The Teahouse Fire
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The Teahouse Fire
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Author : Ellis Avery
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-09-04
The Teahouse Fire written by Ellis Avery and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Fiction categories.
'When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate... What I asked for? Any life but this one.' When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her orphaned and alone in nineteenth-century Japan, she has no idea how quickly her wish will be answered. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house and is adopted by the family who own it: gradually falling in love with both the tea ceremony and with her young mistress, Yukako. As Aurelia grows up she devotes herself to the family and its failing fortunes in the face of civil war and western intervention, and to Yukako's love affairs and subsequent marriage. But her feelings for her mistress are never reciprocated and as tensions mount in the household Aurelia begins to realise that to the world around her she will never be anything but an outsider. A lushly detailed, spellbinding story, The Teahouse Fire is an unforgettable debut.
The Demon In The Teahouse
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Author : Dorothy Hoobler
language : en
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Release Date : 2002
The Demon In The Teahouse written by Dorothy Hoobler and has been published by Putnam Juvenile this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The beautiful, mysterious women of Japan are being killed one by one. The famous samurai Judge Ooka knows he will need help to solve the crimes, so he turns to his newly adopted son, fourteen-year-old Seikei. Determined to prove his worth as a samurai, Seikei goes undercover as a teahouse attendant in the exotic "floating city" of Yoshiwara, where demons lurk among the pleasure seekers and no one is safe-not even a samurai. "Rousing adventure and suspense." ( School Library Journal)
Tales Of The Teahouse Retold
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Author : Katherine Liang Chew
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2002
Tales Of The Teahouse Retold written by Katherine Liang Chew and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
Tales of the Teahouse Retold is based on the author's original translation of Feng Shen Yan Yi, an important volume of Chinese mythology first published during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It is the story of the overthrow the Shang Dynasty (circa 1766-1122 BC) and the founding of the Chou Dynasty (1122-249 BC). Combining historical facts, folklore, mythology, and legends, these tales describe a time when gods and men, beasts and monsters, and spirits and specters mingled with each other in peace and war. The saga begins when King Zhou of Shang offends the Snail Goddess, who sends three specters to bewitch the king in retribution. The kingdom falls into chaos and civil war ensues, with gods and other supernatural beings taking sides. In the end, many of the slain heroes are invested as gods. For centuries, the tale was told in successive story-telling sessions as teahouse entertainment. The author has faithfully kept to the original style and ambience in retelling these tales. Tales of the Teahouse Retold will be of interest to fans of oriental mythology, philosophy, and literature. It is suitable for recreational reading as well as supplemental reading for students of Chinese history and culture.
The Last Nude
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Author : Ellis Avery
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-01-05
The Last Nude written by Ellis Avery and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with Fiction categories.
“As erotic and powerful as the paintings that inspired it.”—Emma Donoghue, author of Room Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist, a dispossessed Saint Petersburg aristocrat with a murky past. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara's most iconic Jazz Age images, among them her most accomplished-and coveted-works of art. A season as the painter's muse teaches Rafaela some hard lessons: Tamara is a cocktail of raw hunger and glittering artifice. And all the while, their romantic idyll is threatened by history's darkening tide. Inspired by real events in de Lempicka's history, The Last Nude is a tour de force of historical imagination. Ellis Avery gives the reader a tantalizing window into a lost Paris, an age already vanishing as the inexorable forces of history close in on two tangled lives. Spellbinding and provocative, this is a novel about genius and craft, love and desire, regret and, most of all, hope that can transcend time and circumstance.
The Meaning Of The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse
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Author : George Peknik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Meaning Of The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse written by George Peknik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Travel categories.
Teahouse Of The Almighty
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Author : Patricia Smith
language : en
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Release Date : 2013-11-18
Teahouse Of The Almighty written by Patricia Smith and has been published by Coffee House Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with Poetry categories.
A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders. “What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.”—Marvin Bell “I was weeping for the beauty of poetry when I reached the end of the final poem.”—Edward Sanders, National Poetry Series judge From Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation’s premier performance poet. Featured in the film Slamnation and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, Smith is back with her first book in over a decade—a National Poetry Series winner weaving passionate, bluesy narratives into an empowering, finely tuned cele-bration of poetry’s liberating power.
The Teahouse Of The August Moon
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Author : VERN. SNEIDER
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-14
The Teahouse Of The August Moon written by VERN. SNEIDER and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-14 with categories.
This immensely likeable satire of the American civilizing mission in Okinawa was a phenomenon when it was published in 1951. The many-layered novel retains its charm and power today; beneath the comical mayhem that engulfs the village Tobiki we see the pitfalls and possibilities of cultural exchange and nation-building.
Viking Fire
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Author : Justin Hill
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-09-22
Viking Fire written by Justin Hill and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-22 with Fiction categories.
A Times Book of the Year 'A literary, intelligent read from a masterful storyteller' In 1035, a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle. Left for dead, for the next twenty years his adventures lead him over mountains, down the length of Russia and ultimately to Constantinople and the Holy City of Jerusalem. Drawn into political intrigue he will be the lover of Empresses, the murderer of an emperor; he will hold the balance of power in the Byzantine Empire in his hands, and then give it all up for a Russian princess and the chance to return home and lead his own people, where he must fight the demons of his past, his family and his countrymen in a long and bitter war for revenge and power. Told in his own voice, this is the astonishing true story of the most famous warrior in all Christendom: Harald Hardrada, the last Viking.
The Tea House On Mulberry Street
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Author : Sharon Owens
language : en
Publisher: Blue Hen Books
Release Date : 2005
The Tea House On Mulberry Street written by Sharon Owens and has been published by Blue Hen Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Domestic fiction categories.
- Owens is a well-reviewed, bestselling author in Ireland- First time in paperback- Published to coincide with the release of her new Putnam hardcover, The Ballroom on Magnolia Street- For fans of Maeve Binchy and Joanna Trollope
The Drink And Dream Teahouse
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Author : Justin Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Drink And Dream Teahouse written by Justin Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with China categories.
Introducing a brilliant new literary voice with a tender love story set against the backdrop of modern China