Author: Michael D. Coe
Genre: Non-Fiction
The author descibes the ~100 year process of deciphering the Mayan hieroglyphs.
Over Sea, Under Stone
Author: Susan Cooper
Genre: Fantasy
This is the first book of the Dark is Rising series. Three children, Barney, Simon and Jane, go to Trewissick, a town in Cornwall. There, in the house that their grand uncle Merry Lyon has rented for the summer, they find a secret passage to the attic, a lost scroll, and a mystery.
I'm a little suspicious that grand uncle Merry is not really their uncle, and is actually slightly older than time. Well, maybe not that old.
Genre: Fantasy
This is the first book of the Dark is Rising series. Three children, Barney, Simon and Jane, go to Trewissick, a town in Cornwall. There, in the house that their grand uncle Merry Lyon has rented for the summer, they find a secret passage to the attic, a lost scroll, and a mystery.
I'm a little suspicious that grand uncle Merry is not really their uncle, and is actually slightly older than time. Well, maybe not that old.
Kundun: A Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama
Author: Mary Craig
Genre: Biography
The book describes the family of the 14th Dalai Lama, their rise from a simple farming family to the royal family of Tibet, their escapes from occupied Tibet and their parts in the struggles after the escape.
Genre: Biography
The book describes the family of the 14th Dalai Lama, their rise from a simple farming family to the royal family of Tibet, their escapes from occupied Tibet and their parts in the struggles after the escape.
River Town:Two Years on the Yangtze
Author:Peter Hessler
Genre:Travel
From 1996 to 1998, Peter Hessler spent two years living in Fuling, a city in the Sichuan area of China teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer. In this book he describes many of his experiences. He manages to not be super pretentious, self absorbed and falsely philisophical as many travel writers are. It is a great book.
Genre:Travel
From 1996 to 1998, Peter Hessler spent two years living in Fuling, a city in the Sichuan area of China teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer. In this book he describes many of his experiences. He manages to not be super pretentious, self absorbed and falsely philisophical as many travel writers are. It is a great book.
Venerable Acariya Mun Bhuridatta Thera
Author: Acariya Maha Boowa Nanasampanno
Genre: Buddism
This was an amazing and inspiring biography about one of the Thai monks who re-discovered the Thai Forest tradition.
Genre: Buddism
This was an amazing and inspiring biography about one of the Thai monks who re-discovered the Thai Forest tradition.
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