Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses He knows the area well
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After their father's funeral Erik & Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his papers dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York Erik sets about reading his father's memoir hoping to discover the man he never fully understood At the same time another woman enters Erik's lonely divorced life
- a beautiful Jamaican who moves into his garden flat with her small daughter As Erik gets drawn into the cat-&-mouse tactics of someone who appears to be stalking her he finds out that his sister Inga is also being threatened by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past A multi-layered novel that probes the mysteries of the heart & mind THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is compulsive thought-provoking & profoundly affecting
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Love has quite unfairly come to be associated with being happy However it is also one of the most reliable routes to misery We tend to treat our sadness individually as if it were unique & shameful But as this book explains there are some solid reasons why love should be highly sorrowful at times The good news is that by understanding our romantic troubles & griefs seeing them in their proper context & appreciating their prevalence we will cease to feel so alone & so cursed This essay is not a study in despair; it is a guide to a more consoling humane & in its own way joyful perspective on the complexities of love ...

Work can be a route to creativity excitement & purpose Nevertheless many of us end up confused discouraged & beaten by our working lives The temptation is often just to blame ourselves & to feel privately ashamed & guilty However as this book lucidly explains there is a range of well-embedded & intriguing reasons why work proves demoralising including the evolution of modern work the role of technology & the mechanics of the economy This surprisingly cheering book offers us an invigorating perspective over our working lives
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A key work in the German ' Sturm und Drang' movement Johann Goethe's autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism which has influenced writers from Mary Shelley to Thomas Mann This Penguin Classics edition is translated from with an introduction by Michael Hulse Visiting an idyllic German village Werther a sensitive young man meets & falls in love with sweet-natured Charlotte Although he realises that she is to marry Albert he is unable to subdue his passion & his infatuation torments him to the point of despair The first great 'confessional' novel The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethe's own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff & on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem The book was an immediate success & a cult rapidly grew up around it resulting in numerous imitations as well as violent criticism & suppression on the grounds of its apparent support of suicide Goethe's sensitive exploration of the mind of an artist at odds with society & ill-equipped to cope with life is now considered the first great tragic novel of European literature This edition

Includes:: notes & an introduction by Michael Hulse who explores the origins of the novel in the author's life & examines its impact on European culture Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) was born in Frankfurt Germany Although he directed the German State Theatre dabbled in the occult & worked on scientific theories in evolutionary botany Goethe is best remembered for his great works The Sorrows of Young Werther & Faust & his part in the 18th century ' Sturm & Drang' movement If you enjoyed The Sorrows of Young Werther you might like Stendhal's Love also published in Penguin Classics

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In 2011 Sy Montgomery wrote a feature for Orion magazine entitled ' Deep Intellect' about her friendship with a sensitive sweet-natured octopus named Athena & the grief she felt at her death It went viral indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious almost alien-like creatures Since then Sy has practised true immersion journalism from New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia & the Gulf of Mexico pursuing these wild solitary shape-shifters Octopuses have varied personalities & intelligence they show in myriad ways endless trickery to escape enclosures & get food; jetting water playfully to bounce objects like balls; & evading caretakers by using a scoop net as a trampoline & running around the floor on eight arms But with a beak like a parrot venom like a snake & a tongue covered with teeth how can such a beingknowanything? & what sort of thoughts could it think? The intelligence of dogs birds & chimpanzees was only recently accepted by scientists who now are establishing the intelligence of the octopus watching them solve problems & deciphering the meaning of their colour-changing camouflage techniques Montgomery chronicles this growing appreciation of the octopus but also tells a love story By turns funny entertaining touching & profound The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about consciousness & the meeting of two very different minds ...

The New Simon Serrailler Case from Susan Hill the bestselling author of The Woman in Black SIMON SERRAILLER FACES HIS MOST DANGEROUS CHALLENGE YETGoing undercover he must leave town immediately change his identity & sever all contact with friends & family & more importantly he must inhabit the mind of the worst kind of criminal But can he do so without losing everything? ...

Here I am! Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs For a second Meg felt disloyalty It occurred to her of a sudden that Flora was always saying that & that it was in the tone of one giving a lovely present She was bestowing herself' The soul of kindness is what Flora believes herself to be Tall blonde & beautiful she appears to have everything under control -- her home her baby her husband Richard her friend Meg Kit Meg's brother who has always adored Flora & Patrick the novelist & domestic pet Only the bohemian painter Liz refuses to become a worshipper at the shrine Flora entrances them all dangling visions of happiness & success before their spellbound eyes All are bewitched by this golden tyrant all conspire to protect her from what she really is All that is except the clear-eyed Liz it is left to her to show them that Flora's kindness is the sweetest poison of them all ...

Selection

Includes:: The Portrait of Mr WH Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray reviews & the writings from ' Intentions'

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Artists The Soul Searchers Label Soul Brother Format Vinyl 12 Album Tracks 1 I Rolled It You Hold It 2 Blow Your Whistle 3 Close to You 4 Funk to the Folks 5 Ain't It Heavy 6 Windsong 7 Ashley's Roachclip 8 We Share 9 If It Ain't Funky ...