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Laconic, sharp and playful, 99 Nights in Logar is a stunning coming-of-age novel and a portrait of Afghanistan like no other, from an unforgettable new voice. It is 2005 in Logar, Afghanistan, and twelve-year-old Marwand has returned from America with his family for the summer. He loses the tip of his finger to the village dog, Budabash, who then escapes. Marwand's quest to find Budabash, over 99 nights, begins.

Kris Merrill's life changed irrevocably when, a year ago, she was targeted for termination by the Meridian corporation, one of the mega-conglomerates that controls the government in this dystopian future. She hid amongst the underground resistance - but now, right as her training with the anti-corporate movement is nearing its end, their compound is destroyed. Ready or not, Kris and the other trainees are recalled to the dangerous metropolis of San Angeles.

Kris Merrill is a member of a small insurgent group operating within a multi-level metropolis that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border. Her attempt at rescuing Ian Miller failed, leaving her alone and her unborn son without a father. Without the trust of the insurgents, Kris is relegated to low-level assignments for them, and trying desperately to keep her pregnancy a secret. She is alone. War has started between the corporations. The people living in the lower levels of San Angeles have become the victims.

1989: When 15-year-old Leila is exiled from her exotic home on Lace Island to a cold English boarding school, the life she once loved becomes a distant memory. 2016: Jess dreams of far off places, of white sandy beaches and warm tropical seas. When she gets her longed-for job as cabin crew, those dreams are suddenly realised. But Jess has a troubled past, and her present is about to become complicated and dangerous....

Joon is a young Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's infidelity and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of 13, decides she's better off on her own and sets out on a harrowing and sometimes tragic journey, exposing herself to all the pain and difficulty of a life lived on the margins.

The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall. Thus begins Ali Smith's retelling of Sophocles' tragedy, about a young Theban princess who decides to bury her dishonoured brother Polynices, against King Creon's express orders, with heart-breaking consequences.

In cycle two of the series, the Harbingers team investigates more unsettling mysteries that drive them to the breaking point. Will they be strong enough to keep overcoming the world's dark forces? Fast-paced and ongoing, this thrilling collection is like your favorite TV series, with each linked episode written by a talented author.

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

In cycle three of the series, the Harbingers team investigates more mysterious and fascinating supernatural occurrences in Hollywood, a small town in North Carolina, and elsewhere. Can they keep the growing darkness at bay? This fast-paced and ongoing collection plays like your favorite TV series, with each linked episode written by a talented author. Featuring "Leviathan", "The Mind Pirates", "Hybrids", and "The Village".

The child of South-Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet, one day, he finds himself thinking of Jenpeg, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?

Baby is a teenager in trouble, and her last chance is a foster home with a husband and wife whose idea of fun is dogsledding. Still, it beats going to the juvenile detention center. Baby comes to love the dogs and takes naturally to sledding, but when her old boyfriend, Bobby, shows up, she can't stop herself from running off with him. Life with Bobby goes bad, and Baby has to make some hard decisions.

تتناول هذه الرواية تاريخ قبيلة "غمارة" شمال المغرب؛ القبيلة الشاسعة بامتدادها الحضاري والتاريخي الطويل، كأهم المناطق التي أولت اهتمامًا حقيقيًا للعلم والدراسات...

تتناول الرواية مراحل من حياة وزير كان مُعلّماً بسيطاً في المدارس الابتدائية التونسية في مجال التربية و التعليم يعاني الفقر والحرمان بجميع أشكاله ومن متاعب...

ربّما اعتدنا الحياة.. ولأننا اعتدناها نسينا كيف يُمارس التأمّل، وتساقطت علامات التعجب والاستفهام التي كانت تحفّ عقولنا البريئة كلّما أثار فضولنا أمرٌ ما عندما...

Drawing on the source language in Hebrew and Greek, rather than the many translations & mistranslations, this work explains how the common interpretation of the Scriptures strayed far from what was intended. They explore how the original meaning of the Biblical texts was deliberately muddled by the Roman Emperor Constantine and the council of Nicaea of 325 AD.

Do you know the most simple Law of Life? Enjoy this rare work from the ever-inspirational Dr. Joseph Murphy. It is a brief, but powerful listen, that just might change your life. Before there was Byrne...before there was Dispenza...before there was Maltz...there was Murphy.

يعدُّ يعقوب صروف أحد الأعلام اللبنانيين، فهو عالمٌ وأديب وصحفي، كان واسع الاطّلاع موسوعي المعرفة، أسّس مجلة 'المقتطف' الأدبية والعلمية الشهيرة ورأس تحريرها حتى...

Why is it that throughout the ages - across countless cults, cultures and civilizations - blood has held so much importance? From mate selection and maintaining lineages, to alleged "deals with the devil", blood sacrifices and other rites, clearly there is some hidden or secret significance to the blood that courses throughout our bodies. With this work, prolific author-scholar Rudolf Steiner offers us his insightful investigations.

Are you ready to uncover what your birthday and full date of birth says about you? With this book you can use Numerology as a science of success: to raise your natural strengths, and lower your innate weaknesses. You will be amazed by the miraculous synchronicities observed in famous (and infamous) lives, and be inspired to reflect on your own "personal numbers", and what they have to say about your individual life path.

Si te preguntas qué es una proteína o un antioxidante y para qué sirven, la diferencia entre una denominación de origen y una indicación geográfica protegida, si es lo mismo un alimento ecológico, biológico, orgánico, bio o eco, o...