Contains the Complete Volumes 21-22! Upon Rio’s transcendence, the people he loves most lose all memory of him. Aishia suffers a similar fate, and the two depart on a journey to get to the bottom of what’s happened. Rio is prepared to fight, even if that means taking up arms to defy the ruthless rules set by god! Will the ties of fate that have endured a thousand years spark a new wave of war?

Contains the Complete Volumes 19-20! As soon as Rio leaves the kingdom to rescue Liselotte, Reiss and the bloodthirsty Heavenly Lions take the opportunity to strike Galarc Castle. The girls left behind put up a fight—both to prove themselves and to survive. Meanwhile, Rio faces a fight of his own against Saint Erica. Can he return in time to save his friends from the imminent threats, not to mention the ones lurking just around the corner?

Contains the Complete Volumes 13-14! Rio trounces the overwhelming threat of Charles and his army handily, but even with Princess Christina delivered safely to the Kingdom of Galarc as promised, his troubles aren't over. Rivals, enemies, and oddities await him in Strahl, from the hero Sakata to the eccentric Emperor Nidoll of Proxia. News of his old enemy Lucius's whereabouts and the uncannily timed abduction of Christina and Flora send Rio off to Paladia, but can he settle the score and rescue both captive princesses in time?

Contains the complete Volumes 1-2! Rio has known nothing but solitude, hunger, and an overwhelming thirst for revenge. But from the humble beginnings of a poor orphan comes a rebirth that turns the Galarc Kingdom on its head. Rio's awakened magical abilities-and a chance encounter with royalty-earn him a ticket to the most prestigious academy in the land. Naturally, the orphan boy catches the judgmental eye of more than a few nobles, though he is ever under the watchful gaze of a beautiful and doting instructor. Through his trials and tribulations, Rio's prowess opens the door to an adventure spanning continents, international incidents, love triangles-even an assassination attempt by an adorable werefox girl. Can Rio find himself while protecting the ones he loves? The stakes have never been higher as worlds collide!

Contains the complete volumes 15-16! Things might be working out for Rio. Revenge is his at last; his heroic deeds have been rewarded with a place in Galarc Castle and the honorable duty of protecting the royal siblings. Trouble brews regardless-an unexpected visitor with a cryptic agenda, a string of unsettling international incidents, and the politically complicated advances of Princess Charlotte. Meanwhile, Liselotte tangles with a romantic debacle of her own as Sakata sets his sights on her!

Contains the complete Volumes 3-4! The secret of Rio's birth is revealed in his parents' hometown! After bidding farewell to his comfortable life in the village of the spirit folk, Rio finally reaches his destination: his parents' homeland, the Yagumo region. He arrives in a small village in the country of Karasuki, where he has a fateful encounter with his paternal grandmother, Yuba, and his older cousin, Ruri. After being told that his parents' past cannot be revealed until just the right moment, Rio decides to remain in the village for the time being, and spends his time devising ways to improve the village's quality of life! When the time comes ot move on, Rio travels to the spirit village where Latifa and the others are waiting. After receiving a fiercely warm welcome from the spirit folk, Rio heads toward the Strahl region to gather information. On the way, he is guided by large pillars of light to save three people nearly captured as slaves... one of whom one of whom is Amakawa Haruto's - Rio's previous life's - first love!

Riv-Ellen Prell spent eighteen months of participant observation field research studying a countercultural havurah to determine why these groups emerged in the United States during the 1970s. In her book, she explores the central questions posed by the early havurot and their founders. She also examines the havurah as a development of American Judaism, continuing-rather than rejecting-many of the previous generations' ideas about religion. Combining history and ethnography, Prell uses current theories about ritual and prayer to understand men's and women's struggles with their religious tradition and their desire to create community.

"Wounded" is an eloquent, gritty account of the ordeal suffered by injured American soldiers during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The human elements of courage, love, fear, and sacrifice paint an intriguing picture of the reality of war. Author Ed Hrivnak, a flight nurse witness to the pain and suffering, offers a heroic narrative for the reader. There are valiant accounts of battle followed by the reality of life altering injuries, and how troops support each other and persevere.

"Wounded" closes all gaps between the reader, the injured troops in the field, and the medevac personnel helping them during their darkest hours. The book offers a unique look at what it was like to evacuate wounded at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Hrivnak wants the reader to fully understand the price of war. This international odyssey transcends the casualty statistics forgotten in the news. A wounded soldier is a human being who is vulnerable and weakened. Those who care for them, at times struggling to maintain life, are also scarred. These men and women are an incredible source of strength, courage, and devotion.

"Wounded" completes Captain Hrivnak's original journal, featured in the Emmy winning and Oscar nominated film, "Operation Homecoming. "

When you buy this book, a percentage will go to the Indianapolis Humane Society.

"In an imaginative twist on the account of someone's feelings about his beloved dog, this talented Bichon Frise describes in verse her feelings about her beloved person." Elizabeth Sherrill, author, roving editor "Guideposts"

When a granddaughter was 14 she asked Patricia, "Grandma, do you believe that Riv writes those poems? Now tell me the truth, do you really believe she does?" After you read the book you can decide.

Both Riv and Patricia are published authors. A story about Rive, including a picture and one of her poems appeared in the August 10-23 issue of the "Broad Ripple Gazette." Patricia has had poetry, meditations, and non-fiction stories published in "alive now , Pockets Magazine, The Upper Room," and "Guideposts."

The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. ""Women Remaking American Judaism"" is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism as women fought to practice their religion fully and to ensure that its rituals, texts, and liturgies reflected their lives. In addition to identifying the changes that took place, this volume aims to understand the process of change in ritual, theology, and clergy across the denominations.The essays in ""Women Remaking American Judaism"" offer a paradoxical understanding of Jewish feminism as both radical, in the transformational sense, and accomodationist, in the sense that it was thoroughly compatible with liberal Judaism. Essays in the first section, Reenvisioning Judaism, investigate the feminist challenges to traditional understanding of Jewish law, texts, and theology. In Redefining Judaism, the second section, contributors recognize that the changes in American Judaism were ultimately put into place by each denomination, their law committees, seminaries, rabbinic courts, rabbis, and synagogues, and examine the distinct evolution of women's issues in the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist movements.Finally, in the third section, Re-Framing Judaism, essays address feminist innovations that, in some cases, took place outside of the synagogue. An introduction by Riv-Ellen Prell situates the essays in both American and modern Jewish history and offers an analysis of why Jewish feminism was revolutionary.""Women Remaking American Judaism"" raises provocative questions about the changes to Judaism following the feminist movement, at every turn asking what change means in Judaism and other American religions and how the fight for equality between men and women parallels and differs from other changes in Judaism. ""Women Remaking American Judaism"" will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women's studies.

"Gutsy and imaginative . . . convincingly engages a range of complex issues about how men and women, Jews and gentiles, perceive one another." -Kirkus Reviews "Her exaggerated coiffure, with its imitation curls and soaped curves that stick out at the side of the head like fantastic gargoyles, is an offense to the eye. Her plated gold jewelry with paste stones reveals its cheapness by its very extravagance." This description of a "ghetto girl" was printed in the American Jewish News in 1918, but with slight variation it might easily be mistaken for a description of our current pernicious and pejorative stereotype of Jewish womanhood, the "JAP." What are the origins of these stereotypes? And even more important, why would an American ethnic group use racist terms to describe itself? Riv-Ellen Prell asks these compelling questions as she observes how deeply anti-Semitic stereotypes infuse Jewish men's and women's views of one another in this history of Jewish acculturation in the twentieth century. "While Jews and feminists have over the years repeatedly debated whether the JAP is 'real' or not, Prell's research breaks new ground because she examines the class anxieties underlying the image. . . . Fighting to Become Americans] will challenge any reader's preconceptions about who is and is not an American and why." -Laura Brahm, The Women's Review of Books "Well-written and lively." -Jewish World "A definitive and fascinating history of the complex relationships between Jewish men and women in the twentieth century." -George Cohen, Booklist " S]hows how the stereotypes we accept and create about ourselves mirror our anxieties in American society. . . . Prell's] analyses are telling and original." -Ruth F. Brin, St. Paul Pioneer Press Riv-Ellen Prell is author of Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She is currently professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Propertius' celebration of his love for Cynthia broke new ground in Latin poetry: sensuous, passionate, witty, yet complex and allusive. The appeal of his 'Monobiblos' (Book I) is direct and immediate but his profound grasp of the violent and contradictory emotions of the relationship pushed his language into new areas and new forms. So he is a difficult and important poet, with the kind of difficulty that appeals to modern readers. This edition is designed to serve two different kinds of readers. For those who are not Latin specialists there is an elegant but literal translation alongside the Latin text, with a critical essay on each poem to lead the reader into the richness of the Latin. On the other hand Latinists will find here new light on the text itself. Above all, the edition is dedicated to reading poetry as poetry.