New Yorker Mara Bader moves to Zambia to teach teens Lifeskillz through soccer. Zambia offers her everything she was missing from her life in America–a sense of community and humanity. Enchanted, Mara wants to be Zambian. She learns to cook nshima like her Zambian sisters, dresses in local fabrics and falls in love with the charming, unpredictable son of an ex-minister.Kezzy unlocks the door to Zambian culture for her, in more ways than one. They marry, with two sons following in s...

Let Me Down offers a vivid and vulnerable account of an abusive relationshipAt 18, Callie’s encounter with Reed, a brooding and arty student four years her senior, begins a youthful infatuation, a casual “thing.” But as their relationship deepens, what once seemed like innocent passion soon morphs into a cycle of manipulation, control, and violence.Callie shares the complexity of falling in love with someone who also hurt her — emotionally, physica...

Youth have the answers, and we need to involve them in finding solutions.Canada’s patriarchal political system needs a revolution. And youth need allies, those who are willing to leverage their political capital to include youth in developing better policies and programs.In our legislatures, the House of Commons, the Senate, and the Prime Minister’s Office, leaders are standing up to say that we need to reclaim our democratic processes. Canada’s twenty-fift...

'A deeply emotive and disturbing psychological thriller...will stay with you long after the final page.' Michael Wood, author of Evil in the FamilyWe lived in a house on Beech Avenue.Outside-People say we're safe now.But one of us wants to go back.Back to that house and the darkness it held.Police raid an ordinary house in a quiet suburban street and find a traumatised teenage...

Clementine is a girl in trouble. She's homeless, living in a conversion van at a campground tucked into a little stretch of riverfront on the Potomac. She's hungry, craving Pop-Tarts while forced to eat fried snake for supper. And she's pregnant. Daddy says he'll fix it. But unlike Mama and the folks who believe he can walk on water, Clem knows better than to trust Daddy.In Precious Ugly, Rae Clinedraws us into thestory of a thirteen-year-old girl seeking to escape her abu...

In vile act and siren's woe, a legacy of shadows sown.Two centuries ago, a siren's curse tainted the Teach bloodline—granting them a supernatural ability to wield the shadows, an unquenchable thirst for power, and a promise that every use of the curse's gift would carve away at their souls, feeding the darkness within.At fourteen, Willow Teach was cast into exile with nothing but a name: Blackbeard. Eight years later, she sails to reclaim her place...

'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' Los Angeles Times'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.' Jhumpa Lahiri‘Chang-rae Lee can do no wrong in my mind – I devoured Lee’s last novel, My Year Abroad**, and I can’t wait for this one.’** LitHubFrom the Pulitz...

'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' Los Angeles Times'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.' Jhumpa Lahiri‘Chang-rae Lee can do no wrong in my mind – I devoured Lee’s last novel, My Year Abroad**, and I can’t wait for this one.’** LitHubFrom the Pulitz...

I NEVER ASKED TO BE THE SOLE BEARER OF THE ENTIRE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR CIVILIZATION.2022 Readers' Favorite Book Awards - SILVER MEDAL2021 Wishing Shelf Book Awards - FINALISTYet, here I am, barely sixteen-years-old, and it has fallen upon my shoulders to save what remains of humanity from a second Dark Ages.Your civilization is gone now, lost six hundred years ago in cataclysmic wars brought on by climate chang...

I should probably tell Ash that her boyfriend's an asshole.But he's also my best friend.So where does that leave me?Between a rock and a hard place, I guess.She trusts him, even though she shouldn't.He takes her for granted, even though he shouldn't.And me? I'm left lusting after a girl who doesn't belong to me, caught between my loyalty to my best friend, and my need to make her mine.In a nutshell?I'm screwed.In every...

Clean and wholesome, HEA Regency Romance.Amelia Sprinton has always known what her future is supposed to be. As the daughter of a baron in the quiet village of Edenbridge, her expected marriage to Harold Morton has long been arranged in the minds of their families. Yet, without a proposal, Amelia begins to wonder whether the life planned for her is truly the one she desires.Sent to Bath to spend six weeks with her grandmother, Amelia is introduced to a world far removed fro...

When this book was originally published in 1984 there was little published data on the extraction or exploitation of strategic materials. The book surveys the entire range of strategic materials and considers both the economics of their extraction and the political issues involved in safeguarding Western access to these critical materials – issues which remain very pertinent in the 21st century and in an era of geopolitical turbulence.The book begins with a discussion of the mining...