Bernard Fall wrote the classics Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, which detailed the French experience in Vietnam. One of the first (and the best-informed) Western observers to say that the United States could not win there either, he was killed in Vietnam in 1967 while accompanying a Marine platoon. Written by his widow Dorothy, Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar tells the story of this courageous and influential Frenchman, who exper...

Since its establishment in 1980 the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has largely been a state driven organization, with the people of Southern Africa, though enshrined in the treaty, remaining observers in the SADC democratization and integration agenda. The Southern African Development Community Treaty-Nexus: National Constitutions, Citizen’s Sovereignty, Communication, and Awareness, edited by Korwa Gombe Adar, Dorothy Mpabanga, Kebapetse Lotshwao, Thekiso Molokwane...

Love Is Never Where You Expect….Though she once fled from Pinewood, Sadie Spencer can't stay away when her ailing grandparents need her. But she never expected to come face-to-face with the brother of the man who caused her to leave town. Sadie doesn't care how honest or kind Cole Aylward may seem-she isn't about to let him continue managing her family's business.Cole has worked hard to prove he's nothing like his brother. All he wants is to try to make up for the hurt Payn...

Perched above Spirit Falls in the lush Wisconsin woodland, Robin Bentley's cabin is remote enough for her and her book club friends to shed the restraints of city living, hike in the woods, take moonlight walks and go skinny dipping under the waterfall. But when a body washes up below the falls, the No Ordinary Women find themselves up to their bifocals in a real mystery. And one of them could be the next victim.

A spaceship hurtles towards the moon, hippies gather at Woodstock, Charles Manson leads a cult into murder and a Kennedy drives off a Chappaquiddick dock: it's the summer of 1969. And as mankind takes its giant leap, Jordan May March, disabled bastard and genius, age fourteen, limps and schemes her way towards adulthood. Trapped at the March family's cottage, she spends her days memorizing Top 40 lists, avoiding her adoptive cousins, catching frogs and plotting to save Yogi, the bullied, b...

In this searing and seriously funny memoir, Dorothy Ellen Palmer falls down, a lot, and spends a lifetime learning to appreciate her disability. Born with two very different, very tiny feet, she was adopted as a toddler by an already wounded 1950s family. From childhood surgeries to decades as a feminist teacher, mom, improv coach and unionist, she tried to hide being different. But now, standing proud with her walker, she’s sharing her journey. Navigating abandonment, abuse and ableism, s...

"Dorothy Dixon löst den Fall Conway" von Dorothy Wayne ist ein spannender Mysteryroman aus dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert, der Abenteuerlust, Gefahr und detektivischen Scharfsinn miteinander verbindet. Im Mittelpunkt steht Dorothy Dixon, eine junge, mutige Fliegerin, die gemeinsam mit ihrer klugen und loyalen Freundin Betty Mayo immer wieder in außergewöhnliche Situationen gerät. Mitten in einem heftigen Sturm geht ihrem Flugzeug der Treibstoff aus, und Dorothy ist gezwungen, in einer abgelege...

Though she once fled from Pinewood, Sadie Spencer can’t stay away when her ailing grandparents need her. But she never expected to come face to face with the brother of the man who caused her to leave town.Sadie doesn’t care how honest or kind Cole Aylward may seem—she isn’t about to let him continue managing her family’s business. Cole has worked hard to prove he’s nothing like his brother. All he wants is to try to make up for the hurt Payne caused her family. But slowly Sadie’s ...

This book is dedicated to everyone who has had their hearts taken advantage of by the cruelty of this world when all they ever did was fall in love;To everyone who lost themselves in love, only to find themselves right back;To every genuine soul out there who has done nothing but love people to their maximum capacity, even as it came with a price;To everyone who has had to go through the darkness, the brokenness, and the madness of love to find out what love truly i...

This book is dedicated to everyone who lost themselves in love, only to find themselves right back;To every genuine soul out there who has done nothing but love people to their maximum capacity, even as it came with a price;To everyone who has had to go through the darkness, the brokenness, and the madness of love to find out what love truly is;This book is for all of you.

Lord Peter Wimsy ist "not amused": Im Urlaub erreicht ihn die unschöne Nachricht, daß sein Bruder Gerald des Mordes bezichtigt wird. Auf seine Nachforschungen hin entdeckt Peter zu seinem Entsetzen, daß die Zeugen des Mordes sich in Widersprüche verstricken und letztlich gar seine Schwester zum Kreis der Verdächtigen zu gehören scheint ... Mit "Diskrete Zeugen" veröffentlichte Dorothy L. Sayers 1926 einen typisch britischen Krimi: voll verschrobener Charaktere, trockenem Humor und Detektiv...

Es bedeutet "Ärger im Bellona Club", wenn der alte General Arthur Fentiman fast zeitgleich mit seiner Schwester stirbt und dabei ein Erbe von mehreren Hunderttausend Pfund im Spiel ist. Das kann kein Zufall sein, findet zumindest Lord Peter Wimsey, Aristokrat und Amateurdetektiv, und wirft einen Blick in die Abgründe der adeligen Familie Fentiman ... Mit viel psychologischem Scharfsinn und schwarzem Humor zeichnet Dorothy L. Sayers ein Bild der englischen Aristokratie der 1920er Jahre. Als...