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Nobody in the family talks about Ellen's grandmother Lola, who was swallowed up by the circus and emerged as a woman who tamed tigers and got away scot-free for killing her husband. When Ellen's husband Wayne beats her nearly to death, she runs to the only place she knows where a woman can completely disappear - the same Big Top that once sheltered her grandmother. Though the circus moves from one town to the next, Wayne tracks it, and Ellen, relentlessly.

Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo's supreme achievement" and "one of the twentieth century's finest novels". Considered controversial ever since its first publication, it tackles the thorniest religious issues of belief and faith head on. A novel of historical fiction, it is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion.

Felix had risked everything to stop the threat of the Unending Maw. Except instead of death, he and his Companion Pit were transported to the deadly Void, a place far worse than the Foglands. The Maw is there with them, bonded somehow to Felix in a way none of them understand, but all of them hate. The three must navigate the desolate expanse of the dark Void, contending with voidbeasts, marauders, and the creeping influence of the Maw itself. It will take everything that Felix has—and more—merely to survive, let alone escape. All choices have consequences.

In the modern world, we are assaulted on all sides by noise; but silence can change your life and this book explains why and how. Silence is a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most under-used of all resources, and one our modern culture has all but obliterated by turning up the volume control. Graham Turner explores the power that can be found in silence through interviewing monastics, religious leaders, composers, actors, psychotherapists, prisoners and peace workers about their experiences of practicing silence.

En este mundo, donde el ruido y la distracción son constantes, hay un reino oculto que anhela ser descubierto: el reino del lenguaje del silencio. Te invito a adentrarte en el poderoso mundo del silencio y explorar la posibilidad de una comunicación más profunda y auténtica. Encontraremos este reino oculto en los rincones de nuestra propia existencia, mas allá de las palabras y las distracciones que nos rodean.

The second part of Coco and Cookie's adventures. Now they encounter the mysteries of the Island of Silence.

Tout commence par une vibration. Dans la main d’abord, puis dans le bras, enfin dans tout le corps. À 12 ans, comme beaucoup de jeunes filles de son âge, Titouane commence l’apprentissage de la musique. Sauf que Titouane est sourde profonde. Comment perçoit-elle les sons ? Comment va-t-elle pouvoir apprendre à jouer d’un instrument ? Peut-on être mélomane, quand on est atteint de surdité ? C’est à toutes ces questions que tente de répondre La musique du silence, une série documentaire réalisée par Louise Régent. Quatre épisodes, pour accompagner pas à pas les ...