"Are You An Echo? folds poetry and history into recent events, resurrecting the work of Misuzu Kaneko and bringing the gentle grace of her poems to a new generation"--Back cover.

Contemporary embroidery motifs paired with a simple approach: using just one or two colors per design. The result is an easy and elegant way to start stitching. With a kaleidoscope of thread colors available, the task of picking just the right palette for an embroidery project can be overwhelming to beginners and experienced stitchers alike. But when you take away that challenge, a whole world of texture and style becomes available.

In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with Andre.

One evening after work hours, Jenny, a young doctor, allows the door buzzer at the small clinic where she works to go unanswered. It's only later that she learns that the person ringing was an unidentified African woman found dead shortly after by the side of a road. Consumed by the thought that she is to blame, Jenny embarks on an obsessive crusade to discover who the anonymous woman was and to see to it that she is not forgotten.

Kion, the son of Simba, leads his friends known as the Lion Guard to protect the Pride Lands.

Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon is the second volume in the adventures of Shigeru Mizuki's bizarre yokai boy Kitaro and his gaggle of otherworldly friends. These seven stories date from the golden age of Gegege no Kitaro, when Mizuki had perfected the balance of folklore, comedy, and horror that made Kitaro one of Japan's most beloved characters.

In the late 1950s, Bohuslav Martin (1890-1959) turned his mind to Moravian folk poetry images of the Czech highlands where he grew up and wrote four little cantatas with wistful names such as Romance of the Dandelions and Legend of Smoke from Potato Tops. The last one, Mikes of the Mountains, tells of a shepherd who saves his goats from a snowstorm. It all tastes of soil and nostalgia, but these are more than simple rustic tone paintings. Martin instructed...