Karine rentrait chez elle, comme d'habitude. Pourtant, ce jour-là, elle fit la rencontre de Madame Aicha, qui exerça une fascination sur elle. Ainsi débuta la relation très particulière des deux femmes.

Karine was going home, tired and miserable as usual. However, when she entered this bar, she met a mysterious and fascinating woman. She did not expect to cross paths with the lady she would soon call Mistress. Karine did not know that she was going to fall under the spell of the woman who will bring her into a fetish world.

We all have a story to tell, be it long or short, truly blessed or full of challenges. Coming Home tells just such a story, starting from the author’s humble beginnings as a shy, reclusive girl in a Mennonite community on Vancouver Island in the 1930s. From there, it follows the many twists and turns of her life, through her early school and work experiences, and learning to stand up for herself, to her marriage, divorce, and life as a single parent, right up to her eventual retirement fro...

Supporting Transgender and Gender-Creative Youth brings together cutting-edge research, social action methods, and theory on the topic of transgender youth and gender creative kids. The chapters included specifically address issues in education, social work, medicine, and counseling as well as challenges and recommendations for families and parents. It is well researched and accessible to a broad audience of individuals invested in improving the social worlds of gender diverse chi...

Growing up in the idyllic town of Bardejov, Czechoslovakia, before World War II, Marcus Rosenbergs rights and freedoms as a Jew were protected by a democratic government. When the fascist Hlinka party gained control of the country in 1939, however, the situation took a dramatic turn. Sympathetic to the Third Reich, the new government instigated a vast number of Nazi-like, anti-Jewish laws and began deporting its Jewish citizens to the east.The Rosenberg family was torn apart by war...

The Story of the Christmas Star is a charming tale written for children, but with a timeless message for all. It is a fictionalized account based on the historical event of the birth of Jesus and the excitement this caused in the heavens and on earth. The same joy and excitement are still felt in our hearts today and during the Christmas season. It is a timeless story that speaks to all. As an allegory, the story sends hope to the marginalized in the society who want to be seen and heard. ...

Charakter und Liebesleben der Kaiserin, Politik und Intrigen am Wiener Hof Die hochintelligente und bildschöne Hofdame Gräfin Marie Festetics, die engste Freundin Kaiserin Elisabeths, führte über Jahrzehnte hinweg ein ausführliches Tagebuch. Diese sensationelle Quelle wird nun erstmals veröffentlicht. Auf mehr als 2000 Seiten beschrieb Festetics ungeschminkt das Leben am Kaiserhof und seine Intrigen, vor allem gegen die von ihr so verehrte Kaiserin. Die Hofdame analysiert "Sisis" Charakter...

Plus qu’une biographie, aussi palpitant que la série The Crown, ce livre nous ouvre les portes de Buckingham Palace et nous invite à partager le quotidien pas tout à fait ordinaire d'une souveraine. Après soixante-dix ans d’un règne tumultueux, Elizabeth II reste la femme la plus célèbre au monde. Pourtant, sa véritable personnalité demeure en partie un mystère tant elle est entrée en monarchie comme d’autres entrent en religion. Le devoir chevillé au corps, malgré son âge avancé, elle ass...

From an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines.Crisscross America — on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains — from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Join fifteen of today’s most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their...

Use this youth-friendly guide to build more just and liberatory school communities.Much change is needed to make school communities more affirming and inclusive of gender and sexual diversity. This timely book is written for secondary students and their adult allies who are working to make schools more supportive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people, and their families.Grounded in scholarship, the text...

A rigorous interdisciplinary inquiry into how classical rhetorical traditions continue to inform, challenge, and enrich modern legal reasoning and jurisprudence.Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law: A Critical Reader is a rich work that analyzes the interplay between ancient rhetorical traditions and modern legal practice, reestablishing the lost connections between law and classical rhetoric. From Isocrates’s Panegyricus in 380 BCE to...

This book analyzes different figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics with a particular focus on interdisciplinary methodologies of critical childhood studies. It argues that while the figure of the child has been traditionally located at the peripheries of academic disciplines, perhaps most notably in history, sociology and literature, the proposed critical discussions of the ideological, symbolic and affective roles that children play in contemporary societies sugges...