Upon a Spring Breeze


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After a devastating winter, a spring breeze promises more than new flowers.… It promises a new chance at love. Bess Weaver, twenty and expecting her first child, is in the kitchen making stew for her beloved mann, Caleb, one minute, and the next she’s burying him after a tragic accident. Facing life as a young widow, Bess finds comfort only in tending the garden at an Englisch-owned bed and breakfast—even as she doubts that new growth could ever come after such a long winter. Aidan tries to repress his guilt over his best friend Caleb’s death and his long-standing feelings for Bess by working harder than ever. But as he spends time with the young son his friend left behind, he seems to be growing closer to the boy’s beautiful mother as well. When a close-knit group of widows in her Amish community step in to help Bess find her way back to hope, she begins to wonder if Gott has a future for her after all. Will she ever believe that life can still hold joy and the possibility of love?




Spring Breeze


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Zen Poetry


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From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen hundred years—from the early T’ang dynasty to the present day—include many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, many haiku—the quintessential Zen art—and an impressive selection of poems by Shinkichi Takahashi, Japan’s greatest contemporary Zen poet. With Zen Poetry, Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto have graced us with a compellingly beautiful collection, which in their translations is pure literary pleasure, illuminating the world vision to which these poems give permanent expression.




Febold Feboldson


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"Paul Bunyan yarns have generally been conceded first place among the lies of all time, but here is Febold Feboldson, a Swede who has pushed his way out front and deserves recognition as the most accomplished, the most unqualified, the least repetitious, and--for a change--the most laughable legendary figure to steal the spotlight."--Buffalo, N.Y., Evening News. "Gorgeous reading for all who love genuine Americana."--The American Mercury. "Let us give Febold his full due as a purely regional phenomenon. As such--as an expression of the never-ending fight of Nebraskans against drought, flood, blistering heat, paralyzing cold, choking dust, and bottomless mud--he is very nearly perfect. . . . Paul Beath has done regional literature a service by collecting these richly imaginative tales."--Victor P. Hass, Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books. "Everyone who loves American folklore will welcome this book. . . . The book contains no less than fourteen tales or groups of anecdotes, all of them cheerful, sly, or hilarious."--Stanley Vestal, The Daily Oklahoman. "Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and others of heroic mold may move over and listen a while. . . . Febold, the big Swede who homesteaded down on the Dismal River, his only neighbors the Dirtyleg tribe of Indians, is a folk character made almost before our eyes."--Kansas City Star.




Charming Consort


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"Woman, This King will definitely conquer you!" The wise and cold Prince was about to get married for the first time. The secret service had arrived and traversed the world. They were useless firewood turned into geniuses, and the Prince of Devilish Charm was very domineering. He was pretending to be the young princess in order to cause trouble. If Your Highness wants to get married, you have to ask if she agrees!




Regent, Wait And See


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Disputes between court s:One was a high and mighty Prince Regent. His stomach was dark and ruthless, trampling the entire world beneath his feet!All he wanted was for her to die!One was a cowardly emperor who had tricked everyone in the world!She only wanted to kill him!But then, why did everything change?I am willing to sacrifice the whole world, but I want one of you!




A History of Contemporary Chinese Art


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Chinese art has experienced its most profound metamorphosis since the early 1950s, transforming from humble realism to socialist realism, from revolutionary art to critical realism, then avant-garde movement, and globalized Chinese art. With a hybrid mix of Chinese philosophy, imported but revised Marxist ideology, and western humanities, Chinese artists have created an alternative approach – after a great ideological and aesthetic transition in the 1980s – toward its own contemporaneity though interacting and intertwining with the art of rest of the world. This book will investigate, from the perspective of an activist, critic, and historian who grew up prior to and participated in the great transition, and then researched and taught the subject, the evolution of Chinese art in modern and contemporary times. The volume will be a comprehensive and insightful history of the one of the most sophisticated and unparalleled artistic and cultural phenomena in the modern world.




Imprisoned Marriage


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They were twins, but they had very different personalities. This fake death had caused all the survivors to live in a dislocated position. Since then, she has become a substitute for honorifics. But her little sister followed behind her boyfriend all day long. All she could do was wait for the truth to be revealed ...




Prince, Do You Still Need a Prisoner


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She, who had been transported to a different world, had an extremely good life and directly became the queen of a nation with women's rights. She had seventy-two concubines in the Three Palaces and Six Palaces and was extremely elegant and unrestrained ...However, she was only handsome for two seconds. In the blink of an eye, she had become the ruler of a nation that had perished!Allegedly, the enemy kingdom's evildoer would kill without batting an eye ...Yet, she was alive and kicking.It was said that the prisoners of war would end up miserable, but she was a beauty, and her mouth was full of oil."Won't you wipe the corners of your mouth?" The beauty had a helpless look on her face as she used a handkerchief to wipe away the bits of meat around the corner of her mouth. She looked at the chicken leg in her hands and smiled even more charmingly.It was said that even the ruler of a country of death found it difficult to avoid these types of situations: taking poison, taking medicine, cutting off one's neck, and killing him!However, why did that certain prince, who was in charge of her life and death, throw her onto the bed? What else could he say to make her give birth to a monkey for him?No!A warrior could be killed but not humiliated!However, in the end, Ao Jiao was still pushed to the side by his powerful attack. She shouted out the slogan of "Ya Lai Die" every night, and lived a happy life of hugging two people a year and hugging three people for three years!




Legitimate Daughter’s Transmigration


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The genius technology woman brought the system over the handsome brother comes to support me the king of assassins was used as a bodyguard destroying the marriage contract torturing the scum of a man and being so elegant and unrestrained.