WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDY MCNABHe was a man without hope, until a lawyer and a crazy inheritance spurred him to one last desperate roll of the dice.
Nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Fiction"e;This is a fine mystery and [protagonist] D Hunter is as world weary, yet steadfast, as Philip Marloew, Spenser, Dave Robicheaux, or Easy Rawlins.
This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems.
Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 1914-45.
To mark the centenary of the start of World War I, the Antiques Roadshow team filmed a series of specials at the Somme, where the public brought in their family's war memorabilia and photographs.
In diesen warmherzigen Romanen der beliebten, erfolgreichen Sophienlust-Serie wird die von allen bewunderte Denise Schoenecker als Leiterin des Kinderheims noch weiter in den Mittelpunkt gerückt.
A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorous commentary on "e;the bad side of the good life, the underbelly of the potbelly.
_______________________________When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck.
Greys mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and he prays that she will be returned to him so he might protect her from the world as his father did not.
Crossings was Betty Lambert's only novel; published by Pulp Press in 1979, it was revolutionary for its frank and unsettling portrayal of Vicky, a female writer in Vancouver in the early 1960s, an educated and intelligent woman who struggles to come to terms with herself as she navigates an emotionally abusive relationship with Mik, a violent logger and ex-con.
In Ryan MacDonald's stories, most no more than a page in length, we are given glimpses of a father and daughter at the zoo; an isolated man lamenting the absence of TV in his life; two young men atop a fridge at a party, drinking wine.
Is anxiety making your child's life a misery - causing problems at school, difficulties in making friends or facing new experiences, even affecting their physical health?
Hoch verschuldet sieht Madame de keinen anderen Ausweg, als ihre herzförmigen Brillantohrringe, ein Geschenk des Gatten am Tag nach der Hochzeit, zu veräußern.
Black Lives Are Beautiful is a workbook explicitly designed to help members of the Black community counter the impacts of racialized trauma while also cultivating self-esteem, building resilience, fostering community, and promoting Black empowerment.
An ';extraordinary first novel' about a father trying to escape the past and a son lost in a world of imaginary voiceswinner of the Mary McCarthy Prize (Booklist).
This book traces the feminine soul of Afrobeat from tumultuous colonial (her)stories through to the vibrant heterotopias of the urban spaces and times of Black British youths of African racial heritage.
Written from the contrasting yet complementary perspectives of sociology and philosophy, this book explores the far-reaching ethical consequences of the runaway commodification of sport, focusing on those instances where commodification gives rise to morally undesirable consequences.
Evocative Contemporary Romance Set in a Charming Inn on Beautiful Prince Edward IslandIn her kitchen at the Red Door Inn, executive chef Caden Holt is calm, collected, and competent.
Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces the uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band's varied reception in online and offline media.
A warm-hearted story of fresh beginnings, unexpected friendships and the sustaining power of love and community, from the Top Ten bestselling author of The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle and Thursdays at Orange Blossom House.
Emma Petterson est une auteure et illustratrice jeunesse à l’imagination débordante qui tente de se mettre à l’écriture de son nouveau projet, mais sans grand succès.
