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A little girl and her mother have fled their homeland, making the long and treacherous journey by boat to seek asylum. Timely, powerful and moving, Out celebrates the triumph of the human spirit in the darkest times, and the many paths people take to build a new life.
The story follows Angela, a retired librarian, who relocates to a rural town and unexpectedly befriends a pygmy goat named Abe. Their bond, which transforms both their lives, is not just a personal journey but a community affair. The local townsfolk, recognizing the value of their bond, rally to fight against a regulation that threatens to separate them. Every page of this heartwarming tale celebrates life's rich diversity and the unexpected bonds that make it genuinely worthwhile, inspiring us to cherish the unexpected connections in our lives and the power of community.
In many North American indigenous cultures, history and stories are passed down, not by the written word, but by oral tradition. In Maps of Experience, Andie Diane Palmer draws on stories recorded during travels through Secwepemc or Shuswap hunting and gathering territory with members of the Alkali Lake Reserve in Interior British Columbia. Palmer examines how the various kinds of talk allow knowledge to be carried forward, reconstituted, reflected upon, enriched, and ultimately relocated by and for new interlocutors in new experiences and places. Maps of Experience demonstrates how the Secwepemc engagement in the traditional practices of hunting and gathering create shared lived exper...
Black Shapes in a Darkened Room is a collection of witty, visceral, and darkly imaginative short fiction from the author of the novel The Concrete Sky. Revenge and eroticism, humor and despair, the supernatural and the everyday... Marshall Moore draws new contour lines and makes new connections in this nighttime map of the human soul.
This is a novel of obsession and revenge. Helena is divorced from her husband. Angela marries Kit, who is Helena’s son, and is then drawn into a web of lies and deceit which is the hallmark of Kit’s existence. The powerful combined rage of abandoned wife and neglected mother is unleashed in this wholly convincing bestselling suspense novel.
Katie Donald is learning the ropes at the Perfect Passion Company, which provides help to the lovelorn citizens of Edinburgh. Katie is assisted in her matchmaking endeavors by William Kidd, a talented knitwear designer in the office next door with a sympathetic ear, a playful interest in the business of matchmaking and a long-distance fiancée in his native Melbourne. George Fane, a thirtysomething hotelier tied to his family business and an overbearing mother, arrives one day asking for Katie's assistance in finding a romantic partner—and for a little distance from his mother to boot. As Katie searches for the right match for George, she discovers there is more than one way of looking at ...
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This new edition features updated information on all aspects of the diagnosis and management of ovarian cancer. Embracing knowledge from around the world, this multidisciplinary book discusses current approaches to ovarian cancer that have helped stabilize the rate of both incidences and fatality for the disease. The chapters focus on genetic screening and advances in management, including the optimization of chemotherapeutic agents, gene therapy, and the latest laparoscopic and robotic surgical techniques. Further chapters address psychosocial and quality-of-life issues as well. The book is a must-have resource for wide range of practitioners who care for patients with ovarian cancer and researchers who study the disease.
At a top secret defence establishment High Cross somewhere in the south west of England a security guard is abducted leaving the establishment completely cut off by a force-field. The computers contained within the buildings have been reprogrammed nullifying the British nuclear capability. A similar event has occurred in all the worlds' country's that have a nuclear capability. Mark Steel a British secret service agent with the UET is summoned to London to investigate the happening but is abducted whilst on route. He is given a message to pass on to the British government that aliens intend to take over Australia for themselves.