BRAG Medallion Honoree2024 Goethe Prize Finalist in Late Historical Fiction“…readers seeking a keenly researched, engrossing multi-family saga will appreciate the attention to detail and well-developed characters in Sea Tigers & Merchants.” —IndieReader“An engaging serial melodrama abundantly and carefully laced with historical factoids.” —Kirkus“…a wonderf...

2023 Goethe Prize Finalist in Late Historical Fiction"The particular attention-aid to food, fashion and high society of the time ... will satisfy history buffs and historical fiction readers alike." —IndieReader"An elaborately detailed period piece packed with intriguing nuggets of history." —Kirkus“Wagner-Wright’s prose is both engaging and descriptive, and her attention to detail and passion for ...

This is a transgender allegorical tale of a child who is magically transported to the world of aardvarks and must learn how to cope being in an such an alien land. This story tries to give a feeling of how trans people feel living cis-gendered world. The story idea came from the author's workshop called "Trans 101 - Trans Information for the Non-trans Community".In the workshop she asks how they would feel if they woke up one day and they were an aardvark. They looked like an aardv...

BRAG Medallion HonoreePerfect for fans of Stacy Schiff’s The Witches, Kathleen Kent’s The Heretic’s Daughter, or Francis Hill’s Deliverance from Evil."Wagner-Wright tells an exciting version of the events in Salem, with plenty of drama between characters. But the book’s compassion for its titular accused witch is what makes it truly stand out.” —Chanticleer Book Reviews

Home to long-forgotten mining towns, defunct fisheries and neglected cabins, the turbulent headwaters of the Upper Rio Grande conceal a largely unknown history. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys brought their legendary Texas swing to Crooked Creek Canyon's S Lazy U barn dance, while a comedy of errors unfolded around the ranch's secret still. Obstetrician Dr. MaryAnn Faunce, the daughter of an abolitionist and suffragette, made house calls as a real-life Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Rough-and...

FINALIST: 2020 INDEPENDENT AUDIOBOOK AWARDSThe Great Scandal of British CalcuttaIt's 1883, and newspapers are flying off the shelves in Calcutta, Edinburgh and London. Mary Pigot, lady superintendent of the Scottish Female Mission in Calcutta, has been charged by The Reverend William Hastie with mismanagement and immorality, and she's fighting back!After ten years of hard work growing the mission, raising funds and educatin...

"A weekend's engaging pursuit." Five Stars--David Lloyd Sutton, San Francisco Book ReviewEducated and inquisitive, Pandita Ramabai was born in 1858 near Gangamul in the Western Ghat mountains of southern India. The daughter of a Sanskrit scholar, she rose to become a respected scholar herself, in a time when women rarely held such positions. But having lost nearly everyone she loved to famine or cholera, Rama spent most of her life in search of a community she could call h...

The best source of authentic recipes for the traditional comfort foods of Texas.Just remembering the crispy fried chicken and luscious peach cobblers a grandmother or aunt used to make can set your mouth watering. And since remembering is no substitute for eating, cooks across the country have turned to Cooking Texas Style to find recipes for the comfort foods we love best. Thirty years after its first publication, popular acclaim has made this collection ...

Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Law - Media, Multimedia Law, Copyright, grade: first, distinction (mit Auszeic, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, course: LL.M. Programm, language: English, abstract: This Dissertation aims to assess the effectiveness and suitability of European regulation in respect to E-Commerce. Taking the European ‘Lisbon Strategy’ as set out in 2000 as a starting point, this paper examines whether Europe is on the right track to becoming “the most comp...