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A space opera series that spans four self-contained stories that add up to a larger tale. In Watcher's Web, Jessica comes to the city of Barresh on the world of Ceren through what looks like an accident, but is a kidnapping attempt gone wrong. Jessica (or Anmi) is Aghyrian, an ancient highly intelligent race that gave rise to all human races on all inhabited worlds. Someone is trying to resurrect the almost extinct race, but a mad tyrant from the neighbouring nation of Miran wants Aghyrians for his twisted, evil plans. The botched kidnapping almost brings down the successful business of the Andrahar Trading family of Miran. In book 2, Mikandra has just been accepted as apprentice with them w...
" Hong Kong is a meeting ground for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists and businessmen, and local residents. At the heart of this book are the stories and experiences of migrant mothers from Indonesia and the Philippines, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong born babies. Constable gives voice to the immigrant mothers in this Asian world city and, in the process, raises a serious question: do we regard immigrants as people, or just workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies"-- Provided by publisher.
Endri Kosturi was born in Tirana, Albania, in 1980. When he was only 7 years old, one of his first large-scale painting, Spring, was shown at the National Art Gallery in Tirana. In 1990 his family moved to Italy where he later studied fine arts. Kosturi is earlier influenced by the masters of figurative painting, but ultimately developed his own evocative and conceptual abstract style. Endri is moved by the universal idea of Love manifesting an extraordinary sensitivity to colour. As the ubiquitous windows motif remains his signature theme in his work. Kosturi lives and works in London. He has exhibited in solo and collective shows in London, Paris, Rome, Milan and Trieste. The book has text both in English and Italian language.
If Miran had princesses, Ellisandra Takumar would be one. Smart, pretty, engaged to a high-profile man, everything a high-class Mirani woman should be. But things are not well in Miran. Many years of boycotts have taken their toll on society, and the regime becomes more desperate to keep its citizens under control. Revolt is brewing. As director of the state theatre, Ellisandra has been asked to stage a violent traditional play which stands stiff with threatening political messages for the populace. She hates it, but speaking out would risk that she'd be cast out from the only world she's ever known. Next to her house is the burnt ruin of the house of another high-class family, the Andrahar ...
Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter both the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies, some that leave deep marks on migrants' own life trajectories and others that produce fragmentary, uneven traces. With a focus on those who migrate to perform intimate labor—domestic, care, and sex work—or whose own intimate and familial lives are redefined through migration, marriage, and sometimes parenthood, this volume argues that such encounters transform both migrants and the states between which they move. Written by an international group of anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers, these essays offer richly detailed an...
Mikandra Bisumar is useless to her father: she carries the curse of infertility that plagues the Endri people of Miran. Forced to work in the hospital to pay her duty to her proud nation, she dreams of becoming a Trader, one of the people who bring great prosperity to Miran. To her surprise Iztho Andrahar, from the city's most prestigious Trading family, has agreed to take her on. That is where her troubles begin. Her father is so angry with her that she has to leave her home. Worse, the Andrahar Traders have been accused of smuggling. Iztho has disappeared and the business license suspended. Mikandra has nowhere to go, except try to help Iztho's brothers prove their innocence. In her last m...
Gue berusaha menguatkan hati dengan bilang, “Ya udahlah, mungkin bukan jodoh. Harus bisa move on!” Sayangnya, percuma. Semenit kemudian gue kembali nangis sambil meluk bantal hati warna pink. Gue gagal move on. Gue galau! *** Semua orang tau, move on itu berat banget. Lebih berat dari manjat Monas pakai tali sepatu. Nggak percaya? Baca kisah apes pemuda kurus bernama Talhah di buku ini. Mulai dari ditolak cewek karena dibilang anak mama, nyesek karena di-PHP-in terus-terusan, sampai jadian sama cewek punya sifat kayak siluman serigala lagi PMS. Kalau kamu ngerasa susah move on juga, jangan khawatir. Kamu nggak sendiri.
Through the lens of children's literature, explores the largely untold story of secular Yiddish schools in America
No one remembered the books but her. Alistair Mead only remembers one thing from the year she went missing as a child: A series of books that don’t exist. After years of searching, she stumbles on a clue that proves the books were real but were somehow erased from existence. Desperate for answers, Alistair is drawn into an ancient literary underworld whose members believe she might be the key to unraveling the books, and the altered history of the world. Ben Kriminger hasn’t written in a year. Traumatized by the fanatical reaction to his novel about unsolved disappearances, Ben is still trying to undo the bloody damage caused by his writing and the unhinged reader who couldn’t tell fic...