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Mark Slouka’s novel begins with the child of Czech immigrants to the US, now living in New York, who has been brought up on the folklore of his parents’ homeland. As an adult he becomes aware that he has no knowledge of his parents during the Nazi occupation of Prague. He makes a journey back to Czechoslovakia and it is only then that he discovers their part in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious ‘butcher of Prague’ and begins to understand his mother Ivana’s unhappiness.

Visible Amazement is the story of a precocious, talented teenage cartoonist Roanne Chappell whose journey of discovery takes her along the American West Coast as the Seventies transitions into the Eighties. As a precocious and physically mature young woman she experiences love, friendship and heartbreak. She savours new words and delights in word play greeting the world with open arms and an open heart in unforgettable adventures that are wilder and more fantastic than most adolescents dream about.

A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller. At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins...

கல்வி என்பது கட்டாயமாக நம் ஒவ்வொருவருக்கும் அவசியம். அது நம் சுவாசம். நாளை நம் விலாசங்களை அறிவிக்கப் போகும் சாதனம் கல்விதான்.