The Girls in the Stilt House

• Author : Kelly Mustian
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• 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 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. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself

• Author : Tracey Enerson Wood
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Release : 06 July 2021

Another gripping historical fiction masterpiece from international bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood She asked dozens of young women to lay their lives on the line during the Great War. Can she protect them? Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson must recruit sixty-five nurses to relieve the battle-worn British, months before American troops are ready to be deployed. She knows that the young nurses serving near the front lines of will face a challenging situation, but nothing could have prepared her for

• Author : Tracey Enerson Wood
• Publisher : Sourcebooks Landmark
• Release : 08 March 2022

"[An] impeccably researched, well-drawn, based-on-a-true-story tale, written by a former RN...The War Nurseshines an important light on a woman whose story was, until now, lost to time."--Kristin Harmel, New York Timesbestselling author of The Book of Lost Names Based on a true story, The War Nurseis a sweeping historical novel by USA Todaybestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood that takes readers on an unforgettable journey through WWI France. She asked dozens of young women to lay their lives on

• Author : Hongyu Luo,Hua Gu,Hua Ku,Gu Hua
• Publisher : China Books
• Release : 22 September 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 : Kathryn Lomer
• Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
• Release : 22 September 2021

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 : David Adams Richards
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 22 September 1985

• Author : David Rozgonyi
• Publisher : David Rozgonyi
• Release : 22 September 2021

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 : Nurul Ilmi Idrus
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 06 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 : Wong Meng Voon
• Publisher : Epigram Books
• Release : 22 September 2021

The stories in Under the Bed, Confusion sketch a vast array of characters: from an aging coffee shop assistant struggling on her first day at work to a multimillionaire obsessed with crossing the fourth hurdle; from a dissident doctor exiled on the island of Pulau Tekong to a pampered, carefree mutt. Using elements of the fantastical and the satirical, this collection of mini-fiction probes Singapore’s underbelly with sarcastic wit, revealing darkly humorous and philosophical insights into the many facets

• Author : Keija Parssinen
• Publisher : Harper Collins
• Release : 10 March 2015

Winner of the 2016 Alex Award Best Book of 2015 —Kansas City Star In this intricate novel of psychological suspense, a fatal discovery near the high school ignites a witch-hunt in a Southeast Texas refinery town, unearthing communal and family secrets that threaten the lives of the town’s girls. In Port Sabine, the air is thick with oil, superstition reigns, and dreams hang on making a winning play. All eyes are on Mercy Louis, the star of the championship girls’ basketball

• Author : Justin Somper
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 01 April 2008

As fans of the Vampirates series know, nothing is quite as it seems when Vampirates and pirates are involved, so twins Connor and Grace have to keep up their guards. But with every new challenge pulling them farther apart, it seems that the time has finally come for the twins to explore their separate fates. Grace, unable to forget the blindness she caused her Vampirate friend Lorcan, chooses to journey with him to see if his sight can be restored.

• Author : Jeremy Atiyah
• Publisher : Rough Guides
• Release : 22 September 2021

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO SOUTHEAST ASIA is the essential handbook to this stunning region, covering nine countries plus Hong Kong and Macau. Features include: Full-colour section introducing Southeast Asia's highlights. Unrivalled accounts of every destination, from vibrant cities to the remotest beaches. Lively reviews of the best places to stay, eat, drink and party. Detailed coverage of a wealth of activities, such as the sunrise climb up Mount Bromo, travelling along the Mekong River and diving in the Philippines. Dependable

• Author : Justin Somper
• Publisher : UCLan Publishing
• Release : 04 March 2020

Vampirates Book 3 - Grace journeys with Lorcan Furey to Sanctuary, the mountaintop retreat run by Mosh Zu Kamal, which offers healing for troubled Vampirates. At Sanctuary, Grace discovers amazing new powers but falls prey to fresh dangers and temptations - including charismatic "e;Vaquero Vampirate"e; Johnny Desperado.Back on The Diablo, Connor is caught up in plans for a daring heist, devised by pirate brothers Molucco and Barbarro Wrathe. Connor is assigned the role of protector of Molucco's wayward

• 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

• 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