Books with author Nikki Richard

Sometimes no matter how hard you try, some things cannot be explained.Sixteen-year-old Samuel, son of devout cleric, has endured shame and prejudice his entire life. Although he is destined to become clergy too, he longs for an ordinary life in the whitelands away from demons and holy roots. When the mayor claims to have captured a mute demon girl, Samuel is forced to become her caretaker. But as Samuel gets to know the prisoner, he finds her not to be very demonlike. Instead, she is intelligent, meek, and an exceptional artist. Despite her seeming goodness, some more concerning things cannot be explained. Samuel is hard-pressed to reconcile her uncanny strength and speed, missing arm, ambiguous gender, and the mysterious scars covering most of her body.Samuel forms a deep attachment to the girl with predator eyes and violent outbursts, against his father's advice. Their friendship could turn into something more. But when Samuel discovers the mayor's dark intentions, he must decide whether to risk his own execution by setting her free or watch as the girl is used as a pawn in a dangerous game of oppression, fear, and murder.

“Informative, explicit, even suspense-ridden.…An important source for students of the Nixon presidency.” —The New York TimesFormer President Richard Nixon's bestselling autobiography is an intensely personal examination of his life, public career, and White House years. With startling candor, Nixon reveals his beliefs, doubts, and behind-the-scenes decisions, shedding new light on his landmark diplomatic and domestic initiatives, political campaigns, and historic decision to resign from the presidency. Memoirs, spanning Nixon’s formative years through his presidency, reveals the personal side of Richard Nixon. Witness his youth, college years, and wartime experiences, events which would shape his outward philosophies and eventually his presidency—and shape our lives. Follow his meteoric rise to national prominence and the great peaks and depths of his presidency. Throughout his career Richard Nixon made extensive notes about his ideas, conversations, activities, meetings. During his presidency, from November 1971 until April 1973 and again in June and July 1974, he kept an almost daily diary of reflections, analyses, and perceptions. These notes and diary dictations, quoted throughout this book, provide a unique insight into the complexities of the modern presidency and the great issues of American policy and politics.

"Dani Hinson is not a girl of many words, and she hates to talk about herself. She has been through a lot with what happened to her in Alaska, but it's a new beginning for her when she moves to California. Dani meets up with her old friend, Stephenie Reed, who knows everything about her. That's not what bothers her the most, though. Dani meets a boy who melts her cold Alaskan heart, but what happens when he finds out she's been keeping secrets about her past?"

The "Greedy Babyman" is a good introduction to Japanese folk tales. You'll find more than a dozen mostly funny stories carefully chosen for their interesting characters and twist endings. You'll laugh at an old couple who find the fountain of youth. You'll root for two young boys for their outlandish plan to get more mochi. You'll learn from a man with a very uncommon mind why 30 and 30 don't always make 60. And you'll meet a host of other interesting and often silly characters who do the unexpected. Many of these are not the most famous stories, but they are some of the best. If you’ve been disappointed in the past that your children don’t appreciate Japanese tales, give this little book a try. The stories are short enough to tell and interesting to a non-Japanese audience. A good introduction to the world of Japanese stories.Stories include "The Greedy Babyman," "The Case of the Extra Mochi," "Never Look Back," "Who’s Carrying What?," "Issunboshi," "Uncommon Sense," "Stone Potatoes," "How the Sea Became Salty," "Even a Tiny Sparrow," "The First to Speak Loses the Mochi," "A Raccoon Slower Than a Snail," and "Saved by a Spark."