Whens the last time you read a poem that touched your heart, captured your imagination, or made you laugh out loud? A gifted writer who has traveled the world reflects on Relationships, Women, Real Men, Life, and Humor. From the romantic and profound to the clever and absurd, FOOTSTEPS will leave you with a smile on your face and a glow in your heart. This is a book youll share but want back. These are poems youll read again and again.
As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical...
Featuring the latest archaeological and historical discoveries, this guide illustrates the people and events that shaped the life of Jesus, from his birth in Bethlehem to his death in Jerusalem.
Engrossing, highly readable, and as funny as it is tragic, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz assesses the acts of the villains and the heroes in this fascinating story of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Footsteps in the Fog is a celebration of the San Francisco films of Alfred Hitchcock. The master director's familiarity with Northern California greatly influenced his decision to use Bay Area...
Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century ...
This book takes the reader on an intensely personal journey into the heart of God.
Now Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, and the story of his own family, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and deeply affecting.
One day Sr. Chryzostoma Korczak said that hair would first grow on herown hands before Faustina became a saint. Sr. Faustina burst outlaughing and said: "I shall love Sisteryet more for it." Some of Sr. Faustina's supernatural visions ...
Previously published: San Francisco: Cypress Book, 1996.
Fran held me back by the scruff of my neck and said in rehearsed Chinese , " Wo fuqin pengyou Deng Xiaoping " ( My father is a friend of Deng Xiaoping ) . The officer let go of my arm as Fran opened up a book we'd been carrying since we ...