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The book explores migration and queerness as they relate to ethnic/racial identity constructions, immigration processes and legal status, the formation of trans/national and trans/cultural partnerships, and friendships. It explores the roles that religious identities/values/worldviews play in the fortification/critique of queer migrant identities.

Lorsque l’enfant paraît, le cercle de famille Applaudit à grands cris ; son doux regard qui brille Fait briller tous les yeux, Et les plus tristes fronts, les plus souillés peut-être, Se dérident soudain à voir l’enfant paraître, Innocent et joyeux. Soit que...

Le nom de Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte est un des premiers noms qui se soient gravés dans ma mémoire. Il se trouve mêlé aux souvenirs de ma plus tendre enfance. Mon père commandait la place de Lunéville, à l’époque du congrès, où fut signée la paix entre la France républicaine et...

Since the awful times in which Monk Lewis used to chill the blood of the reading public, and revived in persons of mature age the terrors' of infancy, there was hardly a romance so horrible, and, at the same time, so well written, as Hans of Iceland. The author has not confined himself to natural...

Jean Valjean soutient depuis toujours sa soeur et ses 7 enfants. Il essaie de gagner de l'argent et de les nourrir comme il peut en élaguant des arbres. Mais l'hiver arrivé, il n'a plus de travail. Après avoir vendu le pistolet de son défunt père, il ne peut même plus braconner et se trouve...

Anthology of poetry, art, and short stories from 23 contributors across the globe. 

A novel, which tells the story of a reclusive fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner's daughter. (Goodreads)

The story begins on the day of the Feast of Fools in Paris, France. Quasimodo, a deformed hunchback who is the bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, is introduced by his crowning as the Pope of Fools. Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy street dancer with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men,...

Excerpt: "Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal. The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has...

A nova edição de a máquina fazer espanhóis apresenta novo projeto gráfico e prefácio de Caetano Veloso. No quarto romance do autor, António Jorge da Silva, barbeiro de 84 anos, é levado pela filha a viver em um asilo depois da morte de sua esposa. O que parece ser uma tragédia vai, no entanto,...

Guarda fuori. Dove? Laggiù, non vedi? No, non vedo nulla. La notte si sta ritirando, ma io non vedo, ho negli occhi ancora gli abbagli delle luci del luna park, nelle orecchie il battito pulsante e ossessivo della tekno di merda degli autoscontri. Sento la mano sulla spalla, immagino un'alba stracciata...

Der erste Bericht an den "Club of Rome" (unter dem Titel "Grenzen des Wachstums"), versuchte zu beweisen, daß exponentielles Wirtschaftswachstum zur Katastrophe führt. Die Forschungsgruppe aus BARILOCHE (Argentinien) beweist mit ihrem Weltmodell, daß die Katastrophe nicht eintreten...

Dania Pietersen is Dora en Jonnie Stals se susterskind wat vandat sy tien jaar oud is, by hulle inwoon. Sy is ’n modelkind wat haar sakgeld verdien deur babas en ou mense op te pas, in die skool en op die sportveld presteer, en boonop oulik toneel speel. Vakansies gaan sy gereeld na Ma-Lea in Worcester,...