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The Keeper of Lost Things: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 514min
A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us. Lime green plastic flower-shaped hair bobbles - found on the playing field, Derrywood Park, 2nd September. Bone china cup and saucer - found on a bench in Riveria Public Gardens, 31st October. Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects - the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidently left behind - and writing stories about them. Now, in the twilight of his life, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile all the lost things with their owners. As the end nears, he bequeaths his secret life's mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and all its lost treasures, including an irritable ghost. Recovering from a bad divorce, Laura, in some ways, is one of Anthony's lost things. But when the lonely woman moves into his mansion, her life begins to change. She finds a new friend in the neighbor's quirky daughter, Sunshine, and a welcome distraction in Freddy, the rugged gardener. As the dark cloud engulfing her lifts, Laura, accompanied by her new companions, sets out to realize Anthony's last wish: reuniting his cherished lost objects with their owners. Long ago, Eunice found a trinket on the London pavement and kept it through the years. Now, with her own end drawing near, she has lost something precious - a tragic twist of fate that forces her to break a promise she once made. As the keeper of lost things, Laura holds the key to Anthony's and Eunice's redemption. But can she unlock the past and make ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Collingwood, Sandra Duncan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005796/bk_harp_005796_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Kringlewart and the Crookedest Christmas Tree: The Christmas Tree Elves, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 218min
My name is Kringlewart. I am a runt of a tree elf, the size of a small kitten. My parents, who care for majestic forest trees, are 10 times my size. My father coerced my mother to drink a brew that stunted my growth, 381 years ago, so that I could only care for his accursed Christmas trees. I hate Christmas. I always drag my tree into the forest soon after the farmer plants them. I deliberately deform them so that no one would ever choose them as Christmas trees. I have saved 52 trees from this fate, but this year, I failed. My best friend, Pure Snow, hates me. We have been friends for almost 200 years. She has white fur and pink eyes, and she is the tall but stunted elfspring of the legendary Silver Lightning. She always grows perfect trees. We once spent a Christmas in one of her trees, inside Windsor Castle, where we met the newlywed, Queen Victoria. Hundreds of magical creatures lived in the castle. Like us, they could turn invisible to all but the queen. Until recently, I lived in the branches of my Esmeralda, the crookedest tree I ever crafted, in a circle of six mature fir trees that I planted over the past half century. My life is in turmoil now that my Esmeralda, covered with lights and bobbles, is dying in a London townhouse. The famous writer Charles Dickerson lives in the house with his orphaned nephew, Harry. I eavesdropped on their conversation, from within the branches of my tree. Charles told the boy that he was close friends with Father Christmas, an ancient elf over three thousand years old. I used sleeping powder to put the writer to sleep so I could talk to the boy. Harry and I chatted for some time until that most famous jolly old elf interrupted us when he and his elves popped out of the fireplace. Father Christmas has a much different life than most humans would believe, and he is due for a life change that will transform the holiday. The events of the next day - D ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Loeb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/074661/bk_acx0_074661_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Better Bobbles Bonnet Knitting Pattern
Better Bobbles Bonnet Knitting Pattern: ab 4.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Better Bobbles Pixie Knitting Pattern
Better Bobbles Pixie Knitting Pattern: ab 4.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Better Bobbles Hat Knitting Pattern
Better Bobbles Hat Knitting Pattern: ab 4.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The New Crochet Stitch Dictionary
The New Crochet Stitch Dictionary - 440 Patterns for Textures Shells Bobbles Lace Cables Chevrons Edgings Granny Squares and More: ab 25.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Scott Blasco: Queen of Heaven
In his lively polemic 'The Blind Watchmaker,' Richard Dawkins noted that there is a common cliché "which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you put in." This cliché rings true for many musicians who, primarily due to the prejudice of training, look askance at computer-generated sounds and those who produce them. Since the mid-20th century, many musicians have therefore dismissed electronic music as so many beeps and bobbles that would never approach the realm of true art created by living musicians who put themselves into their performances. However Dawkins has an answer for that criticism immediately following his recitation of the platitude: "The cliché is true only in the crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write - words." I purposefully invoke Dawkins at the outset of these notes because he would chafe at the other touchstone for Scott Blasco's masterful Queen of Heaven - religion. Dawkins' screeds against religion began appearing in the 1980s, thirty years after musicians began rejecting not only electronically generated sounds, but religion's place in musical composition. This move reflected an increasing secularization and renewed focus on individualism throughout society that caused many cultural observers to predict that religion and participation in religious life would gradually dry up by the 20th century's end. That it has not is due in part (surely to Dawkins' chagrin and Blasco's delight) to art. As sociologist Robert Wuthnow persuasively argued in All in Sync, "One of the most important reasons that spirituality seems so pervasive in American culture is the publicity it receives because of it's presence in the arts." Scott Blasco is of a new generation of composers who are bucking long-held tenets that spirituality is off limits and objectivity reigns in electronic composition. Coming to his deeply held Catholicism following a degree in Theology and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary and years studying early Church history, doctrine, and canon formation, Blasco infuses his music with a perspective of the world as divinely inspired and infused but grounded in humanity. This focus on the human aspect includes regular pairing of electronics and human performers and surely drew Kari Johnson to commission Queen of Heaven and collaborate on it's creation. Johnson, a rising young pianist with a keen ear toward the nuances of merging acoustic and electroacoustic sounds, helped shape a work that is definitively a piano work that happens to interact with electronics. In each movement save the fifth, the electronics follow Johnson's pacing, giving the warmth and spontaneity expected in a live performance but rarely heard in an electronic one. Also breathing humanity into Queen of Heaven is Blasco's stated desire to "subjectively and symbolically express my study and experience of scriptural, liturgical and iconographic sources relating to different aspects of Mary's unique place in Christian theology." His deep reading of the Church fathers led to a structure that mirrors Mary's position in liturgical (Catholic) and iconographical (Orthodox) sources and mirrors his own hope for an eventual rapprochement between the Orthodox and Catholic churches, returning to a true catholic (universal) church. Movement 1, "Hail, Holy Queen!" details Mary's Assumption and Coronation. Dense, dissonant piano chords in the instrument and the electronics evoke the terrifying angelic voices before fading away to reflect on the mystery of Mary's position. Movement 2, "Full-of-Grace (Kecharitomene)," focuses on her Annunciation, particularly the two conceptions - Mary's Immaculate Conception and Jesus's virgin one. Blasco provides both conceptions with their own tonal, yet unresolved, melodies and interweaves them, showing their connection in our perception of Mary. Movement 3, "The Unburnt Bush," explores Christ's Incarnation through Mary's pregnancy. The sound of fire, at first unprocessed, but slowly taking on the electronics' sonorities (centered around the pitch B), is the fire that burns without consuming. By the time the piano also takes the B from the electronics, it is clear that the fire is also Christ's renewing the Imago Dei by reversing sin's destruction. Movement 4, "The-One-Who-Gives-Birth-to-God (Theotokos)," is Queen of Heaven's timeless movement, it's gently rocking piano ostinato creating both the awe and the peace of Mary's impression of Jesus's birth. But where the fourth movement suspends us in time with it's repetition, Movement 5, "The Woman Clothed with the Sun," with it's endless ringing bells and piano figuration, places us in a ritual, a liturgy of the woman in Revelation 12. With it's eight-beat pattern (a clear reference to eternity) juxtaposed against a nine-beat recurrence of chords (it's three times three length indicating the Trinity), the movement ends in a Messiaen-like fashion by pulling us into Heaven. With it's liturgical structure and careful balancing of the human and the electronic, Scott Blasco created a work that uses basic materials - the "words" of music - to rise above traditional clichés about electronic and religious music. Here is a work neither cold nor blatant, that convinces rather than browbeats. Blasco and Johnson persuade us that personal expression of deeply held religious convictions will always speak strongly, have a place in our culture, and bring us to new belief. It all leads me to conclude that Robert Wuthnow was not completely correct in his analysis of why spirituality is so tenacious in American culture. He neglected to note that music is perhaps the most powerful theology of all. S. Andrew Granade, January 2012 credits released 31 January 2012 Scott Blasco is a composer and sound artist currently residing in Washington state. He is a board member of the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) and a founding member of and performer with the Kansas City-area electroacoustic new music ensemble The Digital Honkbox Revival. Scott currently teaches music theory, composition, and electronic music at Washington State University. He received his doctorate in composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and studied music at Calvin College and Western Michigan University. He also holds a Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. Kari Johnson is the Director of Keyboard Studies at Avila University in Kansas City. Ms. Johnson is an active performer, her playing is known for it's firm musicality and dramatic flair. She is a strong supporter of new music, and has been heard as a soloist and collaborator at festivals including SEAMUS 2010 and 2011, the ElectroAcoustic Juke Joint, and the University of Central Missouri and University of Nebraska-Kearney new music festivals. In 2011 she was a featured artist for the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance concert series and the 2011 Thailand International Composition Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She holds degrees from Central Missouri State University, Bowling Green State University in Ohio, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.- Shop: odax
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Pope Francis- Bobblehead
The Pope Francis bobblehead from Royal Bobbles celebrates the "People's Pope", and his worldwide popular appeal. This is the official high-quality bobblehead of the Pope's 2015 US visit. Please don't be fooled by cheap and poor quality imitators! This bobblehead includes a tamper-proof Royal Bobbles hologram on the bottom of the base to ensure authenticity.- Shop: odax
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