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1) The silence
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the darkness of a underground cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed. Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. Deaf for many years, Ali knows how to live in silence. Now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful and evil force threatens to attack a family whenever they make a noise, causing them to plunge into lives of silence. Any move they make, they live with the terrifying threat of being ambushed at any moment. With their existence on the line, they will need to develop a plan to escape their perilous circumstances. The question is whether or not time has already run out on their aspirations to lead normal lives.
In a post-apocalyptic world,...
Author
Description
Imparts wisdom on cultivating calm and inner silence, even in the most chaotic situations, through mindfulness and careful breathing.
Zen master and one of the world's most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resourcesilenceto help us find happiness, purpose, and peace. Many people embark on a seemingly futile search for happiness, running as if there is somewhere else to...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Imparts wisdom on cultivating calm and inner silence, even in the most chaotic situations, through mindfulness and careful breathing.
Zen master and one of the world's most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resourcesilenceto help us find happiness, purpose, and peace. Many people embark on a seemingly futile search for happiness, running as if there is somewhere else to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a mindfulness expert and a leadership coach, a book that looks at the science, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality of silence by giving new context to the noise all around us--physical and metaphorical--to change the way we hear and experience the world" --
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. His mother and father often sat in the same room but exchanged no words. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn't come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but unspoken. And on a cold night just before Christmas...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By all appearances, Frank and Maggie share a happy, loving marriage. But for the past six months, they have not spoken. Not a sentence, not a single word. Maggie isn't sure what, exactly, provoked Frank's silence, though she has a few ideas... Then Frank finds Maggie collapsed in the kitchen, unconscious, an empty package of sleeping pills on the table. Rushed to the hospital, she is placed in a medically induced coma while the doctors assess the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
320L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Albert wants a quiet place to read, but his friends just want to play and now everyone has to figure out how to have fun together.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society. Brox traces its place as a transformative power in the monastic world from Medieval Europe to the very public life of twentieth century monk Thomas Merton, whose love for silence deepened even as he faced his obligation to speak...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Physical Desc
x, 342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Listening to doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet, and what are the benefits of decluttering our sonic world.
13) It's too noisy!
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
210L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Annie wants to read. But everywhere is so noisy! Where can she go that is quiet to read in peace?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the day she went silent, Speth never meant for anyone to follow her lead--or to start a rebellion of Silents. But after taking down the tyrant Silas Rog and freeing the city from his grasp, everyone is looking to Speth for answers she doesn't have. All she wants is to find her parents, who are shackled to a lifetime of servitude in exchange for a debt they can never repay. But how can Speth leave her friends to fend for themselves when she's the...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When Anne D. LeClaire decided to turn an ordinary Monday into a day of silence, she viewed her experiment as a one-time occurrence. Little did she realize she had begun an inner voyage that would transform her life. In this eloquent book -- part memoir, part philosophical inquiry -- LeClaire reflects on how silence can help us attend to the world around us, expand our awareness, and achieve inner peace. Silence, LeClaire contends, reminds us to pay...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Lost Art of Silence encourages us to embrace this pursuit and allow the warm light of silence to glow. Invoking the wisdom of many of the greatest writers, thinkers, contemplatives, historians, musicians, and artists, Sarah Anderson reveals the sublime nature of quiet that's all too often undervalued. Throughout, she shares her own penetrating insights into the potential for silence to transform us. This celebration of silence invites us to widen...
Publisher
The Cinema Guild Inc
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Responding to the increase of noise pollution, a 'major environmental and public health burden' according to the World Health Organization, In Pursuit of Silence is a meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. This critical acclaimed documentary takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe - from Denali National Park in Alaska to a forest outside of Tokyo, where a researcher...