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  • The Gifted Ones
    Joan H Parks
    The adventures continue. Dalil realizes his vocation as a story teller, andalso as a wanderer who collects stories before they vanish in the greatdestruction. He gains a worthy mate as he gains his vocation. Alimah thesinger of songs and dancer studying in Egypt, meets a man of the far north atthat school. Danger and violence pursue them both; they fl ee and have manyadventures...
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    34,03 €

  • The Gifted Ones
    Joan H Parks
    The two brothers rescue a woman from the north countries, and take her with them to rejoin the Kin. Another man comes and tries to abduct the child Muti whom he sees as a ’lost heir’ of a powerful ruler. He is defeated. Trygve, a good man who with his family and supporters has left the north country to seek safety elsewhere, is blood uncle to the child Muti. Petros the Wise an...
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    27,39 €

  • The Gifted Ones
    Joan H Parks
    This story starts in 1346 BCE in Egypt, known then as the Land of the One River. During the reign of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten, Thutmose was his Master of Works. A gifted artist, he was the start, along with his mate Hasna, of a people known in these stories as the Kin. All but Thutmose arose from the author’s imagination. These are stories of gifted men and women and how t...
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    27,48 €

  • Muti
    Joan H. Parks
    Abstract for MutiIn the time after the Great Destruction, the Kin in their remote mountain fastness increase their patrols of land and sea to fend off any of the many who would destroy them. Their enemies could be the dreaded Hittites, the still powerful Egyptians, or the newly powerful Phoenician traders or any others who desperate and ambitious seek to conquer them. As they f...
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    19,10 €

  • Penelope and the Lawyers
    Joan H. Parks
    Penelope asks for help from the lawyer she once knew. He is retired, but his nephew takes care of her. She pays a call to the old gentleman in his aerie above Lake Shore Drive. Thus, this tale of a love deferred commences in all its humor, realism, sweet moments of recounting the drama of their long lives and finally, acceptance of their fates. ...
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    20,13 €

  • Sigrid
    Joan H. Parks
    Sigrid, a Healer, after enduring rapes and beatings in her captivity cannot bear to be touched, until an Egyptian soldier wins her trust. This volume again meditates on the nature of heroism, how myths are made, and how this small tribe survives and attracts the talented in the midst of the tumult of their time. ...
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    20,08 €

  • The Book Club Chronicles
    Joan H. Parks
    As the ladies study A Midsummer Night’s Dream, they discover yet again the complexities of Shakespeare’s play. They discover that under the glorious poetry, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has a complicated structure. The plot, what there is of it is about lovers: lovers being parted by tyrannical fathers, lovers being won in combat, lovers being wooed, lovers moaning about unrequite...
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    24,45 €

  • Trygve
    Joan H. Parks
    Part 10 of the Late Bronze Age Stores has the kin near the great trade route in what today is Northern Lebanon. Times are desperate. Predators attack from both sea and land. Trygve of the Northerners has to decide about joining with the Kin. The leaders of the Kin have to decide about joining with Trygve and his people. Dalil, the storyteller, has returned to the Kin after many...
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    16,41 €

  • The Book Club Chronicles
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    The ladies keep trying to find as easier Shakespeare play to study and decided upon Twelfth Night, another late play. As they start reading it, they discover that it is complicated. They find the Rylance version on a DVD and entranced use it and the text to study it. They reflect upon how Viola and Olivia respond to grief, their reading deepens as they witness their own respons...
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    11,15 €

  • Amarna
    Joan H Parks
    Part Eight of the Late Bronze Age Stories has Nahid, driven by prophetic dreams, leaving the hills above the Great Green Sea. With Bakiri and his band of protectors, he sets out for Egypt, Bakiri’s home, and then to Amarna, where their ancestor Thutmose created his greatest work. Amarna was dismantled when the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten died, but Nahid is sure that a treasure st...
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    11,33 €

  • The Book Club Chronicles-Part Six-The Tempest
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    The storms of autumn arrive, and the storms of their lives continue. The ladies decide to study Shakespeares The Tempest, wrongly thinking that a comedy will be easier than another of the big tragedies. Finding a suitable filmed version is difficult; reading the text is even more difficult. They struggle, seeing in this late play parts that mirror their own experiences.Claire a...
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    11,28 €

  • Nahid
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    The Late Bronze Age Stories part seven, Nahid, continues the story of this family who are descended from Thutmose, the eighteenth dynasty Egyptian artist.It is unsafe for the kin to remain in northern Mesopotamia for a tribe led by an ambitious man threatens their very existence. Petros the Wise and Kaliq have devised an intricate strategy to move the outnumbered kin to a safer...
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    11,04 €

  • The Book Club Chronicles - Part Five - Hamlet
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    It is early fall when the ladies reconvened their book club. At Katherine’s suggestion they continued with Shakespeare and studied Hamlet using the text and the version filmed with Sir Patrick Stewart as Claudius as their base. Surprised at their reaction to the characters in Act 1, they quickly realized that seen through the filter of their age and gender that they were ...
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    10,33 €

  • The Gold of the North
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    Alimah, torn between her love for Kaliq and her need to develop her gifts for song and dance, stays in The Land of the One River. With her Uncle Bakiri and a small band of protectors, they stay near the school where she can learn more of her arts. Enemies lurk at the school but neither she nor Bakiri can tell who they are or why Alimah is the target. At the school she and The G...
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    12,07 €

  • The Book Club Chronicles, Part Four - Macbeth
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    The ladies having completed their study of Romeo and Juliet move on to Macbeth. It is February in Chicago, a dreary month that seems to last forever. The skies are grey, the streets cold and dangerous, a setting that mirrors Macbeth. The three witches who make their target Macbeth, the ghosts who torment Macbeth and his consort Lady Macbeth resonate with what is happening in th...
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    9,62 €

  • Dalil
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    After their adventures in the land of the one river, the kin set out to return to their families. Along the Great Green Sea, they shelter in a valley from a sudden storm and come upon a fever ridden traveler, who under Dalil’s care survives and regains her heath. A band of rough men arrive intent on capturing her, for reasons that are mysterious. She needs protection but finds ...
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    9,59 €

  • The Book Club Chronicles
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    The ladies of the Book Club finish their study of The Tale of Genji and, leaderless, the ladies wonder how they can keep their book club vital and what they can study. After much debate, the ladies take on the study of Romeo and Juliet. In their close study of the filmed versions of the play, the ballet and musical comedy and then their close study of the text itself, they find...
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    10,37 €

  • The Bedouin
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    After the great destruction which obliterated the palace cultures of Minos, Ugarit and many cities along the Mediterranean coast, the trade routes that connected the late Bronge age cities were disrupted.Set in the late Bronze age of the ancient middle east, this set of stories follows the one family founded by Thutmose, the Egyptian artist. The kin, composed of warriors and tr...
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    7,94 €

  • Petros
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    After the great destruction which obliterated the palace cultures of Minos, Ugarit, and many cities along the Mediterranean coast, the trade routes that connected the late Bronze age cities were disrupted. Part 3 continues the stories of the descendents of Thutmose, the founding Egyptian artist. Little Petros grows into a man who loves adventures and the life of traveling. He c...
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    8,00 €

  • The Book Club Chronicles
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    We rejoin the characters from The Book Club Chronicles as they are struggling with their lives and their loves. They are still studying The Tale of Genji, with the same graduate student from that previous time. Bill plots to return Annie to his life because of his need for revenge or for a reconciliation? Annie resumes writing after the death of Hans, and discovers the problems...
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    9,59 €

  • 32 Linden Avenue
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    32 Linden Avenue is perched high up on a hill overlooking a small town in western Pennsylvania and is the heart of this evocative journey through the author’s fragmented memories of Appalachia. The murmuring of the women, the love and everyday lives of those living in the hard hill country and then the drenching of those memories in the deep hushed and hovering Protestant faith...
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    9,46 €

  • Lukenow
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    In the late Bronze age, Lukenow, a trader and seaman from Minos (Crete), and Sardow, the ceramicist of the clan of artists, traders and warriors, see each other at a young age and enter each others dreams. Sardow is burdened with the far-seeing eye that shows her of the coming destruction of the palace based cultures from Crete along the Levant coast to Egypt. She and Lukenow h...
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    11,14 €

  • Thutmose
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    In Amarna during the time of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaton, the master sculptor Thutmose meets a mysterious woman who is is the pharaoh’s service. She has wandered since her people were killed, but is haunted by memories. Drawn together by his art, their love commences. The pharaoh sickens, there is danger from the political turmoil. With the death of the pharoah, Thutmose know...
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    8,80 €

  • The Book Club Chronicles
    Joan H. Parks / Joan HParks
    In a University town during the present time, ladies have a book club where they are studying The Tale of Genji, the worlds first novel written by a lady from Heian Japan, with a graduate student. The ladies are going through tumultuous times that echo those of the book they are reading; a husband is dying, a marriage is falling apart, a decision about retirement has to be made...
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    14,06 €