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Author : Tess Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Moon Crossing Bridge written by Tess Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess Gallagher's sixth book, a descent into the world of the dead, a remembrance of her recently deceased beloved.
Author : Cathy Farr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992850906
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Moon Chase written by Cathy Farr and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grace Lin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316052604
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book) written by Grace Lin and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection! A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.
Author : Tess Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852249342
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Midnight Lantern written by Tess Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess Gallagher is one of America's leading poets. In Midnight Lantern she collects her indispensable work from forty years of writing poetry, along with an ample new section written in the west of Ireland. Included in this generous book are Gallagher's signature nocturnes - for the changing Pacific Northwest, for her tough childhood, and for her late husband, Raymond Carver, and others. Her challenging new work confronts a tumultuous century's worth of art, warfare, and illness, while certifying the stubborn resilience of poetry and love. Astonishing, insightful, mischievous, an inimitable 'seeing-into experience', Midnight Lantern is the essential book by a poet in the prime of her power. 'Gallagher's poems resound with exquisite beauty and remind me once more how it is not subject but its rendering that redeems and uplifts' - Boston Globe 'Tess Gallagher's is perhaps the most deeply moving and spiritual and intensely intelligent poetry being written in America today' - William Heyen 'It is impossible to read Tess Gallagher's poems without being drawn into their mesmerising rhythms and convinced of the rightness of her intense yet unforced images' - Joyce Carol Oates 'She is outstanding among her contemporaries in the naturalness of her inflection, the fine excess of her spirit, and the energy of her dramatic imagination' - Stanley Kunitz
Author : Tess Gallagher
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978886
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Is, Is Not written by Tess Gallagher and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess Gallagher’s new poems are suspended between contradiction and beauty Is, Is Not upends our notions of linear time, evokes the spirit and sanctity of place, and hovers daringly at the threshold of what language can nearly deliver while offering alternative corollaries as gifts of its failures. Tess Gallagher’s poems reverberate with the inward clarity of a bell struck on a mountaintop. Guided by humor, grace, and a deep inquiry into the natural world, every poem nudges us toward moments of awe. How else except by delight and velocity would we discover the miracle within the ordinary? Gallagher claims many Wests—the Northwest of America, the Northwest of Ireland, and a West even further to the edge, beyond the physical. These landscapes are charged with invisible energies and inhabited by the people, living and dead, who shape Gallagher’s poems and life. Restorative in every sense, Is, Is Not is the kind of book that takes a lifetime to write—a book of the spirit made manifest by the poet’s unrelenting gaze and her intimate engagement with the mysteries that keep us reaching.
Author : Nancy McCabe
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272657
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge written by Nancy McCabe and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter, who was seeing the place for the first time in her memory, was “going home.” Part travelogue, part memoir, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge immerses readers in an absorbing and intimate exploration of place and its influence on the meaning of family. A sequel to Meeting Sophie, which tells McCabe’s story of adopting Sophie as a single woman, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge picks up a decade later with a much different Sophie—a ten-year-old with braces who wears black nail polish, sneaks eyeliner, wears clothing decorated with skulls, and has mixed feelings about being one of the few non-white children in the little Pennsylvania town where they live. Since she was young, Sophie had felt a closeness to the country of her birth and held it in an idealized light. At ten, she began referring to herself as Asian instead of Asian-American. It was McCabe’s hope that visiting China would “help her become comfortable with both sides of the hyphen, figure out how to be both Chinese and American, together.” As an adoptive parent of a foreign-born child, McCabe knows that homeland visits are an important rite of passage to help children make sense of the multiple strands of their heritage, create their own hybrid traditions, and find their particular place in the world. Yet McCabe, still reeling from her mother’s recent death, wonders how she can give any part of Sophie back to her homeland. She hopes that Sophie will find affirmation and connection in China, even as she sees firsthand some of the realities of China—overpopulation, pollution, and an oppressive government—but also worries about what that will mean for their relationship. Throughout their journey on a tour for adopted children, mother and daughter experience China very differently. New tensions and challenges emerge, illuminating how closely intertwined place is with sense of self. As the pair learn to understand each other, they lay the groundwork for visiting Sophie’s orphanage and birth village, life-changing experiences for them both.
Author : Lady Sarashina
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140442823
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)
Download or read book As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams written by Lady Sarashina and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-12-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born at the height of the Heian period, the pseudonymous Lady Sarashina reveals much about the Japanese literary tradition in this haunting self-portrait. Born in 1008, Lady Sarashina was a lady-in-waiting of Heian-period Japan. Her work stands out for its descriptions of her travels and pilgrimages and is unique in the literature of the period, as well as one of the first in the genre of travel writing. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Kalyan Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Eastwords written by Kalyan Ray and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book storms the bastion of Englishness, irreverent, wity and compelling. High drama meets folktale in this story about colonizers, and the colonized set against a background of treachery and menace, grace and redemption.
Author : Dawn Clifton Tripp
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 : 0375761160
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Moon Tide written by Dawn Clifton Tripp and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut novel, set in a small fishing town on the Massachusetts coast, chronicles the lives of three very different women--Eve, a beautiful artist; her wealthy, eccentric grandmother, Elizabeth; and Maggie, an exotic stranger involved with a ruthless rum smuggler--from 1913 to the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126674
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Pegasus Bridge written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality—the stuff of all great adventures.
Author : Norris Brock Johnson
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611720044
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Tenryu-ji written by Norris Brock Johnson and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major Japanese Zen temple, viewed through its monks, gardens, meditation, and art.
Author : Susan Meissner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698197860
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book A Bridge Across the Ocean written by Susan Meissner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in this emotional novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Résistance spy. Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American husbands. Their new lives in the United States brightly beckon until their tightly-held secrets are laid bare in their shared stateroom. When the voyage ends at New York Harbor, only one of them will disembark... Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted Queen Mary at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and triumphs of the courageous war brides—and will ultimately lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her own deepest longings. CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED
Author : John H. Martin
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462906354
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Kyoto written by John H. Martin and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital and modern-day center of tourism and traditional culture, is one of the world's most beautiful and historic cities. Founded nearly 1,300 years ago and undamaged by the war, Kyoto today is the home of over 1,600 Buddhist temples, 400 Shinto shrines, countless national treasures and 17 World Heritage sites, including the famed Golden Pavilion, Nijo Castle and Kiyomizu Temple. This book presents 29 easy-to-follow walking tours through Kyoto's history, its many unique districts and scenic areas full of charm and character. You'll discover not only the most renowned sites, such as the Silver Pavilion, the rock garden at Ryoan-ji Temple and the garden of the Heian Shrine, but also little-known areas off the beaten track. Much more than a guidebook, this volume tells the historical and cultural story of Kyoto's great monuments. The colorful tales, fascinating facts, larger-than-life characters and grand events that shaped the city and Japan at large will enthrall every reader. This updated and greatly expanded guide features over 100 color photos, full-color maps that trace each route and detailed diagrams of many individual sites.
Author : Judith Clancy
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1933330643
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Exploring Kyoto written by Judith Clancy and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of the acclaimed guidebook to Japan's most popular tourist destination.
Author : Tess Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852243654
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Portable Kisses written by Tess Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ideally, a reader should finish this book, then find someone to kiss.' - Tess Gallagher'This is the best book of love poems since Neruda's.' - Bill Knott'There are as many nuances and inflections for kisses as there are lips to kiss,' says American poet Tess Gallagher. And so with these playful, serious and sassy poems about kisses, a whole book devoted to the kiss. Portable Kisses is a book which kept growing. The earliest poems were published in a hand-printed limited edition called Portable Kisses in 1978. But the poems wouldn't stop, like the best of kisses, and Tess Gallagher published a new Portable Kisses in 1992, followed two years later by Portable Kisses Expanded. This first UK edition of the most travelled kisses in poetry since Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair includes all the kisses Tess Gallagher has put down on paper.
Author : Nelson Foster
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1645473104
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Storehouse of Treasures written by Nelson Foster and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storehouse of Treasures unearths wise and beautiful elements of Chan and Zen still little known in the West, revealing unexpected aspects of the tradition and new implications for practice. Since the dawn of Chan and Zen in medieval China and Japan, members of these schools have enlivened their teaching by creatively adopting and adapting terms, images, principles, poetry, and lore native to their societies. Unfortunately, so much of that cultural wealth has been “lost in translation” that Western practitioners have barely begun to discover and appreciate this extraordinarily rich legacy. In Storehouse of Treasures, second-generation American Zen teacher Nelson Foster makes a series of adventuresome forays into the trove of material laid up by the Dharma ancestors, bringing to light: Masters’ delight in playing with words, stories, and inherited Buddhist concepts, bending them to express the Dharma in inspired ways The powerful influence that Taoist and Confucian thought exerted in the formation of Chan and Zen The emphasis the two schools have laid on excellence of character as well as on profound awakening The experiential meaning and enduring importance to the tradition of ideals little associated with it today, like integrity, shame, and contentment How “knowing the tune” of a fellow student, a mentor, or a teacher of old lies at the heart of transmitting the Dharma Lifting to attention a diverse set of ancient yet still luminous Dharma gems, Foster urges their relevance and value to us as students of the Buddha Way and as citizens of a world increasingly fractious and imperiled.
Author : Harold Schweizer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791432631
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Suffering and the Remedy of Art written by Harold Schweizer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book suggests that a listening to suffering may profit from a literary hearing, and vice versa. It is not only that literature tells of suffering but that suffering may tell us something about the nature of literature
