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![]() ![]() Religious scholar Martin Palmer and Chinese divination expert Man-Ho Kwok discuss the Kuan Yin myths and stories, and Jay Ramsay provides fresh translations of 100 Kuan Yin poems that function both as literature and divination tools. Originally published as Kuan Yin by Harper Collins in 1995 (and republished as The Kuan Yin Chronicles by Hampton Roads in 2009), this seminal work explores the origins and evolution of the goddess in ancient China, early Buddhism, Taoism, and shamanism. Until relatively recently, she was barely known in the West, and few studies had been made of her. Walk down the streets of Chinatown in any American or western European city and look. The best and most comprehensive book on the most important and best-loved Chinese goddess. ![]() This is a popular item and we expect it to sell out soon. or 4 interest-free payments of 3.60 with. She is the living expression of compassion whose gentle face and elegant figure form the center of devotion in most Chinese homes and workplaces. The Promise of Kuan Yin by Martin Palmer. Kuan Yin is the most ubiquitous Chinese deity-and the most loved. Go to any city in China and open your eyes. Walk through the downtown streets, look in a shop window. Walk down the streets of Chinatown in any American or western European city and look around. Shambhala, 1988) Sandy Boucher, Discovering Kwan Yin, Buddhist Goddess of Compassion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999) Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsay, and Man-Ho Kwok. ![]() ![]() ![]() Abry had read a novel about a nurse earlier that week, and since then everything carried disease. “Are you sure we're going the right way? There might be rats here. ![]() The alley had a sour smell, suggesting many more lurking cats.Ībry wrinkled her nose. A scraggly, yellow cat hopped on top of some rusty fuel barrels and arched its back at them. The girls darted into an alley between two warehouses. Because of this, Abry had told her mom they were going to the library … and then in typical Abry fashion, insisted on actually going to “reinforce their alibi.”Ī mechanical buggy rattled down the dirt road, its engine coughing and sputtering. The track was not a place for decent folk, too much gambling. Of course, Abry’s mother wouldn’t approve. She’d discovered her new perch only the day before and had been dancing on pins, she was so eager to share it with Abry. Why hurry when we can’t even get inside?”Ĭora winked. She blew upwards, pushing her pale hair out of her red face. “Come on! We’re going to miss the post parade.”Ībry shifted her books from her hand to the crook of her elbow. Twelve-year-old Cora tugged at her best friend Abry’s arm. This book is dedicated to Cora and her mother, Bethany, who faced trials I couldn't even imagine and came through them with grace and courage I could only hope to possess. Burke's latest novels, author news and events, or to contact the writer, go to ![]() ![]() "And if you don't mind," I pipe in, "can you please direct us to the nearest magic mirror? We need to get home. "Marrying him will save me from this miserable life." "Why do you think I wanted to go to the balls? For the pigs-in-a-blanket? I need the prince to rescue me and get me out of this place."įarrah blinks. "Of course that's what I want!" Cinderella says. ![]() "Is that what you want? To marry the prince?" ![]() And if it doesn't fit the glass slipper, then she won’t be able to marry the prince."įarrah looks at Cinderella. It’s never going to fit the glass slipper the way it is now. ![]() ISBN 978-7-5 (pbk.), ISBN 978-5-6 (E-Book).Ĭinderella (Legendary character)-Juvenile literature. New York, NY: Scholastic Press (Distributed in Canada by Scholastic Canada), 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the book, the reader follows author Megan Rosenbloom, a journalist and UCLA librarian, as her research takes her to libraries and cultural institutions within the United States, England, and France where she engages with librarians, historians, and leather craftsmen to uncover the science and history of these grisly artifacts. ![]() However, to assume that Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin will appeal only to fans of the macabre would be an underestimation of the content covered therein. For most, the ghoulish concept of anthropodermic bibliopegy, or the practice of binding books in human skin, often conjures fictional imagery of a witch's grimoire or H.P. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also won the Colin Roderick Prize for best Australian book and the Australian Book Publishers' Award for best general fiction. His novel, The Broken Shore (Quercus) won Duncan Lawrie Crime Writers’ Association Dagger for the Best Novel, the first Australian to do so. ![]() Peter Temple, former journalist, is an acclaimed Australian crime and thriller writer who has won the Ned Kelly Award for crime writing in his native Australia five times. When I closed The Broken Shore, I felt a tingle throughout my body and I knew that I had read possibly one of the best crime books this year (2006).” ![]() “ You know you've read a good book because it stays with you long after you've read the final page, and the hairs on the back of your neck are standing on end. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Grogan leaves young readers with fond memories of this exasperating yet thoroughly endearing creature. ![]() ![]() The tale takes an inevitable somber turn as the happy-go-lucky pet ages. like the canine version of a Slinky." In other comical highlights, the dog lands a role in a movie and misbehaves on the set, and, at an outdoor restaurant, pulls the family's table along the sidewalk in pursuit of a fetching French poodle. 3.97 977 ratings158 reviews A picture book based on the 1 New York Times bestselling memoir Marley & Me by John Grogan In John Grogan's memoir, Marley & Me, the world learned how one bad dog became the heart of the family that loved him. Marley strews toilet paper throughout the house so that "the place looked like it had been decorated for Halloween," eats everything he can get his paws on (including toy soldiers, pen caps and towels, pieces of which "came out the other end"), and knocks framed photos and bottles off tabletops as he enthusiastically wags "his whole body. It will surely hold youngsters' attention despite the absence of peers (Grogan's own, younger children play but minor roles) thanks to the pooch's kid-pleasing shenanigans. The same eye-catching photo from the original jacket graces this version, and the narrative maintains all the energy, humor and poignancy of the adult book. Moving at a clip worthy of the barreling pooch at its heart, Grogan's anecdotal adaptation of his bestselling memoir, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog speaks to a middle-grade audience. ![]() ![]() Curiously, however, Munby’s only collection of ghost stories, The Alabaster Hand, published in 1949, was largely written to pass the time away while he was a German POW at Eichstatt in Upper Franconia from 1943-45. He wrote several bibliographical studies and a number of his short stories combine his interest in books and the supernatural, as well as being written in an elegant and scholarly style reminiscent of his role model, James. Munby also became a leading figure in the antiquarian book trade and for many years was associated with the legendary book dealer, Bernard Quaritch. It was here that his fascination with ancient books began, and he later became librarian of the college. The son of an architect, he was, like James, educated at King’s College, Cambridge. It is arguable, however, that no author has come closer to inheriting the mantle of the great James than ghost story writer Alan Noel Latimer Munby (1913-74). ![]() In the field of supernatural fiction, it is fair to say no author casts a longer shadow than M R James. ![]() ![]() The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he’s concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. ![]() It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and…Jamie. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. She thinks no one will take it seriously.īut someone does. ![]() And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she’s used to being alone and she follows the rules.with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos "pretending" to be a witch. ![]() “This is one of my coziest reads of the last year, and I find myself thinking about its enchanted setting all the time.” - Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling authorĪ warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family-and a new love-changes the course of her life.Īs one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the meantime she was having difficulty with her love life, liking a girl who didn’t seem to have the same feelings towards her. She had this grand dream of going to Scotland to study and was constantly working towards that. ![]() I felt what she felt and I truly felt for her as a character. I decided to pick it up despite my previous judgement. I thought it would be different because on Booktube there was talk that this book was a standalone, wasn’t dependent on the previous book, and had a F/F romance which everyone was gushing about. This, among a few other reasons, was why I hadn’t picked up this book sooner. I felt like the book’s plot read like an episode of The Bachelor and all the male characters in that book felt like generic copies of each other. I’m going to be transparent and say that I read Royals last year and didn’t like it all that much. The only link to the previous book was that Flora’s brother is the royal getting married in Royals but other than a few guest appearances from previous books, this book can stand on its own. This book follows Millie, a girl with a dream of attending boarding school in Scotland, who has to room with Princess Flora, a girl who she doesn’t get along with at first. Though this book is labeled as the second book in the Royals series, it can be read independently from the first book, Royals or Prince Charming as it was retitled. ![]() |