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      • Melanie S. Wolfe

        Make sure to check out the catalog for more titles.   Melanie S. Wolfe is an up and coming author with four self-published books and several manuscripts in the pipeline. She writes fiction that includes a diverse cast of characters with themes that deal with real-world issues and sometimes have a light sci-fi or paranormal feel to them. Her favorite age group falls within the New Adult range but her works appeal to the older YA and adult reader as well. Melanie would like to find representation as well as negotiate domestic and foreign print, digital and audio rights/licensing on her current published works and her upcoming projects.  Melanie S. Wolfe grew up between Kansas City, MO, and various places in Oklahoma (USA) where she studied Liberal Arts at the University of Oklahoma. She was a military wife for ten years and served the Army community as a Relocation Clerk while stationed in Bamberg, Germany. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is loving the beach life.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2024

        Geoffrey Hill and the ends of poetry

        by Tom Docherty

        The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). This book shows that Hill's poems are characteristically 'end-directed'. They tend towards consummations of all kinds: from the marriages of meanings in puns, or of words in repeating figures and rhymes, to syntactical and formal finalities. The recognition of failure to reach such ends provides its own impetus to Hill's poetry. This is the first book on Hill to take account of his last works. It is a significant contribution to the study of Hill's poems, offering a new thematic reading of his entire body of work. By using Hill's work as an example, the book also touches on questions of poetry's ultimate value: what are its ends and where does it wish to end up?

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        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food 2

        by Lam Chua

        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food 2 is a sequel to Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food, involving Mr. Chua's travel notes and random thoughts on his trip for savoring food, especially his new articles as well as his Weibo post about delicacies, anecdotes and scenery during 2018 to 2020. What Mr. Chua delivers to us in this book goes beyond just travelling and food, but more of his refreshing insight into life's ups and downs.

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        Food & Drink

        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food

        by Lam Chua

        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food involves Mr. Chua's travel notes and random thoughts on his trip for savoring food. He experiences around the world from Moscow to Buenos Aires, feasting your eyes on European and American styles and customs; he travels around China from Dalian of Liaoning to Sheung Wan of Hong Kong, savoring local culture and cuisines; he talks about food from cup noodles and sauce to fish roes and curry, airing opinions and making comments in passionate language. Besides, the book is illustrated by the Hong Kong talented artist as well as Mr. Chua's dedicated illustrator Ms. Meilo So. Her loose, flowing, and easily recognizable style add more appeal and interest to the book.

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        September 1996

        Tinissima

        Roman

        by Christiane Barckhausen-Canale, Elena Poniatowska

        Elena Poniatowskas Roman Tinissima hält das kurze leidenschaftliche Leben der Tina Modotti (1896-1942) fest, das von Liebe, Kunst und politischer Untergrundarbeit geprägt war. Als Kind italienischer Einwanderer kommt Tina 1913 nach San Francisco, wo sie als „exotische Schönheit“ in Theater und Stummfilm auftritt. Sie erlebt die Atmosphäre geistiger und sexueller Befreiung in den dortigen Künstlerkreisen, lernt Edward Weston kennen - einen der großen Fotografen dieses Jahrhunderts - und wird sein Modell und seine begeisterte Schülerin. Zwischen ihnen beginnt eine Liebesbeziehung, die sie in das pulsierende Mexiko der zwanziger Jahre führt, das sich euphorisch der Welt öffnet. Ihr Haus wird Treffpunkt mexikanischer und ausländischer Künstler, unter ihnen Diego Rivera, der sie auf einem seiner Wandgemälde darstellt. Tina entwickelt sich zur Fotografin mit sozialem Impetus und ausgeprägtem Sinn für die Schönheit der Dinge. Zur gleichen Zeit engagiert sie sich, wie viele ihrer Künstlerfreunde, auf Seiten der revolutionären Linken. In diesen bewegten Jahren lebt Tina die Fülle ihrer künstlerischen und persönlichen Leidenschaften, sie erfährt bewundernde Anerkennung als Frau und steht im Austausch mit den interessantesten Gestalten im brodelnden Mexiko. Da geschieht im Januar 1929 das Unfaßbare: Ihr Liebhaber, der Politemigrant Julio Antonio Mella, wird von Agenten des kubanischen Diktators Machado auf offener Straße erschossen. Tina wird verdächtigt, in einen „Mord aus Eifersucht“ verwickelt zu sein. Die Boulevardpresse zerrt ihre Liebesaffären ans Licht und druckt Westons Aktfotos von ihr. Sie wird des Landes verwiesen, ihr Leben nimmt eine entscheidende Wendung. Von diesem traumatischen Einschnitt aus erzählt Elena Poniatowska Tina Modottis Leben. Die einfühlsame und spannende Romanbiographie geht Tinas Kindheit in Udine nach, folgt ihr nach der Ausweisung aus dem geliebten Mexiko ins Berlin der Vornazizeit, in die politische Untergrundarbeit an der Schaltstelle in Moskau und in den Spanischen Bürgerkrieg. Ihre letzten Jahre lebte Tina zurückgezogen und unter falschem Namen in Mexiko-Stadt, wo sie 1942 in einem Taxi stirbt. Durch die Kraft ihrer Einfühlung verschmilzt Elena Poniatowska Nähe und Distanz zur schillernden Gestalt Tina Modottis so nahtlos miteinander, daß daraus die mitreißende und ganz unsentimentale Lebensgeschichte einer außergewöhnlichen Frau entsteht, das eindringliche Dokument eines widersprüchlichen Lebens. Ganz von innen heraus, durch die Augen Tina Modottis, erleben wir die Atmosphäre dieser unruhigen Epoche, ihren chaotischen, sektiererischen, gewalttätigen, vergnügungssüchtigen, großzügigen Geist, wie er sich etwa in Diego Rivera verkörperte - und eben in Tina Modotti, die ihr Talent und ihre Energie einer Sache lieh, an die sie fest glaubte.

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        Biography & True Stories
        March 2022

        Body Work

        The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

        by Melissa Febos,

        In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it presents. How do we write about the relationships that have formed us? How do we describe our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean to have your writing, or living, dismissed as "navel-gazing"-or else hailed as "so brave, so raw"? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong? Drawing on her journey from aspiring writer to acclaimed author and writing professor-via addiction and recovery, sex work and academia-Melissa Febos has created a captivating guide to the writing life, and a brilliantly unusual exploration of subjectivity, privacy, and the power of divulgence. Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas-and occasional notes of caution-to anyone who has ever hoped to see their true self reflecting back from the open page.

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        Biography & True Stories
        March 2022

        Body Work

        The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

        by Melissa Febos,

        In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it presents. How do we write about the relationships that have formed us? How do we describe our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean to have your writing, or living, dismissed as "navel-gazing"-or else hailed as "so brave, so raw"? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong? Drawing on her journey from aspiring writer to acclaimed author and writing professor-via addiction and recovery, sex work and academia-Melissa Febos has created a captivating guide to the writing life, and a brilliantly unusual exploration of subjectivity, privacy, and the power of divulgence. Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas-and occasional notes of caution-to anyone who has ever hoped to see their true self reflecting back from the open page.

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        Biography & True Stories
        March 2022

        Body Work

        The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

        by Melissa Febos,

        In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it presents. How do we write about the relationships that have formed us? How do we describe our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean to have your writing, or living, dismissed as "navel-gazing"-or else hailed as "so brave, so raw"? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong? Drawing on her journey from aspiring writer to acclaimed author and writing professor-via addiction and recovery, sex work and academia-Melissa Febos has created a captivating guide to the writing life, and a brilliantly unusual exploration of subjectivity, privacy, and the power of divulgence. Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas-and occasional notes of caution-to anyone who has ever hoped to see their true self reflecting back from the open page.

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