friesenpress jul 2011 (3 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the true story of Celestina, a courageous Italian woman. Raised by a stern adopted mother who forced her to marry a man she hardly knew, Celestina vowed to provide her future family with a good Christian upbringing. After her husband left their growing family and joined the army, she struggled to protect her children from the ravages of World War II. When the allies landed in Southern Italy and drove the German Army North into her village, she found it too dangerous to remain in her home. She took her children into the Apennine Mountains to hide, conquering her fear and keeping her family safe. Her determination and bravery were tested again and again as she and her children faced hunger and untold dangers in the wilderness. How she survived and brought her family together after the war is related to the reader in her own words. She lived her life for her family with little consideration for herself. Before passing away, she requested only one thing; that her story be told. 136 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Beekeeper's Wife is inspired by Herbert Scott's poem of the same name. It is an attempt to imagine the life of the woman behind the poem. Shanda Hansma Blue's The Beekeeper's Wife is a brilliant poetic argument between nature and the reader, between the beekeeper's wife and the beekeeper, between where a woman exists in her small and large spaces and the woman. It is a powerful rendition of the woman's world, a world where only we can exist. We are the keeper of the day, rising at dawn, before the sunrises, as if the sun's rise solely depended on us or as if nature itself were in the same complex relationship the woman has with the beekeeper. I have always believed that the poet is a philosopher, and Shanda proves this well in her fresh use of language, where the beekeeper's wife 'lives in the five percent zone/ of northern lights visibility./' Again, Hansma Blue shows us that the beekeeper's wife 'thinks of this as her numerical data/ her location on the statistical/ halo of Earth's aurora latitudes.' In one of her powerful poems, 'Bargain', Shanda tells us, 'My grandfather always said of loud girls/ A whistling woman is like a crowing hen/.' Indeed, Shanda Hansma Blue is 'a crowing hen,' where she juxtapositions the world of her speaker, the beekeeper's wife and that of the beekeeper. This is not a book of poetry about nature despite its attention to the many vivid details of the nature around the speaker; it is a story about womanhood alongside that of manhood. Here nature and woman collide, co-exist, argue, and survive, all in a relationship to the man in the story. Here, 'the here and the now' come together or collide at times, and yet the constancy of nature keeps the beekeeper's wife grounded even though it is she who keeps the world of both her and the beekeeper grounded. Shanda Hansma Blue's debut book of poetry brings to us a captivating story that is relevant in our new world where nature and humankind are at war. This metaphoric telling of the story of the beekeeper's wife who keeps the beekeeper who keeps the bees will make you wonder and laugh at the same time. Hansma Blue's picturesque use of language will haunt you long after reading this book. -Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of Where the Road Turns- 64 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the mid 1980's, Adam Laughton and Luke Bartel met in the LAPD, where they had just begun working. They found themselves dealing with ghastly circumstances, causing horrendous deaths. Newlyweds, who had just returned from their honeymoon, literally saw their lives go up in smoke, when one of them died as a nonextinguishable fire separated them forever. Two men who had been friends and neighbors growing up in a small community were dealt this same tragedy, when fire from seemingly no where killed one of the men, changing the other's life forever. What caused these deaths and more Adam and Luke knew there had to be a connection. There was only a limited time to prevent more families from suffering these losses. Those who were guilty must be found soon and punished. 184 pp. Englisch.