This book uses a sociolinguistic framework to explore how language serves as a marker of national identity in conflict zones, focusing on the dystopian representation of Arabic as a minority language in Israel through the perspectives of Israeli Palestinian students. Using a documentary photography research tool, PhotoVoice, minoritized college students from Northern Israel were invited to document and reflect on the signage in their area. Content analysis of students’ reflections revealed...

Lucinda, the last born Vampire, wanted by everyone. Will she choose her parents, who she assumed were dead but in fact abandoned her for ten years, or Daniel, who she loves with all her heart? Or will she choose William, the king of Strigoi, who her soul yearns for and their sworn enemy? Who will win the Magical Kingdom? And who will lose is all in one handLucys.

Odette Ahlgren was taught never to answer the house.Not the knocks beneath the floorboards.Not the whispers behind the wardrobe.Not the child standing in the snow where no footprints began.Her mother called it wind. Old wood. Bad dreams. But every locked door in their home seemed to be keeping something in, and every room remembered more than it should.Years later, Odette returns to the house she was never supposed to understand. Ins...

This book examines the political and social role of tribes in post-Gaddafi Libya, focusing on the current democratic state-building process. It integrates both quantitative and qualitative research methods, including a survey of 1,000 respondents and in-depth interviews with 14 prominent Libyan figures. The study is supported by a comprehensive review of the historical development of Libyan tribes, revealing their longstanding prominence in local governance. Drawing from various Internatio...

'Enjoyable, original and intriguing' B. A. Paris'Authentic, absorbing and unputdownable' Louise JensenStatus Update: you have 18 months left to live . . .Jess Mount goes online and discovers that her Facebook appears to have skipped forward 18 months. Her timeline is full of shocked family and friends sharing heart-breaking tributes to her, following her death in a...

NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers PART 3 in the 6-part contemporary romance serial novel, JUST ONE NIGHT. [This book is PART 3. Readers should begin by reading PARTS 1 and 2 first.] Jennifer's idea of relaxing is a spa day with her best friend, but even when she's slathered in avocado and wearing cucumber glasses, there's no escaping the fact that she cannot get memories of a certain guy and a c...

A LOVE STORY ABOUT AN ALPHA MANWHORE AND A GOOD GIRL BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR HM WARDMoney. Power. Sex.Some people enter your life for a reason, and Pete Ferro has changed mine forever. I've known since I met him we were fated. I can't say how I know, but I can feel it. Our destinies entwined the night of the rave--a union no contract can sever and so much stronger than a ring.Genre: New Adult Contemporary RomanceThis story un...

'Devastatingly good - wonderfully warm, heartbreakingly real and completely uplifting' - Miranda DickinsonA gorgeous and emotional novel, perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Jodi Picoult.On the day Hannah is finally going to tell her husband she's leaving him, he has a stroke . . . and life changes in an instant.Tom's only 32. Now he can't walk or cut up his own food, let alone use his phone or take her in his arms. And Hannah's trap...

Previously published as Leopold: Part FiveBeing with a prince is no fairy tale…The king’s demands are beyond unrealistic. Do we really have to choose between Leo giving up his life and me giving up mine?~Finally, Elle is in Montovia with me. But she didn’t exactly get the welcome I expected. Now I have two choices: give up my title in order to be with Elle, or prove to my father that I can be responsible.Unfortunately, respo...

Read the book that Kirkus Review called: "A complex, witty page-turner, ideal for YA fans of scandal and romance."Seventeen-year-old Isis Blake hasn’t fallen in love in three years, nine weeks, and five days, and after what happened last time, she intends to keep it that way. Since then she’s lost eighty-five pounds, gotten four streaks of purple in her hair, and moved to Buttcrack-of-Nowhere, Ohio, to help her mom escape a bad relationship.All the girls in her new...

CarlMy family believe they're gifted by gypsies to find their soulmate, but I always thought it was bullshit. I don't think we were gifted, I believe we're cursed. I'm forty five and still hadn't found my mate, and my nephews use me as an example to prove my theory that we're curse. After watching my brothers and two of my nephew's find their soulmate, I'd given up hope and have become known as the cranky reclusive uncle. I don't care what my family thinks as long as they leave me i...

A short story to curl up with this Christmas!This year, it’s time for A Christmas Carole…Carole is a workaholic so dedicated to her job at a 24/7 rolling news TV station, that she plans to work all over Christmas and New Year too. Same as she does every other year. But then when you're long -term single and married to your job, she thinks, what else is there to do?But a midnight visit from the ghost of Christmases past, present and ...