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Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before that she was a rock star's manager and race-track gambler. She's had a fling with her rock star's ex-husband and along the way she's somehow lost her own husband - a medical anthropologist now travelling with a medicine woman in Africa. Harlan tells her story from the end backwards, drawing us ever deeper into her world and the mystery at the heart of...

Upon publication in 1975, Corregidora was hailed as a masterpiece, winning acclaim from writers including James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and John Updike. Exploring themes such as race, sexuality and the long repercussions of slavery, this powerful novel paved the way for Beloved and The Colour Purple. Now, this lost classic is published for a new generation of readers. Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both...

An intense, searing novel exploring the damage of racial and sexual violence. Eva Medina Canada sits in her psychiatric ward, silent. She has murdered her lover and they want to know why. Her memories weave back and forth over encounters with the men in her life - the schoolboy who played doctors and nurses with a dirty popsicle stick; her mother's boyfriend; her cousin; her husband; a stranger on the bus. She's been propositioned and abused for as long as she can remember.

Three extraordinary people in some most extraordinary times: It's Dissolution Summer and as the United Kingdom prepares to break up into separate nations, the Counterculturals have gathered for a festival where everything's allowed. Among them is a talented little brat called Fiorinda, rock and roll princess by birth, searching for her father, the legendary Rufus O'Niall. Instead, she finds Ax Preston, the softly spoken guitarman with bizarre delusions about saving the country...

'Teen-appeal' topics combined with extensive preparation for the revised 2020 A2 Key for Schools, B1 Preliminary for Schools as well as B2 First for Schools.The Level 4 Workbook provides additional practice and reinforcement of the language, skills and exam techniques covered in the PREPARE Level 2 Student's Book units. Students can access the Cambridge One Digital Pack, optimised for a range of devices, for their bank of learning resources and accompanying audio. Practice Extra provides...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where fugitive slaves live free. But can this promised land exist? And what price is paid for 'freedom'? In Palmares, Gayl Jones brings to life a world full of unforgettable characters, reimagining extraordinary historical events and combining them with mythology and magic. The result is a sweeping saga spanning a quarter of a century. Of Gayl Jones, the New Yorker...

When the drug can change reality, how do you tell what's real? London. Early 21st Century. A Conservative government is in power in the UK, bringing increased wealth disparity, an ever-more militant police state, and rising civil discontent as the wealthy govern for themselves rather than the people. But Breakthru - a pharmaceutical company turned religious cult - have the answer. They call it Kairos. Kairos allows the user to not just see a different world, but shape the world to their...

Eyes Open сочетает в себе увлекательное видео от Discovery Education™ с эффективным подходом к урокам, способствующим общению и развитию важнейших навыков 21 века. С Eyes Open изучение английского языка будет намного интереснее, поскольку ученики отправятся в путешествие, полное открытий и изучения культур и народов окружающего их мира. Учебник содержит по четыре видеоролика в каждом разделе, что делает обучение актуальным и увлекательным. Занятия с учителем и индивидуальные учебные задания...

Insight Second Edition имеет богатый, содержательный контент, поддерживающий мотивацию и вовлеченность учеников, с помощью глубокого изучения современных проблем в качестве центрального элемента каждого урока. С этой версией учебника учащиеся могут использовать учебник для занятий в классе, а позже продолжить обучение с помощью доступ к онлайн-практике. Идеально подходит для студентов, которым необходимо использовать печатные книги в классе. Доступ ко всем цифровым учебным материалам и ресурсам...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where fugitive slaves live free. But can this promised land exist? And what price is paid for 'freedom'? In Palmares, Gayl Jones brings to life a world full of unforgettable characters, reimagining extraordinary historical events and combining them with mythology and magic. The result is a sweeping saga spanning a quarter of a century. Of Gayl Jones, the New Yorker...