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Lamonte Aidoo upends dominant narratives of Brazilian national identity by showing how the myth of racial democracy is based on interracial and same-sex sexual violence between slave owners and their slaves that operated as a mechanism of perpetuating slavery and heteronormative white patriarchy.

This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to discover the story of land and ancient life evolution in Oman since at least 800 million years ago. Oman is well known for its marvelous geology. What tectonics affected this part of the world and what organisms lived there? How did the climate and life develop? Did life forms become more complex and varied or become extinct and disappear forever? The book thoroughly reconstructs this land an...

Ossobuco, Hähnchencurry oder doch Schnitzel mit Pommes? Um Deutschlands Lieblingsessen zu finden, hat die GU Kochbuch-Redaktion nachgefragt. Herausgekommen ist ein brandaktueller und authentischer Überblick über die Top 100 von Bayern bis Friesland. Und ein Kochbuch, wie es sein muss: Prallvoll mit Lieblingsessen - von deftig bis süß, von rustikal bis exotisch - und dazu interaktiv und voller Genüsse. Hier sind nicht nur die wahren Lieblingsge...

A WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ACADEMY RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018!In this literate and action-packed historical thriller, set during World War II, a plucky code-breaker fights to keep a deadly secret as her Bonnie-and-Clyde past threatens to catch up with her. Thirty-year-old Lena Stillman is living a perfectly respectable life when a shocking newspaper headline calls up her past: it concerns her former lover, charismatic bank robber Bill Bagley. A romant...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil - felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky...

Agatha Award-winning author G. M. Malliet returns with Devil's Breath, the sixth mystery in her wildly popular series featuring handsome spy-turned-cleric Father Max Tudor. Having realized there is no escape from his past as an agent, Max has offered his services to MI5 on an as-needed basis. Now it's time for him to follow through. The body of glamorous film star Margot Browne has washed ashore from a luxury yacht and Max's former colleague w...

The powerful story of a friendship between two men-one Sikh and one skinhead-that resulted in an outpouring of love and a mission to fight against hate.One Sikh. One former Skinhead. Together, an unusual friendship emerged out of a desire to make a difference.When white supremacist Wade Michael Page murdered six people and wounded four in a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin in 2012, Pardeep Kaleka was devastated. The temple leader, now dead, was his fa...

Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one of the people responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of natural-and unnatural-catastrophes and fatalities.Homicides and suicides, fires and floods, hoarders and addicts. When properties are damaged or neglected, it falls to Sandra Pankhurst, ...

Trucks are tough and sturdy. They take on heavy loads, then thunder on their giant tires down long and busy roads.From semitrailers to tankers, rumble down the road with a team of animal truckers in this lively story, now in an attractive board book format perfect for small hands. Young children will adore it as will the adults who get to read aloud these irresistible rhymes!

From race cars to farm tractors, this board book series features wacky animals driving a variety of vehicles in lively stories. Young children are sure to adore these books as will the adults who get to read these irresistible rhymes out loud. Full color.

Diggers are noisy, strong, and big. Diggers can carry and push and dig. Diggers have shovels to scoop and lift, blades that bulldoze, shunt, and shift. Sloshing and squelching, and smashing and bashing, the construction machinery does its work - manned by a friendly animal gang - in this lively story now in an attractive board book format perfect for small hands. Young children will adore it as will the adults who get to read aloud these irres...

Based on the all-new television series focusing on the earlier teenage years of Dracula's daughter Mavis and her three closest friends, Hank N. Stein, Pedro and Wendy Blob. With Dracula away on "Official Vampire Business, " Mavis finally sees her chance to show her father what she can do. With the help of her friends, she decides to put her brilliant ideas of how to run the Hotel into motion, but-enter Aunt Lydia, Dracula's older and authorita...

Originally published in 1970 and then again in 2001, this Newbery Honor-winning book is reissued in a stunning new package and includes a new Foreword by Lois Lowry.

Bist du bereit, dich auf einen Sünder einzulassen?Nach einem Leben voller Lügen und Verrat ist Jackson Stone kein Mann, der leicht jemandem vertraut - und Frauen schon gar nicht. Für ihn geht es in jedem Bereich seines Lebens um Kontrolle. Besonders im Bett. Aber die sexy Barkeeperin Tara Kent hat etwas Besonderes an sich, das er unwiderstehlich findet. Etwas, das ihn dazu bringt, seine Prinzipien zu untergraben und seine Regeln etwas lockerer...

Four friends . . . Joni has been best friends with Deb, Eden, and Trina since high school, sharing a bond that has seen them through their teenage years and into adulthood. But now, time and circumstance is starting to pull them apart as careers, husbands, and babies get in the way. Four secrets . . . During a laughter and wine-filled night, the women dare one another to write anonymous letters, spilling their deepest, darkest secrets. Each le...

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Diese Insel ist eine Mischung aus High-Tech und Tradition, aus überwältigender Natur und überbordender Kultur. Hier brodelt nicht nur die Erde, sondern auch das Leben. Das quirlige Reykjavík und das beschauliche Landleben sind nur wenige Kilometer voneinander entfernt.Ausgewählte Touren führen im POLYGLOTT auf Reisen Island vorbei an Geysiren und Gletschern durch Fjordlandschaften, in den Snæfellsjökull-Nationalpark, auf die Vulkaninsel Heimae...

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A young girl tries her hardest to respond to devastating news as compassionately and empathetically as possible in this charming debut picture book. Full color.

The funniest kid in fiction is back and he's got a lot to SHOUT about!