Dubliners is a collection of picturesque short stories that paint a portrait of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. Joyce, a Dublin native, was careful to use actual locations and settings in the city, as well as language and slang in use at the time, to make the stories directly relatable to those who lived there.The collection had a rocky publication history, with the stories being initially rejected over eighteen times before being provisionally accep...

Good Morning, Maple!It's fast, and it's fun!What the king doesn't know is...He's in for a run!

It's raining outsideAnd Maple is sad.If he doesn't get outHe just might go mad!

Spring's finally here at last!The wintertime is gone.Maple is dancing aroundAll over his big lawn.

The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 is a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of the development and evolution of the British postal system from its earliest days through the early nineteenth century. Drawing on official records, correspondence, and contemporary accounts, the book traces the origins of organized mail delivery in England, beginning with the rudimentary arrangements of the Tudor period and the gradual establishment of a state-contr...

Encouraging people is a learned skill, and only experience and wisdom can help you build your message of change to share with the world.We hope our writings will encourage you to reach out to those who dont know the Lord.

He is the cat that's cool! He does make all the rules. Not scared of anything! That's why he is the king!

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They ...

This book is based on true events. It is the story of my life, with fictitious names for a better narrative.My mother and I got to a point in our lives where we were so distant that for many years I avoided her.I wouldn't say it was entirely her fault because she thought she was doing the right thing for me. I wish I could take back those years I lost with my parents.Now I've written this book for those out there who may still have time to act and are experiencing t...

In Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities, Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing racial equality and social change. Nogueira Joyce challenges assumptions that place the inclusion of Afro-Brazilians in mass media as a step towards racial progress while contextualizing media representation with the social, political, and economic realities of the Brazilian society at...

For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun-god, adored by her family and worshipped by her people. Her image and her name were celebrated throughout Egypt and her future seemed golden. Suddenly Nefertiti disappeared from the royal family, vanishing so completely that it was as if she had never been. No record survives to detail her death, no monument serves to mourn her passin...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of ‘ordinary’ English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds.”—People (four stars)NOW A MUSICAL AND MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTMeet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seem...