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Lynn V. Andrews takes the reader with her as she goes on inward journeys with the help of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and relates the stories of others. Join her as she is initiated into the Sisterhood and creates her own shield, which will show her the nature of her spiritual path (Spirit...

Nacida en Tánger, de padre gibraltareño y madre andaluza, rodeada de amigas hebreas sefarditas, Juanita es una solterona resentida en una ciudad cosmopolita y liberal, punto de encuentro de artistas y culturas, un entorno en vías de extinción. Bajo la personalidad estricta y rabiosa de Juanita,...

When Navjyot rescues a parrot from the jaws of certain death, he does not know it is a talking parrot who has escaped from its cruel master. He is delighted when the parrot, Rangeela, decides to stay with him. He promises not to reveal to anybody that Rangeela can understand human speech and talk....

On some nights, cries of cheetahs and leopards come from the forest. Naturally, people are afraid to enter it. Why are wild animals moving from the dense jungle across the hills to the sparse forest? Has it anything to do with the factory that looks to be shut down but secretly operates? Abhi and...

On March 4, 1980 my brother Ken Andre shot and killed four of his neighbors near Coos Bay, Oregon. My Brother Murdered His Neighbors (formerly titled Trying Not to Drown) is a straightforward account of what happened to him, my sister, our loving parents and me. Through time-laced lenses, it exposes...

Finding thousands of little, dead mice scattered on the lawn was bad enough, but when hundreds of silent cats, dogs, and birds began following her everywhere she knew something wicked was coming. After finding an ancient diary, Lilly discovers she has been chosen to stop evil from taking over the...

Mister's day is interrupted by a rhyming crow. He tries to frighten the crow away but injures his favourite pig instead.

When a very greedy man steals King Bob's cherry tarts, the entire village is turned upside down trying to find them.

The entire province of Newfoundland was under a moratorium where catching cod fish was deemed illegal, but that didn't stop Sadie Rose from filling her bucket time and time again, without consequence.Sadie Rose had been dealt a rough hand in life but she didn't let her limitations...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Notes CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I. Origin of Zulus—Their tribes—Senzagacone—Chaka—His wars—Innovations—Administration—Standing army—Death—Position of Zulus amongst kindred tribes—First contact...

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied...

A collection of poems exploring love, marriage, family and the Universe.

A collection of short stories written in fiction and non-fiction. Spans the life of a nonagenarian and include short pieces he's written during his life.

Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder’s writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he...