Literature & Literary Studies
November 2019
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January 2021Extreme Sports Guides: Extreme Skateboarding Challenges
by Karen Latchana Kenney
Extreme skateboarding challenges demand balance, strength, and speed. Readers will be thrilled by skateboarders and their daring stunts.
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Children's & YAMay 2014Sixty-Six Curves
by Cao Wenxuan
The urban skateboard team’s coming suddenly breaks the rural children’s quiet life. There are three rural teenagers who try their best to get this skateboard, although they have lots of troubles and make a lot of efforts to do that, they are still firm and indomitable as well as naïve and selfless. From this story, we can find friendship, adventure, pain, dream and other story themes.
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Lucky Accident
by Anya Damirón, Bhagya Madanasinghe
A story about optimism, in a city full of animals, with action, icecream, skaters, and manny accidents, that invites us to share in community. Clio is curious, dreamy, very distracted and a little clumsy, but above all she is optimistic. Although she has many accidents, she always manages to find something positive in the disasters she makes. The day she tries to learn to skate, she has a lucky accident that ends with the whole city eating delicious ice cream. A book full of action and onomatopoeias with a message full of value: “Sometimes unexpected situations offer us great opportunities.”
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The Turboskaters I
The Leyend of the Killer Robot
by César Fernández García/ Bárbara Balbás /Casandra Balbás
The first title in a collection that will give people something to talk about. It centres on a group of friends, Dogo, Olivia (Oli to her friends) and Niko, three skateboard lovers known as the Turboskaters. In each book, the protagonists will have a new adventure, each imbued with mystery and lots of action. Dogo, as narrator of the story, offers a naive but fresh outlook on everything he relates. In this first adventure, Dogo, Oli and Niko are excited about the upcoming skate competition in their town, which they hope to win. But something will come along to upset their plans of non-stop practice with no distractions: a strange character who seems to be hiding out in the Cervantes school’s old library, and who corresponds to the description of a bloodthirsty robot whose legend is the talk of the schoolyard.
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November 2015Super-homem, Não-homem, Carol e Os Invisíveis
by Carlos Eduardo de Magalhães
Super-man, Non-man, Carol and The Invisibles - Novel - Marcos is an architect who, as a student, used to write phrases on the walls of his room such as A man must carry his own suitcase and make his own bed. He lives in São Paulo, in the same building as another Marcos, who is a famous actor. They also have Carol's presence in common. Psychologist, she is married to Marcos architect and is the best friend of Marcos actor, with whom she shared an intense adolescence. Early in the evening, the two Marcos confide to a tired Carol about discoveries they had made. One tells her that he has superpowers, is a superman, sure that he started to crystallize after he threw his arm towards a toothbrush holder and saw him fall, without however touching him. The husband, discouraged, defines himself as a non-man, not yet very clear about what that means. In parallel, five excellent high school students who live in poor neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro steal copper wires underground in the city. They call themselves the Invisibles and slide on their skateboards, slang, anger and dreams through the city streets. Such disparate everyday experiences lived in metropolises. The reality and virtual reality of a video game with its impossible to defeat avatar. The memory of events in distant India, which are not known whether invented or real, but lived in any way. The airports and hotel rooms without identity that are the same in all parts of the planet. With contemporary elements, which define and are defined by this complex, contradictory, powerful and fragile man of the century XXI, the book covers three days that will mark the life of each character. Their ideas of being in this world full of walls and phrases and toothbrush holders will be profoundly modified.
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Classic crimeApril 2018Ein MORDs-Team - Der Fall Marietta King 4: Das Echo des Schreis (Finale Case 1) / The Young Investigators - The Case of Marietta King 4: Echo of a scream (Finale Case 1)
by Andras Suchanek
Following Marek’s death, Mason, Olivia, Randy and Danielle are determined to unmask the murderer. The four investigators team up with Sonja to chase down several leads. But the earl (Barrington Coves Moriarty) and the murderer have plans of their own. A race against time begins that only one person can win...
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Classic crimeJanuary 2016Ein MORDs-Team - Der Fall Marietta King 1: Die vergessenen Akten / The Young Investigators - The Case of Marietta King 1: The forgotten Files
by Andreas Suchanek, Nicole Böhm, Ute Bareiss
Mason, Olivia, Randy and Danielle are four teenagers as diverging as they could be. When Mason is wrongly accused of a crime, a cascade of events is set in motion which unites all four in friendship. Together they try to identify the mastermind behind the crime. During their investigations, the team discover a secret room in an old mansion, which houses files about a 30-year-old murder. They are shocked to learn that their parents are also part of an enormous mystery which stretches all the way into the present. They start investigating to answer the one question overshadowing everything: Who killed high school student Marietta King 30 years ago? An obscure crime boss, a murder from the 1980s, a secret room in an old mansion and an all-encompassing mystery are now governing the lives of the four friends. The Preview and supporting information are available in english language.
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Classic crimeJune 2016Ein MORDs-Team - Der Fall Marietta King 2: Spiel im Schatten / The Young Investigators - The Case of Marietta King 2: A Game of Shadows
by Andreas Suchanek
In the aftermath of the shocking revelations uncovered in the course of their last case, Mason, Olivia, Randy and Danielle are more determined than ever to solve the Marietta King Case. A note from Olivia’s contact at the Barrington Cove Gazette leads the four young investigators to an old orphanage in a nearby village. Did Marietta give birth to her child there? The investigation continues...
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Autobiography: generalDecember 2020Diese bescheuerte Fremdheit in meiner Seele
Autobiografischer Roman
by Mathias Kopetzki
Mathias wächst in den siebziger Jahren in einem kleinen Örtchen in Niedersachsen auf. Als er mit fünf Jahren durch Zufall erfährt, dass er adoptiert wurde, ist das zwar eine Erklärung für sein »exotisches« Aussehen, doch die Geschichte seiner Herkunft bleibt weiterhin ein großes Rätsel. Auf verschiedene Weise gelingt es ihm, sich gegen rassistische Ressentiments und offene Angriffe zu behaupten. Auch als Erwachsener widerfahren ihm zuweilen absurde Erlebnisse, in denen er als Projektionsfläche für fremdenfeindliche Ängste, Vorurteile oder Sehnsüchte herhalten muss. Kann die Begegnung mit der leiblichen Herkunft Abhilfe schaffen? Mit viel Humor, Sensibilität und Offenheit erzählt Mathias Kopetzki seine berührende und spannende Geschichte, berichtet von Fremdsein und Selbstbehauptung, vom Kampf und vom Loslassen und der jahrelangen Suche nach Identität.
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August 2020Blue Sky Kingdom
An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya
by Bruce Kirkby
One morning at breakfast, while gawking at his phone and feeling increasingly disconnected from family and everything else of importance in his world, it strikes writer Bruce Kirkby: This isn’t how he wants to live. Within days, plans begin to take shape. Bruce, his wife Christine, and their two children – seven-year-old Bodi and three-year-old Taj – will cross the Pacific by container ship, then travel onward through South Korea, China, India, and Nepal aboard bus, riverboat, and train, eventually traversing the Himalaya by foot. Their destination: a thousand-year-old Buddhist monastery in the remote Zanskar valley, one of the last places where Tibetan Buddhism is still practiced freely in its original setting. In this refuge, where ancient traditions intersect with the modern world, Kirkby discovers ways to slow down, to observe and listen, and ultimately, to better understand his son on the autism spectrum – to surrender all expectations and connect with Bodi exactly as he is. Recounted with wit and humility, Blue Sky Kingdom is an engaging travel memoir as well as a thoughtful exploration of modern distraction, the loss of ancient wisdom, and the challenges and rewards of intercultural friendships.
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Historical fictionJune 2021The Admiral's Baths
by Dana Gynther
The Admiral’s Baths is composed of four inter-connected stories, each told from the perspective of a different woman in her own time period. The story opens as a contemporary historian conducts research at the baths, making discoveries which lead us back in time. History unfolds through the stories of the struggles, desires, tragedies, and triumphs of these four protagonists. Although they are separated by hundreds of years, we find that what connects them is more powerful than the passage of time. The Admiral’s Baths (102,300 words) revolves around an actual monument in Valencia, Spain, a medieval public bathhouse which was open for nearly seven centuries and is now a museum. Some years ago, I translated several articles about the monument, covering its history, owners, architecture, and restoration. I became fascinated with the subject, and was particularly struck by its longevity. The Baths’ long history became an integral part of the story; instead of choosing one moment in the Baths’ – and Spain’s—history, I chose four: the 14th, 16th, and 19th centuries as well as the 21st.
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Counselling & advice servicesJuly 2008Big Book of Blobs
by Pip Wilson, Ian Long
A photocopiable collection of blob pictures to promote discussion. These blob pictures offer a unique way to initiate discussion about all sorts of issues and subjects. They are organised into themes and scenarios that include: Places - beach, cinema, cliff, concert, disco, homes, playground, staffroom, village Issues - bullying, death, disaster, divide, fame, families, feast, money, parents, protests, romance, sleep, talk, water safety, world Occasions - Christmas, Easter, football, lecture, nativity, Olympics, skateboarding Personal Development - body, caged, caring, doors, leaps, river, rock, shadows, valley, vertigo. Each picture is accompanied by ideas and questions to kick-start class, group or one-to-one discussion. Complete book included on accompanying CD Rom.
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The ArtsWhat I See
The Black Flag Photographs of Glen E. Friedman
by Glen E. Friedman, Chuck Dukowski
What I See: The Black Flag Photographs of Glen E. Friedman is an incredible compilation of all of Friedman’s most iconic and recognizable images (from 1980 to 1983), of this seminal American punk band, as well as over one hundred never-before-seen photos made during those phenomenal peak years in the group’s history. The book includes a foreword by Chuck Dukowski, a cofounder and bass player of Black Flag. Friedman’s own introduction to the book takes readers through his journey with the group, from the very first time he saw them play, to his perspectives on the music of the era, to the how, why, and what Black Flag were doing at the time. His words provide additional context to the imagery, explaining what drove him to create his art alongside the band. From the streets around Black Flag’s single-room home base/office, rehearsing for their first album, handing out flyers, wheat-pasting posters, driving for hours to a show and returning the same night, house parties, clubs, to the big stage and the beach, Glen E. Friedman was there with his heart, soul, and most importantly his camera. In What I See, he shares with us and inspires us with these images that were made over an incredibly volatile four-year time span.
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RomanceCrossing Borders
by Z.A. Maxfield
Two dudes walk into a bookstore… Tristan knows he’s got issues. His latest ex-girlfriend knows it too. He can’t blame her for dumping him—even though she gets her brother to do it for her. Since he can’t stop staring at said brother’s package, he figures it’s about time to put a label on those issues. He likes guys. He heads to a local bookstore with what he’s sure is a foolproof plan to find someone to show him what he’s been missing. But who should crash his little adventure? Officer Michael Truax, who gave him a really expensive ticket back in high school for skateboarding without a helmet. Michael has been trying to catch Tristan for years...to give him a second ticket. Suddenly faced with “Sparky”, all grown up and looking to get laid, Michael’s protective instinct kicks in—and presents him with an opportunity that’s hard to resist. After all, the kid must know what he’s getting into, so why not? But when a man with a plan connects with a man with a hunger, the result is nothing short of explosive. This book has been previously published.
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EducationEducated Fear and Educated Hope
Dystopia, Utopia and the Plasticity of Humanity
by Papastephanou, M.
Beyond dominant tendencies to contrast utopia and ideology, the book reconceptualizes utopia and approaches it along with the notion of dystopia. The interplay of utopia and dystopia is examined, some major anti-utopian arguments are refuted and a new utopianism emerges, one that radicalizes critique and makes engagement with present global realities more pressing. Educated fear, i.e., a critical awareness of dystopian realities, and educated hope, i.e., a critical awareness of the possibility of human perfectibility cohabit a theoretical space that breaks with utopianist modern theoretical underpinnings and becomes historically and spatially more inclusive, while retaining the motivational and justificatory force of ethical imagery. If education is not just an institution of unreflective socialization, if it is about futurity, it has to renegotiate utopian thought. As the interest in utopia is being renewed both in general philosophy and philosophy of education and as dystopia is still neglected, a book that re-defines utopianism and explores for the first time the role of dystopia in radicalizing educational demands for systemic change is indispensable for Utopian Studies, Philosophy and Philosophy of Education academics and students alike. The title of the book is first transliterated into Utopia, a typeface in which Brazilian artists Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain replace capital letters with the iconic buildings of Brazil´s foremost modernist architect, Oscar Niemeyer, whilst lower-case letters are equated with urban interferences such as fences, skateboarders, CCTV cameras, electricity cables, in short, all those elements that escaped the utopian dream of the architect. To me, it bears associations of the philosophical notion of counterfactuality and of Adorno´s notion of mimesis. The title is then transliterated into Helvetica Concentrated (a digital typeface that concentrates the surface of Helvetica characters in dots which has been created by Detanico and Lain in collaboration with Jiri Skala). The term Helvetica bears the associations of a modernist utopia of success, performativity, prosperity, predictability, rational planning and uniformity.
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Children's & YAMarch 2023WAS IST WAS Junior. Vol. 39 Festivities and Traditions
by Anke Dörrzapf
Sprinkling confetti, dressing up, hanging up fairy lights, unwrapping presents and really having a good time.There are many great occasions to celebrate together all over theworld. But why and how do we actually celebrate? Do children everywhere look for Easter eggs, what makes the cherry blossoms in Japan so special, and did Saint Martin really exist? This colorful flap book for children age 5 and up answers these and many other questions and shows the variety of celebrations and traditions from Mardi Gras to New Year's Eve to Ramadan, Hanukkah and Christmas. Whether for cultural, religious or very individual reasons - there is always a reason to celebrate together! The cheerful book is fun to read and look at and awakens anticipation for the next celebration.
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Children's & YABUNT! - COLORFUL!
by Lena Hesse
BUNT! - COLORFUL! is a story about human, sensory, landscape and biological diversity. On his journey, Dog discovers different kinds of people, a multitude of plants and animals, chaos and calm, highs and lows and along the way, his world becomes ever more colorful. It is a subtile call for us to not just welcome diversity in our lives, but to seek it out. A very special book for our multilingual and multicultural society.
