Mean (Gurba Myriam)(Paperback)

Mean (Gurba Myriam)(Paperback)

Gurba grows up queer, chicana, and take no prisoners. Her story is a revelation, a delight, and an

No Word from Gurb (Mendoza Eduardo)(Paperback)

-Literary Prozac.---Cosmopolitan-Eduardo Mendoza is one of contemporary Spain's most important writers.---The New York Times Book Review-An accomplished literary novelist who knows how to entertain.---Kirkus ReviewsA shape-shifting extraterrestrial named Gurb has assumed the form of Madonna and

Mean and Shellfish (Myers Tamar)(Paperback)

Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! (Fox Mem)(Paperback)

Harriet doesn't mean to be pesky. Sometimes she just is. And her mother doesn't mean to lose her temper. Sometimes she just does. But Harriet and her mother know that even when they do things they wish they hadn't, they still love each other very much

We Didn't Mean To, Honest (Swindells Robert)(Paperback / softback)

WE DIDN'T MEAN TO, HONEST 'The Outfit ' # 2 in the seriesMiserable Rueben Kilchaffinch is going to fill in Froglet pond, and he won't let anything, or anyone, get in his way. The Outfit are desperate to save the pond and its wildlife and they plan to stop Kilchaffinch at any cost 'How can four

No Mean City (McArthur A)(Paperback / softback)

No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the

Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic (Beckwith Francis J.)(Paperback)

What does it mean to be evangelical? What does it mean to be Catholic? Can one consider oneself both simultaneously? Francis Beckwith has wrestled with these questions personally and professionally. He was baptized a Catholic, but his faith journey led him to Protestant evangelicalism. He became a

Slash: The Autobiography (Slash)(Paperback / softback)

It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't

Něžná píseň - Leila Slimani

Najmout si pro své dvě malé děti stálou chůvu je pro skromnou pařížskou domácnost Myriam a Paula finančně takřka neúnosné. Je to však jediná možnost, jak Myriam umožnit to, co potřebuje stejně jako vzduch a vodu: prosadit se v náročné profesi advokátky. Po počátečním

Radicant (Bourriaud Nicolas)(Paperback / softback)

'In ordinary language, 'modernizing' has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. Let us bet on a modernity which, far from absurdly duplicating that of the last century, would be

Your Cholesterol Matters: What Your Numbers Mean and How You Can Improve Them (Furman Richard MD Facs)(Paperback)

Mathematics to the Rescue of Democracy: What Does Voting Mean and How Can It Be Improved? (Serafini Paolo)(Paperback)

On Boredom (Susan Morris)(Paperback)

An idiosyncratic volume featuring artwork and essays on the history of boredom. What do we mean when we say that we are bored? Contributors to this volume, which include artists, art historians, psychoanalysts, and a novelist, examine boredom in its manifold and uncertain reality. Each part of the

Federal Husband (Wilson Douglas)(Paperback)

Federal thinking is foreign to the modern mind. 'Federal' has come to mean nothing more than centralized or big. Because your federal government has become so uncovenantal, it is not surprising that the original meaning of the word is lost. But federal thinking is the backbone of historic

Good Muslim (Anam Tahmima)(Paperback / softback)

What does it mean to be a good daughter, sister, friend and citizen - and a good

Demopolis (Ober Josiah)(Paperback)

What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? Combining history with political theory, this book restores the core meaning of democracy as collective and limited self-government by citizens. That, rather than majority tyranny, is what democracy meant in

Mega-Mean Time Machine - Book 13 (Simon Francesca)(Paperback / softback)

The thirteenth title in the fantastically successful HORRID HENRY

Cat Chaser (Leonard Elmore)(Paperback / softback)

A lean and mean thriller about one man and the Mob from 'the crime laureate'

Mean Time (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback)

In her prize-winning fourth collection, Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and

Development: A Very Short Introduction (Goldin Ian)(Paperback)

What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development

Assemblage Theory and Method (Buchanan Ian)(Paperback)

What do we mean by 'assemblage' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection of things is an assemblage, then what advantage is there is in using this term and not some other

Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask About Periods (Jones Rosemary)(Paperback / softback)

Growing up may be normal but doesn't mean it's

Chatterton Square (Young Emily Hilda)(Paperback)

'You don't mean you're going to divorce him?' Miss Spanner said with horror. A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighboring families, the Blacketts and the Frasers. Framed by the advance of the Second World War, the subtle

Awkward (Chmakova Svetlana)(Paperback)

Cardinal rule #1 for surviving school: Don't get noticed by the mean kids.Cardinal rule #2 for surviving school: Seek out groups with similar interests and join them.On her first day at her new school, Penelope--Peppi--Torres reminds herself of these basics. But when she trips into a quiet boy in