Quercus: 997 books
by Louise O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
'Utterly magnificent . . . gripping, accomplished and dark' Marian Keyes
WINNER: Newcomer of the Year at the IBAs
WINNER: Bookseller YA Prize
WINNER: CBI Eilis Dillon Award
Buzzfeed's Best Books Written by Women in 2014
The bestselling novel about beauty, body image and betrayal
eves...
Kids Like Me
Voices of the Immigrant Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Whether fleeing the ravages of war or coming in search of opportunities, the story of immigration remains the principal narrative of our times.
As our neighborhoods grow more diverse, a splendid variety of cultures, values and traditions become an important part of our classrooms and schools....
Three Minutes
Ewert Grens 6
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
INFILTRATOR
One-time Swedish government agent Piet Hoffmann is on the run from the life prison sentence he escaped: living under a false identity with his family in Calí, Colombia.
INFORMANT
When Hoffmann is offered employment by a Colombian drug mafia, and is simultaneously...
The Firemaker
China Thriller 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
THE FIRST OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA NOVELS, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE.
LI YAN
A grotesquely burned corpse found in a city park is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Yan, devoted to his career as a means of...
Camille
The Final Paris Crime Files Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
MEET COMMANDANT CAMILLE VERHOEVEN OF THE PARIS POLICE
WITH NOTHING ELSE TO LOSE
Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jeweller's on the Champs-Élysées. Bludgeoned beyond recognition, she is lucky to survive. But her ordeal...
Third Culture Kids 3rd Edition
The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
The absolute authority on Third Culture Kids for nearly two decades!
In this 3rd edition of the ground-breaking global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original co-author, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK...
Reading Between the Signs Workbook
A Cultural Guide for Sign Language Students and Interpreters
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
This helpful workbook functions as a companion and supplement to Anna Mindess's earlier book, Reading Between the Signs: A Cultural Guide for Sign Language Interpreters, a recognized classic text for sign language interpreters and ASL students. It is arranged to correspond with the theory presented...
Watching the English
The Hidden Rules of English Behavior Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions
Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This...
by Monisha Rajesh
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
"Crackles and sparks with life like an exploding box of Diwali fireworks." -- William Dalrymple
In 1991, Monisha Rajesh's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. Two years later, fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads and the creepy...
Encountering the Chinese
A Modern Country, an Ancient Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
"A classic must-read for everyone coming to work or live in China." - Shelley Warner and Tony Voutas, cross-cultural trainers and founders of Asia Pacific Access Ltd, China
China is in the midst of unprecedented economic and cultural growth. In the last decade alone, China joined...
Understanding Arabs
A Contemporary Guide to Arab Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
NEW 6TH EDITION NOW AVAILABLE
This Fifth Editon of the highly successful guide to arab society - published in line with the Arab Spring. The perfect introduction to contemporary Arab culture for those who want to understand today's headlines and the complex events playing out on the world stage.
From...
Binary
®Evolution Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
When confiscated genestock is stolen out of secure government quarantine, DI Sharon Varsi finds herself on the biggest case of her career: chasing down a clever thief, a mysterious hacker, and the threat of new, black market gemtech.
Zavcka Klist, ruthless industrial enforcer, has reinvented...
Tyrant's Throne
The Greatcoats Book 4
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
'First-rate fiction, first rate adventure, first rate full stop' - Sunday Times bestseller Conn Iggulden.
Would you - could you? - uphold the law at the cost of those you love?
Falcio val Mond, First Cantor of the Greatcoats, is on the brink of fulfilling his dead King's dream: Aline...
by David Hair
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Return to Urte, a land in chaos, where the smallest choice may save or damn the world.
The Moontide has come, and a scarlet tide of Rondian legions is flooding into the East, slaughtering and pillaging in the name of Emperor Constant. But the Scytale of Corineus, the source of ultimate magical...