Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice (Gibb Lorna)(Paperback)

Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice (Gibb Lorna)(Paperback)

From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world's richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb's masterful Childless Voices paints a global portrait of people without children. Brilliantly grouped by thematic

Vermin: Stories (Hahnel Lori)(Paperback)

The stories in Vermin are linked by themes of loss, longing and music: a restaurant server in a Tofino restaurant reflects on the nature of men in her past and present; a woman prepares to marry a brooding artist unpopular with both her parents and her small town community; a new homeowner has

Not Dead Yet and Other Stories (Moore Hadley)(Paperback)

Not Dead Yet studies the uncertainties of loss, turning a gaze toward the often-silenced voices of the infirm, elderly, and adolescent. Rich in humor and honesty, Hadley Moore's debut collection of short stories presents a contemporary set of narratives from a lush cast of characters. We find the

Here Come the Moonbathers (Young Patricia)(Paperback)

Exploring the themes of love and longing and loss with grace, bewilderment, playfulness, and occasionally

Perthshire Folk Tales (Gibb Lindsey)(Paperback)

STORYTELLERS Lindsey Gibb & C.A. Hope bring together stories from Perthshire, the heart of Scotland, with its bleak moors and majestic mountains, rushing rivers and great woodlands. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet witches and faeries, black dogs and dragons, the Cailleach and those

Hieroglyphics and Other Stories (Donovan Anne)(Paperback)

A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'.Often

Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom (Mink John)(Paperback)

Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field. Written in accessible language, this book is for anyone who wants to

Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging (Jorgensen Dolly)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking study of how emotions motivate attempts to counter species loss.This groundbreaking book brings together environmental history and the history of emotions to examine the motivations behind species conservation actions. In Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age, Dolly J rgensen

The Removed (Hobson Brandon)(Paperback)

'A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love.'--Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA RECOMMENDED BOOK

Resistance Message (McGann Jason)(Paperback / softback)

A new voice brings a bold, intimate and lucid experimental style Resistance Message is the first title in a trilogy Resistance Message is an intimate and lucid experimental melding of art, design and the written word from the award winning designer Jason McGann. Seemingly simple wordplays document

douard Glissant: A Poetics of Resistance (Coombes Sam)(Paperback)

douard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial

Garden Party and Other Stories (Sage Lorna)(Paperback / softback)

Contains fifteen stories, many of which are set in the author's native New Zealand, and others in England and the French

The Russian Master and Other Stories (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Concentrating on the themes of the loss of ideals and the poverty of actual experience, this collection of Chekhov stories--taken from The Oxford Chekhov--includes 'His Wife,' 'A Lady with a Dog,' 'The Duel,' 'A Hard Case,' 'Gooseberries,' 'Concerning Love,' 'Peasants,' 'Angel,' 'Terror,' 'The

The Voices: An Open Door Book of Stories (Scanlan Patricia)(Paperback)

A Silenced Voice: The Life of Journalist Kim Wall (Wall Ingrid)(Paperback)

A moving memoir of an inexplicable crime, a family's loss, and a legacy preserved.Kim Wall was a thirty-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. Then, in the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead of writing the next day's

The Chaos of Longing (Robinson K. y.)(Paperback)

The Chaos of Longing is a brutally honest exploration of desire--physical, emotional, and spiritual. This revised and expanded edition contains over 50 pages of all-new material. Organized in four sections - Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany - K.Y. Robinson's debut poetry collection explores

Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan (Anderson Donald)(Paperback)

In Quagmire you'll find a range of voices--men and women, military and civilian--and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, and war's aftermath. These personal responses to war in Iraq and Afghanistan have been selected from War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal

Latitudes of Longing (Swarup Shubhangi)(Paperback)

A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a major new literary talent from India 'A marvel of magical realism.'--O: The Oprah Magazine A spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters

Stories to Light the Night: A Grief and Loss Collection for Children, Families and Communities (Perrow Susan)(Paperback)

Unique, comprehensive collection of 94 imaginatively crafted stories for sharing with children, families and communities at times of grieving or loss Using story therapy to help shine a light in the darkness of life's challengesStories for loss of a loved one, loss of family connection, loss of

Return Journey (Binchy Maeve)(Paperback / softback)

Spellbinding stories of love, loss, revelation and reconciliation - 'The perfect poolside read that will take you from desire to devastation in the turn of a few pages' Daily

Prodigals - Stories (Jackson Greg)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling debut story collection about the disaffection and spiritual longing in contemporary America, from a remarkable new

Record of a Night Too Brief (Kawakami Hiromi)(Paperback)

Akutagawa Prize-winning stories about unsettling loss and romance from one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary writers--for fans of Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters

Me & Mr. Cigar (Haynes Gibby)(Paperback)

From the wild and wonderful mind of Gibby Haynes--world famous Butthole Surfers front man/lyricist and self-proclaimed eternal Texan adolescent--comes the surreal tale of seventeen-year-old Oscar Lester and his trusted dog, Mr. Cigar. Oscar and his dog have made a pretty good life for themselves,

Imaginary Museums: Stories (Polek Nicolette)(Paperback)

'A collection of flash fiction that feels seemingly arbitrary with an ache of human longing for connection peppered in. . . . These bizarre but beautiful stories transport you elsewhere with no intention of bringing you back.' --Ashleah Gonzales, W magazine In this collection of compact fictions,