Mary Chapman

"Every aspect of Penna's life is controlled for her: a computer programme tells her when to get up, eat, sleep. But one day the programme goes wrong. Suddenly Penna and her new friend, Veeka, don't know what to do. Can they trust the mysterious Queltus who alone seems to know what is happening? It seems a virus has been put into the programme. A virus which could destroy the earth..." - back cover.

Virus

Sophie's Aunt Rose comes to visit and gives Sophie a family heirloom - her Great Great Grandfather's timepiece. The timepiece looks a bit dull to Sophie, but when it takes her on an exciting adventure back to the time of the Romans, she realises it is no ordinary watch after all!

Sophie's Timepiece

In this fascinating cultural history, Mary Chapman demonstrates the importance of the aesthetically innovative print culture produced by US suffragists in the two decades leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment, seven decades after women's rights activists first met at Seneca Falls.

Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism

Making Noise, Making News

Bradford Kendall

After receiving a sampler embroidered by the long-dead girl for whom she was named, Rebecca begins experiencing strange visions of that other girl's life.

The Haunting

After Grace, Adam, and Ruby get lost in the fog they stumble upon a parallel world where a terrible catastrophe has occurred that destroyed most of the country and left a single survivor.

Wrong Exit

Research into the geological processes operating on Mars relies on interpretation of images and other data returned by unmanned orbiters, probes and landers. Such interpretations are based on our knowledge of processes occurring on Earth Terrestrial analog studies therefore play an important role in understanding the geological features observed on Mars. This 2007 book presents direct comparisons between locales on Earth and Mars, and contains contributions from leading planetary geologists to demonstrate the parallels and differences between these two neighboring planets. Mars is characterized by a wide range of geological phenomena that also occur on Earth, including tectonic, volcanic, impact cratering, eolian, fluvial, glacial and possibly lacustrine and marine processes. The book provides terrestrial analogs for data sets from Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Express, and will therefore be a key reference for students and researchers of planetary science.

Evidence from Earth-Based Analogs

The Geology of Mars

Amy can never find her slippers - if only she had magic ones they would come to her When some pink and sparkly slippers are waiting for her when she gets home from school no one knows where they came from - or where they might take Amy

Amy's Slippers

Angela Mills

Treacherous Texts collects more than sixty literary texts written by smart, savvy writers who experimented with genre, aesthetics, humor, and sex appeal in an effort to persuade American readers to support woman suffrage. Although the suffrage campaign is often associated in popular memory with oratory, this anthology affirms that suffragists recognized early on that literature could also exert a power to move readers to imagine new roles for women in the public sphere. Uncovering startling affinities between popular literature and propaganda, Treacherous Texts samples a rich, decades-long tradition of suffrage literature created by writers from diverse racial, class, and regional backgrounds. Beginning with sentimental fiction and polemic, progressing through modernist and middlebrow experiments, and concluding with post-ratification memoirs and tributes, this anthology showcases lost and neglected fiction, poetry, drama, literary journalism, and autobiography; it also samples innovative print cultural forms devised for the campaign, such as valentines, banners, and cartoons. Featured writers include canonical figures such as Stowe, Fern, Alcott, Gilman, Djuna Barnes, Marianne Moore, Millay, Sui Sin Far, and Gertrude Stein, as well as writers popular in their day but, until now, lost to ours.

An Anthology of U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946

Treacherous Texts

Glenn Hendler

This text analyses cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history. They analyze sentimentalism not just as a literary game but as a structure of feeling manifested in many areas.

Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture

Sentimental Men

When her 1912 story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, was rescued from obscurity in the 1990s, scholars were quick to celebrate Sui Sin Far as a pioneering chronicler of Asian American Chinatowns. Newly discovered works, however, reveal that Edith Eaton (1865–1914) published on a wide variety of subjects – and under numerous pseudonyms – in Canada and Jamaica for a decade before she began writing Chinatown fiction signed “Sui Sin Far” for US magazines. Born in England to a Chinese mother and a British father, and raised in Montreal, Edith Eaton is a complex transnational writer whose expanded oeuvre demands reconsideration. Becoming Sui Sin Far collects and contextualizes seventy of Eaton’s early works, most of which have not been republished since they first appeared in turn-of-the-century periodicals. These works of fiction and journalism, in diverse styles and from a variety of perspectives, document Eaton’s early career as a short story writer, “stunt-girl” journalist, ethnographer, political commentator, and travel writer. Showcasing her playful humour, savage wit, and deep sympathy, the texts included in this volume assert a significant place for Eaton in North American literary history. Mary Chapman’s introduction provides an insightful and readable overview of Eaton’s transnational career. The volume also includes an expanded bibliography that lists over two hundred and sixty works attributed to Eaton, a detailed biographical timeline, and a newly discovered interview with Eaton from the year in which she first adopted the orientalist pseudonym for which she is best known. Becoming Sui Sin Far significantly expands our understanding of the themes and topics that defined Eaton’s oeuvre and will interest scholars and students of Canadian, American, Asian North American, and ethnic literatures and history.

Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton

Becoming Sui Sin Far

Gillian Philip

David Orme

Alan Durant

Presents four stories for reluctant readers that feature an alien life form that is more dangerous than it seems, an unexpected discovery by two space garbage collectors, a pair of oddly similar new neighbors, and the end of a space war.

Mary Chapman

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