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Moon Magic: Stories from Asia (Middle-Grade Fiction)
Published in Library Binding by Carolrhoda Books (1994)
Authors: Katherine Davison and Thomas A. Rosborough
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Wonderful, beautiful
I was always fond of reading the book as a small child, engrossed in the beautiful illustrations and unique stories. These aren't fairy tales, they're moon tales.

Well, recently I found another version at the library and checked it out. It was still great! I am loving it even after all of these years.

If you like Asia, or are just in for a breathtaking book -- well written, well drawn, and painted for anyone, then this is the book for you.


Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction & Betrayal
Published in Paperback by Fulcrum Pub (2003)
Authors: Dick Kreck and Thomas J. Noel
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a great story of betrayal and truth
i found this book intresting. it shows a side of denver that is not seen sometimes. this book gives a look at a man who believe he was innocent and tries with two trials to prove it and recieves a unthinkable twist when he recieves a worse sentence. this book is wonderful for anyone intrested in colorado and murders.


The Mystery of Romuald and the Five Brothers: Stories from the Benedictines & Camaldolese
Published in Paperback by Source Books (1996)
Author: Thomas Matus
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Excellent,poignant account of the origins of the Camldolese
In The Mystery of Romuald and the Five Brothers,Thomas Matus tells the story of the origins of the branch of the Benedictine Order known as the Camaldolese.Interspersed with the histories,Matus gives us his personal history,and accounts his entering the order and conversatons with the Superior of the Order.The early part of the narrative goes back and forth,from Romuald's time to the near present.Matus tells his story very well,lyrically and,at times quite beautifully.For the English speaking world,this is a glance into a remote and unknown history,still living and active today{the Camaldolese have a Monastery in Big Sur}.As an introduction to the history and backround of this little known group, I can think of no better or more welcome guide.


Noirotica: An Anthology of Erotic Crime Stories
Published in Paperback by Masquerade Books (1996)
Author: Thomas S. Roche
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Passionate, gripping erotic tales - couldn't put it down.
This is a wonderful anthology of dark, mysterious, sensuous stories. Each one caught me up in the storyline; I couldn't put the collection down! When the puppy ripped the first half of the book to shreds, I felt obsessed to piece the pages together to continue through the book. I was thrilled to find that Amazon was able to send a new copy to my attention. The new one is now safely on my keeper shelf.


Not Even, the Mouse: A Christmas Story
Published in Paperback by New England Press (1982)
Authors: Thomas J. Riley and Marita Brokensha
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Noteven...A Holiday Tradition
This is a cute little story about a mouse who is abandoned by his mouse family, including his mother. Noteven is an odd little mouse...different from his brothers and sisters. After being left alone by his family, Noteven decides that it is his fate to become caretaker of the house. Being that the house is not occupied by anyone, it's easy to maintain, although Noteven is a very particular mouse. Sometime around Christmas, a family arrives at the house and the quiet neat little house becomes loud and messy. Noteven continues to clean the house but it is a bit harder for him with the humans around. While Noteven wishes that the family would notice that he was there, he realizes that they are humans after all and probably not ready to admit that a mouse is taking care of their house. One night after his chores are done, Noteven returns to his hole and discovers that the sock he had been using for his bed was missing. Disappointed, he tries to get some sleep anyway. He can't sleep, however, because the family is making too much noise. Noteven decides to find out what all the noise is about and sneaks from his hole to the living room where the family is singing and laughing. As Noteven is counting the people and the stockings hung by the chimney, he discovers there is an extra stocking. Could it be his? If you can find this book I reccomend it highly. I bought this story when it was published in 1982 and my oldest child was 4. He is now 22 and my youngest is 14. We all still enjoy reading and hearing the story of Noteven. It's a Christmas Eve tradition in our home. Make this heart-warming story part of your holiday tradition.


The Novels of Charles Williams
Published in Textbook Binding by Oxford Univ Pr (1993)
Author: Thomas T. Howard
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A True Guide and Faithful Friend
What Beatrice was to Dante Thomas Howard is to readers of Charles Williams, whose novels are not exactly hell to read, but some may yet find them somewhat tough going. It's a pity, because as with the Latin Mass, if we only knew what we were missing we would clamor for more. Thankfully Ignatius Press has reprinted this book by Thomas Howard so that we do have a guide through this marvelous world. In this book, originally published by Oxford Press, Thomas Howard starts with the party line that Williams is a bad writer, and then shows us why he's a very good one (Thomas Howard can be very sneaky). He explains why CW can't be considered a "major" writer, and maybe not even a good candidate for a minor one, but by the end of the book one is convinced that the label "major" is too small to fit Charles Williams.

Howard is similarly dismissive of his own writing in this book, even though it stands as one of his best (his best to date, in my opinion, is On Being Catholic). He suggests the reader not even read the whole book, but just jump around to the relevant parts for the Williams novel he/she is interested in. Here again, I must take exception and express a minority viewpoint. The book that does seem pieced together this way is Howard's The Achievement of C.S.Lewis, whereas The Novels of Charles Williams reads seamlessly and grippingly start to finish. Not that Howard's Lewis book is bad--the bit on Till We Have Faces is very good, as well as parts on the Silent Planet Trilogy. But it seems to me that the prefaces for these two books got switched.

Anyone venturing into a Williams novel for the first time might find the water, as it were, initially cold and uninviting, regardless how heartily the swimmers urge him or her to dive in. Howard is like a personal trainer, both preparing the reader and helping them stay in shape when, gripped with the strange madness that afflicts readers of Williams novels, they recklessly swim further and further from shore. Howard is obviously among the initiates, and the more dismissive he is of Willaims' standing as a writer, the more you want to read him. 'Nuff said. Dive in. The water's fine.


Odd Moments in Baseball (Odd Sports Stories, 1)
Published in Paperback by Scholastic (2000)
Authors: Joel Cohen, Thomas Payne, and Tom Payne
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Awesome!
This book is loaded with cool stories and facts. I suggest you read it. If you dont read it, I guess it's all right, unless I find out.


On Writing Short Stories
Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press (1999)
Authors: Francine Prose, Tom Bailey, and Thomas Bailey
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On Writing Short Stories
If you are looking for a guide through the mire of writing short fiction, you can't go wrong with this book! The editors really knew what they were doing when they chose the contributors as I found the comments by published authors very insightful, and the selection of short stories includes some of the best ever written.


The One and Only, Super-Duper, Golly-Whopper, Jim Dandy, Really-Handy, Clock-Tock-Stopper
Published in Hardcover by Lothrop Lee & Shepard (1990)
Authors: Patricia Thomas, Patty Thomas, and John O'Brien
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clock tock stopper
this is the best childrens book I have ever read. I have five children and get the book from the library every time it is in stock. I highly reccomend this to every parent to read to their child.


One good story, that one : stories
Published in Unknown Binding by HarperPerennial ()
Author: Thomas King
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Great Stories, Funny, Knife-Pointed-- and available

They say (in their current hardcopy catalog: "The 10 stories in this collection are mischievously told, slyly exposing the underside of Native-whtie relations. Adolescents who don't like to read will get caught up in these stories."

King, a well-known Cherokee writer (Green Grass, Running Water; Medicine River) seemes to have settled for good in Canada, and his better know work uses fictionalized Blackfoot tribal people from Alberta.

They're here in "One Good Story" too. The title story has a Native storyteller wanting to tell some visiting anthros a funny local story, but they don't wanna hear that. So he tells a version of Genesis which they solemly record, then go away.

But other stories have other tribal locales.

"Joe, the Painter, and the Deer Island Massacre" has as its core the unprovoked 1850 slaughter of most of the California Wiyot tribe by settlers who wanted the sacred island (on which they were assembled for annual ceremonies). A century later the town wants a history pageant. Joe, the Painter, enlists many Indians and reenacts the slaughter. This embarasses the town fathers; they pick a dull pageant about a department store. The storyteller says he likes Joe, although nobody else does, and the reasons for that become quite clear as this story -- with its underlying horror of true history, which no one but Joe wants to acknowledge, becomes apparent. Joe's acknowledgement has nothing to do with acknowledging historical responsibilities or anything like that. He thinks the patriotic slaughter's a good story and should win the prize money, if the Indian storyteller will bring his relatives to play the parts of the victims.

Though these stories are funny, that's a device to disarm reader defenses. King goes for the heart with a very sharp arrow-point, and the reader's laughter helps pump out some blood that's always drawn. Though some may never notice, and remain unaware that beneath each story are solid, real historical events, mostly tragedies (from our point of view anyway). Irony and wit, rather than that hearty guffaw or tee-hee of what passes mostly for humor.

"A Coyote Columbus Story" included here, as it was first written in text prose, points up the fact that those story, issued separately as a brightly illustrated children's book (and found here as such on amazon.com) , is not really a children's book, that's a disguise for it. The teller is an Indian; Coyote has dropped by on her way to a Columbus Day party, explaining he's the guy who found America and Indians.

"Christopher Columbus didn't find America, I says. Christopher Columbus didn't find Indians, either. You got a tail on that story."

"Oh no, says Coyote. I read it in a book."

"Must have been a Coyote book, I says."

"No, no, no, no, says Coyote. It was a history book. Big red one."

This prefatory colloquy is eliminated from the supposed "children's book published by Canadian Douglas & MacIntyre, Ltd. It's good to combine "One Good Story, that One" with the brightly-illustrated supposed kidbook, if need be, teachers/parents read the book of text stories, to give them perspective on the supposed children's version of one of the good stories.

Reviewed by Paula Giese, editor, Native americna Books website, http://www.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/books/bookmenu.html


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