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'Is Reine Still Sleeping' tells the story of two siblings, ten years apart. Big sister Reine used to play with her little brother Liam all the time, until she became a teenager. Now she has homework, friends and other interests. Plus she sure sleeps a lot. Liam always asks if Reine is still sleeping. He tries to wake her up by playing the drums outside her door and does everything to get her attention, including dancing naked in front of her friends. Reine finds Liam embarrassing. Liam is sad and feels Reine doesn't love him anymore. When realizes her little brother misses her, she puts away her cell phone and plays with him. She realizes she misses him too and she keeps an important promise that brings them even closer together. The story is based on the author's family.
A short collection of free-verse poetry. These are love letters to those with dragon hearts. To those who give so much warmth, that they forget that dragons need warmth, too. For those who, like the dragon, are independent, fierce, and strong but need love to be balanced. This is for when dragons love, and are loved, because contrary to popular belief, we are not "hard to love." Enjoy these bits and pieces of a dragon's soul.
A story of one woman's survival played out in the shadow of the great tragedy of Macbeth. In The Porter's Daughter, the fates of the servants and witches eclipse the main action as a kitchen maid rises through the ranks of the castle household. Using physical theatre and rich, robust language, a cast of seven play more than a dozen characters in this compelling ensemble theatre text. The Porter's Daughter was written in 1991. London premi re 1994, UK and Germany tour 1996. In 2014, The Porter's Daughter was re-mounted as a solo theatre play.
Told Ya Stories - This fascinating collection of stories are about the interactions of immigrants from the Caribbean with life in Canada.They are about things that surprise or confuse the author Peta Gaye-Nash. She explains; "It is how each of us sees life through the peculiar lens of our own experiences and environment, so that when we come together, our behaviours and motivations reflect the uniqueness of who we are - our gender, socio-economic background, culture, religious beliefs and so on."Swinging seamlessly between the slapstick and tragic in each life, these stories traverse the serendipitous circumstances of poverty that govern the harsh landscape of "paradise".
Die Verschwörungslüge: Wie die Politik jede Corona-Kritik durch gedungene Verschwörungstheoretiker unwirksam macht
Peta Panta
tredition GmbH
2020
nidottu
Die wirkliche Wahrheit ber die Verschw rungstheorien zur Corona-Pandemie. Alles eine einzige Verschw rungsl ge, von der Politik organisiert, um die Corona-Kritiker unglaubw rdig zu machen. Beelzebub gegen Teufel
Die Verschwörungslüge: Wie die Politik jede Corona-Kritik durch gedungene Verschwörungstheoretiker unwirksam macht
Peta Panta
tredition GmbH
2020
sidottu
Die wirkliche Wahrheit ber die Verschw rungstheorien zur Corona-Pandemie. Alles eine einzige Verschw rungsl ge, von der Politik organisiert, um die Corona-Kritiker unglaubw rdig zu machen. Beelzebub gegen Teufel
This book offers a re-evaluation of Ismene in Sophocles’ Antigone, challenging the traditional view of her as merely a foil to her sister, Antigone. Through a close analysis of key passages, it argues for a more nuanced understanding of Ismene’s character, emotions and motivations, asserting that she is as compelling and fully realised as Antigone. This work contributes to ongoing debates about classical texts and their reception, highlighting the need to re-examine canonical works with fresh perspectives. While Antigone has often been celebrated as heroic, Ismene is typically dismissed as timid and conventional. This book disrupts such interpretations, examining how the relationship between the sisters reveals deeper complexities. Engaging with contemporary interdisciplinary approaches, it explores how historical ideologies have shaped the understanding of Antigone. It situates Ismene within broader conversations about agency, individuality and the representation of women in classical literature.
Hymns of the Mesopotamian Skies: A Collection of Hymns and Epic Retellings
Peta Oakes (Gaelic Mac Dubhdara)
Peta Oakes
2026
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In the vast expanse of the Eurasian steppe, where rivers carved their paths through open grasslands and mounted confederations guarded the frontiers of their world, a queen confronted one of antiquity's most formidable conquerors. Tomyris: Queen of the Massagetae examines the historical and geopolitical confrontation between the Massagetae and Cyrus the Great of Persia in the sixth century BC. Drawing upon classical sources, particularly Herodotus, alongside archaeological and frontier studies, this work reconsiders the encounter not as legend alone but as a decisive moment in the early struggle between territorial empire and mobile steppe sovereignty. Rather than presenting Tomyris as a mythic anomaly, this study situates her within the political logic of steppe confederations, where authority was grounded in kinship, martial legitimacy, and control of ecological corridors. The campaign against Cyrus is analysed through the lenses of strategy, cultural boundary, and imperial expansion, revealing a conflict shaped by geography, mobility, and competing models of power. Blending disciplined historical analysis with comparative insight, this volume reassesses the Massagetae not as peripheral actors but as complex political agents within the wider history of Eurasia. Tomyris is a study of sovereignty at the frontier, of resistance, territorial integrity, and the enduring tension between mobile societies and expanding empires.
Celestial Heralds: Dawn (Aurora), Lucifer, Sol, and Vesper in Ancient Literature
Peta Oakes (Gaelic Mac Dubhdara)
Peta Oakes
2026
nidottu
Celestial Heralds is a sweeping exploration of how humanity has used the sky to think about meaning, time, order, and the nature of consciousness itself. From the first myths of dawn and dusk to the philosophical and psychological transformations of the modern world, this book traces the long symbolic life of light through some of civilisation's most enduring figures. Aurora, Sol, Vesper, and the Morning Star are not treated here merely as forgotten gods or poetic ornaments, but as living symbols that shaped how entire cultures understood existence, destiny, and the human place in the cosmos. Moving across Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Biblical, and later European traditions, Celestial Heralds reveals how the heavens once served as a sacred map, orienting thought, ritual, and imagination. It follows the gradual transformation of that map, from a world where meaning was written in the stars to a world where those same symbols now live within the depths of the human psyche. Along the way, the book explores the fall of the Morning Star, the rise of solar symbolism, the philosophical re interpretation of light in late antiquity and the Renaissance, and the final inward turn of cosmic imagery in modern psychology and culture. Drawing on mythology, literature, philosophy, and depth psychology, this work shows how the old sky never truly vanished. It simply changed its form. At once scholarly and lyrical, Celestial Heralds is not a catalogue of myths but a meditation on why human beings have always needed symbols of light and darkness to think, to orient themselves, and to endure. This is a book for readers who love mythology, symbolic history, philosophy, and the hidden architecture of ideas. It is a journey from the ancient heavens to the modern mind, and a reminder that even in an age of science, we still live by the stories we tell about light.