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      • Jill Marshall Books

        Jill Marshall is the author of the popular middle-grade series about Sensational Spylet, Jane Blonde, and many other titles and series for tweens, teens, YA and adult.   Jill’s books have been published by Macmillan Children’s Books, Penguin and Hachette, in 22 countries, 11 languages and paperback, ebook and audio formats. Jane Blonde has been optioned for film and TV, with significant film interest in other Jill Marshall titles. Jill has also been an editor and manuscript assessor for trade publishers and societies, a creative writing teacher for over 1000 clients, and works in corporate communications.   During lockdown in 2020, and with all rights for all titles successfully re-acquired, Marshall fulfilled two long-term ambitions. The first – to create an independent publishing house of her own titles, rebranded and re-imagined for a digital world. The second – to pull together Jane Blonde and three other ‘superhero’ characters, all with their own origin series, into an ensemble series, S*W*A*G*G (swaggbooks.com). The third ambition was one that she couldn’t have foreseen: the wish to provide quality fiction for tween readers and upwards, in readily accessible digital formats and for free, in a world ravaged by a global pandemic.   In May 2020, Jill Marshall Books was born, and all three ambitions met. JMB has gathered momentum and fandom during those months, and it’s now time to partner with like-minded book people – innovative, passionate, caring – to extend the reach of JMB titles across formats, locations and media. Welcome to Jill Marshall Books. We look forward to connecting at Frankfurt 2020.

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        December 2001

        Hauptsache Schampus

        Roman

        by Karoly, Jil

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        Management of land & natural resources
        August 2014

        Invasive Species and Global Climate Change

        by John P Thompson, Karen Garrett, Andrew Guitierrez, Dana Blumenthal, Elsa Cleland, Kevin Hughes, Jacques Regniere, Cascade Sorte, Makra Laszlo, Arne Witt, Tom Stohlgren, Jil Swearingen, Hilda Diaz-Soltero, Bethany Bradley, Toni DiTommaso, Randy Westbrooks, Li Bo, Matthew Barnes. Edited by Lewis Ziska, Jeffery Dukes.

        This book examines what will happen to global invasive species, including plants, animals and pathogens with current and expected man-made climate change. The effects on distribution, success, spread and impact of invasive species are considered for a series of case studies from a number of countries. This book will be of great value to researchers, policymakers and industry in responding to changing management needs.

      • The World Doesn't Work that Way, but It Could

        Stories

        by Yxta Maya Murray

        The gripping, thought-provoking stories in Yxta Maya Murray’s latest collection find their inspiration in the headlines. Here, ordinary people negotiate tentative paths through wildfire, mass shootings, bureaucratic incompetence, and heedless government policies with vicious impacts on the innocent and helpless. A nurse volunteers to serve in catastrophe-stricken Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and discovers that her skill and compassion are useless in the face of stubborn governmental inertia. An Environmental Protection Agency employee, whose agricultural-worker parents died after long exposure to a deadly pesticide, finds herself forced to find justifications for reversing regulations that had earlier banned the chemical. A Department of Education employee in a dystopic future America visits a highly praised charter school and discovers the horrific consequences of academic failure. A transgender trainer of beauty pageant contestants takes on a beautiful Latina for the Miss USA pageant and brings her to perfection and the brink of victory, only to discover that she has a fatal secret.The characters in these stories grapple with the consequences of frightening attitudes and policies pervasive in the United States today. The stories explore not only our distressing human capacity for moral numbness in the face of evil, but also reveal our surprising stores of compassion and forgiveness. These brilliantly conceived and beautifully written stories are troubling yet irresistible mirrors of our time.

      • July 2017

        Attuning the Gospel

        Chinese Christian Novels of the Late Qing Period

        by LAI Tsz Pang, John

        Attuning the Gospel makes a critical and holistic analysis of a representative corpus of Chinese Christian novels of the late Qing period. Part I “On Translated Works” examines the first German-Chinese translated Christian novel Jinwu xingyi (金屋型儀Thirza, oder die Anziehungskraft des Kreuzes, 1852); the Christian allegory Shenglü jingcheng (勝旅景程 Pilgrim’s Progress, 1870) making profuse annotations from the Confucian classics; and the children fiction Anle jia (安樂家Christie’s Old Organ, 1882) portraying vivid imagination of the heavenly paradise. Part II “On Original Works” investigates Shifei lüelun (是非畧論 Brief Discussion of Right and Wrong, 1835) with a reconstructed image of Britain as the “supreme nation”; Yuese jilüe (約瑟紀畧 Life of Joseph, 1852) which transforms the biblical narratives into a Chinese historical-biographical novel; and two “New Age Novels” from the 1895 fiction contest, namely Wuming xiaoshuo (無名小說 Unnamed Novel) and Qumo zhuan (驅魔傳 Story of Demon Banishing), seeking effective ways to purge Qing China of the social vices of opium-smoking, foot-binding, and the eight-legged essay. Through the multiple lens of religious themes and narrative characteristics, this study displays a kaleidoscope of writing strategies of the Protestant missionaries and Chinese Christian authors in attuning the Gospel against the socio-cultural contexts of late imperial China.

      • Poetry anthologies (various poets)

        Selected Poems

        1950-2000

        by Nathaniel. Tarn

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2015

        Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture

        by Tom Linkinen

        This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval condemnations of same-sex intimacy and desire and then shows how same-sex sexuality reflected“and was inflected by“gender hierarchies, approaches to crime, and the conspicuous silence on the matter in the legal systems of the period.

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