Karen 劉凱綸: 6616 books
Bundle of Joy
Caring for your child in the first year of life
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
The arrival of a new baby brings a sense of euphoria and serenity that are often mixed with feelings of uncertainty and frustration. Making sure your crib is safe, worrying about how to stop a fussy baby from crying, finding the right feeding schedule and knowing when to introduce solid foods are...
by Karen Young
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
A moving story from award-winning author Karen Young. Perfect reading for the Christmas season!
Luke Jamison: Dedicated Doctor and Reluctant Substitute Dad
Dr. Luke Jamison would do anything to help his patients-anything but get emotionally attached. He tried that once, and it nearly...
by Karen T. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Ali isn’t like her sister, Julia. She keeps to herself on the Lunar Colony where they live. But when Julia offers her a chance to buy apples, a rarity on the moon, she goes along, enticed by the idea of seeing her cute classmate Kofi. When some of the kids decide to mess around with an airlock’s...
A Treasury of Miracles for Teens
True Stories of Gods Presence Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
A terrifying abduction leaves two girls desperate to escape. . .a blizzard howls around a freezing young hiker. . .a twin in a hospital waiting room has never felt so afraid. . ..Where can they turn when it seems that nothing, no one, can help them? The answer is as close as a heartbeat, because God...
National Abjection
The Asian American Body Onstage
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
National Abjection explores the vexed relationship between "Asian Americanness" and "Americanness” through a focus on drama and performance art. Karen Shimakawa argues that the forms of Asian Americanness that appear in U.S. culture are a function of national abjection—a process...
The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development
Rights, Culture, Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development. Karen Engle traces the history of these claims, considering the prevalence of particular legal frameworks and their costs and benefits for indigenous groups. Her vivid account...
Imaginary Betrayals
Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "constructive" treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecution. By the sixteenth century, treason was...
Racecraft
The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call “racecraft.”...
1974: I-Migrant
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The seventh novella in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Francisco’s Asian-American community through the civil rights era.
Centered around the International Hotel, a historic low-income residence in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the ten novellas of Karen Tei Yamashita’s...
’n Tyd om te dans / ’n Tyd om lief te hê Omnibus
Vir almal wat in die krag van liefde glo
Language: Afrikaans
Release Date: November 24, 2011
John en Abby Reynolds is die toonbeeld van ‘n gelukkig getroude paartjie. Vriende beny hulle, kollegas bewonder hulle en hul kinders koester die beeld van ‘n ma en pa wat versot is op mekaar. Hul droom-huwelik is egter ‘n illusie – John staan op die punt van ‘n affair, en Abby is lankal nie...
by Karen Stollznow
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Has anything mysterious ever happened to you?Experiences of this kind are more common than you think. And to people you’d least expect, even notable scientists and skeptics.This collection features personal stories and experiences of the mysterious, as told by such people. People like...
by Karen Leahy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Michael Emmett Doherty was born to Irish immigrants living in New York. The first five years of his life were filled with emotional and physical abuse from his alcoholic parents. In 1975, he was sent to live with his grandparents in war torn Belfast, Northern Ireland during the height of “The Troubles”....
by Karen S. McGowan, Dennis E. McGowan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Kelly, the cute dachshund, was having difficulty going to sleep so she decided to read a book. Even that didn’t help because the moon was so bright. She also knew she wouldn’t be able to sleep because her belly was hungry. Harrumph! Kelly was not going to let a hungry belly and bright moonlight...
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan In and Out of Time
A Children's Classic at 100
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Celebrating 100 years of Peter Pan, this fourth volume in the Centennial Studies series explores the cultural contents of Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of Peter Pan on children's literature and popular culture today, especially focusing on the fluctuations of time and narrative strategies....