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Ann Cornelisen comes to an impoverished region south of Naples, Italy, in 1959 to establish a nursery school. A single, young Protestant woman, she finds herself in a Catholic world bound by tradition, and quickly becomes the object of gossip and disapproving stares. A lyrical rendering of her adopted home and its people, Torregreca is a hymn to the rewards of determination, patience, and compassion. “A beautifully wrought social document.” — The New Yorker ... Read more

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fierce compassion
This and Women of the shadows are wonderful books.Theyear's it was written andlived matter little,it's the people and the women who wrote about them that matter.

Historical Perspective of Southern ITalian Town
This very graphic and descriptive book opened up my eyes to the realities that many of our ancestors faced in their lives.
This compassionate woman described her time in a small town
in Italy in a sharp contrast to most books on the subject,
perhaps somewhat like "Christ Stopped in Eboli"
For the person interested in Recent Italian history, this book
will greatly enlarge your understanding of the plight of the southern italian.
if you are looking for romantic fluff, don't read this book.

Disapointing
I was misled by Frances Mayes' name listed next to the author's.
She wrote only the introduction. This was not a colaboration.
The book itself was basically dry, boring, dated, plot-less and less than wonderful.
I think it was reprinted to "jump on the "Tuscany" bandwagon" of popularity.I could not recommend this book. ... Read more

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A book about traveling and living the good life by Frances Mayes (Under a Tuscan Sun). ... Read more

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As seen on The Today Show! 

The Day After Tomorrow takes readers on a journey to bear witness to the environmental destruction that is currently plaguing our planet; from a forest in West Virginia devastated by mountaintop removal mining, to a region in Florida left in ruins by the phosphate mining industry, J. Henry Fair presents hard evidence that our unchecked consumerism is leading the way in the destruction of our planet, one natural resource at a time. 

Primarily through the use of aerial photography, Fair captures spellbinding vistas of pools of toxic hog waste, streams of paper mill runoff, and the remains of hollowed-out mountains. These environmental abstractions lure the viewer in with unique asymmetrical shapes and striking colors; however, fascination quickly turns to horror, as the viewer realizes what lurks beneath the surface of the image. 

Fair is a consummate environmentalist and after years as a corporate and portrait photographer he turned his lens on the industries that sustain us—oil, fertilizer, coal, and factory farming, to name a few—eager to uncover the dirty little secrets that he knew were well hidden there. It turns out the secrets, and the “dirt” they produce, are far too large to hide. For example: the factory farming industry is responsible for one of the largest environmental disasters in history, wherein a hog waste lagoon burst, causing 25 million gallons of highly toxic sludge to flood the New River in North Carolina, killing ecosystems, animals, and infecting water supplies. Just before Christmas in 2008, the Tennessee Valley Authority power plant was responsible for sending a billion gallons of coal ash waste into the Tennessee River; this spill was 40 times larger than the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Coal ash is toxic, containing a laundry list of hazardous substances such as uranium, mercury, lead, and arsenic. These are only two examples of the endless calamity we inflict on our environment daily. Now is the time to take action and make change. 

More than anything else, The Day After Tomorrow is a call to arms. Our planet dies a little bit every second, and this trend will continue unless we take responsibility. Fair’s images reveal the calamitous effects of our consumer culture’s insatiable appetite for natural resources. Forests are being wiped-out, water supplies polluted and/or drained, animals and humans are dying, but for what? These stunning and tragically beautiful images, in conjunction with an essays by one of America’s leading environmental defenders, provide indisputable evidence that the way we eat, commute, and manufacture is collectively destroying the Earth, and we must change the way we live if we expect our planet to survive. ... Read more

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1997 PAPERBACK EDITION.SOME WEAR AND CREASES ON BOOK. SMALL CREASE AND SMALL FOLD ON SOME PAGES..TANNED PAGES.. OVER ALL A GOOD READING COPY. WE SHIP DAILY.. ... Read more

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By the #1 bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and In Tuscany, Swan is a haunting novel set in the deep South -- a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light.In her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a powerful and shaping place. In Swan, her first novel, she has created an equally intimate world, rich with striking characters and intriguing twists of fate, that hearkens back to her southern roots.The Masons are a prominent but now fragmented family who have lived for generations in Swan, an edenic, hidebound small town in Georgia. As Swan opens, a bizarre crime pulls Ginger Mason home from her life as an archeologist in Italy: The body of her mother, Catherine, a suicide nineteen years before, has been mysteriously exhumed. Reunited on new terms with her troubled, isolated brother J.J., who has never ventured far from Swan, the Mason children grapple with the profound effects of their mother's life and death on their own lives. When a new explanation for Catherine's death emerges, and other closely guarded family secrets rise to the surface as well, Ginger and J.J. are confronted with startling truths about their family, a particular ordeal in a family and a town that wants to keep the past buried.Beautifully evoking the rhythms and idiosyncrasies of the deep South while telling an utterly compelling story of the complexity of family ties, Swan marks the remarkable fiction debut of one of America's best-loved writers. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: F. F. Bosworth, Ray Davis, Wayne Dowdy, Frances Mayes, Milton N. Hopkins, Neal Colzie, Norman S. Fletcher, Abner Jay, Morris Berthold Abram, Forrest Towns, Brainard Cheney. Excerpt:Abner Jay Abner Jay (1921 - 1993) is an American multi-instrumentalist, who is best known for performing eccentric, blues infused folk music, as a one man band . His idiosyncratic lyrics and style can also be considered within the realm of outsider music . History Jay was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia . His father and grandfather were both slaves in Washington County, Georgia . His grandfather was also a banjo player and imparted a vast repertoire of old-time and folk songs to Abner. He started playing in medicine shows when he was 5. In 1932 he joined the Silas Green Minstrels and would later go on to lead the WMAZ Minstrels on Macon radio from 1946-56, before going solo. He spent many years travelling the American South and playing concerts from his "converted mobile home that opened up into a portable stage, complete with amplification and home fursnishings" . These concerts, as evidenced in his recordings, were often equal parts spoken word (jokes, philosophical asides, rants) and music. Common instruments on his recordings include harmonica , drum kit, a six-string banjo (that Jay claimed was made in 1748), and the "bones", which were chicken and cow bones that had been bleached in the sun and used to create percussion. Jay s song repertoire included field songs, Pentecostal hymns and minstrel tunes. He once described himself as the "last working Southern black minstrel ". He also performed original material that was mostly secular, and subjects ranged from politics, relationships, war, the bible and depression. In later years he held a residency, playing shows and selling his LPs and cassette ta... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Newsmakers 2004 Cumulation, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1772 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Newsmakers provides timely and informative profiles of the world's most interesting people. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers. ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Fitzgerald, Georgia, F. F. Bosworth, Ray Davis, Wayne Dowdy, Frances Mayes, Milton N. Hopkins, Neal Colzie, Norman S. Fletcher, Abner Jay, Morris Berthold Abram, Forrest Towns, Brainard Cheney. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fred Francis Bosworth (January 17, 1877 - January 23, 1958) was an evangelist, an early religious broadcaster, and a 1920s and Depression-era Pentecostal faith healer who was later a bridge to the mid-20th century healing revival. He was born on a farm near Utica, Nebraska and was raised in a Methodist home. His Methodist experiences also included salvation at the age of 16 or 17, and a spontaneous healing from major lung problems a couple years later. Bosworth's life after that was one that followed Christian principles, though his church affiliation changed several times over the years. Several years after his healing he attended Alexander Dowie's church in Zion City, Illinois, then came into Pentecost and attended Pentecostal services. Most of his later ministry was associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance church. When Bosworth came into a Pentecostal experience in 1906, he had an intense desire to preach the gospel, leaving his business pursuits and stepping out in faith for his subsistence. Approximately 1909 he moved to Texas, and in 1910 he started a church in Dallas which was loosely affiliated with the Alliance church. He was one of the founders of the Assemblies of God in 1914 and was with them until 1918 when he had a disagreement on the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and withdrew. He then started another church in Dallas, affiliating with the Alliance church again, and his revival meetings in the 1920s were sponsored by the Christian and Missionary Alliance...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9213989 ... Read more