and Kathleen, a young girl thousands of miles away with limited prospects of finding a husband and stirrings of adventure in her heart, are at last united to begin their lives together. |
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A Brief Lunacy $15 With her acclaimed novel A Certain Slant of Light, Cynthia Thayer dazzled critics with her subtle grace and lyrical prose. Now this masterful storyteller brings her prodigious literary gifts to a very different kind of novel–a haunting edge-of-the-seat thriller that begins with a simple act of kindness and ends in a scene of escalating violence in a secluded Maine cabin.The stranger arrived on a cool October evening. Jessie and Carl invited the stranded young man into their cabin, fed him supper, and let him spend the night. The next morning he repays their kindness by taking them prisoner in their own home.Who is this man who calls himself Jonah? Why does he seem to know everything about them? What is his connection to their troubled, missing daughter, Sylvie? As Jonah’s behavior grows increasingly erratic and frightening, Jessie and Carl are trapped in a single day of brutality and shattering revelations that will test the limits of their sanity and their will to survive. |
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A Caravan From Hindustan $15.11 For five centuries, Birbal has been one of the best-loved figures in the folklore of India. Polished like gemstones in the river of time, The Birbal Tales’ wit and insight have delighted children and grownups from Kerala to Kashmir. Now the complete collection comes to the West, after years of loving research and creative, and historically accurate, restoration. <br><br>Moseley’s Birbal Tales have won The National Writers Club First Prize for Fiction and the University of Southern Louisiana’s First Prize for Juvenile Fiction. This timeless classic is a wonderful gift for children and a treasury of humor and wisdom for adults.<br><br><u><b>Testimonials</b></u><br><br> ‘Absolutely beautiful. I can see why you have a devoted following.”<br><b>- Duval Y. Hecht, President, BOOKS ON TAPE, INC. </b><br><br>’I have read Moseley's Birbal Tales and must say I was utterly enchanted. The stories are beautifully retold in a style that is not only charming in English but could have come straight from a collection of Persian tales at the Mughal court. Moseley has certainly captured the fantasy court world in which stories of this type are usually cast. He continues in the finest tradition of the Mughal qissagu (storyteller). I trust he will offer more volumes in this collection to the undoubted delight of his readers.” <br><b>- Wheeler M. Thackston, Professor of the Practice in Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, HARVARD UNIVERSITY </b><br><br>’Delightful!”<br><b>- Swapna Vora, Editor, INDIANEXPRESS, North American Edition</b><br><br>’At a time when thousands of intellectuals and professionals are migrating from India to the USA in search of wealth, Moseley has traveled to India to collect priceless gems from her immortal tradition and folk |
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A Caravan from Hindustan $9.99 For five centuries, Birbal has been one of the best-loved figures in the folklore of India. Polished like gemstones in the river of time, The Birbal Tales’ wit and insight have delighted children and grownups from Kerala to Kashmir. Now the complete collection comes to the West, after years of loving research and creative, and historically accurate, restoration. <br><br>Moseley’s Birbal Tales have won The National Writers Club First Prize for Fiction and the University of Southern Louisiana’s First Prize for Juvenile Fiction. This timeless classic is a wonderful gift for children and a treasury of humor and wisdom for adults.<br><br><u><b>Testimonials</b></u><br><br> ‘Absolutely beautiful. I can see why you have a devoted following.”<br><b>- Duval Y. Hecht, President, BOOKS ON TAPE, INC. </b><br><br>’I have read Moseley's Birbal Tales and must say I was utterly enchanted. The stories are beautifully retold in a style that is not only charming in English but could have come straight from a collection of Persian tales at the Mughal court. Moseley has certainly captured the fantasy court world in which stories of this type are usually cast. He continues in the finest tradition of the Mughal qissagu (storyteller). I trust he will offer more volumes in this collection to the undoubted delight of his readers.” <br><b>- Wheeler M. Thackston, Professor of the Practice in Persian and Other Near Eastern Languages, HARVARD UNIVERSITY </b><br><br>’Delightful!”<br><b>- Swapna Vora, Editor, INDIANEXPRESS, North American Edition</b><br><br>’At a time when thousands of intellectuals and professionals are migrating from India to the USA in search of wealth, Moseley has traveled to India to collect priceless gems from her immortal tradition and folk |
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A Caribbean Counting Book $1.99 Used – A collection of counting rhymes from the islands of the Caribbean, selected by a Trinidadian storyteller and illustrated with collage art by Roberta Arenson. |
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A Caribbean Counting Book $10.99 Used – A collection of counting rhymes from the islands of the Caribbean, selected by a Trinidadian storyteller and illustrated with collage art by Roberta Arenson. |
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A Carnival of Parting $34.78 Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath’s oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis–a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism’s view of world renunciation. Ann Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing narratives, transmitting to Western readers the pleasures, moods, and interactive dimensions of a village bard’s performance.Three introductory chapters and an interpretive afterword, together with an appendix on the bard’s language by linguist David Magier, supply A Carnival of Parting with a full range of ethnographic, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Gold gives a frank and engaging portrayal of the bard Madhu Nath and her work with him.The tales are most profoundly concerned, Gold argues, with human rather than divine realities. In a compelling afterword, she highlights their thematic emphases on politics, love, and death. Madhu Nath’s vital colloquial telling of Gopi Chand and Bharthari’s stories depicts renunciation as inevitable and interpersonal attachments as doomed, yet celebrates human existence as a carnival of parting. |
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A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan $47.7 New – Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of “A Carnival of Parting” are Madhu Nath’s oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis – a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism’s |
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A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan $0.99 Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath’s oral performances of two linked tales about the legary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis‹a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism’s view of world renunciation. Ann Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing narratives, transmitting to Western readers the pleasures, moods, and interactive dimensions of a village bard’s performance. Three introductory chapters and an interpretive afterword, together with an appix on the bard’s language by linguist David Magier, supply A Carnival of Parting with a full range of ethnographic, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Gold gives a frank and engaging portrayal of the bard Madhu Nath and her work with him. The tales are most profoundly concerned, Gold argues, with human rather than divine realities. In a compelling afterword, she highlights their thematic emphases on politics, love, and death. Madhu Nath’s vital colloquial telling of Gopi Chand and Bharthari’s stories depicts renunciation as inevitable and interpersonal attachments as doomed, yet celebrates human existence as a “carnival of parting.” Author Biography: Ann Grodzins Gold is Associate Director of the South Asia Program and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is the author of Fruitful Journeys (California, 1988). |
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A Celtic Childhood $9.99 New – A Celtic Childhood is the lyrical narrative of a gifted and animated storyteller. With humour and charm Watkins blends history song and Celtic identity into a wonderful tale of misadventure and merriment.Watkins vividly portrays his eccentric and richly colloquial Celtic family; his vibrant Irish mam whose ‘hand is on the tiller’ as the head of the household and her tendency to burst into song; his principled but stout-loving Welsh dad who dances a jig to escape from the fairies; an u |
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A Celtic Childhood $9.81 Used – A Celtic Childhood is the lyrical narrative of a gifted and animated storyteller. With humour and charm Watkins blends history song and Celtic identity into a wonderful tale of misadventure and merriment.Watkins vividly portrays his eccentric and richly colloquial Celtic family; his vibrant Irish mam whose ‘hand is on the tiller’ as the head of the household and her tendency to burst into song; his principled but stout-loving Welsh dad who dances a jig to escape from the fairies; an |
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A Child’s Garden: A Story of Hope $5.1 Used – Master storyteller Michael Foreman’s has created a timely and moving story of a child creating a garden of hope in the midst of poverty and war. A boy’s world is ruin and rubble, with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child. Can a tiny, green plant shoot give him hope in a bleak landscape? |
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A Child’s Garden: A Story of Hope $11.6 New – Master storyteller Michael Foreman’s has created a timely and moving story of a child creating a garden of hope in the midst of poverty and war. A boy’s world is ruin and rubble, with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child. Can a tiny, green plant shoot give him hope in a bleak landscape? |
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A Child’s Garden: A Story of Hope $10.99 Used – Master storyteller Michael Foreman’s has created a timely and moving story of a child creating a garden of hope in the midst of poverty and war. A boy’s world is ruin and rubble, with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child. Can a tiny, green plant shoot give him hope in a bleak landscape? |
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A Childhood, the Biography of a Place $15.36 Used – This is a memoir of Harry Crew’s earliest years – a sharply remembered portrait of the people, locales and circumstances that shaped him and destined him to become a storyteller. The book includes accounts of grinding poverty, but also of snakes who could talk, and of ghosts and devils. |
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A Childhood, the Biography of a Place $28.34 New – “A Childhood” is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews’ earliest years, a sharply remembered portrait of the people, locales, and circumstances that shaped him–and destined him to be a storyteller. Crews was born in the middle of the Great Depression, in a one-room sharecropper’s cabin at the end of a dirt road in rural South Georgia. If Bacon County was a place of grinding poverty, poor soil, and blood feuds, it was also a deeply mystical place, where snakes talked, birds could possess |
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A Childhood, the Biography of a Place $135.65 New – “A Childhood” is the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews’ earliest years, a sharply remembered portrait of the people, locales, and circumstances that shaped him–and destined him to be a storyteller. Crews was born in the middle of the Great Depression, in a one-room sharecropper’s cabin at the end of a dirt road in rural South Georgia. If Bacon County was a place of grinding poverty, poor soil, and blood feuds, it was also a deeply mystical place, where snakes talked, birds could possess |
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A Chinese Storyteller: Or the Changed Story $15.77 Used |
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A Chinese Storyteller: Or the Changed Story $26.29 William Remfry Hunt, W. P. Bentley (Introduction),Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Kessinger Publishing Company |
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A Chinese Storyteller: Or the Changed Story $15.77 New |
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A Chinese Storyteller: Or the Changed Story $27.93 New |
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A Colt Quintet $18.36 New – A writer stranded on the prairie listens to a tale told by a young wrangler about facing the family of a bully he had confronted on the street of a small western town. The writer becomes convinced he can make a fortune by relating the adventures of the young wrangler and his partners. Gus Boggs, the storyteller, is a man born to lead. He is talented in the use of fire arms and has an uncanny way of taming wild horses. As you turn the pages of this book, you will find yourself in the compan |
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A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse $89.57 New – Today, forty years after Timothy Leary’s suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while “turning on,” Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of this master storyteller. Hesse explores perennial themes, from the simple to the transcendental. Because he knows of the awkwardness of adolescence and the pressures exerted on us to conform, his books ho |
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A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy $1.33 New – With a storyteller’s eye for the dramatic, presentation of fact, and insightful interpretation of human complexity, Oshinsky uncovers the layers of myth to reveal the true Joe McCarthy and the forces that launched him to prominence and decline. |
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A Country Cotillion $32.02 Used – From “a master storyteller” (Romantic Times) and author of Lord Buckingham’s Bride. Once the wife of an infamous libertine, Elizabeth’s life and love have taken on more soothing aspects as the wife of sober-minded Alexander Norrington. Then she meets a virtual reincarnation of her first husband–a man who sends her heart racing. Original Regency Romance. |
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A Country Cotillion $27.14 New – From “a master storyteller” (Romantic Times) and author of Lord Buckingham’s Bride. Once the wife of an infamous libertine, Elizabeth’s life and love have taken on more soothing aspects as the wife of sober-minded Alexander Norrington. Then she meets a virtual reincarnation of her first husband–a man who sends her heart racing. Original Regency Romance. |
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A Country Cotillion $428.01 New – From “a master storyteller” (Romantic Times) and author of Lord Buckingham’s Bride. Once the wife of an infamous libertine, Elizabeth’s life and love have taken on more soothing aspects as the wife of sober-minded Alexander Norrington. Then she meets a virtual reincarnation of her first husband–a man who sends her heart racing. Original Regency Romance. |
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A Country Cotillion $27.14 Used – From “a master storyteller” (Romantic Times) and author of Lord Buckingham’s Bride. Once the wife of an infamous libertine, Elizabeth’s life and love have taken on more soothing aspects as the wife of sober-minded Alexander Norrington. Then she meets a virtual reincarnation of her first husband–a man who sends her heart racing. Original Regency Romance. |
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A Country Doctor’s Casebook: Tales from the North Woods $22.45 New – In the years after the Second World War, a young doctor took up his post in one of the most remote regions of northern Minnesota. His term of service turned into a lifetime of caring for the people who made this isolated and often lonely place their home. The story of this remarkable adventure in frontline medicine forms the heart of this wonderful book. As a storyteller, MacDonald shows us the beauty of this remote region and the charm of those who make their lives there. With respect, af |
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A Cultural History of Canada $11 Used – From Dorset sculpture to traveling circuses to the Barenaked Ladies, award-winning historian Jonathan Vance reveals a storyteller’s ear for narrative. In a country of unparalleled diversity, “culture” has many different shades of importance and meaning. A stranded Innu woman found by eighteenth-century explorers in the wind-swept Arctic took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. The explorers were taken aback; but Vance informs us that the Inuit word meaning “to make poetry |
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A Dangerous Man $17.38 A Dangerous Man, a sequel to Legacy of a Spy, was written in the early sixties, the height of the Cold War. I am dedicating it to a those Contract Agents who accept the risks and perform much of the dirty work done in our behalf. Many of them – men and women – operate in the belief that Intelligence is our first line of defense. They operate without diplomatic immunity, are never officially recognized, and as Slater said ‘the pay wasn’t too good either’.They are expendable.Over the years, in 19 different editions, and foreign languages, Legacy of a Spy, has sold more than a million copies. The film Double Man, undoubtedly added more readers. It seems likely there are many readers who would like to know what happened to William Slater.As a former member of the CIA I still have several unanswered questions: Its Mission, Effects on the agents, and the effects on our society. I am first and foremost a storyteller. There is a convincing plot, a love interest, compelling characters and a mature look at the sort of things our country is doing. What are the effects of living in fear without an opportunity to lead a normal social life, forced to make on the spot decisions that are anathema to fundamentally decent people?What follows is Slater’s story – unchanged. |
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A Dark Night’s Work $38.95 New – Elizabeth Gaskell’s delight in the macabre is nowhere more evident than in her short fiction. This volume testifies to the extraordinary range of Gaskell’s art as a short story writer. “The Grey Woman” is a Gothic tale of terror and suspense, while the plot of “A Dark Night’s Work” turns on concealed crime and a false accusation of murder. Gaskell did not rely on Gothic thrills or sensational action to gain a reputation among her friends as a gifted storyteller or to become one of the most |
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A Dark Night’s Work $27.95 Used – Elizabeth Gaskell’s delight in the macabre is nowhere more evident than in her short fiction. This volume testifies to the extraordinary range of Gaskell’s art as a short story writer. “The Grey Woman” is a Gothic tale of terror and suspense, while the plot of “A Dark Night’s Work” turns on concealed crime and a false accusation of murder. Gaskell did not rely on Gothic thrills or sensational action to gain a reputation among her friends as a gifted storyteller or to become one of the mos |
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A Dark and Hungry God Arises $11.05 New – A master storyteller, Stephen R. Donaldson established a worldwide reputation with his unforgettable, critically acclaimed fantasy series “The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant.” Then, with “The Real Story” and “Forbidden Knowledge,” he launched a thrilling new science fiction series. Now the galactic epic continues as humanity struggles against the forces of ultimate evil–and its own dark nature.The stage is set of confrontation at Billingate–illegal shipyard, haven for pirates and brigands |
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A Dark and Hungry God Arises $10.99 Used – A master storyteller, Stephen R. Donaldson established a worldwide reputation with his unforgettable, critically acclaimed fantasy series “The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant.” Then, with “The Real Story” and “Forbidden Knowledge,” he launched a thrilling new science fiction series. Now the galactic epic continues as humanity struggles against the forces of ultimate evil–and its own dark nature.The stage is set of confrontation at Billingate–illegal shipyard, haven for pirates and brigand |
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A Daughter’s Journey $11.49 New – A captivating new saga set in Liverpool and Ireland, from the bestselling author of DAYS OF HOPE and FAR FROM HOME – ‘An outstanding storyteller’ Woman’s Weekly Angela O’Rourke is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt and uncle in a distant village. It’s a common practice for large, hard-up families in 1950sIreland, but for Angela it means that her mother and father don’t love her any more. Still, she’s well cared for till she’s sixteen, when her uncle starts to take too much of a |
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A Daughter’s Journey $13.25 Used – A captivating new saga set in Liverpool and Ireland, from the bestselling author of DAYS OF HOPE and FAR FROM HOME. ‘An outstanding storyteller’ Woman’s Weekly Angela O’Rourke is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt and uncle in a distant village. It’s a common practice for large, hard-up families in 1950s Ireland, but for Angela it means that her mother and father don’t love her any more. Still, she’s well cared for till she’s sixteen, when her uncle starts to take too much of a |
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A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller $4.49 Used – Hundreds of fascinating, mysterious, and revealing tales capture the immense sweep and diversity of African mythology. Halftones, illustrations, & maps. |
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A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller $0.99 Used – Hundreds of fascinating, mysterious, and revealing tales capture the immense sweep and diversity of African mythology. Halftones, illustrations, & maps. |
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A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller $193.79 A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller |
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A Distant Land $6.99 THREE MEN CONQUERED THE FRONTIERThree Brannock brothers once came west. Now, one of them survives, and Clint Brannock feels the weight of responsibility as he does his job as a U.S. deputy marshal. Hunting down an outlaw in the Indian territories, Clint meets up with two of his nephews-one destined to live or die by the gun, the other to live or die in his shadow. And in Southern New Mexico, a beautiful sister-in-law, Elizabeth, presides over 100,000 rich acres-and dabbles in a dangerous game… ONE MAN IS LEFT TO DEFEND IT…A vigilante named Miguel Ortega is using terror to drive out Anglo settlers. A woman of her own proud heritage, Elizabeth Brannock has a grown son and daughter who each stand to inherit an empire. But she has forged a forbidden bond with Miguel Ortega. With violence spiraling out of control, the government sends Clint Brannock to lay down the law. Soon, every Brannock must take a stand and risk their life–for justice, each other, and the land that is now in their blood… Matt Braun is a master storyteller of frontier history. –Elmer Kelton Matt Braun is head and shoulders above all the rest who would attempt to bring the gunmen of the old west to life. –Terry C. Johnston, author of The Plainsmen series |
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A First Book of Fairy Tales $14.99 This collection of 14 best-loved fairy tales are designed with children ages three and up in mind. This makes an ideal bedtime storybook that can be shared by the adult storyteller and young listener, and be enjoyed over and over again. Full-color illustrations. |
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A Fish in the Moonlight $10.08 The storyteller has a fascinating place in our world. Storyteller Sidney Homan tells tales of growing up in Philadelphia in the 1940s and 50s accounts of Bruzzy the Bully; of John Crapp, the television salesman; of Leslie Doober and his rotten banana; of drunken Uncle Eddie, and of the Queen of the mushrooms. Sometimes comic, sometimes bittersweet, A Fish in the Moonlight illuminates the growth of both storyteller and listener. |
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A Flock of Fools: Ancient Buddhist Tales of Wisdom and Laughter from the One Hundred Parable Sutra $15 The One Hundred Parable Sutra is known as the most humorous sutra in all of Buddhist literature. Here, Kazuaki Tanahashi, the celebrated translator, calligrapher, and Dogen scholar, and Peter Levitt, an award-winning poet, storyteller, and Zen practitioner, have translated and retold these jewel-like parables with storytelling panache for students, teachers, and seekers everywhere. With appropriate commentary, each tale becomes a simple lesson for everyday living. From the potter who seeks fame to the woman who possesses great lust, these tales are told with a gentle clarity that magnifies our appetites and delusions. In doing so, they become an accurate mirror of the human condition. A Flock of Fools is a perfect little book of wisdom, laughter, and compassion. |
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A Fool’s Paradise $15.31 New – Robyn Williams, masterful storyteller and literary genius, displays her extraordinary talent for characterization in A Fool’s Paradise. Like her previous novels, she lures readers into an intriguing world of lifelike imagery and memorable, colorful characters. This poignant novel explores the imperfections of people, relationships, friendships and families. Perhaps Williams best work, A Fool’s Paradise is a powerful transition into mainstream fiction. It is a literary treasure and a must |
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A Fool’s Paradise $6.44 Used – Robyn Williams, masterful storyteller and literary genius, displays her extraordinary talent for characterization in A Fool’s Paradise. Like her previous novels, she lures readers into an intriguing world of lifelike imagery and memorable, colorful characters. This poignant novel explores the imperfections of people, relationships, friendships and families. Perhaps Williams best work, A Fool’s Paradise is a powerful transition into mainstream fiction. It is a literary treasure and a must |
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A Friend in the Wild $16.48 New – Storyteller has a wealth of titles at every Book Band Level, making it ideal for developing children’s reading and writing skills simultaneously. Key Skills: The books are ideal for guided reading and writing. They are also great for independent reading and writing. Suitable as take home readers. The writing cards are excellent for shared, interactive and guided writing. The non-fiction titles in particular, are good for children who are high-interest, lower ability. |
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A Gift for Anansi $14.19 Used – A Gift for Anansi is an original tale written by Tamba Roy: headteacher, education consultant and professional storyteller. Anansi – ‘the man who is a spider, the spider who is a man’ – has been an inspirational Caribbean folk tale character for many hundreds of years. He is famous for being an incorrigible trickster with the wit, courage and cunning to overcome overwhelming odds. As you enjoy this exciting tale, you will make two important discoveries. One will be the amazing skills of t |
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A Gift for Anansi $14.19 New – A Gift for Anansi is an original tale written by Tamba Roy: headteacher, education consultant and professional storyteller. Anansi – ‘the man who is a spider, the spider who is a man’ – has been an inspirational Caribbean folk tale character for many hundreds of years. He is famous for being an incorrigible trickster with the wit, courage and cunning to overcome overwhelming odds. As you enjoy this exciting tale, you will make two important discoveries. One will be the amazing skills of th |
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A Glory of Unicorns $23.21 New – A sacred ritual among unicorns takes a surprising turn. A beautiful, blind princess in ancient China befriends an ugly creature that is not what it seems. A rug woven with special threads takes on magical properties. These unicorn stories, collected by a master storyteller, span from Kabustan to the Far East, from an English village to the suburbs of America. |
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A Glory of Unicorns $114.06 A sacred ritual among unicorns takes a surprising turn. A beautiful, blind princess in ancient China befriends an ugly creature that is not what it seems. A rug woven with special threads takes on magical properties. These unicorn stories, collected by a master storyteller, span from Kabustan to the Far East, from an English village to the suburbs of America. |
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A God in Ruins $118.27 Master storyteller and international bestselling author of Redemption, Trinity, and Exodus, Leon Uris once again brilliantly interweaves historical fact with gripping fiction in this powerful novel of politics, family, intrigue, love, and the passions that rule human lives.Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the unforgettable story of Quinn Patrick O’Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. In an era morally unmoored, rife with armed separatists and fundamentalist zealotry, Quinn, the last great liberal of the Rocky Mountains, emerges as America’s hope to reclaim its great past and its promises of the future. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political ambitions and threaten his life — a secret buried for over a half century that even he does not know. . . . |
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A Grave Denied (Kate Shugak Series #13) $0.99 “Stabenow is a fine storyteller, but it is her passion for the Alaskan landscape and the iconoclastic people who inhabit it that fires this series and lifts this latest entry to its pinnacle.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak, who was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property, knew him. But she, the Park’s unofficial P.I., seems to have known less about him than anyone.When Len Dreyer’s body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with a hole from a shotgun blast in his chest, no one even noticed that he was missing for months. Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer’s background, in the hope of finding some motive for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, the teenage boy in her care and a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.”Every time I think Dana Stabenow has gotten as good as she can get, she comes up with something better.” —The Washington Times |
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A Gullah Alpahbet $37.9 New – A celebration of the beautiful and melodious Gullah language The Gullah spoken in South Carolina extends from Georgetown onto the sea islands of Charleston and Beaufort and down to Hilton Head. The gullah used in this text is spoken on Johns Island and Wadmalaw Island. Joe Harold Middleton, a well-known Gullah storyteller, made Gullah come alive to all who knew him. His knowledge and presentation of the language through the telling of stories brought enjoyment to all. It was Joe who inspir |
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A Handbook to Luck $13.95 In the late 60s, three teenagers from around the globe are making their way in the world: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father; Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador; Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeon’s daughter in Tehran. We follow them through the years, surviving war, disillusionment, and love, as their lives and paths intersect. With its cast of vividly drawn characters, its graceful movement through time, and the psychological shifts between childhood and adulthood, A Handbook to Luck is a beautiful, elegiac, and deeply emotional novel by beloved storyteller Cristina Garcia. |
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A Happy Journey: Stories from the Heart $13 New – Advance Praise for A Happy Journey “We could all do with a little Larry in our lives. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. May you relish every word as I did.” -Dr. Martha Lee, Clinical Sexologist, Eros Coaching, Singapore “The stories he shares are all around us; they are in everyone we meet and interact with. Larry’s true gift isn’t the great friend he is or the fine example of an American that he is, but rather the storyteller, traveler, and humanist.” -Captain Kurt Hummeldorf, D |
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A Happy Journey: Stories from the Heart $13 Used – Advance Praise for A Happy Journey “We could all do with a little Larry in our lives. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. May you relish every word as I did.” -Dr. Martha Lee, Clinical Sexologist, Eros Coaching, Singapore “The stories he shares are all around us; they are in everyone we meet and interact with. Larry’s true gift isn’t the great friend he is or the fine example of an American that he is, but rather the storyteller, traveler, and humanist.” -Captain Kurt Hummeldorf, |
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A History Of The Circle $4.92 "I found the book to be fascinating, and the author’s presentations and illustrations of the contrasts bewtween mathematical reasoning and scientific reasoning were especially appealing. The book is rich in history, which is carefully integrated into the discussions, and it includes wonderful illustrations and stories." –The Mathematics Teacher"Zebrowski is a wonderful storyteller, and his choices of topics reveal not only the depth of explanation afforded by the available mathematics but the beauty in the explanations; he succeeds in keeping the explanations accessible to the most general audience." –ChoiceThe concept of the circle is ubiquitous. It can be described mathematically, represented physically, and employed technologically. The circle is an elegant, abstract form that has been transformed by humans into tangible, practical forms to make our lives easier.And yet no one has ever discovered a true mathematical circle. Rainbows are fuzzy, car tires are flat on the bottom, and even the most precise roller bearings have measurable irregularities. Ernest Zebrowski, Jr., discusses how investigations into the circle have contributed enormously to our current knowledge of the physical universe. Beginning with the ancient mathematicians and culminating in twentieth-century theories of space and time, the mathematics of the circle has pointed many investigators in fruitful directions in their quests to unravel nature’s secrets. Johannes Kepler, for example, triggered a scientific revolution in 1609 when he challenged the conception of the earth’s circular motion around the sun. Arab and European builders instigated a golden age of mosque and cathedral building when they questioned the Roman structural arches that were limited to geometrical semicircles.Throughout his book, Zebrowski emphasizes the concepts underlying these mathematicians’ calculations, and how these concepts are linked to real-life examples. Substantiated by |
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A History of Canadian Culture $21.82 Used – From Dorset sculpture to the Barenaked Ladies, award-winning historian Jonathan F. Vance reveals a storyteller’s ear for narrative. In a country this diverse, ‘culture’ has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. A British explorer was amazed at her efforts, but Vance reminds us of the inseparable connection between life and art in Inuit culture (the Innu |
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A Hundred Streets Home $17.86 Used – A Hundred Streets Home is a story about a broken womans reconciliation with her past. Told by Kwamboka, the storyteller, it follows her life; from a life of privilege as a child, to the wise, strong and experienced woman she grows to be. It is a story of love and loss; family and friends; despair, but yet ultimately hope. Set in Africa, the story traces her life back to her beloved farm and home in Kisii where she spent most of her happy childhood. A devastating blow to her fathers politi |