A heart-wrenching personal account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza by an ordinary citizen who bears witness to the undoing of his community and homelandThe human tragedy unfolding in Gaza has been made all the more tragic by the widespread denial and apathy expressed by much of the rest of the world. Here is an urgent first-hand account of life and death in Gaza, written not by a war correspondent, but an ordinary citizen whose life was upended when the genocide...

Christina, a.k.a. "Lady Chris," was born into a noble family and treated more or less like a boy growing up. Now a dashing young woman, Chris is not only captain of the imperial guards--she personally protects Prince Leonardo, who has been a dear friend since childhood. When his father, the king, demands he find a suitable girl to marry, Leo insists that he's already found one: Chris! Chris is shocked, but figures that Leo doesn't really love her like that; it's probably just some ploy to ...

A dark, surreal, and vividly imagined novel about a woman whose fall from grace transforms her into a feminist hero in the afterlife.Maria-Therese Mandapat, a controversial figure in life and death, is known by many descriptors. Survivor of a cold and brutal childhood under her grandfather's rule. Fighter pilot for France in the first world war. Daredevil barnstormer wending her way across the American south. Single mother. And perhaps most notably: remorseless mur...

From the bestselling author of Mistakes to Run With, a heartrending tale of a mother hell-bent on saving her family after her daughter's suicide attempt—despite the destruction it might mean for herself.When Rose’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Juliet, attempts suicide, she does everything she can to hold her family together despite the inevitable unraveling that follows. Her husband Syd thinks their daughter is fine, that she’s going through a phase, and t...

In order to support Prince Leo, Chris agrees to officially take his hand in marriage. But the other nobles are not fans of the union, and to mollify them Chris gets sent to a boarding school to become more "ladylike." Unfortunately for her, her fellow classmates are young ladies intent on marrying the prince themselves! Chris might be hot stuff on the battlefield, but is she prepared for this kind of warfare?!

Having returned to the capital, Chris and Leo begin planning for the wedding! Everything seems to be going well, but one day the king suddenly announces that the second prince, Leo's younger brother, will be ascending to the throne. With their wedding now canceled, will the happy couple ever make it to the altar?

Back from boarding school, Chris visits her family home with Leo. Urged on by the king, the two announce their marriage. Chris's family is thrilled, but when her father urges her to quit being a knight, an unexpected father-daughter fight breaks out!

**"In the transcendent stories of Miyazawa, Earth teems with magic and wonder." — Publishers Weekly"A marvelous writer who deserves to be much better known in English." — Kirkus**This charming manga collection presents three modern fables by one of Japan's most gifted authors, the poet and short story writer Kenji Miyazawa.Miyazawa is renowned for his masterful storytelling, poetic imagery and powerful evocation of both the shadows...

This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931–1945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U.S.-led allied forces from 1941 to 1945.Part I of the book examines three interlocking components, the origins of the war; its impact on combatants and civilians; and its short-term legacy, including the huge changes that took place in the postwar governance of Japan. Part II explores the ongoing impact and legacy o...

This book explores Takamure Itsue’s (1894–1964) intellectual odyssey as Japan’s most notable pioneer in the study of women’s history. When she embarked on a series of scholarly projects that investigated marriage patterns and kinship systems in ancient Japan, it was a response to crisis-ridden modernity. Relentless in her quest to dismantle patriarchy, this “woman from the Land of Fire” (a nickname for her birthplace, Kumamoto Prefecture) locked herself away in 1931 and spent the rest of h...

Obana and Haugh question the extent to which commonly accepted theories in pragmatics can readily explain sociopragmatic phenomena in Japanese. Studies of Japanese in pragmatics have often challenged the cross-linguistic relevance of dominant theories. However, they have also inadvertently perpetuated stereotypes about the Japanese. It is often been assumed, for instance, that Japanese people are less strategic, more polite and more reliant on tacit forms of communication than speakers of ...

This book argues that transpacific history cannot be comprehended without including “vertical” connections; namely, those between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. It explores such connections by uncovering small histories of ordinary people’s attempts at événements which they undertake by means of uneven, unlevel, and multidirectional mobilities. In this way, this book goes beyond the usual notion of transpacific history as a matter of Northern Hemisphere-centric connec...