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      • Trusted Partner
        August 2024

        A Place Beyond the Heart

        by Irehobhude O. Iyioha

        A Place Beyond the Heart is a collection of short stories exploring issues at the intersection of war and love, terror and (dis)order, as well as identity, gender, and sexuality. The stories capture the lives of people facing personal, societal and transcultural challenges that define, transform, and ultimately create shifts in the way they see and experience the world.

      • Children's & YA

        Journey to the Land of Men

        by Mónica-Ramón Ríos

        Journey to the Land of Men follows Gege, a skilled orphan raised by a sword master near Puna in Los Andes. In a post-apocalyptic future, the Southern Globe (formerly South America) is governed by women who nurture the Earth with mestizo knowledge. Invading armies of men threaten their peaceful existence due to outdated extractive economies. Gege becomes crucial in the conflict, joining a group of young warriors to uncover the enemy's leaders. With Ena, the future leader of the Southern Globe and Gege's love interest, they embark on a dangerous mission dragged as men. Tragedy strikes when Gege's teacher is killed, fueling suspicions of a traitor. As they journey through Central America towards the Caribbean, they liberate cities and face perilous landscapes. As they reach Florida and then New York with the help of an underground organization, Gege discovers Ena's identity as a trans woman, who has travel to undergo sex change. In love, Gege supports Ena, but soon learns Ena's family is responsible for her teacher's death. Driven and confused, Gege ventures alone to the enemy's stronghold, enduring torture and uncovering shocking truths about her own identity: her mother, the leader who liberated the Southern Globe came from across the Atlantic and was betrayed by Ena’s mother, the current leader. Gege escapes with unexpected help from Ena and her surviving teacher, unleashing her latent powers to eliminate the enemy. She sets sail across the Atlantic to explore her ancestral roots, entrusting Ena with leading the Southern Globe.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        2009

        Museum for Old Things

        by Alexander Asatiani

        The museum keeps not just objects and things but also their past and their memories of the past. That is how it keeps its inhabitants alive.

      • Trusted Partner
        Medicine
        September 2020

        Small Animal Veterinary Psychiatry

        by Sagi Denenberg, Ali Thompson

        Problem behaviours are often the result of how an animal thinks and feels, genetics, and environmental influences. Steering away from just description diagnoses and focusing instead on emotional and cognitive causes, this book provides a practical approach to diagnosing, treating, and managing behaviour pathologies in dogs and cats. Beginning by addressing cases in the first opinion practice, this book then considers physical disorders that may lead to or exacerbate abnormal behavior. From there, the focus shifts to mental and emotional health, from an assessment of normal behavior and giving juveniles an optimal start in life, to diagnosing mental and emotional disorders, addressing emotions such as anxiety and frustration, and how to manage these issues - by modifying behavior, managing the animal's environment, training, and, when necessary, the use of medications. The second half of the book then addresses owner concerns, including management problems, aggression, affective disorder, elimination disorder, abnormal and repetitive behaviours and ageing-related problems. With an emphasis on helping first line veterinarians identify common presentations and offer help to owners, this book: - Addresses both normal and abnormal behaviour in cats and dogs from an emotion and cognition perspective; - Provides behaviour modification protocols, and drug doses and indications; - Includes handouts to be used both within the practice and with clients to help the veterinary surgeon manage the case. Written by international experts, the book translates their insights and experience into approaches taken in behavioural medicine. Also including the most up-to-date drugs, it is an important resource for both small animal veterinarians and students of veterinary medicine or animal behaviour.

      • Trusted Partner
        Fiction

        WHY I CAN'T WRITE

        How to survive in a world where you can’t pay rent, can’t afford to focus, be healthy or to remain principled. Dijana Matković tells a powerful story of searching for a room of her own in the late stages of capitalism.

        by DIJANA MATKOVIĆ

        It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’.   Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.

      • Erotic fiction
        August 2012

        Smoking Hot (Unillustrated)

        Story 5 from the Naked Delirium anthology

        by Fulani

        The fifth and final story from the "Naked Delirium" collection. Hypnosis has helped Hannah kick a 40-a-day smoking habit, but the side effects have bee most unexpected...in SMOKING HOT by Fulani.

      • Erotic fiction
        August 2012

        Smoking Hot

        Story 5 from the Naked Delirium anthology

        by Fulani & Giorgio Verona

        The fifth and final story from the "Naked Delirium" collection. Hypnosis has helped Hannah kick a 40-a-day smoking habit, but the side effects have bee most unexpected...in SMOKING HOT by Fulani, featuring the illustrations of Giorgio Verona!

      • Erotic fiction
        August 2012

        Naked Delirium (Unillustrated)

        by Sommer Marsden, Vanessa de Sade, Kristina Wright, Velvet Tripp, Fulani

        The mind has the power to save us from depravity...or to drive us further to it! NAKED DELIRIUM delves deep into the human psyche to celebrate sex in altered states! Within these pages, we invite you explore the indecent expanse of the unfettered mind, and maybe get a little bit delirious yourself. Free your mind....and great sex will follow! In SUGARSHUTTLE EXPRESS by Sommer Marsden, a three-day hike becomes a three-day high when Danny and Wren climb aboard! The mystic waters of the Lakeshore Spa are the domain of Gilinda the Good....but Gilinda is not always so good, in GILINDA AND THE WICKED WITCH by Vanessa de Sade. In LILITH RETURNS by Kristina Wright, Adam and Eve have lived together in harmony for millennia. But the return of the demon Lilith is set to result in one cataclysmic climax! Then, a young woman is left fighting for her very body and soul when a pagan ritual goes suddenly wrong, in A WOMAN POSSESSED by Velvet Tripp. And finally, in SMOKING HOT by Fulani, hypnosis as helped Hanna kick a 40-a-day smoking habit, but the side effects have been most unexpected!...

      • Erotic fiction

        Love Gun

        by Fulani

        A traffic jam introduces Cerise to a steampunk craftsman. Turns out, he’s recently made a Love Gun, and Cerise dares him to use it on her …

      • Erotic fiction
        September 2014

        Hunting Shooting Racing

        by Fulani

        In the downturn of disheartening recession, an entrepreneurial couple lift spirits by taking their private games public!

      • Travel writing
        November 2004

        Frail Dream of Timbuktu

        by Bettina Selby

        In her latest journey, the most exotic and challenging of them all, Bettina Selby set out to explore the land of ancient African empires along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert. Following the course of the river Niger, from Niamey through the fabled city of Tibuktu and so on to Djenne and Segou, she reveals a lost world of cities founded centuries ago on the rich profits from trade and spices, gold and slaves. It was not only the siren call of these cities that drew Bettina to the Sahel, but the harsh beauty of the land and curiosity about the people who live there now. Some Fulani and Tuareg, still proudly nomadic manage to scrape a living from the thin soil as the desert encroaches. In the mountains to the south the Dogon have lived for centuries in their curious villages clinging to the cliffs, still haunted by the spirits of their ancestors. Needless to say the spectacle of a single woman on a bicycle was greeted with amazement and curiosity in almost equal measure. But even an all-terrain bicycle was not always equal to the desert conditions, so Bettina, nothing if not flexible, took to pirogue, camel or bush taxi as the occasion demanded. With the ‘strong brown god’ of the Niger flowing through her account, a lost corner of Africa unfolds on either side. Full of echoes of the past, its future is precarious, and Bettina Selby captures it here, remote, elusive and in transition. Bettina Selby is a real adventurer TLS

      • The Lebanon Cook Book

        by Zahra Hakim and Lisa Rammensee

        Welcome to delicious Lebanon!   Zahra Hakim will help us to discover the delicacies of the country, seasoned with personal memories and culinary traditions. Prepare irresistible hummus with her, make your own cream cheese the traditional way and enjoy her vegetable, fish and meat specialties.    Lebanese cuisine combines the flavors and spices of Europe with those of the Middle East in an incomparable way. The dishes in this book range from breakfast recipes, light starters and crunchy salads to rich mezze plates; from spicy and aromatic soups to traditional and modern main courses and fragrant desserts.   The beautiful watercolour illustrations by Lisa Rammensee also give a visual impression of the food and life in Lebanon and wet your appetite for the dishes, which are all easy to cook and a real treat.

      • Openning-up & Trade Power

        by Fuo Jianguo

        There are three parts of the book. In the first part, the author introduces to us the basic points of international trade theory as well as the characteristics of China's international trade development. In the second part, the author analyzes how China changed after intering into WTO. And then, he probes into the future of China;s becoming a trade power under the B&R Inniative and the circumstances of China's ful open after the Nineteenth National Congress.

      • You Stink!

        Major League Baseball's Terrible Teams and Pathetic Players

        by Eric Wittenberg (author), Michael Aubrecht (author)

        A satiric look at the jeer-ful side of our national pastimeThere are countless volumes celebrating the best teams in professional baseball. Unfortunately, winning represents only one side of the game. For every champion’s record-setting season, there has been an equally memorable story of defeat. These teams and their shameful contributions to America’s national pastime have been a neglected topic in the annals of baseball history. Until now.In You Stink!, two fanatical historians (or historian fans), Michael Aubrecht and Eric Wittenberg, give credit where it is far overdue with a statistically backed, satirical look at the worst teams and individuals ever to set foot on a diamond. You Stink! includes franchise origins, detailed stats, player profiles, photos, and more, as well as a collection of long-format essays in a “Hall of Shame” that recognizes some of the worst moments ever witnessed on a ball field. The first half of the book is based entirely on statistical data; in the second half the authors give their personal opinions.With an insightful foreword by Dave Raymond, the original “Phillie Phanatic,” You Stink! showcases disappointments on the diamond dating as far back as 1889. Readers are treated to stories of the worst teams, players, owners, calls, fans, plays, and more. A timeline of Major League terribleness and an assortment of quotations about losing complement this unique survey of shame.Ultimately, You Stink! celebrates a sport that gives us more than just wins and losses and drives to the heart of what all of us love about baseball. Fans bond with their teams, and everyone can relate to suffering through slumps. Watching our heroes stumble through ineptitude, boneheaded plays, and heartbreaking losses makes the celebration all the sweeter when victory finally comes.

      • Fiction

        Pathological States - a novel

        by Daniel Melnick

        Dr. Morris Weisberg is a distinguished sixty-year-old pathologist as well as an amateur violinist and classical music lover. The quixotic and troubled doctor discovers a disastrous instance of malpractice and a cover-up reaching to the office of the Director of his California hospital. During this year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Eichmann’s execution, and above-ground nuclear testing, Doctor Weisberg struggles to find a way to confront his own crisis. Morris and his wife, Sandra, were born in Europe near the start of the twentieth century, and each was brought to America at an early age. In 1962, the couple is living in suburbia, in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. They have two sons. Both are aspiring artists in their twenties, and one is straight, the other gay. As they test limits and act out their resentments, the household begins to fill with excesses, revelations, and rebellion. At work and at home, communication fails, brutal buried truths erupt, and Morris begins to descend into maddening depression. He seeks refuge in his love of classical music and in his California garden. His glassed-in lanai there offers him solace, a place – like Los Angeles itself – of pleasure and escape, which ends up being a haunted, alienated space. As Morris plummets, his struggle to keep affirming his faith in both science and music wavers. Dr. Weisberg becomes a powerfully moving, larger-than-life character – noble, destructive, and terrifying.

      • Children's & YA
        June 2023

        My Beloved Monster

        by Marta Łabęcka

        Why did you do this, Chad?!   Norwood in North Carolina was considered the calmest place on Earth. Its residents knew each other very well — they were aware of their neighbours’ joys and sorrows, spent their time together, they were friends. People used to say nothing bad ever happens in Norwood. Adults said these words gently and calmly, teenagers with a degree of irritation. With all its idyllic qualities their small town was just boring.   It had been like this until the day Chadwick Myers decided to ruin this peace fulness and aimed his gun at his best friends. The fact that his girlfriend Holly Wilson was absent from school made her in everyone’s eyes an accomplice in the cruel crime which resulted in Norwood suddenly making the front page of newspapers in the USA.   What was behind this horrible act of Holly’s beloved? Is Chadwick Myers really a monster that the residents of Norwood take him for? Will the girl eventually learn the truth?

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