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Two Faces of Kitty Kingdom
Mary considered the positives in her life: * At least she still has one: has anyone noticed? * She has lived it with her great friend and ally Kitty: why after 20 years has Kitty vanished from it? * She does have a mother: who sadly prefers to love the famous Virgin Mary. * She enjoys an unlimited supply of tasty carbohydrates: she's now fat, unfit and she feels she's festering. * Luckily she has her wits: or does she? Kitty always provided the sanity. * She's saving herself, though not for Jesus: why; Kitty hasn't? Enough is enough; she sets about rectifying it. Although this novel is written in an offbeat style, it covers sensitive issues: confronts inner demons, questions childhood doctrine and faces uncomfortable relationships.
The Karmic Anomaly
Why would an off-duty policeman be certain he's delivered this blue-eyed new-born before, and yet pictures slightly different circumstances in which he had failed to save it? What compels a 7-year-old blue-eyed girl to pen an anonymous letter to a man she briefly spies and knows nothing about, but recognises his voice from years before? How can a teenaged boy be convinced he has shared a destiny with a chance blue-eyed girl whose name he doesn't know? And who vehemently claims she doesn't know him, and they've never met. Could unique sets of blue eyes hold the key? Is it possible that three random strangers are visualising these and that they are connecting together in moments of time past, present and future? Our Anomaly returns to complete its mission. Bringing the odyssey full circle.
Writing Selves in Diaspora
Linking autobiographic writings by Korean women in Japan and the United States and the author's ethnographic insights, Writing Selves in Diaspora presents an original, profound, and powerful intervention—both literary and anthropological—in our understanding of life in diaspora, being female, and forming selves. Each chapter offers unique and original discussion on the intersection between gender and diaspora on one hand and the process of the self's formation on the other. Chapters are mutually engaging, yet have independent themes to explore: language and self, romantic love, exile and totalitarianism, the ethic of care, and critique of medicalization of identity. Through the introduction of women's lives and introspection and interpretation accorded to them, this book delivers an unprecedented text of candor and courage. This book will have appeal for both academic and intellectually-informed lay readers interested in gender, self, and diaspora.
To Drink from a Stream
Residents of a settlement of poor mountain people living along a rustic stream are mysteriously dying. They look to Ray Quentin, an Environmental Enforcement Officer, who finds a major source of pollution and determines there are grounds for a criminal case. Fearing his arrest, a local businessman hires former prison inmates to put an end to the investigation. A hastily organized state environmental agency fails to adequately protect Quentin and fellow officers. To Drink from a Stream is a novel about the dangers faced by these officers in the early years of environmental enforcement. Xavier Somerfield is also the author of: Coming Through the Wintersweet, 2006, ISBN 1-4241-2511-1; Analemma Days, 2006, ISBN 1-4241-5344-1; Ridges of the Clouds, a Civil War novel, 2008, ISBN 1-4343-6766-2; Finches in the Gloaming, 2008 ISBN 978-1-4389-1375-9; Summer on Shallow Point, 2009 ISBN 978-1-60749-557-4; A Gift of Path, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4489-5695-1; Amoss Fire, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4512-3540-1
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The Passing of a Soul
"My path is chosen. Ours is not yet decided. Whether short-lived or long and arduous, human centuries are but a mere fragment within mine. My name is also chosen: I am Meghan. This is neither the beginning nor the end of my odyssey. " Can a soul possess a destiny? Does it seek utopia? Or is this just a figment of earthly imagination? This debut novel shifts between down-to-earth family sagas spanning a century and glimpses of the ethereal. Design or chance holds the key to both worlds and subsequently their forged links.
Immoral Wasteland
Anger is never far away. A fight to suppress. It's destructive. Maybe it will always be with her until, from her eyes, justice is seen to be served. But who can draw a line between justice and revenge? She knows herself; the rage is building; she needs to release again. Years ago, she found the perfect place to vent that rage. The abandoned refuse site has always been her salvation. A wasteland of freedom in an immoral world. She's on her way there now...
The Flawed Anomaly
She always knew she was different. How many other kids remember their mother murdered? This when she was barely out of the womb. What's more she knew her murderer. Precariously growing up within a Liverpool mafia household, she soon learned to keep these things to herself. Convinced destiny somehow controls her, why had it dealt her such an awkward hand? And keeps throwing her more cursed ones? Why does no one else believe it's not down to mere bad luck? Flawed from her traumatic birth, our anomaly begins her quest for truths and reasonings.
The Flawless Anomaly
Forward still further to the same portentous and suspect origins. However, slight time lag prevents a murderous birth scene. This anomaly seems privileged. Possessing another name and persona whilst circulating the same cities, containing familiar characters, she experiences those same brushes of opportunity versus failures. She leads a charmed life. Crucially though something is lacking; our protagonist waiting in the wings must set wrongs right, and in a flood of understanding begins a bizarre odyssey of manipulation. At its heart her undeclared personal motive for the hidden twist to achieve completeness. Two special men, one her unsuspecting soulmate, are key. Her deception begins. However, all too soon she must confess the inconceivable truth of her existence to ensure her ultimate destiny. Would they believe her? Should they accept her? Could they love her?
English in Australia
This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian continent. The book contains chapters on the phonology, morphology, syntax and the lexicon of the dialect, and chapters on variation within the dialect that include Aboriginal and ethnic varieties as well as regional and generational differences with a focus on questions of Australian identity and intercultural relations. With selected contributions by Australia's leading linguists this volume records the most recent developments in the study of English within Australia.
