Author: Pearl S. Buck
Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
Keywords: pearl, buck, wind, novels, oriental, west, east
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-04-05
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1559210869
ISBN-13: 9781559210867

In her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pearl Buck said, "The mind of my own country and of China, my foster country, are alike in many ways, but above all, in our common love of freedom". "East Wind: West Wind" embodies this love of, and struggle for, freedom.

Authors:E. F. Benson, Micheàl MacLiammóir,
Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
Keywords: novel, lucia, trouble
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2001-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1559212985
ISBN-13: 9781559212984

In "Trouble for Lucia", Lucia learns to ride a bicycle, and we live through the saga of Blue Birdie (Mrs. Wyse’s dead budgerigar [parakeet] invoke in a seance).Lucia and Georgie renew their acquaintance with the operatic diva Olga Braceley and the composer Cortese, but nobody in Tilling believes her when she claims to have entertained a duchess overnight. Lucia becomes Mayor of Tilling and Miss Mapp is appointed her Mayoress. This is the sixth volume in the "Lucia" Series.

Author: Pearl S. Buck
Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
Keywords: women, pavilion
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2001
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 155921287X
ISBN-13: 9781559212878

Author: Pauline Gedge
Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd.
Keywords: novel, transforming, twelfth
Number of Pages: 407
Published: 1998-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1559212594
ISBN-13: 9781559212595

Part of a popular line of historical thrillers set in Egypt, this second volume in Gedge’s bestselling series reconstructs the court of Akhenaten, one of ancient Egypt’s most controversial and colorful rulers, whose reign lead to the near-collapse of his empire some 2,500 years ago. "A lustrous tale of Pharaonic decadence".--"The New York Times".

Author: E. F. Benson
Publisher: Moyer Bell
Keywords: lucia, amp, mapp
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 2000-04
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1559212322
ISBN-13: 9781559212328

This is the fourth installment in the delicious "Mapp & Lucia" series, and a hilarious study of 1930’s manners and the pecking order in the fictional English village of Tilling. Having long ago conquered the timid town of Riseholme, Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas finds herself rather bored and so rents a summer place in Tilling. To be specific, she rents the home of Miss Elizabeth Mapp, queen of all she surveys from her garden window. Immediately the gauntlet is thrown down as the two would-be arbiters of good taste battle it out over excruciatingly endless musicales, phony I

Author: Helene Hanff
Publisher: Moyer Bell
Keywords: business, show, underfoot
Number of Pages: 177
Published: 2010-02-28
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1559210176
ISBN-13: 9781559210171

Author: Stephen Potter
Publisher: Moyer Bell
Keywords: lifemanship, gamesmanship, research, summary, notes, recent
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1559212969
ISBN-13: 9781559212960

What does Lifemanship mean? Easy question to pose, difficult to answer in a phrase. A way of life pervading each thought and conditioning our every action? Yes, but something much more, even though it only exists, as pervasive, intermittently. "How to live"--yes, but the phrase is too negative. In one of the unpublished notebooks of Rilke there is a phrase that might be our text, "...if you’re not one up (Bitzleisch) you’re...one down (Rotzleisch)." How to be one up--how to make the other person feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly. The Lifeman is nev