` Whenever I find myself thinking in a brooding way, I must simply turn it off & think of something else. God forbid that I should become an eccentric.` Rachel Cameron is a shy, retiring schoolmistress, tethered to her overbearing invalid mother. Thirty-four & unmarried, she feels herself edging towards a lonely spinsterhood. But then she falls in love for the first time, & embarks upon an affair that will change her life in unforeseen ways. ...

A powerful, haunting, contemporary debut that steps seamlessly from the horrors of people-trafficking to the magic of African folklore, by an award-winning Ghanaian-British filmmaker. Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants & refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she`s a member of Mama Rose`s unique & dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them: A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall...if Sante is to tell their story & her own. Rich in the rhythms & colours of Africa & glittering circus days. Unflinching in its dark revelations about life. Yaba Badoe`s novel is beautiful & cruel & will linger long in the memory. ...

A powerful, haunting, contemporary debut that steps seamlessly from the horrors of people-trafficking to the magic of African folklore, by an award-winning Ghanaian-British filmmaker. Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants & refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she`s a member of Mama Rose`s unique & dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them: A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall..... . are these the missing pieces of the jigsaw which will tell Sante`s story? ...

Mohamed El-Bachiri is a Muslim. He lost his wife Loubna in the Brussels bombing of March 2016
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Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west & Lithuania at its southern border, & now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany & returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. It is now a nowhere land of wide skies & forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles & ex-KGB prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn to this buffer between the Germanic & Slav worlds. His digressive travels at the wheel of a Skoda become an investigation into the whereabouts of a former lover, a search for an excavator of tombs, & a journey in the footsteps of Louis XVIII, for whom Courland was once a place of exile. ...

Immigration & the growing Latino population of the United States have become such contentious issues that it can be hard to have a civil conversation about how Latinoization is changing the face of America. So in the summer of 2007, Louis Mendoza set out to do just that. Starting from Santa Cruz, California, he bicycled 8, 500 miles around the entire perimeter of the country, talking to people in large cities & small towns about their experiences either as immigrants or as residents who have welcomed--or not--Latino immigrants into their communities. He presented their enlightening, sometimes surprising, firsthand accounts in Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration & the Latinoization of the United States. Now, in A Journey Around Our America, Mendoza offers his own account of the visceral, emotional, intellectual, & spiritual

Dimensions of traveling the country in search of a deeper, broader understanding of what it means to be Latino in the United States in the twenty-first century. With a blend of first- & second-person narratives, blog entries, poetry, & excerpts from conversations he had along the way, Mendoza presents his own aspirations for & critique of social relations, political ruminations, personal experiences, & emotional vulnerability alongside the stories of people from all walks of life, including students, activists, manual laborers, & intellectuals. His conversations & his experiences as a Latino on the road reveal the multilayered complexity of Latino life today as no academic study or newspaper report ever could.

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”A Journey into Flaubert’s Normandy”, is a fascinating, lively, & informative book
- richly illustrated with 19th-century art,
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. For the last ten years, journalist Jens Mühling has been traveling through Russia in search of stories that appear unbelievable: a hermit from the Taiga who only recently discovered there was a world beyond the woods; a mathematician who believes a thousand years of Russian history to be a fairy tale; a priest who ventures into the exclusion zone around Chernobyl to preach to those that stubbornly remain there. Mühling shows us a country whose customs, contradictions, absurdities, & attractions are still largely unknown beyond its borders. ...

Ten years ago journalist Jens Muhling met Juri, a Russian television producer whose job it was to sell stories to TV stations in Germany but who always maintained that ` The true stories are more unbelievable than anything I could invent.` Ever since, Jens Muhling has been travelling through Russia in search of stories that appear too unbelievable to be true: a hermit from the Taiga who only recently found out that there was a world beyond the woods, a priest who ventures into the exclusion zone around Chernobyl to preach to those that stubbornly remain there, & many more. Jens Muhling shows us a country whose customs, contradictions, absurdities & attractions are still largely unknown beyond its borders. ...

In the first book of its kind, Aaron Rosen tells the story of how art developed across the world. He takes young readers on a journey through art history, from the Palaeolithic period to the present day, stopping off at thirty different locations around the world. As readers travel from one incredible destination to the next, they will discover the remarkable network of caves carved into the rock in ad 500 at Ajanta, India; Cambodia’s remarkable Angkor Wat as it stood in ad 1200; the glories of Renaissance Florence in ad 1500; & the remarkable energy in New York in the 1950s. At every stop-off point readers will encounter stories of astonishing artworks & the cultures that gave birth to them. There are three sections: prehistoric & ancient; medieval & early modern; & modern & contemporary. At each location, two beautifully illustrated spreads allow children to engage with the art, artifacts & culture of a unique place in time. Along the way, key movements & ideas are picked out & explained for a young audience. A Journey Through Art is the perfect companion for young explorers of the world’s cultural history ...