This book is a collection of short childhood stories written by different writers from around the world. A short storybook for all age groups especially for those who want a glimpse of their childhood days. Take a short break and enroll yourself back in the golden days of your life which already passed, i.e. your childhood. Recall those memories of innocent acts, headless talks, tension free wanderings, endless joys and many more uncountable feelings. Recollect those broken or forgotten mo...

This book is a collection of short childhood stories written by different writers from around the world. A short storybook for all age groups especially for those who want a glimpse of their childhood days. Take a short break and enroll yourself back in the golden days of your life which already passed, i.e. your childhood. Recall those memories of innocent acts, headless talks, tension free wanderings, endless joys and many more uncountable feelings. Recollect those broken or forgotten mo...

From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his father’s mercurial moods and gauging exactly when his mother was likely to erupt, and eve...

These books are fresh for children and the way they see and interact with the living world. They are a twelve book library of stories. I made these books for a Child’s heart. It is filled with stories to help parents read and educate their children with many aspects of today’s world.

From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his father’s mercurial moods and gauging exactly when his mother was likely to erupt, and eve...

Nina climbed up on a stool at the end of the table and watched her Aunt Mabel."Aunt Mabel, can I go outside and play?"Aunt Mabel was peeling and slicing fresh peaches to make peach preserves. Nina's Aunt Mabel was an excellent cook and baker, and her peach preserves were exceptional, as the task had been handed down to her from her mother before her. She was very kind.Nina was born in her house and was raised by her from birth, just like Mabel was her momma. Mabel w...

Clare is chilled by her mother's warnings to stay away from Ravensmere, but she knows she has to go there - it is not a choice but a compulsion. And she only intends to stay a few weeks anyway, just until she goes to university in the autumn.Ravensmere is a strange, enchanting place, but Clare grows increasingly disturbed. How come the local villagers appear to know her? Why is she having odd visions? And who is the attractive, leather-clad stranger who is watching her? What is the...

In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. They argue for the abandonment of "national cinema"...

Stories are told freely at The Chinaberry Tree bar—fiercely, and without permission.A young white narrator arrives to listen, document, and preserve the lived experiences of Black men and women whose voices are too often overlooked. But observation quickly becomes entanglement, and the line between witness and participant begins to blur.In bars, living rooms, and late-night conversations, language is raw, humor cuts deep, and truths resist easy interpretation. The narrator ...

Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength. After art-house hits like Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth (1984) and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000), the Oscar-winning success of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) disproved the old myth that subtitled films could not succeed at the multiplex. Chinese Films in Focus II updates and expands the original Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes with fourteen brand new essays, to offer thirty-four fresh and insightful rea...

Independent cinema in China is not only made outside the commercial system but also without being submitted for censorship. We know that for several decades it has been the crucible out of which China’s most exciting new films have flowed. The essays in this volume interrogate what else we think we know. Did it really start with Wu Wenguang and Bumming in Beijing in 1990, or can its roots be traced back much earlier? What are its aesthetics? And its ethics, including of gender and class? W...

How do the people in our lives and beds really see us? Arnold Giovanni, a white professor at a black college in a small Southern town, has developed an obsessive fascination for black culture and ... black women. Through The Chinaberry Tree, the local bar, he has been able to befriend several patrons and to eavesdrop on others. Like a sly, modern-day Chaucer, he has retrieved revealing stories of their journey through the American experience, while expertly being "in" the [black] world but...