Alice And Aldo

Labeled pictures of things beginning with each letter of the alphabet surround illustrations showing a young girl and her toy donkey spending a busy day having fun.

Brother Sleep is a collection of grievances through which a speaker mourns the loss of a brother, grandfather, and a sense of self as they navigate a landscape of desire marred by violence against queer and Mexican people. Set in the border cities of El Paso, TX, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, these poems navigate the liminal space between language and silence. As the poems grieve the loss of family, the violence perpetrated against queerness, the bodies lost border-side, and the cruelty against tenderness, Amparan's words bloom in evocation. Reflecting on lovers, friends, family, classmates, and others of impact, they navigate personal reconciliation in response to imposed definitions of their personhood. These poems evoke an equal sense of sorrow and tenderness amidst a complex landscape of the self.

"Have fun with letters, discover new words, join in the adventures of Alice and Aldo, and find all kinds of familiar and surprising things in Alison Lester's glorious alphabet book." - back cover.

This spellbinding debut novel by indie author Laura Ytsma is a low fantasy coming of age story packed with enchanting world building, intriguing magic systems and hidden enemies. The Carousel is a page turning tale filled with immersive imagery and master storytelling that will have readers longing to return to Oldenland, the land where magic runs free, long after they've finished the last chapter. The first book in The Heir of the Unseen, an other-world Young Adult fantasy series, is sure to capture the hearts and imaginations of book lovers for generations to come. THE CAROUSEL Headstrong with a devil-may-care attitude, Conrad Mariner wants nothing more than to live a life of adventure on his own terms. To make things worse, no one seems to understand his inability to comply with the insufferable monotony of his life. One night Conrad stumbles across a mysterious carousel in the woods. Unexpectedly, the carousel lurches to life and transports him to another world. Upon arrival in Oldenland, he is tossed at the feet of a grieving father who is on a desperate search to find his missing daughter. When Conrad joins the man's quest to find the lost girl, he encounters inconceivable enchantment and unthinkable wickedness as he discovers his own family's connection to this magical world. While witnessing the effects of a manipulative form of magic, known as the Red Eye, Conrad learns just how powerless the people of Oldenland are against a darkness only he can see. Once faced with the truth about those who have wielded this power for centuries, Conrad is forced to make a life-altering decision. TO STAND AGAINST THE DARKNESS OR BE CONSUMED BY IT.

Naked wine is wine stripped down to its basics -- wine as it was meant to be: wholesome, exciting, provocative, living, sensual, and pure. Naked, or natural, wine is the opposite of most New World wines today; Alice Feiring calls them -- overripe, over-manipulated, and overblown -- and makes her case that good (and possibly great) wine can still be made, if only winemakers would listen more to nature and less to marketers, and stop using additives and chemicals. But letting wine make itself is harder than it seems. Three years ago, Feiring answered a dare to try her hand at natural winemaking. In Naked Wine, she details her adventure -- sometimes calm, sometimes wild, always revealing -- and peers into the nooks and crannies of today's exciting, new (but centuries-old) world of natural wine.

This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of media, including film, documentaries, docufiction, websites, YouTube videos, advertisements, newspapers, and literature, that have not yet been fully analyzed. It looks at the trauma inflicted on Italians not, simply, as national or cultural traumas but, rather, as the creation/identification of subnational and transnational communities shaped by these trauma cases. The term “subnational”, or “transnational”, community is used mostly in reference to human beings, as they form those communities; however, they are also connected to a specific place, namely Italy. In addition, whereas “things” cannot become traumatized, this book also considers “living things,” such as the environment and the nature, which may create further trauma(s) for people.

'Full of hope and love' Emer McLysaght 'Warm ... insightful' Rachael English NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR George is happy. Mostly. He loves his teaching job and his daughter Suzi, though he wishes he saw her a little more. All the same, it feels like time for a change - getting over Suzi's mum is definitely long overdue. So George sets up an online dating profile ... and waits to see what will happen. Alice was happy. Until she found out her boyfriend was lying to her. So she returns to her hometown determined that this fresh start will work out. All she has to do is say yes to things - yes to a spare room at her aunt's, yes to writing for the local paper, maybe even yes to falling in love again. As Alice and George try to make everyday changes, their lives begin to overlap more and more. And maybe the day they finally meet will be the day everything changes forever ...

Italian count Marco di Vincenti feared for baby Angelina's safety. He needed a wife to get custody—so he proposed a marriage of convenience to the baby's English nanny, Alice Walsingham! Having secretly fallen in love with Marco, Alice found the wedding pure torture! All her family and five hundred other guests expected to see lots of passion…. Marco was all too willing to oblige in public —but what about in private, on their wedding night…?