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Sarah McKenzie Literary Management provides advice, advocacy and representation to Australian authors. As well as representing best-selling authors with a proven track record, we love to identify and champion talented new and emerging writers of children's fiction, commercial fiction, literary and narrative nonfiction.
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June 2019Dry Up the Sea
by Fang Suzhen, Sarah Ugolotti
Dry Up the Sea is according to the folktales of Cambodia. There were many sunk merchant ships on the bottom of the sea. Many treasures and gold and silver contained in these ships also laid on the seabed along with these ships. The two friends acted together and wanted to dry the sea to gain the treasure of the sea. However, a Dragon King lived in the Crystal Palace on the bottom of the sea. The Dragon King for sure wanted to stop them.
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August 2015Bai Ethnic Group: Cangshan Mountain, Erhai Lake and the March Fair
by Fang Suzhen, Xuan Sen
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2016 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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August 2015Dai Ethnic Group: Water-splashing Festival in the Peacock Country
by Fang Suzhen, Zhu Xunde
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2020 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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July 2014Ambush
by Fang Fang
This collection of works by writer Fang Fang includes novelettes such as Ambush, My Beginning Is Also My End, Floating Clouds and Flowing Water, Performance Art, and Scenery that have already been translated into English, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Thai and Portuguese, and published abroad. Among these, Scenery won the National Outstanding Novelette Prize and caused a national sensation. It also established her as one of the representatives of China’s “new realists”. Her other works have also won her many national important prizes such as Fiction Monthly Hundred Flowers Awards.
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August 2015Buyi Ethnic Group: The Bull King Festival
by Tang Sulan, Chen Xunru
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2017 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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August 2015Tibetan Ethnic Group: The Sacred Bathing Festival
by Bing Bo, Chen Yadan
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2018 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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August 2015Chaoxian Ethnic Group: The Fivegrain Ceremony for Crows
by Tang Sulan, Zhou Weizhao
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2019 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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August 2015Han Ethnic Group: Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival
by Xiao Mao, He Xu
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2021 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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August 2015Li Ethnic Group: Sing and Dancing on the Third Day of the Third Month
by Bing Bo, Zheng Xiaojuan
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2022 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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August 2015Man Ethnic Group: Flowers of Nian xi and the May Festival
by Xiao Mao, Zhu Hong
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2023 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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August 2015Miao Ethnic Group:Hundreds of Thousands Flowers Bloom on the Eighth day of the Fourth Month
by Wang Yimei, Liao Zhenghua
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2024 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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August 2015Tujia Ethnic Group: Basking Dragon Robe on the Sixth Day of the Sixth Month
by Wang Yimei, Cai Gao
Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups was co-authored by China's well-beloved authors of children's literature including Fang Suzhen, Tang Sulan, Wang Yimei, and was illustrated by celebrated Chinese illustrators such as Cai Gao, Chen Yadan and Zhu Xunde. This series covers intriguing, outstanding and poetic folk tales on festivals and customs from China's ten most representative ethnic groups. Showcasing their courage, gentleness and indomitable will, these delightful stories allow readers to learn more about the distinct and charming characteristics of these ethnic groups. Recommended as parent-child reading by CCTV during the Dragon Boat Festival, this series has won the Most Beautiful Picture Book 2025 prize given by China Library Journal. It was also nominated for the top picture books prize in China for the Chinese Government Award.
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June 2019The Crow and the Sparrow
by Fang Suzhen, Paola De Gaudio
The Crow and the Sparrow is according to the folktales of Bangladesh. Once upon a time, a sparrow and a crow were looking for food, and the crow tried to play a trick to eat the sparrow. The sparrow saw the malice of the crow, and it calmly came up with a solution. The cruel and cunning crow was burned to black, and the honest sparrow lived happily.
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October 2009Die Gespenster von Berlin
Unheimliche Geschichten
by Sarah Khan
Ein Gespenst geht um in Friedrichshain und setzt teure Autos in Brand. Ein politisch motivierter Sühneakt? Sarah Khan geht der Sache nach und macht in alten Archiven der Stadt eine fürchterliche Entdeckung: Im Tunnel des Stettiner Bahnhofs, heute Nordbahnhof, wurden 1945 verwundete Wehrmachtssoldaten ermordet. Im Mietshaus in Prenzlauer Berg will niemand lange wohnen bleiben, auch Sarah Khans Freundin Heike nicht. Durchs Treppenhaus spukt eine im Zweiten Weltkrieg verhungerte Klavierlehrerin. Wer war diese Frau? Sarah Khan sucht in alten Berliner Adressbüchern, auf Deportationslisten und findet ihren Namen schließlich im Totenbuch der Elias-Gemeinde aus dem Jahr 1945. Ob mal jemand was gehört hat, von Spukhäusern, unerklärlichen Vorkommnissen? hat Sarah Khan Freunde und Bekannte, zugezogene und alteingesessene Berliner gefragt. Die Auskünfte haben es in sich. Haarsträubende Ereignisse, unerklärliche Vorkommnisse, jenseitige Erfahrungen. Die Gespenster haben eine Botschaft, sagt Sarah Khan, sie macht sich zur Vermittlerin. Mit Geschichten, die uns Schauer über den Rücken jagen. "Sarah Khan forscht Gespenstern nach und fördert deutsche Geschichte zutage. Meisterhaft recherchiert, großartig geschrieben, zutiefst unheimlich." Daniel Kehlmann
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April 2017Das Stammeln der Wahrsagerin
Unglaubliche Geschichten hinter Kleinanzeigen. Recherchiert und erzählt von Sarah Khan
by Sarah Khan
Wohnungsauflösungen und Tabula rasa, Not- und Spontanverkäufe. Was treibt Menschen dazu, sich über Kleinanzeigen für kleines Geld von ihren Dingen zu trennen? Ernsthaft, in Kaufabsicht, hat Sarah Khan viele Inserierende getroffen und genau hingehört, als sie anfingen, ihre Lebensgeschichten zu erzählen – u nd aus Oral History Literatur gemacht. Entstanden sind Geschichten von Abschied und Neuanfang, Glück und Unglück, von hochfahrenden oder bereits geplatzten Träumen. Seit Sarah Khan mit ihrer Familie ein altes Schulhaus in Brandenburg renoviert und als Wochenendhaus einrichtet, studiert sie ständig eBay-Kleinanzeigen. Sie findet dort nicht nur Haushaltsgegenstände, sondern auch ungetragene Hochzeitskleider, Pferdebücher, Kosmetikartikel, Fotoalben. Und sie stellt fest: Hinter diesen Anzeigen verbergen sich Menschen. Die traurige Yvonne mit ihrem Hochzeitskleid; eine junge Frau, die ernsthaft glaubt, mit ihrer Pferdebuchsammlung könne sie ihre Altersversorgung sichern; eine Wahrsagerin, die ihre Dienste anbietet und dabei ins Stammeln gerät; ein Tierpfleger, genannt der »Affen-Walter«, der einst Michael Jackson durch den Berliner Zoo geführt hat, Bilder im Album zeugen davon. Was ist diesen Menschen passiert, die sich von Teilen ihres Lebens trennen wollen? Sie haben es Sarah Khan erzählt, und Sarah Khan hat ihre Geschichten aufgeschrieben.
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2015Zeng Guo Fang's Diary
by Tang Hao Ming
This book gives a vivid description to Zeng Guofan, the most prominent but controversial person in modern China. The diary was written by Zeng himself and it was a record about his activities and thinking and decisions back in time. It is the most complete compilation of Zeng's diary.
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April 1991betrifft: Sarahs Cousin
Roman
by Raymond Federman, Peter Torberg
»Ich kann schon die Einsprüche hören. Nicht schon wieder!Warum eigentlich nicht? Ein Thema so gut wie jedes andere und ziemlich in Mode heutzutage.«Ein Autor wie Raymond Federman darf diese bestürzende Wahrheit so lakonisch in Erinnerung rufen, denn sein ›Thema‹ heißt Deportation und Vernichtung. ›Post-Holocaust‹ hat Raymond Hederman seine Literatur genannt. Das schriftstellerische Werk des heute in den Vereinigten Staaten lebenden Avantgarde-Autors bringt der Suhrkamp Verlag seit vergangenem Jahr neu heraus oder stellt es, wie den vorliegenden Roman - ›betrifft: Sarahs Cousin‹, erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor. Das Versteck im Wandschrank bewahrte Raymond Federman davor, wie seine Eltern und Schwestern am 16. Juli des Jahres 1942 aus Paris nach Auschwitx deportiert zu werden. Er »hat den Tod hinter sich« — aber nicht vom Tod wollen Raymond Federmans Romane erzählen, sondern vom Überleben, vom zweiten Leben eines Verschonten.Sarah und ihr Cousin warten aufeinander: er wartet wegen eines verspäteten Weiterflugs nach Israel auf dem Flughafen jener Stadt, in der er geboren wurde; sie erwartet seit Stunden mit ihrem Mann Elis auf einem israelischen Flughafen ihren Cousin. Beide, Sarah hier und ihr Cousin dort, sehen tiefbewegt von schmerzhaften, schuldbeladenen und selbstzweiflerischen Erinnerungen an ein geteiltes Schicksal ihrem ersten Wiedersehen seit 35 Jahren entgegen. Der Schrecken in ihrer Vergangenheit, durch den ihnen auch ein »Mehr an Leben verliehen worden war«, ist datierbar auf den 16. Juli des zweiten Invasionsjahres, als sie die Deportation ihrer Eltern und Geschwister überlebten: die neunjährige Sarah auf der Straße, weil ihre Mutter sie zum Einkaufen schickte, kurz bevor die Familie abgeholt wurde; der drei Jahre ältere Cousin im Wandschrank, in den ihn seine Mutter stieß, als die Soldaten kamen. Auf dem Land versteckt, überlebten Sarah und ihr Cousin, fanden sich nach dem Krieg wieder, bevor sich ihre Wege trennten. Er emigrierte nach Amerika und wurde ein berühmter Bildhauer, sie, weil ihr das Visum wegen einer Krankheit verweigert wurde, wanderte aus, um in einem Kibbuz mitzuhelfen, ein neues jüdisches Land und Leben aufzubauen.Das ist die Geschichte, die Raymond Lederman erzählt - oder genauer: er denkt nach über diese Geschichte, die in »betrifft: Sarahs Cousin« aus nichts anderem besteht als den melancholisch-heiteren Spekulationen über Form und Möglichkeiten, diese Überlebensgeschichte mitzuteilen.
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January 2020Sea Level
A Portrait of Zanzibar
by Sarah Markes
‘Sea Level’ is a creative celebration of Zanzibar’s rich and fascinating heritage as seen today. Captured in drawings by artist and designer Sarah Markes, this is a unique and personal portrait of Stone Town’s colourful streets, and a portrayal of the island’s natural beauty and culture. It is also a plea for recognition of the threats posed to Zanzibar’s heritage and the inestimable value of conserving it.This is the second book in the series, following ‘Street Level - A collection of drawings and creative writing inspired by Dar es Salaam’. Now in its third edition, ‘Street Level’ was described by MG Vassanji as “A truly delightful book, a must for those who love Dar and care about its history.”
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June 2019Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie
by Brennan, Sarah Rees; Wasserman, Robin; Johnson, Maureen; Clare, Cassandra
Der Spin-off zur Bestsellerserie „Chroniken der Unterwelt“ - Action, Romantik, Spannung pur! Ohne Erinnerungen muss Simon, Clarys irdischer Freund, herausfinden, wer er eigentlich ist. Hat er das Zeug zum Helden und Dämonenjäger? Oder ist er doch der bleiche Comic-Fan, der nicht einmal die Kraft hat, eine Waffe der Nephilim richtig in der Hand zu führen? Seine Schattenjäger-Freunde Clary und Jace sind die einzigen, die alles über Simons Vergangenheit wissen. Und was sie erzählen, kann er kaum glauben: Simon hat als treuer Freund die Schattenjäger mehr als einmal aus tödlicher Gefahr gerettet. Jetzt muss er um Isabelle kämpfen, an deren Liebe er sich nicht erinnern kann, obwohl es in seinem Bauch kribbelt, wann immer Simon an sie denkt. War er wirklich mit diesem heldenhaften Mädchen zusammen - und wenn ja: Wie hat er das nur angestellt? 10 romantische und actionreiche Geschichten rund um die beliebten Heldengestalten Jace, Clary und Simon aus der Bestseller-Reihe „Chroniken der Unterwelt“. Von Kultautorin Cassandra Clare. Zu jeder Geschichte gibt es einen illustrativen Comic-Strip von Cassandra Jean. Dieser Band enthält die Episoden: Cassandra Clare/ Maureen Johnson, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (1): Willkommen in der Schattenjäger-Akademie Cassandra Clare/ Robin Wasserman, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (2): Der verschollene Herondale Cassandra Clare/ Maureen Johnson, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (3): Der Teufel von Whitechapel Cassandra Clare/ Sarah Rees Brennan, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (4): Nichts als Schatten Cassandra Clare/ Robin Wasserman, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (5): Das Böse, das wir lieben Cassandra Clare/ Robin Wasserman, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (6): Könige, Fürsten, so bleich Cassandra Clare/ Sarah Rees Brennan, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (7): Bittere Wahrheit Cassandra Clare/ Sarah Rees Brennan, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (8):Die Feuerprobe Cassandra Clare/Sarah Rees Brennan, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (9): Zu endloser Nacht geboren Cassandra Clare/ Robin Wasserman, Legenden der Schattenjäger-Akademie (10): Die Wiederkehr der Engel
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2025Wildly different
How five women reclaimed nature in a man’s world
by Sarah Lonsdale
The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth. For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful myths about what would happen if they ventured beyond the city wall or village boundary. So how did women claim their place in the remote and lovely parts of our planet? In Wildly different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth's wild places. We'll meet Mina Hubbard, who outraged the exploration community when she stepped into a canoe in northern Labrador. Evelyn Cheesman, who became the first female keeper of insects at London Zoo. Dorothy Pilley, who shocked polite society by donning men's climbing breeches. Ethel Haythornthwaite, who helped make the Peak District Britain's first National Park. And Wangari Maathai, who started a movement to plant millions of trees across sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Wangari Maathai's daughter and others, Lonsdale recounts the women's adventures across five continents. Evocative and inspiring, this book shows how women can be 'wildly different'.
