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Downtown New York City in the 1970's and 80's is a dark and dangerous place for Janie Thompson. Her indifferent parents give her little guidance, and leave her older brother, the only person who truly loves her, no choice but to run away. Her working-class Queens neighborhood offers too many opportunities to fail, and several of her closest friends fall victim. Janie needs to get away and moves to Greenwich Village to attend New York Universi...

Upending conventional scholarship on Milton and modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes as narrating three alternative responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. Through incisive engagement with narrative, form, and genre, Morrissey shows how each work, considered specifically as a fiction, grapples with the vicissitudes of a modern world characterised more by paradox...

Percival is an inconsequential lad stuck in the most disgusting, humiliating, and dangerous job on the planet Landis who flees to find a future at sea. Aboard the Fisher King, a run down, undercrewed, interstellar cargo ship, he learns important lessons such as being in the vacuum of space without a spacesuit makes his tongue itch, how to fend off a pirate attack with a mining tool, and make new best friends who poison him and cut his throat (...

An encouraging, adorable and motivational tale about being true to one's feelings! Perfect for bedtime reading with children! Bert has been keeping a secret inside for a very long time... He doesn't know how to tell his friends about it so it has become his little secret. A cute and heart-warming tale about a caterpillar named Bert who is sad all the time. He doesn't know what to do about it and nothing gets better until a friend sits wi...

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Secrets are something which can cause many people fear and anxiety. A Kitten in My Closet is all about how two children's secrets caused them boy a lot of fear and were worried about being rejected by their friends.

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Can a contemporary Australian family find a long-lost boy? Finding Teo, is narrated by three women (Peia, Jo and Anna) from three different generations of a Greek-Irish Australian family. Anna is thirty and feels stuck at work and home. She then lands a job in Athens to cover international news stories and to fly away from her extended Greek-Irish Australian family. Just before she is due to leave, her grandmother has a stroke and the signif...

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Hannah Morrissey's Hello, Transcriber is a captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case.Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin's most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor's gruesome secrets. An aspiring novelist, Hazel believes that writing a book could be her only ticket out ...

Im Jahr 537 schrieb der Staatsmann und Autor Cassiodorus, die auf verstreuten Laguneninseln angesiedelten Veneti lebten »wie Wasservögel, jetzt auf dem Wasser, jetzt auf dem Land«. Sie hätten reichlich Fisch und Salz und dank des Handels mit Salz »besitzen sie alles, was sie sonst nicht produzieren«. Die einst unter byzantinischer Oberhoheit stehende Lagunensiedlung Venedig wurde um 840 eine unabhängige Republik, die jahrhundertelang die Gesch...

A history of Islamic thought - from its foundation in the seventh century to the present day.

The GAA and broadcasting legend tells stories of Irish life

John and Mary's candy store was one of four in the magical place known as Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York, in the 60s and 70s. While the others sold only candy, John and Mary's included a soda fountain with a counter and offered other items such as ice cream, coffee, and cigarettes. It became a favorite hangout of the locals and some other no-so-savory characters. The author weaves a story based on real-life people in this unique setting, givin...

My Friend Tomás is a story of friendship between two young boys from diverse cultural backgrounds who share many common interests. Spanish words and phrases are embedded throughout the book with a glossary included at the end. Author Patricia Aguilar Morrissey and illustrator Christine Karron have collaborated on this beautiful, gentle book.

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A wealthy family shrouded in scandal, a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case, and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey's stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker...