George Mugohe is an elementary school teacher who lives in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda. In this spellbinding novel showing the area's cultural roots, he refuses to betray his Christian faith by honoring his kin ghosts. Because of his rejection, his wife Caroline becomes mad and dies. Diviners and his wife's ghost intervene and advise George to offer a cow to his kin ghosts on behalf of his dead great-grandfather if he wants to get a new wife. He refuses and instead marries Claudine Rebero against his kin ghosts' wishes. As a punishment, he is unable to make love to his second wife. When Claudine abandons her husband, George changes his mind and honors his kin ghosts as advised. The couple reconciles and Claudine returns home. To publicly thank Almighty God, George and Claudine pay for a special mass. Unknown to the invited guests, high-ranking angels, famous ghosts, and George's kin ghosts all attend the service. An angel then visits the couple to tell them their future. J

Finding Inspiration in Every Turn Nothing is Impossible The World Itself says I'm Possible Life is an adventure! We are all unique, We are given certain talents and it is up to the individual to find it within us. Life is like many different stories with new challenges to take on. Meeting new people with new diversions to accomplish. Learning and finding meaning in the life we are given. Living life as a Gypsy to find that next adventure. JUST GET-OUT-THERE & DO IT

Only the truth can save her world. How far will she go to find it? Ember Mikailanova's childhood home of Dusk is dying. She and her best friend, Eli, the only two young people left, flee in search of the mythical city of Frost. When they find it they are taken in by pale friendly folk with wide smiles and a talent for talking around all her questions without answering them. Ember finds work fixing the glitching automatons who serve the Queen and maintain the wall that separates the citizens of Frost from the monsters of the Wastes. But she can find no cause for their increasingly erratic behavior. Why can't she get straight answers from anyone? And what lies beyond the Southern Wall that the residents of Frost believe to be the end of the world? Queen of Frost is the first book in the completed Frost Trilogy by Aria Nobel. Pick up your copy today.

"Gigi" is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest society life she observes all around her and remains exasperatingly Gigi ... "Julie de Carneilhan," focuses on a contest of wills between Julie, an elegant woman of forty, and her ex-husband. "Chance Acquaintances," a novella, involves an invalid wife, her philandering husband, and a music-hall dancer whose odd meeting at a French spa affects and indelibly marks each one of their lives.-Back cover.

Matsuo Basho stands today as Japan's most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Yet despite his stature, Basho's complete haiku have never been collected under one cover. Until now. To render the writer's full body of work in English, Jane Reichhold, an American haiku poet and translator, dedicated over ten years to the present compilation. In Barbo: The Complete Haiku she accomplishes the feat with distinction. Dividing the poet's creative output into seven periods of development, Reichhold frames each period with a decisive biographical sketch of the poet's travels, creative influences, and personal triumphs and defeats. Supplementary material includes two hundred pages of scrupulously researched notes, which also contain a literal translation of the poem, the original Japanese, and a Romanized reading. A glossary, chronology, index of first lines, and explanation of Basho's haiku techniques provide additional background information. Finally in the spirit of Basho, elegant semi-e ink drawings by well-known Japanese artist Shiro Tsujimura front each chapter.