Helene Smith: 5 books

I wish I had a friend, just one friend who would listen. I wish I could write a story, just one story I could finish. I wish everything could be like it was last summer.      On her first holiday with her dad since her parents split up, Lucy is unhappy. Even her talent for writing stories has...

In the beginning, Celia seemed like a normal kid, but then... I crept out onto the balcony while Mum, Dad and Big Olive talked...."I've seen how she is and I'm almost certain she is going to turn out like Hetty," said Big Olive. "It's the wohunk streak..."

This is more than a book about survival.  Andre and Leila, teenagers of the future and their young sister, Bonnie are thrust into a life of chaos after an enemy strike on their home city of Morwena. They are forced to combat the deadly GRIM and others with their own dark agendas but the will...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...

This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map...