The Spirit House

Author: William Sleator
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504019083
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
A foreign exchange student comes to live with Julie’s family for a year—setting off a frightening chain of events Julie isn’t thrilled about her parents’ decision to sponsor a foreign exchange student from Thailand. Not only is the stranger going to live with them for a year, but Julie is convinced he’ll be a nerd and will embarrass her at school. But when a tall, handsome, super-cool guy named Bia arrives, Julie is suddenly the envy of all her girlfriends. Dominic, Julie’s 11-year-old brother, is also thrilled to have Bia around the house. So to make the guest feel at home in America, Dominic builds a traditional Thai spirit house in the backyard. Overnight, Bia seems to undergo a major personality change. He’s mean and spiteful and lies about everything. He also seems terrified of something . . . or someone. Has Dominic’s construction somehow invoked a vengeful spirit? Is Bia the bearer of luck so bad it could harm Julie and her family?

Spirit of the Home: How to make your home a sanctuary

Author: Jane Alexander
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008318093
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Spirit of the Home is a wonderful guide to creating your own sacred space and sanctuary and discovering peace and tranquillity.

Spirit House

Author: Helen Brierty
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
ISBN: 9781742579528
Category : Cooking, Southeast Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
" ... Authentic Thai and Asian recipes from the world-renowned Spirit House restaurant and cooking school ... "Spirit House, the cookbook" showcases the very best of Thai and S.E. Asian cuisines. Inside you will meet the more exotic ingredients, be guided step by step through some basic Asian cooking techniques, and read about the foreign influences which shaped much of Asian food and history ..."--Back cover.

Asha and the Spirit Bird

Author: Jasbinder Bilan
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338571079
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
In contemporary India, 12-year-old Asha will journey across the dangerous Himalayas to find her missing father and save her family's home -- guided by a mythical bird and a green-eyed tiger who she believes to be the spirits of her ancestors. This is an incredibly unique debut about loss, family, buried treasure, and hope. Asha lives on a family farm with her mother in rural India in the foothills of the Himalayas. Life would be perfect if her father were with them instead of working at the factory in the faraway city. But she knows they wouldn't be able to afford their home without the money he sends home.When four months go by without a single letter, a ruthless debt collector arrives with a warning, and soon the entire world that Asha has known is threatened. Determined to save her home, Asha and her best friend must swallow their fears and set out on a dangerous journey across the Himalayas to find her father.As desperation turns to peril, Asha will face law enforcement, natural disaster, and the wild dangers of the Himalayas. But with a majestic bird and a green-eyed tiger as her guides, who she believes to be the spirits of her ancestors, she's determined to keep faith in order to save her family.

Hot Plate

Author: Spirit House
Publisher: New Holland Publishing Australia Pty Limited
ISBN: 9781742571843
Category : Barbecuing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Presents a collection of barbecue recipes intended for outdoor cooking that feature such traditional Asian flavors as lemongrass, sriracha, turmeric, cumin, tamarind, coconut, and pineapple.

Best of Spirit House The

Author: Helen Brierty
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
ISBN: 9781742576459
Category : Cooking, Thai
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Spirit House first opened its restaurant doors in 1995 and has grown into an iconic destination for lovers of Asian food. The Best of Spirit House is an eclectic selection of the restaurant's best loved dishes from the past 20 years. Featuring more than 50 mouthwatering recipes from Steamed Sesame and Ginger Prawns, Tom Yum Goong to Hang Lae Pork Curry and Whole Crispy Fish with Roasted Chilli Paste & Lemongrass, these are just some of the culinary treats their expert chefs show you how to prepare and cook. All the recipes have been tried and tested in Spirit House's restaurant and cooking school.

Spirit's Chosen

Author: Esther Friesner
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375869085
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 499

Book Description
As Himiko traverses ancient Japan in order to free enslaved members of her clan, she encounters members of many other tribes and emerges as the leader who will unify them.

The Spirit of the Place

Author: Samuel Shem
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101617020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death... Settled into a relationship with an Italian yoga instructor and working in Europe, Dr. Orville Rose's peace is shaken by his mother's death. On his return to Columbia, a Hudson River town of quirky people and “plagued by breakage,” he learns that his mother has willed him a large sum of money, her 1981 Chrysler, and her Victorian house in the center of town. There's one odd catch: he must live in her house for one year and thirteen days. As he struggles with his decision—to stay and meet the terms of the will or return to his life in Italy—Orville reconnects with family, reunites with former friends, and comes to terms with old rivals and bitter memories. In the process he’ll discover his own history, as well as his mother’s, and finally learn what it really means to be a healer, and to be healed.

Spirit of Place

Author: Bill Noble
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604698500
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
“Delve into this beautiful book. You’ll come away sharing his passion for the beauty that gardens bring into our lives.” —Sigourney Weaver, environmentalist, actor, trustee of New York Botanical Garden How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of place? In Spirit of Place, Bill Noble—a lifelong gardener, and the former director of preservation for the Garden Conservancy—helps gardeners answer these questions by sharing how they influenced the creation of his garden in Vermont. Throughout, Noble reveals that a garden is never created in a vacuum but is rather the outcome of an individual’s personal vision combined with historical and cultural forces. Sumptuously illustrated, this thoughtful look at the process of garden-making shares insights gleaned over a long career that will inspire you to create a garden rich in context, personal vision, and spirit.

Raw Spirit

Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099460270
Category : Banks
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
As a native of Scotland, bestselling author Iain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland in a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt. Visiting some of the world's most famous distilleries and also some of its smallest and most obscure ones, Banks embarks on a journey of discovery which educates him about the places, people and products surrounding the centuries-old tradition of whisky production. Using various modes of transport - ferries to the islands, cars across the highlands, even bicycles between bus-stops - Banks' tour of Scotland combines history, literature and landscape in an entertaining and informative account of an exploration in which the arrival is by no means the most important part of the journey.