 | Japanese Immigrants (Immigration to the United States)
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 |  | Set All Afire
Publication Date: February 1, 1991Saint Francis Xavier's life is, in itself, a dramatic story. With humility and deep religious conviction, the famous Catholic novelist Louis de Wohl takes us into the mind and heart of this great missionary and saint who went by order of St. Ignatius of Loyola to "set all afire" in the Orient. Louis de Wohl captivates the reader as he follows Xavier's life from student days in Paris, through his meeting with Ignatius, his rather reluctant conversion, and his travels as one of the first Jesuits. The story takes the reader from Europe to Goa, India, Malaysia, ...
|  | Graces: Prayers for Everyday Meals and Special Occasions
Release Date: September 17, 1994 Saying grace at mealtime is a time-honored tradition for many families and a newfound source of spiritual connection for others. Whether you're a master at giving the blessing or fairly new to this sacred art, Graces will bring inspiration to your meals and special gatherings. Seeing the need for such inspiration at her family's table, June Cotner compiled a notebook of poems, prayers, and songs that she solicited from friends, strangers, family members, and ministers. She has turned her family's well-worn notebook into this elegantly packaged edition, which ...
|  | Our Cosmic Ancestors
Publication Date: September 1988A former NASA expert documents evidence left in codesinscribed on ancient monuments pointing to the existence of anadvanced prehistoric civilization regularly visited (andtechnologically assisted) by ETs. ...
|  | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles
Release Date: May 20, 2008| Series: Star Trek (Book 3) Before the Dominion War and the decimation of Cardassia...before the coming of the Emissary and the discovery of the wormhole...before space station Terok Nor became Deep Space 9™...there was the Occupation: the military takeover of an alien planet and the violent insurgency that fought against it. Now that fifty-year tale of warring ideologies, terrorism, greed, secret intelligence, moral compromises, and embattled faiths is at last given its due in the three-book saga of Star Trek's Lost Era... TEROK NORAs violence all across ...
|  | But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Release Date: November 10, 2009"May be the best book ever written about jazz."--David Thomson, Los Angeles Times In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is...
|  | Tennyson: Including Lotos Eaters, Ulysses, Ode on the Death, Maud, The Coming and the Passing of Arthur
Publication Date: April 30, 20041900. With Introductions and Notes by F.J. Rowe and W.T. Webb. Poet of the Victorian age, who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate, this volume includes some of his best-known works: The Lotos-Eaters, Ulysses, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Maud, the Coming of Arthur and The Passing of Arthur. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ...
|  | Fear and Trembling: A Novel
Publication Date: April 18, 2002According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amélie; working there turns into comic nightmare. Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight ...
|  | The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
Release Date: March 16, 2010| ISBN-10: 1608190331 | ISBN-13: 978-1608190331| Edition: 1 Poetry serves a unique role in our lives, distilling human experience and emotion down to truths as potent as they are brief. There are two times most people turn to it: for love and loss. Although collections of love poetry abound, there are very few anthologies for the grieving. In The Art of Losing, editor Kevin Young Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals...
|  | No Matter No Fact
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|  | The Four Seasons: Japanese Haiku, 2nd Series
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|  | Culture Class & Gender in the Victorian
Publication Date: July 5, 1999Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women examines the interrelation of social class and its literary representation in Victorian Britain, focusing on the emergence of the lower middle class as a literary, as well as a social and cultural phenomenon. It places the evolution of the lower middle class and its relation to other classes within the social structure of nineteenth-century England and within the historical context of changing perceptions of the idea of the gentleman and the changing role of women, especially du...
|  | Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Publication Date: November 19, 2009American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse population could cluster around this common temporality as one forward-looking people.In a bold revision of this narrative, Archives of American Time examines American literature's figures and forms to disclose the competing temporalities that in fact defined the antebellum ...
|  | Dynamic Psychology in Modern British Fiction
Release Date: November 10, 2005Dynamic Psychology in Modern British Fiction argues that literary critics have tended to distort the impact of pre-Freudian psychological discourses, including psychical research, on modern British fiction. This project focuses on the Edwardian novelists most fully engaged by dynamic psychology, May Sinclair, and J.D. Beresford, but also reconsiders Arnold Bennett and D.H. Lawrence and concludes by demonstrating Woolf's subtle assimilation of pre-Freudian discourse. ...
|  | Unmasked
Publication Date: August 1997A fabulous masquerade ball--in which guests come as legendary lovers--at a New Orleans Garden District mansion becomes the setting for love, passion, scandal, and intrigue in a trio of romantic tales by best-selling authors Jennifer Blake, Janet Dailey, and Elizabeth Gage. Original." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Hunting the Hunter (The Hunters, Book 9)
Release Date: July 5, 2006THE HUNTERAfter two years, Kane Winter still doesn’t know what really happened the night his bounty hunting partner was murdered. What he does know is that there was a mysterious woman at the scene, and he won’t rest until he finds her... THE PREYKendall is accustomed to vampire games. After all, she is one herself—part of an elite group of warriors who keep the other vamps in line by destroying the ones who prey on the weak and innocent. But now she’s the one being stalked... THE PASSIONWhen all trails lead to Kendall, Kane is consumed by a ...
|  | Scottish Murder Stories (Scottish Literature)
Publication Date: March 1999| Series: Scottish Literature This medley of "Scottish Murders" does not deal with the despicable or the incomprehensible world of serial and psychopathic crimes, but concentrates on the more notable and Gothic whodunnits, some of them well-known, some not so. The full chapter list is: The Misted Mountain, The Arran Case, 1889; The German Tea Planter, Broughty Ferry, 1912; The Late Mr Toad, The Musselburgh Case, 1911; 'Oh, Loch Maree!', William Laurie King, Edinburgh, 1924; The Running Girl, Christina Gilmour, 1843; The Travelling Man, Hugh Macleod, 1830; The Nake...
|  | Goosebumps Hall of Horrors #3: The Five Masks of Dr. Screem: Special Edition
Publication Date: July 1, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Clever Jack Takes the Cake
Release Date: August 24, 2010| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Take a bite out of this deliciously funny original fairy tale, which received four starred reviews and was named a Best Book of the Year by Booklist, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and the Bank Street College of Education. What would you do if you were invited to the princess’s tenth birthday party but didn’t have money for a gift? Well, clever Jack decides to bake the princess a cake.Now he just has to get it to the castle in one piece. What could possibly go wrong?Candace Fleming and G. Brian Ka...
|  | Ancient Greece Entertainment (Changing Times) (Changing Times: Ancient Greece)
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