Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book)

Author: Grace Lin

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0316052604

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A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!​ A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time​! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.

Where Mountains Meet the Sea
Where Mountains Meet the Sea

Author: Daniel Francis

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1550177524

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Where Mountains Meet the Sea commemorates the 125th anniversary of the District of North Vancouver's incorporation as a municipality. Combining hundreds of illustrations with the personal accounts of residents and a lively text, the book presents the story of North Vancouver in all its colour and complexity. Instead of a conventional chronological narrative, Where Mountains Meet the Sea divides the story of North Vancouver's development into three major parts: 1) the origins of the community, its First Nations residents and the development of its waterfront; 2) the political and cultural evolution of the community; and 3) the development of the mountain resorts and the creation of the many parks which characterize the North Shore. From the District's auspicious beginnings with the sawmill at Moodyville dominating the industry of Burrard Inlet, through the postwar population boom that saw the municipality evolve from a suburb of Vancouver into a bustling community in its own right, to the District's rich legacy of outdoor recreation, the text, residents' anecdotes and photographs create a vivid portrait of the development of a thriving community. Each section of the book is richly illustrated in full colour with biographies, eyewitness memories, artifacts from the collection of the North Vancouver Museum and Archives, historic photographs, maps and charts.

The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China

Author: Michelle H. Wang

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0226827461

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"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and together constitute the entire known corpus of ancient Chinese maps (ditu). A millennium separates them from the next available map from 1136 CE. Most scholars study them through the lens of modern, empirical definitions of maps and their use. This book offers an alternative view by drawing on methods not just from cartography but from art history, archaeology, and religion. It argues that, as tomb objects, the maps were designed to be simultaneously functional for the living and the dead-that each map was drawn to serve navigational purposes of guiding the living from one town to another as well as to diagram ritual order, thereby taming the unknown territory of the dead. In contrast with traditional scholarship, The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China proposes that ditu can "speak" through their forms. Departing from dominant theories of representation that forge a narrow path from form to meaning, the book braids together two main strands of argumentation to explore the multifaceted and multifunctional diagrammatic tradition of rendering space in early China"--

Meet Me in 1879
Meet Me in 1879

Author: Kathryn Kaleigh

Publisher: KST Publishing Inc

Published: 2023-04-13

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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After inheriting a ranch in Colorado from an unknown uncle, Sydney Brandt believes it had to be a mistake. First, her parents knew nothing about this so-called uncle. She had been led to believe the huge ranch had been deserted for many years. But a man named Adam Auclair seemed to think he owned the house. That was the second thing. Adam Auclair had an unusually high sense of responsibility. To the ranch. To his grandparents. To his siblings. As next in line to inherit, the ranch practically belonged to him. When a strange woman arrives in the house, he feels responsible for her, too. Unfortunately for him, the woman is distractingly fetching. An instant attraction between Sydney and Adam may be all for naught. Sydney seems to be having trouble staying in the past. Will her own time reclaim her or will she find the secret code that will allow her return permanently to the past? An entertaining cozy time travel romance with a happily-ever-after that defies time itself.

Tell Me Lies
Tell Me Lies

Author: Patrick Cooper

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2009-02-19

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0307491722

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It is 1969, and Stephen meets up with old friend Astrid and her lover Spencer, and stays with them in the hippy household “The Hollies.” Peace and love are tangible: until his passionate attraction for another girl in the household goes sour. He drifts into the radical arts scene and far-left politics, and finally into a squalid squat in London. A return to the idyllic “The Hollies” seems a good idea, but now the house has become a commune, and Spencer is the guru. When this too, inevitably, goes sour, Stephen has to try to understand what was real and what was just a dream?

Spiritual Whispers
Spiritual Whispers

Author: Rochelle Moore

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1847538002

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SPIRITUAL WHISPERS This unique anthology brings together over 150 enchanting poems by renouned self-help author Rochelle Moore. Spiritual Whispers is exquisitely presented poetry book that embraces a magnificent compilation of inspirtional poetry. SPIRITUAL WHISPERS will delight ardent lovers of poetry and is a "must have" for any collection

Blow Your Little Tin Whistle
Blow Your Little Tin Whistle

Author: Peggy A. Pittas

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780819187451

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This book is a biography of Richard Clarke Sommerville, an educator, amateur actor, and artist, whose life spanned the last quarter of the nineteenth century and six decades of the twentieth century. His dedication to the fine arts was not just a passing interest, but was central to his definition of the right way to live. Education was the key to his positive attitude. He held definite views about what an education should do for the individual. His education within the home environment, his experiences within the educational settings of his day, and his ultimate acceptance of his own lot in life helped him, in part, to formulate these views. Many of his views are as timely today as they were then. His message is to all students from a very special teacher. Contents: 'The Jewel on the South Branch'; The Hampden-Sydney Years; The Restless Young Man; A Return to the Classroom; A Return to Virginia; 'As a Man Thinketh...'; The Professional and the Employee; 'Friend of the Student'; The Man and His Art; The Emeritus Years.