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Sixteen-year-old Joan Larousse has a lot on her mind. She knows she is lucky to live on a big estate with her parents, two caretakers and a parrot named Victor, Joan loves the woods and a cave becomes her "church". Joan's life is generally busy and happy. With her French tutor, Joan explores existentialism and consciousness, debate and speaking your truth, patience and love. As Joan chooses a date for the prom and enjoys her first kiss, she al...

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Guía de Estudio de La Perla de Gran Precio: Un compañero a su estudio de la Perla de Gran Precio, esta Guía de Estudio de la serie Hacer Simples las Cosas Preciosas es un recurso de gran valor para los profesores, estudiantes y estudiosos del Evangelio por igual. En este volumen de material suplementario, el Dr. Randal Chase, un veterano profesor del Instituto y de la Doctrina del Evangelio, comparte años de ahondar en los conocimientos sobre ...

When Malca Bernovski rides a horse offtrail in Nixon-era Washington DC, she discovers the wounded antiwar leader Gavin Hareen, prime suspect in the lethal bombing of an army truck. The budding love between the sheltered Malca, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and the anguished, half-Syrian fugitive becomes a desperate struggle against injustice. From the White House to the Rockies, from the Warsaw Ghetto to the post-9/11 search of the lovers'...

My magpie mind collects pieces in a puzzle." - Eileen Berry, p 10, Bye Bye Blackbird "Magpies were always there in our English garden, pecking around and singling out particular objects. Beautiful black and white birds with loud calls to each other. That is the way this book was put together." - Eileen BerryThis collection of poetry inspires the mind and imagination with memories and images of people, places, and changes over the years. An ins...

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A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century Texas. …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction. -Kirkus Reviews________________________In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing after the Alamo and Goliad brace for a last clash. Born in Mexico's San Antonio, Captain Juan Seguin risks all in championing the break-away republic. Private James Trezevant, one of few Georgia Battalion survivors,...

Matthew Abuelo's Forever Turn the Midnight Carousel is a head-spinning depiction of harshest reality in New York City. Reading his sequence of poetry and stories is like "visiting the world of the forgotten." In subway tunnels, psychiatric wards, and single occupancy rooms are individuals depicted in such brutal honesty by Abuelo that the reader cannot turn away or forget. Those of us fortunate enough to live "ordinary lives with ordinary fear...

Establishing Zion: Preparing the Earth for the Return of Jesus Christ is a review of all the Zion societies that have been attempted and/or achieved since the Zion of Enoch. This includes the Zion of Enoch, the Zion of Melchizedek, the attempted Zion of Moses, the Zion of the early Christian Church, and the Zion achieved by the Nephites in the New World. The book then discusses the attempt in our own last days to establish a Zion society in an...

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Months after World War II officially ends, a 15-year-old boy still hides in a potato field. The horror of the Holocaust is followed by the horror of survival. The question "Why me?" haunts survivors for the rest of our lives. For some of us, life is only possible under the anesthesia of silence. After 63 years, Leon Rubinstein has broken his silence with this book. As I Am Presently Known is a remarkable story of life's victory over death and ...

Shells, ears, damaged mirrors... the images in Karolyn Redoute's powerful new book, Whispers from the Aural World, conjure a mysterious emotional landscape that is as real as the lost city of Detroit where she grew up, and as heartbreaking as the silence between parents and children or, later on, between lovers. At times reading these poems I felt as if the Lady of Shallot had returned in the twenty-first century to speak to us again of the sh...

The Beatles in Liverpool, Hamburg, London deals with the all-important early years of the group. Takes you from the birth of The Beatles, all the way through to the global phenomenon that the world's media-with no little irony-dubbed "Beatlemania". It details: The People. The Venues. The Events. It includes sections on the birth of rock 'n' roll, in the USA and Britain, talks about the influence African-American music had on the group, covers ...

Bob Pfeiffer's second poetry collection dares us to be "good to one another, " to be "serious about experience, " and "to enjoy / the smallest fragments of life." It's a book about fatherhood, citizenship, and-first and foremost-love. At turns funny, at turns enraged by injustice, these clear-eyed and kindhearted poems achieve hopefulness without falling into naivety. Indeed, they recognize that "There is the world we have, / and the world we ...

Fall in love with your spouse all over again with these creative ideas for fun, meaningful dates. Find inspiration for holiday dates like Secret Santa service activities and the ultimate Great Pumpkin Contest. Or celebrate your love any day of the year by- Reliving your first date- Taking classes together for ballroom dance, improv, or sign language- Having a hotel slumber party- Building a private (backyard) resort- Finding a marvelous night ...

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Opening a copy of Body Work is like lifting the lid of a jewelry box to discover each gemstone carefully carved, polished, and sparkling. These poems resonate with intelligence, authenticity, delicious irony, concise and biting images, and deep empathy. The work in this insightful and unforgettable collection rank as Stephanie K. Cohen's finest. And there's not a faux jewel among them. - Pat Carr, author of The Death of a Confederate Colonel, ...