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Feng Shui (pronounded "fung shway") is an ancient Chinese practice based on the idea that the auspicious placement of buildings, walkways, doors, furniture, etc., allows cosmic energy or "chi" to flow freely, thereby creating a harmonious environment. Written by a feng shui teacher and consultant for ten years, this book explains how feng shui can help enhance health, harmony, peace, and prosperity for those who practice it. 90 photos & illust...

From critically acclaimed author of The Meadow comes a haunting novel of the American West. Circumstances spiral out of control when an accidental murder springs from the best intentions. With one man dead and another on the run, this is a story about violence and how it destroys lives when the land is at stake. This lyrical first novel--long-awaited by the many admirers of James Galvin's "The Meadow"--is nothing less than the story of the di...

These shocking, brilliant, and ultimately beautiful stories chronicle the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Each tale is laced with enough wit, humor, and imagination to keep the reader constantly amazed. From the young son persuaded to donate his heart to his dying mother, to the girl who befriends a man in a dog suit in post-apocolyptic suburbia, to the man and woman conducting a love affair across a park bench, these cha...

If I Get to Five" is a one-of-a-kind book by the neurosurgeon who pioneered lifesaving procedures for previously inoperable tumors in children. His patients and their families know him simply as Dr. Fred, the "miracle man" who has extended them both a healing hand and an open heart.

Employing exercises, self-tests, case studies and step-by-step instruction, Segal shows readers how to listen to the body's messages, make those signals part of their decision-making process, and thus realize the full benefit of their emotional resources.

The Ten Things You Can't Say in America struck a chord with eager readers acroos the country, exposing thruths others have been too afraid to address. In his new book, Elder is out to slay entrenched and enmeshed special interest groups, government agencies with the capacity to meddle in Americans' lives and businesses, lawmakers who continue a pattern of outrageous overtaxation, and those who would hamstring this country with good intentions....

One of the most acclaimed books of 1996, this novel is rich with the music of the Southern mountains and the stories of their people. Jess Kirkman's grandmother is dying, and as her family gathers around her, Jess remembers the tales she and his mother have passed down to him. Fred Chappell assembles a chorus of women's voices that sing and share and celebrate the common song of life.

Between 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people--the potato famine emigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. Now, 150 years later, The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among them the child Henry Ford and the twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy. Edward Laxton conducted five years ...

This complete popular history of alcohol from the Egyptians to the twenty-first century is already considered in England to be a classic in the field. Prohibition, Alcoholics Anonymous, and a range of other alcohol-related topics, both contemporary and historical, are covered here. The abundance of little-known facts and colorful legends about alcohol makes for reading that is as memorable as it is highly entertaining.

Living in the city of Kathmandu in the Kingdom of Nepal are dozens of American and British expatriates who are in love with the Himalayas. George Fergusson is one of them--he works as a trek guide for "Take You Higher, Ltd., " leading groups of tourists into the back country and occasionally assisting on serious climbs. George "Freds" Fredericks is another--a tall, easy-going American who converted to Buddhism while in college. He visited Nepa...

Mama and I climbed aboard. I waved to Papa until he was only a tiny speck in the distance. The train turned the curve, and he was gone." The powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle as a Jewish refugee in England from 1939-1945.

In this searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980.

Graceful and gigantic...a fascinating tour through the subtlety, integrity, and brute honesty of Todorov's thought."--"The New York Times Book Review"Todorov invigorates the debate over morality with rigor and grace, Aristotelian fineness, fluid prose, and his own virtues of compassion, humility, and realism."--David Greenberg, " The Washington Post"In a world that continues to devalue human life, Todorov leaves us with a sense of hope that mo...

Kirth Gersen carries in his pocket a slip of paper with a list of five names written upon it - the names of five Demon Princes. The Demon Princes are a race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction. However, to Kirth they are merely murderers who killed his family and destroyed his home planet - and who deserve to die for those misdeeds. Three have already fallen at Kirth's hands, but there are two more ...

A gay ghost, a talking dog, and a street kid who thinks he's an elf-child join our narrator, Bud, and the other characters from Buddies in this final volume of Mordden's trilogy on gay life in the big city.

For over two hundred years in African-American churches throughout the country, gospel and spiritual music have offered solace and have been a source of celebration, leaving a mark not only on the Christian world, but on popular music as well. Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit contains the lyrics and music of 101 of the most widely known and cherished of these pieces, ranging from heartrending spirituals from the times of slavery to songs of unity ...

Extravagaria" marks an important stage in Neruda's progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to his beloved Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. These sixty-eight poems thus denote a resting point, a rediscovery of sea and land, and an "autumnal period" (as the poet himself called it). In this book, Neruda developed a lyric poetry decidedly more personal than his earlier work.

Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's chronological human and natural history. This is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. ...

In this new parallel novel to "Ender's Game, " Card tells the story of another child in the Battle School--a boy named Bean, whose past was a fight just to survive and whose mind was leagues beyond anyone else's.

The author of the bestselling classic Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway now provides readers with the tools and the concepts they need to attain a greater peace of mind and embrace the beauty around and within them. "With love, candor, and clarity, Susan Jeffers inspires us to fully live every moment of our lives".--Barbara De Angelis, author of Real Moments.