Author: Wei Wu Wei
Publisher: Sentient Publications
Keywords: second, pieces, posthumous
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1591810159
ISBN-13: 9781591810155

Wei Wu Wei, an anonymous Westerner, joins Paul Reps, Alan Watts, and Philip Kapleau as one of the earliest and most profound interpreters of Zen Buddhism and Taoism. Well-read, educated at Oxford, and widely traveled, he brings a modern sensibility to the ancient texts. Posthumous Pieces, the penultimate work in his series of eight spiritual classics, was not published after his death. Instead, he states, the words themselves are posthumous, as they can only approximate the reality of life. These profound essays and epigrams are "tombstones, a record of living intuitions." A master of th

Author: Ann Burg
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Keywords: pieces, broken
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0545080924
ISBN-13: 9780545080927

Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family -- and the terrible secret -- he left behind. Now, inside a caring adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events force him to choose between silence and candor, blame and forgiveness, fear and freedom. By turns harrowing, dreamlike, sad, and triumphant, this searing debut novel, written in lucid verse, reveals an unforgettable perspective on the lasting impact of war and the healing power of love.

Author: Norma Fox Mazer
Publisher: Harcourt Paperback
Keywords: pieces, missing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0152062718
ISBN-13: 9780152062712

Jessie Wells can’t remember her father, James--he left her family when she was very young. Now fifteen, Jessie has a sudden desire to track down the man she always thought of as "the disappearing dude." She calls all the Wellses in the phone book, hoping to speak to someone who knows her father. But will she be prepared when she finally finds him?

Author: Jim Roh
Publisher: Jim Rohn Intl
Keywords: puzzle, life, pieces, major, five
Number of Pages: 121
Published: 1991-02-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0939490021
ISBN-13: 9780939490028

Paperback - The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle by Jim Rohn Jim takes an in-depth look into the reasons certain people succeed and others don’t. He covers the key components to success - philosophy, attitude, activity, results and lifestyle.

Author: Russell Sherman
Publisher: North Point Press
Keywords: pieces, piano
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-06-26
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0374525005
ISBN-13: 9780374525002

Russell Sherman has been hailed as "that rarest of performers--a thinking man’s virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune), and Piano Pieces is his scintillating excursion into the world of piano and its multiple spheres of affect and influence. From pithy reflections on tone, technique, and the thorny matter of thumbs to ruminations on how such a machine could be the voice and repository of priceless human messages both lyrical and complex, Piano Pieces examines the current status of music, piano-playing, and pedagogy through the noisy filter of contemporary culture.

Author: Virginia Hamilton
Publisher: Blue Sky Press
Keywords: pieces, time
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0590288814
ISBN-13: 9780590288811

From attending the circus with her family to surviving the death of her beloved collie, the daily life of Valena is drawn here with warmth and quiet humor. Hamilton has deftly woven together moments in time - the present, the past, and hopes for the future - in this gathering of time pieces that move backward and forward. Atrfully quilted together, thes epieces create a picture of family, schoolteachers, neighbors (good and bad), and a history of escaped slavery, as well as the strabds of racism that seemingly permeate everything - both directly and indirectly.

Author: Anne Michaels
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel, pieces, fugitive
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 1998-05-26
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0679776591
ISBN-13: 9780679776598

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940, Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old boy, bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from Nazi soldiers who have killed his family. Though he should have died with his family, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist. With this electrifying backdrop, Anne Michaels propels us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption. Michaels lets us witness Jakob’s transformation from a h