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101 Amazing Facts about Queen Elizabeth II : 101 Amazing Facts
Goldstein, JackAndrews UK 2023 3. utgåvaQueen Elizabeth II passed away on the 8th September 2022. She left behind her seventy years of rule that saw massive change both in the Royal Family and throughout Britain in gener...
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Heathen : The Complete Series Omnibus Edition
Alterici, NatashaVault Comics 2022SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY – Viking Style! WOMAN. WARRIOR. VIKING. HEATHEN. OUTCAST. THE GODS MUST PAY... Born into a time of warfare, suffering, and subjugation of women, and ex...
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Folklorn
Hur, Angela Mi YoungErewhon 2021A New York Times Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021 An NPR Best Book of 2021A genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding love...
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The Stitcher and the Mute
Fields, D.K.Bloomsbury Publishing 2020'Melding noir with the fantasy genre, this is a rather clever read, one which feels especially prescient for our reality' SCIFINOW There's power in stories,but stories can be silen...
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The Mountains Sing
Nguyen, Que Mai PhanAlgonquin Books 2020This “moving and riveting” book shares a layered, epic, multigenerational story of the Vietnam war and its aftermath (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympat...
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A Castle in the Clouds
Gier, KerstinHenry Holt and Co. (BYR) 2020Witty and charming, New York Times-bestselling author Kerstin Gier's contemporary young adult novel A Castle in the Clouds follows a girl as she navigates secrets, romance, and dan...
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Widow's Welcome
Fields, D.K.Bloomsbury Publishing 2019There's power in stories. This is a story of power. Dead bodies aren't unusual in the alleyways of Fenest, capital of the Union of Realms. Especially not in an election year, when...
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Little White Duck : A Childhood in China
Martínez, Andrés Vera; Liu, NaLerner Publishing Group 2018 UnabridgedThe world is changing for two girls in China in the 1970s. Da Qin—Big Piano—and her younger sister, Xiao Qin—Little Piano—live in the city of Wuhan with their parents. For decades,...
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The Patterning Instinct : A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
Lent, JeremyBlackstone Publishing 2017This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds...
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Their Great Gift : Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land
Coy, JohnLerner Publishing Group 2016With lyrical text and thought-provoking photography, Their Great Gift explores the experiences of immigrants in the twenty-first century, focusing on the lives of children. Images...
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Red Bird Sings : The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
Capaldi, Gina; Pearce, Q. L.Lerner Publishing Group 2014"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in Sou...
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What My Mother Gave Me : Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most
Benedict, ElizabethAlgonquin Books 2013In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to th...
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Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Revisited, Volume 1
Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl; Grimm, Wilhelm CarlOpen Book Audio 2012 UnabridgedLet yourself be transported back to "Once Upon A Time" with these engaging fables from the Brothers Grimm. These are magical adventures from the original storytellers, beloved thro...
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Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us
Evans, NicholasJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2011 1. utgåvaThe next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the le...
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The Christmas Letters
Smith, LeeAlgonquin Books 2002In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It's a down-home...