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The facing-pages French-to-English translation of the award-winning literary novel, La Chinoise du Tableau. Florence Tholozan lives near Montpellier. A graduate in clinical psychology, she teaches in Hérault. As far back as she can remember, she has always had a love for words. The Chinese Woman from the Painting is her first novel: 'I have always believed that the very moment you meet someone, you already have a vague idea of ¿¿what will ha...

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The Handbook for Literary Analysis: How to Evaluate Prose Fiction, Drama, and Poetry reclaims the metaphor, rhetoric, and literary analysis. It has a high view of the reader, the critic, and the student. All three are invited to think critically and to discuss thoroughly the great literary works of all civilizations. Systematically, this Handbook defines, explains, and illustrates a wide range of significant literary terms in fiction, drama, a...

The Handbook for Literary Analysis: How to Evaluate Prose Fiction, Drama, and Poetry reclaims the metaphor, rhetoric, and literary analysis. It has a high view of the reader, the critic, and the student. This Handbook explains and illustrates a wide range of significant literature. Readers explore inspired examples, including biblical examples. Finally, readers read real literary analytical essays by American high school students. "Dr. Stobaug...

Gossipy, intimate, and provocative, and set in Trinidad and New York City, People and Peppers, A Romance gives a diverting peek into the nuances of a Caribbean island's callaloo of inter-racial and multicultural social mores. James's main characters are complex, motivated, and fun to know. Tall and handsome, the main protagonist, Vivion K Pinheiro, is the bastard of a half-Portuguese, half Afro-Haitian woman, and an attractive New Yorker with ...

Delightful dragons lead the way through this diverse, rhyming children's book to overcome childhood fearsTranslated into Greek by Melanie Sarri, Drakohistorias also comes in English in audio, ebook and hardback formats. Dragon friends bring to life the soothing tale of an outcast dragon who overcomes childhood fears, bravely lulling a pair of scary babies to sleep with his magical sand. The "boring Tan Dragon" wins the respect of his colorful ...

Delightful dragons lead the way through this diverse, rhyming children's book to overcome childhood fearsAudio, ebook and hardback formats bring to life the soothing tale of an outcast dragon who overcomes childhood fears, bravely lulling a pair of scary babies to sleep with his magical sand.The "boring Tan Dragon" wins the respect of his colorful peers when he faces his fear and realizes his special gift. Brilliant, often abstract, paintings ...

This cli-fi love story is a Cygnus 1st Place Sci-fi Award Winner, Book Excellence Award Finalist, Erotica, ScreenCraft Semifinalist (top 12% of submissions), Fish shortlist (top 4% of submissions), Global Thriller Book Awards for High Stakes and Lab Lit Novels shortlist An American euthanasist and an Egyptian astrological farmer delve into the evolution of the collective soul, as an extremophile virus targets a select few. The twisted scient...

A woman suddenly widowed at 50, left with money but no direction to her life, deep in transition from suburban housewife status, moves back to the West Village where she grew up. When she meets a woman who appears to be an identical twin, she discovers the Lost: a group of 100 fully-formed people dropped off on Earth as it cooled down they have lived on the planet as it developed the many species and geography of today. The Lost show her the m...

Aaron Clifton, a social worker at the Suicide Prevention & Crisis Hotline Center, is tormented by the request to help his ailing grandmother kill herself.A literary, psychological novel imbued with social commentary, Not Yet reflects on the depressive conditions that lead to suicide. This introspective, in-depth character study of a single father, who is utterly surrounded by women, details the emotional struggle of raising a teenage daughter ...

A timely novel on how the young musician overcame prejudice to become an international phenomenon as the entire world celebrates the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth:The year was 1770, the place, Bonn, Germany. A drunken father took his first look at his baby's dark complexion and lost his temper. The mother insisted the child was his. This was the beginning of a youth filled with anxiety, prejudice, and uncertainty for young ...

This is a story of food. Mexican food. It is also the tale of two sisters, their family restaurant, and their circle of friends. Set against the tapestry of San Francisco's traditionally Latino Mission district, the novel weaves through the lives of a set of unlikely friends.Alex has been running the family restaurant since her father's fatal freak accident while still in her teens. Where Alex thrives in the restaurant's front rooms, her siste...

Enter this tetrad of tangled love tales at the turn of the last millennium when what were then the latest technologies-personal computers, fax machines, and mobile phones-started to short-circuit pacemakers. This tour de four of realistic love stories operates operatically, like a piece of music in four movements, sometimes zany and tragic, at times surreal and sublime.Help Phone Thirteen' (scherzando con misterioso): A young father moves his ...

Open this book, and you will enter a world refracted in a prism with thirty-two polished surfaces. A gem, cut in the Eurocrat diamond district, emitting multifarious literature through its many faces. Some reflect the wistful melancholy of the Brussels drizzle, some tear open the sky with a bolt of genius that will have you groping for your sunglasses. A brain drain of anglophone and anglophile writers, itinerant and settled, share and sharpen...

When Ben Ava, a struggling medical student facing insurmountable financial worries, receives a scholarship offer for a Medical Center in Memphis, he thinks that his tenuous future is finally secure. But Ben's past will not leave him alone. His fellow scholarship winner is his old friend Brenda-a young medical student with extraordinary talent whose troubled past has made her self-destructive and dangerous. In Memphis, their lives become increa...

The Heir of the Thunderbird by May-Britt and Martin Braendstrup The Heir of the Thunderbird is the first of three books in The Glass People series At the age of 16, Victoria discovers that maybe the strange condition that causes her bones to break like twigs is not osteoporosis, but a legacy from her late father's ancestors. However, by then she is already tangled up in an intricate web of old legends and secret organizations. In order to find...

A timely investigation into the heart of a despotic government, TITLE 13 is a darkly comic cautionary tale of mental illness and unconventional love. The novel deftly blends satirical comedy aimed at the hot-button issues of modern society with the gut-wrenching reality of an intensely personal descent into addiction.Young Heald Brown might be responsible for the loss of highly classified TITLE 13 government documents-and may have hopelessly l...