Alina: 249 books
The Quest for Good Governance
How Societies Develop Control of Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run...
The Dark Side of European Integration
Social Foundations and Cultural Determinants of the Rise of Radical Right Movements in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Across Europe, radical right-wing parties are winning increasing electoral support. The Dark Side of European Integration argues that this rising nationalism and the mobilization of the radical right are the consequences of European economic integration. The European economic project has produced...
by Alina Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Deanna Troi has not spoken to anyone about her son in five years. Now that she's found out about her sister, she has realized she needs to tell her mother.
Note to Self
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A witty, keenly observant look at our Internet-obsessed culture
Anna Krestler is adrift. The Internet has draped itself, kudzu-like, over her brain, which makes it even more difficult to confront the question of what to do when she is dismissed from her job as a cubicle serf at a midtown law...
by Alina Yates
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
An inspirational story about a mother’s fight for her son.
In this inspiring true story of courage, hope, and resolve; Gamila discovers that life’s biggest challenges are the ones in the inside that no one can see. It’s the tormenting pain you must hide because you don’t have time to...
by Alina Bronsky
Language: German
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Provokant, schonungslos, stark: Der neue Jugendroman von Alina Bronsky. Wie viel Zerstörung erträgt eine Gesellschaft, eine Familie, ein junger Mensch?
Sie sagen, der Wald ist verboten
Sie fürchten, er rückt immer näher
Aber du tust alles, um hineinzukommen
Sie nennen sich das Rudel...
by Alina Potter
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
The Essential Kiev Guide (2017 Edition) has been revised and updated to introduce Kiev’s key sights, experiences and travel essentials to make your stay in the Ukrainian capital and enjoying and exciting one. Our experience as one of the top Kiev private guides leading tours for hundreds of western...
by Alina Howell
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Nathan Ferrer left his home state to escape the bullying that plagued his high school years. Just as he's ready to start his new life, one of his old tormentors shows up at the last place Nathan ever expected...table top RPG night at the local game store.
Will Raley still appears to be every...
Three Is Not A Crowd
A Wayward Ink Publishing Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Why would anyone think three was a crowd?No. No. No. No. No.Three is a triangle… and did you know it’s the strongest geometrical shape?All the best things come in threes… Muskateers, primary colors, three-ringed circuses, stooges, blind mice, little pigs. The list goes on.Of course they say trouble...
Sky and Storm
An alternate universe, medieval gay romance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Two childhood friends reunite for what should be a most joyous event: their wedding. Sky is a rural noble family’s son, Storm is the warrior prince of the kingdom, and they haven’t seen each other in years.
Storm, the Dragon of Vis, wedding Sky Moonborn takes the entire kingdom by surprise....
Madonnaland
And Other Detours into Fame and Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
When Alina Simone agreed to write a book about Madonna, she thought it might provide an interesting excuse to indulge her own eighties nostalgia. Wrong. What Simone discovered instead was a tidal wave of already published information about Madonna—and her own ambivalence about, maybe even jealousy...
by Alina Bronsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
*Publishers Weekly *Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the German Book Award
Favorite Read of the Year in the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal
In her second novel, Russian-born Alina Bronsky gives readers a moving portrait of the devious limits of the will to survive. The...
Claude Simon
Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present considers the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical facets of a temporal paradox in the works of French novelist Claude Simon (1913-2005), and its broader implications for the study of narrative, and for cultural and post-modern theory. This...
by Alina Oswald
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Photographer Kurt Weston sees HIV as a battle in which he needs to be a warrior willing to fight the virus that is destroying him. Diagnosed in 1991, the award-winning visual artist considers protease inhibitors a life-saving miracle.
But, while restoring his health, he also loses most of his...