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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the ...
Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 [nb 1] – April 27, 1998) was an American anthropologist and writer. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe a training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don Juan Matus.
The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. [1] [2] The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list.
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the third in a series of four books, The Song of the Lioness. [1] It details the knighthood of Alanna of Trebond as she lives in the Bazhir desert after becoming a knight.
Her book presents a picture of a United States still changing in its reciprocal influence with China. [3] At the same time, the title reflects a deliberate rejection of American racism against the Chinese : whereas the term " Chinaman " was a common slur (such as in John Chinaman ), the Chinese referred to themselves as the "China Men" of the ...
Eulhwa was adapted from Kim Dong-ri's 1936 short story "Munyeodo" (무녀도 The Way of the Shaman) and was published by Munhaksasang in 1978. Through depicting the life of a woman whose fate turns her to the path of a Shaman, Eulhwa explores the struggles between traditional Korean mysticism and modern rationalism. [1]
The novel begins with Loon, a boy from a tribe of Ice Age humans who call themselves the Wolf Pack, being stripped naked and sent into a lonely valley where he is expected to try to survive alone for two weeks as a test of manhood. Despite a rainstorm on the first day, Loon succeeds in using the skills he has been taught by Thorn, the Wolf Pack ...
By the sixth book, Runner, Publishers Weekly refers to the series as formulaic, and criticizes the lack of backstory for new readers. [ 20 ] In its review for Poison Flower , The Washington Times calls Jane "perhaps one of the most intriguing characters in literary crime" and says it is "especially interesting to track her recollections of her ...