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Gullible Gus (Hardcover)
Maxine Rose Schur; Illustrated by Andrew Glass
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R528
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Booford Summer (Paperback)
Andrew Glass, Susan M. Smith
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Ten-year-old Hayley worries about the dog across the street, whose
moody owner keeps him tied up and never walks him.
This is the true story of a mother who rose to the challenges of
surviving the Second World War with family intact, lived an
intensely passionate and deeply troubled personal life afterward,
endured the perils of cultural displacement, and suffered the loss
of her identity as she drifted toward an agonizingly slow death
from an affliction that stole her mind. It is also the story of her
bemused family members, all trying to demystify the woman they
thought they knew, together producing a fascinating kaleidoscopic
picture of a mystery they cannot unravel. Finally, it is the
author's own story-the aging son reflecting on the enigmas of
identity, family myths, dying, and death. These stories are set in
Glasgow and Toronto.
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The Wish Giver (Paperback)
Bill Brittain; Illustrated by Andrew Glass
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R244
R204
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A Newbery Honor Book that the New York Times called "an eerie delight," The Wish Giver is an engaging literary folk story about those who get what they wish for—whether they want it or not.
The people of Coven Tree are no strangers to magic. In fact, the town's very name comes from a gnarled old tree where covens of witches used to gather. Even now, imps and fiends continue to appear, frightening the townsfolk with their devilish pranks.
Usually these creatures are easy to spot. They have a particular smell, or sound, or way of moving, that betrays their dark nature.
But Thaddeus Blinn showed none of these signs when he came to Coven Tree. He was just a funny little man who drifted into town with a strange tale about being able to give people whatever they wished—for only fifty cents.
There was nothing scary about him. At least, not until the wishing began...
Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras continues the Gandharan
Buddhist Texts studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls
in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection. It
describes the text found on two fragments which constitute the
lower part of a scroll and consists of the remnants of three
sutras. All three sutras are relatively short and have an
association with the number four, which suggests that they are from
a Gandhar- Ekottarikagama, a collection of short discourses grouped
according to numerical principles and one of the major collections
of writings in the Buddhist canon. The first sutra records a
discussion in which a brahman asks the Buddha four questions. The
second su-tra, like the third, depicts the Buddha preaching to
monks. The structure of this sutra is based on the four postures:
walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. The Buddha's discourse
in the third sutra concerns the four efforts (or abandonings). The
book describes the condition of the scroll and its reconstruction;
examines in detail the literary and textual background of the
sutras, comparing them with other extant versions and parallels in
other languages; and presents a transcription of the extant text, a
reconstruction, and an English translation. It includes chapters on
the paleography, orthography, phonology, and morphology of the
text, and offers a detailed analytic commentary. For more
information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web site at
http://www.ebmp.org/
This is the true story of a mother who rose to the challenges of
surviving the Second World War with family intact, lived an
intensely passionate and deeply troubled personal life afterward,
endured the perils of cultural displacement, and suffered the loss
of her identity as she drifted toward an agonizingly slow death
from an affliction that stole her mind. It is also the story of her
bemused family members, all trying to demystify the woman they
thought they knew, together producing a fascinating kaleidoscopic
picture of a mystery they cannot unravel. Finally, it is the
author's own story-the aging son reflecting on the enigmas of
identity, family myths, dying, and death. These stories are set in
Glasgow and Toronto.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Four Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras continues the study of Gandharan
Buddhist texts and is the first investigation of a scroll from the
Senior Collection of Kharosthi manuscripts. The Senior Collection,
which is named after its owner, Robert Senior (Glastonbury, U.K.),
consists of twenty-four birch bark scrolls or scroll fragments with
at least forty-one Buddhist texts written in the Gandhari language
and Kharosthi script. Senior scroll number 5, one of the best
preserved of all Kharosthi manuscripts, contains four short sutras
that give a first-hand account of meditation practice in Gandhara
in the middle of the second century A.D. The first sutra, which has
no direct parallel in other Buddhist literatures, presents a
description of four visualization exercises, three of which are
unique to the Gandharan tradition. The second sutra is a teaching
of non-self, which is also found in Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan. The
third and fourth sutras, also available in Pali and Chinese,
emphasize the role of meditation in progressing toward
enlightenment. This volume details the textual background of the
Samyuktagama, a major collection of Buddhist scriptures arranged by
topic, and places Gandhari Samyuktagama Sutras in this context.
Andrew Glass compares the sutras with the parallel versions in
Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan and presents a transcription and
reconstruction of the text, together with an English translation.
He also covers the paleography, orthography, phonology, and
morphology of the text and offers a detailed analytic commentary on
each sutra. Mark Allon discusses the significance of the Senior
Collection to the ongoing textual studies. Appendices provide
editions and translations of the parallel texts in Pali, Chinese,
and Tibetan. There is also a complete word index to the Gandhari
text, as well as Chinese-Gandhari and Tibetan-Gandhari indexes. For
more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project web
site at http://www.ebmp.org/
This volume continues the detailed examination of the British
Library Kharosthi scrolls--extremely fragile and brittle fragments
of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is
uncertain, there are strong indications that they came from Hadda
in eastern Afghanistan and were most likely written in the early
first century A.D. during the reign of the Saka rulers, making them
the oldest known Buddhist manuscripts. Fragments 16 and 25 are two
long, relatively narrow fragments that obviously belong to the same
scroll. Two texts were written on the scroll, each by a different
scribe. The first text, referred to as the Gandhari London
Dharmapada, represents an anthology of verses well known in the
Buddhist tradition. The second text is a series of stories
concerning previous births of the Buddha and of some of his
disciples. For more information go to the Early Buddhist Manuscript
Project web site at http://www.ebmp.org/
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