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  New Welsh Review 136 (winter...

  Lafcadio Hearn, Jayne Joso,...

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  EDITORIAL by Gwen Davies
  
  
  EAST ASIAN LITERATURE
  
  
  'The River Claims Its Debt' – Story by Phước Tiến, translated from the Vietnamese by Nguyễn An Lý
  
  'Powder to the People! The philosophy of Hokkaido capitalist ski bum, Jack Philips' – Biography/oral history by Susan Karen Burton
  
  'Hi-Mawari', the lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo) –Translated from the Japanese
  
  Jayne Joso on how Japan shapes her work
  
  
  FURTHER FICTION
  
  
  'The Banana Banshee' – Story by Deidre Brennan, translated from the Irish by the author
  
  
  REVIEW-ESSAYS
  
  
  Steven Lovatt on restoring natural and cultural ecologies in the work of Ruth Bidgood, Rae Howells and Carwyn Graves
  
  JL George on trauma and the magical child in recent novels by Lloyd Markham, Carly Holmes and Vajra Chandrasekera

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  Using the Boss as a Sex Toy -...

  Kelly Sanders

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  A group of frustrated female office workers become more and more annoyed with their boss, who constantly forces them to do overtime and even gropes them for her own amusement. When she forces them to work on a Saturday, they reluctantly agree and formulate a plan to get back at her, turning the tables and using her body as a toy for an unexpected bonus.  

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  Stephen King's Maine - A History...

  Sharon Kitchens

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  Much of Western Maine reads like a Stephen King novel. 
   
   
   
  The dense dark woods and backcountry ponds. The century-old houses with gravel driveways and immense flower gardens, acres of farmland miles from a highway. Serpentine country roads dotted with farmstands, and picturesque main streets lined with battered pickups. Places where—especially during the dark and rainy days of October and November—things can get downright spooky. 
   
   
   
  Author Sharon Kitchens identifies the locations that serve as the basis for King's fictional towns of Castle Rock, Jerusalem's Lot, Derry, and Haven. Drawing on historical materials and conversations with locals and people who know King, the author sheds light on daily life in places that would become the settings for Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, Cujo, IT, and 11/22/63.

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  The Making of Black Lives Matter...

  Christopher J. Lebron

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  Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes out of a much older and richer tradition arguing for the equal dignity—and not just equal rights—of black people. 
   
   
   
  In this updated edition, The Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and expands on the movement's relevancy. This edition includes a new introduction that explores how the movement's core ideas have been challenged, re-affirmed, and re-imagined during the white nationalism of the Trump years, as well as a new chapter that examines the ideas and importance of Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka as significant participants in the Black Power Movement and Black Arts Movement, respectively. Drawing on the work of Davis, Baraka, and other revolutionary black public intellectuals, Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that "Black Lives Matter" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement.

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  The First World War - A...

  Days of History

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  Are you looking for an in-depth, comprehensive book about the First World War? 
  This book covers all the major events of the war, from the Western Front to the Eastern Front, from the Central Powers to the Allied Powers, and from trench warfare to U-Boat warfare. This book covers WW1, or World War 1, in detail. 
    
  We understand that the events of WW1 were complicated and far-reaching, and so we wrote this book to break down the events into an easily understandable and comprehensive format. The book covers all the major battles, events, and outcomes in a clear, concise fashion, and it provides detailed analyses of the decisions that led to the war and the Treaty of Versailles.  
  Our book also provides an in-depth look at the major players in the war, the Central Powers and the Allied Powers. You will learn more about their strategies and decisions.  
  Finally, We take a look at the human cost of the war, and the impact of the war on people and society.  
  So, if you are looking for a comprehensive and detailed look at the events of the First World War, then buy this book today!

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  Happy Dreams of Liberty - An...

  R. Isabela Morales

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  When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old white planter left behind hundreds of slaves, thousands of acres of rich cotton land, and a net worth of approximately $200,000. In life, Samuel had done little to distinguish himself from other members of the South's elite slaveholding class. But he made a name for himself in death by leaving almost the entirety of his fortune to his five sons, four daughters, and two nieces: all of them his slaves. 
   
   
   
  In this deeply researched, movingly narrated portrait of the extended Townsend family, R. Isabela Morales reconstructs the migration of this mixed-race family across the American West and South over the second half of the nineteenth century. Searching for communities where they could exercise their newfound freedom and wealth to the fullest, members of the family homesteaded and attended college in Ohio and Kansas; fought for the Union Army in Mississippi; mined for silver in the Colorado Rockies; and, in the case of one son, returned to Alabama to purchase part of the old plantation where he had once been held as a slave. In Morales's telling, the Townsends' story maps a new landscape of opportunity and oppression, where the meanings of race and freedom—as well as opportunities for social and economic mobility—were dictated by highly local circumstances.

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