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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Positive Attitude zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 4/5/2005
1. Ten Poems to Change Your Life
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From Amazon.com: This is a
dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It
dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens
us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms
us. It can lead to communion and grace. Through the voices of ten inspiring poets and
his own reflections, the author of
Sacred America shows how poetry
illuminates the eternal feelings and desires that stir the human heart and
soul. These poems explore such universal themes as the awakening of wonder,
the longing for love, the wisdom of dreams, and the courage required to live
an authentic life. In thoughtful commentary on each work, Housden offers
glimpses into his personal spiritual journey and invites readers to
contemplate the significance of the poet's message in their own lives.
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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From Amazon.com: For the first time in a decade, Willy Wonka, the reclusive and eccentric chocolate maker, is opening his doors to the public--well, five members of the public to be exact. The lucky five who find a Golden Ticket in their Wonka chocolate bars will receive a private tour of the factory, given by Mr. Wonka himself. For young Charlie Bucket, this is a dream come true. And, when he finds a dollar bill in the street, he can't help but buy two Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delights--even though his impoverished family could certainly use the extra dollar for food. But as Charlie unwraps the second chocolate bar, he sees the glimmer of gold just under the wrapper! The very next day, Charlie, along with his unworthy fellow winners Mike Teavee, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Augustus Gloop, steps through the factory gates to discover whether or not the rumors surrounding the Chocolate Factory and its mysterious owner are true. What they find is that the gossip can't compare to the extraordinary truth, and for Charlie, life will never be the same again. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, another unforgettable masterpiece from the legendary Roald Dahl, never fails to delight, thrill, and utterly captivate.
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From Amazon.com: From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression, Sea Glass shifts through the multiple points of view of six principal characters; it's a skillfully created story of braided lives that bounces easily (even inevitably) from character to character. We learn how these lives come together following the stock market crash of 1929 and about the struggles of mill workers on the starkly beautiful New Hampshire coast during the following year. At the novel's center is the story of Honora Beecher, a young newlywed who compulsively collects sea glass along the beach as she collects unexpected friendship in her new beachside community, and Francis, a boy who discovers a father figure in the towering character of McDermott, an Irish mill worker, at a time when he most needs direction. Each character finds unexpected new purpose beyond the struggle to survive during that turbulent year among the dunes. First their lives barely touch, then they intersect, and finally they become inextricably bound. By the powerful and unexpected final scenes of the story, every point of view, every brilliant shard of life depends deeply on all the others. It is a very satisfying read--confidently told and deeply felt--with as many subtle colors and reflections as the sea glass that permeates the narrative.
Original Release Date: 2002
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From Amazon.com: That Up exists at all is faintly miraculous. Over the past seven years, with guests including Youssou N'Dour, Peter Green, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peter Gabriel has held recording sessions in Senegal, Atlanta, Singapore, the French Alps, and on a boat on the Amazon River, as well as at his own RealWorld studios. Having written and prepared over 150 songs, he's managed to cut this huge body of work down to just 10 tracks. There's a remarkable consistency and contemporary feel here that springs from a thoughtful layering process, with Gabriel combining tribal rhythms with complex backing vocals, samples, rock guitar, piano and--crucially--electronic effects. Indeed, the opener, "Darkness," begins with an aggressiveness that recalls Prodigy, before hints of vulnerability and fear surface. Elsewhere, there is the dreamy "The Drop" and the orchestral heights of "Signal to Noise." Throughout, Gabriel uses water metaphors to put forward his positivist message. And it's all brilliant, sophisticated, and soulful. The man's a marvel and Up is a masterwork.
Original Release Date: 1992
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From Amazon.com: Shimmering Warm & Bright is the third album from the exquisitely talented Norwegian group Bel Canto, who really deserves to be well-known. Bel Canto is this: an ethereal and angelic lead vocalist Anneli Drecker, a blend of acoustic and electronic instrumentation, mysterious balladry, low on hooks but possessing a somber majesty nonetheless. Leading the album is the mystifying "Unicorn," juxtaposing soft keyboard textures with an effective techno backdrop. Over it all is Drecker's beautiful voice, her melodies cool and enticing. Elsewhere, her voice may take on a feisty, infectious enthusiasm, as on the spirited title track and the droll of "Spiderdust." But she is at her best when singing the album's spellbinding slow songs. "Waking Will," lyrically and musically, is like a walk through someone's twisted dreamscape. "Mornixuur" is the album's stunning finale, a ballad whose intensity carefully mounts. Also of interest are the beautiful songs where Drecker sings in foreign tongues, like French on "La Temps Dégagé" and German on "Die Geschichte Einer Mutter."
3. New Favorite
Original Release Date: 2001
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From Amazon.com: After her 1999 gold release, Forget About It, Alison Krauss has found additional success as part of the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?--an album that's done more to advance the cause of bluegrass since Bill Monroe first conjured the music out of the hills of western Kentucky. While Forget About It showcased the more contemporary part of Krauss's musical equation and the O Brother soundtrack spotlighted the more traditional, New Favorite combines the approaches in balancing the softer sounds with the rougher-edged material. Krauss particularly shines on the soulful title tune of love gone cold, her vocal--softer than a cloud and more intimate than a midnight kiss--threatening to steal your breath away. However, it's mostly the older sounds that you'll remember from this largely somber album, one that telegraphs uncertainty, doom, and the promise of bloodshed throughout much of the repertoire. On "Momma Cried," a song about a child-snatching that tore a family asunder, Dan Tyminski's tenor vocals rise above a wailing Dobro, a driving banjo, and a thumping, anchoring bass to convey unspeakable pain. Too many of the pop-minded songs fall flat in comparison, but although this may not be the group's best effort overall, no other crossover bluegrass band begins to meet their mark either musically or emotionally, as New Favorite so amply shows.
(1995) ~ DVD
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Emma Thompson scores a double
bull's-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. Not only
does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the
Dashwood sisters--the one with "sense"--she also wrote the witty, wise
screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large
cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic
flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister. Winslet attracts the wooing
of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing
Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with
Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. All of this is doled out with the
usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film
always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The
director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, who brings the same
exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous Asian films
(such as
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The Birdcage
(1996) ~
DVD
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The great improvisational comedy team of Mike
Nichols and Elaine May reunited to (respectively) direct and write this update
of the French comedy
La Cage Aux Folles. Robin Williams stars
as a gay Miami nightclub owner who is forced to play it straight and ask his
drag-queen partner (Nathan Lane) to hide out when Williams's son invites his
prospective--and highly conservative--in-laws and fiancée to a meet-and-greet
dinner party. Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest play the straight-laced senator
and his wife, and Calista Flockhart (from television's
Ally McBeal) plays their daughter in a
culture-clash with outrageous consequences. May's witty screenplay
incorporates some pointed observations about the political landscape of the
1990s and takes a sensitive approach to the comedy's underlying drama. Topping
off the action is Hank Azaria in a scene-stealing role as Williams's and
Lane's flamboyant housekeeper, "Agador Spartacus."
3.
Garden State
(2004) ~
DVD
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Zach Braff (from the TV show
Scrubs) stars in his writing/directing debut, Garden State--normally a
doomed act of hubris, but Braff pulls it off with unassuming charm. An
emotionally numb actor in L.A., Andrew (Braff) comes back to New Jersey after
nine years away for his mother's funeral. Andrew avoids his bitter father (Ian
Holm,
The Sweet Hereafter) and joins old
friends (including the superb Peter Sarsgaard,
Boys Don't Cry) in a round of parties.
Along the way he meets a girl (Natalie Portman,
Beautiful Girls) with demons of her own;
bit by bit the two offer each other a little healing. Plot-wise,
Garden State
is familiar stuff, a cross between
The Graduate and a Meg Ryan movie, but
Braff has an eye for goofy but resonant visual images, an ear for lively
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