As medieval Londoners joyously prepare for the Christmas celebrations, goldsmith Lawrence Ducket is involved in a street brawl. Fearful that his opponent is dying, Lawrence seeks sanctuary in a church nearby. When Ducket is found hanging from the rafters, people assume it's suicide. Seb is determined to solve the mystery of his friend's death.

"So bright, so light, so soft, so mingled, the gentle colour of life is outdone by all the colours of the world. Its very beauty is that it is white, but less white than milk; brown, but less brown than earth; red, but less red than sunset or dawn. It is lucid, but less lucid than the colour of lilies. It has the hint of gold that is in all fine colour; but in our latitudes the hint is almost elusive..." 'The Colour of Life' is a collection of sketches, mainly centred on natural phenomena, written in a lyrical manner.

One of the foremost Native writers in North America, Lee Maracle links her First Nations heritage with feminism in this visionary book. "Maracle has created a book of true wisdom, intense pride, sisterhood and love." -Milestones Review

This book is the twelfth in the Ramiz Alkhishins dialogue-based books by author Raad Chalabi. In his newest book I & Me, author Raad Chalabi, through forty-eight stand-alone dialogue scenes, describes an ongoing debate between many different characters on various aspects of life. The author uses fictional dialogues in which one party defends one social norm or belief while another rejects it. This book, as is the case with the authors all other books, takes you in an unstoppable journey down the slopes of randomness with individual choices as the only rudder. What your choices are and when you actually make them is what life is. Once you grasp that the starting point of your downward slope and its final base are not yours to alter, neither are the unpredictable events that confront you on the way down, you will then, and only then, understand how valuable that rudder is. It makes no difference if you think that the base of the downward slope is your final destination to nothing or your gateway to everything. Either way, it is the individual choices that you make during your downward journey that will allow you to reach that base in the manner you wish.

The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture—running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States—they were never able to integrate fully with white men in the New World. In An American Betrayal, Daniel Blake Smith's vivid prose brings to life a host of memorable characters: the veteran Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson, who adopted a young Indian boy into his home; Chief John Ross, only one-eighth Cherokee, who commanded the loyalty of most Cherokees because of his relentless effort to remain on their native soil; most dramatically, the dissenters in Cherokee country—especially Elias Boudinot and John Ridge, gifted young men who were educated in a New England academy but whose marriages to local white girls erupted in racial epithets, effigy burnings, and the closing of the school. Smith, an award-winning historian, offers an eye-opening view of why neither assimilation nor Cherokee independence could succeed in Jacksonian America.

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Alice Meynell Ceres' Runaway The Children The Colour of Life Essays Hearts of Controversy The Rhythm of Life Flower of the Mind, and Later Poems Poems

An epic of life in New Zealand during the nineteenth century explores the relationship between two newlyweds as they encounter the harsh realities of their chosen home in the South Pacific.