Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race - Prijzen

Transformations of Circe

Beginning with a detailed study of Homer's balance of negative and positive elements in the Circe-Odysseus myth, Judith Yarnall employs text and illustrations to demonstrate how Homer's Circe is conne...

In Pieces

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft t...

The Woman Who Thought Too Much

Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours had come to completely dominate her life....

My Life in a Tutu

Sitting in the dark once again, Jackie waited for the familiar turn of the key to signal he was home safe. It was a night like so many before, but this time anger burned within her soul. On March 11,...

An African Treasure

Soul Sisters

Acclaimed portrait painter Louis Glanzman, known for his Time magazine covers, presents a collection of compelling portraits of women known to Jesus, including Mary Magdalen, Anna the Prophetess, and...

Nina Bouraoui, Autofiction and the Search for Selfhood

The motif of the identity quest' features strongly in much contemporary French women's writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of...

Angels Three

"Haunting, yet inspirational." -Publishers Weekly "An absorbing read." -Kirkus Reviews They were airborne for six minutes. And then they were gone. On Thanksgiving eve 2011, Karen Perry's life changed...

Tuairim, Intellectual Debate and Policy Formulation

The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative phase in modern Irish history. In these years, a conservative society dominated by the Catholic Church, and a state which was inward-looking and distrustful o...

Secret Kendal

Secret Kendal offers a unique insight into the Gateway to the Lakes' through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes from its past. Local author Andrew Graham Stables takes...

Bedtime

Bedtimes can be wild, especially when animal babies are involved! Sometimes messy, often chaotic and always exhausting, they offer perfect bonding opportunities - of a kind! Courtney's wacky style and...

America's Vietnam

America's Vietnam challenges the prevailing genealogy of Vietnam's emergence in the American imagination-one that presupposes the Vietnam War as the starting point of meaningful Vietnamese-U.S. politi...