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  1. ASLAN'S call Finding our way to Narnia
    Mark Eddy Smith Copyright © 2005 by Mark Eddy Smith ISBN 1-84291-233-X
    I'm told there is a lion who wants to meet me. I am told that he is fierce and unpredictable and very large. I have known about him for most of my life, and at times I've believed I caught a glimpse of his shadow, but I have yet to actually meet him face to face. His name is Aslan, and it's possible that you've heard of him.
    C.S. Lewis has created a wonderful place, a place where anything can happen. Even the stones can talk. In Aslan's Call Mark Eddy Smith shows us how - in this fanciful world -we discover the truest reality. In the children who travel to Narnia we find ourselves. In Aslan we find Christ. And in the place of Narnia we find the very adventure for which God made us.
    We begin with this journey, and it is the journey that shapes us.
  2. How To read Slowly: A Christian Guide to Reading with the Mind
    James W. Sire © 1978 by Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of the United States of America ISBN 0-87784-790-8
    Is reading fast reading best?

    Whether we read because we have to or because we wnat to, reading without reflection makes reading less enjoyable as well as less profitable.

    Every article, poem, book, even every advertisment not only carries information but also projects a way of looking at life. Through prcatical chapters on reading fiction, nonfiction, poetry and background material, James Sire helps readers detect not only what writers say but what lies behind what they say. he closes with sensible counsel on how to choose what to read and when.

    An understandable and motivating guide to reading with the mind.
  3. Kwani? 03
    Starring Chief Wambogoo, David Munyakei, Kitu Sewer, GWiji, Jacob Njiru, MWAS featuring Dayo Forster, B Karanja wa Njama, Martin Mbugua Kimani, Duncan Kisia, Roger Akena, The MindbenderKwani? © 2003 ISBN 996698364-3
    Editorial
    I felt complimented recently, in a conversation with a senior newspaper editor who said he has 'intellectual' problems with Kwani? because it is not 'serious' enough. By serious, I took him to mean 'self-important' or 'pompous'. The fact that Kwani? has become popualr has rubbed establishment types the wrong way. Intellectual debate in The Sunday Standard Literary Forum days was very incestous: the same old people talking to each other.
    Kenya's literary community sometimes behaves as if literature is a lineage: that some chosen somebody passes on the light to another chosen somebody, and so on. I prefer to see Kenya as a diverse place which needs diverse conversations: no publication or person can represent all of Kenya's literary aspirations. What I hope for as a reader is as many literary engagements as possible, in all languages possible, from all schools of thought possible. I do not feel I am in compettion with anybody. That sense of bitter territtorialism is simpy a by-product of the Moi era (One-party, KBC, Nairobi University, KIE and Me me Me...)
    My way. One way. Fuata Nyayo.
    Kwani? is a palce for seekers. Not all seekers. Just some. All we try to do is find interesting, engaging writers without prescription. It is our philosophy that we do not know what is out there; that much of Kenya remains little understood. We try to make partnerships that open up new career possibilities for talented writers we find. We try to explore new ways to talk inteligently and without pompousness. We are not apolitical: we will be happy to publish any political view that we find interesting or meaningful. We respond to what we recieve; we remain unable to publish all those who submit stories to us.
  4. Living in America A Popular Culture Reader
    Patricia Y. Murray, Scott F. Covell Copyright © 1998 by Mayfield Publishing Company ISBN 1-55934-977-8
    Have you ever questioned the attraction of Las Vegas, the controversy over affirmative action, the implications of Barbies's popularity, or the effects of having access to cyberspace - all topics that belong to the domain of contemporary American popular culture? What is popular culture and who defines it? This anthology of more than ninety readings by such authors as Timothy Leary, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, and Henry Loius Gates, Jr. explores engaging topics relevant to today's diverse and evolving society.
    Living in America invites you to think critically about what comprises popualr culture and its role in our day-to-day living. By introudcing issues still being debated and defined, the text gives you the oportunity to voice your own perspectives and opinions on topics that directly influence your future. Following every reading, suggestions and activities help you to analyze the language, style, and major themes and, in the process, to further your critical thinking and writing skills.
    NB: THIS BOOK IS CROSS REFERENCED IN THE goinghomedotcom resource center
  5. Not*A*Tame Lion
    Bruce Edwards Copyright © 2005 by Bruce L. Edwards ISBN 1-4143-0381-5
    "King Aslan ... is the heart and the soul of the Narnian universe that is always just down the hall from us, hidden in a wardrobe, beckoning from a painting, or calling us home in the deepest regions of our beings. May you find him, not only in Narnia but in this world as well."

    So begins the journey on which Bruce Edwards invites you to join him in his study of the spiritual world of Narnia as seen through the lives of its inhabitants.
    Not A Tame Lion focuses on key character traits in the Chronicles - goodness, valor, vanity, villainy, and viciousness - and the vindication of goodness in the great lion king, Aslan.

    Travel to the land of Narnia for the first time - or the eightieth - and dsicover anew the depths and insights that make C.S. Lewis's classic series the terasure it has been for decades.

    Includes questions for personal and group study.
  6. Short Story International No. 48 Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers Presented Unabridged
    Volume 12, Number 48, December 1992 Copyright © by International Cultural Exchange 1992
    ISBN 1-55573-092-2 ISSN 0732-5274
  7. Short Story International No. 57 Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers Presented Unabridged
    Volume 13, Number 57, December 1989 Copyright © 1995 International Cultural Exchange, Inc.
    ISBN 1-55573-124-4 ISSN 0732-5274 Includes:
  8. Short Story International No. 77 Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers Presented Unabridged
    Volume 13, Number 77, December 1989 Copyright © by International Cultural Exchange 1989
    ISBN 1-55573-047-7 ISSN 0147-07706



  9. Short Story International No. 95 Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers Presented Unabridged
    Volume 6, Number 95, December 1992 Copyright © by International Cultural Exchange 1992
    ISBN 1-55573-089-2
  10. Tales and Traditions Storytelling in twentieth-century American craft
    Lloyd E. Herman and Mathew Kangas © 1993 by Craft Alliance ISBN 0-295-97282-3
    Since the first cave dwellers drew on the cave walls, pictorial storytelling has been a common role for the artist. Medieval stained glass windows and tapestries remind their admirers even today that materials and processes long considered "craft" are among the most revered in the visual arts for their narrative power. After many centuries in which crafts were accorded a homely utilitarian stautus, today glass, clay, fiber, metal, and wood have regained full status for their expressive potential in the hands of creative artists. Storytelling is, once again, the rpovince of the serious craft artist.
    This catalogue documents for the firts time the rich narrative, figurative traditons of the contemporary craft artists in the United States, from the turn of the century to the present. beginning with earlier pieces that often documented historical, commemorative, or mythical events, Tales and Traditions then moves to today's work, which is often rich with personal imagery and socio-political commentary.
  11. The Story And Its Writer An Introduction to Short Fiction FOURTH EDITION
    Ann Charters Copyright © 1995 by Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-10137-6
    A true work of fiction is a wonderfully simple thing - so simple that most so-called serious writers avoid trying it feeling they ought to do something more important and ingenious, never guessing how incredibly difficult it is. A true work of fiction does all of the following things, and does them elegantly, effeciently: it creates a vivid and continous dream inside the readers mind; it is implicitly philosophical; it fulfills or at least deals with all of the expectations it sets up; and it strikes us, in the end, not simply as a thing done but as a shining performance.
    John Gardner, "What Writers Do"

    If Joh Gardenr's description summarizes what fiction writers do, then this anthology was created to enable readers of short fiction to experience their "shining performance" as elegantly and effeciently as possible. The Story and Its Writer grew out of my desire to teach from an anthology filled as much as possible with writer talk about short stories, after years of dissatisfaction using textbooks filled with too much editor talk.


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