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How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to apply these ideas to...

An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers. Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.” The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim...

This month we have a few trips into the surreal, with a workplace fight, a shape-shifting shopper, and an unidentified no-longer-flying object. There are plenty of great ideas and story lines to enjoy, so have a seat in the shade and get started. FICTION VORTEX: Founded in the 277th...

Stefania Lassister and Marcus Dresden are licensed private investigators at a security consulting firm in Chicago, Illinois.  Their work is exciting, dangerous and full of risk and that’s just the way they like it.  Stefania has never run from a good challenge, but the hardest one she’s...

In the 24th Century technology has evolved but greed and war are constant. A rookie starship captain but a veteran of the recent Gothoan War, Vanessa Swann searches the outer rim of the galaxy for any sign of rebel activity. Her favorite pastimes are kicking enemy butt and making time with the ladies....

While undercover agent Emily Baptiste is investigating a rash of disappearances in rural Kentucky, she discovers something that strains the limits of credulity. The kidnapped are being hunted for sport. When she is also captured, Emily discovers an insane truth. The missing are taken through an inter-dimensional...

This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a forward by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly). Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it’s both a place of refuge and...

A love story in Los Angeles, New York and İstanbul..  This is first book written as a hobby by Author.

A Romeo and Juliet story set against the strict Muslim laws of Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman Addonia’s astonishing debut novel is a sensuous and intensely wrought story of a young immigrant and a girl behind a veil who defy law and risk their lives to be together. Under a relentless summer sun,...

Victoria Simmons and Harrison Taylor are partners in crime—literally at a prestigious private investigations firm in Washington, D.C.  So far they have been just fine with the status quo—until now. During an investigation, the two are forced together in unexpected circumstances....

Justin Langley’s best friend, Adrian, is determined not to be a pawn in his mother’s love matching scheme.  When she sets up a blind date for him, Adrian decides to teach her a lesson; he stands his date up!  Intent on doing the right thing, Justin goes to the restaurant to break the...

Promises of free land lured thousands to stake their claim to the vast American plains. They built make-do homes and put all they had into improving the land. Very often romantic thoughts took a back burner to priorities having to do with the land. In these nine novellas, individuals are forced to encounter...

Arranged marriage without romance was once a rather common occurrence, and if love developed, they counted themselves fortunate. From England to the American west, nine historical couples enter marriage agreements by both coercion and necessity. After beginnings involving a bride swap, the gossip mill,...

Eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab's theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the powerlessness...