Erika: 836 books

Wie Petermännchen zu Hut und Stelzen kam. Ein Märchen und zwei Geschichten aus dem reichen Sagenschatz über den Schweriner Schloßgeist Petermännchen. In märchenhafter Form wird ein Stück Heimatgeschichte aus der Zeit der frühdeutschen Besiedelung Mecklenburgs dargestellt und 'ganz nebenbei'...

Die Deutschen erobern im 12. Jahrhundert endgültig das Mecklenburger Land, ein deutscher Priester verwünscht den einheimischen slawischen Obotritenprinzen in einen Zwerg. Als Schlossgeist hofft dieser nun auf Erlösung. Wird es gelingen? - In heiteren, aber auch tragischen und nachdenklichen Geschichten...

Wer möchte schon ein Zwerg und Schlossgeist bleiben, wenn er in Wirklichkeit ein verwunschener Prinz ist und König sein könnte! Der Schlossgeist Petermännchen bemüht sich seit Hunderten von Jahren redlich um seine Erlösung. Dafür gibt es viele verschiedene Möglichkeiten; mit ihm ringen, ihm...

Petermännchen, der Poltergeist Wie gelangt ein Teufelsgespenst ins Franziskanerkloster zu den frommen Brüdern in die Landesresidenz Schwerin? Warum flieht es dann wieder und ausgerechnet ins Fürstenschloß auf der Burginsel? Eine episodenhafte Geschichte um die Entwicklung eines Poltergeistes vom...

Author Erika Dreifus lives in New York City. QUIET AMERICANS, published by Last Light Studio, is her first book of fiction and was inspired in large part by her paternal grandparents, German Jews who immigrated to the United States in the late 1930s. Portions of the proceeds from sales of QUIET AMERICANS...

“Best Intentions is that rare novel that grows more gripping and emotionally rich with every turn of the page.” —Carla Buckley Marti Trailor—social worker on hold, mother of three, wife of a successful obstetrician, daughter of a Congressman—is ready to go back to work. She’s thrilled...

A short story: Ember knew relationships could be tumultuous and challenging. She was ready for that. Things changed with the decision to start a family. Now there are questions she doesn’t have answers for, and decisions she doesn’t want to make.

Estudiar, leer, subrayar sus apuntes de Medicina, asistir a clase, hacer unas horas extra en la librería y volver a empezar. Esa es la vida de Georgia, la hermosa, disciplinada y metódica Georgia, el paradigma de la niña buena que estudia lo que sus padres cirujanos han querido que estudiara. No...

From Erika Swyler, author of The Book of Speculation—one of BuzzFeed’s Best Fiction Books of 2015-- a short story of a mermaid who ran away from the circus, and what happened when she started a life on land. Before she was a suburban wife and mother, Paulina Watson was the Mermaid Girl...

Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering greater dissemination and access. But digital...

Porn. Do you think of it as a dirty word, a taboo topic, something you associate with cheesy films with bad plots? Filmmaker and author Erika Lust is here to change all that. With the goal of making porn more accessible to women, Good Porn examines the films, the industry, and the phenomenon. It breaks...

A tutorial on the ancient practice of limpias to heal the mind, body, and soul • Offers step-by-step instructions for the practice of limpias, shamanic cleansing rituals to heal, purify, and revitalize people as well as physical spaces • Examines different types of limpia ceremonies,...

Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to think about performance, through to the diverse...

In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics. The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring...