È piena estate a Roma. Tanti sono partiti per le ferie. Molti invece sono rimasti in una città, quasi deserta che appare più bella e tranquilla senza il via vai di veicoli e persone. Anna, una donna quarantenne, vive in un bel quartiere popolare da sola coi suoi due figli. Ogni giorno deve lottare per fare quadrare i conti, ma anche con gli incubi del passato che la tormentano di continuo. Tra il da fare quotidiano e qualche serata con buoni amici, ella cerca di sopravvivere ai mostri che ha dentro l'anima. Arrivata allo stremo decide di ascoltare il proprio inconscio che di notte, attraverso terribili incubi, turbolento la sconvolge. Così trova sfogo presso un'associazione guidata da un bella dottoressa, dai modi gentili che la aiuterà a ripercorrere il suo vissuto.

This lively cookbook celebrates Brooklyn’s happening bar culture—from the mixologists who craft classic and original cocktails to the talented chefs who create delicious dishes made with fresh-from-the-market ingredients to accompany the drinks.

Brooklyn Bar Bites covers the offerings of the current crop of popular neighborhood bars, cocktail lounges, and restaurants. A variety of classic and inventive cocktails from Brooklyn’s best bartenders—from a Classic Old Fashioned to a Kim Chi Bloody Mary—are showcased. The accompanying dishes range from simple bar snacks, sandwiches, and crostini to small plates. Recipes include Grilled Scallop Ceviche, Ricotta Crostini, and Southern-Style Crispy Pimento Cheese. This entertaining cookbook is also filled with anecdotes about the eateries and their locales. Among the bars featured are The Long Island Bar, a once-gritty riverfront joint that is now an elegant cocktail lounge; Clover Club with its oldworld speakeasy vibe; and Williamsburg’s chic Maison Premiere, known for its oyster bar happy hour and absinthe cocktail menu. With stunning food and location photography,Brooklyn Bar Bites is the perfect companion for food lovers and a must for home mixologists.

Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer’s creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops, and roundtable discussions that help new writers and filmmakers connect with mentors and gain advice and insight from masters, as well as refreshing veterans with new ideas. To extend the Festival’s reach, AFF produces On Story, a television series currently airing on PBS-affiliated stations and streaming online that presents footage of high-caliber artists talking candidly and provocatively about the art and craft of screenwriting and filmmaking, often using examples from their own films. This book distills the advice of renowned, award-winning screenwriters who have appeared on On Story, including John Lee Hancock, Peter Hedges, Lawrence Kasdan, Whit Stillman, Robin Swicord, and Randall Wallace. In their own lively words and stories transcribed from interviews and panel discussions, they cover the entire development of a screenplay, from inspiration, story, process, structure, characters, and dialogue to rewriting and collaboration. Their advice is fresh, practical, and proven—these writers know how to tell a story on screen. Enjoy this collection of ideas and use it to jumpstart your own screenwriting career.

Looks at the history of society and culture in the years leading up to World War I.

Named Saybrook after two early patentees, Lord Saye and Sele and Lord Brook, the small community of Old Saybrook has been shaped by its notable history and distinct geographical location at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Deeply rooted in farming and fishing, the town became a summer resort and tourist destination by the 1900s. Through the years, Old Saybrook's residents have made important contributions in government, literature, film, architecture, education, science, and technology.

In Beyond Religion, a former Roman Catholic nun speaks out about narrow definitions and dogmatic perspectives about God, or what truth is as defined by patriarchal Christian theology. Although people are leaving the Church in droves, Mayer argues that now, more than ever, they are searching for a meaningful personal spirituality that transcends simplistic dogmas. Beyond Religion is a guide book for the spiritual pilgrim, and covers a host of topics, all aimed at personal transformation.

Jacksier, an editor and writer for design and living magazines, describes the interior characteristics of coastal cottages and showcases 13 dwellings, including cottages, bungalows, and a boathouse, through color photos by photographer Dan Mayers. She details their casual design approaches, color choices, and use of patterns, simple motifs, and sea themes and materials and vintage pieces, with descriptions by owners about their decorating choices. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of the powderkeg that was Europe during the crucial first thirty days of World War I traces the actions of statesmen and patriots alike in Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, and Paris.

Maynes (history), Jennifer L. Pierce (American studies) and Barbara Laslett (emeritus, sociology)--all of U. of Minnesota--contend that the analysis of personal narrative demonstrates that human agency and individual social action is best understood in connection with the construction of selfhood in and through historically specific social relationships and institutions. They also look at such analysis emphasizes the narrative dimensions of selfhood, and point out its subjective and inter-subjective character. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Learning English focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in monolingual and bilingual contexts and explores the debates surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world.

English is learned in most parts of the world, both through use in the home and community, and as a major language of education. Learning English represents just some of this diversity.

When a young Tibetan boy encounters a wounded deer in the woods, his dreams tell him how to care for the animal as he learns about love and letting go.

A collectible series of cross-stitch chart books on all cross stitchers' favourite subjects. This series offers high-quality at a value-for-money price for all the most popular stitching themes. This brand-new series of cross-stitch chart books brings together the work of David & Charles' favourite and most talented designers, and presents their charts in a wide range of themed chart books. Offering 10 pages of charted designs, each title in the series contains cross-stitch charts on one popular subject. Every chart includes an easy-to-use key, and an inspirational colour photograph of each finished piece shows the fantastic results to be achieved. Each chart book also provides handy stitching tips and advice, stitch diagrams, guidance on techniques and materials, and a thread conversion chart to ensure you have all the information required to complete every design featured.

Presents the water cycle through the journey of a raindrop around the world, in sky, on land, underground, and in the sea, in its liquid, solid, and vapor forms, as it supports life everywhere

Presents the water cycle through the journey of a raindrop around the world, in sky, on land, underground, and in the sea, in its liquid, solid, and vapor forms, as it supports life everywhere

Celebrates the tree, one of the most useful plants on Earth

A journey in verse to discover whether the same moon shines on all parts of the world