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Ils se sont rencontrés un soir, dans un hôtel de Monaco. Au petit déjeuner, ils se sont racontés. Et puis elle est repartie à Montréal, et il a regagné Ramallah. Ce livre est la suite de leur conversation. À toi est composé de récits croisés nés d'un coup de foudre littéraire entre...

The full story of the infamous double murder featured on Discovery’s FBI Files—includes photos. In this book, former South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) forensic photographer Lieutenant Rita Y. Shuler recouts twenty-eight days of terror and shocking developments in one of the...

In 1968 the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power—notably, imperialism and oppression. The administration responded by institutionalizing an ethnic studies...

Literary history generally locates the primary movement toward poetic innovation in twentieth-century modernism, an impulse carried out against a supposedly enervated “late-Romantic” poetry of the nineteenth century. The original essays in Active Romanticism challenge this interpretation by tracing...

El Diario de campaña de José Martí es una sucesión de apuntes fugaces escritos en Cuba durante la Guerra de Independencia. Aquí se mezclan las reflexiones sobre el destino de una nación con las descripciones del paisaje, de las comidas o los personajes que rodean a su autor. Aunque parezca extraño,...

El fusilamiento en 1896 de José Rizal, acusado de conspirar contra la integridad territorial española avivó el movimiento de independencia, dirigido por su nuevo jefe, Emilio Aguinaldo quien, junto con Andrés Bonifacio, se lanzó a la lucha más enconada. Dos años más tarde, la revolución declaró...

This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question: what is the relationship between...

Espejo de paciencia es un poema épico compuesto en octavas reales que describe el secuestro del obispo fray Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano por el pirata francés Gilberto Girón, y el rescate protagonizado por un esclavo, Salvador Golomón, durante una escaramuza en las costas de Cuba, en 1604.

Three short fiction pieces totaling 3,755 words set in Atlanta about the choices we make and the chances we take. In “Chicken” shy Celina is building up her courage at her favorite diner to attend a new language learning group. When her carefully made plans are interrupted, does she have...

A three short story collection about weddings and families. Wedding Flowers: A Miss Lila’s Extraordinary Floral Shop Story Older bride Elyse thought stopping into the floral shop on a whim was a good idea. She figured that she could easily cross off “flowers” on her wedding to-do...

Older bride Elyse thought stopping into the floral shop on a whim was a good idea. She figured that she could easily cross off “flowers” on her wedding to-do list. All the choices, though, gets her questioning what she really wants from the wedding. A 2,474 word short story featuring a...

New runner Sandra thought that she had prepared perfectly for her half-marathon. When disaster strikes three miles from the finish line, she'll have to decide what winning means to her. A 2,559-word women's fiction short story about friendship, 

Before the First World War, when Wandsworth was still a countrified suburb, P.Y. Betts grew up there, observing with absolute clarity the behaviour and conversation of the adults around her. She did not always understand the implications of what she saw and heard but she remembered it and recreates...

I wasn't born with a scar on my forehead. I'm not an heir to a distant kingdom. I was born a rabbit. My destiny was simply to die in a laboratory. But becoming a hero doesn't happen overnight and destiny is a funny thing. In one moment the kindness of a stranger- or in my case a vampire - can change...