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Quillette magazine has provided a forum for thinkers of all political stripes to push back against the forces of intellectual conformity. Panics and Persecutions brings together a collection of especially compelling Quillette narratives, spanning subcultures from computer science to romance literature.
Documentary and Witness poetry capture the turbulence of contemporary life, its urgent issues where we all often helplessly confront individual crises and global disasters. In this collection of fifteen elegies, a little boy rides his bicycle through the wreckage of his hometown, Mosul; an animal rights activist attempts to rescue a truckload of pigs heading to slaughter; St John ignores the refugees drowning in the Mediterranean and continues to write a chapter of the Judeo-Christian Bible in his cave nearby; in Toronto a homeless beggar woman unexpectedly shows the narrator a glorious Asian pear; and a Japanese fisherman travels to northern B.C. in a redemptive moment encounters his childhood boat and an elusive spirit bear.
The poems in My Little Book of Exiles are engaged in stitching a frayed ancestry - Ashkenazi, survived by way of America - into the fabric of a twenty- first century life. These are poems of personal as well as cultural diaspora.
That Which I Touch Has No Name is dialogic, an attempt to unearth the equilibrium between the blank page and the self in urban and rural places. This multilingual, polyphonic book is an inking, a verbal construction, gnawing away at its own predecessors, at the way we read, and at language itself.
This is the story of one family's pain, passion and will to survive as their loved one clings to life. We have all heard the saying, 'Miracles can happen every day,' but until you see one with your own eyes, you rarely believe that to be true. This story will help you believe in that saying.
Figures of history and legend, contemporary figures, the poet's friends and neighbours, and some goddesses rub shoulders in these poems, which begin with the formation of continents and continue into the present.
Deeply personal and real, inside you will find a small collection of short pieces taken from moments in his life, including Jonathan's touching coming out story, as well as notes on the activities and writing games that inspired them in the hope that by being open and honest about his experiences, it may help others to do the same.
Life in Washington DC is trying to 'return to normal' after the trauma of September 11, 2001. George W. Bush is President and Hillary Clinton already has her eye on higher things. One morning Su Soeung, who first came to the US as a child refugee from Cambodia receives an intriguing job offer. So begins an extraordinary train of events.
Two young Alexandrians experience the Palestine/Israeli conflict in all its complexity from adolescence through to adulthood finally finding themselves as aid workers in the Gaza Strip on the eve of Nakba Day as Israel celebrates the announcement of US's intention to transfer their Embassy to Jerusalem.
Prepare for OCR A Level Chemistry with over 500 questions, answers and mind maps covering various topics. Learn everything you need to know for your exams, while working on your exam technique. Edited by a specialist OCR examiner, the answers in the book follow the marking scheme answer format.
Cherry Cola focuses on a girl and a boy's unfiltered relationship; giving a voice to both narratives and their individual internal struggles. The poetry centres around the journey of falling in love and it's aftermath.
This is a full-length study of the much-loved poet and classicist A.E. Housman, including a substantial appendix of his poems and illustrations from the early editions of his books of poetry which, in turn, depict the many ways his poems have been interpreted for almost a century.
This collection presents four decades of work, from seven collections and includes some poems which have not previously been published poems and others which have won some of Australia's most distinguished prizes. The poems are in a wide variety of forms and modes, but a concern with Australianness remains at the core of this selection.
This moving novel teases us with the question of what Dickens' Pip might have been like if he had grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues that galvanized the world in those decades: racial injustice, a war abroad, women's and gay rights, class struggle.
Now, here, is the paperback edition to celebrate the year of the everyday heroes, who changed our way of seeing the world of work and heroism - a picture book without words, timeless, universal, and finally, both heart-breaking and ennobling.
Sam's teen life changes instantly one day in Coventry when a terrible crime is committed. Soon, Sam has to accept a family member is a potential murderer - and he has to go into 'care'. Sam's journey takes him to a surprising new home and new friends, where dangerous enemies and forces emerge, to threaten his existence on many levels. As Sam encounters a final challenge that could kill or redeem him, the world appears to bleed into supernatural or mythic elements at the edges. Will the boy fly or fall? For anyone who has loved the works of Alan Garner, this is a deeply resonant, suspenseful, and magical book about childhood's darkness, strengths, and how lives may - or may not - escape unexpected nightmares.
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