On these pages we meet adventurous princes, romantic princesses, wily peasants, tricky animals-and an abundance of monsters, djinns, gods, goddesses, and powerful magicians. In colorful, exotic settings reminiscent of The Arabian Nights, brave heroes and virtuous heroines triumph over the forces of evil, often with fantastical or comic results. These folktales, collected orally in the desert state of Rajasthan in 1986-87, are eloquent reflections of the great cultural traditions of India, and are stories that bring enchantment to audiences everywhere.

The Pomegranate Princess: And Other Tales From India

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hower, Edward

Fantasy

iUniverse

On these pages we meet adventurous princes, romantic princesses, wily peasants, tricky animals--and an abundance of monsters, "djinns," gods, goddesses, and powerful magicians. In colorful, exotic settings reminiscent of "The Arabian Nights," brave heroes and virtuous heroines triumph over the forces of evil, often with fantastical or comic results.These folktales, collected orally in the desert state of Rajasthan in 1986-87, are eloquent reflections of the great cultural traditions of India, and are stories that bring enchantment to audiences everywhere.

The Pomegranate Princess and Other Tales from India

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Wayne State Univ Pr

Features folktales with motifs that appear in European stories, but are thought to have originated in India

Mukerjee, M. K.

U.S.A.: Wayne State Univ Pr

Through the centuries and across the world the Virgin Mary has apparently appeared to ordinary people of every race and culture, from scholars to illiterates, the devout to the unbelieving, from young children to the dying. In this book the author chronicles authenticated Marian apparitions and messages. Information is drawn from scripture, legend, eyewitness accounts and interviews with other visionaries. The book ranges from Elijah's vision of Mary 800 years before her birth and reputed appearances in ancient China, to the children of Medjugorie in Bosnia, whose encounters with her began in 1981 and continue to the present day. The book also asks if, as the millennium draws near, shadowed by war and disease, are Mary's frequent appearances a signal to the faithful?

A Garden of Demons: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Ontario Review Pr

Edward Hower explores the question of whether love can heal wounded souls and survive in a culture of urban violence. Ruth Sullivan, an idealistic young woman with a troubled past, runs a group home with her artist-husband, Mike, caring for five at-risk teenage girls as volatile and erratic as they are appealing. Her heart goes out to the troubled kids, but as she struggles to help them turn their lives around, a mysterious girl who calls herself May Royale arrives like a typhoon, noisily upsetting the home's fragile peace. Soon May introduces to the scene her boyfriend, Paco, a flashy former gang member desperate to escape his family's criminal legacy. Paco, like May, is not all he seems at first, as Ruth discovers to both her delight and terror. Her involvement with him pushes her courage to the limits as she tests both her convictions and her marriage. Hower's characters are totally engaging, and the reader is quickly caught up in their lives. The Storms of May is charged with suspense and full of surprises.

The Storms of May: A Novel

"Edward Hower is a writer of talent and substance."-William Kennedy
Spiritualism, the conviction that the dead are able to contact living people from an afterworld, became popular in America after the Civil War, when grief-stricken survivors tried to contact the fallen. In an era of breakaway churches and rampant industrialization, ordinary people sought desperately to prove to themselves they possessed immortal souls. Spiritualism was also one of the few venues that offered women a chance to lead. 
One such woman was Madame Helena Blavatsky, a Russian-born mystic who used her considerable intellectual gifts to rise to the top of the spiritualist hierarchy. Together with her partner, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, a popular journalist and Civil War hero, she attracted many of the leading celebrities of the age, such as Thomas Edison and Abner Doubleday in New York; and in London, W.B. Yeats, and the young Mohandas P. Gandhi. But, hounded by the press and subjected to scathing ridicule, they moved from the parlors of Gilded Age New York to the slums of Bombay then again to Ceylon, attempting to spread their ideas.
Loosely based on the lives of Blavatsky and Olcott, Shadows and Elephants follows two unforgettable fictional creations, passionate in their friendship, courageous in the face of public humiliation, and devoted absolutely to contacting the souls of the deceased in order to learn from their wisdom. Shadows and Elephants is a sensuous historical novel with totally contemporary resonance, for indeed, spiritualism has survived for over 130 years; reshaped in today's eclectic New Age beliefs.
Edward Hower is the author of four previous novels. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian; his reviews in the nation's most prestigious book pages. He has been awarded numerous creative writing grants. He lives in Ithaca, NY.

Shadows and Elephants

Leapfrog Press

Genre Fiction

A witch-haunted temple in India Carrying a spear in New York City operas Witnessing a revolution in Guatemala Mediums, spiritual seekers, and frauds Teaching at a maximum security prison Love rides the rails These are some of the subjects in this lively collection of personal essays and travel writing - eloquent inner quests and journeys of discovery to out-of-the-way destinations.

What Can You Do: Personal Essays & Travel Writing

Cayuga Lake Books

With this collection of memoir writing, both prose and poetry, Cayuga Lake Books presents our third anthology to feature creative work by authors who live in the Finger Lakes region of New York or have left without ever forgetting what this part of the country means to them. These diverse selections share with you the remembered experiences of writers whose imaginations soar beyond time or place.\nHere you’ll find thoughtful writing that evokes family dramas, childhood adventures, mourning and celebrating and child-rearing. Remembrances of rural life in the Finger Lakes region abound—bee-keeping, farming, hiking, the constant re-discovery of nature, human relationships present and past. The variety of settings—from Ithaca to Cambodia, Spain, Alaska and beyond—matches the variety of styles and moods. This is a book that will reverberate among your own memories.

From the Finger Lakes: A Memoir Anthology

Poetry

Oversized June Chatwin, a 21-year-old who wears a big black Stetson, is good at listening to other people's problems -- a good thing since the former rodeo rider, general outsider and recovering alcoholic has landed herself at a Connecticut asylum so elitist that the inmates are referred to by the staff as guests and the hospital stationery reads The Pines... An Inn. Sober for the first time in years, she takes new pleasure in learning about other peoples' lives, and she's surrounded by fascinating personalities: a screenwriter whose one smashing success no one remembers; a ballplayer with the weight of Harlem on his shoulders; and Jack, a native New Englander who assures her just after they meet that she's not ridiculous, the most romantic words she's ever heard. With all her energies focused on others, however, how will June find the time to focus on her own past -- which includes getting gang raped on the bar of a gin mill -- and her gay brother's attempted suicide? Hower's (Night Train Blues) fifth novel is frequently amusing and insightful, although lack and June both seem much older than in their 20s. The questions that unfold are emotionally charged: Will they become lovers or friends within the confines of the country dub/institution? Will their relationship survive in the real world if and when they both get out? Readers will root for June as she learns that the best therapy often comes from other patients rather than from professionals. More importantly, she learns from her friendship with Jack that the biggest ghosts from our pasts are often ourselves.

Queen of the Silver Dollar

United States

Permanent Pr Pub Co

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The Pomegranate Princess: And Other Tales From India

The Pomegranate Princess and Other Tales from India

The Pomegranate Princess and Other Tales from India

A Garden of Demons: A Novel

The Storms of May: A Novel

Shadows and Elephants

Shadows and Elephants

What Can You Do: Personal Essays & Travel Writing

From the Finger Lakes: A Memoir Anthology

Queen of the Silver Dollar