A brooding classical pianist-turned-conductor cannot remember the night his nemesis was murdered. Did he commit the crime †or did the beautiful soprano with whom he is falling in love? In the fall of 1941, as war approaches, Death Is the Cool Night goes behind the scenes of a music conservatory and into the heart of some of the most beautiful compositions ever written for voice.

An account of Alexander Mackay's travels through the United States as far as the Mississippi River. He writes about American politics, religion, slavery, education and literature, the military, and the economy.

This is a book about how a boy?and a man?becomes a man. It's a guide to the process of masculine initiation, that ancient path every boy and man must take if they would become the man they long to be. The path whereby they come to know they are a man, and are able to live and love from a deep, centered strength. We live in a time where most men (and boys) are essentially fatherless. Whatever their circumstance, they have no man actually taking them through the many adventures, trials, battles and experiences they need to shape a masculine heart within them. They find themselves on their own to figure life out, and that is a lonely place to be. Their fears, anger, boredom, and their many addictions all come out of this fatherless place within them, a fundamental uncertainty in the core of their being. But there is a way. "We aren't meant to figure life out on our own," says John Eldredge. "God wants to father us." In The Way of the Wild Heart, Eldredge reveals how God comes to a man and takes him on the masculine journey, how nearly all the events of a man's life can come togther to provide the initiation he never received. And how parents can offer that initiation to their sons. Whatever your age may be, your Father is ready to take up your journey. For you are his son.

Frederick T. Wilson was an engineer who carried the rank of first-class petty officer and served in one of the US Navy's first modern battleships, the USS Oregon. He also participated in the relief of Peking during the Boxer rebellion. This is an uncensored picture of enlisted life.

Revision 2019 This Story is about true everlasting love! While falling in love is a confusing emotion, no matter what your age from a teen to adult we all experience the struggles of our emotions. Toby and Mary experience romantic affections for one another even though they knew they were too young to know any better. This set their life course down a one way street out of control. When we are young these emotional feelings sometime stir within us the thoughts of true love, but they seldom last therefore the term ‘puppy love.’ This story is about Toby and Mary and the exceptional emotional experience that they go thru in their search for "true love." Come along on this emotional roller coaster ride into true love that brings them real joy as well as lots of emotional pain and heart break. Their story and search for true love spans twelve years but over that time the suffering that this one man must go through is more than any person should ever have to bear.

Discover the Thai approach to food and wellness-and use nature's elements to eat for optimum health, beauty, and spiritual well-being The traditional Thai philosophy of diet and health involves eating meals planned around your "home element"-earth, water, wind, or fire-as well as the weather, time of day, and other factors. In this book, award-winning author Su-Mei Yu explains this age-old philosophy and gives you information and recipes to help you prepare meals that will promote better physical, spiritual, and emotional health. She describes the personal characteristics related to the each of the four home elements, as well as the tastes, flavors, aromas, and natural ingredients best suited to them. She shows you how to identify your home element and eat foods that accommodate it through different times of the year and different times of the day. Beauty treatments geared to your home element will help you to relax, rejuvenate, and feel renewed. This beautifully designed book Includes an interactive wheel that helps you calculate your elemental sign Explains how to plan meals appropriate to your home element Offers tempting recipes for every home element, season, and time of day Shares dishes with a delicious variety of ingredients and flavors, from Cold Soba Noodles to Stir-Fried Chicken or Port with Watermelon Rind Contains beauty, mind, and spirit sections with recipes for face masks, hair treatments, and massage oils based on each home element Features more than 120 full-color photographs of finished dishes and life in Thailand Written by the IACP Award–winning author of Cracking the Coconut and Asian Grilling, the simple, inspiring recipes and straightforward, easy-to-follow advice found in The Elements of Life will inspire you to live according to the elements and follow a traditional path to health, beauty, longevity, and inner peace.

Kiriko Kubo's manga have a loyal following in Japan. Now her debut hit series, showing us the pains and delights of growing up and finding one's place in the world, is available in English for the first time. Tsuneko's class are putting on a school play, and it seems that the main character's nasty behaviour is based on Tsuneko herself. But will she notice? And if she does, will it encourage her to change her ways? These stories of the day-to-day lives of a group of friends at an elementary school in Tokyo are full of delightful observations about being a child and growing up in Japan. Finally all six volumes of the outstanding 'Cynical Hysterie Hour' series appear in ebook format!