Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future.
In diesem Geschenkbuch für die schönste und besinnlichste Zeit des Jahres hat die beliebte Theologin und Bestsellerautorin Margot Käßmann wunderbare Weihnachtsgeschichten und -Gedichte zusammengestellt, die ihr persönlich lieb und wichtig sind.
In 1948 eight-year-old Kay is at Oakdale, the Lapeer State Home in Michigan where people of all ages with physical and mental aberrations come to live.
The exacting Miranda's search for a suitable companion brings her family into contact with a very different kind of household, raising a plenitude of questions about the ability to manage alone, the difficulties of living with strangers and some strange discoveries about intimates.
** 'SO VIVID AND REAL, IT BROUGHT A THOUSAND MEMORIES RUSHING BACK' - Russell T Davies **** 'AN INSTANT QUEER CLASSIC' - Jon Ransom, author of The Gallopers **Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Isaac explores masculinity and queerness in the digital age and offers a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love.
Set in the inter-war period, between the late 1920s, when Italy began solidifying its power in its new Libyan colony, and the end of World War II, when control of the country passed into British hands.
As a young man growing up under communism in South Yemen, Imran finds himself drawn to Hawiya, the daughter of a high-ranking official in the ruling Marxist party.
This book is a collection of short stories, an assortment of human experiences and interactions that seek to express how the simplest parts of our humanity are often the most complex and vice versa.
