Two brothers-separated by grief and thrown together by similar personal experiences-strive against their own desires to seek freedom from the pain that traps them.Young Julius McLellan navigates his silent world with curiosity and perseverance, but he is driven to anger and frustration when his friends and teachers don't seem to understand the oppressive struggles against a lack of communication in the Deaf world. In high school he throws himself into sports, parti...

Kissing Through a Pane of Glass is a Betty Trask Award winning novel.Michael Montrose, young, naive and fresh from university, is travelling alone around India when he meets the strange, alluring Liana. Enchanted by his exotic surroundings and bewitched by Liana's breathtaking beauty, Michael is seduced and falls deeply in love. Everything seems perfect - except for Liana's sporadically odd behaviour.As their relationship develops it becomes clear that ther...

It's everyone's nightmare. You're home alone one night and something wakes you. Was it a noise? Or do you just have a feeling that something's not quite right? Sleep-befuddled Jonathan Fairchild doesn't really believe it's a burglar. It's more likely to be his wife, who walked out on him two days ago.Yes, it's Liz, back with her tail between her legs, he thinks as he creeps downstairs. Still, strange she hasn't put the lights on... and that's when the man shoves him up against the ...

Everyone who comes to Hollywood, California makes the journey to The Church, an institution with powerful connections spanning the globe.Where the promise of The American Dream often fails the average person, The Church guarantees the fulfillment of all your dreams and fantasies...for a price.Bobby and Lindsay are curious souls. Embarking on a trip to the famed establishment for a simple sightseeing tour, they will encounter moments that will forever change them.Ult...

Attacked and left for dead in the desert by an unknown entity, a man awakens to find himself in an enigmatic new world brimming with unholy chaos.Where every imaginable evil can and does exist, this desolate wilderness relishes in the destruction of humanity.With little understanding, the man is forced to flee for his life as hundreds of anonymous assassins stalk him through this vast land.With no one to trust, the man must rely on the little resources he possesses,...

"In Japan, broken pottery is mended with gold so the damage becomes the most beautiful part of the object. This is a novel about a woman who lived that way."In 1862, a Swedish farmer in Michigan sells his ten-year-old daughter to a Detroit textile mill for ten dollars. Her name is Linnea Karlsson, and the mill is only the beginning of what her life will ask her to survive.Broken Objects follows Linnea across forty years — from the factory ...

The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of resistance to continued modernization. In Marginal Spaces, Michael Smith has assembled case studies combining structural and historical analyses of the moves of powerful social interests to dominate social space, and the tactics and strategies various marginalized social groups employ to reclaim do...

A young nurse fleeing a toxic past reads a 19th-century journal to a dying John Doe, only to realize the immortal, suffocating romance in its pages isn't just history—it's a trap, and she is holding the final piece."Being good at a thing has nothing to do with it. Being able to live with a thing is everything."Morgana de la Motte has been bored by every man who has ever tried to own her. When she joins her obsessive father and a young fir...

Brave astronauts, flaring rockets, and majestic launches are only one side of the story of spaceflight. Any mission to space depends on years--if not decades--of work by thousands of dedicated individuals on the ground. These are the people whose voices offer a friendly link to Earth in the void of space, whose hands maneuver rovers across the face of planets, and whose skills guide astronauts home. This book is a long-overdue history of three major centers that have managed important miss...

For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field. Smith refocuses attention on the cultural, social, and political practices of urban inhabitants, particularly the way in which their everyday activities have contributed to the social construction of new ethni...

Master Matchek is a Czechoslovakian maths teacher in his mid-fifties who has two great passions. He loves maths and he loves spanking women's bottoms, both young and old. He has a reputation for getting his girls very high marks in their final exams but his reputation for spanking girls who do not do their homework or wear the wrong clothes for his extra lessons is also well known. In this book, Patricia Denton, an older mother, is spanked twice to get Zoe into the extra maths classes, and...

After discovering that spanking older women is much more fun than spanking younger ones, Ken looks for opportunities to get his hands on older bare bottoms. He was surprised at how easy it is however when the daughter of Sofia, the wife of the Italian restaurant owner, comes knocking at his door. Maria wants a repeat of her mother's enema and spanking punishments and eventually gets the crop right between her bottom cheeks. Later Ken has to look after his maiden aunt who thinks she can bos...