A collection of heart-warming stories about love, family, and tradition--each accompanied by a recipe. Includes recipes for appetizers, pasta, meats, fish, soups, salads, breads, and desserts.
A collection of short stories, with "thought questions, " each illustrating a lesson about such such moral principles as kindness, forgiveness, respect, honesty, and good sportsmanship.
After the white elephants and the black elephants kill each other off, the grey descendants of those nonfighting elephants who hid during the war emerge, only to eventually find new differences to set them against each other.
Translation of an early eleventh-century novel about the life of Japanese nobleman Genji, the son of an emperor who finds himself falling in love with women who remind him of the mother he lost in his youth.
An illustrated retelling of seventeen parables used by Jesus Christ in his teachings. Includes "The Good Samaritan," "The Lost Sheep," The Laborers in the Vineyard," and "The Prodigal Son.".
Contains "The Heart of Darkness," in which the captain of a steam ship on the Congo River meets and observes Mr. Kurtz, the fabled chief of the Inner Station for the trading company on that river in 1890. Includes "The Congo Diary.".
A retelling of one of Rabbi Nachman's tales in which a tailor, dreaming that the moon is cold in the sky, goes in search of a special fabric with which to make it a cloak.
When strongman MacMurtrey attempts to show his power by building a wall to hold back the sea, he learns that the power of community is the greatest of all.
