"Japanese Fairy Tales" by Grace James presents a captivating collection of traditional stories rooted in Japanese literature and folklore. Grace James masterfully brings to life a rich tapestry of cultural heritage, weaving together enchanting fairy tales, mythical creatures, and age-old legends. Within the pages of this anthology, readers embark on a journey through the depths of Japanese mythology, encountering supernatural creatures and exploring moral lessons embedded within each narra...

Tessa May Everett had grown up loving four things in life; bull riding, her father and her best frenemies, Branch and Beau.But in less than eight seconds, she’d lost all four things and the single most important person in her life.Four years later, Tessa May is back and ready to reclaim her dreams. She was going to be the first woman to compete on the professional bull riding circuit, and nothing was going to stop her. Not the Boys Club that already held her to a different ...

My name is Nova Stone and I was a ghost in my own life until a knock at the door changed my whole world.Applying for guardianship of my infant half-brother was a no brainer, even if I hadn't known he existed. But that was before I met his uncles; two pro ice hockey players, and a CEO. They wanted to take Huey home with them and they were willing to pay me millions of dollars for the privilege.When that didn't work, they managed to convince me that it would be better for my ...

Grace James's Japanese Fairy Tales gathers traditional narratives of enchantment, moral testing, transformation, and wonder, presenting such figures as grateful animals, brave children, spirits, demons, and divine beings within a lucid Edwardian prose style. The collection belongs to the early twentieth-century Anglophone fascination with Japanese art and literature, yet its tales retain the compact elegance, symbolic clarity, and ethical resonance of oral folklore. Illustrated in many edi...

The Daymakers were the hottest alt-rock band since the nineties, the masked members making fans swoon at the very thought of who might be hiding under the skull masks. Known only by their stage names–Royal, Hero, Poet and Knight–their real identities were a carefully held secret.I was third-generation white trash who had no value to society. That was a direct quote from my guidance counselor, by the way. She wasn’t wrong, not really. My mom had OD’ed and my dad was in prison. I had...

A young Pacific Island woman's true coming-of-age story takes the reader from a vanishing small island state to rural Philippine villages and ends in an American jail.She and other detainees share a life inside walls few have ever entered. Narratives of survival, rooted faiths stronger than the concrete that incarcerates them, will shock, awe, and inspire the reader as the women wait for their cases to be heard.Icons for all domestic violence survivors, faith followers, and...

Largely unknown in the West, Grace James's delightful collection of traditional Japanese fairy tales surprises, charms and amuses. Enter the magical world of evil boggarts, ghostly flutes, the original Three Wise Monkeys, and a tea-kettle that transforms into a dancing badger.An enchanting read for adults and children alike. Contains 38 fairy tales and all 16 original illustrations by Warwick Goble.These tales, legends and myths have been collected from many sources, includ...

In this entrancing collection, author Grace James brings together an array of Japanese folk tales and fairy tales, all rendered in exquisitely lyrical language. If you're fascinated by the folk traditions of different world cultures, be sure to add The Moon Maiden to your list.

Long ago, as I’ve heard tell, there dwelt at the temple of Morinji, in the Province of Kotsuke, a holy priest. Now there were three things about this reverend man. First, he was wrapped up in meditations and observances and forms and doctrines. He was a great one for the Sacred Sutras, and knew strange and mystical things. Then he had a fine exquisite taste of his own, and nothing pleased him so much as the ancient tea ceremony of the Cha-no-yu; and for the third thing about him, he knew b...

Classic European fairy tales are familiar to many, but fewer readers are acquainted with tales from faraway lands. This charming anthology of thirty tales and legends from Japan are as unique and delightfully intriguing today as they were when first published.Author Grace James selected the stories from many sources—the Ko-ji-ki, or Record of Ancient Matters, which contains the mythology of Japan, as well as tales told from memory and handed down from generation to generati...

Why is the law failing to protect pregnant workers and parents from detrimental treatment in the workplace? This theoretically informed book, which draws on the findings of a large scale, Nuffield Foundation funded, study of pregnancy-related workplace disputes, explores the legal regulation of pregnancy and parenting in the labour market.Using an epistemology that draws primarily on critical feminist debates, theories and critiques, the book adopts a necessarily female standpoint ...

Fairy Tales from Japan by Grace James is a timeless collection of traditional Japanese folktales, that captures the spirit, wisdom, and beauty of Japan’s storytelling heritage. Carefully retold for younger readers, the book features enchanting tales of brave children, magical creatures, talking animals, and benevolent spirits, drawn from rural legends and oral traditions. Stories like "The Boy Who Drew Cats" and "The Stone-Mason’s Dream" blend wonder with moral clarity, reflecting values o...