This riveting coming of age saga unfolds in the beautiful parish of Portland, on Jamaica’s North Coast. Something happens to Runkus Black at Seashore Bay Preparatory. Double Trouble—two naughty boys and their marble playing friends are up to no good! Their shenanigans are so bad that Runkus becomes depressed and gets into fracas. His best friend as well as an academically astute girl give advice. However, Runkus is determined to get away from school—on a cruise with his parents. He falls t...

Runkus Black now enters Hillcrest Lagoon High School, which is still under construction. With dreams of lifting the coveted Stephenson Cup football (soccer) trophy, Runkus and some of his schoolmates find unlikely allies.On his school’s trip to the renowned Castleton Academy, Runkus and his friends get a whiff of what high-school-football glory is all about. At Castleton Academy, great football plans are afoot for Runkus’s old nemesis, Kennedy Edward Stephenson III (KES-III), who i...

Presented here in a new translation and featuring the author's own watercolour illustrations, The Little Prince has become a classic philosophical fable for young and old, as well as a global publishing phenomenon, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide and being translated into dozens of languages.Alma Junior Classics series of illustrated classics includes some of the greatest books ever written for younger readers and new translations of unjustly neglected international wo...

Ange au destin fulgurant, Grégory Lemarchal, brillant vainqueur de la Star Academy devenu étoile de la chanson, a succombé à la mucoviscidose après un parcours exemplaire marqué tout entier d’une exigence de réussite et d’une lutte acharnée contre la maladie.Attendrissant et généreux gamin que le public avait sacré roi, résolu à ne pas laisser briser son rêve d’enfance, il repoussait avec grâce les limites d’un corps fragilisé par le mal tapi en lui, suscitant un prodigieux élan d’...

The sequel to THE PRINCESS RULES sees rebel princess, Princess Florizella, going on even more adventures, but this time, she also has a little brother in tow…Once upon a time, there was a princess who broke all the rules, and dared to be different…So when that same princess – Florizella – finds a baby boy delivered by stork to her parents’ palace, she is shocked to discover that he will one day be king and inherit her kingdom! For ...

Des rangs de la Star Academy au fronton de l'Olympia, il a franchi en un éclair la distance séparant l'anonymat du vedettariat. Et pourtant, ce gamin dont tant d'autres enviaient l'irrésistible ascension n'était pas né sous une bonne étoile, car chanter, pour lui, représentait un combat de chaque instant. Harcelé par la mucoviscidose, ce démon accaparant la moindre parcelle de son souffle, il n'a pu remporter une lutte inégale face au mal qui le consumait et, malgré sa détermination, a fin...

Au XVIIe siècle, les élèves du collège jésuite de Bruxelles exposaient publiquement dans la rue les emblèmes qu’ils réalisaient, notamment à la gloire de la dynastie habsbourgeoise au pouvoir. Consacrée au gouvernorat de Léopold-Guillaume de Habsbourg (1647-1656), cette enquête vise à identifier les raisons qui ont conduit les jésuites à choisir l’emblématique pour formuler un éloge, à travers lequel la Compagnie de Jésus diffusait ses valeurs et ses idéaux. La célébration d’un prince est ...

The sequel to THE PRINCESS RULES sees rebel princess, Princess Florizella, going on even more adventures, but this time, she also has a little brother in tow…Once upon a time, there was a princess who broke all the rules, and dared to be different…So when that same princess – Florizella – finds a baby boy delivered by stork to her parents’ palace, she is shocked to discover that he will one day be king and inherit her kingdom! For ...

In the Spring of 2108, Australian Defence Minister Aub Ryman resigns from his post, committed to an alternative system for determining the sovereignty of nations that would end warfare forever. In order to lead this transformation he must first marry Queen Katie of Kamchatka, whose many fans throughout the world have given her the power to approve or remove governments to achieve her objectives under a system known as The New Game. Before he can assume his role as King, however, The Island...

With the Singing Sword at his side and a song on his lips Valiant sets out with Tristram, the Courteous, and Sir Gawain, The Amorous, on an expedition across the Gleaming expanse of the Inland Sea

The Mormon Church entered the public square on LGBT issues by joining forces with traditional-marriage proponents in Hawaii in 1993. Since then, the church has been a significant player in the ongoing saga of LGBT rights within the United States and at times has carried decisive political clout.Gregory Prince draws from over 50,000 pages of public records, private documents, and interview transcripts to capture the past half-century of the Mormon Church’s attitudes on homosexuality...

Garrick Connolly, young American war veteran, struggling with his experiences from Afghanistan, learns of the "legend of the cave," the final resting place of the Lost Prince, during a visit to Peru. For centuries, sealed up inside a cliff face in one of the deepest canyons on earth, the mummified remains of Yahuar Huaccac, priest of the Incas, young man of noble birth, has stood lonely vigil over the gleaming antiquities from an Incan temple.Through the towering Andes Mountains, G...