Friday, 13 September, 2019 - A farmhouse just outside Cuspide, Benevento...Recently graduated, heartbroken, and desperate for La Dolce Vita, Sophie moves to the South of Italy in search of a new life. But when she meets the unhappily-married Federica and her androgynous cousin Volta, all are forced to confront questions of identity and belonging in the 'City of Ghosts' — where eyes are everywhere, and desire can be dangerous.More than a love story, This...

Mikaela Kong is running out of time to save the world.Training has sharpened Mikaela's skills, but every hour spent wielding her iron cudgel pulls her further away from her K-pop dream. As pressure mounts and Mikaela struggles with her commitments, Yan Wang, the King of the Underworld, offers her a deal—an alliance that could save the Realms and help her reclaim her shot at stardom. Now, Mikaela must choose: join forces with a power that could tip the balance, or risk everything, i...

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Fiction with a Sense of Place Award.**Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.'Remarkable . . .** her characters glow with life and humour' Ian McEwanSingapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the priv...

Primed to become Viridis’s future leader, the young Octavia Wuen must prove she is up to the task by winning the planet’s biggest event—the Quaturs Games. She aligns with others like herself, who have the gift of superpowers, but these new alliances are tested when the Games take a bad turn and the arrival of hostile beings threatens the planet’s survival.

Between family troubles and faltering dreams, Mikaela Kong rises with the help of dragons.When the prophecy signs appear sooner than expected, Mikaela Kong and her mentor Bai Yulong enlist the help of the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas to uncover the source of these disasters and delay the fateful battle. But with her K-pop dreams hanging by a thread, powerful villains closing in and a family crisis on the horizon, Mikaela must find the strength to face it all—before the final showd...

The Monkey King as you've never seen before.Mikaela Kong is a K-pop star in the making. One day, she will perform on the world stage—or so she hopes. But the arrival of Bai Yulong, a boy proclaiming to be from the Celestial Realm, throws her plan into a spin. As she joins forces with Yulong and secondary school wushu champion Wong Feixue, Mikaela must learn to wield her iron cudgel and save the world before she can get back on track to K-pop stardom.From bestselling author ...

Welcome, dear reader, to a book that starts with a confession: I don't like whiskey. Or at least, I thought I didn't. For years, I turned down glasses of whiskey, convinced that this famed spirit was simply not for me. The smell was too strong, the taste too harsh, and the burn too intense. Whiskey was, in my mind, an acquired taste that I had no desire to acquire.What to Expect in This BookIn the pages that follow, we'll delve into the fascinating world of whiskey. We'll s...

In this fourth and final volume the author extends Buchberger's Algorithm in three different directions. First, he extends the theory to group rings and other Ore-like extensions, and provides an operative scheme that allows one to set a Buchberger theory over any effective associative ring. Second, he covers similar extensions as tools for discussing parametric polynomial systems, the notion of SAGBI-bases, Gröbner bases over invariant rings and Hironaka's theory. Finally, Mora shows how ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Welcome, dear reader, to a book that starts with a confession: I don't like whiskey. Or at least, I thought I didn't. For years, I turned down glasses of whiskey, convinced that this famed spirit was simply not for me. The smell was too strong, the taste too harsh, and the burn too intense. Whiskey was, in my mind, an acquired taste that I had no desire to acquire.What to Expect in This BookIn the pages that follow, we'l...

Happiness is a universal human right that everyone deserves to experience. Regardless of age, gender, race, or socioeconomic status, everyone has the right to pursue happiness and strive for a fulfilling life. Contentment is not a luxury or a privilege reserved for a select few but a fundamental human need that can improve the lives of all individuals. Therefore, it is essential to create a society that values happiness and promotes well-being for all its members.

Your holiday trip in Thailand will be more rewarding if you can understand and speak some Thai. For instance, if you need to go to the bathroom, you could simply say horng-naam tee-nai (bathroom where?). Or, if you wish to go to the airport, you only need to say bpai sa-naam-bin (go airport). Armed with some Thai, you wont get lost and you wont get to pay exorbitant prices.

Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Sam Peckinpah, and Orson Welles. The book contributes an “Eastern Approach” into the critical studies of Western films by reappraising selected films of these masters, matching and ...