The Poetry of Roses is a book for gardeners, lovers, poets for anyone who has paused to drink in the rose's essence. Its exquisite photographs complement poetry from all places and times: in these pages, ancient Greek poetess Sappho joins whirling dervish Jalaluddin Rumi in speaking of the soul's joy in the rose. Haiku master Basho takes a petal shower beneath mountain roses. Native Americans sing of the colors of roses in love charms, while contemporary Brazilian author Jorge Luis Borges unfolds an invisible rose and reveals its erotic center.
A forced landing on a Himilayan mountain top kills the pilot and ruins the plane. The four survivors are rescued and brought to a strange, almost magical, mountain monastery and village. The setting is lush and green despite the altitude. The people placid and friendly, but mysteriously quiet about the prospects for returning to civilization, so remote is the village.
Gray Mountain (Audiobook)John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she’s full of surprises The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer’s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track—until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the “lucky” associates. She’s offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she’d get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about.
Inman is a soldier in the American Civil War, but leaves the horrors of war to return to Cold Mountain to be with the woman he loves, Ada. An award-winning novel and film.
We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt. In a mountain cottage overlooking the valley is Heidi’s grandfather, and there with him the girl’s sweet, free nature expands with the vista. The author’s voice is straightforward, and so is our reader’s, with the child’s wonder, devotion, and sometimes humorous good intentions.
