Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. In popular culture, scholarly research, personal memoirs, public commemorations, and new ethnicities associated with the settlement of postcolonial immigrant minorities, the legacy of colonialism is now more apparent in France than at any time in the past. How is this upsurge of interest in the colonial past to be explained? Does the commemoration of em...

Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization, reform, and economic successes and challenges, this period of relentless di...

The DecadesBy: Sylvie Author Sylvie met her first love, Gora, when she was 13 years old and living in Bangladesh. Though their time together was brief, their innocent relationship left a lasting impression. Thirty-seven years after they had first met, after marrying, becoming parents and immigrating to the United States, Sylvie still holds fond memories of the silky-haired boy who became her first love and is excited to reconnect with him and meet his family. Inspi...

Chocolate, coffee beans, and a side of murder.When Page Hamlin’s baker vanishes on the opening day of the annual Chocolate Festival, she begs her sister-in-law Ellie to roll up her sleeves and help keep the Purple Page Bookshop and Café humming. For Ellie, the distraction is welcome—it’s the anniversary of her husband’s death, and baking is easier than crying.But the celebration turns bittersweet when the missing baker is discovered in the dumpster out back…with her mouth s...

In 1875 the clipper Strathmore ploughs into the jagged rocks of the remote Crozet Islands, en route to New Zealand, drowning half her passengers and crew. Left alive are a 3-year-old boy, 47 men and Fanny Wordsworth, the author's great-great-great grandmother. This compelling narrative tells the story of her courage, and survival, against the odds.1875 A true tale of Shipwreck and Survival in the Southern Seas Imagine one woman, forty-seven men and a three-year-old boy, shipwrecked ...

Back in high school, the only thing I was more desperate to ditch than my virginity was my clinging crusher, Rosina Carmichael.That was then. This is now.Rosie is back and those long legs and sassy mouth have me cursing myself for wasting so much time. I want a do-over, and I’ve got two days on a river camping trip to convince her I’m worth a shot. Rosie can snarl at me and push me away all she wants, but I’m not letting her out of my sight—or my arms....

★ An Amazon Best Book of the Month★ **An IndieNext Pick“An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore.” —Freya Marske**A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans of Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries and The House in the Cerulean Sea.E. is content with a solitary life in her extraordinary underwater h...

In a wise and witty graphic memoir, a young artist finds her path apart from the expectations of those around her.Sylvie lives in a school in France. Her father is the principal, and her home is an apartment at the end of a hallway of classrooms. As a young child, Sylvie and her brother explore this most unusual kingdom, full of small mysteries and quirky surprises. But in middle and high school, life grows more complicated. Sylvie becomes aware of her parents’ con...

For fans of Riley Sager, The Hawthorne School is a twisty psychological suspense about the lengths one mother will go for her child, inspired by present-day obsession with cults and true crime.Claudia Vera is overwhelmed. She's a single parent trying the best that she can, but her four-year-old son, Henry, is a handful--for her and for his preschool. When Claudia hears about a school with an atypical teaching style near her Chicagoland home, she has to vis...

Get to know the hilarious and sexy Carolina crew in this small-town series of hot romantic comedies. Your next addiction continues here:The Lucky One - book three (Bailey and Jake)The Game - book four (Emerson and Gavin)The Lucky One: A One-Night-Stand RomcomFate lends a hand when a stubborn, irreverent tomboy meets a handsome, easygoing guy with a plan. A hot encounter at a wedding lights a flame between the two but sends Bailey r...

He's a hot, shirtless hockey player…and he’s my fake date for my ex-husband’s wedding. Talk about a hot flash to beat all hot flashes.The wedding bells are ringing and my ex-husband is the groom! When my grown kids hook me up with a fake date to my ex-hubby's tropical island nuptials, I expect sun, sand, and plenty of fruity cocktails - not steamy nights with a shirtless pro hockey player!Roman might be all swagger on the ice, but this growly, egotistical m...