Sybil Rosen Bücher

Renommierte Autorinnen und Autoren versetzen sich in fünf Erzählungen zu den Weltreligionen Judentum, Christentum, Islam, Hinduismus und Buddhismus in Jugendliche hinein, die sich ihrer eigenen Religion wieder oder zum ersten Mal annähern. Unterhaltsam und eindringlich, mitreißend und kenntnisreich erzählen sie von dem besonderen Kern der jeweiligen Religion, ohne das Verbindende der Weltreligionen aus dem Blick zu verlieren. Zu den Erzählungen: Keinen blassen Schimmer hat Kalpana vom Hinduismus. Da hilft nur eins: Sie muss nach Indien. Auf dem Flughafen von Neu Delhi trifft sie einen unheimlichen alten Mann, der alles über sie zu wissen scheint. Fieberhaft sucht Tarik seine Schwester Nadia, aber sie ist wie vom Erdboden verschluckt. An all dem ist nur sein Bruder Adil mit seinem Glaubensfimmel schuld. Oder steckt doch mehr dahinter? Shannon soll ihre Ferien ausgerechnet mit ihrer abgedrehten Tante verbringen, einer buddhistischen Nonne. Das kann ja heiter werden. Simon hat jemanden niedergeschlagen. Er flüchtet sich in eine Kirche, eigentlich der letzte Ort, wo er sein möchte. Doch hier wird ihn niemand suchen, davon ist er überzeugt. Schoscha wirbeln unzählige Fragen zur jüdischen Religion im Kopf herum und Antworten scheint es ebenso viele zu geben. Jetzt liegt es an ihr. Sie muss ihren ganz eigenen Weg finden. Fünf Jugendliche auf der Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens. Ab 13

<p> <b>A summer of hatred...discovery</b> </p><p> Eleven-year-old Audrey Ina has lived in the town of Blue Gap all her life, and thinks she knows everyone in it and has nothing to fear. It's 1956, eleven years after Hitler's defeat, and nobody seems to even remember the war -- except for Audrey's Tante Pesel, who survived Auschwitz but is still unable to talk about it. </p><p> Then one day, someone throws a rock through the window of her father's factory. Is it because he agreed to stand up for the right of a black man to join the police force? Or is it because their family is Jewish? Either way, Audrey Ina soon discovers that her sleepy southern town is full of hatred, fear, and violence beneath its surface, and that she and her family are in danger. Most vulnerable of all is Tante Pesel, whose nightmares seem to be coming true all over again. Will she survive the hatred that threatens to tear the family apart? What can a girl like Audrey do to stand up against injustice?</p>

Now an Independent Film With a new Foreword by Ethan Hawke, Director of BLAZE With a new Afterword by the author Living in the Woods in a Tree is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949–1989), seen through the eyes of Sybil Rosen, the woman for whom he wrote his most widely known song, “If I Could Only Fly.” It captures the exuberance of their fleeting idyll in a tree house in the Georgia woods during the countercultural 1970s. Rosen offers a firsthand witnessing of Foley’s transformation from a reticent hippie musician to the enigmatic singer/songwriter who would live and die outside society's rules. While Foley's own performances are only recently being released, his songs have been covered by Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett, and John Prine. When he first encountered “If I Could Only Fly,” Merle Haggard called it “the best country song I've heard in fifteen years.” In a work that is part-memoir, part-biography, Rosen struggles to finally come to terms with Foley's myth and her role in its creation. Her tracing of his impact on her life navigates a lovers' roadmap along the permeable boundary between life and death. A must-read for all Blaze Foley and Texas music fans, as well as romantics of all ages, Living in the Woods in a Tree is an honest and compassionate portrait of the troubled artist and his reluctant muse.

A warm, wonderful picture book that gently reminds us of the importance of respecting our natural world and highlights the joys and rewards of helping others. Join a girl as she helps a mama and papa bird build a nest in her bathroom, hatch their eggs, and teach their babies to fly away. Renata and her Papi are hard at work at renovating their bathroom. Renata can't wait to build castles of bubbles in the deep, old-fashioned bathtub. But one morning, she finds dried leaves and pine needles heaped on a shelf in the corner. How did they get there? She soon realizes that a bird has built a nest on the shelf, and inside it are four rosy eggs! Weeks pass, and Renata watches as the wrens come and go, building a home in her bathroom... until, one day, with a little help from Renata, the birds are ready to fly.