The Girls in the Stilt House

• Author : Kelly Mustian
• Publisher : Sourcebooks Landmark
• Release : 06 April 2021

Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder--perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Singand If the Creek Don't Rise. Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere

• Author : Kelly Mustian
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Release : 06 April 2021

THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "Remarkable debut.... [a] nearly flawless tale of loss, perseverance and redemption."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder—perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don't Rise. Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father.

• Author : Meagan Church
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Release : 28 February 2023

"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor." — Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl... For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in

• Author : Julia Bryan Thomas
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Release : 14 June 2022

"For Those Who Are Lost is riddled with secrets and sins for the sake of survival . . . a poignant and compelling read." —Leah Weiss, bestselling author of If The Creek Don't Rise and All the Little Hopes Inspired by true events, For Those Who Are Lost begins on the eve of the Nazi invasion of the island of Guernsey, when terrified parents have a choice to make: send their children alone to England, or keep the family together and risk whatever

• Author : Hongyu Luo,Hua Gu,Hua Ku,Gu Hua
• Publisher : China Books
• Release : 01 February 1983

A Small Town Called Hibiscus is one of the best Chinese novels to have appeared in 1981. Its author Gu Hua was brought up in the Wuling Mountains of south Hunan. He presents the ups and downs of some families in a small mountain town there during the hard years in the early sixties, the ôcultural revolution,ö and after the downfall of the ôgang of four.ö He shows the horrifying impact on decent, hard-working people of the gangÆs ultra-Left line,

• Author : Lo Patrick
• Publisher : Sourcebooks Landmark
• Release : 01 February 2023

"In Bledsoe, Georgia during a sticky summer in the mid-2000s, twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker stumbles on a stilt house in the midst of a neighboring swamp, and upon Andy, a boy about her age. Andy and his father Nile Webber have recently moved back to Georgia from California, and rumors about Nile's wife's death have chased them there and back. Andy-tall, unschooled, and living in poverty with Nile-fascinates and enamors Kay. Kay is willful and loud-mouthed and doesn't listen when

• Author : Kathryn Lomer
• Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
• Release : 01 February 2023

This is the debut poetry volume of Tasmanian Kathryn Lomer, recent winner of such prestigious poetry competitions as the Gwen Harwood 2003 and Josephine Ulrick 2000. Themes of love and forgiveness, birth and parenthood, travel and homeland are explored in the crisp and dextrous prose.

• Author : Larry Morrison
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 26 January 2012

• Author : David Rozgonyi
• Publisher : David Rozgonyi
• Release : 01 February 2023

Fiction. With this exotic new collection of short fiction, join writer David Rozgonyi on an unforgettable journey through primitive global landscapes and inside the heads and hearts of those who populate them. Written on the road over a period of several years, and drawing upon a lifetime of wanderlust, these tales are rich with adventure, hope, and the discovery of the unexpected. David Rozgonyi was born in 1976 in Libya to Hungarian political refugess. He has lived on four continents and

• Author : Jaquira Díaz
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 29 October 2019

One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping “There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Díaz found herself

• Author : Nurul Ilmi Idrus
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 08 April 2016

In Gender Relations in an Indonesian Society Nurul Ilmi Idrus offers a comprehensive ethnography of Bugis marriage, exploring aspects of gender and sexuality in this bilateral, highly competitive, hierarchical society.

• Author : David Adams Richards
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1985

• Author : Jeffrey M. Heath
• Publisher : Dundurn
• Release : 01 February 1991

A series of essays on Canadian authors profiling the writers work, providing insight into themes, and giving a chronology of the authors life.

• Author : Eva Keller
• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• Release : 01 February 2015

The global agenda of Nature conservation has led to the creation of the Masoala National Park in Madagascar and to an exhibit in its support at a Swiss zoo, the centerpiece of which is a mini-rainforest replica. Does such a cooperation also trigger a connection between ordinary people in these two far-flung places? The study investigates how the Malagasy farmers living at the edge of the park perceive the conservation enterprise and what people in Switzerland see when looking towards

• Author : Kishonna L. Gray,David J. Leonard
• Publisher : University of Washington Press
• Release : 04 November 2018

From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in the persistent color line that shapes the production, dissemination, and legitimization of dominant stereotypes within the industry itself, or in the dehumanizing representations often found within game spaces, many video games perpetuate injustice and mirror the inequities and violence that permeate society as a whole. Drawing from groundbreaking research on counter and oppositional gaming