Insightful stories from the heart about the tears and laughter, the rise and fall, the love and pain felt by women in Malaysia and Singapore. Intimate collection of autobiographical essays every woman should read.
Inspired by stories passed down through the author's family, Willie Sawgrass takes place in the wilderness of Southwest Florida in the early 1900s, when the cattle and fishing industry were strong but rum running was more lucrative. Willie isn't sure how old he is when his ignorant and abusive Pa sends him away to live with a young Miccosukee ......
''Relates to the joys, troubles and fears, the unavoidable questions people have today.''Written between the ages of 10 and 12, Barbro Karlén's two short fiction works are a remarkable literary and visionary feat. The young Barbro writes with the prophetic gifts and maturity of a seer, warning humanity of the dire consequences of ignoring the ......
This anthology takes its theme, Unprecedented Times, from the state of the world in 2020, though not all stories are set in this point in time. There are historical, mysteries, poetry, science fiction, literary and other stories.
Underground is the 3rd book in the Master of The Ghost Dreaming quartet, beautifully and insistently portrays the enduring reality of Aboriginal Dreaming in a fascinating story of initiation, maternal longing, and colonial violence.
Abandoned by his father, orphaned by his drug-addled mother, and devastated by the murder of his sister, Michael McKeon was once a hardened "street dog who learned to play in traffic." Years later, Michael is now a Bowdoin College professor with a wife and adopted daughter. When he creates a microbe that instantly cleans up any oil spill, no ......
Trueman Bradley is a genius detective with a difference, he hasAsperger's Syndrome (AS).Trueman leaves his hometown of Heartville, Illinois, and arrivesin New York City, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming aprivate detective, like his comic book heroes. He is soon toldthat a guy with AS could not possibly succeed as a detective.Undeterred, ......
“All I need is three days of fog,” Napoleon told his admirals, and they would have his greatest enemy at their mercy and the world at his feet.
It is 1803, and Britain and France are on the eve of war. Captain Nathan Peake, still in command of the sloop Falaise, is recruited to coordinate a secret operation to land agents and weapons ......
How a journey through three contintents, with a kayak, changed a climatewarrior
“It echoed around my head. The carbon wing blade flexed in the water as I thrust like a man possessed. Past the point of no return, I was above the log jam. A broken blade, maybe even a missed stroke and that could be my last. The river was rough, it was ugly and I was bouncing like a cork.” Lovers of adventure will thrill at the task Steve ......
