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      • Trusted Partner
        Poetry (Children's/YA)
        August 2018

        Animal

        Poemas breves salvajes

        by María José Ferrada, Ana Palmero

        "Hidden in his horn he guards the secret of the jungle”. This might be as well the beginning of a novel, but it's an inspired riddle about wild animals. The illustrations in high varnish of this edition highlight the different skin textures of each animal and invites the reader to discover a new way of reading in a tactile and playful way.

      • Trusted Partner
        May 2016

        La mujer de la guarda

        by Sara Bertrand, Alejandra Algorta

        Jacinta wants to know how her mother is able to breathe inside the coffin, but her aunts tell her it’s better if she concentrates in taking care of her brothers. Jacinta remembers some things about her mum, like the sound of the spoon in the cup when she stirred the milk until it was smooth. When her father arrives early, Jacinta and her brothers eat together and laugh at dessert time when he draws milk toffees and chewing gum from behind their ears. Jacinta is a weirdo in a world where other children have a mother. Jacinta has no guardian angel, but a woman traveling on a blue horse watches over her.

      • Sound story, noisy books, musical books
        October 2019

        A Child's Gift of Lullabies

        A Book of Grammy-Nominated Songs for Magical Bedtimes

        by J. Aaron Brown, Sara Ugolotti

        The beloved songs from J. Aaron Brown's "A Child's Gift of Lullabyes"—the bestselling, Grammy-nominated lullaby album with 4.5-million recordings sold—become a bedtime book for the very first time! On each page, gorgeous illustrations accompany the lyrics from each original lullaby. On the right, a beautiful sound panel plays sweet selections from each song at the press of a button. A stunning, keepsake ticket to the land of nod.

      • To Mo is telling Vietnamese culture – Mother’s lullaby

        by Dang Phuong Anh

        To Mo is telling Vietnamese culture series consist of five books. The Vietnamese culture is always so interesting theme to children. All books have represented understandable knowledge of the Vietnamese culture in a very approachable way for the children. Through it, the children are going to be aware of their root and identity. It is a useful tool to help them enter into the digital world. Mother’s lullaby is one of them. Mother is a very special figure to every child. She is the first cultural cradle for her own children. Her lullabies will follow them until they become mature. It is a unique connection. In other words, she has contributed to identifying them. The book has employed old and modern illustrations that display a whole picture of the Vietnamese culture in front of the children’s eyes. The author has also compared cultures among countries to seek out how unique the Vietnamese culture is. Besides, the creative ways of designing its content will make the children to learn how to be logical, curious and artistic.

      • April 2021

        La désidérata

        by Marie Hélène Poitras

        Under the blinding skies of Noirax, a long tradition of secrets lies dormant. The men of the Malmaison insist on this silence, feed their broods, and collect a string of ill-fated women (Pampelune, Helena, the Pimparela) known as the desideratas. Father is content since all’s calm on his estate. He’s locked the door to the House of Perfume to keep the truth from seeping out. After a failed romance, his son, Jeanty, is back home and exploring a new identity. Soon, Aliénor arrives to seek answers and rock the boat. The Crone also shows up, but isn’t who she appears to be. The curtain rises. La Désidérata pays tribute to stifled voices in graceful, lyrical prose punctuated by dark nursery rhymes. A luminous tale of rebirth, restoration, and revenge. More information here : https://editionsalto.com/droits-rights/la-desiderata/

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2016

        DaViD I Art and Poetry: El Artista

        Art and Poetry

        by David Guerra, Author, Ann A. Guerra, Editor

        This is a compilation of my poems and art work.  Art live within us and we must insist in sharing them to the world.  The world is our canvas and, we are every bit of the colours paint into it.  Our final conclusion and master piece is our imagination.  It is infinite.....

      • Fiction

        Pathological States - a novel

        by Daniel Melnick

        Dr. Morris Weisberg is a distinguished sixty-year-old pathologist as well as an amateur violinist and classical music lover. The quixotic and troubled doctor discovers a disastrous instance of malpractice and a cover-up reaching to the office of the Director of his California hospital. During this year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Eichmann’s execution, and above-ground nuclear testing, Doctor Weisberg struggles to find a way to confront his own crisis. Morris and his wife, Sandra, were born in Europe near the start of the twentieth century, and each was brought to America at an early age. In 1962, the couple is living in suburbia, in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. They have two sons. Both are aspiring artists in their twenties, and one is straight, the other gay. As they test limits and act out their resentments, the household begins to fill with excesses, revelations, and rebellion. At work and at home, communication fails, brutal buried truths erupt, and Morris begins to descend into maddening depression. He seeks refuge in his love of classical music and in his California garden. His glassed-in lanai there offers him solace, a place – like Los Angeles itself – of pleasure and escape, which ends up being a haunted, alienated space. As Morris plummets, his struggle to keep affirming his faith in both science and music wavers. Dr. Weisberg becomes a powerfully moving, larger-than-life character – noble, destructive, and terrifying.

      • Children's & YA

        ORCHESTRA OF CUDDLES

        Baby Audio Book

        by Giuditta Gaviraghi

        A baby book with CD-rom included to make easier the interaction between mum and baby sharing cuddles and special moments.  On each spread a lullaby to sing together whilst playing. ENGLISH EDITION AVAILABLE

      • Fiction
        June 2011

        Songs of Bliss

        by Clive Gilson

        Songs of Bliss is a Dancing Pig Original publication - showcasing work by author Clive Gilson. Songs was Clive's first published novel. Just how far will a father go to protect his daughter, especially when his 'protection' is so fundamentally flawed?Billy Whitlow, one time "Don of Doo Wop", has survived his days of drink, drugs and groupies, settling now into a more peaceful life centred on his blossoming seventeen year old daughter Bex. Revising for her 'A' Levels, Bex visits Billy one Easter but the longed-for simplicity of father-daughter happiness is shattered one night in a local club.Billy's world becomes one of questions; Why is his daughter in a drug induced coma? Who put her in that state? How in the name of Hell is he going to make them pay?

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2016

        The Meaning of Music

        by Leo Samama

        For virtually all of our lives, we are surrounded by music. From lullabies to radio to the praises sung in houses of worship, we encounter music at home and in the street, during work and in our leisure time, and not infrequently at birth and death. But what is music, and what does it mean to humans? How do we process it, and how do we create it?Musician Leo Samama discusses these and many other questions while shaping a vibrant picture of music's importance in human lives both past and present. What is remarkable is that music is recognised almost universally as a type of language that we can use to wordlessly communicate. We can hardly shut ourselves off from music, and considering its primal role in our lives, it comes as no surprise that few would ever want to. Able to transverse borders and appeal to the most disparate of individuals, music is both a tool and a gift, and as Samama shows, a unifying thread running throughout the cultural history of mankind.

      • September 2011

        Threshold Songs

        by Peter Gizzi

        A series of private and ecstatic meditations on living and dying

      • March 2011

        The Known World

        by Don Bogen

        Stunning poetry that explores the complex relationship between past and present.

      • Music
        January 2014

        If It Ain’t Baroque

        More Music History as it Ought to be Taught

        by David W. Barber

        Not content with having hilariously skewered the lives of great composers in Bach, Beethoven and the Boys, in If It Ain't Baroque musical humorist David W. Barber takes aim at their works as well. From symphonies to solo songs, from motets to madrigals to masses, Barber wittily yet informatively tells readers everything they need to know (and more!) about the various different genres of classical music. (And if you're not sure what a genre is, don't worry – Barber will explain that too.) As always, the facts are true and the information is accurate, it's just that Barber has a particularly wicked way of looking at things and a knack for finding out obscure facts and presenting them in a light-hearted way. So if you like to laugh while you learn, you've come to the right place. And again as always, Barber's clever prose is perfectly accompanied by the delightful illustrations of cartoonist Dave Donald.

      • Children's & YA

        Do You See Me at Home?

        by Tuula Pere, Majigsuren Enkhbat

        What should you do when your playing time is cut short or news reports are scary? What if no one has time to listen to you when you come home?Many ordinary situations can be difficult for young people, and that’s when you need a grown-up’s support. With a warm heart and playful mind, families can find the best solutions.

      • Children's & YA

        The Boy and The Maestro

        by Ana Maria Machado

        The award-winning Brazilian author Ana Maria Machado, winner of countless national and international prizes, includes a selection for the White Ravens Catalogue, reappears in our catalogue with a jewel in the form of a book.  Remember that book that captivates us, when it addresses a delicate issue in a sensitive and surprising way? The Boy and the Maestro is an exciting story of the friendship between a boy who lives in a low-income community in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and a conductor who, When he recognizes the boy´s talent, starts encouraging him to develop his musical gift.    Themes such as child labor, a child´s abandonment by his father, the discovery of individual talents and basic musical concepts are all treated with great care in the text and portrayed with an incredible mix of colors and perspective in Vinicius Sabato´s illustrations.

      • March 2014

        In Defense of Nothing

        Selected Poems, 1987–2011

        by Peter Gizzi

        A new lyricism for the twenty-first century

      • March 2011

        Loose Sugar

        by Brenda Hillman

        An elaborate collection of poems that culminate in a meditation on the possibility of a native and feminine language,

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