In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others.Virginia Anderson edits the first published collecti...

In the pursuit of a notorious bank robber, Marshal Rhys Burgess always triumphs. Determined to catch his target, he embarks on a daring plan: he seeks out Maddy Colby, the elusive thief's sometimes-mistress. Maddy resides in solitude on her struggling farm, a place in desperate need of repair. With a guise of a humble handyman, Rhys infiltrates her life, patiently waiting for the right moment. However, as he spends time with Maddy, he realizes that she defies all his expectations.M...

"The blood of Adonis, thought Sarah, remembering the church that was built like a pagan temple. Coquelicot rouge - the symbol of a dying man whose blood stained the hillside in the spring." Sarah Lane, abandoning her French lover for the brilliant Lebanese sunshine, believes that the day will belong to her alone. But when a street bomb hurls her into the arms of a dangerously handsome Syrian colonel, she finds herself trapped once again. Is this a kidnapping? A seduction? Or merely the chaos ...

This book will help anyone get through university as easy, and painlessly as possible. This is not like other "how to do better at school" books. There are no tips like "be smarter," or "study more." Using some strategies to redirect your approach to school, and in some cases, maybe using less effort, one can do better at college or university, while still having a social life. If you are a good student, you will be a great student. If you're not passing, foll...

Marshal Rhys Burgess always gets his man. To catch a notorious bank robber, he seeks out the man's sometimes-mistress Maddy Colby. She lives on her own on a farm that needs a lot of work. He presents himself to her as a handyman...and waits. As he waits, he gets to know Maddy, who is nothing like he expected. Isolated on the farm, shunned by the townspeople because of the choices she's made, Maddy is smart, generous and hard-working--and lonely. Every day he finds her harder and harder to ...

“He stood and looked at us. The weapon was hot and heavy in his hand as he lowered the barrel toward us. His face was streaked with sweat and dirt; his eyes were filled with the horrors of combat. He stared at me and said, ‘Are you Mr. Mark?’”How can you face death squarely while experiencing an absolute absence of fear? You can if you have hope. You can if you have traveled from Guatemala to Kiev to Beijing and seen God restoring hope in the midst of hopeless situations.