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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2020

        Rethinking settlement and integration

        by Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska

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        Humanities & Social Sciences

        Karli, the Crabby Puffer Fish

        by Joan Schaaf, Pia Eitenmüller, Milena Schultz, Aleksandra Emilova Stefcheva

        Karli can get really annoyed if he doesn’t like something. He quickly takes offence and feels misunderstood. That makes him angry and sometimes causes him to explode, like a volcano. But it also makes him sad that other people don’t like him as a result and try to keep away from him. Karli’s grandpa helps him recognize and control his anger, so he doesn’t clash so much with his parents and friends. This book aims to make it easier for children with oppositional defiant disorder to understand their current situation. In a sensitive way, it demonstrates how quickly they can fall into a spiral of anger, but also how they can get back out of it. The book provides important information on this topic for children, their parents, siblings, and therapists as well as practical tasks and exercises. For:• children of elementary school age(between 6 and 12) with oppositionaldefiant disorder• parents• relatives• therapists

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      • Thriller / suspense

        Text: Murder

        by George G A Wensley

        Who would want to kill a beautiful young German model?  Her body is found washed up in a harbour near Eastbourne England. Two characters clash together and are tasked with solving the murder. One character is Inspector Carpenter, an Englishman; to all intense purposes he is outwardly cool but full of self-doubt. The second character; is straight off the weekly extradition plane from Poland, Lieutenant soon to become DS Kaminska a very religious but efficient Police woman. Carpenter can’t even guess the right drinks to order in social situations, but he can listen, tell a lie from the truth and he can plod through the leads until he hits the right one. Time is his ally. Kaminska is fluent in several languages, but her English isn’t that good.  Like most continental police she can use a gun. It is a clash of cultures and personalities. By chance Carpenter’s lap top is stolen, but in an odd way this helps with solving the murder.  Carpenter and Kaminska crash through the Kent country side and London, trying to get a working relationship together.  They follow leads that go to the Island of Sark. Leads are given by forensic investigation of a flash mobile phone. The story climaxes at Eastbourne where Serena Williams is making her come back. Her defeat is woven with the end action off the end of the pier. Carpenter and Kaminska catch the hit man, but is it the end of the pier for his boss?

      • Thriller / suspense
        March 2013

        Devil’s Gate

        by George G A Wensley

        Carpenter and Kaminska continue their search for Dragor. To complicate things the remains of Dragor's daughter are found in Ramsgate. He is involved in a plot to assassinate members of the British Establishment. The stress on Dragor is immense - will he survive it? Will Carpenter and Kaminska solve the murders and stop the assassination that will surely bring the World to it's knees? They start in Kent and end up in Scotland but the strings are being pulled....

      • August 2020

        Leila Means Night

        by Aleksandra Lipczak

        For eight centuries, southern Spain has been home to a multicultural political entity founded by the Arabs and co-created by Muslims, Jews and Christians. Medieval Cordoba, Seville and Toledo are bustling metropolises to which merchants, scientists and artists are drawn from all over the world. Here the first tracheotomy procedure is performed and astronomy is developed, here magnificent libraries are created, Greek philosophers are translated, multilingual poetry is written, and foreign policy at the Muslim court is directed by a Jewish diplomat.In a book stretched between history and modernity and between essay and reportage, the author deconstructs popular symbols of Spain (flamenco, mosaics, palm trees), revealing their Muslim-Arab roots. She shows how Andalusia today handles its heritage. Coexistence, the meeting of the so-called West with so-called Islam, the fluidity of borders, but also fundamentalisms, expulsions, exorcising others.... Al-Andalus is a palimpsest that is useful in thinking about the world today. Prizes: Nike Literary Prize 2021 - shortlist Witold Gombrowicz Prize 2021 - winner

      • Fiction
        November 2019

        Morkut

        by Aleksandra Majdzinska

        Like through a magnifying glass, the author observes the details of swept, overlooked, unnoticed matters that take place away from the main roads. Each story is a fate of an individual person determined by a great story or by small, everyday matters. Fourteen remarkably pictures that are worth stopping at.

      • Best Grannies in the World

        by Aleksandra Bojovic

        In richly illustrated books of the series The Best in the World, through the stories about the characters which children can relate to, cultural, historical, geographical and nature uniqueness of different countries is represented. Each chapter finishes with research tasks which will help children to enrich their knowledge about certain countries, through independent work or the assistance of adults.

      • Christopher Columbus

        by Aleksandra Bojovic

        These books of small format present basic information about the work and heritage of famous people: scientists, rulers, painters, writers, military commanders, musicians, and all those who have changed the world we live in. The adventurous life of the most popular navigator ever.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2020

        Comics of the New Europe

        Reflections and Intersections

        by Martha Kuhlman, José Alaniz (eds)

        A new generation of European cartoonists Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and communism. In addition to situating these graphic narratives in their national and subnational contexts, Comics of the New Europe pays particular attention to transnational connections along the common themes of nostalgia, memoir, and life under communism. The essays offer insights into a new generation of European cartoonists that looks forward, inspired and informed by traditions from Franco-Belgian and American comics, and back, as they use the medium of comics to reexamine and reevaluate not only their national pasts and respective comics traditions but also their own post-1989 identities and experiences. Contributors: Max Bledstein (University of Winnipeg), Dragana Obradović (University of Toronto), Aleksandra Sekulić (University of Arts in Belgrade), Pavel Kořínek (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague), Martin Foret (Palacký University), Michael Scholz (Uppsala University), Sean Eedy (Carleton University), Elizabeth Nijdam (University of British Columbia), Ewa Stańczyk (University of Amsterdam), Eszter Szép (Eötvös Loránd University) This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

      • THE NORTHERN LEGENDS AND FAIRY TALES

        by Marina Nikiforova, Aleksandra Popova

        Under a single cover, the book brings together the best legends and fairy tales of the Russian Northern peoples. The illimitable tundra spaces with their inhabitants, the girl who ran along the moon path up to the sky, the epic hero who defeated evil spirits — all these and other legends and fairy tales amaze us not only with the variety of their plots, but also strike us with their poetry and deep story-telling spirituality. While reading them, you can plunge into the mysterious and distant world of the North.

      • Children's & YA
        October 2021

        Inner

        by Cleteisha Ann Washington, illustrated by Aleksandra Szmidt

        Follow a young girl’s journey as she questions the universe about the secrets of life. Can she find her inner calm to discover the answers she seeks?   • A thoughtful story about a young girl’s journey to find the secrets to life. • Key themes are resilience and confidence; popular themes in children’s books at the moment. • Stunning illustrations capture the dreamlike quality of the book.

      • Fiction

        Wakefield Press

        by Books From Australia

        Wakefield Press is a leading independent publishing company based in South Australia. We love good stories and publish beautiful books. We publish on a diverse range of topics, including fiction, history, biography, art, food, and the environment. We also have a dedicated young adult list.

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        Biography & True Stories

        TITO AND HIS COMRADES

        by JOŽE PIRJEVEC

        TITO AND HIS COMRADES (TITO IN TOVARIŠI) A new light on familiar events – the most comprehensive presentation of Josip Broz Tito.Jože Pirjevec’s book presents Tito’s life story and the background to his political rise, which was closely connected with the life and political activities of his “comrades”. In revealing new dimensions of the leading creators of the second Yugoslavia, with Tito at the helm, the author draw upon documents kept in private and state archives in Ljubljana and other capitals of the former Yugoslav republics, while he also researched the available archive materials in Washington, New York, Moscow, Berlin, Cairo and New Delhi, as well as the archives of the Slovene and foreign intelligence services, such as Stasi and the KGB. Rich pictorial material.

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