In The Stranger Who Bore Me sixty adult adoptees discuss the difficulties they have encountered in a world where biological kinship governs. Each of their stories reveals the personal dilemma created by the societal demand for secrecy and the deep pain and intense joy associated with adoptees making contact with their birth mother. Karen March has created a compelling and informative analysis of this need of some adoptees. Little research has been done on the actual outcome of adoptee-birth parent reunion and most arguments in this controversial area are based on personal anecdotal reports. This book offers the first systematic study of the consequences of reunion. As such it is an invaluable guide for any member of an adoptive triad as well as for professionals and government officials in the field of adoption.

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

She wasn't supposed to fall in love with her next door neighbor “Can you hear me?” Adaline Starling needs a new tenant for the flat above her store, and Callum Hague needs somewhere to live. Adaline is a genius, hiding in a magazine store, she has never opened. She is trying to convince the world that she is whole, that there is nothing wrong with her. Callum Hague likes to fix things, preferably thousands of miles away from his hometown. He’s returned from a year long project in Nairobi where he has built a school. They both have hidden imperfections that have shaped their lives from childhood. If they were left to their own devices, they would both become reclusive. Their best friends think they would be perfect for each other and set about fixing them up. It takes a serious incident for them to confess their invisible flaws, but will they accept each other’s hidden imperfection? With supporting characters that include a cheeky apprentice and an overbearing charity chairwoman. Will Adaline turn a deaf ear to everyone’s advice to own her imperfections?

A violent and emotionally explosive video-gamer comes to the center of his own existence as he traverses the downtown bars of the Fargo-Moorhead area, also known as The Red River Valley.