The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s past as it confronted Christianity and modernity, through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter.Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have been close since her father bought the boy after his forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsi...

A dissection of the emotional roller coaster we dare to call love. A comedic and soulful journey of love, life, and rebirth.In this collection of 19 poems covering a range of emotional highlights and dark turns, poet J. C. Sands explores what it means to be human and to live the human experience. Through her writing, she demonstrates her own personal journey from first moments of love to handling the loss of a loved one and finding reasons to continue on despite the pain, fear, fru...

Voici le récit de la vie d'une figure avant-gardiste du féminisme connue pour oser le pantalon, fumer le cigare, assumer ses multiples passions et vivre de sa plume : c'était à peine imaginable au XIXème siècle !Après une enfance peu heureuse, Amandine Aurore Dupin quitte son mari pour s'installer à Paris. Elle devient journaliste et noue des amitiés avec de grands écrivains comme Flaubert ou Musset, des musiciens comme Chopin ou Liszt... Amandine abandonne alors son nom pour deveni...

The Ultimate Guide to Energy Healing demystifies energy healing styles and practices and offers accessible techniques that you can use immediately for healing and self-care.The popularity of energy healing issurging as people seek out alternative means of healing and wellness. While popular, energy healing can be intimidating to many, as it sits at the intersection of the scientific and the spiritual. The Ultimate Guide to Energy Healing offers

Through grief and loss, the everyday and the mundane, there's always a reason to celebrate. When God revealed the word Celebrate as a topic of focus for the year, little did Michele know it would be the same year both of her parents would slip into eternity, four months apart to the day. While sorrow threatened to crush her, and on some days, the couch was as far as she could move, the reminder that this was a year to celebrate was her motivation to find joy in the small, everyday...

Looking back is often like looking in a mirror, all the imperfections are obvious. This is the journey of how two women look back saw their past reflections and use them to do good. How they managed to smooth out the path ahead. How they reconcile themselves with who they are and who they will be. Every path has a crossroad and finding the peace to be satisfied with the choices is part of every journey.

Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of military glory during the period of national conquest, of labor strikes and massacres in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, and of state detention and violence during World War ...

Bringing together an international team of scholars from various linguistic areas, theoretical viewpoints, and educational contexts, this book makes the case for strengthening the role of linguistics in second language (L2) teaching and learning. Seeing firsthand how the strengths and tools of the science of language contribute greatly to pedagogical effectiveness in the L2 classroom, the authors of each chapter lay out the strengths of linguistics for L2 teaching and learning with example...

When Henry Nalaielua was diagnosed with Hansen's disease in 1936 and taken from his home and family he began a journey of exile that led him to Kalaupapa the remote settlement with the tragic history on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i. During its century as a virtual prison more than 8 000 people were exiled to Kalaupapa until the introduction of sulfone drugs in the 1940s. Today fewer than 20 patients remain. This is Henry's story an unforgettable memoir of the boy who grew to build a ful...

Beim BND stehen große Veränderungen an: Eine neue Spezialeinheit für weltweite Einsätze wird gegründet, und Anna übernimmt die Leitung. Ihr erster Auftrag führt sie in die Sahel-Zone, wo eine Putschregierung im Niger die Region ins Chaos stürzt. Für Deutschland steht viel auf dem Spiel, denn ein wichtiger Bundeswehr-Stützpunkt droht verloren zu gehen.
Gemeinsam mit dem neuen Team-Mitglied Nelly reist Anna nach Niamey, um Geheimverhandlungen mit dem neuen Regime zu begleiten und nach Wegen ...

Quintessentially British in both tone and setting, from the North East coastline to the Kintyre Peninsula, this vibrant collection of thirty stories evokes a yearning for childhood innocence and all things past with an unflinching honesty. These colourful characters burst from the page like fireworks. White Sand Cocoon is a bold exploration of love, loss and longing; glimpses of a myriad of different human relationships through the eyes of believable characters that resonate.Young ...

From haunting ghost stories to classic fairy tales, Going Public … In Shorts! is a collection of forty classic and lesser-known works by history's greatest writers.Among the stories included are "The Death of a Government Clerk," Anton Chekhov's defining vignette; "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Mark Twain's comedic story that earned him national fame; "The Gift of the Magi," O. Henry's masterful Christmastime tale about love and sacrifice; and "The Stor...