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Chrysanthemum is a funny and honest school story about teasing, self-esteem, and acceptance to share all year round. Written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes, the nationally bestselling and celebrated creator of Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, and Kitten’s First Full Moon, Chrysanthemum is a...
The next title in Pavilion’s best-selling series of stylish floral guides, Chrysanthemums celebrates the versatility and variety of this familiar yet surprising bloom. As a life-giving herb in ancient China, a cultural emblem in Japan and a design icon of the Arts and Crafts movement, the...
A celebration of the colorful, versatile chrysanthemum—a popular choice for corsages, bridal bouquets, centerpieces, and houseplant gifts.Best Gardening Books of 2024 – Table MagazineThe underestimated chrysanthemum is the epitome of both flamboyance and style with its many varieties and shapes....
Faeries compete to plant the most flowers.A? 2 – 5 PlayersA? |A? 60 – 100 MinsA? |A? Ages 8+Features: Movement Points Open Drafting Tile PlacementTheme:A? Abstract StrategyA? Card GameA? EnvironmentalA? ExplorationA? FantasyDescription:A Natural Fantasy Strategy GamePlayers are Faeries who compete...
The Faerie Queen has decreed that flowers must be planted on the World Bloom, promising the champions of the effort a handsome reward. Unable to settle on a single best approach for the task, the Faerie Guild fractured into several sects, each of whom believe their own magic is best suited for the...
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Started in 2009, IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. In its ten-year anniversary in November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the theme “Speech and Silence.” Ernest...
Set in contemporary India, “Yellow Chrysanthemum” is a stirring collection celebrating the lives of Durga, Uma, Tihar, Somlata, Mridula, and fifteen other women from rural villages to bursting cities. These women are not passive victims but survivors and warriors who have the courage to challenge...
Beyond Chrysanthemums assesses the relevance for the West of Eastern aesthetic and poetic principles in a lively discussion of over two hundred poems in seventeen Eastern and Western languages, ancient and modern, with parallel translations. The possibility of a world poetic canon is explored in...
Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, a startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile—set in Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Paris, and...
Winner of the Writers' Guild Award for B****est Debut Novel Longlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.'
Elisa Allen is tending her chrysanthemums. Strong, with a handsome face she skilfully and proudly cultivates the best in the valley. Tonight, her husband is taking her to town. While she works, a squeak of heels and a plod of hoofs bring a curious
In ancient China, a farmer named Yìzé makes a regrettable wish. Now, he, his family, and his village are faced with a nü gui who won't stop ravaging the countryside until it gets its vengeance. In ancient China, there lived a humble farmer named Y
This is the first book in English on these extraordinarily beautiful stones, a specialized focus of the art of stone appreciation that originated and flourished in Asia over 2,000 years ago. These stones are found primarily in China and Japan, but more recently examples are known from Korea and the...
Meet ten of literature’s most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world’Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.‘This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of...
“ Pride and Prejudice” and the language of flowers… When Fitzwilliam Darcy leaves the inn in Lambton after a tense but fruitful visit with Elizabeth Bennet, her words cultivate his hopes. “Less naturally amiable tempers than Mr Bingley’s have found ways to forgive you.” Has she excused his flaws of...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThis small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will come away with a compressed, rich sense of Lawrence’s wonderful prose style, precision of language...
French artist Claude Monet, one of the founders of the Impressionist movement, was particularly fascinated with capturing the transient beauty of nature. In a virtuoso display of flowers, this 1897 work portrays a vibrant bed of chrysanthemums from his prized garden in Giverny.
This is a luminous collection that takes us on a keen-eyed journey from childhood to parenthood: from a child’s perspective of her parents, through to the transition to adulthood as a single parent, then finally to the witnessing of a parent’s decline and death. Lam details the slow and sometimes...
