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Forever Hockeytown!: How the 2008 Red Wings Reclaimed the Stanley Cup
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Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), a Jewish Dutch art dealer, took over his father’s gallery in 1919 and quickly made his presence felt. Introducing a more international thrust to the gallery and demonstrating a keen business acumen, Goudstikker became one of the most successful art dealers and tastemakers in Amsterdam between the Wars. He entertained lavishly and highlighted his wares in his country homes and gallery while also developing relationships with collectors and museums at home and abroad. Tragically, Goudstikker died in flight from the Nazis in 1940, and his enormous collection of art, including more than 1,200 Old Master and nineteenth-century paintings, was confiscated by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. Not until 2006 was a portion of this looted art returned to Goudstikker’s heirs by the Dutch government. Featuring some 200 color illustrations, this book examines Goudstikker’s legacy, reveals the dramatic story of the seizure of his art, and discusses the legal case that finally brought its restitution. Forty works from his collection are catalogued in full detail. .
Price: $31.95
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28 Years Between Kisses: The Love Letters That Reclaimed a Lost Romance
In 2001 Tom DeLia vowed to find Linda, the first and only love of his life, whom he had not seen for nearly 3 decades Doggedly pursuing Internet clues, Tom determined finally to claim Linda as his own or exorcise the grip she had clamped on his heart for 28 years. Their literate, honest, funny, romantic and sometimes erotic letters and emails fly between Colorado and Pennsylvania for five months, bringing the now middle-aged lovers to life for the reader, revealing their past, their present, and their hopes and fears with great immediacy. Anyone who wishes for another chance at love or believes that aging or cancer or financial circumstance or distance banishes the possibility of love will savor this true story told in these compelling love letters in the lovers' own words..
Price: $11.97
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Drawn to the Rhythm: A Passionate Life Reclaimed
The inspiring story of one woman's journey of healing and transformation Sara Hall's life seemed perfect: a wealthy husband, a big house in an affluent suburb, three healthy children. But the surface of Hall's life hid a marriage filled with sorrow and pain. One day, at age forty-two, Hall sees a lone figure rowing in the harbor, and that image becomes her holy grail. In this richly layered memoir, the author tells how her determination to master rowing a single shell gave her the courage to free herself from the dark forces of abuse in her childhood and the failure of her marriage. In lyrical prose, Hall describes the rigors of rowing, the elation of winning, the joy of total engagement in passionate enterprise, and the triumph of breaking free. Ultimately, she declares sovereignty over her life and wins a world championship gold medal. Drawn to the Rhythm is a brave and soulful book, written for all women who seek to find their strength and voice. 16 pages of b/w photographs. Reading group guide included..
Price: $8.14
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Building With Reclaimed Materials (Beta Plus)
Antique building materials immediately give timeless, inimitable style to a new or restored home. Reclaimed wooden floors, old terracotta tiles, traditional Burgundy slabs, old roof tiling, antique fireplaces... these all fit perfectly into contemporary or classic surroundings. This book presents dozens of inspiring examples, each one beautifully photographed, and also provides addresses of dealers in antique construction materials..
Price: $68.80
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The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed: Uncovering Liberating Possibilities for Women
The Spiritual Exercises often seem irrelevant or even destructive to many women's spirituality This groundbreaking work reclaims the heart of the Exercises by examining them through the lens of women's experience--both women of the past to understand their presence during the formative years of the Exercises, but primarily women of the present. In doing so the authors have rediscovered the riches of this classic for both genders. The book first reviews the major traditional interpretations of the Exercises and gives a historical view of the women in Ignatius' life and their role in the Exercises. The text itself is examined--how it is entered, its worldview, and its recommended forms of prayer. The four weeks of the Exercises are broken into the problems and possibilities of each; suggestions for each are also given for spiritual and retreat directors. The Exercises are finally examined for those aspects that support moving outward on one's mission. The book ends with a morality play called AnyWoman that gives a dramatic spin to the whole process. The first of its kind, this is deeply meaningful reading for both men and women, particularly those making the Exercises, those giving them, and anyone who has attempted the Exercises but resisted the images, metaphors, or interpretations. Retreat and spiritual directors, other educators, retreatants and directees will also want a copy..
Price: $13.50
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Paradise Reclaimed
IAn idealistic Icelandic farmer journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise in this captivating novel by Nobel Prize—winner Halldor Laxness. The quixotic hero of this long-lost classic is Steinar of Hlidar, a generous but very poor man who lives peacefully on a tiny farm in nineteenth-century Iceland with his wife and two adoring young children. But when he impulsively offers his children's beloved pure-white pony to the visiting King of Denmark, he sets in motion a chain of disastrous events that leaves his family in ruins and himself at the other end of the earth, optimistically building a home for them among the devout polygamists in the Promised Land of Utah. By the time the broken family is reunited, Laxness has spun his trademark blend of compassion and comically brutal satire into a moving and spellbinding enchantment, composed equally of elements of fable and folkore and of the most humble truths..
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Freedom Reclaimed: Rediscovering the American Vision
Has the nation's infatuation with the free market warped the true meaning of American freedom by its emphasis on the self-serving individual in a "looking out for Number One" world? Freedom is America's most treasured value. In Freedom Reclaimed, John E. Schwarz examines the profound implications of the difference between the vision of American freedom that the Founders enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the free-market idea of freedom that is ascendant today. Schwarz shows how the three-decade shift toward free-market freedom has brought economic hardship to the majority of Americans and suffering to the political life of the nation. As the nation moves further away from its impelling original commitment, most Americans now have only limited access to the freedom the Founders envisioned. Schwarz sets forth a program that can help America return to its ennobling vision and resume its historic journey. In policy discussions on employment, education, social issues, and health care, Schwarz recasts our understanding of what freedom means and involves. In so doing, he transforms the way we see our world and revitalizes our ability to change it for the better. .
Price: $24.99
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New Old House: Designing with Reclaimed Materials
Recently featured on ABC's "Extreme Makeover Home Edition," Ed Knapp and his company, Vintage Beams and Timbers, have an illustrious reputation for their amazing work with reclaimed materials around the world. Combining old-world craftsmanship with the character of vintage building materials provides a warm alternative to the standard suburban-home construction. < BR>.
Price: $4.55
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