An award-winning western novelist (NORTH TO YESTERDAY, WANDERER SPRINGS) with decidedly liberal political leanings writes a spiritual autobiography unlike any other. The author grew up in a small west Texas town, attended seminary, became a war correspondent in Vietnam, and taught creative writing and literature for 40 years at Trinity University in San Antonio. With a deep sense of the irony of his project, he sets out to explain how the Bible came to be, delving into historical misconcep...

Sokei-an translated the Record of Lin-chi (Lin-chi lu) from 1931 to 1933, in his first series of lectures. He felt that Americans needed original Chinese Zen source materials, translated and commented upon by a Zen master, and there were no such materials in those early days. Sokei-an was the first Zen master to translate the Record of Lin-chi and to give a commentary in English to Western students. The real historic value of Sokei-ans Lin-chi is in his commentary with its manifestation of...

Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Robert Lopez’s hypnotic second novel, is the story of a young man whofinds himself confined and under observation, the subject of seemingly pointless tests. His only link to the outside world is a telephone that will not dial out. During the occasional calls he receives, usually wrong numbers, the narrator remembers his former life growing up in Injury, Alaska with his Mother, an often unemployed single parent, and his older brother, Charlie, a sometime b...

Your Impossible Voice #25 opens with a story of love, loneliness, and DJs in Argentina, and closes with wayward Taco Bell bandits loose in the Buckeye state. In between, it delivers new short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exploring anaphylactic reactions to dust, languages that sound like bonfire flames, dollar-store groceries, golden molars and nectars, witchy weather apps, migraines, matricide, and so much more.Contributors include Cecilia Pavón and Jacob Steinberg, Ro...

Completing his celebrated novels-in-stories triptych, begun with Good People and A Better Class of People, Robert Lopez delivers the third installment, The Best People, which follows a man who made the mistake of being born and is trying to make the best of that mistakeIn an uncanny world where linear time is nonexistent and everyone he meets is either Esperanza, Sofia, or Manny, the unnamed narrator wrestles with his past lives, his abusive upbringing, his sexual ...

(Super Easy Songbook). It's super easy! This series features accessible arrangements for piano, with simple right-hand melody, letter names inside each note, and basic left-hand chord diagrams. This edition includes 14 arrangements from Frozen and Frozen 2 : All Is Found * Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * Fixer Upper * For the First Time in Forever * In Summer * Into the Unknown * Let It Go * Lost in the Woods * Love Is an Open Door * The Next Right Thing * Reindeer(s) Are Better Than Peo...

(Piano Vocal). This sheet music features an arrangement of the new song from Frozen II arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames and complete lyrics.

(Instrumental Play-Along). Solo arrangements for 8 tunes from the 2019 sequel to Disney's mega-hit movie Frozen are featured in this collection perfect for budding instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound. Songs include: All Is Found * Into the Unknown * Lost in the Woods * The Next Right Thing * Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People (Cont.) * Show Yourself * Some Things Never Change * When I...

(Five Finger Piano Songbook). Seven popular songs from Frozen are featured in single-note melody lines that stay in one position in this piano songbook. Songs include: Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * Fixer Upper * For the First Time in Forever * In Summer * Let It Go * Love Is an Open Door * Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People. Includes lyrics and beautifully-written accompaniments.

That I was born Puerto Rican was happenstance, but that I have no connection to what it means is no accident. My grandparents made conscious decisions and so did my father as part of the first generation born here in the States. And none of it bothered me until recently, which is probably why I can’t quite put my finger on any of this. I’m still grappling with what I’ve lost and how I can miss something I’ve never had.Robert Lopez’s grandfather Sixto was b...

(Vocal Selections). 16 songs from the Tony Award-nominated Broadway production adapted from the hit Disney animated movie, Frozen . Includes: Colder by the Minute * Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Broadway Version) * For the First Time in Forever (Broadway Version) * Hygge * In Summer * Kristoff Lullaby * Let It Go * True Love * Vuelie/Let the Sun Shine On * and more. Includes color photos from the Broadway production!

A brilliant novel-in-stories from award-winning author Robert LopezIn an uncanny, distorted version of New York City, a man rides the subway through the chaos of an ordinary commute. He may have a gun in his pocket. He may be looking for someone—a woman named Esperanza.Between stops, we shuttle back and forth through time and see a man who stands in traffic, the same man seizing and shuddering on a sidewalk, an institution where the man is housed with other ...