Maki
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"An ordinary housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud and abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair with a young half-Russian, half-Japanese man....[This is a novel d]ealing with the travails and traumas of history, with gendered identity, with the tension between private and public selves" --front flap
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All bottoms are wonderful! Don't you agree? Each animal in this adorable book has a different reason for loving their behind--from cute and round to fashionable and striped! Talented illustrator Maki Saito makes kids laugh out loud with playful illustrations of the backsides of hippos, zebras, pandas, mandrills, and more of our favorite animals. Her traditional Japanese art techniques add a sophisticated, beautiful feel to a book about...animal butts!...
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"Natsuko's husband Taichi was forced to stop working almost a decade ago and since then they've been getting by on her part-time wages. But Natsuko is a woman accustomed to hardship. When her own family's fortune dried up during her childhood, she, her brother, and her mother lived a surreal hand-to-mouth existence shaped by her mother's refusal to accept their new station in life. One day, Natsuko sees an ad for a spa and recognizes the place as...
10) Unidad
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Maki Starfield es una poetisa japonesa. Su enérgica escritura que abarca desde la poesía hasta el haiku es notable. Trajo 20 libros en tres años. 19 libros son co-autorizados con poetas del mundo, como Narlan Matos, Luca Benassi, Helen Cardona, John Fitsgerald, Lidia Chiarelli, Huguette Bertrand, Yesim Agaoglu, Bill Wolak. Dileep Jhaveri, Sarah Thilykou, Willem M. Roggeman,Yiorgos Veis, Xiao Xiao, Dumu Luofei, Ajei-Ajei-Bhaa, Ikuyo Yoshimura,Michael...
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Esta colección toca todos los temas queridos por los poetas: naturaleza, amor, amistad, sueños, poesía, divinidad.
Realmente podemos encontrarnos en estos poemas, tan simples y tan profundos al mismo tiempo.
Podemos ocuparnos del alma delicada y soñadora de la poetisa y sentimos su corazón vibrar, mientras sus versos, estrofa tras estrofa, nos llevan al fondo de su alma, tan enamorada de la Vida.
Fabrizio Legger (Postremo Vate) de la introducción....
12) Back to Troy
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What really brought Emma Dill back to Troy? The need to remember-or to forget? The desire to solve a ruthless murder-or to move on? The hope for a blossoming new romance-or an old flame that just won't die? The murderer is a sociopath: a savage hiding in plain sight.The victim is her mother: a former stripper, a hot-headed, cold-blooded enigma.She is a twenty-two-year-old orphan: a spunky poodlehead, a spitfire in the guise of a songbird.Her partner...
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DUETO DE LUCIÉRNAGAS es un extraordinario libro de poesía con un sello oriental definitivo. Sus autores logran una alternancia en la expresión de temas de vida con pincel de matices atenuados con la particular sensibilidad de la milenaria cultura oriental. Y es que la pluma de Bill Wolak lo lleva por denodados senderos literarios, en Europa, Eurasia, Asia e India, caminos de maduración como autor que le permiten plasmar con absoluta originalidad...
14) Daisy Fields
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Comes with a downloadabale bonus story! She was always lying. A gentle soul searching for sincerity in an insincere world.A tale-spinner living in a maze of lies.A story that unfolds when two hearts meet.What is sincerity, what is freedom, what is true love?When David decides to take the wacky, quirky Kalifornia Mooney as his housemate, he doesn't expect his world to be turned upside down. As their mutual affection grows, so does the inexplicable,...
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The 21st century sustains one significant commonality with the decades of the preceding century. The majority of individuals parenting on their own and heading one-parent families continue to be mothers. Even so, current trends in globalization (economic, political, cultural) along with technological advancement, shifts in political, economic and social policy, contemporary demographic shifts, changing trends in the labor sector linked to global economics,...
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"A delicate, layered exploration of family, trauma, and memory . . . An intriguing introduction to a significant voice in contemporary Japanese fiction." -Kirkus Reviews
Two tales about memory, loss and love, both told with stylistic inventiveness and breath-taking sensitivity.
Taichi was forced to stop working almost a decade ago and since then he and his wife Natsuko have been getting by on her wages. But Natsuko is a woman accustomed to hardship....
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If you're an avid noodle lover-or ready to graduate from perennial favorite Ramen Noodles-look no further!
Experienced Asian cookbook author Maki Watanabe provides all her secret recipes and tips for creating delicious Asian noodle dishes at home with minimal fuss and time.
These 86 noodle recipes cover the Asian cuisines best known for their noodle dishes: Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. They include all the classics that are already...
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"Pas assez d'amour" est la première collection de Maki Starfield, qui est une poétesse émergente importante. L'une des plus grandes vertus de sa poésie est sa capacité à écouter et à identifier les problèmes les plus profonds de notre temps, dans l'art et la critique sociale. La vigueur, la générosité et la sagesse de sa poésie lui confèrent la catégorie de poète universel. Aussi, l'attrait des poèmes de Maki Starfield est dans la...
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Asian Salads shows you how to prepare the amazing variety of delicious Asian vegetables, herbs, and seasonings found in your local supermarket, farmers market, and world food market. It presents 75 recipes that will excite and awaken your palate-and open up new food horizons!
Dozens of fragrant herbs like cilantro, Thai basil, and lemongrass are combined with delicious fresh Asian vegetables like Napa cabbage, spicy kimchi, daikon, and many more!
These...
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K. Satchidanandan es un gran poeta de la India. La joven poeta Maki Starfield se ofrece a ser coautora de él y le dio permiso con un generoso estímulo. JUNPA se enorgullece del éxito de este "Dúo de formas". El contraste "Forma" y "Sin forma", en otras palabras "visual" y "no visual", dos poetas sugieren a los lectores "Cómo ver las cosas invisibles" "Cómo ignorar las cosas visuales" bajo pensamientos profundos y poemas significativos.