As Quite as Its Kept is a journey into the heart, mind, and soul of the author. Jacquelyn Dortch has used writing as a means of dealing with lifes joys and challenges. This book is a compilation of short stories and poems that depict major events occurring in Jacquis life. She credits these events as the driving forces for how she stumbled into her purpose. The ultimate reward for this author is that someone might be inspired or encouraged by her words.

The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of sonic experimentation. It aims to foreground the various rewirings of musical composition and performance that have taken place in the past few decades and to provide a critical and theoretical language for this new audio culture. This new and expanded edition of the Audio Culture contains twenty-five additional essays, including four newly-commissioned pieces. Taken as a whole, the book explores the interconnections among such forms as minimalism, indeterminacy, musique concrète, free improvisation, experimental music, avant-rock, dub reggae, ambient music, hip hop, and techno via writings by philosophers, cultural theorists, and composers. Instead of focusing on some "crossover" between "high art" and "popular culture," Audio Culture takes all these musics as experimental practices on par with, and linked to, one another. While cultural studies has tended to look at music (primarily popular music) from a sociological perspective, the concern here is philosophical, musical, and historical. Audio Culture includes writing by some of the most important musical thinkers of the past half-century, among them John Cage, Brian Eno, Ornette Coleman, Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Glenn Gould, Umberto Eco, Jacques Attali, Simon Reynolds, Eliane Radigue, David Toop, John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others. Each essay has its own short introduction, helping the reader to place the essay within musical, historical, and conceptual contexts, and the volume concludes with a glossary, a timeline, and an extensive discography.

ISMS... those things that divide & separate us. SCHISMS... those things that keep us apart & POETIC RHYTHMS... those things that bring us together... puts a smile on our faces and keeps LOVE in our Hearts. A Collection of Poetry Geared Toward the Young and the Old... Combining Old School Values and Wisdom With the Witty Wordplay of Today's Generation. If You Don't Have it, You Need To Get It... Today!

As the Great War clamors into Finland, Sergeant Matti Ranta of the Finnish Conscripted Corps and his new girlfriend Anna Ojala struggle to keep their lives intact. Matti is sent to the front to lay siege on Leningrad in alliance with a terrible enemy. Torn between his desire to regain his homeland and an aching suspicion that what they are doing isn't right, Matti is forced to make an unimaginable choice to save an orphan who will surely die without his intervention. Set in 1940's Finland and Leningrad, this story weaves two cultures together through the lives of three people who never should have met, but who would be inexplicably drawn together through a great miracle of faith in a time when miracles seem impossible. And in the end, love survives.

A deaf woman must stop a serial killer obsessed with targeting everyone she loves in this intense psychological thriller. Annie Black, who is profoundly deaf, has always looked out for her friend’s deaf son Toby. Now she’s looking for him as part of a search party. And when the fifteen-year-old turns up murdered, it’s only the beginning of Annie’s nightmare. Someone is targeting people close to her—someone merciless and very smart. Teaming up with the lead Detective, Annie attempts to understand the killer’s mind. With everyone she cares about in mortal danger, her work puts the entire deaf community at risk. And as the murders escalate, the killer’s obsession grows. Will the police untangle the killer’s motivation before it’s too late?

Paperback re-issue of novel delving into the psyche of a woman unable to escape domestic abuse - first from her father then from a partner who alternates between ferocious protection and vicious physical abuse. Traces her journey from her frustrating passivity to her emerging strength, but in the end she remains unable to protect her infant daughter. Author won the 2000 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for best manuscript from an emerging Queensland writer.

A boy warrior wakes up one morning to find himself face to face with a giant sphinx. That same sphinx ends up fighting for his life in several events to come. Her name is Medea, she must protect her sphinx friend and stand by his side throughout all the harsh events. Together they must fight off the power of evil to save the world, the light must survive, it cannot be extinguished by the darkness.