"A talking tea kettle, a monstrous goblin-spider that lives in a haunted temple, miniature soldiers that plague a lazy young bride, and other fanciful creatures abound in this captivating collection of eleven Japanese fairy tales.Youngsters are transported to an exotic, faraway world of samurai warriors, rice fields, humble cottages, and a magical spring in five tales excellently translated and adapted by noted writer and linguist Lafcad ..."
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Civil War Photos 24 Cards (Dover Postcards) by Mathew Brady, FrancisA. Davis 6 Pages, Published 1994 by Mineola, New York, U.S.A.: Dover Pubns, 1994 ISBN-13: 978-0-486-28132-2, ISBN: 0-486-28132-9
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Afterglow(Reprint) A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael by FrancisDavis Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2003 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81230-9, ISBN: 0-306-81230-4
"Afterglow On September 3, 2001, the movies and those who love them lost one of their greatest friends - a friend who never tired of championing the best that the movies could offer and didn't shrink from speaking her mind. This is a biography of the ascerbic and witty film critic Pauline Kael. Full description"
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West of Love A Story Cycle by FrancisDavis Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2017 by Brighthorse Books ISBN-13: 978-1-944467-07-4, ISBN: 1-944467-07-6
"Staring down heartbreak and regret, Stewart Simmons, flees a haunted Philadelphia for the beauty of the West. In a raw, yet lyrical, voice that gives life to the urgency and appetites of youth, West of Love takes place in a time before the internet, before cell phones, before technology changed the ways we live and love. And as an older Stewart looks candidly back at his younger self, a picture of the human heart emerges--one that offer ..."