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One Amazing Thing
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, PUBLISHER: Hyperion Books, "Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." --Junot Diaz Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair. When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions, and The Mistress of Spices, comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival--and about the reasons to survive. Praise for One Amazing Thing "The plot of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's new novel could be ripped from the horrifying headlines about Haiti in a strange case of art imitating life....One Amazing Thing, which was written well before the Haiti earthquake, is receiving high praise." --USA Today "The appeal of these life stories, like that of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, is that they throw the spotlight onto varied lives, each with its own joys and miseries. Together, the stories show how easy it is to divert young lives into unforeseen and restrictive channels, and how hard it is for people to realize their early dreams. Their shared experiences and fears form the frame that holds together this compendium of short stories into an absorbing novel....At the end of her novel, her readers are fully engaged in what will happen to those nine people." --Washington Post "Hauntingly beautiful....One Amazing Thing is a page-turner with high drama, elegant writing, and lots of helpful tips for teamwork in a crisis." --Houston Chronicle "Her fiction is so intimate that it often seems as if cultural context is irrelevant. Her character's dreams and disappointment
Grateful dead - so many roads (cd - box sets
GRATEFUL DEAD - SO MANYROADS (CD - BOX SETS - GDCD The long-awaited retrospectiveof the Grateful Deadâ€(TM)s unparalleled 30-year carrer Features all previouslyunreleased music 60 page color book Rare never-before-publishedphotos Deluxe archival clothboundpackaging Track listing Disc one "Can't Come Down" (Grateful Dead) â€" 2:59 "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" (Grateful Dead) â€" 3:12 (tracks 1â€"2 studio recordings) Autumn Sessions "You Don't Have to Ask" (Grateful Dead) â€" 3:55 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California "On The Road Again" (Traditional, arranged by the Grateful Dead) - 2:49 Los Angeles, California, "Cream Puff War" (Jerry Garcia) - 5:37 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, [c] "I Know You Rider" (Traditional, arranged by the Grateful Dead) - 4:15 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, "The Same Thing" (Willie Dixon) - Winterland Arena, San Francisco, "Dark Star" > "China Cat Sunflower" > "The Eleven" (Grateful Dead/Hunter) â€" Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, "Clementine" (Lesh/Hunter) - 7:48 Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Oregon "Mason's Children" (Garcia/Lesh/Weir/Hunter) â€" 4:08 (studio recording) outtake from Workingman's Dead February "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 4:00 (studio recording) outtake from American Beauty Summer Disc two "That's It For The Other One" (Grateful Dead) â€" Fillmore West, San Francisco, "Beautiful Jam" (Grateful Dead) - 4:33 Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York "Chinatown Shuffle" (Ron McKernan) - 3:00 Civic Hall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands "Sing Me Back Home" (Merle Haggard) - County Fairgrounds, Veneta, Oregon "Watkins Glen Soundcheck Jam" (Grateful Dead) - Grand Prix Race Course, Watkins Glen, New York "Dark Star Jam" (Grateful Dead) - 8:28 > Spanish Jam (Grateful Dead) - 4:10 > U.S. Blues (Garcia/Hunter) - 6:50 Jai Alai Fronton, Miami, Florida Disc three "Eyes of the World" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" Winterland Arena, San Francisco, [a] "The Wheel" (Garcia/Hunter) - Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Illinois "Stella Blue" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" Rupp Arena, Lexington, Kentucky "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow/Weir) â€" Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow/Weir) â€" 7:24 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, "Shakedown Street" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco Disc four "Cassidy" (Weir/Barlow) â€" 5:56 Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey "Hey Pocky Way" (Modeliste/Neville/Nocentelli/Porter) â€" 6:00 Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina "Believe It Or Not" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 5:09 (studio recording) outtake from Built to Last "Playing In The Band" (Hart/Hunter/Weir) - Laguna Seca, Monterey, California "Gentlemen, Start Your Engines" (Barlow/Mydland) â€" 4:48 (studio recording) outtake from Built to Last "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis) â€" 6:39 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia/Hunter) > "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart/Hunter) â€" Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario "Bird Song" (Garcia/Hunter) - Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York "Jam Out Of Terrapin" (Grateful Dead) â€" 5:20 Richfield Coliseum, Richfield Township, Summit County, Ohio Disc five "Terrapin Station" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" Madison Square Garden, New York City "Jam Out Of Foolish Heart" (Grateful Dead) â€" 8:57 Madison Square Garden, New York "Way To Go Home" (Bralove/Hunter/Welnick) â€" 6:24 The Palace, Auburn Hills, Michigan "Liberty" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 5:56 The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia "Lazy River Road" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 6:56 "Eternity" (Dixon/Wasserman/Weir) â€" 7:35 (tracks 5â€"6 studio recordings) rehearsals for unfinished fourteenth studio album "Jam into Days Between" (Grateful Dead) â€" 7:04 (studio recording) rehearsals for unfinished fourteenth studio album "Days Between" (Garcia/Hunter) - (studio recording) rehearsals for unfinished fourteenth studio album "Whiskey in the Jar" (Traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) - 5:18 (studio recording) rehearsals for unfinished fourteenth studio album "So Many Roads" (Garcia/Hunter) â€" 9:24 Soldier Field, Chicago